<p>Ruskin Hall is a residence hall at the University of Pittsburgh and a contributing property to the Schenley Farms National Historic District. Constructed in 1921-22 by H. L. Stevens & Company, with an annex added in 1925-26, it is an eight-story building which is located between the Music Building and Information Sciences Building between Ruskin and Bellefield Avenues near Fifth Avenue on Pitt&#39;s main campus in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ruskin Hall recently underwent a $19.4 million conversion and renovation from medical student housing into undergraduate apartment-style housing that opened in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Originally built in 1921-22 by H. L. Stevens & Company as the Ruskin Apartments, an annex facing Bellefield Avenue was added in 1925-26. The building has long seen usage by Pitt students, including use as the meeting place of the Omega Delta fraternity until the fall of 1926. Pitt purchased the Ruskin Apartments in February 1958 for $2.24 million ($ in dollars) as an investment, with the intention of using it eventually for faculty residences. Following the purchase, Pitt Chancellor Edward Litchfield held a tea for the 189 remaining tenants, many of whom were elderly, well-to-do widows, to ensure them that their leases and the staff and management would be maintained as long as they wished to stay.</p><br>
<p>With time, the apartments were relinquished giving Pitt full control of the building.</p><br>
<p>In 1966, Richard King Mellon donated $1,075,475 ($ in dollars) to the University to refinance and retain possession of the Ruskin Apartments so they could be used for members of the house staffs of the University-affiliated hospitals and their families.</p><br>
<p>Ruskin Hall has also served as the home for University offices including those of the University of Pittsburgh Press.</p><br>
<p>Through 2007, Ruskin Hall served as the primary residence for medical students and PhD candidates in the basic sciences of medicine, although students of other medical-related schools (including dental, nursing, and pharmacy) could be wait-listed for apartments. Beginning in the summer of 2007, medical student housing was replaced by the Darragh Street Medical Student Housing complex, allowing for a $19.4 million renovation by Graves Design Group to convert Ruskin Hall into undergraduate apartment-style housing was completed for fall 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Facilities</h2><br>
<p>Previously serving as a primary residence for medical students, Ruskin Hall contained 176 studio, efficiency, or one- to two-bedroom apartments each containing a living room, one to two bathrooms, and a kitchen. A ground floor study area, central courtyard, and laundry facilities were available and the building was outfitted with central air conditioning.</p><br>
<p>A $19.4 million renovation was completed in 2008 that converted the Hall into an undergraduate residence hall with 178 apartment-style units with 416 beds in one, two, and three-person apartments and single-person efficiency apartments. The furnished apartments include private baths and kitchens and have cable and internet connection. Commons areas are also equipped with wireless internet. A University of Pittsburgh Police mini-station in Ruskin Hall was also part of the renovation.</p><br>
<p>Lake Bonney ({{coord|77|43|S|162|22|E|type:waterbody}}</p><br>
<p>) is a saline lake with permanent ice cover at the western end of Taylor Valley in the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Victoria Land, Antarctica.</p><br>
<p>It is 7 km long and up to 900 m wide. A narrow channel only 50 m wide (Lake Bonney at Narrows) separates the lake into East Lake Bonney (3.32 km&sup2;) and West Lake Bonney (0.99 km&sup2;).</p><br>
<p>To the north and south of the lake lie peaks that are over 1,500 m above sea level, and the Taylor Glacier is positioned to the west of the lake. It is 130 ft deep and is perpetually trapped under 12 to 15 ft of ice.</p><br>
<p>It was first visited by the British Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1904. It was named by the Scott expedition of 1910-1913, for Thomas George Bonney, professor of geology at University College London, England from 1877 to 1901.</p><br>
<p>Lake Bonney is one of the main lakes studied by the National Science Foundations, McMurdo Long Term Ecological Research site.</p><br>
<p>Starting in 2007 NASA is funding an autonomous submersible robot called ENDURANCE to explore the water volume of the lake to study its shape and ecology. The robot is built by Stone Aerospace who also developed the DEPTHX submersible. The Endurance Project is led by Peter Doran with Bill Stone and John Priscu among the co-investigators. Scientists have discovered an ancient ecosystem beneath the Taylor Glacier, next to Lake Bonney. This ecosystem survives by transforming sulfur and iron compounds for growth.</p><br>
<p>The work is seen as a stage in developing an autonomous submersible robot that could explore the ocean on Jupiter&#39;s moon Europa.</p><br>
<h2>Tributaries</h2><br>
<p>Lake Bonney is fed by a number of meltwater streams:</p><br>
<p>* Bartlette Creek</p><br>
<p>* Bohner Stream</p><br>
<p>* Doran Stream (feeding Priscu Stream)</p><br>
<p>* Lawson Creek</p><br>
<p>* Lizotte Creek</p><br>
<p>* Lyons Creek</p><br>
<p>* Mason Creek</p><br>
<p>* Priscu Stream (the longest, 3.8 km)</p><br>
<p>* Red River</p><br>
<p>* Santa Fe Stream</p><br>
<p>* Sharp Creek</p><br>
<p>* Vincent Creek</p><br>
<p>Innominate Tarn is a small tarn in the northern Lake District National Park in England. It is situated at 520 metres above sea level, near the summit of Haystacks. The name Innominate means "without a name".</p><br>
<p>It was formerly known as Loaf Tarn.</p><br>
<p>The tarn is the location where Alfred Wainwright&#39;s ashes were scattered. He had expressed this wish in A Pictorial Guide to the Lakeland Fells Volume 7: The Western Fells and in his memoirs:</p><br>
<p>"All I ask for, at the end, is a last long resting place by the side of Innominate Tarn, on Haystacks, where the water gently laps the gravelly shore and the heather blooms and Pillar and Gable keep unfailing watch. A quiet place, a lonely place. I shall go to it, for the last time, and be carried: someone who knew me in life will take me and empty me out of a little box and leave me there alone. And if you, dear reader, should get a bit of grit in your boot as you are crossing Haystacks in the years to come, please treat it with respect. It might be me."</p><br>
<p>~ Alfred Wainwright - from "Memoirs of a Fellwalker" (1990)</p><br>
<p>The Glen of Aherlow  is a valley located between Slievenamuck and the Galtee Mountains in the western part of County Tipperary in Ireland. The principal village is Lisvarrinane . There is also a hamlet at Rossadrehid, where Aherlow creamery was located before its closure in the late 20th century. Other adjacent centres of population are the villages of Galbally , Kilross  and Bansha . Across the northern flank of Slievenamuck lies Tipperary Town.</p><br>
<p>The tradition of Geoffrey Keating still lives on in the folklore of the Glen of Aherlow. Keating preached sermons there, receiving refuge and, according to tradition, lived in a cave for much of the time while on the run and compiling his magnum opus, Foras Feasa Ar Éirinn (c. 1634).</p><br>
<h2>Statue</h2><br>
<p>A statue, titled &#39;Christ the King&#39;, overlooks the valley in which the Glen of Aherlow is situated. The statue, constructed in 1950, is situated on Slievenamuck on the approach road to Tipperary Town. The car park at &#39;Christ the King&#39; is sometimes busy during the summer, as it offers views of the glen and valley on a clear day.</p><br>
<h2>Townlands, villages and parishes</h2><br>
<p>* Tipperary</p><br>
<p>* Galbally</p><br>
<p>* Soloheadbeg</p><br>
<p>* The Galtee Mountains</p><br>
<p>* Slievenamuck Hills</p><br>
<p>* River Aherlow</p><br>
<p>* Bansha</p><br>
<p>* Lisvernane</p><br>
<p>* Barna</p><br>
<p>* Ballinacourtie</p><br>
<p>* Glencushabinna</p><br>
<p>* Ardnamoher</p><br>
<p>* Drombane</p><br>
<p>* Templemore</p><br>
<p>* Kilross</p><br>
<p>* Parish of Lattin</p><br>
<p>* Carrick-on-Suir</p><br>
<p>* Mitchelstown</p><br>
<p>* Ballylanders</p><br>
<p>* Kilfinane</p><br>
<p>* Clonmel</p><br>
<p>* Sliab na Muc</p><br>
<p>* Gurtavoher</p><br>
<p>* Slievenamuck</p><br>
<p>* Ballinacourtie</p><br>
<p>* Kilmallock</p><br>
<p>* Duntryleague</p><br>
<p>* Lake Borheen</p><br>
<p>* River Arra</p><br>
<p>* Kilaldriffe</p><br>
<p>* Golden</p><br>
<p>* Rossadrehid</p><br>
<p>* Cappauniacke</p><br>
<p>* Ballinamuddy in the County of Limerick</p><br>
<p>* Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty</p><br>
<p>* Cross of Barna</p><br>
<p>* Clonbeg</p><br>
<p>* Ballydavid</p><br>
<p>* Garryspillane</p><br>
<p>* Statue of Christ the King</p><br>
<p>* Glen of Aherlow Antique and Sacred Sites</p><br>
<p>* St. Sedna’s Well</p><br>
<p>* St. Berrihert’s Kyle, Ardane,</p><br>
<p>* Moor Abbey</p><br>
<p>* Duntryleague Dolmen</p><br>
<p>* Galteemore</p><br>
<p>* Lake Muskry and Farbreaga,</p><br>
<p>* Mullinahone</p><br>
<p>Zalabiye  is an archaeological site on the left bank of the Euphrates in Deir ez-Zor Governorate, Syria.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>The site is located near a narrow gap in the Euphrates Valley that is created by basalt outcrops and that is called al-khanuqa, or "the strangler". On the opposite river bank, some 3 km upstream, lies the contemporary fortress of Halabiye. Zalabiye was built during the third century CE when the short-lived Palmyrene Empire, centred on the oasis-city of Palmyra, extended its reach toward the Euphrates area. The fortifications of the site were subsequently improved under the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (527–565) as part of his program to strengthen the eastern border of the empire.</p><br>
<p>The site originally had a rectangular shape surrounded by a fortification wall protected by square towers. Due to poor construction, the site has suffered from earthquakes and erosion by the Euphrates. Stones have also been used as ballast for the nearby railway. Today, only the eastern wall with eight towers and a gate remains. Beyond the city walls, on Zalabiyes north and east sides, lay extensive suburbs. Approximately 1 km upstream from Zalabiye, a dam had been built in the Euphrates with a diversion canal on the rivers right bank. It is thought that the canal was constructed during the first century CE or possibly even during the Late Bronze Age. The Arabs named the canal after legendary queen Semiramis.</p><br>
<p>The proposed construction of the Halabiye Dam will lead to the flooding of Zalabiye by the dam&#39;s reservoir and the Syrian government works with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and UNESCO to limit the impact of the dam on the ancient ruins of Halabiye and Zalabiye.</p><br>
<p>Harold C. Bradley House, also known as Mrs. Josephine Crane Bradley Residence, is a Prairie School home designed by Louis H. Sullivan and George Grant Elmslie. It is located in the University Heights Historic District of Madison, Wisconsin, United States. A National Historic Landmark, it is one of just a few residential designs by Sullivan, and one of only two Sullivan designs in Wisconsin.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>George Grant Elmslie joined the architectural partnership of Adler & Sullivan in 1888. Following the dismissal of Frank Lloyd Wright from the firm, and especially once the partnership dissolved, Elmslies role under Louis Sullivan increased. Elmslie was entrusted with the design of the main facade of the Gage Building and of all of the details of the Carson, Pirie, Scott and Company Building. The Bradley House, intended for professor Harold C. Bradley, was designed at a time when Sullivans architectural practice was starting to fail. Once considered the foremost designer of skyscrapers, Sullivan now struggled to secure commissions and often sparred with clients. The Bradley House was "designed by Elmslie with only occasional suggestions from Sullivan." All drawings of the building were sketched by Elmslie and many of the architectural details are consistent with the style he would develop later in his career with William Gray Purcell. The Bradley House was the last building Elmslie designed while with Sullivan; he left to partner with Purcell in 1909.</p><br>
<p>An elaborate design was initially planned for the Bradley House with a cruciform design. It featured a living room and force to the rear, a library and kitchen on the two wings, and a porte-cochère on the main entrance. Bays projected out of the house, lined with casement windows. However, the Bradleys rejected this draft as too large. Elmslie reenvisioned the house on a smaller scale and included a pair of cantilevered sleeping porches on the second floor. Sullivan was probably responsible for the idea of the sleeping porches, though Elmslie was responsible for integrating them into the final design. Elmslie was not satisfied with the result when the house was completed.</p><br>
