<p>Presque Isle Bay is a natural bay located off the coast of Erie, Pennsylvania, United States. Its 5.8 square miles embayment is about 4.6 mi in length, about 1.8 mi across at its widest point, and an average depth of about 20 ft. The bay is at an elevation of 571 ft  above sea level. It is bounded on the north and west by a recurved peninsula that makes up Presque Isle State Park. On the south, the bay is edged by the urban Erie shoreline, which hosts the Port of Erie Marine Terminal, as well as an assortment of parks, tourist attractions and marinas such as the Erie Yacht Club. Fishing, water skiing, swimming, and boating, are a few examples of common activities among visitors who come to appreciate this natural bay for its sheltered waters and captivating views of Erie’s historic neighborhoods and landmarks. A small channel on the east provides a shipping lane into and out of Lake Erie. Cascade Creek, Garrison Run, Mill Creek, and surface runoff drain the lands of the Presque Isle Bay Watershed into the bay.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Commander Oliver Hazard Perry took command of Americas Lake Erie naval fleet at Presque Isle in March 1813. By the end of July 1813, Perry had assembled the necessary crews and escaped a blockade of the channel exit by Commander Robert Heriot Barclay, Perrys British counterpart. With access to the lake, Perry led his fleet west to Put-in-Bay, Ohio, where the Battle of Lake Erie was fought in September 1813.</p><br>
<h2>Recovery</h2><br>
<p>After pollution of the bay caused by sewage and industrial waste forced an end to swimming and caused the appearance of tumors on brown bullheads and other fishes, Erie established the Erie Harbor Improvement Council in 1988 to seek remediation. Later called the Presque Isle Bay Public Advisory Committee, the group was instrumental in having the bay listed as one of the Great Lakes Areas of Concern (AOC) in 1991. It then pushed for the establishment of a Remedial Action Plan (RAP) in 1993, which was updated in 1995 and 2002 to make key fixes with the goal of the resumption of swimming and fishing in the bay. In 2002, the bay became the first US AOC to be awarded Recovery Stage status. A ceremonial swim by 300 swimmers was scheduled for 28 June 2008 to celebrate the recovery of the bay.</p><br>
<p>Mount Linn, at 8,098 ft, is the easternmost summit of South Yolla Bolly Mountain, and is located in the Yolla Bolly Mountains range of the southern Klamath Mountains System, in Tehama County, northwestern California.</p><br>
<p>It is protected within the Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wilderness, in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest section.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The summit of Mount Linn is the highest point in the Northern California Coast Ranges that is south of the Trinity Alps range&#39;s high peaks, also in the Klamath Mountains System. The elevation of the mountain allows it to receive heavy winter snowfall and it has low average annual temperature near the summit.</p><br>
<p>A tarn named Square Lake is located in a cirque on Mount Linn&#39;s north slope.</p><br>
<p>The cirques was carved by glaciers during the Ice Age.</p><br>
<p>The mountain was named by John C. Frémont in honor of Lewis F. Linn, a senator from Missouri, who played an important role in the acquisition of the Oregon Territory.</p><br>
<p>Mount Mantalingajan  is the highest point in the province of Palawan, Philippines. located in the southern part of Palawan Island that forms the highest part of the Beaufort Mountains Ultramafics geological region, a series of ultramafic outcrops of Eocene origin, of which Mount Victoria forms the largest contiguous land area. The peak of the mountain is the highest point on Palawan.</p><br>
<p>The mountain forms the center of the Mt. Mantalingahan Protected Landscape (MMPL), a national park covering the entire Mantalingahan Mountain Range. The protected area status of MMPL was proclaimed last June 23, 2009, by virtue of Proclamation No. 1815 by President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. The protected area covers an area of 120,457 hectares.</p><br>
<p>Continuing discoveries of new species of plant and animal from the mountain highlight its tremendous ecological value and the importance of maintaining such protective zones in the face of constant logging and mining pressures. The pitcher plant species, Nepenthes mantalingajanensis, described in 2007, is named after the mountain itself.</p><br>
<h2>Hiking activity</h2><br>
<p>Mt. Mantalingajan is one of the most difficult climbs in the Philippines, being graded Difficulty 9/9 by local mountaineering website PinoyMountaineer.com. The usual route starts from Barangay Ransang in Rizal on the south-west coast of Palawan. Three days hiking is required to reach the summit and two days to return to the jump-off, a total of five days, unless another day is wanted exploring the summit and surrounds. Highlights of the trail include encounters with the Tau&#39;t Bato tribe and the "Knife Edge" Canopy Walk that leads to the summit.</p><br>
<p>Cabahan  is an island in the province of Romblon in the Philippines. It has one sitio named Cabangahan, which is a part of barangay Guinbirayan, Santa Fe, Romblon. The local name of the island is Puro, which means "Island" in Onhan language; which is the native language of the island&#39;s inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>The island was formerly an island barrio of Santa Fe, Romblon that existed from 1901 to 1917. In the 1903 Census on population, it had 24 residents.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Cabahan Island, lying off on the eastern shore of Santa Fe, about 3 mi NNE of Cabalian Point (the southernmost tip of Tablas Island, is wooded and 279 ft high. Its south and east shores are formed by red, rocky cliffs, and its west and north shores are bordered by mangroves. A rocky islet about ¼ mile (.25 mi) East of Cabahan is joined to it by a reef and about ¼ mile (.25 mi) south-southeast from the southeast point of Cabahan is Pez Rock, a red pinnacle 70 ft high, between which and Cabahan, the water is deep.</p><br>
<p>The Anangula Site  is an archaeological site in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. Located on a 1.5 mi long island off the western coast of Umnak Island, it lies 3.1 mi north-northwest of Nikolski Bay. The site documents one of the earliest known human settlements in the Aleutian Islands, dating to c. 6400 BCE. It was in the 1970s believed to be a remnant of people thought to have migrated here across the land bridge from Asia.</p><br>
<p>The site is believed to have been along the southern fringe of the hypothesized Bering land bridge, by which (according to that theory) the Americas were first settled. At the time of its settlement, sea level was believed to be lower (by about 100 m), and the area consisted of a strandflat surrounded by nutrient-rich waters and abundant wildlife. The immediate area of the settlement is also surrounded by evidence of volcanic ashfalls, which are theorized to contribute to the eventual abandomnent of the site, leading to the settlement of other parts of Beringia.</p><br>
<p>The Anangula site was first discovered by William S. Laughlin in 1938, when surface surveys identified the area as of potential interest. In the 1950s additional research was done in the area, but its great age was not understood until its major features were found, buried beneath 2 m of volcanic deposits. Excavations in the late 1960s uncovered all or part of eight house remains, and recovered more than 30,000 artifacts, some of which bore little resemblance to other North American finds at the time. These structures were partially subterranean, measuring about 3 m by 5.5 m, and were apparently designed to house single families.</p><br>
<p>The site was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Ananiuliak Island Archeological District in 1972, and was declared a National Historic Landmark District in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The island has historically been identified by a variety of spellings and pronunciations. Its Aleut name was reported by Capt. Lutke (1836, p. 299) as "Anangouliak" and by Father Veniaminov (1840, v. 1, p. 156) as "Ananulyak". This island was called &#39;O (strov) Anayulyakh " or "Anayulyakh Island" by Capt. Tebenkov (1852, map 25), IRN.</p><br>
<p>Other spellings include:</p><br>
<p>Anangouliak Island</p><br>
<p>Anangula</p><br>
<p>Ananiuliak Island</p><br>
<p>Ananulyak</p><br>
<p>Anayulyakh Island</p><br>
<p>Ostgraov Anayulyakh</p><br>
<p>Black Butte is a mountain butte located in the Northern Coast Ranges of California south of Mendocino Pass. It rises to an elevation of 7,455 ft north of the Black Butte River.</p><br>
<p>The mountain on the Mendocino National Forest is the highest point in county of Glenn County. In spite of the difference in elevation between the river valley at 2,800 ft and Black Butte, the summit&#39;s prominence is moderate due the neighboring 6,500 ft Plaskett Meadows.</p><br>
<p>The high elevation of the mountain and plateau bring heavy winter snowfall and a low average annual temperature.</p><br>
<p>US Forest Highway 7, a dirt road connection between the eastern and western segments of State Route 162 passes to the north of Black Butte. However, this route is closed in winter due to heavy snowfall.</p><br>
<p>The Allegheny Arsenal, established in 1814, was an important supply and manufacturing center for the Union Army during the American Civil War, and the site of the single largest civilian disaster during the war.</p><br>
<p>Today, the site is the location of the nine-acre Arsenal Park in the Central Lawrenceville neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, officials from the Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation began drawing attention to the deteriorating arsenal structures.</p><br>
<h2>History and use</h2><br>
<p>The Arsenal was established by the USA Army Ordnance Department near Pittsburgh in 1814. It was situated on 30 acre of land bordering the Allegheny River in the community of Lawrenceville.</p><br>
<p>The arsenal served as a supply and manufacturing center for the troops in the west. Its peak years came during the Civil War, especially when the manufacture of cartridges, became a high priority. Civilian employment at the arsenal increased from a pre-war total of 308 to over 1100 workers. One of the busiest facilities was the main lab, which employed 158 workers, the majority of whom were women engaged in the making of cartridges.</p><br>
<h2>Explosion</h2><br>
<p>On Wednesday, September 17, 1862, around 2 pm, the arsenal exploded. The explosion shattered windows in the surrounding community and was heard in Pittsburgh, over two miles (3 km) away. At the sound of the first explosion, Col. John Symington, Commander of the Arsenal, rushed from his quarters and made his way up the hillside to the lab. As he approached, he heard the sound of a second explosion, followed by a third. Fire fighting equipment as well as a bucket brigade tried to douse the flames with water. The volunteer fire company from Pittsburgh arrived and assisted in bringing the fire under control.</p><br>
<p>By the time the fire was put out, the lab had been reduced to a pile of smoldering rubble. 78 workers, mostly young women, were killed. 54 bodies were unidentified, and were buried in a mass grave in the nearby Allegheny Cemetery. Among those killed were 15-year-old munitions assembler Catherine Burkhart, who lived at 184 38th Street.</p><br>
<h2>Investigation</h2><br>
<p>The most commonly held view of the cause of the explosion was that the metal shoe of a horse had struck a spark which touched off loose powder in the roadway near the lab, which then traveled up onto the porch where it set off several barrels of gunpowder. A coroner&#39;s jury held that the accident had been the result of the negligent conduct of Col. John Symington and his subordinates in allowing loose powder to accumulate on the roadway and elsewhere. However, during a subsequent military inquiry into the conduct of Col. Symington, many of the same witnesses who had appeared before the coroner changed their testimony. There were so many discrepancies between the two hearings that most of the commonly held views of the explosion have been shown to be thoroughly discredited. In the end Col. Symington was found innocent of any wrongdoing by the army, and the court concluded that "the cause of the explosion could not be satisfactorily ascertained...."</p><br>
<p>Col. Symington, in a letter to the Ordnance Department two days after the explosion, speculated that it had been caused "by the leaking out of powder when one of the barrels was being placed on the platform." In fact the problem of leaking barrels seemed to be the one point of agreement among all the witnesses. Alexander McBride, the Superintendent of the Lab, had repeatedly complained that the powder shipped by Dupont and Company was delivered in defective barrels with loose covers. Symington was suspicious that the "parties shipping powder may have used barrels more than once for the shipment of powder, as the barrels have been returned to them at their request." But in the end, the final word still belongs to the Army inquiry and the exact cause remains unknown. Symington himself was sent on retirement the next year., built 1814, perhaps the only original portion of the former arsenal still intact.</p><br>
<h2>Aftermath</h2><br>
<p>The explosion at the Arsenal was overshadowed by the Battle of Antietam, which occurred on the same day near the town of Sharpsburg, Maryland. Work at the Arsenal continued, and a new lab was constructed by the following year. After the war, the Allegheny Arsenal served primarily as a storage facility for the Ordnance Department and Quartermaster Corps. In the 1900s most of the land was sold off. Today the site of the explosion is in a ballfield in Arsenal Park. Nearby is the powder magazine, now a maintenance shed for the park.</p><br>
<p>Black Nubble is a mountain located in Franklin County, Maine. Black Nubble is flanked to the southeast by Mount Redington. Redington stands just north of the USA Navy Survival Escape and Evasion Training Facility .</p><br>
<p>Black Nubble stands within the watershed of the Kennebec River, which drains into the Gulf of Maine. The east side of Black Nubble drains into Nash Stream, then into the South Branch of the Dead River, Flagstaff Lake, the Dead River and the Kennebec. The west side of Black Nubble drains into the West Branch of Nash Stream. The south end of Black Nubble drains into Orbeton Stream, then into the Sandy River, another tributary of the Kennebec River.</p><br>
<h2>Wind farm proposal</h2><br>
<p>In 2005, Maine Mountain Power (MMP) filed an application with the Maine Land Use Regulation Committee (LURC) for a permit to develop a 30-turbine wind farm on Black Nubble and neighboring Mt. Redington.</p><br>
<p>After years of contentious debate, the proposal was voted down by the LURC in 2007. The summit of Redington was seen as too ecologically sensitive — a sub-alpine fir habitat providing a home for two rare species, the bog lemming and Bicknell&#39;s thrush. Also, the development would have been visible for miles along the Appalachian Trail.</p><br>
<p>A revised proposal, for 18 turbines only on Black Nubble, was put forward by MMP, supported by many environmental groups,</p><br>
<p>but still opposed by Maine Audubon.</p><br>
<p>The project was rejected by the LURC in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Sacramento City Library, also known as Central Branch, is part of the Sacramento Public Library system, and faces I Street in Sacramento, California near Sacramento City Hall.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The three story Italian Renaissance Revival style Sacramento Carnegie library opened on I street between 8th and 9th in 1918, replacing an earlier 1872 building one block to the west. The library was designed by Loring P. Rixford and was financed in large part by a $100,000 grant from Carnegie. The outside of the building retains much of its original appearance, the inside has been significantly updated to meet modern needs. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The library was built adjacent to City Plaza Park, now called Cesar E. Chavez Plaza.</p><br>
<h2>Volunteering</h2><br>
<p>The one goal of the Sacramento Public Library involving volunteer programs is: Support library services for over 1.3 million residents in Sacramento County.</p><br>
<p>In pursuit of that goal, the library uses volunteers to:</p><br>
<p>help with large and small one time projects.</p><br>
<p>assist librarians and other staff with ongoing special tasks.</p><br>
<p>Christ Church — known also as Christ Church, Washington Parish or Christ Church on Capitol Hill — is an historic Episcopal church located at 620 G Street SE in Washington, D.C., USA. The church is also called Christ Church, Navy Yard, because of its proximity to the Washington Navy Yard and the USA Marine Barracks nearby .</p><br>
<p>Built in 1807 in Gothic Revival style, the church began as one of two parish churches of Washington Parish, which the Maryland General Assembly created in 1794. The current building, built after the American Civil War, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Although St. Pauls Church, Rock Creek Parish was founded in 1712 and built a church in 1775 (and remains in the District of Columbia), after the United States Congress decided to establish the new nations capitol on the Potomac River in 1790 (effective in 1800), accepting land granted for that purpose by the state of Maryland and the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the District of Columbia, that church was far from the two population centers developing on the riverfront. In 1789, Marylands General Assembly had granted a charter to the town of Georgetown at the falls of the Potomac River near its confluence with Rock Creek, although that port development had begun in 1759. In 1792, Thomas John Claggett was consecrated as the bishop of the Diocese of Maryland in the newly re-established Episcopal Church. In the following year, he drew the diocesan conventions attention to the distance between the Rock Creek parish and the population centers developing as the national capital was being constructed, and they appointed a 12-member vestry for establishing a parish in Washington. In December, 1794, the Maryland General Assembly formally established Washington Episcopal parish nearer the developing riverfront. Two priests were appointed, Rev. George Ralph (a teacher) for the eastern portion and Rev. Edward Gantt (M.D.) for the western portion, although no record remains of either holding services. Records do show Rev. Walter Dulaney Addison traveling from his home in Oxon Hill, Maryland to conduct services, at first at the Presbyterian Church on M Street with the permission of Rev. Stephen Balch. Soon, a vestry was established, and decided to build two churches, one at either end of the new parish, reflecting the population center at Georgetown as well as near the buildings being constructed for the capital, on the parish&#39;s eastern part. They started raising subscriptions and held lotteries to raise funds to construct the buildings, but fundraising proved slow for each of the proposed churches, and construction stopped on the Georgetown church in 1797 with its walls half up.</p><br>
<p>After disestablishment, pew rentals generally provided the parish&#39;s chief source of income. President Thomas Jefferson was a subscriber to this church, as he had for the earlier-constructed Presbyterian church, and he regularly attended services at the old tobacco warehouse church where services were held until 1807, when the present site near the Navy Yard was donated by William Prout.</p><br>
<p>Finally, on successive days in 1809, bishop Claggett consecrated the two buildings used by the parish: Christ Church on the eastern portion and what was originally known as St. Johns Church in Georgetown to the west (but which later became known as Christ Church Georgetown). Three free pews were regularly reserved: one for the President of the United States; one for the donor of the land, Mr. Prout; and one for the Rectors family. When the first service was held at the new site on August 9, 1807, the church was known only as the "New Church in the Navy Yard." The USA Marines billeted at their nearby barracks also used the church in the early days. The vestry formally adopted the name "Christ Church" on August 20, 1807.</p><br>
<p>Several early USA Presidents (Madison, Monroe, etc.) worshiped there. Rev. Ethan Allen was the longest serving rector in the churchs early years, and helped build the churchs first rectory, completed in 1824. The parish also acquired a burial ground to the east, which became Congressional Cemetery, which is the unofficial resting place for members of Congress. One of Christ Church&#39;s somewhat more recent members was John Philip Sousa, the celebrated bandmaster and march composer who lived on the same residential block. Sousa was married at Christ Church and buried in Congressional Cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Although there is some controversy, Benjamin Latrobe, one of 19th-century America&#39;s greatest architects, is generally credited with the design of the present church building. It was constructed of brick in the Federal style, which was evolving into the Gothic revival style.</p><br>
<p>The bell tower, added in 1849, was used as an observation post during the Civil War. The present Parish Hall was built in 1874. In 1924, the first rectory was razed and the present one was built on the same site. The Crucifixion window at the end of the chancel, a memorial to mothers, dates from 1927. In 1966, a two-story addition to the Parish Hall was constructed and dedicated to the memory of Rev. Edward Gabler, the priest and rector from 1928 to 1944.</p><br>
<p>Christ Church, founded in 1817, is a historic Episcopal church located at 3115 O Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Georgetown neighborhood. Its first rector was Reuel Keith , who with William Holland Wilmer rector of St. Paul&#39;s Church in 1818 founded an Education Society to train Episcopal priests. Rev. Keith left this parish in 1820 to accept a position at Bruton Parish Church and teach at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, although he later returned to the new national capital and taught and at the Virginia Theological Seminary when it was founded in 1823.</p><br>
<p>The current church building, built in 1885-1886, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is significant for its architecture.</p><br>
<p>It is also a contributing property in Georgetown Historic District, also listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Siltcoos Lake , at 3,164 acre, is the largest lake on the Oregon Coast of the United States. Fed by runoff from a basin of about 68 square miles in Douglas and Lane counties, it is about 7 mi south of Florence and 0.5 mi east of USA Route 101. Its name comes from a Lower Umpqua  placename, a variant of which is Tsiltcoos.</p><br>
<p>The lake, with a mean elevation of 13 ft above sea level, A dam about a half-mile downriver regulates the lake&#39;s outflow.</p><br>
<h2>Geology and biology</h2><br>
<p>Siltcoos Lake is a submerged remnant of a Siltcoos River delta that existed before the most recent ice age. The lake formed after melting glaciers caused a rise in sea level that drowned the lower reaches of Oregon&#39;s coastal rivers. Sediments from the sluggish rivers formed sand dunes, behind which the ancestral mouths of rivers like the Siltcoos became lakes. Nearby Woahink Lake and Tahkenitch Lake are similar remnants.</p><br>
<p>Fed mainly by four small freshwater tributaries—Woahink, Fiddle, Maple, and Lane creeks—the lake is very shallow. About 80 percent of it is less than 15 ft deep, and 32 percent of it consists of shoal areas. The shallowness contributes to the lake&#39;s eutrophic nature, related to extensive populations of Elodea, Myriophyllum, and other aquatic plants. A wide variety of warm-water fish thrive in the lake, where nutrients are plentiful, but these nutrients have also led historically to troublesome algal blooms.</p><br>
<p>Some of the residents of Dunes City and nearby areas depend on the lake for drinking water. For 52 days in the fall of 2007, state and local authorities advised against domestic use of the lake water because of a dense bloom of Anabaena planktonica, a blue-green algal species that can produce toxins. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has placed the lake on its list of impaired water bodies because of its problems with algae.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Siltcoos Lake is a popular destination for fishing and is home to many warm-water species as well as transient seagoing fish such as salmon and steelhead. Anglers try for bass weighing up to 9 lb, as well as perch, catfish, crappies, bluegill, and cutthroat trout.</p><br>
<p>Camping is available at several spots within a few miles of the lake. These include Tyee Campground along the Siltcoos River; Waxmyrtle and Lagoon campgrounds, accessible from USA Route 101 south of the lake, and Driftwood II Campground, west of Lagoon Campground. Honeyman State Park, with hundreds of campsites, is about 2 mi north along USA Route 101.</p><br>
<p>Siltcoos Lake Seaplane Base is located at the lake. Base headquarters are in Westlake.</p><br>
<p>Kikaijima Kyaa is one of the Satsunan Islands, classed with the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa.</p><br>
<p>The island, 56.93 km&sup2; in area, has a population of approximately 7,657 persons. Administratively the island forms the town of Kikai, Kagoshima Prefecture. Much of the island is within the borders of the Amami Guntō Quasi-National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Kikaijima is isolated from the other Amami islands, and is located approximately 25 km east of Amami Ōshima and approximately 380 km south of the southern tip of Kyūshū. It is the easternmost island in the Amami chain. Compared with Amami Ōshima and Tokunoshima, Kikaijima is a relatively flat island, with its highest point at 214 m above sea level. It is a raised coral island with limestone cliffs, and draws the attention of geologists as it is one of the fastest rising coral islands in the world.</p><br>
<p>The climate of Kikaijima is classified as has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) with very warm summers and mild winters. The rainy season lasts from May through September. The island is subject to frequent typhoons.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Due it is relative isolation, Kikaijima is home to several rare species endemic to the island itself, or more generally to the Ryukyu archipelago. However, it is one of the few islands in the Amami chain to which the habu poisonous viper is not indigenous.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Although the Ryukyu Islands appeared in written history as Japan&#39;s southern frontier, the name of Kikaijima was not recorded in early years. The Nihongi ryaku (c. 11th–12th centuries) states that in 998 Dazaifu, the administrative center of Kyūshū ordered Kikajima (貴駕島) to arrest the Nanban (southern barbarians), who in the previous year had pillaged a wide area of western Kyūshū. The Nanban were identified as Amami islanders by the Shōyūki (982–1032 for the extant portion). Accordingly, it is assumed that Dazaifu had a stronghold in the Kikaijima concerned.</p><br>
<p>The Shinsarugakuki, a fiction written by an aristocrat Fujiwara no Akihira in the mid-11th century, introduced a merchant named Hachirō-mauto, who traveled all the way to the land of the Fushū in the east and to Kika-no-shima (貴賀之島) in the west.</p><br>
<p>Some articles of 1187 of the Azuma Kagami state that during the period of the Taira clans rule, Ata Tadakage of Satsuma Province fled to Kikaijima (貴海島). The Azuma Kagami also states that in 1188 Minamoto no Yoritomo, who soon became Shogun, dispatched troops to pacify Kikaijima (貴賀井島). It was noted that the imperial court objected the military expedition claiming that it was beyond Japans administration.</p><br>
<p>The Tale of the Heike (13th century) depicted Kikaijima (鬼界島), where Shunkan, Taira no Yasuyori, and Fujiwara no Naritsune were exiled following the Shishigatani Incident of 1177.</p><br>
<p>The island depicted, characterized by sulfur, is identified as Satsuma Iōjima of the Ōsumi Islands, which is part of Kikai Caldera.</p><br>
<p>There are some controversies over which Kikaijima described in these sources refers to. It may be the modern-day Kikaijima, Satsuma Iōjima or a collective name for the southern islands. From the late 10th century, Kikaijima was seen as the center of the southern islands by mainland Japan. It is also noted by scholars that the character representing the first syllable of Kikai changed from "貴" (noble) to "鬼" (ghost) from the end of the 12th century to the early 13th century.</p><br>
<p>Archaeologically speaking, the Gusuku Site Complex, discovered in Kikaijima in 2006, rewrites the history of the Ryukyu Islands. The group of archaeological sites on the plateau is one of the largest sites of the Ryukyu Islands of the era. It lasted from 9th to 13th centuries and at its height from the second half of the 11th to the first half of the 12th century. It was characterized by a near-total absence of the native Kaneku Type pottery, which prevailed in coastal communities. What were found instead were goods imported from mainland Japan, China and Korea. Also found was the Kamuiyaki pottery, which was produced in Tokunoshima from the 11th to 14th centuries. The skewed distribution of Kamuiyaki peaked at Kikaijima and Tokunoshima suggests that the purpose of Kamuiyaki production was to serve it to Kikaijima. The Gusuku Site Complex supports the literature-based theory that Kikaijima was a trade center of the southern islands.</p><br>
<p>In 1306, Chikama Tokiie, a deputy jitō of Kawanabe District, Satsuma Province on behalf of the Hōjō clan, the de facto ruler of the Kamakura shogunate, created a set of documents that specified properties to be inherited by his family members, which included Kikaijima, together with other islands of the Ōsumi, Tokara and Amami Islands. After the fall of the Kamakura shogunate, the southern islands seem to have been transferred to the Shimazu clan. It claimed the jito of the Twelve Islands, which were limited to the Ōsumi and Tokara Islands. However, when Shimazu Sadahisa, the head of the clan, handed over Satsuma Province to his son Morohisa in 1363, he added the extra Five Islands as the territories to be succeeded, which seem to refer to the Amami Islands including Kikaijima.</p><br>
<p>Kikaijima was conquered by the Ryūkyū Kingdom. The Haedong Jegukgi (1471), whose source was a Japanese monk visiting Korea in 1453, describes Kikaijima as a territory of Ryūkyū. An article of 1462 in the Annals of the Joseon Dynasty, which records an interview from a Jeju islander who had drifted to Okinawa in 1456, states that Kikaijima was resisting Ryūkyū&#39;s repeated invasions. According to the Chūzan Seikan (1650), King Shō Toku himself pacified Kikaijima in 1466, claiming that Kikaijima had not paid tribute for years.</p><br>
<p>As a result of Satsuma Domain&#39;s conquest of the Ryūkyū Kingdom of 1609, Kikaijima fell under the direct control of Satsuma. After the Meiji Restoration it was incorporated into Ōsumi Province and later became part of Kagoshima Prefecture. Following World War II, although with the other Amami Islands, it was occupied by the United States until 1953, at which time it reverted to the control of Japan.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Kakaijima is connected by regular ferry service to Kagoshima, Amami-Oshima and various of the Amami islands.</p><br>
<p>Kikai Airport connects the island with Amami-Oshima and Kagoshima by air.</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>The economy of the island is based on agriculture (primarily sugar cane and citrus fruits) as well as commercial fishing. Seasonal tourism also plays a role in the local economy. Industry is limited to sugar refining and Shōchū production.</p><br>
<h2>Strategic location</h2><br>
<p>The Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force maintains an important SIGINT station on the island, which includes a large Circularly Disposed Antenna Array. The station was opened in 2006, and is considered a vital component of the MSDF&#39;s JOSIS (JMSDF Ocean Surveillance Information System).</p><br>
<h2>Language</h2><br>
<p>The traditional local language, a Ryukyuan language known as Kikai or Kikai-Ryukyuan, is deemed endangered, with younger generations having only limited knowledge of it, or being monolingual in Japanese.</p><br>
<p>The former Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, located at 3101 West 31st Avenue, in Denver, Colorado, is a historic structure that on April 21, 2004, was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>National register listing</h2><br>
<p>Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist (added 2004 - Building - #04000336)</p><br>
<p>Now occupied by The Sanctuary</p><br>
<p>3101 W. 31st Ave., Denver</p><br>
<p>Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering</p><br>
<p>Architect, builder, or engineer: Hoyt, Merrill H., Hoyt, Burnham F.</p><br>
<p>Architectural Style: Renaissance</p><br>
<p>Area of Significance: Architecture</p><br>
<p>Period of Significance: 1900-1924</p><br>
<p>Owner: Private</p><br>
<p>Historic Function: Religion</p><br>
<p>Historic Sub-function: Religious Structure</p><br>
<p>Current Function: Religion</p><br>
<p>Current Sub-function: Religious Structure</p><br>
<p>The Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance Building, locally called the "Boat Building", is a notable Modernist office building located on Constitution Plaza in Hartford, Connecticut. Designed by Max Abramovitz and completed in 1963, It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is the world&#39;s first two-sided building. It is home to The Phoenix Companies.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Phoenix Building is located east of the commercial core of downtown Hartford, on a block bounded by Columbus Boulevard and State, Prospect, and Grove Streets. It is set on an elevated plaza, which is connected by a footbridge to Constitution Plaza, an contemporaneous development to the north, and to later developments to the east and south. The location is highly visible from local highways. The area under the plaza includes a parking garage and other service areas, and is partially taken up by a sunken plaza with fountain. Office spaces with floor-to-ceiling windows line the sunken portion of the plaza. The main tower is located off-center on the northwest part of the plaza, and is oriented roughly east-west. The 13-story tower has only two curved sides, in an unusual and striking shape variously termed an elliptic lenticular cylinder or lenticular hyperboloid. Its height is 212 feet (65 meters); it measures 225 feet on its long axis, and 87 feet wide at its maximum width. It is supported by steel columns, and its floors consist of steel panels with integrated service conduits, with concrete poured on top. The windows are fashioned with interlocking frames, eliminating the need for visible mullions. Mullions are placed at every third bay anyway, grooved to allow for use by window-cleaning equipment. The lobby area at the plaza level is rectangle recessed entirely beneath the bulk of the tower, with the overhanging sections of the tower supported by splayed steel beams.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by the nationally renowned architect Max Abramovitz of Harrison & Abramovitz, whose previous work included coordinating the work on the United Nations headquarters and Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center. The contractor was George A. Fuller Company. Groundbreaking was in 1961, with construction complete in November 1963. The building has been an architectural landmark in the city since its construction, occupying a highly-visible location near the Connecticut River and major highways.</p><br>
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<p>Lake Yamanaka is located in the village of Yamanakako in Yamanashi Prefecture near Mount Fuji, Japan.</p><br>