<p>The Harold C. Bradley House was entered in the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976. It has been occupied and maintained by the Sigma Phi Society, University of Wisconsin-Madison chapter since 1915. The blueprints of the Bradley House are held in the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections at the University of Illinois Library in Urbana-Champaign.</p><br>
<p>The Dousman Hotel, is a historic hotel located at the intersection of Fisher Street and River Road in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin. The hotel was built in 1864–65 to serve railroad and steamboat travelers through the city. The hotel was named after Hercules L. Dousman, an early Wisconsin fur trader and land speculator. The hotel operated until the 1920s; it was later converted to a meatpacking plant. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1960 for its signifance as one of the last grand hotels to survive from the 19th century railroad and steamboat era. It is now undergoing restoration, its ground floor open as a restaurant and event venue known as the Dousman House.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Dousman Hotel is a three-story brick building with a Mid-Victorian design. Due to additions and neglect, many of the buildings decorative features are no longer intact. The brick quoins at the corners and arched moldings around the windows are the most prominent remaining elements of the original design. The hotel once had a square cupola and a bracketed cornice; both have been removed, though the cupola was eventually replaced. The buildings original front porch, which ran along the center block of the front facade, is also gone. The hotel&#39;s original interior included fifty-one guest rooms and a dining room, though these were later gutted.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Milwaukee and Mississippi Railroad built the Dousman Hotel next to its train depot in 1864–65. The hotel was named for fur trader Hercules L. Dousman, who had interests in both the steamboat and railroad industries; he was then regarded as Prairie du Chiens most prominent resident. Travelers on both the river and the railroad frequented the hotel, which was considered the most luxurious of the citys hotels at the time; in addition, the hotel&#39;s proximity to the Milwaukee and Mississippi station made it a convenient choice for rail travelers. The hotel was a financial success and remained in operation through 1925. After its closure, meatpacking plants occupied the hotel from 1939 to 1952; during this time, several additions were placed on the hotel, and its original interior was destroyed. The hotel was used for storage by other businesses after 1952, but by the 1960s it had been abandoned and became derelict. The building has since been restored, and a hotel once again occupies the space.</p><br>
<p>Van Hise Rock is a rock monolith located along Wisconsin Highway 136 near Rock Springs, Wisconsin. The rock is a geologically significant outcropping of Baraboo Quartzite.</p><br>
<p>It serves as a monument to Charles Van Hise, a prominent Wisconsin geologist who studied the area extensively. The rock was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Van Hise Rock is made of Baraboo quartzite, a type of pink-purple quartzite found in south central Wisconsin. It is one of the best-exposed parts of the Baraboo Range, a ring of quartzite hills that passes through Columbia and Sauk Counties. The quartzite in the range was formed as sandstone during the Precambrian Supereon; then a greenschist phase changed it to quartzite.</p><br>
<p>The monolith is located in a wayside on Wisconsin Highway 136, about 3/4 mile north of the intersection with Wisconsin Highway 154 near the village of Rock Springs. The wayside provides visitor access to the rock.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The rock is named in honor of Charles Van Hise, a prominent geologist who chaired the University of Wisconsin Department of Mineralogy and Geology. Among his significant accomplishments in geology and politics, Van Hise determined how the quartzite in the Baraboo Range had formed. Building on earlier discoveries that the quartzite formed in the Precambrian Era and had metamorphosed, Van Hise was able to determine the forces that deformed the rock; his discoveries helped form the key principles of structural geology. Van Hise also used his studies of the quartzite&#39;s conversion from sandstone to write the Treatise on Metamorphism in 1904, the first publication to describe the process of metamorphism in detail. University of Wisconsin geologists used Van Hise Rock to demonstrate the properties and principles which Van Hise discovered; the rock is still used in geological education and research.</p><br>
<p>Shambles Glacier  is a steep glacier 4 miles  long and 6 miles  wide, with very prominent hummocks and crevasses, flowing east between Mount Bouvier and Mount Mangin into Stonehouse Bay on the east side of Adelaide Island. It is the island&#39;s largest glacier, and provides an eastern outlet from the giant Fuchs Ice Piedmont which covers the entire western two-thirds of the island. In doing so, Shambles Glacier provides the largest &#39;gap&#39; in Adelaide Island&#39;s north-south running mountain chain.</p><br>
<p>The lower reaches of the glacier were first sighted and surveyed in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, and resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). The upper reaches were mapped from air photos taken by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE), in 1947-48, and by the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE), 1956-57. So named by the FIDS because of the very broken nature of the glacier&#39;s surface.</p><br>
<p>Soldiers Home Reef, also known as Rocky Point, National Military Asylum Reef, or Veterans Hill is a fossilized coral reef rock formation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The reef formation was discovered by geologist Increase A. Lapham in the 1830s. It and other fossilized coral reefs that he discovered were the first geological reef formations described in North America, and are among the first described in the world. This reef was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Setting</h2><br>
<p>The formation is located northeast of the junction of Wood Avenue and General Mitchell Boulevard, on the Clement J. Zablocki Veterans Affairs Medical Center grounds. It consists of the lower 35 ft of a 70 ft high bluff extending east-west for a distance of about 450 ft. The bluff is the only fully natural formation of its type remaining in Milwaukee County. It is located on the northern border of the VA grounds.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The reef was formed during the Silurian period of the Paleozoic Era. It was first identified as archaeologically important by Increase Lapham, an amateur geologist, in the 1830s. It was first identified as a fossilized reef in 1862 by James Hall, marking the first such identification in North America. It was one of three other formations he identified; the other two have since been destroyed by quarrying and other alterations. The formation continued to be of significant interest to paleontologists until 1939, and still exhibits the diagnostic features used to identify it as a reef.</p><br>
<p>The River Roe  is a river located in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It flows north from Glenshane in the Sperrin Mountains to Lough Foyle, via the settlements of Dungiven, Burnfoot, Limavady and Myroe.</p><br>
<p>The River Roe&#39;s length is 34.25 mi</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The origin of the name Roe is unclear. Suggestions include a Viking origin in the 8th/9th century, and the Irish rua, meaning red, i.e. the Red River. This may be a reference to the high amounts of iron found in some places along the river.</p><br>
<p>The Irish government&#39;s placenames database, held by Dublin City University, identifies the Irish version of the name as Abhainn na Ró. This roughly translates into English as "The River of Rowing", possibly due to common passage by oar-powered boat craft in earlier times.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Roe Basin (or Roe Valley) is a wide, glacial valley. The river flows most of the way to Limavady through an open, grassy, pastoral farmland landscape before narrowing through a metamorphic rock gorge within the Roe Valley Country Park. Beyond Limavady the river widens and meanders to an estuary feeding into Lough Foyle at Myroe Levels. Due to the wide, open nature of the upper reaches of the Roe, heavy rainfall can result in large surges of water. Many lower lying fields have earth defences to prevent flooding when the river rises above its natural banks. The estuary is a feeding ground of many birds and nesting area for Lapwing.</p><br>
<h2>Angling</h2><br>
<p>The Roe Valley Country Park is a popular area for fishing, with stock of salmon, sea trout and brown trout.</p><br>
<p>Mansface Hill is a mountain located in Green River, Wyoming. The mountain is named for its rock outcroppings, which form the shape of a face looking up into the sky.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Mansface is accessible from Green River via two access roads. The first road begins at the top of an area known as South Hill on Wyoming Highway 530. This route follows a pipeline for about half a mile and then begins turning north to the summit of the hill. The second begins near the west end of River View Drive in Green River. Google Earth and most GPS maps identify the road to the summit on the west side as "Knotty Pine Street." During the winter, the road is often drifted over, and some times impassable.</p><br>
<h2>Summit</h2><br>
<p>On the summit of the hill are various radio towers for both local business and government entities. A tower for the city of Green River &#39;s police department is the newest tower, constructed some time in the summer of 2004. A local cellular telephone tower is located at the center of the hill, and is primarily what can be seen from surrounding areas. It was constructed in late 2001 and early 2002. The hill also has a tower for local KCSP affiliate radio station K232CU, which serves Green River on 94.3 FM.</p><br>
<h2>Christmas tree</h2><br>
<p>Every year in either late November or early December, several local residents haul a Christmas tree to the summit. The tree is decorated and is lit at night. Power to the tree comes from the tower farm located nearby. In 2007, the tree was placed by members of the local business "The Radio Network", which owns radio stations KFRZ, KYCS, KUGR, and KZWB.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Army of the Republic Hall is an historic building located at 23 East Downer Place on Stolp Island in Aurora, Illinois, in the United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Soldier&#39;s Monument Association formed in Aurora in 1869 with the intent of raising funds to construct a monument to veterans of the USA Civil War. The group was very successful, and secretary Fred O. White proposed that a building should be erected in honor of the soldiers instead. White was inspired by a recent visit to Memorial Hall in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and noted that that structure was a useful meeting place and library. The Aurora building was intended to be almost identical to the Foxborough building, though the builders decided not to replicate the granite roof and stained glass. Joseph Mulvey was hired to design the building; no other Mulvey-designed structures have yet been identified.</p><br>
<p>The building was constructed on Stolp Island, a small piece of land considered to be "neutral territory" between the east and west sides of Aurora. Stolp Island was a popular spot for public buildings due to increasingly strained relations between the two sides of the river. The GAR Hall was the only public library in Aurora until a Carnegie library opened across the street in 1903. The hall was the meeting place of the Aurora GAR Post No. 20, which was one of 779 posts in the Department of Illinois. Any honorably discharged veteran of the war could join the group, including those from the Confederate States Army. The group was formally recognized until the death of its last member in 1947.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Army of the Republic Hall was slated for demolition in the 1960s. Public outcry forced the city to change its plans, and a 1963 fundraising campaign provided financial support to rehabilitate the building. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and was part of the Stolp Island Historic District when it was separately listed in 1986. Renovations were partially completed in 2016, and the hall was opened to the public as "The Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum." The G.A.R. Memorial Museum is open every Saturday afternoon, Noon to 4 p.m.</p><br>