<p>It is the largest of the Fuji Five Lakes in terms of surface area, and is the highest of the Fuji Five Lakes in terms of elevation. It is also the third highest lake in Japan, with a mean surface altitude of 980.5 m. Conversely, the lake is also the shallowest of the Fuji Five Lakes, with a maximum water depth of only 13.5 m. The lake, which was formed by lava flows from an ancient eruption of Mount Fuji, is drained by the Sagami River, and it is the only of the Fuji Five Lakes to have a natural outflow.</p><br>
<p>Carp, dace and smelt were introduced to the lake in the Meiji period, although early efforts to introduce sockeye salmon were not successful. In more recent years, introduced exotics such as black bass and bluegill have increasingly displaced native species. In terms of plant life, a variety of marimo was discovered in the lake in 1956.</p><br>
<p>The lake is a popular recreational site for boating, fishing, water-skiing, windsurfing, sightseeing and swimming. If the wind comes from the west, the lake provides a smooth lift for paragliding at Mount Myōjinyama. There are also small cabins and sites available for camping. The lake is within the borders of the (Fuji-Hakone-Izu National Park).</p><br>
<p>In 2013 the lake was added to the World Heritage List as part of the Fujisan Cultural Site.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Early in the morning, when traffic is light on the Tomei and Chūō Expressways, traveling between Tokyo and Lake Yamanaka takes an hour. The traffic becomes heavy later in the day, and the trip takes correspondingly longer. Japan National Route 138 and Japan National Route 413 run along the shores of the lake. Bus services are available from Fujisan Station (Fujikyuko Line), JR Gotemba Station (JR Gotemba Line), and JR Mishima Station (JR Shinkansen). Highway bus services are also available from Shinjuku Station (Tokyo).</p><br>
<p>The Khalmyer Bay is a bay on the Siberian coast in the Kara Sea. It is located in the Gydan Peninsula and it is roughly 185 km long and 47 km wide at its widest point. Lat 71°30′ N, long 76° E.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>This deep bay lies between the large estuaries of the Ob (Gulf of Ob) and the Yenisei River. The peninsula formed between this bay and neighbouring Yuratski Bay is known as the Mamonta Peninsula (Полуостров Мамонта; Poluostrov Mamonta, meaning Mammoth Peninsula) and the narrow peninsula in the NW formed between this bay and the neighbouring Gulf of Ob is known as the Yavay Peninsula (полуостров Явай; Poluostrov Yavay).</p><br>
<p>The Khalmyer Bay is surrounded by tundra coast and there are numerous river mouths on its shores. Deep within the bay lie the settlements of Chernyy Mys and Gyda. At its mouth lie the settlements of Matyuysale and Mongatalyang.</p><br>
<p>This Bay is located in the Yamal-Nenets autonomous district administrative region of the Russian Federation.</p><br>
<p>The Khalmyer Bay appears also as Gydanskaya Guba (Gydan Bay) in maps in Russian.</p><br>
<p>The Krimml Waterfalls , with a total height of 380 metres , are the highest waterfall in Austria. The falls are on the Krimmler Ache river and are located near the village of Krimml in the High Tauern National Park in Salzburg state.</p><br>
<h2>Falls</h2><br>
<p>Krimmler Waterfalls is a tiered waterfall. The waterfall begins at the top of the Krimmler Ache valley, and plunges downward in three stages. The upper stage has a drop of 140 metres, the middle of 100 metres, and the lowest a drop of 140 metres. The highest point of the waterfall is 1,470 metres above sea level.</p><br>
<h2>Flow</h2><br>
<p>The Krimmler Ache is a glacial stream whose flow varies greatly with season. Its volumetric flow in June and July is 20,000 m³/h (about 5.28 million gallons per hour), while in February it is only 500 m³/h (about 0.13 million gallons per hour). The greatest measured flow was on 25 August 1987, when it was 600,000 m³/h, or almost 160 million gallons per hour.</p><br>
<p>After the falls, the river joins the Salzach, which flows to the Inn, then into the River Danube and finally to the Black Sea.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>To ensure that tourists could see more of the waterfall without difficulty, Ignaz von Kürsinger, from Mittersill, created a path to the upper part of the waterfall. In 1879, the Austrian Alpine Club improved the road to provide a more panoramic view. About 400,000 people visit the falls annually. The misty spray of the waterfall creates ideal growth condition for hundreds of mosses, lichens and ferns. The surroundings are the habitat for 62 bird species.</p><br>
<p>There is a negative impact on the local residents due to the high traffic level in a small village, and because of erosion to the road.</p><br>
<p>The William Brown House, also known as London Town Publik House or Londontowne Public House, is a former Colonial tavern located in the Historic London Town and Gardens museum complex in Woodland Beach, Anne Arundel County, Maryland. Completed in 1764, it is one of the best-preserved examples of a colonial-era brick tavern house. From 1828 to 1965 the structure was used as a county alms house. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The William Brown House is located northeast of the Woodland Beach community in Edgewater, Maryland, at the end of Londontown Road</p><br>
<p>The William Brown House is a two story brick structure with an elevated basement, seven bays wide and three deep. The hipped roof is cut off to form a deck or terrace with a massive chimney at each end. Windows in the front (south) facade are topped by brick flat arches, while windows in the rear and ends have segmental arches. Windows are nine-over-nine sashes at the first floor and nine-over-six at the second floor. A three-bay-wide pedimented pavilion projects from the center of the main facade, containing the main entrance and approached by a flight of brick and stone steps. The house is unique in its use of all-header-bond on all four sides.</p><br>
<p>The interior features a wide living hall extending from front to back, intersected at its midpoint by smaller side halls leading to doors in the ends of the house. The rear (north) portion of the hall contains a fireplace and was used as a living space, while the front portion contains the stairs. Four equal-sized rooms are located in the corners formed by the hall arrangement. There are doors in each of the four elevations.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The William Brown House was built by William Brown between 1758 and 1764. It was located on the main road connecting Williamsburg, Virginia and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The South River was crossed at that point by a ferry, which was also owned by Brown. It was part of a community of about 100 lots, of which it is the only substantial survivor. The house was an extravagance for Brown, and his debts eventually caused him to convey the house and property to the estate of James Dick, who had lent Brown the money for the house and lots. The house was acquired by the county for use as a poorhouse in 1828, a role it served until 1965. It is presently a museum, operated by the London Town Foundation.</p><br>
<p>The Justin Smith Morrill Homestead is the historic Carpenter Gothic home of United States Senator Justin Smith Morrill  in Strafford, Vermont, and was one of the first declared National Historic Landmarks, in 1960. It is located at 214 Justin Morrill Highway, south of the village green of Strafford. The homestead is a Vermont State Historic Site owned by the Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, a state agency, and is open for tours from May to October.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Morrill Homestead is set on 3 acre of land on the east side of Justin Morrill Memorial Highway, just south of the village green and the heart of Strafford Village. The property includes, in addition to the main house, several barns and sheds as outbuildings, and is set off from the road by a flush-boarded fence with granite posts, all painted a reddish color.</p><br>
<p>The main house is a rambling 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, set on a brick foundation. The walls are finished in flushboarding, and it has a steeply-pitched slate roof. Portions of the roof are decorated with vergeboard, finials, and crenellated parapets. The interior features elaborate mahogany woodwork, and is predominantly Gothic Revival in character (matching the building&#39;s exterior), although the main parlor is more Greek Revival in character. Original furnishings and Morrill family possessions remain in the house, from the furniture to linens and kitchen implements. The interior walls have seen only minimal alterations, which have generally been limited to maintenance such as new coats of paint. Exterior alterations are similarly modest, including the replacement of rotted trim elements with matching materials.</p><br>
<p>The main construction phase of the house was between 1848 and 1851, and was personally overseen by Justin Morrill to his own design. Its year of completion was also the year of Morrill&#39;s marriage to Ruth Barrell Swan, with whom he had two children. Morrill primarily used the house as a summer residence, as a spent much of his time in Washington, DC, where he died in 1898. The property remained in the Morrill family, with little alteration, until World War II, when the property was sold to a concern planning to establish a boarding school. This plan was quickly shelved, and the house was then acquired by preservationists, who sold it to the state in 1969.</p><br>
<p>Morrill&#39;s primary legacy to the nation consists of two landmark pieces of legislation, both bearing his name. The Morrill Land-Grant Acts of 1862 and 1890 respective established and expanded on the concept of the land-grant university, by which the federal government gave land (and in the 1890 act, funding) to the states for the establishment of universities. These acts made possible the establishment of a significant number of state-run universities, as well as a few private schools that were contracted to the state to fulfill the requirements needed to receive the federal grants.</p><br>
<p>Other significant accomplishments by Morrill during his long tenure in Congress include seeing through the completion of the Washington Monument, the construction of the Library of Congress Building, and the landscaping of the United States Capitol Building grounds.</p><br>
<p>The Los Vaqueros Reservoir is located in the northern Diablo Range, within northeastern Contra Costa County, northern California.</p><br>
<p>It was completed by the Contra Costa Water District (CCWD) in 1998 to improve the quality of drinking water for its 550,000 customers in Central and Eastern Contra Costa County.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir is accessible via Vasco Road which connects Brentwood and Livermore. An expansion project begun in 2010 raised the height of the dam to increase storage capacity from 100,000 acre-ft to 160,000 acre-ft of water.</p><br>
<p>At the start of February 2017, the reservoir contained 133,700 acre.ft of water.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Los Vaqueros Reservoir is named for the 19th century Mexican Rancho Cañada de los Vaqueros land grant that included its site. The Spanish word vaquero means "cowboy" in English.</p><br>
<p>Incursions of saline water into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta from the San Francisco Bay has been a concern since the 1870s. This concern was one of the reasons CCWD was formed in 1936. A drought in 1977, caused salinity levels to exceed public health standards. It forced CCWD to ration deliveries of fresh water to its customers.</p><br>
<h3>Project requirements</h3><br>
<p>In 1988, voters approved funding of the Los Vaqueros Reservoir project to begin design and construction. It was a massive project. In addition to building the $61 million, 192-foot-tall dam, the district had to:</p><br>
<p>build 12.8 miles of Vasco Road around the watershed at a cost of $27 million</p><br>
<p>relocate 20 electrical towers and 12 miles of gas line</p><br>
<p>build a new $20 million 10,000 horsepower pumping plant on Old River near Discovery Bay</p><br>
<p>construct a new $12 million transfer station with 8,000 horsepower pumps</p><br>
<p>build 20 miles of 6- to 8- foot diameter buried pipeline connecting all the new facilities with district&#39;s existing canal system in Antioch</p><br>
<p>secure nearly 20,000 acres land for the dam and the watershed.</p><br>
<p>make a commitment to preserving the environment and respecting Native American and other historical sites in the watershed.</p><br>
<h3>Construction timeline</h3><br>
<p>Construction began Sept. 17, 1994.</p><br>
<p>By 1996, Vasco Road had been relocated around the eastern edge of the CCWD property. The original road was closed to travelers from just south of Marsh Creek Road to the present Los Vaqueros Road. Half of the pipeline from Old River to Discovery Bay had also been completed. Construction of the pump station was in progress.</p><br>
<p>The dam and most of the other major items were completed by December 1997. Filling of the reservoir with water began in February 1998, and was completed by January 1999, a year ahead of schedule.</p><br>
<p>The project dedication ceremony occurred in May 1998. The American Society of Civil Engineers named the project as the "Outstanding Civil Engineering Accomplishment" in the nation in that year.</p><br>
<h3>2010 - 2012 expansion project</h3><br>
<p>In March, 2010, CCWD approved a capacity increase of 60,000 acre.ft. Costs will be passed on to those that receive water from the water District. Mitigation for the loss of sensitive wildlife habitat will be necessary. This increase is scheduled for completion in 2012. On July 14, 2012, the following portions of the expansion project were opened to the public:</p><br>
<p>Dam height increased by 34 feet to the new height of 224 feet.</p><br>
<p>Addition of the John Muir Interpretive Center at the north end of the reservoir</p><br>
<p>Provision of trails and shoreline fishing at the south end of the reservoir.</p><br>
<p>Barnard Construction Company, which was hired by CCWD to perform the reservoir expansion, employed Mechanically stabilized earth (MSE) technology to create the dam walls. Barnard subcontracted Reinforced Earth Company (RECo) to design and supply the MSE walls using its proprietary GeoMega™ MSE wall system, which utilizes precast concrete facing panels with GeoStrap® (high tenacity polymeric strips) as soil reinforcements. RECo also provided the precast concrete barrier and coping segments atop the newly expanded dam, reducing both cost and construction time for completion.</p><br>
<p>The south end of the reservoir reopened in October 2012, after revamping the marina. The storage level reached 132,900 acre-feet in 2013, before the CCWD began drawing down the level to serve user needs during the recent drought. Heavy rains in the watershed since October 2016, increased the level to more than 133,700 acre.ft at the end of January 2017, the all-time record for the reservoir.</p><br>
<h3>2017 Expansion study</h3><br>
<p>A coalition of 12 Bay Area water agencies formally approved a study of expanding the reservoir by increasing the existing dam height by another 55 feet to a total height of 273 feet. The proposed project would increase capacity of the reservoir from the present 160,000 acre.ft to 275,000 acre.ft at an estimated cost of $800 million.</p><br>
<p>In August 2017, the East Bay Times reported that the estimated cost of the expansion had increased from the previously-announced $800 million to $914 million. It also reported that six environmental groups had authored a letter of support for the proposed expansion to the California Water Commission. Groups signing the letter included Nature Conservancy, Audubon California, Planning and Conservation League, California Waterfowl Association, Defenders of Wildlife, and Point Blue Conservation Science. If the Commission grants the funds, construction could start in 2022 and be completed in 2026, according to the Times.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Certain types of recreation are allowed on the lake. These include boating and fishing. Boats may be rented at the marina, but no boats may be brought into the watershed. Gasoline-powered boats are not allowed. Swimming and wading are forbidden.</p><br>
<h3>Hiking trails</h3><br>
<p>Badger Pass and Oak Savannah Loop Trail is a loop that is rated as "Hard" by all trails.com. Beginning near the north end of the lake, it is 7.9 miles long and has an elevation gain of 2,125 feet. Accessible year-round for hiking, walking, nature trips and birding.</p><br>
<p>Los Vaqueros Dam Trail is rated "Moderate" for difficulty by all trails.com.</p><br>
<p>Los Vaqueros Shoreline Loop Trail is rated "Moderate" for difficulty by all trails.com.</p><br>
<h2>Watershed Description</h2><br>
<p>The Los Vaqueros watershed comprises 19,300 acre of open space surrounding the 1,500 acre reservoir. Water is pumped into the reservoir from a Delta intake on Old River in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The intake is located just east of Discovery Bay. Water is pumped into the reservoir when salinity is low, and used for drinking water when salinity in the Delta is too high. Water from the reservoir is released via a pipeline to the 48 mi Contra Costa Canal, which conveys water to six water treatment plants throughout the Water District&#39;s service area. The reservoir can store up to 160,000 acre.ft of water. The earthen dam is 192 ft high with a 1,000 ft crest length. It is made of 2.7 million cubic yards of fill material.</p><br>
<p>The Watershed also serves as a weather data collection site for Mallory Ridge weather station located at the top of the ridge above the Marina. The station has a remote access water station (RAWS), which is maintained by the Los Vaqueros Watershed Staff and linked to the National Fire Weather System.</p><br>