<p>The octagonally-shaped building was built with locally-quarried limestone. The standing Gothic Revival structure is one and a half stories and features a small lot outside of the building with an 1851 cannon, a bench, and a flagpole. An addition was constructed in 1884 on the south wing, but was demolished during the 1963 restoration.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House, also known as Sunnyhill Home, is a historic house at 8000 West Milwaukee Avenue in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. Built in 1874, it was the home of Doctor Fisk Holbrook Day , a prominent local physician and amateur geologist. The stylistically eclectic house was built in part to house Days large collection of artifacts, and is the Milwaukee suburbs only major 19th-century mansion. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997. It is privately owned and not open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House stands on Wauwatosa&#39;s west side, on the north side of West Milwaukee Avenue just west of Day Court. The house, set well back from the road, is accessed via both a long drive from West Milwaukee and a short drive off the west side of Day Court. It is a large 2-1/2 story brick building, with a rectangular main block extended to the rear and side by projections. The main block is covered by a mansard roof with patterned red and yellow cedar shingles on a bed of gray, with iron cresting at the top of the steep section. The projections and a single-story rear ell have steeply pitched gables in the Gothic style. The gables are decorated with ornate bargeboard trim. The front facade, oriented south toward the main road, is three bays wide, each bay stepped back from left to right. The central bay is topped by a mansarded three-story tower. The interior has restored high-quality original woodwork and plaster, including a fine central staircase and marble fireplace surrounds.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1874 for Fisk Holbrook Day to a design by architect James Douglas. It was the third of Day&#39;s houses in Wauwatosa, the other two having since been demolished. It was designed in part specifically to house his growing collection of paleontological artifacts, which are now in the possession of the University of Michigan. A prominent local physician, he was appointed to the county hospital commission, where he was influential in securing reforms of the local mental hospitals. During his free time he collected fossils at regional rock outcroppings, notably the Schoonmaker Reef, and corresponded with numerous high-profile professional geologists and paleontologists of the time.</p><br>
<p>Day moved out of this house after his wife died in 1893. It was then converted into multiple units as a rental property, and fell into disrepair. The pianist Liberace once sought to purchase this home as the location for his museum in 1978. It has since undergone a careful restoration.</p><br>
<p>After Liberace decided not to follow through with the purchase of what was then referred to as the "Austin House" (Named for the longtime most recent owner at the time) Miss Florence Rust (descended from an early Milwaukee founding family, Tanhauser) purchased the house from local real estate developers who intended on raising the home and subdividing the property. She opened it to the public for a few years in the mid 1980s on Saturdays for a tour and her famous "Austin House Lecture". She had filled the home with her collection of antiques which included a sterling silver tipping tea pot that was given by Queen Victoria to her daughter-in-law the Duchess of Connaught in the 1880s.</p><br>
<p>The Republican Schoolhouse, also known as Little White Schoolhouse or Birthplace of the Republican Party, is a historic former schoolhouse at 305 Blackburn Street in Ripon, Wisconsin. Built in 1853, it was designated a National Historic Landmark for its role in the 1854 founding of the Republican Party. It is now a local history museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>The structure was built in its original location in 1853 as a school building for the young town of Ripon, Wisconsin. It was championed as part of a wider education initiative by a New York transplant, Alvan Bovay. Bovay used his position in founding the school to further involve himself in politics, becoming a founder of the Republican Party, which formed during a meeting at the schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>The building is a single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. It has modest Greek Revival styling, with a single entrance framed by pilasters and an entablature with cornice. There are sash windows on either side of the entrance.</p><br>
<h3>Politics</h3><br>
<p>In 1854, opposition grew to the proposed Kansas-Nebraska Bill. The bill was championed by the dominant Democratic Party, and the opposition was split among several smaller parties, including the Whig Party, the Free Soil Party, and some internal Democratic Party splintering. In Ripon, Bovay, who had gotten the schoolhouse built, lead the opposition, and canvassed support among opposition members of all the local parties. He called a meeting on March 20. The Whig and Free Soil parties dissolved themselves in favor of forming a new, united party to be called "Republican," with some Democrats also defecting from their local party branch to join the new party. With publicity from the New York Tribune, word of the party spread, other local chapters and state-level parties started forming by July or earlier, and a national party was formed by 1856.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>The town quickly outgrew the small building, and built a larger brick building to replace it. The old building was sold to Wisconsin governor George Peck, for use as a home. By the early twentieth century, it had fallen into disuse, and was in danger of being demolished. Due to its historical significance, effort was put into saving the building.</p><br>
<p>Local civic and historical organizations, considering its local and national historical significance, raised funds to save it. The building was refurbished, and moved to the campus of Ripon College. Later, it was moved twice more to other locations on campus.</p><br>
<p>Its fourth and final move, in 1951, was to its present location.</p><br>
<p>Twenty-two years later, it was recognized it as a historic site by the United States National Park Service, which declared it a National Historic Landmark in 1974. From 2005 to 2007, the house underwent a renovation.</p><br>
<p>The Conde–Charlotte House, also known as the Kirkbride House, is a historic house museum in Mobile, Alabama. The earliest section of the building, the rear kitchen wing, was built in 1822. The main section of the house was added a few decades later and is two and a half floors. The entire structure is constructed of handmade brick with a smooth stucco plaster over the exterior.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house had its beginnings in 1822 as Mobile&#39;s first courthouse and city jail, and was built between the southern bastions of Fort Condé. The residence would remain in the Kirkbride family until 1905, when it was purchased by B. J. Bishop. The site was purchased by the Historic Mobile Preservation Society in 1940 and a partial restoration was undertaken. It was during this time that the outlines of four of the old jail cells were discovered in the kitchen wing. The restoration would later be completed by The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house was originally built in the Federal style and was later altered to reflect the Greek Revival style. It has a two-story portico on the front elevation featuring brick Doric columns on the lower level and wooden Corinthian columns on the upper level.</p><br>
<p>The house is 45 ft wide at the front southern elevation, 72 ft long at the eastern elevation, and 90 ft long at the western elevation, including the carriage house. The ground floor is 10 ft high from floor to ceiling and the upper story is 9 ft high. The overall structure is brick with stucco, with the front upper portico, rear galleries, and trim in wood.</p><br>
<h2>Urban renewal</h2><br>
<p>The Conde–Charlotte house and its surroundings became isolated from the rest of the city with the construction of Interstate 10 and urban renewal. Most of the surrounding neighborhood, one of the oldest in Mobile, was demolished to make way for the interstate project. The most notable section of the neighborhood that was destroyed was the early multi-storied townhouses of Bloodgood&#39;s Row along Monroe Street. The new construction left only a small one block section of Theatre, Monroe, and Saint Emanuel streets intact afterward, surrounded by a circle of interstate and its associated entrance and exit ramps. With the foundations of Fort Condé being discovered during tunnel construction, a replica fort was rebuilt on the old site after the George Wallace Tunnel was finished. The fort is now a backdrop to the Conde–Charlotte house. In recent years the city has made attempts to develop this area into "Fort Condé Village", which has seen the relocation and restoration of period appropriate buildings and the addition of brick streets and gas street lamps.</p><br>
<p>Monmouth Park School was a public elementary school located at 4508 North 33rd Street in North Omaha, Nebraska, United States.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed in the Second Renaissance Revival style by Thomas Rogers Kimball, regarded by many as Nebraska&#39;s finest architect. It was constructed in 1903.</p><br>
<p>In 1981, it was closed by the Omaha School District, which proposed to raze it. However, the private NJD Partnership bought the building and, with support from city and federal grants, renovated it in 1983 as a 30-unit apartment building under the name of Monmouth Park Place. In 1983, the building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 1993, the building&#39;s roof was seriously damaged by a windstorm. As tenants departed, the building fell into the hands of transients and vandals. It was condemned by the city in December 1993.</p><br>
<p>The demolition of the building was delayed in February 1995, when the Omaha City Council voted to grant NJD additional time to seek new investors for another renovation. However, the effort failed. An assistant city planning director pronounced the building "not only a health hazard, but also a safety hazard in the neighborhood". It was razed in May 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Farmers and Merchants Union Bank is a historic commercial building at 159 West James Street in Columbus, Wisconsin, Built in 1919, it is the last of eight "jewel box" bank buildings designed by Louis Sullivan, and the next to last to be constructed. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1976 for its architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Farmers and Merchants Union Bank is located in downtown Columbus, at the southern corner of West James Street and South Dickason Boulevard. It is a tall single-story in height, its exterior finished in tapestry brick with marble and terra cotta trim. The main facade is two bays wide, with the building entrance in the right bay. Above these bays is an elaborately carved tall marble lintel, above which a half-round stained glass window is framed by a stone garland. The side of the building, facing South Dickason, has a band of five windows. The interior is small yet spacious, with a bank of teller stations on the left side.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Sullivan in 1919, and its construction was personally supervised by him. It was the last of his so-called "jewel box" designs of small bank buildings in smaller midwestern communities, and the second-to-last to be completed. It is one of two Sullivan designs in Wisconsin, the other, the Harold C. Bradley House, is also a National Historic Landmark. The design of this bank is fully documented in Sullivan&#39;s 1924 A System of Architectural Ornament, published not long before his death.</p><br>
<p>The building was used as the location for shooting a bank robbery scene in the 2009 Johnny Depp film Public Enemies, which was filmed in March 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Other Louis Sullivan "jewel boxes"</h2><br>
<p>Henry Adams Building, Algona, Iowa (1913)</p><br>
<p>Home Building Association Company, Newark, Ohio (1914)</p><br>
<p>Merchants&#39; National Bank, Grinnell, Iowa (1914)</p><br>
<p>National Farmer&#39;s Bank, Owatonna, Minnesota (1908)</p><br>