<p>Other benefits of the reservoir include water storage for drought or emergencies, a protected open space, and recreation. There are 55 mi of hiking trails in the watershed. The watershed is open for fishing, hiking and other activities year-round. Electric rental boats are available, but no outside boats can be launched on the lake. No swimming is allowed in the reservoir.</p><br>
<h2>Potential for further expansion</h2><br>
<p>An additional expansion of Los Vaqueros to a capacity of 275,000 acre.ft is again being discussed by CCWD and other water agencies in Northern California. This goal was considered when the reservoir was first conceived, then revived in 2010 when the first expansion was being planned. Both times it was discarded because CCWD could find no other agencies who could put up sufficient money.</p><br>
<p>According to CCWD, the other public agencies that are involved as partners in current planning for the Phase III expansion are:</p><br>
<p>Alameda County Water District</p><br>
<p>Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency</p><br>
<p>Byron Bethany Irrigation District</p><br>
<p>City of Brentwood</p><br>
<p>East Bay Municipal Utility District</p><br>
<p>East Contra Costa County Irrigation District</p><br>
<p>Grassland Water District</p><br>
<p>Santa Clara Valley Water District</p><br>
<p>San Francisco Public Utilities Commission</p><br>
<p>San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority</p><br>
<p>Zone 7 Water Agency</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife protection</h2><br>
<p>Another benefit is the protection of nearly 20,000 acre of wildlife habitat in Eastern Contra Costa County. The watershed is currently home for many rare, threatened and endangered species including fairy shrimp, bald and golden eagles, Alameda whipsnake, western pond turtle, California tiger salamander, California red-legged frog, San Joaquin kit fox, and the San Francisco dusky-footed wood rat. It also provides habitat for hundreds of common plant and animal species in the area. Strict environmental commitments with State and federal agencies, and a commitment to preserving the resource help preserve this site.</p><br>
<p>As of February 17, 2017, seven of the trails on the Los Vaqueros property have been temporarily closed to protect possible golden eagle nests. Four pairs of eagles have exhibited nesting behavior, according to CCWD, and the number may change during the spring. More trails may be closed, or some that have been closed may be reopened, depending on how productive the nests are. The closures typically last until late May or June, when the eaglets are fledged.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting Los Vaqueros</h2><br>
<p>The north entrance is about 7 miles south of Brentwood on Walnut Blvd, leading to the main parking area and is near the start of the Interpretive Center and the main hiking trails. The south entrance is off of Vasco Road, north of Livermore and leads to the marina area and four fishing piers. There is no road inside the property that connects the two entrances. Outside boats and pets may not be brought into the watershed.</p><br>
<p>The T.G. Richards and Company Store, also known as Whatcom County Courthouse and James B. Steadman Post No. 24, is the first and oldest brick building in the state of Washington, United States, and is listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This two story brick building was built in 1858 by the partnership of Thomas G. Richards and his brother Charles E. Richards, for a cost of US $8,000. A note in one of Howard Buswell&#39;s files, located in the Center for Pacific Northwest Studies, identifies John Alexander (a prominent settler on Whidbey Island) as being in charge of the construction. It was initially used as a storehouse of the T. G. Richards Company, supplying those stopping in what was then the town of Whatcom, Washington Territory, on their way to the Fraser Canyon Gold Rush. The building was constructed of brick manufactured in San Francisco. In Spring of 2012, the bricks were scientifically matched to a Nagel brick fragment. Nagel was an early brick maker in the city. The bark Ann Parry brought the bricks to Bellingham Bay on July 16, 1858. The Daily Alta California Shipping Intelligence listed her carrying 100,000 bricks and 73 barrels of lime. A second ship, the DM Hall, may have brought the windows and doors. In 1863, the building was sold to Whatcom County for the price of US$2,000, to be used as the (third) County Courthouse for Whatcom County. Court matters such as trials were handled in Port Townsend, not Whatcom. However, the building has become known as the "Territorial Courthouse", because of its role as the county courthouse in the days before statehood. In addition, the building served as the jail, and in 1873, became the home of the Bellingham Bay Mail newspaper. By 1877, a pharmacy was being run on the first floor.</p><br>
<p>Originally being bounded by the tide flats of the bay, in 1874 a breakwater was added in to protect the buildings foundation from the sea. In 1883, a vault, and five additional jail cells were added. In 1889 the building was deemed unsafe for use, and the county government offices and jail were moved to temporary quarters nearby. (In 1891 the county moved into the new courthouse on "G" Street, constructed of Chuckanut sandstone.) In 1890-1891, the Womens Relief Corps (WRC), an organization benefiting veterans of the American Civil War, began to rent the building. By 1906, Whatcom County had deeded the building into the private sector, when it was sold to members of the Grand Army of the Republic, J. B. Steadman Post No. 24, and the WRC. The building has since seen the tide flats filled in, resulting in the rise of E Street, so that the first floor has become the basement, and the second floor becoming the ground floor. Later occupants include the members of the Junior Order of United American Mechanics, a Jehovahs Witness Church, Akers Taxidermy, The Northwest Passage (a 60s - 70s alternative newspaper), Base Camp, and lastly, a home to different artists and pottery makers. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003, and is currently undergoing renovation.</p><br>
<p>Mount Eddy is the highest peak of the Trinity Mountains, a mountain range of the Klamath Mountains System, located in Siskiyou County, and Trinity County in northern California.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is in the Mount Eddy RNA, a Research Natural Area on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, a unit of the United States Forest Service.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The summit rises to an elevation of 9,037 ft, and is the highest point in Trinity County, the ninth most prominent peak in California, and the highest summit west of Interstate 5 in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The peak is west of Mount Shasta City and the massive Mount Shasta volcano. It is protected within the Shasta-Trinity National Forest.</p><br>
<p>The mountain receives heavy snowfall during the winter due to its altitude.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is named in honor of Olive Paddock Eddy, the first woman to climb Mt. Shasta. She and her husband, Nelson Harvey Eddy, arrived in the area from New York State in 1856. He later became a successful rancher in the Shasta Valley. The original, Wintu, name might have been Num-mel-be-le-sas-pam or "west blaze mountain".</p><br>
<p>Old Albany Post Road is a 6.6 mi dirt road in Philipstown, New York, one of the oldest unpaved roads still in use in the United States. It runs mostly north-south through the southeastern corner of the town, near the Putnam Valley town line. Starting from an intersection with Sprout Brook Road at Continental Village just north of the Putnam-Westchester county line, it ends at an oblique junction with US 9 east of Garrison.</p><br>
<p>As the least improved section of the original Albany Post Road, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1982. Its history as a formal road dates to the mid-17th century, when it was built on established Native American trails. Later it would see military use, particularly by the Continental Army during the Revolution, and commercial use as part of a stagecoach route. Some of the milestones placed during the early years of American independence to more accurately calculate postal rates are still present and have been preserved and restored. It is still in public use and maintained by the town. The town has recently angered some of the residents by proposing to pave the road.</p><br>
<h2>Route</h2><br>
<p>Old Albany Post Road passes through heavily wooded and lightly populated country along the southeastern edge of the Hudson Highlands. Houses, many on large lots, are the only development along the road, and there are no settlements along its length. The countryside is rugged, with the road going up and down several hills. Some areas are scenic, with meadows and views of the nearby hills and mountains.</p><br>
<p>It branches off to the northwest at the point where Gallows Hill Road becomes Sprout Brook Road. From there it takes a west-northwestward, meandering course at first, narrowing almost to one lane at some points and climbing steadily to where the Catskill Aqueduct crosses, but soon bends to the north-northeast and widens. It climbs and then descends over the next two miles (3 km) to the Lake Celeste area, where it becomes more northerly. Then it bends to the northeast again, going up and down several hills through mostly undeveloped areas, to Chapman Road, where the Appalachian Trail crosses.</p><br>
<p>Out of that intersection it resumes its northward course, traversing around Fort Defiance Mountain, to Canopus Hill Road. There it turns to the northwest. At the corner of Travis Corners Road, a monument explains the historical importance of the road. From here it runs almost straight north-northwest past some farms and more open land to cross Philipse Brook at the junction with Philipse Brook Road.</p><br>
<p>Beyond, the road remains mostly straight and northwestward, eventually returning to more wooded country along a ridgetop where the southwestern corner of Clarence Fahnestock State Park is nearby. It then turns more to the west and descends to the intersection with Indian Brook Road, near the Bird and Bottle Inn. From here it parallels nearby Route 9, reaching some more developed areas until it finally ends with a merge onto the highway.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>All of the major work of building and widening the road was done during the colonial era. Old Albany Post Road has not seen much change since the mid-18th century. Later improvements in transportation technology diverted traffic away from it and have helped to preserve the road in its historic form.</p><br>
<h3>Colonial era</h3><br>
<p>In 1669 the government of New Netherland designated a postal route between what would later be New York City and Albany, the colony&#39;s two most important cities at the time. It was little more than a narrow path in many places, following old trails used by the Wiccoppe and Wappinger tribes, who often carried the mail, starting two years later. The longest stretch included part of the current Old Albany Post Road. The colony eventually became the English Province of New York, and in 1703 its legislative body provided for the postal road to be a "public and common general highway" along the same route, starting in Kingsbridge and ending at a ferry landing in present-day Rensselaer.</p><br>
<p>As it became the main route between the two cities, local commerce began to serve the long-distance travelers. Inns are recorded along the road as early as the 1730s, when it was first widened for military use. The best-known, John Warren&#39;s Tavern, was built in 1756 and remains in use today as the Bird and Bottle Inn restaurant at the junction with Indian Brook Road.</p><br>
<p>The road received major improvements when the British Army realized it needed to improve defenses against the French to the north in New France (todays Quebec). In 1754, it was widened again and trees were cleared to allow the transport of troops and materiel in greater numbers. Milestones were first known to have been placed in 1763, sometime after Benjamin Franklin, who had advocated their use, was appointed the colonies Joint Postmaster General.</p><br>
<p>After the French and Indian War, it would be used against the British by George Washington&#39;s Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He retreated to what was named Continental Village after the Battle of White Plains and the road remained fortified and defended throughout the war, used as a supply route, and often traveled by Washington and his officers. It was surveyed during the war and the first map published. Its milestone locations are not the extant ones.</p><br>
<h3>18th and 19th centuries</h3><br>
<p>After the war, the new state began making further use of the road. A regular stagecoach route was chartered along the road by the legislature in 1785, and the mileposts were upgraded by the end of the century. By then a regular mail route was in place, with riders going up the east side of the river and down another road on the west side on a weekly basis.</p><br>
<p>In 1789 a new survey was taken and the old maps revised. These match todays known milestone locations along the entire former length of the road. A decade later, New Yorks Act to Regulate the Highways directed every county highway superintendent to place stone mile markers along the road. By the next year all the remaining mileposts had been placed.</p><br>
<p>A private company built the Highlands Turnpike to the west, in more level country, and opened it in 1806. This diverted traffic away from the section north of Peekskill through Continental Village and past the lakes. Iron mining at Hopper Lake in the 1820s partially replaced it, and the stage route was not changed. The old road fell into further disuse when the turnpike became a public highway in 1833 and it was no longer needed as a shunpike. The completion of the Hudson River Railroad to Albany in 1850 made the road obsolete as a commercial and postal artery, and stage service ended.</p><br>
<h3>20th and 21st centuries</h3><br>
<p>Old Albany Post Road briefly assumed more than local importance once more in the 1910s, when the New York City water supply system was expanded to bring water to the city from Ashokan Reservoir in the Catskills. The road provided access to a section of the Catskill Aqueduct, and shops, housing and bars were built along it to shelter and serve the construction workers. A decade later, Highlands Turnpike, by then the main north-south route through the county, was paved and formally designated as Route 9.</p><br>
<p>In 1921 a monument to the "Mothers of the Revolution" was placed at the southern end. Homes and farms along the road were electrified in 1935 due to the efforts of the newly created Rural Electrification Administration, adding utility poles to the landscape. A portion of the road near Travis Corners was surfaced in tar and gravel in the 20th century. Beyond that, it remains as it was in the mid-18th century. Following its NRHP listing, a group called the Old Road Society of Philipstown (ORSP) was formed to help preserve and promote it. Its membership is open to residents along the road and intersecting dirt roads.</p><br>
<p>The town has, in recent years, raised the possibility of paving it, saying it would be cheaper to maintain and silts up a paralleling brook through erosion. This has divided residents along Old Albany Post Road. Opponents point to its historic designation, character and rural charm, which would be lost if it were surfaced. Proponents, many near the roads southern end, cite public safety concerns such as inaccessibility for police and fire vehicles during washouts in heavy storms like the April 2007 Noreaster, which left craters four feet (1.3 m) deep in front of some driveways. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has given the town a grant to repair it, although it has not been decided whether it will be used for pavement or not.</p><br>
<p>In November 2012, a local newspaper Philipstown.Info revealed that the Town of Philipstown budget contained proposed expenditures for paving sections of the towns historic dirt roads including 5300 feet of Old Albany Post Road in 2013-14 and an additional 7580 feet to be paved within 5 years. Until the paper revealed this information, residents of the road were unaware of the towns grand plans. The Philipstown Board cited three reasons for paving; the cost of maintaining dirt roads are too expensive, degradation of water quality in nearby streams, and safety. If this plan were undertaken the Old Albany Post Road would lose almost 2.5 miles of historic road. Sections that the town wants to pave include two important historic areas; Saunders Farm and the hill that runs north to the famous revolutionary era Bird and Bottle Inn. There is considerable opposition to paving by local residents and a contentious town board workshop was held for Philipstown residents on January 16, 2013. Those in opposition to paving cite the historic, aesthetic, cultural, and recreational importance of leaving the road untouched. Many residents and an expert engineer presented information documenting that sound dirt road maintenance practices have not been utilized by the Town of Philipstown and if they were adopted would lead to cost savings, improvement in water quality, and thus preserve the historic nature of the road. Additionally other dirt road residents pointed out that drivers on dirt roads travel at significantly lower speeds reducing mortality in pedestrian vehicle accidents. It was also pointed out that the Town of Philipstown could be in violation of state bonding laws if they were to pave as proposed with merely a thin coat of asphalt and no substructure preparation.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing historic resources</h2><br>
<p>The entire 50 ft right-of-way authorized in 1703 is included in the NRHP listing. This means that many other aspects of the structure, like the adjacent stone walls and shade trees, are considered contributing resources to the designation. The milestones are all included, even number 52, which is actually located on Gallows Hill Road slightly to the south of the fork at Sprout Hill.</p><br>