<p>People&#39;s Federal Savings and Loan Association, Sidney, Ohio (1918)</p><br>
<p>Peoples Savings Bank, Cedar Rapids, Iowa (1912)</p><br>
<p>Purdue State Bank, West Lafayette, Indiana (1914)</p><br>
<p>Yoronjima Yunnu; Kunigami: ユンヌー Yunnuu is one of the Amami Islands.</p><br>
<p>The island, 20.8 km² in area, has a population of approximately 6,000 persons, and is administered as the town of Yoron, Kagoshima. Much of the island is within the borders of the Amami Guntō Quasi-National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Yoronjima is the southernmost of the Amami Islands and is located approximately 22 km north of Hedo Point, the northernmost point of Okinawa Island. and 563 km south of the southern tip of Kyūshū.</p><br>
<p>The island is an elevated coralline island with a highest point 97 m above sea level. The coast of the island is surrounded by a coral reef.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Yoronjima has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) with very warm summers and mild winters. Precipitation is significant throughout the year, but is somewhat lower in winter. The island is subject to frequent typhoons.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is uncertain when Yoronjima was first settled. It was ruled by the Aji nobility from the 8th century onwards. From 1266 it was part of the Hokuzan Ryukyu Kingdom. The island was invaded by samurai from Satsuma Domain in 1609 and its incorporation into the official holdings of that domain was recognized by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1624. Satsuma rule was harsh, with the inhabitants of the island reduced to serfdom and forced to raise sugar cane to meet high taxation, which often resulted in famine.</p><br>
<p>After the Meiji Restoration the island 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>Economy</h2><br>
<p>When Okinawa was governed by the United States, Yoronjima was the southernmost island Japanese mainlanders could go to for vacation, and it became a tourist spot. Tourism is still a large part of the local economy, with numerous resorts offering water sports and other activities.</p><br>
<p>With moderate rainfall and a warm climate, the island is suitable for agriculture. Main crops include sweet potatoes, sugar cane and floriculture. Brown sugar refining and the production of distilled shōchū liquor and vinegar and sea salt are also major industries.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Yoron Airport (IATA: RNJ; ICAO: RORY) serves travelers to and from the island. Japan Air Commuter flies to Kagoshima and Okinoerabu Airports, and Ryukyu Air Commuter provides service to Naha Airport.</p><br>
<p>Ships on the Marix and A Line Lines operate between Yoron Port and Kagoshima, Amami Ōshima, and other local destinations, as well as Kobe and Osaka.</p><br>
<h2>Culture</h2><br>
<p>The island still maintains close ties to Okinawan culture, with Eisa, a kind of Okinawa drumming and dancing style, popular for festivals such as the Sango Matsuri (Coral Festival), held every August. Okinawa patterns and styles of dress are also more common than that of mainland Japan.</p><br>
<p>Another difference from mainland Japan are cultural religious practices. Mainland Japanese practice both Shintoism and Buddhism, but the native culture of Yoron does not include many of the Buddhist elements seen on the mainland, and both weddings and funerals are practiced in the ancient Shinto tradition. Islanders still celebrate many ancient practices and festivals, with costumes and descriptions on display at the Yoron Museum, including a replica of a traditional village, complete with thatched-roof huts, tools, palm-leaf textiles and other items on display. Thatched-roof huts still exist in use throughout the island.</p><br>
<p>A unique cultural practice is Yoron Kenpo, which includes formalized speeches along with the consumption of sugar-based shōchū as an offering to the gods. This practice dates back to the Muromachi Period of Japanese history.</p><br>
<p>Some Yoron people continue to speak their own language, Yunnu futuba (Yoron language), a dialect of the Ryukyuan languages. Its basic grammar is similar to Japanese language, however, Yunnu Futuba has a wider range of sounds and an even stricter system of hierarchy for speech, with respectful suffixes and prefixes for elders and men being an integral part of the grammar and syntax of the language. Most young adults can still speak Yunnu Futuba but children no longer learn the language or do not learn fluency, as standard Japanese is spoken at school and at work.</p><br>
<h2>Local attractions</h2><br>
<p>Yoron has a number of beaches, including Yuri and Sunset, and its white beaches are famous throughout Japan. It is also the home of Pricia Resort, a popular location for Japanese people on holiday.</p><br>
<p>The Cuyo Archipelago or Cuyo Islands, is a group of about 45 islands lying to the northeast of the Philippines island of Palawan. It lies south of Mindoro and between Northern Palawan and Panay. It is centered on the largest island of the archipelago, Cuyo Island, with an area of 22 square miles and is about 9 mi long.</p><br>
<p>The 45 islands and islets of the archipelago form a total land area of 50 square miles. Cuyo is divided into two island groups. To the north is the Quiniluban group. To the south is the Cuyo group, where the centers of the three municipalities namely Cuyo, Agutaya, and Magsaysay are located.</p><br>
<p>Geologically, the islands are related to the main island of Palawan. They are positioned on the western edge of the Luzon Arc. Cuyo island is volcanic. The northern islands of Quiniluban seem to be uplifted coral atolls, although the heights of some of the peaks strongly suggest volvanic uplift. There have been plans before to establish the Cuyo Archipelago as a separate province from Palawan, just like what happened when Batanes became independent from Cagayan province. Many other islands of the group are purely corallian.</p><br>
<p>Cuyo is divided in three municipalities, namely Cuyo, Agutaya, and Magsaysay:</p><br>
<p>Cuyo, Palawan (southern and western part)</p><br>
<p>Magsaysay, Palawan (eastern part)</p><br>
<p>Agutaya, Palawan (northern part)</p><br>
<p>Altogether, 45,718 people inhabit the Cuyo group of islands.</p><br>
<p>Some of the main islands, or island groups, are:</p><br>
<p>Quiniluban</p><br>
<p>Pamalican</p><br>
<p>Manamoc</p><br>
<p>Agutaya</p><br>
<p>Cuyo</p><br>
<h2>Islands</h2><br>
<p>The Captain Austin Jenks House is a historic house in Stillwater, Minnesota, United States, built in 1871. Austin Jenks  was a prominent businessman and river pilot involved in timber rafting on the Mississippi and St. Croix Rivers. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 for having local significance in the themes of architecture, industry, and transportation. It was nominated for its association with Jenks and the importance of water transportation to the region&#39;s foundational lumber industry.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Jenks House is a one-and-a-half-story brick structure with a two-and-a-half-story tower. Its distinctive appearance derives from a combination of three architectural styles. The bracketed square entry bay and cruciform roofline are elements of Italianate architecture while the platform porches, oval stained glass window, and mansard roof on the tower come from Second Empire architecture. The steep gables, finials, stone window sills and lintels, and detail on the eaves all signal Gothic Revival architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Austin Jenks was born in New York City and initially worked as a schoolteacher. He migrated west to Illinois and then came to Stillwater in 1855, where he found employment as a river pilot helping transport the bounty of lumber downstream. In 1871 he became a ship owner, having commissioned and put into service the Brother Jonathan, only the second steamboat engaged in timber rafting on the Upper Mississippi River. Three years later he joined the lumber firm of Durant, Wheeler, and Company.</p><br>
<p>Jenks later became a financier, serving as the director of Stillwater&#39;s two leading banks, the Stillwater Dock Company, and the Stillwater Electric Light Company. He also served as president of the Stillwater Board of Education and on various other managing boards. He married three times, his first two wives having died early. With Harriet Bennett, his third wife and reportedly the sister of his first, he had two daughters, Genora and Grace. Jenks died in March 1902 at the age of 68.</p><br>
<p>The house remained in the family for another two decades, but Genora and her husband Robert Skeith emigrated to Canada in 1916 while Harriet and Grace relocated to Seattle in 1920. The house passed through a succession of owners, and from the 1950s to the 1970s was subdivided into separate apartments. A later owner has since restored it to a single-family home.</p><br>
<p>The N. C. Wyeth House and Studio is a historic house museum and artist&#39;s studio on Murphy Road in Chadds Ford Township, Pennsylvania, United States. It was from its construction in 1911 the principal home and studio of artist N.C. Wyeth , and has been restored to its appearance around the time of his death. The property is managed by the Brandywine River Museum, which offers tours. It was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Wyeth House and Studio are located in a rural-residential area southeast of the village center of Chadds Ford, on the south side of Murphy Road. Set on about 18 acre of land are the main house, art studio, barn, and pump house. The property is bounded on the north by Murphy Road and the south by Brandywine Creek. The house is set on a ridge that is part of the Brandywine Battlefield area, having been occupied by Continental Army troops during the 1777 Battle of Brandywine. The house is a two-story Colonial Revival structure, designed for Wyeth by William Draper Brinkle and built in 1911. It was enlarged in 1926 to provide additional space for Wyeth&#39;s growing family. The studio is a large L-shaped single-story structure, built in stages in 1911, 1923, and 1931. The main studio space is distinguished by a large north-facing Palladian window.</p><br>
<p>N.C. Wyeth was renowned as one of the leading illustrators of the first half of the 20th century, his works appearing in Harpers, Scribners, McClures, and the Saturday Evening Post. Wyeth drew much inspiration from the landscape around this property, which influenced many of his rural landscape works. He purchased this property with funds made from his first major commission, a series of illustrations for an edition of Robert Louis Stevensons Treasure Island.</p><br>
<p>After Wyeth died, his wife lived in the house until 1973, after which their daughter, Carolyn Wyeth, lived there and painted in the studio until her death in 1994. The Brandywine River Museum then took possession of the property and began restoration. It has been restored to its state as of 1945, and includes paintings left unfinished by Wyeth at the time of his death, and family artifacts that never left the property. The museum now offers guided tours of the property.</p><br>
<p>Fountain Lake Farm, also known as the Wisconsin Farm Home of John Muir, is a historic farm and National Historic Landmark in rural Montello, Wisconsin, United States. The landmark covers part of the farm that was the home of pioneering conservationist John Muir from 1849 to 1856 and 1860 to 1862. Covering 80 acre, the landmarked area is partly private property and partly in John Muir Memorial County Park, a minimally developed public park.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>John Muir came to the United States in 1849 as a ten-year-old immigrant with his father, who established a farm in Marquette County, Wisconsin. The 160 acre farm property, later expanded to 320 acre, in what was essentially undeveloped wilderness, would play a significant role in developing the young Muirs appreciation of nature and the development of his conservation ethic. Muir explored Fountain Lake, partially on the farm property and the farms namesake, and the ecosystems that surrounded it. The family farmstead was located near a knoll on the southern 80 acre that make up the landmark designation.</p><br>
<p>The landmarked area is a rectangle consisting of those southern 80 acres of the Muir property. It is bounded on the north by Gillette Drive, and includes of a parcel of private land at its northeast corner, as well as the northeastern part of the countys John Muir Memorial Park. The private land, about 18 acre, includes the area that is believed to have been the site of the Muirs farmhouse. The southern and western portions of the landmarked area are accessible via a trail that encircles the lake and via a parking area on County Road F. There are no standing structures in the landmarked area that date to the Muir&#39;s ownership, although some trees survive from the Muir period.</p><br>