<p>Some of the buildings along the road have been noted for their historic value by the ORSP. The Bird and Bottle Inn is a contributing property to the Indian Brook Road Historic District, which itself includes part of the road as one of its contributing properties. In the two-mile (3.2 km) section to its south there is also a Civil War-era farmhouse and a 1770s inn, both of which have seen more recent additions. Opposite Lake Celeste is Pine Run Farm, which dates to 1800.</p><br>
<p>The Storm King Highway is a three-mile  segment of New York State Route 218  between Lee Road in the Town of Highlands at the south end and the Cornwall-on-Hudson village line in Orange County, New York, in the United States. It was built in 1916 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 in recognition of its accomplishment in civil engineering.</p><br>
<p>It is so named because it winds around the steep slopes of Storm King Mountain near its north end of the Hudson Highlands on the west bank of the Hudson River. Here it reaches heights of up to 420 ft above the water, with panoramic views of the river and surrounding mountains such as Breakneck Ridge and Bull Hill.</p><br>
<p>Several small pullouts allow drivers to stop and enjoy the view. When originally built it took 22 miles(34 km) off the trip between Cornwall and Newburgh to its north with Highland Falls and West Point to its south. It remains used by commuters today.</p><br>
<h2>Route description</h2><br>
<p>Storm King Highway is a two-lane 22 ft asphalt-paved road with double yellow lines forbidding passing along its entire 21,000 ft length. Its grade never exceeds 7%, and it is bounded along the river side with a rubblestone wall. No buildings of any type are located along the road, nor is there any intersection save those for state park trailheads. There are chainlink gates at either end.</p><br>
<p>Maintenance responsibilities are divided. The southern section is kept up by the New York State Department of Transportation as it is a state highway, while the Palisades Interstate Park Commission (PIPC) takes care of the northern section as it runs through Storm King State Park.</p><br>
<p>Due to hazards of rockfall as well as avalanches and falling ice, the road is closed by the state Department of Transportation during periods of heavy rain or snow. In 1934, a landslide on Storm King Mountain crossed the highway and resulted in three fatalities and the destruction of three automobiles.</p><br>
<p>At least one motorist has died on the highway due to a snow avalanche. The incident occurred at roughly the hour in which DOT workers closed the road during a 1993 snowstorm. The victim&#39;s estate and a survivor was later awarded damages in a lawsuit against the state.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Since the early days of settlement, the Highlands had long been a major obstacle to travel between Cornwall and the communities to its south. In 1913 state highway commissioner Gordon Reel began to think seriously about building a new road to connect them after heavy lobbying by local business and community groups. The idea he ultimately decided on, a road along the side of Storm King Mountain, was estimated to cost $400,000</p><br>
<p>($ in 2008 dollars), far more than his department had funds available for, so the legislature had to make a special appropriation.</p><br>
<p>After three years, during which surveyors sometimes had to rappel down the mountain&#39;s cliffs to mark the route, construction began in 1916. The original idea to build a tunnel was changed to a road cut into the side as lighting it would have been too expensive and it would have missed the most scenic aspects of the road. Accordingly, the specifications for the project were changed. The planned road was widened from 16 to 18 ft, with a three-foot (1 m) concrete gutter.</p><br>
<p>The difficulties of building one of New Yorks first public roads designed for automotive use were compounded by having to make sure that debris did not hamper the operations of the New York Central Railroads West Shore Line, which ran along the river&#39;s edge below. Dislodged boulders sometimes blocked the tracks or landed on cars, damaging them and their contents. The first contractor hired for the job soon went bankrupt; they were replaced by the John L. Hayes Company of Yonkers. Hayes, too, found the going tough, especially when USA entry into World War I dried up the labor supply. The PIPC soon stepped in and renegotiated the contract to account for the difficulties caused to Hayes by the unforeseen circumstance of war.</p><br>
<p>When it was opened in 1922 it shortened the distance required to travel by automobile from Newburgh to West Point, which are 10 miles (16 km) apart as the crow flies, by 22 miles (34 km). It remains a well-used commuter route for employees of the United States Military Academy who live in Cornwall. They must use alternate routes when the gates are closed, as they were for over a year following 1999 forest fires on Storm King and its vicinity.</p><br>
<p>In summer of 2011 New York&#39;s Department of Transportation (DOT) closed the highway to vehicular traffic for four hours on Sundays to allow pedestrians and bicyclists to enjoy it freely. Up to 600 people took advantage of the closures on some of those days. Citing that success, DOT announced in September that it was extending the closures through November.</p><br>
<p>The Marathon County Historical Museum is museum located in Wausau, Marathon County, Wisconsin, United States. It is located in the Cyrus Carpenter Yawkey House, a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The house is a significant example of Classical Revival architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Yawkey</h2><br>
<p>The house was the home of prominent citizen, Cyrus C. Yawkey. Yawkey was a co-owner of a firm in Saginaw, Michigan before moving to Wausau to purchase large tracts of land for lumber. He later owned numerous local businesses, was a member of the Wisconsin Legislature, and led the Wausau Group, which invested in new businesses like paper mills around Wausau as pine timber dwindled.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1900 to 1901, designed in Beaux-Arts Classical style by Van Ryn & DeGelleke of Milwaukee. Six years later Yawkey hired prominent Prairie School architect George W. Maher to remodel the house. He remodeled the first floor interior in a style closer to Prairie School, added a sun porch, and added two stories to the back of the structure. Yawkey died in 1943. His wife Alice lived in the house until she died in 1953. Their daughter, philanthropist Leigh Yawkey Woodson, donated the house to the Marathon County Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The first floor contains the foyer, living room, dining room, Cyruss office, a sun porch, and the ladies parlor with authentic furniture from the beginning of the 20th century. There is also a kitchen with a back staircase, a pantry and former servants dining room, and a half bath. The second floor contains the Yawkeys bedroom (with an attached bathroom), Leighs bedroom (with attached sitting room and bathroom), a guest room, another bedroom, a servants bedroom, and an additional bath off the main upstairs hallway. The staircase features large, stained-glass windows. Cyruss den, part of Leighs suite, the sun porch, and the small bump out which was built onto the dining room, all designed by George Maher, were added eight years after the Yawkeys moved in. On the third floor are servants bedrooms, a bathroom, and a ballroom. There are formal gardens on the grounds and a carriage house with servants quarters above.When the house was donated to the city in the 1950s, many of the second and third floor walls were torn down, the space being used for rotating exhibits. The second and third floors no longer house rotating exhibits. The house was restored to near original condition in the early 2000s.</p><br>
<h2>Museum library</h2><br>
<p>The Marathon County Historical Museum Library is located across the street at the Woodson mansion. The Woodson mansion, designed by architect George W. Maher, was the home of Leigh Yawkey Woodson and her husband Aytchmonde Perrin Woodson. The library contains information about the history of the county.</p><br>
<h2>Historic district</h2><br>
<p>The houses are part of the Andrew Warren Historic District, which contains 62 historic buildings, mainly homes.</p><br>
<p>Mound Cemetery in Marietta, Ohio is a historic cemetery developed around the base of a prehistoric Adena burial mound known as the Great Mound or Conus. The city founders preserved the Great Mound from destruction by establishing the city cemetery around it in 1801.</p><br>
<p>The city of Marietta was developed in 1788 by pioneers from Massachusetts, soon after the American Revolutionary War and organization of the Northwest Territory. Many of the founders were officers of the Revolutionary War who had received federal land grants for military services. Among high-ranking officers buried at the cemetery are generals Rufus Putnam and Benjamin Tupper, who were founders of the Ohio Company of Associates; as well as Commodore Abraham Whipple and Colonel William Stacy. The cemetery has the highest number of burials of American Revolutionary War officers in the country.</p><br>
<h2>Great Mound or Conus</h2><br>
<p>The conical Great Mound at Mound Cemetery is part of an Ohio Hopewell culture mound complex known as the Marietta Earthworks. Archaeologists estiumate that it was built between 100 BC and 500 AD. Early European American settlers gave the structures Latin names. The complex includes the Sacra Via (meaning "sacred way"), three walled enclosures, the Quadranaou, Capitolium (meaning "capital") and at least two other additional platform mounds, and the Conus burial mound and its accompanying ditch and embankment. The complex was surveyed and drawn in 1838 by Samuel R. Curtis (at the time a civil engineer for the state of Ohio). This survey was incorrectly attributed to Charles Whittlesey by E. G. Squier and E.H.Davis in their Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley, published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1848. At the time the complex "included a large square enclosure surrounding four flat-topped pyramidal mounds, another smaller square, and a circular enclosure with a large burial mound at its center."</p><br>
<p>The Conus mound was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 23, 1973 as the Mound Cemetery Mound, site listing number 73001549.</p><br>
<h2>American Revolutionary War soldiers</h2><br>
<p>The city of Marietta was developed in 1788 by migrant pioneers from Massachusetts, soon after the American Revolutionary War and organization of the Northwest Territory. The cemetery has the highest number of burials of American Revolutionary War officers in the country. The original pioneers, city founders from the Ohio Company of Associates, preserved the Great Mound from destruction by establishing the city cemetery around it.</p><br>
<p>Many of the founders were officers of the Revolutionary War who had received federal land grants for military services. Among high-ranking officers buried at the cemetery are generals Rufus Putnam and Benjamin Tupper, who were founders of the Ohio Company of Associates; as well as Commodore Abraham Whipple and Colonel William Stacy.</p><br>
<p>In 1825, General Lafayette of France, who fought with the Americans during the Revolution, visited Marietta. He said of the city&#39;s veterans: "I knew them well. I saw them fighting the battles of their country…They were the bravest of the brave. Better men never lived."</p><br>
<p>The Washington County Historical Society compiled the following list of Revolutionary soldiers buried in Mound Cemetery:</p><br>
<p>Col. Robert Taylor, First Burial Here</p><br>
<p>Gen. Joseph Buell</p><br>
<p>Maj. Ezra Putnam</p><br>
<p>Gen. Rufus Putnam</p><br>
<p>Andrew McAllister</p><br>
<p>Ephraim Foster</p><br>
<p>Gershom Flagg</p><br>
<p>John Holt</p><br>
<p>Surgeon Jabez True</p><br>
<p>Griffin Greene, Sr., Quartermaster</p><br>
<p>Commodore Abraham Whipple</p><br>
<p>Col. Ebenezer Sproat</p><br>
<p>Col. William Stacy, Sr.</p><br>
<p>Gen. Benjamin Tupper</p><br>
<p>Maj. Anselm Tupper</p><br>
<p>Maj. Joseph Lincoln</p><br>
<p>Capt. Nathaniel Saltonstall</p><br>
<p>Nathaniel Dodge</p><br>
<p>Col. Enoch Shepherd</p><br>
<p>Jeremiah Thomas</p><br>
<p>Samuel Hildreth, Sr. (father of Samuel Prescott Hildreth)</p><br>
<p>Judge Dudley Woodbridge</p><br>
<p>Sala Bosworth</p><br>
<p>Levi Lankton</p><br>
<p>Col. Ichabod Nye</p><br>
<p>Ephraim Emerson</p><br>
<p>Capt. Josiah Munro</p><br>
<p>John Green</p><br>
<p>James Hatch</p><br>
<p>Capt. Stanton Prentiss</p><br>
<p>Isaac Berry</p><br>
<p>Capt. Joseph Rogers</p><br>
<p>Matthew Kerr</p><br>
<p>Capt. William Moulton, Jr.</p><br>
<p>Nathan Evans</p><br>
<p>Gen. Joseph Willcox</p><br>
<p>Simeon Goodwin</p><br>
<p>The pioneer physician, scientist, and historian, Samuel Prescott Hildreth (1783-1863) was also buried in Mound Cemetery; his books provide insight into the early history of Marietta and the Northwest Territory, and the lives of the soldiers and early pioneer settlers.</p><br>
<p>The Uxbridge Common District is located in downtown Uxbridge, Massachusetts. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Historic buildings in this district include the Uxbridge Academy, Uxbridge Free Public Library, the Deborah A. Wheelock House, a blacksmith shop, the First Congregational Church, and the Unitarian Church.</p><br>
<h2>Uxbridge Academy</h2><br>
<p>The Uxbridge Academy was a prestigious New England preparatory institution in the early 19th century which graduated a number of prominent citizens. Among them were Marcus Spring, Colonel John Capron, Moses Taft, George Boardman Boomer, and Richard Sayles. Famous Historian and writer, William Augustus Mowry wrote a historical sketch about Uxbridge Academy. Joshua Mason Macomber, A.M., M.D., was the principal of Uxbridge Academy from 1840-1850. This was said to be the "Palmy" period of the academy under the direction of this successful educator. The Uxbridge Academy developed a widespread reputation and during his tenure attracted hundreds of students from communities in at least six states. The building that housed Uxbridge Academy still stands on the Town Common in Uxbridge, Massachusetts, and currently houses the Masonic Lodge. The Uxbridge academy began in 1818 as a secondary school in an upstairs location.</p><br>
<h2>The Uxbridge Common Historic District</h2><br>
<p>The historic town of Uxbridge, first settled in 1662, has more than 60 houses of the Federalist period and is a repository of unique early American history. The Uxbridge Common District includes a number of buildings from different periods and architectural designs. These include the Uxbridge Academy, 1818, which is a Federalist style building and now houses the Masonic Lodge, The Congregational Church, rebuilt here in the 1830s from its original site across the street, the Public Library 1870s, the blacksmith shop, 1780s, The Unitarian Church, The Uxbridge Inn, 1882, some older homes including "The Daughters of the American Revolution House", circa 1769, which is known as the "Deborah A. Wheelock House". Many older buildings in the town are of the Federalist architecture style, but there is also Georgian architecture, Italianate architecture, Greek Revival architecture, Gothic architecture, Queen Anne architecture, Late Victorian architecture and more.</p><br>
<p>The Yala Swamp is a wetland region of over 200 square km in Western Kenya. The wetland covers the north-eastern shore of Lake Victoria in Siaya and Busia counties in Kenya. It acts as a filter for waters that flow into Lake Victoria from two major rivers. Sometimes considered the source of the Nile. The swamps harbour endangered fish species Oreochromis esculentus and Oreochromis variabilis that have disappeared from Lake Victoria itself. The critically endangered sitatunga antelope  still lives in the swamps’ papyrus. BirdLife International classifies the Yala Swamp among Kenya’s 60 Important Bird Areas. Some of the birds that live there are the blue breasted bee eater, the papyrus gonolek, the swamp flycatcher, the papyrus canary, the white winged warbler, the great snapper and the Baillor’s crane.</p><br>
<p>San Benito Mountain is a mountain located in the Diablo Range of California. The highest point is at an elevation of 5,267 ft. The rock is composed of asbestos , an ultramafic rock. It weathers to produce serpentine soils with characteristically low levels of nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and calcium, and high levels of magnesium and heavy metals including nickel and chromium. This means little vegetation grows in the area though there are some plants that only grow on such soils like the local endemic San Benito evening primrose. Some of the highest peaks are clad in a unique pine and incense cedar forest.</p><br>
<p>There are two superfund sites in the area, both associated with the mining and processing of chrysotile asbestos. There are also mines producing gems and the minerals cinnabar, chromite, magnesite, and jadeite are also mined here. The Clear Creek Management Area which includes the San Benito Mountain Research Natural Area has been closed to visitors since 2008 because of the hazards to health of the asbestos. Prior to that it had been a popular site for the use of off-road vehicles.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The mountain, which rises to an elevation of 5,267 ft, is the highest point in San Benito County and the Diablo Range. The mountain gets some snowfall during winter.</p><br>
<p>The rock is a chrysotile serpentine, a soft fibrous silicate material. Extreme shearing of the bedrock, combined with soil nutrient imbalances, has resulted in extensive areas of natural barrens completely devoid of vegetation. The serpentine soils harbor several rare plant species, including the Federally listed Threatened San Benito evening primrose (Camissonia benitensis). A unique pine and incense cedar forest occurs at the highest elevations of the mountain and in 1980, the San Benito Mountain Research Natural Area was designated an Instant Wilderness Study Area.</p><br>