<p>The Bragg–Mitchell Mansion, also known as the Bragg–Mitchell House, is a historic house museum in Mobile, Alabama. It was built in 1855 by Judge John Bragg and is one of the most photographed buildings in the city as well as one of the more popular tourist attractions. The house has been attributed to John&#39;s brother, a local Alabama architect, Alexander J. Bragg.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Bragg was born near Warrenton, North Carolina. He graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1824, where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1830 and moved to Mobile in 1836, where he continued the practice of law. He was appointed judge to Alabama&#39;s 10th Judicial Circuit in 1842, later leaving that post after being elected to the 32nd United States Congress. He bought the property at 1906 Springhill Avenue on 10 May 1855 for the sum of $7500 and began construction of the house that continues to stand there today.</p><br>
<p>Two notable events in the history of the mansion occurred during the American Civil War. The first was the cutting of all of the live oak trees on the property to give the Confederate defenders of Mobile free range to shell any approaching Union troops. The second event was the removal of all of the furnishings from the mansion during the war to Braggs plantation in Lowndes County. That plantation and all of the furnishings were subsequently burned when Wilsons Raiders went through that area, the irony being that Mobile itself never became a battleground as had been anticipated. John Bragg died in Mobile on 10 August 1878 and was interred in Magnolia Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The house remained in the Bragg family until 1880 when it was bought by William H. Pratt. Johns brother, Confederate General Braxton Bragg, is often credited with owning the property after John Braggs death, but this is not the case. He was a frequent guest at the house during John Bragg&#39;s lifetime and he did live on the property for a short time after the Civil War, while supervising the construction of jetties at the mouth of Mobile Bay, however.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is two-stories and built on a T-shaped plan. The architecture is in the Greek Revival style with tall, spindly columns that are derivative of the Doric order around a three-sided veranda. The bracketed cornice indicates some Italianate influence, a fusion of stylistic elements that some have dubbed a "bracketed Greek Revival". It contains fourteen rooms, with seven of those being bedrooms. The ground floor features 15 ft ceilings.</p><br>
<p>The Hamlin Garland House is a historic house at 357 West Garland Street in West Salem, Wisconsin, USA. It was from 1893 to the 1910s the principal residence of writer Hamlin Garland . Garland was a prominent and well-regarded writer of regional fiction. Designated a National Historic Landmark, it is now a museum managed by the local historical society.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Hamlin Garland was born in West Salem in a log cabin in September 1860 on a farm his father bought a year earlier. When he was older, he moved away from Wisconsin and lived particularly in Massachusetts, Iowa, and Illinois. Even so, Garland fondly recalled the place of his birth. As he later recalled: "My Wisconsin birthplace has always been a source of deep satisfaction to me. That a lovely valley should form the first picture in my childhood memories is a priceless endowment... It will always remain a charming and mysterious place to me."</p><br>
<p>Garland returned to West Salem in 1893 and, using royalties from his successful collection of short stories Main-Travelled Roads (1891), he purchased this home. The house, which stood on four acres, had been built in the same year of Garland&#39;s birth by a mason and carpenter named William Hull. Hull sold the home to Rublee Hayes five years later and, by the time Garland bought it from Hayes, the property also included a two-story barn, cow pasture, pig-pen, and gardens of both fruits and flowers. The home was in poor condition and Garland spent much of October 1893 repairing and renovating; he eventually installed indoor plumbing, making it the first home in the area with that innovation. He originally named it Mapleshade because of the three large maples on the property.</p><br>
<p>Garland brought his parents with him to the home; his mother was impressed with the area right away but his father did not immediately approve. Even so, Garland noted: "This is my choice. Right here we take root. This shall be the Garland Homestead." The house was damaged by fire in 1912 but was quickly repaired. It was an October morning and Garland was awakened by the screams of his wife, Zulime. After attempting to stop the flames with a garden hose, he ran into his study and saved his manuscripts by throwing them from the second-floor window of his study to a neighbor below.</p><br>
<p>The Garlands lived in this house less frequently after about 1916, when they also had a residence in New York City, and sold it in 1939.</p><br>
<p>Garland died at age 79, at his home in Hollywood, California on March 4, 1940. He had asked his ashes to be spread on the hillsides of his West Salem home. Instead, local officials asked to have him buried in the town&#39;s Nehonoc Cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>Modern history</h2><br>
<p>The home was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971. The street it is on was renamed in honor of the author. Today, the property is managed by the West Salem Historical Society and is open to the public as a museum. In 1960, a historical marker was placed in town in honor of Garland noting his interest in the region.</p><br>
<p>There are some reports that the home is haunted, possibly by Garland himself due to his unhappiness that his wishes for burial were not followed.</p><br>
<p>The Princess Alice Bank  is a submerged seamount that is located 50 nmi to the southwest of the island of Pico and 45 nmi to the southwest of the island of Faial in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores. The western area of the bank has a minimum depth of 35 m, with clear waters that allow the observation of the ocean floor from the surface. With an abundance of biodiversity, the Bank is a fishing area, in addition to being an important diving spot of the Atlantic Ocean.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The bank was named after the oceanographic campaign of Albert I, Prince of Monaco, whose research vessel the Princess Alice was involved in its discovery on 9 July 1896. On that day, at 6:00 a.m., at the beginning of a deep water exploration, rocky ledges were discovered at 241 m deep. After scouring the area, the group discovered an extensive "platform", with a perimeter of about 55 km, and two extensions of 76 m length; the platform was 190 m below the surface, although the peak is only 35 m from the surface.</p><br>
<p>The bathymetric survey was entrusted to captain Charlwood Henry Carr (1848-1918), who was also the prince&#39;s field assistant and navigator of the Princesse Alice. It was this official who was responsible for the original depth measurements at the Princess Alice Bank.</p><br>
<p>On 13 July 13, 1896, from Faial, Alberto I sent a telegram to King Carlos I of Portugal announcing the discovery and informing him of the usefulness of the bank for fishing. Returning to Monaco, on 21 August, the prince circulated a press statement reporting the discovery and stressing its importance to the Azorean fishery. In gratitude for the discovery, King Carlos awarded the prince with the "grand collar" of the Order of Santiago, having already granted Captain Henry Carr the honorific degree of master of the Order of St. Benedict in 1894. Increasingly the Princess Alice Bank has become one of the main areas for fishing exploration within the Central Group of islands.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The area around the bank of 50 nmi, measured from the coasts of the islands, was established by the European Union as a reserve for Azorean fishermen. The Princess Alice Bank is one of the main points of friction, or disagreement, in the current dispute between the Azorean Regional Government and the European Union regarding the reform of the common fisheries policy.</p><br>
<p>The Tomb of Simeon the Just or Simeon the Righteous  is an ancient tomb in Jerusalem traditionally believed to be the burial place of Simeon the Just. It is located adjacent to the Cave of the Minor Sanhedrin in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 12th century, Benjamin of Tudela wrote that the tomb of Simeon was at "Tymin or Timnathah", between Tiberias and Meiron. Rabbi Jacob, the messenger of Jehiel of Paris, wrote in 1238–1244 that "the cave of Simeon the Just and his disciples is near Jerusalem". Obadiah da Bertinoro wrote around 1490 that "The sepulchre of the seventy Elders, which lies about 2,000 cubits from Jerusalem, is splendid, especially that of Simon the Just."</p><br>
<p>The tomb is located in the Shimon HaTzadik neighborhood adjoining Sheikh Jarrah. According to a long-standing Jewish tradition, it is the tomb of Simeon the Just and his students. For centuries the cave tomb was only accessible by paying an admission fee to the Arab caretakers of the site; this was a common arrangement at Jewish and Christian (and Roman) sites in Jerusalem.</p><br>
<p>In 1876, the Jewish community purchased the site and surrounding land for 15,000 francs. Under the guidance of Jerusalem&#39;s chief rabbi, Shmuel Salant, housing construction in the area around the tomb commenced in 1891. By 1948, twenty Jewish families were living in the neighborhood. After the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the property fell on the Jordanian side of the Green Line, and Palestinian families moved into the homes. This line of events is however now challenged in the Israeli Supreme Court.</p><br>
<p>During the Ottoman period, Wasif Jawhariyyeh mentions the site as the location of communal festivities known as the Yehudia, attended by Jewish, Christian, and Muslims in honor of Shimon the Just.</p><br>
<p>While people flock to the tomb of Shimon bar Yochai on Lag Ba&#39;omer to perform the Upsherin ceremony, the Tomb of Simeon the Just is used by many as an alternative location. A 19th century traveller, John Wilson, describes this practice in his book The Lands of the Bible Visited and Described, published in 1847.</p><br>
<h2>Authenticity</h2><br>
<p>In 1871, Clermont-Ganneau discovered</p><br>
<p>The inscription had been badly damaged by hammering but the first line clearly read Juliae Sabinae, indicating to Clermont-Ganneau that the tomb was that of a Roman woman named Julia Sabina.</p><br>
<p>Because of this inscription, and other reasons, several historians and archaeologists have expressed the opinion that the tomb cannot be that of Simon the Just.</p><br>
<p>Kloner and Zissu date the tomb to the late Second Temple period. However, because of the absence of the narrow burial shafts called kokhim, they suggest it may have been used to store the bones of people originally buried elsewhere, rather than fresh corpses. Such a need arose when the "third wall" of Jerusalem surrounded many tombs during the first century CE, since Jewish law forbids burials within the city limits. Kloner and Zissu conjecture that the association with Simeon dated from the discovery during the Middle Ages of an ossuary bearing the common name "Simeon".</p><br>
<p>Yerakini or Gerakini </p><br>
<p>Pronunciation:</p><br>
<p>Pronunciation in IPA phonetic transcription in English, standard Greek, and local dialect.(English pronunciation is defined between slashes / / (broad phonemic transcription) while Greek or local pronunciation is defined between square brackets (narrow, allophonic transcription) See Narrow and Broad Transcription)</p><br>
<p>English pronunciation:</p><br>
<p>Chalkidiki, Chalkidike, Khalkidiki, Khalkidhiki, Khalkidike, (Greek pronunciation of the word Chalkidiki or Halkidiki as pronounced by the British); or Chalcidice, or Halkidiki,</p><br>
<p>Polygyros,</p><br>
<p>Yerakini, rarely Gherakini, or Gerakini, Gerakine, or</p><br>
<p>Greek pronunciation:</p><br>
<p>(Modern Greek phonology by Amalia Arvaniti) (Ancient Greek and Modern Greek pronunciations).</p><br>
<p>Χαλκιδική, ,</p><br>
<p>Πολύγυρος, ,</p><br>
<p>Γερακινή, ,</p><br>
<p>Other transcription (between backslashes):</p><br>
<p>Chalkidiki:\halˌkjidiˈkji\, \halˌkeedeeˈkee\</p><br>
<p>Polygyros:\poˈleeyeeˌros\</p><br>
<p>Yerakini: \jeˌrakjiˈnji\ \yeˌrakeeˈnee\</p><br>
<p>is a village in the Chalkidiki peninsula in Central Macedonia, Northern Greece.</p><br>
<p>It has been the port</p><br>