<p>The serpentine mass contains two superfund sites, Atlas Mine and Johns-Mansville. Both were associated with the mining and processing of chrysotile asbestos. Other minerals mined from the serpentine mass included cinnabar, chromite, magnesite, and jadeite. The Gem mine (private) located within the serpentine mass is the only source of gem-grade benitoite in the world. The rare minerals neptunite and joaquinite have also been found there.</p><br>
<h2>Closure</h2><br>
<p>The Clear Creek Management Area, which encompasses the San Benito Mountain Research Natural Area, has been subject to a temporary closure by the BLM since May 2008 due to concerns of visitor exposure to naturally occurring asbestos (chrysotile). The area was a major OHV riding area prior to the closure. The core area of the Clear Creek Management Area (approximately 35,000 acres) is the New Idria serpentine mass. The serpentine is highly sheared/pulverized and contains abundant chrysotile asbestos.</p><br>
<p>The former First Church of Christ, Scientist, now the Little Rock Community Church, is a historic church building at 2000 South Louisiana Street in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is a single-story Mission style building, designed by noted Arkansas architect John Parks Almand and completed in 1919. Characteristics of the Mission style include the low-pitch tile hip roof, overhanging eaves with exposed rafter ends, and smooth plaster walls. The building also has modest Classical features, found in pilaster capitals and medallions of plaster and terra cotta. The building is local significant for its architecture. It was built for the local Christian Science congregation, which in 1950 sold it to an Evangelical Methodist congregation. That congregation has since severed its association with the Evangelical Methodist movement, and is now known as the Little Rock Community Church.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and was included in a 1988 expansion of the Governor&#39;s Mansion Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Cowell Lime Works, in Santa Cruz, California, was a manufacturing complex that quarried limestone, produced lime and other limestone products, and manufactured wood barrels for transporting the finished lime. Part of its area is preserved as the Cowell Lime Works Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the four lime kilns, cooperage and other features relating to lime manufacture, the Historic District also includes other structures associated with the Cowell Ranch, including barns, a blacksmith shop, ranch house, cook house and workers&#39; cabins. The 32-acre (130,000 m2) Historic District is located within the University of California, Santa Cruz campus, to either side of the main campus entrance.</p><br>
<p>The site gets its name from the Cowell family, which owned and operated the lime works, quarries, ranch and large tracts of surrounding timber lands. Industrialist Henry Cowell acquired the ranch and the lime works in the late 19th century. He and his descendents remained owners of the ranch until the death of S. H. (Harry) Cowell, youngest of Henry’s five children and last surviving member of the family, in 1955. Cowells vast estate went to the S. H. Cowell Foundation, still in existence today. The Foundation sold part of the ranch property to the University of California for the creation of the new UC Santa Cruz campus, which opened in 1965. Several of the original ranch buildings have been renovated into university offices. The universitys Women&#39;s Center is hosted at the Cardiff House, formerly the residence of ranch manager George H. Cardiff.</p><br>
<p>The Cowell Lime Works is just one of many former lime-making sites scattered around north-western Santa Cruz County. Other sites featuring old lime kilns and quarries can be seen in the Fall Creek Unit of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park, Wilder Ranch State Park and Pogonip (a Santa Cruz greenbelt area).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lime works was originally developed, in the early 1850s, by partners Isaac E. Davis and Albion P. Jordan. Two of the thousands drawn to California by the discovery of gold, both arrived in San Francisco in 1849. They met during the next couple of years, and concluded that lime manufacturing offered more opportunities than gold mining. The rapid population growth in northern California at this time greatly increased demand for lime, used to make mortar for the new brick buildings.</p><br>
<p>The partners came to Santa Cruz around 1853, where they found an abundance of high-quality limestone and proximity to shipping facilities. The firm of Davis and Jordan leased some of the future Cowell ranch property, began quarrying operations, built lime kilns, a cooperage, ranch house, and other structures, and began shipping lime in late 1853. They built a new road (present day Bay Street) between the kilns and the wharf, which descended to Monterey Bay from the bluffs near the famous Santa Cruz surf spot known as Steamer Lane. Their success soon allowed them to buy the lime works land and the wharf they used for shipping. In 1856, they built a new longer wharf and a second ship. About this time, Davis moved to San Francisco, where the company established a sales office and warehouse facilities. Jordan stayed in Santa Cruz to oversee that end of the business.</p><br>
<p>In the next decade, Jordan’s health began to decline, and he sold his half of the company to Henry Cowell in 1865. With the firm renamed Davis and Cowell, Henry Cowell and his family moved to Santa Cruz, where he took over Jordan’s former duties. After Davis died in 1888, Cowell acquired full ownership of the company, and it became Henry Cowell and Co. Operations and land acquisitions continued to expand over the next twenty years; encompassing expanded lime production, cattle and milk cows, bituminous rock mining, tan oak bark (used in leather tanning), grain and fruit. In 1898, the company incorporated as the Henry Cowell Lime and Cement Company. The transition to Portland cement, which could be used to manufacture mortar superior to lime-based mortar, began the decline of the lime industry after the start of the 20th century. Henry Cowell’s son Harry finally shut down the Bay Street kilns in about 1920.</p><br>
<p>By the time UC Santa Cruz opened in 1965, many of the mostly wooden lime works structures had been unoccupied for over twenty years and were in poor condition. The ranch buildings were in better shape, having been used into the 1950s. The university began to renovate some of these and adapt them for campus uses. A horse barn became the Barn Theater in 1968; the cookhouse became the admissions office; the blacksmith shop became an art studio, the ranch house (Cardiff House) houses the universitys Womens Center, and so on.</p><br>
<h2>Lime Works restoration</h2><br>
<p>The continued deterioration of the unused structures prompted local citizens and the university staff to launch an effort to restore and preserve them. An organization called the Friends of the Cowell Lime Works Historic District was established to help achieve these goals. The Friends, whose members include faculty, staff, students, alumni, and members of the general public, have stabilized the cooperage structure, conducted archaeological studies of the site, and begun restoration of six workers&#39; cabins. A self-guided walking tour brochure is available on their website.</p><br>
<p>Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist, located at 134 Polk Avenue in New Orleans, Louisiana, is an historic structure that on July 19, 2002, was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1912, it was formerly the Lakeview Presbyterian Church. Like the rest of the Lakeview section of New Orleans, it was damaged in the levee failure disaster during Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It has been rebuilt.</p><br>
<h2>National register listing</h2><br>
<p>Fourth Church of Christ, Scientist (added 2002 - Building - #02000782)</p><br>
<p>Originally built as Lakeview Presbyterian Church</p><br>
<p>134 Polk Ave., New Orleans</p><br>
<p>Historic Significance: Architecture/Engineering</p><br>
<p>Architectural Style: Bungalow/Craftsman, Gothic Revival</p><br>
<p>Area of Significance: Architecture</p><br>
<p>Period of Significance: 1925-1949</p><br>
<p>Owner: Private</p><br>
<p>Historic Function: Religion</p><br>
<p>Historic Sub-function: Religious Structure</p><br>
<p>Current Function: Religion</p><br>
<p>Current Sub-function: Religious Structure</p><br>
<p>The Apsley Falls are two waterfalls on the Apsley River in the Northern Tablelands region of New South Wales, Australia. The falls are located about 20 km east of Walcha, and 1 kilometre off the Oxley Highway in a deep gorge, that is part of the Oxley Wild Rivers National Park. They are the first falls in a succession of dramatic drops in an area that has some of the most remarkable scenery in Eastern Australia. The first drop of the falls is about 65 m in depth, and the second, which is about 800 m further on, plummets 58 m metres to the bottom of the gorge.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Aboriginal people tell the story of how the Rainbow Serpent created the gorge at Apsley Falls in the Dreamtime. The Rainbow Serpent is said to travel underground from the base of the falls to reappear 20 km upstream at the Mill Hole on the Apsley River in Walcha. The site is now marked at the Mill Hole by the Rainbow Serpent mosaic made with the help of the local Aboriginal community.</p><br>
<p>Apart from Aboriginal significance of the area as a meeting place, John Oxley passed by the falls on 13 September 1818 and he named them the Bathurst Falls. He described it as “one of the most magnificent waterfalls we have seen”.</p><br>
<p>Oxley named the Apsley River and wrote in his journal that he was "lost in astonishment at the sight of this wonderful natural sublimity".</p><br>
<p>In 1902 three men, Ted Baker, Jim McMillan and "Wattie" Joiner built the wooden stairway that zigzagged its way from the top of the gorge to the water&#39;s edge. All timber used in this dangerous and mammoth task was hand dressed with an axe and adze by this trio. The original stairway was used until 1932, when it was declared unsafe and partly demolished.</p><br>
<p>Quite some time after parts of this stairway rotted and became dangerous, the Walcha Lions Club set about the huge task of erecting a steel staircase and viewing platform to halfway down the gorge. One of the Lions, Lindsay McMillan (son of the above Jim McMillan), designed the steel structure, lookout and platform. All materials were supplied by the Walcha Shire Council and it took the Lions Club members 1,745 hours to complete the job during 1961. The Lions were internationally, and justly, recognised for their tremendous contribution here. The official opening of the scenic stairway was on 14 October 1961 by the state member for Armidale, Davis Hughes.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The sheer sided walls of the upper Apsley Gorge are largely caused by the slate in this area which splits vertically.</p><br>
<p>The gorge rim supports a vegetation of forest and woodland with a limited understorey of shrubby plants. Common plants include a number of wattles, Acacia amoena (boomerang wattle), Acacia dealbata (silver wattle), Acacia filicifolia (fern-leaved wattle) and green wattles, plus tea trees, Eucalyptus caliginosa (broad-leaved stringy barks), Eucalyptus viminalis (ribbon gums), Eucalyptus nicholii (narrow leaved peppermint), forest red gum, Eucalyptus melliodora (yellow box), Dipodium punctatum (hyacinth orchids), Hakea fraseri (gorge hakea), Jacksonia scoparia (dogwood or native broom) and daisy bush.</p><br>
<p>Wedge-tailed eagles may be seen soaring on the thermals in the area. Kangaroos, crimson rosellas, echidnas also known as "spiny anteaters" and wallabies frequent the area.</p><br>
<h2>Facilities</h2><br>
<p>Since the National Parks and Wildlife Service took over they have constructed additional lookouts and walkways to view and photograph this magnificent gorge and the two falls. There are several short walks that can be taken from the car parks and these are highlighted in the information shelter erected in the area near the toilet facilities.</p><br>
<p>The main falls and gorge can be easily viewed from several lookouts which are readily accessed via stairs from the car park.</p><br>
<p>in addition the Oxley Walk is a 2.7 km, 1½ hours walk on a sealed walkway, which crosses the river via a footbridge, then continues around the northern side of the gorge. A further lookout offers fine views of the main falls (650 m) and the track continues past another three lookouts, where one can view a second waterfall and the dramatic cliffs of the chasm. This bridge was washed away in a flood on 28 December 2009, but the replacement was opened in June 2012.</p><br>
<p>Good facilities are available for caravan or tent campers, including fire wood, toilets, interpretive information, hardened walking tracks, access for disabled people, ten viewing platforms, Aboriginal history, flora and fauna. A small camping fee applies. Dogs and other domestic pets are not allowed.</p><br>
<p>High Maynard Reservoir is located in Walthamstow in the London Borough of Waltham Forest. The storage reservoir is one of the Lee Valley Reservoir Chain and supplies drinking water to London.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The reservoir was built in the mid-19th century by the East London Waterworks Company on former marshland and is now owned and managed by Thames Water.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>The water is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). In winter, cormorants roost on the island with their numbers reaching nationally important levels. The fringes of the reservoir contain many plant species that are uncommon to Greater London.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>The water is open to the public and is popular with birdwatchers, walkers and anglers.</p><br>
<p>Goguac Lake is a 352 acre lake in the city of Battle Creek, located in Calhoun County in the southwest portion of the USA state of Michigan. With a maximum depth of 66 ft, the lake is home to many fish species, including Crappie, Bluegill, Pike, Largemouth Bass, Yellow Perch, Rock Bass and Walleye.</p><br>
<p>While the perimeter of the lake consists primarily of private residences and expansive estates, the Battle Creek Country Club, Pasche&#39;s Lakeside Restaurant, and Willard Beach public park can be found on the lake.</p><br>
<p>A fictional version of the lake was featured in the television show Battle Creek</p><br>
<h2>Islands</h2><br>
<p>There are three islands on Goguac Lake. Picnic Island, farthest south, became Chamberlains, then Elks and finally Vinces Island. Dr. Vince, the English-born dentist, built a causeway from the shore so that he could drive to the handsome manor house he built there. Peach Island was so named for the peach orchard planted there by Hermes Sweet. It was sometimes used for cockfights because both the sport and betting were against the law and this was a good hideaway from the sheriff. The island was subsequently known as Hulberts, then Clarks, then Goulds for the owners of the single cottage. Wards Island is smaller than in the early days when the lake level was lower. Wards cottage stood on it several decades, so did the first Goguac Boat Club for about three years. Occasional picnickers use it now as trespassers, although those who recognize poison ivy generally stay away. Before its graceful elms died it became quite a bird sanctuary. Hummingbirds that fed in gardens on the mainland nested there.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lake was originally spelled Coguagiack, a Native American term referring to the "undulating" prairie surrounding the lake. This was an area that was home for the Potawatomi tribe and Goguac Lake was said to be a gathering place for them from time to time.</p><br>
<p>Since being settled by the English in the early nineteenth century, Goguac Lake has provided irrigation for crops, a ready supply of water and a focal point for community recreation.</p><br>
<h2>Liberty Amusement Park</h2><br>
<p>Like many lakes throughout the early 20th Century, Goguac Lake was once home to a small amusement park, called Liberty Amusement Park. It boasted a wooden roller coaster as well as a large dance hall. Construction started in the late 1890s and the park operated at least through the 1912 season. Pictures and further information can be found at Willard Library.</p><br>
<h2>Tall tales</h2><br>
<p>Goguac Lake has figured in a surprising number of stories: pure fiction, legends based on a thread of fact and some fantasied logic.</p><br>
<p>George Willard guessed that La Salle had camped beside Goguac Lake; the story grew to La Salles committing himself on the beauty of this particular body of water. After slogging through swamps around hundreds of lakes in his hasty escape across southern Michigan. It is doubtful if La Salle had bothered to look at Goguac, much less to comment on its superiority. Of course he had to sleep someplace, Willard figured, so why not beside this lake? Willard also thought the name Goguac meant Ancient Fort and was given to the lake by the Indians. A mound of earth that cut across Waupakisco peninsula was designated Ancient Fort on early maps. Indians seldom gave names to bodies of water and we now know that it was the prairie that was undulating&#39; — the meaning of the Indian word Coghwagiak.</p><br>
<p>The larger bay, in one place 66 ft deep, is spring fed, but any number of stories arose as to the cause of cold and warm water only a few feet apart. In the 1890s a few cottagers stocked the lake with fish of desirable kinds for eating and one year brought in some choice eels. That started stories comparable to those told about the Loch Ness Monster. But the stories disappeared as did the eels. Only one catch, harmless enough, has been reported in the last quarter century.</p><br>