<p>of nearby Polygyros, the capital town of Chalkidiki, ever since its settlement. Its beaches attract thousands of tourists and holidaymakers during the summer. It has the largest magnesite deposits in Northern Greece.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The word Γερακινή (Yerakini) comes from γερακίνα (yerakina meaning female peregrine falcon (falcon-gentle) (from γεράκι, from ιέραξ falcon).</p><br>
<p>There is a legend that the name came from a queen named Yerakina (Gerakina) who lived in Yerakini once.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<h3>Location</h3><br>
<p>Yerakini lies on the gulf of Torone, between the two fingers (smaller peninsulas) of Kassandra and Sithonia, southeast of Thessaloniki.</p><br>
<p>Yerakini is amidst Nea Potidaia (1559), Agios Mamas (841), Kalyves Polygyrou (1333),</p><br>
<p>(Population of Kalyves Polygyrou is a total with Yerakini’s in the last Census of 2011)</p><br>
<p>Yerakini, Psakoudia (299), Metamorfosi () (531) and Nikiti (2711), which comprise the Gulf northern sea-side villages.</p><br>
<p>Yerakini is at a distance of 14.5 km (9 mi.) from Polygyros, 77 km (48 mi.) from Thessaloniki, via Polygyros, or 78 km, via Nea Moudania, and 66 km (41 mi.) from the Thessaloniki International Airport.</p><br>
<p>Driving distance from villages, towns and localities.</p><br>
<p>Population as of 2011 Census.</p><br>
<p>Its geographical position offers the option to travelers to travel to and from Thessaloniki either by the frequent bus route (from Thessaloniki to Sarti) (KTEL), or by car or other vehicle, via Polygyros or Nea Moudania.</p><br>
<h3>Climate and weather</h3><br>
<p>The climate is Mediterranean, temperate throughout the year with mild winter in Yerakini (very rarely below 0 °C), serene sky for most part of the year, which also contributes considerably to the growing of olives</p><br>
<p>in the area, also allowing shepherds from other regions, especially in the past, to winter their flocks of sheep and goats and other animals there.</p><br>
<p>Average temperature ranges from lowest 10 degrees (°C). in winter (Jan Feb) to highest 35 degrees (°C). in summer (Jul Aug).</p><br>
<h3>Environment</h3><br>
<p>Environment has greatly affected all people. Natural Resources, climate and the sea have been the biggest factors that affected the people who have lived and worked in Yerakini area.</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>There are three kinds of occupation of the people, corresponding to its three parts.</p><br>
<p>Agriculture: farming, chiefly for green olives. It is the center of olive growing in Chalkidiki, hence the first green olive preservation plant of Chalkidiki established there by the government in the seventies. Olive husbandry has developed rapidly in recent years as monoculture of the farmers.</p><br>
<p>Tourism the principal occupation in the summer, for all those, inhabitants of Yerakini or from other areas, involved in tourist services and products at the seaside such as accommodation, food, and folk product shops.</p><br>
<p>Mining of magnesite for workers mostly commuting from other areas of Chakidiki, mainly from Zervochoria (Ζερβοχώρια, villages in the north of Chalkidiki).</p><br>
<p>Its geographical position is a plus for future business development in tourism and other activities (central depots, cash and carry, shopping malls etc.).</p><br>
<h3>Village</h3><br>
<p>The middle part, the real village of Yerakini, has the church of patron saints Agioi Theodoroi (dedicated to two saints having the same name Theodoros).</p><br>
<p>The annual feast day commemorating the saints is held on the first Saturday of Lent, the religious church service officiated by Metropolitan Nicodemus of Kassandreia, the people celebrating with a number of activities also at the seaside.</p><br>
<p>There has been a town plan for the area between the village and the seaside for many years, no streets can one see though.</p><br>
<p>All land (fields, plains and slopes as well as the biggest part of the Trikorfo (three peaks) mountain in the east, 3.5 km away from Yerakini) is covered with olive-groves. The inhabitants are farmers principally growing olives for the table and their oil.</p><br>
<p>There are several olive oil mills in the area (in Polygyros, Kalyves Polygyrou, Olynthos, Ormylia) and companies for green table olives preservation. Olives are harvested while green for table olives in September and, mainly for olive oil, when black in November and December. The language spoken is the Greek dialect of Chalkidiki, as spoken in its capital Polygyros. Yerakini has a soccer team, which plays against other teams of Chalkidiki. Although the village itself is not tourist-oriented, holidaymakers visit it especially for the Divine Liturgy (The Sunday Mass of the Orthodox) of the church and on saints&#39; feast days.</p><br>
<h4>History</h4><br>
<p>Yerakini as well as nearby Kalyves Polygyrou were settled by farmers from Polygyros in the late 1800s and early 1900s, ever since belonging to its municipal administration as municipal units.</p><br>
<p>Until the 1960s there was the sole olive oil mill of the area on the central beach owned by the Haji Osman family. There was also a police station in Yerakini for very many years in the past. During World War II there was the Administration Center of the area, which, among other activities, extended the main dock, whose remains still extant, for vessel freights for use by the occupying German army. Divers and amateur fishers used both parts of the dock for diving and fishing. There was also a lighthouse on the right side of the main dock.</p><br>
<h3>Seaside</h3><br>
<p>The southern part, the sea-side of Yerakini (Παραλία Γερακινής, ) where the Customs Office is situated. It is a part of the coastline stretching from Psakoudia (Ψακούδια ) (5 km from Yerakini) in the east, to Kalyves Polygyrou in the</p><br>
<p>west. Yerakini coast covers the area between Trikorfo beach (formerly known as "Tou Iatrou i Kalyva" locally τ’ Ιατρού η καλύβα) and that of "Kalamaras and Pangalos" summer residences (formerly "Tou Mourlakou to Pigadi", "Mourlakos&#39; Well", locally τ’ Μουρλακ του πγιάδ ).</p><br>
<h4>Beaches</h4><br>
<p>The seaside consists of three parts, of very clean long white sandy beaches, small or big bays: the central, the eastern and the western being the longest one extended up to Kalyves Polygyrou beach, and many more smaller ones east) of clear blue waters.</p><br>
<p>The eastern seaside (between the central beach and Psakoudia) consists of Gerakina Beach, Douros Residences (Gerakini Mare), Kipoupolis (Garden Town), Porto Maria, Kouyoni beach, Sonia Village Beach, Galini and Trikorfo beach. The western seaside (between the central beach and the Mecyberna</p><br>
<p>complex) consists of Lazaridika, Megika, Bazakeika (Martha Haus), Katsarou, Goloika, The Well (Pigadi), Nea Kalyvia, Alkinoos, Poseidon, Scorpios, Toronis, Amphitrite, Gerania and Sermyle Complex, Sermyle Complex, Gerania, Amphitrite, Toronis, Scorpios, Poseidon, Alkinoos, Nea Kalyvia and Molyvopyrgos beaches. It has bay beaches and inlets especially at the eastern rocky sea-coast joining the pine wooded Psakoudia beach, the main beach of Ormylia&#39;s.</p><br>
<p>Yerakinis seaside is one of the main vacation resorts of Chalkidiki and attracts thousands of visitors from April to October. It can be reached by bus or car from Thessaloniki via Polygyros or Nea Moudania, or by sea by passing through Potidaias canal, or by the primary opening between the two fingers of Kassandra and Sithonia. It has a mooring bay on the Aegean Sea</p><br>
<p>Holidaymakers from other European countries visit for the recreational facilities; there is accommodation of various types, places to eat, and sporting and seaside entertainment and activities. In summer the population increases by ten to twenty times.</p><br>
<p>Yerakini is a departure point for exploring Chalkidiki, with easy access to the peninsula and excursions to the three smaller peninsulas, Kassandra, Sithonia, and Porto Carras. Mount Athos is to the east, Stageira, Aristotle&#39;s birthplace, to the northeast, the archeological sites of Olynthus and Potidea, Petralona cave to the west, and densely wooded Mount Cholomon 15 km north. Thessaloniki, the Byzantine historical city and capital of Greek Macedonia is to the northwest.</p><br>
<h4>Seaside tourism</h4><br>
<p>Tourism in Chalkidiki officially began in the late 1950s (Tourism Development Plan by PM Konstantinos Karamanlis), and in the late 1960s it was declared one of four areas of “Prime Zone for Tourism Development in Greece”, the other three being Corfu, Rhodes and Crete.</p><br>
<p>The people of Polygyros and other villages in the north used to go swimming mainly to Yerakini central beach in the 1950s, also until today. Yerakini seaside area was inhabited for many years by a number of year-round residents (mostly fishermen in the past), some taverners and the customs officer&#39;s family. The first foreigners who visited Yerakini as a seaside resort were directors of the Anglo-Greek Magnesite Co. Ltd. and their families in the early years of he twentieth century, who had summer cottages by the sea, and crew members of the small bulk cargo vessels that used to arrive from abroad for freighting magnesite.</p><br>
<p>The Yerakini seaside began its development in 1959 when the official tourism development began and the first public tourist pavilion started operating at the seaside. Similar pavilions opened in Olympiada and Ierissos. In the early 1970s the first hotel and bungalows summer resort in Chalkidiki, Gerakina Beach Hotel, opened at the eastern beach, 600 m from the central beach (currently operating, after reconstruction, under the new trade name Ikos Olivia), and later more accommodation and other facilities were built for the increasing number of holidaymakers.</p><br>
<h3>Magnesite mines</h3><br>
<p>In the northern part, the mines of Yerakini, most residents are workers and technicians working at plants of the large, established in 1959, which mines ore, the raw material of magnesite.</p><br>
<p>Magnesite</p><br>
<p>( Encyclopædia Britannica, University of Alaska, Natural Sciences Single-crystal elasticity of the deep-mantle magnesite at high pressure and temperature, Jing Yanga, Zhu Maoa, Jung-Fu Lina, Vitali B. Prakapenka</p><br>
<p>Materials engineering) is a white, amorphous rock dense in structure, processed for use by industries. Used as a raw material as well as after altering its properties by very high heating (for the production of a new material for special uses). Magnesite and dolomite minerals are used to produce refractory bricks. Beneficiation process (separating ore into mineral and gangue) employed and either exporting it as raw material (magnesium carbonate), or calcination, or deadburning follows for (reactive material) or (sintered magnesia) (a non-reactive material), respectively in order to make raw magnesite suitable for various uses.</p><br>
<p>Magnesium carbonate (MgCO3) (An inorganic salt, a white solid ) is used for the production of magnesium oxide (MgO) by calcining. MgCO3 is used at industrial applications, agricultural industries, the pulp and paper industry, the pharmaceutical industry and in the manufacture of rubber (as reinforcing agent in neoprene rubber), paints and plastics (as smoke suppressant), flooring, fireproofing, fire extinguishing compositions, dusting powder, cosmetics and toothpaste, antacid, additive in table salt). In addition, as filler material, a drying agent, a laxative to loosen the bowels,</p><br>
<p>(Milk of Magnesia) and color retention in foods. Deadburned magnesia, with its refractory (non-reactive) properties is used where (very) high temperature is needed (the steel industry, line blast furnaces, heat-proof bricks manufacturing, electrical applications (e.g. kettles and boilers).</p><br>
<p>The company operates many open-cast quarries in the area to the north, processes magnesite, and exports of products derived from caustic magnesia. It employs about 300 people.</p><br>
<p>The company is 600 m from the village, the kilns 800 m away, and the quarries 1 –. Vessels come to the Nea Moudania harbour, 17 km from Yerakini, on the Thermaic gulf, before the peninsula of Kassandra, to load magnesite</p><br>
<p>Magnesite plant southern side</p><br>
<h4>History of the magnesite mines</h4><br>
<p>The Yerakini area has the most extensive deposits of magnesite in Greece in many parts and particularly in the north and northeast, making underground wealth an attraction for exploitation by Greek and foreign companies, which have exploited the deposits for more than 100 years with opencast mining quarries, kilns etc. Crude magnesite was produced in Greece in 1910. It was first found in Atalanti and in the Province of Lokris, central Greece. The Anglo-Greek Magnesite Co. Ltd</p><br>