<p>In the 1850s the New York Mercury, a journal which sired the dime novel and our modern mystery magazines, published a story whose setting was an island in Goguac Lake. The author is unknown. Its main character was a two personality man. He didnt have two personalities to begin with, like the later Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, but had stolen the soul&#39; and appearance of a man dying here and placed them in his own sturdy body. The story included plenty of suspense and an evil cat.</p><br>
<p>Goguac Lake has no known natural outlets and its level changes according to season, going down during dry spells, coming up when there is much rain. An artificial inlet from Minges Brook controls this somewhat. Following a rumor that the lake has a hidden outlet into the Kalamazoo River, a priceless first person story was written for a local paper. Suspected as author of the story, and perhaps of the rumor, is William Pease who was owner, editor and possibly sole writer for The Jeffersonian, a short-lived newspaper in Battle Creek.</p><br>
<p>The autobiographical bit told that the author was a visitor, living at the Battle Creek House, and that he was swimming in Goguac Lake when he was sucked into the outlet at the bottom of the lake. he was swept all the way to the Kalamazoo River. Badly bruised but uninjured, he was not only able to walk but to run back to the hotel and sneak unobserved in the back way. His suit was shamefully torn. Just how he breathed all of that time in a tunnel of water he did not bother to explain.</p><br>
<p>The Jadro River is a watercourse in Dalmatia, Croatia that discharges to the Adriatic Sea. The upper reaches of the Jadro River, as well as its source, Jadro Spring, are protected as an ichthyological nature reserve, partly due to the presence of an endemic species of soft-mouthed trout. The headwaters of the Jadro River were the original water supply for the ancient city comprised by Diocletian&#39;s Palace . Contemporary studies indicate favourable water quality levels of the river near the headwaters at Jadro Spring.</p><br>
<p>The Jadro flows through the town of Solin and has a length of approximately four kilometres&#39; moreover, the river provides water to the cities of Split, Kaštela and Trogir. People from Solin also call it Solinska rika.</p><br>
<p>Salmo obtusirostris salonitana is an endemic trout species living in this river, which is currently endangered by the rainbow trout.</p><br>
<p>The Stone Building, built in 1833, is an historic Greek Revival style building located at 735 Massachusetts Avenue in Lexington, Massachusetts. It was originally a meeting hall for East Lexington, which had its own civic identity and its own church, the neighboring Follen Community Church. Notable speakers at the hall included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Charles Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Theodore Parker, and Josiah Quincy, Jr. The building was offered to the trustees of the Cary Memorial Library for $2,000 in 1891, by Ellen Stone, granddaughter of Eli Robbins, who built it, and it was named for her. The East Lexington branch library which had been established in 1883, occupied it until the building was closed for repairs in 2007.</p><br>
<p>On April 30, 1976, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Current status</h2><br>
<p>In August, 2007, the building suffered damage from burst pipes, and was closed for repairs.</p><br>
<p>The East Branch never reopened. In February 2009, the Cary Memorial Library Board of Trustees announced their decision to use the Stone Building as a Lexington Heritage Center.</p><br>
<p>Parsons Peak is a mountain in Yosemite National Park and the Cathedral Range of California&#39;s Sierra Nevada. The peak, located on the Madera–Tuolumne county line, rises to an elevation of 12,153 ft. The mountain has a ridge extending northwest from the summit. On this ridge is a point, referred to as Parsons Peak-Northwest Ridge, which rises to an elevation of about 8,848 ft and at this point the boundaries of Mariposa, Tuolumne, and Madera counties meet. This point is the highest point in Mariposa County. The summit of Parsons Peak is just outside Mariposa County.</p><br>
<p>Most of the precipitation that falls on the mountain is snow due to the very high elevation.</p><br>
<p>The peak was named for Edward Taylor Parsons who for many years was a director of the Sierra Club.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St. James the Less is a historic Episcopal church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that was architecturally influential. As St. James-the-Less Episcopal Church, it was designated a National Historic Landmark for its Gothic Revival architecture, which influenced a generation of subsequent churches.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Philanthropist and merchant Robert Ralston wanted to found a church near his land on Ridge Road, but died shortly before this church&#39;s founding. His friend Samuel Jarvis had helped found the General Theological Seminary in New York and knew about the Cambridge Camden Society. This congregation was admitted to the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania on 22 May 1846 and on 26 September 1846, took the corporate name of "Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of St. James the Less." The new congregation acquired land from nearby Laurel Hill Cemetery and wanted to build a church that could serve not only the wealthy families with mansions overlooking the Schuylkill River or on Hunting Park Avenue, but also working-class people of the nearby industrial neighborhood now known as Allegheny West.</p><br>
<p>The parish was traditionally High Church. It did not install gas lighting in 1869, but did allow oil lamps to replace the original candles circa 1885. Further modernization occurred in the early 20th century, including not only the tower and chimes (dedicated 1910) but also electric lighting and central heat circa 1913. Documents concerning its Anglo-Catholic practices in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was added to the list of National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1985. The National Park Service called it "the first example of the pure English Parish church style in America, and one of the best examples of a 19th-century American Gothic church for its coherence and authenticity of design. Its influence on the major architects of the Gothic Revival in the United States was profound."</p><br>
<p>The Gothic architecture was nearly accidental. The congregation applied to the Cambridge Camden Society, which in 1841 and 1844 had published a widely circulated pamphlet on modern church design, for a set of approved plans. Originally an organization formed by Cambridge University students interested in gothic architecture, the group advocated combining the piety of gothic architecture with church reform associated with the Oxford Movement. It was inadvertently sent measured drawings prepared by English architect George Gordon Place for St. Michaels Church in Longstanton, Cambridgeshire, built c. 1230, which were then followed in every detail under the supervision of architect John E. Carver. Later American churches on the National Register of Historic Places influenced by St. James design include All Saints Memorial Church (Navesink, New Jersey) (designed by Richard Upjohn first President of the American Institute of Architects) and St. Peters Episcopal Church (Neligh, Nebraska).</p><br>
<p>Set on the edge of a hill, north of Mount Vernon Cemetery and east of Laurel Hill Cemetery, the setting for the church is no longer rural. West Hunting Park Avenue, a major artery, is just beyond the churchyard&#39;s south wall, and industrial buildings lie to the west. Now, however, the shady and quiet churchyard is considered an urban oasis.</p><br>
<p>The Wanamaker Memorial Bell Tower and mausoleum (1908), designed by John T. Windrim, houses a set of J.C. Deagan, Inc. tower chimes and a chime of bells by the McShane foundry. A parish hall, which later housed the parish school, was built on the opposite side of West Clearfield Street.</p><br>
<h2>Current parish(es)</h2><br>
<p>The congregation of St James the Less began withholding diocesan payments in protest over the ordination of women. After the bishop refused to renew the preaching license of assistant Rev. Willis in 1999, the congregation attempted to form a nonprofit corporation and transfer the church property into it. In 2001, the diocese initiated litigation to seize its property and two years later the Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas ruled that the attempted merger was ultra vires and invalid. The breakaway congregation lost two subsequent appeals, first to Commonwealth Court and then to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>After the Supreme Courts decision, the Diocese assumed control of the St. James property. In 2008 the dioceses Standing Committee voted to allow historic St. Marks Church in Philadelphias center city neighborhood to adopt the Church of St. James the Less as a mission. Weekly celebration of Mass resumed on Sundays at 5:00 pm. The breakaway congregation now meets at the Holy Cross Catholic church and is known as the Church of Saint Michael the Archangel.</p><br>
<h2>School</h2><br>
<p>During the controversy, the parish school closed circa 2006. As part of its mandate, Saint Marks Church began a fundraising effort to open a new parish school to serve this local community. In 2009 and 2010, the St. Marks congregation (together with St. Francis Episcopal Church in Potomac, Maryland) sponsored Vacation Bible School at the historic church school. The following fall a successful after-school program began, staff were hired, and renovations began. In September 2011 Saint James School, covering grades 5 to 8 opened. It is part of the NativityMiguel Network of Schools and The National Association of Episcopal Schools.</p><br>
<p>neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>The surrounding churchyard is the final resting place of several notable people. The cemetery is open to the public when the school is in session, generally weekdays from 7am-6pm, and on the weekends during school events.</p><br>
<p>Chapman Biddle (January 22, 1822 – December 9, 1880), Civil War Union Army officer.</p><br>
<p>Horace Binney (January 4, 1780 – August 12, 1875), US Congressman.</p><br>
<p>F. Carroll Brewster (May 15, 1825 – December 30, 1898), prominent Philadelphia lawyer, judge, state Attorney General</p><br>
<p>Mark Wilkes Collet (June 2, 1826 – May 3, 1863), Civil War Union Army officer and physician.</p><br>
<p>Constance Dallas (April 28, 1902 – January 13, 1983), first woman elected to Philadelphia City Council.</p><br>
<p>James Barnet Fry (February 22, 1827 – July 11, 1894), Civil War Union brigadier general.</p><br>
<p>John R. Goldsborough (July 2, 1809 – June 22, 1877), Civil War Union naval officer and later United States Navy commodore</p><br>
<p>Henry K. Hoff (d. December 25, 1878), United States Navy Rear-Admiral.</p><br>
<p>Robert Morris, Jr. (d. August 13, 1863), Civil War Union Army officer.</p><br>
<p>The Rt. Rev. Henry Ustick Onderdonk, second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania</p><br>
<p>John Grubb Parke (September 22, 1827 – December 16, 1900), Civil War Union Major General.</p><br>
<p>William Stevens Perry (January 22, 1832 – May 13, 1898), historian, author, president of Hobart College, and second bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa.</p><br>
<p>Anthony Taylor (October 11, 1837 – May 21, 1894), Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient.</p><br>
<p>Martin Russell Thayer (1819–1906), US Congressman for Pennsylvania, 1863 to 1867. State Court Judge in 1867.</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Chew Tilghman (October 26, 1821 – July 3, 1901), Civil War Union Brevet Brigadier General, inventor of sandblasting.</p><br>
<p>Stephen Decatur Trenchard (July 11, 1818 – November 15, 1883), United States Navy Rear-Admiral.</p><br>
<p>John Wanamaker (July 11, 1838 – December 12, 1922), businessman, founder of chain of Wanamaker&#39;s Department Stores of Philadelphia and New York, founder of Bethany Presbyterian Church and a prominent Christian layman, and Postmaster General of the United States.</p><br>
<p>(Lewis) Rodman Wanamaker (13 February 1863 – 9 March 1928), son of John Wanamaker, philanthropist, artistic benefactor and patron of the Wanamaker Organ.</p><br>
<p>William Halsey Wood (April 24, 1855 – March 13, 1897), architect, one of four finalists in the competition for the design of the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine.</p><br>
<p>Hadspen house and garden is an estate between Pitcombe and Ansford, Somerset.</p><br>
<p>Hadspen House was purchased before 1747 by Vickris Dickinson, and then sold in 1767 to Charles Medows and subsequently to John Ford who in 1785 sold it to Henry Hobhouse.</p><br>
<p>His son Arthur was born there and it remained in the family until it was sold in 2013, with the new owner rumoured to be Johnny Depp, but actually businessman Koos Bekker.</p><br>
<h2>House</h2><br>
<p>The original farmhouse was built by William Player between 1687 and 1689, but has undergone several major restorations. It is built of Cary stone ashlar, with a hipped Welsh slate roof behind parapets and stone chimney stacks. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>Within the grounds are a coachhouse, cottage, granary, southwest lodge, stables and summerhouse. There are also plans to build a number of modern follies in the grounds.</p><br>
<p>The clock house was an old barn converted into a modern five-bedroom dwelling in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>Garden</h2><br>
<p>William Player created formal gardens and courts around the house within a private park of 300 acre with two fountains, and planted avenues on three axes. The plantations behind the house were cut in the mid 18th century by vistas and ornamented with an artificial mount and a seat. The terraces and formal gardens were created in the 20th century around the house and on Pen Hill, including a large walled area later associated with a commercial nursery.</p><br>
<p>Within and around the 3,000 m&sup2; old walled vegetable garden shaped in a parabola, a twentieth century Arts and Crafts garden was created by Penelope Hobhouse. It was opened to visitors in 1970. Hellebores and hostas were bred here. In 1987 it was leased to Nori and Sandra Pope, a Canadian couple, gardeners and authors, who had previously run a nursery and garden design service in Vancouver Island. During 2007 the garden was the subject of an open design competition, which was widely advertised in national print and broadcast media, but which also attracted some controversy about the appropriateness of the competition, including the bulldozing of the old garden. There was subsequently a lack of publicity surrounding selection of any succeeding design, and no design was ever implemented. Several allotments were permitted until the house went on sale in 2012.</p><br>
<p>The Reverend Jesse Bushyhead  was a Cherokee religious and political leader. He was born near the present-day town of Cleveland, Tennessee. His Cherokee name was Unaduti. As a young man, he was ordained a Baptist minister. A member of the John Ross faction of the Cherokees, he was dispatched by Ross in 1837 on a mission to the Seminoles. Although he opposed the policy of removal to the west, he accepted the inevitable and led a party of about 1,000 people on the Trail of Tears. On his arrival in 1839 near present-day Westville, Oklahoma, he established the Baptist Mission, which marked the end of the Cherokee Trail of Tears. He became chief justice of the Cherokee nation in 1840 and remained in that office until his death.</p><br>
<h2>Early life</h2><br>
<p>Jesse Bushyhead was born in September 1804 to a full-blood Cherokee woman named Nancy Foreman in a Cheerokee settlement near the present city of Cleveland, Tennessee. He was educated at Candys Creek Mission, then taught at several schools for boys in the Candys Creek area.</p><br>
<h2>Career as a missionary</h2><br>
<p>Jesse was baptized as a Christian and became an avid member of the Baptist church in 1830. He began converting other Cheokees to Christianity, established a church at Amohee in Tennessee (then his home town), and became a close associate of noted Baptist missionary, Reverend Evan Jones. Jones preached in English, while Bushyhead translated the sermon into Cherokee. One writer claimed that Bushyhead was, "... the best interpreter in the nation."</p><br>
<p>In 1832, Reverend Jones recommended to the Baptist Board of Foreign Missions that Bushyhead be appointed as an assistant missionary. The appointment was made, and Bushyhead served in this role for the next eleven years. He is said to have been the first Cherokee to have been ordained as a Baptist minister. He continued to work closely with Jones, not only preaching to the Cherokees, but translating the Book of Genesis and other religious books into the Cherokee language, using the Cherokee Syllabary. He also served as pastor of the Amohee church.</p><br>
<h2>Family life</h2><br>
<p>Jesse Bushyhead married twice. He had two children with his first wife, whose name is apparently unknown. His second wife was Eliza Wilkerson or Wilkinson, who bore nine children. His oldest son, Dennis Bushyhead, was notable for serving as Principal Chief for two terms, from 1879 to 1887.</p><br>
<h2>Removal to Indian Territory</h2><br>
<p>Jesse Bushyhead had opposed removal of the Cherokees from their homeland in the Southeast. As the deadline approached when General Winfield Scott and the USA Army would escort the people to a new homeland in the Indian Territory, Rev. Bushyhead volunteered to lead one of the groups of emigres. The group who followed him was from a part of the nation where there was no capable leader.</p><br>
<p>The group led by Bushyhead followed the same northern route taken by the group led by Evan Jones. The route led them north through Tennessee and Kentucky to an Ohio River crossing at Golconda, Illinois, then west to cross the Mississippi River near Cape Girardeau, Missouri. After that, they turned southwest to Indian Territory. At the start of the trek, the group numbered 950 people. During the journey, the group experienced 38 deaths and 6 births, so that 898 arrived safely at their destination on February 23, 1838.</p><br>