<p>(AGM) was the first mining operator in Yerakini. In 1959 G. Portolos (Grecian Magnesite) bought the magnesite operations and continued the exploitation of magnesite deposits. There are also other minor magnesite mining deposits especially in the southwestern foothills of Trikorfo mountain exploited by Antoniou and Xenakis concern for a long period in the 1950s and 1960s. Other localities were Perachori, near Corinth; Ermioni (or Kastri) and on Spetses Island in southern Argolis in the Peloponnese; on Paros Island (Cyclades); around Thebes (Thiva), in Boeotia (Viotia) and in Papades</p><br>
<p>and Troupi</p><br>
<p>in northern Euboea (Evia). Euboea (Evia island) was mostly worked until the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>Galataki (near Limni) and Afrati (near Halkida) were exploited by the English company Petrified Ltd., which sold its assets to AGM in 1902. Northern Greece was also found to have magnesite, in the concessions of Aghia Paraskevi (east of Thessaloniki) in small production, and in Chalkidiki’s concessions of Vavdos,</p><br>
<p>Patelidas</p><br>
<p>(11.5 km far from Yerakini), and Yerakini with the largest deposits.</p><br>
<p>Bulk carriers from all over the world used to come to Yerakini port&#39;s two docks at the central beach bay; several hoys (a sort of barge no longer used) would take the raw magnesite from the docks to the vessels anchored in deep waters. Now only the hoys and the right dock, with its old storehouses (depots), remain.</p><br>
<h4>Brief history of The Anglo-Greek Magnesite Co. Ltd</h4><br>
<p>Anglo-Greek (AGM) purchased the assets of the English company Petrified Ltd with mines at Galataki (near Limni) and Afrati (near Halkida) of Euboea in 1902. AGM also acquired the assets of the Societe Hellenique des Mines de Magnesite, with mines at Limni, Mantoudi, and Pyli village on the east coast of Euboea island, in 1912. The raw material was shipped by the Galataki harbour.</p><br>
<p>AGM ceased its activity on Euboea island after World War II, the railway it employed (750 mm and 600 mm gauge) was dismantled and the rolling stock was sold for scrap, today some ruined parts still existing. The Anglo-Greek Magnesite Co. Ltd was the principal operator for the first half of the twentieth century in Greece. In 1922 it also purchased the Yerakini concession, producing 27,000 tons of raw material per year. The deposits were estimated at 300,000 tons in 1947. It used coal and brushwood as well as trunk wood for fuel of its kilns</p><br>
<p>The Yerakini mines about 3 km inland from the Gulf were reached by means of a narrow-gauge (565 mm) railway, used also by the new owners until the 1980s. The Anglo-Greek Company operated a power system supplying electricity in the mines area in the fifties. It organized various events and activities, such as soccer matches, weekend balls etc. In 1959 it sold its assets to the Greek-owned Portolos Co.</p><br>
<h3>Natural resources</h3><br>
<p>The soil of Chalkidiki is very rich in ore minerals such as gold, magnesite, an ore, a valuable mineral mainly in the form of white stone (metallic commodity) existing with other minerals (such as iron, chromium etc.).</p><br>
<p>Magnesite of Chalkidiki is mostly pure, not mixed with other materials, its colour being white, hence its name. The subsoil in the area of Yerakini as well as of Patelidas and Vavdos is rich in magnesite.</p><br>
<p>The topsoil is suitable for olive cultivation and hence the principal occupation of the people from the village and other towns. The surface soil is suitable for growing other crops, too.</p><br>
<p>Hariharalaya  was an ancient city and capital of the Khmer empire located near Siem Reap, Cambodia in an area now called Roluos . Today, all that remains of the city are the ruins of several royal temples: Preah Ko, the Bakong, Lolei.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The name "Hariharalaya" is derived from the name of Harihara, a Hindu deity prominent in pre-Angkorian Cambodia. The name "Harihara" in turn is a composite of "Hari" (one of Vishnu&#39;s names listed in Vishnu sahasranama) and "Hara" (meaning the Hindu god Shiva). Cambodian representations of Harihara were of a male deity whose one side bore the attributes of Vishnu and whose other side bore the attributes of Shiva. For example, the deity’s head-covering consisted of a mitre-type hat (the attribute of Vishnu) on one side and as twisted locks of hair (the attribute of Shiva) on the other.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Toward the end of the 8th century A.D., the Cambodian king Jayavarman II conquered vast territories near the great lake Tonle Sap. For at least part of this time, he established his capital at Hariharalaya. However, when he declared himself the universal monarch of the country in 802 A.D., he did so not at Hariharalaya, but at Mahendraparvata on the Phnom Kulen Plateau. Later, he returned the capital to Hariharalaya, where he died in 835.</p><br>
<p>Jayavarman II was succeeded by Jayavarman III and then by Indravarman I, who were responsible for the completion of the royal temple mountain known as the Bakong and the construction of Indratataka baray. Indravarman I consecrated the temple’s dominant religious symbol, a lingam called Sri Indresvara (the name is a combination of the king’s name with that of Shiva), in 881. Indravarman I also constructed the much smaller temple today called Preah Ko ("Sacred Bull"), dedicated in 880. In 889, Indravarman I was succeeded by his son Yasovarman I, who constructed the temple of Lolei (the name may be a modern corruption of "Hariharalaya") on an artificial island in the middle of Indratataka. Yasovarman also founded a new city at the site of Angkor Thom north of modern Siem Reap and called it Yasodharapura. Yasovarman made the new city his capital and constructed a new royal temple mountain, known as the Bakheng. Yasodharapura was to survive until the 1170s when it was sacked by invaders from Champa.</p><br>
<p>The Bost Building, also known as Columbia Hotel, is located on East Eighth Avenue  in Homestead, Pennsylvania, United States. Built just before the 1892 Homestead Strike, it was used as headquarters by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and for reporters covering the confrontation. It is the only significant building associated with the strike that remains intact. It is a contributing property to the Homestead Historic District. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1999.</p><br>
<p>After some use as a rooming house and hotel, today it serves as the headquarters and visitor center for the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The museum features displays the area&#39;s industrial, social and cultural history. Exhibits include two restored rooms reflecting the 1892 Homestead Strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers during the Homestead Lockout and Strike, and a room dedicated to the Homestead Steel Works.</p><br>
<p>Visitors can pick up information about other sites of the area as well as driving tours of the area&#39;s communities that reflect the industries of steel, coal, aluminum and glass.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The building is 40 by, located at the corner of East Eighth and Heisel Avenue. It is three stories high, faced in brick laid in common bond, resting on a stone foundation and topped with a flat asphalt roof.</p><br>
<p>Bands of stone run along the slightly skewed south (front) facade at the tops of all six windows on the upper stories, forming lintels to complement the similar sills. The roofline is marked with stepped brick corbels on the south and east. At the ground level on the east is a glass and aluminum storefront.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the first floor serves as a museum, with original floorboards and period wallpaper. One room has exhibits devoted to the history of the strike, the other to the building&#39;s restoration. The second and third stories consist of guest rooms that have been left largely intact since the strike. At the second floor stair landing, and the top of the stair, there is a section where the paint has peeled off and exposed graffiti on the underlying plaster. Pencilled in are the words "Homestead 1892" and some names. It is possible that it was left during the strike.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Intended as a hotel for new hires or prospective hires at the growing Homestead Steel Works, which at the time were just next door, it had not entirely been finished inside when the company locked out its workers, precipitating the eventual strike. The union found it an ideal headquarters, since its upper floors had a commanding view of the factory next door. Reporters from American and British newspapers who covered the strike wired home their dispatches from a telegraph office on the first story. Deputy sheriffs and Pinkerton men taken captive during some of the violent confrontations were held at the Bost Building to protect them from retribution.</p><br>
<p>After the strike, the building did become a hotel and rooming house, although it was never successful in the long term. The only significant change to it was the alteration of the storefront during the 20th century, and some changes to the upper floors during its late 20th-century renovation to comply with contemporary fire codes.</p><br>
<p>Zichy Land  is a geographical subgroup of Franz Josef Land, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia.</p><br>
<p>It is formed by the central cluster of large islands in the midst of the archipelago. The islands are separated from each other by narrow sounds that are frozen most of the year, forming a compact whole.</p><br>
<p>This island group was named after Hungarian Count Ödön Zichy (1811-1894) who was, beside Count Johann Nepomuk Wilczek, the second highest sponsor for the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition to Franz Josef Land.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The broad channel to the west of Zichy Land is known as Markham Channel (Пролив маркама; Proliv Markama), after British polar explorer Admiral Sir Albert Hastings Markham.</p><br>
<p>The northernmost point of Zichy Land is Cape Bema in Karl-Alexander Island and its southernmost point is Cape Fiume in Champ Island. The distance between both is 114 km.</p><br>
<p>Cape Armitidzh in Luigi Island is the westernmost point of the subgroup. The highest point is 620 m high Peak Parnass located on Wiener Neustadt Island. The channels separating the islands in the southeastern area of the group are very narrow.</p><br>
<h3>Islands</h3><br>
<p>The individual islands forming the Zemlya Zichy archipelago are (from North to south):</p><br>
<p>Karl-Alexander Island</p><br>
<p>Rainer Island</p><br>
<p>Jackson Island</p><br>
<p>Payer Island</p><br>
<p>Greely Island</p><br>
<p>Brosch Island (Kuna Island)</p><br>
<p>Kane Island</p><br>
<p>Ziegler Island</p><br>
<p>Salisbury Island</p><br>
<p>Wiener Neustadt Island</p><br>
<p>Luigi Island</p><br>
<p>Champ Island</p><br>
<p>The Thomas A. Greene Memorial Museum, also known as Greene Geological Museum or Greene Museum, is a mineral and fossil museum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin administered by the Department of Geosciences at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. The current curator is Dr. Stephen Q. Dornbos, a paleontologist and Associate Professor of Geosciences at UWM.</p><br>
<h2>Original building</h2><br>
<p>The original fireproof museum building, designed by noted Milwaukee architect, Alexander Eschweiler, held the collection of Thomas A. Greene, an amateur geologist. In 1913, Greene&#39;s heirs, Mrs. H.A.J. Upham and Mr. Howard Greene, had the facility built to house his collection, The collection has been removed from the building, and is now displayed and housed in Lapham Hall on the UWM campus.</p><br>
<p>The building has been renovated and is currently used as academic space for UWM&#39;s Sam and Helen Stahl Center for Jewish Studies.</p><br>
<h2>Collection</h2><br>
<p>Greene amassed most of the fossils in his collection, totaling about 75,000 specimens, during the 1880s and 1890s. The majority of these specimens come from the Silurian Niagara Formation and the Devonian Hamilton Formation in the vicinity of southeastern Wisconsin. Preserved mostly as internal molds in dolomite, these fossils include a wide range of Silurian marine invertebrate groups including trilobites, crinoids, tabulate and rugose corals, brachiopods, cephalopods, and gastropods. Devonian fossils consist mainly of fish and plant remains. All of these fossils were collected from quarry outcrops that no longer exist, making the collection irreplaceable.</p><br>
<p>The mineral collection contains a wide range of minerals and ores from localities throughout North America, as well as some from overseas. It includes exquisite examples of amethyst, apatite, stibnite, copper, tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, cobalt, nickel, mercury compounds, aluminum compounds, malachite, lapis-lazuli, tourmaline, garnet, labradorite, fluorite, beryl, and turquoise, among others. Perhaps the highlight of the mineral collection is a piece of iron meteorite that landed in nearby Washington County, Wisconsin. It was given to Greene by the scientist Increase A. Lapham, the namesake of Lapham Hall.</p><br>