<p>The trek terminated at a place Bushyhead called Pleasant Hill, about 4 mi north of the present day town of Westville, Oklahoma and about 70 mi from Fort Smith, Arkansas. The Cherokees called the place "Breadtown" because food rations were distributed there. Later, they named the place "Baptist Mission."</p><br>
<h2>Death and burial</h2><br>
<p>Jesse Bushyhead died on July 17, 1844 after a brief, but unspecified illness. He was buried at the old Baptist Mission cemetery near Westville</p><br>
<p>Jesse Bushyhead&#39;s grave at the Baptist Mission Cemetery is marked by a 15 ft marble monument. His grave is the only surviving property associated with his life, and as such is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>One side of the monument reads: "Sacred to the memory of Rev. Jesse Bushyhead, born in the old Cherokee Nation in East Tennessee, September, 1804; died in the present Cherokee Nation, July 17, 1844. Well done, thou good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." An inscription in Cherokee is at the bottom.</p><br>
<p>The other side of the monument bears the following inscription:</p><br>
<p>"Rev. Jesse Bushyhead was a man noble in person and noble in heart. His choice was to be a true and faithful minister of his Lord and Master rather than any high and wordly position. He loved his country and people, serving them from time to time in many important offices and missions. He united with the Baptist Church in his early manhood and died as he had lived, a devoted Christian."</p><br>
<p>Shenandoah Creek is a tributary of Mahanoy Creek in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is at least 5 mi long and flows through Shenandoah, West Mahanoy Township, Butler Township, and Girardville.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>Shenandoah Creek begins in West Mahanoy Township, at or near the confluence of the tributary Kehly Run. Upon entering Shenandoah, the creek flows south and then in a southwesterly direction, crossing Pennsylvania Route 924. It then turns west for several tenths of a mile, entering West Mahanoy Township and crossing Pennsylvania Route 54. Here, the creek flows west-southwest in a valley alongside Pennsylvania Route 54 for a few miles, receiving the tributary Lost Creek and crossing Pennsylvania Route 54 once, before entering a pond and flowing into Butler Township. Here, it exits the pond and flows west for a few tenths of a mile before turning southwest. After a few tenths of a mile, it passes through a wetland, enters Girardville, and reaches its confluence with Mahanoy Creek.</p><br>
<p>Shenandoah Creek joins Mahanoy Creek 41.72 mi upstream of its mouth.</p><br>
<h3>Tributaries</h3><br>
<p>Shenandoah Creek has two named tributaries: Kehly Run and Lost Creek. Kehly Run joins Shenandoah Creek 5.01 mi upstream of its mouth and drains an area of 1.63 square miles. Lost Creek joins Shenandoah Creek 1.28 mi upstream of its mouth and drains an area of 1.32 square miles.</p><br>
<h2>Hydrology</h2><br>
<p>Shenandoah Creek is impaired by abandoned mine drainage throughout its length, and also by municipal point source pollution in one reach. Shenandoah Creeks contribution to the waters of Mahanoy Creek causes the latter creeks flow to nearly double.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and geology</h2><br>
<p>The elevation near the mouth of Shenandoah Creek is 958 ft above sea level.</p><br>
<h2>Watershed</h2><br>
<p>The watershed of Shenandoah Creek has an area of 12.1 square miles. The mouth of the creek is in the United States Geological Survey quadrangle of Ashland. However, its source is in the quadrangle of Shenandoah.</p><br>
<p>Shenandoah Creek is one of the major tributaries of Mahanoy Creek. There are several lakes/ponds in the creek&#39;s watershed, and a wetland occurs in its lower reaches.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Shenandoah Creek was entered into the Geographic Names Information System on August 2, 1979. Its identifier in the Geographic Names Information System is 1187459.</p><br>
<p>A steel stringer/multi-beam or girder bridge carrying State Route 4031 over Shenandoah Creek was built in 1937 near Pennsylvania Route 54 and is 34.1 ft long.</p><br>
<h2>Biology</h2><br>
<p>The drainage basin of Shenandoah Creek is designated as a Coldwater Fishery and a Migratory Fishery.</p><br>
<p>Suraj Tal or Suraj Tal Lake also called Surya taal, is a sacred body of water, literally means the Lake of the Sun God, and lies just below the Bara-lacha-la pass   in the Lahaul and Spiti valley of Himachal Pradesh state in India and is the third highest lake in India, and the 21st-highest in the world. Suraj Tal Lake is the source of Bhaga River which joins the Chandra River downstream at Tandi to form the Chandrabhaga River in Himachal Pradesh territory, and as it enters Jammu and Kashmir it is renamed as the Chenab River. The Bhaga River  originates from Surya taal. The other major tributary of the Chandrabhaga, the Chandra originates from the glacier close to the Chandra Taal lake in the Spiti district.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Suraj Tal is 65 km from Keylong, the district headquarters of the Lahaul Spiti district, a frontier district of India which is approachable by road by the National Highway NH 21, also known as the Leh-Manali Highway. The NH 21 is the vital road link for the people living in the Lahaul Spiti district. The road skirts the Suraj Tal and is just 3 km short of the Bara-lacha-la pass. It is sometimes falsely claimed to be the highest mountain road in the world (probably the true highest road is the Semo La in Tibet) but it remains inaccessible from Rohtang Pass to Leh during winter months of November to April since the pass becomes totally snowbound during this period.</p><br>
<h2>Physical description</h2><br>
<h3>Terrain</h3><br>
<p>The lake is fed from the glaciers and torrential nullahs (streams) originating from the Bara-lacha-la pass, which is 8 km long and is also called the "Pass with crossroads on summit" since roads from Zanskar, Ladakh, Spiti and Lahaul meet at this pass. In addition to the Suraj Tal and the Bhaga River that originates from it, Bara-lacha-la Pass is also the source of the Chandra and Yunan Rivers in the northwest and north, respectively.</p><br>
<p>The lake is situated in the Upper Himalayan Zone or High Latitudinal Zone part of the Himalayas which has very sparse population with climatic conditions akin to polar conditions. Snowfall in this zone, though scanty, is reported to be spread all round the year. Rainfall precipitation is rare in the region. Snow precipitation from snow storms is reported to be less than 20 cm of snow in nearly 50% of the storms, even though one observatory in the region has reported 80 cm of snow fall. The precipitation starts melting from May. Snow on slopes is generally slackly bonded, with wind redistributing it. The average total snowfall recorded in a year is reported to be 12 m &ndash;15 m with temperatures of Highest Max. 13 &deg;C, Mean Max.0.5 &deg;C,Mean Minimum minus 11.7 &deg;C and Lowest Minimum of minus 27 &deg;C. The ground in the zone is covered with scree and boulders.</p><br>
<h3>Geology</h3><br>
<p>The Lake&#39;s geology is represented by the Bara-lacha-la Pass, which is reported to be an early rifting event on the northern Indian passive margin and that the Basalts which are emplaced along the trans&ndash;tensional faults indicate that.</p><br>
<h3>Bhaga Valley</h3><br>
<p>The Bhaga Valley (Tod or Stod Valley) formed from Suraj Tal up to Tandi, the confluence point with Chandra River, is 64 km long. The valley, which is a narrow gorge, is devoid of any vegetation up to Darcha and thereafter it widens up to its confluence with Chandra River at Tandi with terraces between Darcha and Tandi which are under cultivation in the lower slopes, with the middle slopes having grasslands. Plantation of trees and shrubs to meet fuel wood and fodder requirements have been done on the hill slopes.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Lahaul Spiti valley is common a destination for Indian and foreign tourists for road trips, trekking and motorcycling which cover the Lake and the Bara-lacha-la pass, en route from Manali to Leh.</p><br>
<h3>Trekking</h3><br>
<p>Trekking tours are a common feature. One such trek route is the Zingzingbar&ndash;Suraj Tal&ndash;Bara-lacha-la, which involves trek along the Bhaga River for 3 km, cross a bridge to the North bank, then a further climb of 2.5 km from the bridge followed by a steep foot trail up to Suraj Tal.</p><br>
<h3>Biking tours</h3><br>
<p>Motorcycle trips during the season when the area is approachable are undertaken by tourists. During such trips from Manali to Leh, the section between Patseo to Bara-lacha-la is a rough journey of 30 km. Along this route, two small lakes, the Deepak Tal and the Suraj Tal are seen.</p><br>
<p>The Takwa settlement is situated on the south side of Manda Island, in the Lamu District in the coastal province of Kenya. They are the ruins of a town which was abandoned around the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>The Takwa site can be easily reached from Lamu town. The ruins were first excavated by James Kirkman in 1951. In 1972 the site was cleared again under the supervision of James de Vere Allen, the Curator of the Lamu Museum.</p><br>
<p>Takwa was never a large place. It was founded around 1500, and probably abandoned around 1700. Kirkman thought that it was perhaps a place where holy men or religious people retreated. The Great Mosque at Takwa is relatively well preserved. The other structure of importance is the Pillar Tomb, which has an inscription with the date of 1681-1682.</p><br>
<p>It is reported that when Takwa was abandoned, its inhabitants settled just across the bay at Shela on Lamu Island. Twice a year the people of Shela come to the Pillar Tomb in Takwa to pray for rain. The Takwa Ruins were designated a Kenyan National Monument in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Franklin School is a building designed by Adolf Cluss, located on Franklin Square at 13th and K Street in Washington, DC.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1869, the Franklin School was the flagship building of eight modern urban public school buildings constructed in Washington, D.C. between 1862 and 1875 to house, for the first time, a comprehensive system of universal public education.</p><br>
<p>In addition to being an admired educational facility, a small plaque on its exterior describes the buildings place in the history of telecommunications, noting Alexander Graham Bells first wireless communication in 1880, where a beam of light was used to transmit a voice message using his newly invented Photophone. Bells laboratory was nearby on L Street and his work was a pioneering step in optical communications, the forerunner of fiber-optic communication systems which now carry most of the worlds telecommunications traffic. Bell was also a well-known educator who taught at a special day school for deaf children, who trained teachers of the deaf, and who additionally created an institution for the study of deafness (also in Washington, DC).</p><br>
<p>The prominence Franklin School enjoyed was highlighted in the 1870s when studied in international expositions held in Vienna, Paris, and Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, the building was used as a homeless shelter, which controversially closed in September 2008.</p><br>
<p>It was briefly occupied by protesters associated with the Occupy movement on November 19, 2011</p><br>
<p>In February 2015, Mayor Muriel Bowser cancelled the planned conversion of the school to a public facility for art exhibitions, lectures and educational activities by the Institute for Contemporary Expression. Approved by Bowser&#39;s predecessor, Vincent Gray, the project involved a privately funded conversion of the school and had its first event planned for September 2015. As of October 2015, proposals were still being considered.</p><br>
<p>On January 25, 2017, it was announced that the building would host a museum of linguistics called "Planet Word," led by Ann B. Friedman, philanthropist and wife of The New York Times columnist Tom Friedman.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Cluss described its architecture as "modern Renaissance", but its origins are in the German rounded arch style, known as Rundbogenstil.</p><br>
<p>The location of the school in a prominent neighborhood was intended to bring attention to age-graded, separate but equal classrooms for boys and girls. Offices for the Superintendent and the Board of Education were also housed in the Franklin School allowing administrators to see the benefits of the new educational system. The building also used big windows for light, roomy and airy spaces to enhance the learning environment.</p><br>
<p>Saint-Jacques River is a river in southwestern Quebec, Canada that drains the Saint Lawrence Lowlands. It flows in a general south to north direction, from the area around Saint-Jacques-le-Mineur  to its mouth in the Saint Lawrence River, at the border between the cities of Brossard and La Prairie. The total length of the course of this river is about 25 km.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Saint-Jacques River meanders through the agricultural and forested lowlands of the Montérégie region near the Saint Lawrence River. As a result, it flows through and drains areas of sparse and dense population like agricultural towns and suburban cities on the south shore of the Island of Montreal.</p><br>
<h3>Meandering course</h3><br>
<p>A common characteristic of rivers, such as this one, that flow through sedimentary soil of lowlands is the formation of bends and oxbow lakes along its course. This meandering course is due to the erosion of the soil. One notable oxbow lake along this river is located in the territory of Brossard, forming an island (at ).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early 17th century</h3><br>
<p>The Saint-Jacques River was first described by Samuel de Champlain in his notes on his 1611 voyage along the Saint Lawrence River and in the area around La Place Royale on the Island of Montreal:</p><br>
<p>The Pickett House is the oldest house in the city of Bellingham, Washington, located on 910 Bancroft Street. Built in 1856 by United States Army Captain George Pickett, who later became a prominent general in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After Captain Pickett arrived in Bellingham on the pretense of overseeing the construction Fort Bellingham, he chose a spot on what was then called Peabody Hill in the town of Whatcom to be cleared for his home. The house was built with two stories of lumber provided by the nearby Roeder-Peabody lumber mill on Whatcom Creek. About a year later, the Captain&#39;s son, James Tilton Pickett, was born in the house. After Pickett left Bellingham in 1861 to serve in the Civil War, the house changed hands several times, before Hattie Strothers left the house to the Washington State Historical Society in 1936 upon her death. In 1941, the home became a museum, and later home to the Daughters of Pioneers, both of which still occupy the site.</p><br>
<p>Very few changes have been made to the original structure. A narrow staircase was added to replace the ladder leading to the upstairs sleeping quarters, and a kitchen has been added to the lean-to section of the house.</p><br>
<p>Thumb Peak is a small mountain in central Palawan, Philippines, and is the highest point in the Thumb Range. Like Mount Mantalingahan and Mount Victoria further south, Thumb Peak is part of the Mount Beaufort Ultramafics geological area, a series of ultramafic outcrops of Eocene origin that emerge in various parts of the island.</p><br>
<p>The mountain was formerly known as Mount Pulgar, a name it acquired during the Spanish Colonial period. Pulgar, means thumb in Spanish, and the name was probably translated directly to English following the ousting of Spain during the Spanish–American War. The name may have arisen as a result of the mountain&#39;s profile, which vaguely resembles the tip of a thumb protruding from a clenched fist.</p><br>
<p>The upper reaches of Thumb Peak are populated by species associated with ultramafic soils, including a number of endemics, such as the tropical pitcher plant Nepenthes deaniana, rediscovered on the mountain in 2007 for the first time since its description in 1908 (see external links).</p><br>
<h2>Hiking activity</h2><br>
<p>The L. L. Stine House is a historic house in Woodward, Oklahoma. The House was built in 1916 by architect U. G. Charles of Wichita, Kansas for L. L. Stine, an early banker in Woodward. The house is a three story brick which was picked out of the SEARS CATALOG. Stine was the owner of Woodward’s First National Bank which was built on the corner of 8th and Main in 1901. Fifteen years later he built the elaborate mansion that is known today as the Stine-Bradbury House.</p><br>
<p>Mr. L.L. Stine & his wife separated, There was a small fire in the house, so Mr. Stine moved into a smaller house next to the Large house. The house was purchased after a small fire by Mr. & Mrs. Harold B. Bradbury in 1935 with their Daughter Mary Vivian and 10-year-old son Harold Madison.</p><br>
<p>H.B. Bradbury owned the Bradbury Produce Company. Mr. & Mrs. H.B. Bradbury cared for Mr. Stine until he passed. The Bradburys had purchased a few items from the Stine Auction. Both Mr. & Mrs. H.B. Bradbury died in the house. Their Son, Harold Madison, Wife Maudie Lea Bradbury & two daughters lived in the house while caring for Mr. H.B. Bradbury before he died. The House is a Classical Revival building and is the only large Classical Revival building in Woodward.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historical Places on October 7, 1983, by Mr. & Mrs. H.M. Bradbury, remained in their family until 1994. It is now owned by the Great Plains Preservation and Development Foundation and is used as a venue for receptions, weddings, and other community events. It is Woodward’s only home on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