<p>Greene collaborated with another amateur, Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day, whose home in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, the Dr. Fisk Holbrook Day House, has also been designated a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Silver Mound is a sandstone hill in Wisconsin where American Indians quarried quartzite for stone tools. Tools made from Silver Mound&#39;s quartzite have been found as far away as Kentucky. The oldest have been dated to around 11,000 years ago, so they provide clues about the first people in Wisconsin. Silver Mound Archeological District was declared a National Historic Landmark in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and Geology</h2><br>
<p>Silver Mound is in the town of Hixton, Jackson County, Wisconsin. Its sandstone was laid down long ago in the Cambrian Period, like many other bluffs in the area. But in this sandstone a layer of very hard stone called silicated quartzite or orthoquartzite formed. Stone like this is fairly uncommon. With simple tools it can be broken into pieces and shaped into points through a process called knapping. And this quartzite from Silver Mound can be distinguished by technical analyses from similar orthoquartzite from other locations.</p><br>
<h2>Human Use</h2><br>
<p>The earliest known humans at Silver Mound were Paleo-Indians, who entered the area about 9550 BC. This is not long after the last glacier began retreating a short distance to the north, when the climate remained cool and mammoths and mastodons still roamed the area. To hunt them, the Paleo-Indians needed good projectile points. They also needed knives and scrapers for processing their kill. These tools could be made from the quartzite from Silver Mound, which was the largest source of orthoquartzite in the Midwest. Tools made from Hixton orthoquartzite and datable to this period have been found as far away as Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>Later Indians continued to quarry the quartzite at Silver Mound. By 8,000 BC the mammoths and mastodons were extinct, but Archaic Indians needed points to hunt large, now-extinct bison, elk and deer, and some quarried orthoquartzite at Silver Mound. Later Woodland and Oneota peoples also used stone from Silver Mound.</p><br>
<p>In total there are about one thousand quarry pits on the mound. From the fragments left, some areas have been identified as workshops where the larger pieces of quartzite were broken up into smaller pieces suitable for working. In other workshops the smaller pieces were finished. Six rock shelters have also been found on the bluff. Two contain rock art.</p><br>
<p>Euro-Americans have been aware of the Indian quarries on the mound since the 1840s. It was named Silver Mound because they mistakenly believed it contained silver. Some mining was done, but no silver was found. The land around the base of the mound has been farmed for years, but much of the mound itself remains largely undisturbed. Professional archeologists first visited the mound in 1928. Gradually the remarkable age of some of the Indian quarries emerged. In 1975 Silver Mound was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2006 it was named a National Historic Landmark, largely because of the potential information it may still hold about the earliest people in Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>Robert M. La Follette House is a historic house located at 733 Lakewood Boulevard in Maple Bluff, Wisconsin, United States. The house was the home of Robert M. La Follette, Wisconsin governor and USA Congressman and presidential candidate, from 1905 until his death in 1925. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1964.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>By the time La Follette purchased the house in 1905, he was already an accomplished Wisconsin politician. La Follette first gained a national political office in 1885, when he entered the USA House of Representatives as a member of the Republican Party; he remained a representative until 1890, when he lost a reelection bid due in part to ideological differences with party leadership. After leaving office, La Follette began a Progressive campaign against several of Wisconsins large and politically influential corporations; his ideas won him enough popular support to secure him Wisconsins governorship in 1900. While his Progressive plans were initially rejected by an unsympathetic state legislature, several of his policies became law by the middle of the decade, particularly tax reform policies such as a statewide income tax.</p><br>
<p>In 1905, the same year that he purchased his house in Maple Bluff, La Follette was elected to the USA Senate. La Follette remained a senator until his death; he became known for progressive stances such as the introduction of national regulatory commissions, support for organized labor, and opposition to World War I. La Follette also considered presidential office during his term as a senator; he was proposed as a Republican candidate in 1908, and he mounted an independent campaign in the 1924 election which carried Wisconsin and earned him one-sixth of the national vote. La Follette died in 1925 of chronic illness; his wife Belle Case and sons Philip and Robert Jr. remained influential in Wisconsin politics.</p><br>
<p>La Follettes life and political career was significantly associated with his homes in and near Madison, the state capital; before moving to his Maple Bluff house, he lived in a house on Broom Street in Madison. His house in Maple Bluff was originally situated on a 60 acre plot, which had shrunk to 3 or by the time of its National Historic Landmark nomination. The two-story brick house is composed of two sections and features Victorian elements and a projecting bay with a mansard roof. After La Follettes death, the property remained in his family for several generations.</p><br>
<p>Talyshistan also spelled as Talishistan, Tolishistan, Talyshistan is an unofficial designation meaning the land of Talysh people, for the historical Land of Cadusi..</p><br>
<p>This historical geographic designation has been used by the medieval geographer Muhammad Sadiq ibn Muhammad Salih Sadiq Isfahan (circa 1609)."The geographical works of Sadik Isfahani. Translated by J.C. from original Persian mss. in the collection of Sir William Ouseley, the editor. London, Printed for the Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland; sold by J. Murray, 1832. Oriental Translation Fund. Publications; -- v. 20. pg 15:</p><br>
<p>"Talish is the name of the son Japhet, the son of Noah (on whom be the peace of God), from him the name was given to a tribe in Gilan and from that tribe the country was called Talishistan. The Arabs write the name as Talish طالش".</p><br>
<p>James Minahan states:James Minahan. “One Europe, Many Nations: A Historical Dictionary of European National Groups By James Minahan</p><br>
<p>Greenwood Press, 2000. pg 673-676.”</p><br>
<p>The Namur Historic District, also known as the Namur Belgian-American District, is a historic district in southwestern Door County, Wisconsin. The district includes the community of Namur and a rural landscape extending 3 mi to its north. It contains one of the nation&#39;s highest concentrations of immigrant Belgian and Belgian-American culture, land use, and architecture. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>In the 1850s, in response to a drive by the state of Wisconsin to increase settlement of its rural areas, immigrants from the area that is now Belgium began to arrive in the state. Originating in the provinces of Namur and Brabant, the settled on the eastern shore areas of Brown, Kewaunee, and Door counties. They used indigenous materials in combination with traditional building practices imported from their homeland to construct an architecturally distinct landscape. Houses were typically built out of either red brick or limestone, with frame outbuildings. In the 1860 and 1870 censuses Wisconsin had a higher percentage of Belgian-origin residents than any other state. The area around the village of Namur was judged in a wide-ranging survey of Belgian-settled areas to best represent this influx.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is basically rectangular in shape, with the village of Namur just north of its southern boundary. To the west and north, it is bordered by Green Bay and County Road "K", and to the east it is bordered by the properties on Thruway Road. Covering about 3,500 acre, the district includes over 180 historically significant buildings, most of them farm-related buildings. There are 41 separate farmsteads, each averaging more than five buildings. Properties were typically developed between 1880 and 1930. Non-residential properties include the St. Mary&#39;s Catholic Church and parsonage house in Namur, and the Harold Euclide General Store, built in 1916.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>Schoonmaker Reef, also known as Wauwatosa Reef, Schoonmaker Quarry, Raphu Station or Francey Reef is a 425 million year-old fossilized reef in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. It was discovered in 1844 by Increase A. Lapham and Fisk Day on the site of a quarry owned by the Schoonmaker Family. Geologist James Hall declared its significance in 1862. It was the first ancient reef described in North America, and among the first described in the world. It is located North of W. State St., between N. 66th St. and N. 64th St. extended, in Wauwatosa. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Schoonmaker Reef formed approximately 425 million years ago during the Silurian period. It is largely dolomite, a sedimentary rock of calcium magnesium carbonate (CaMg(CO3)2) that is similar to limestone. The reef is stratigraphically consistent with the Racine Dolomite, a formation in Wisconsin and Illinois. The exposed portion of the reef is in the Menomonee River valley in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. It exists as a massive, rock hill that stretches in a 600 ft outcrop. It is exposed on the lower 20 ft of a 60 ft bluff; the upper portion of the bluff is formed by glacial sediments left in the last million years. The reef contains a variety of fossils from Silurian-era organisms, including trilobites.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first known human interaction with the reef was in 1838, when Joseph Higgins identified it as a source of lime. Lime burning at the reef may have first occurred five years earlier. Silas Brown constructed lime kilns in the 1840s which remained in use until 1857. Increase A. Lapham first identified the reef as an area of geological interest in 1844.</p><br>
<p>John Schoonmaker and Isaac W. Van Schaick purchased the land in 1857. Schoonmaker operated the quarry until 1909 and is its namesake. In 1862, James Hall identified Schoonmaker Reef as the first ancient reef on mainland North America. Hall was made aware of the reef by Lapham, who sent him fossils that he had collected there. He frequently visited Lapham in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area in the 1850s to examine Lapham&#39;s fossil collection. Hall made Schonmaker a focus of his studies of ancient reefs and it became the scientific model for reef development in the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, the Wisconsin State Geologist, published a study of the reef in 1877 comparing it to modern reefs. He identified Schoonmaker as an important model of reef study because of its abundance of fossils. Amateur geologists like Thomas A. Greene and Fisk Holbrook Day collected fossils from the site. Days collection, which featured samples from about two hundred species, was responsible for approximately 90% of reef species identification. Alexander Emanuel Agassiz purchased most of Days collection (over 4 ST) for the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University in 1881. Day sold over five thousand fossils to Greene for this museum and another 10,000 of his collection were sold to the University of Michigan after his death. William C. Alden photographed the reef in 1899; the picture was widely distributed in geology textbooks. In 1904, Amadeus William Grabau published a paper on the reef in the Geological Society of America Bulletin in 1903.</p><br>
<p>The G. D. Francey Coal, Stone & Supply Company bought the land from Schoonmaker in 1909 to produce aggregate. Robert Rakes Shrock published a paper on Wisconsin reefs, featuring the Schoonmaker Reef, in the Geological Society of America Bulletin in 1939. He was the first to completely diagram a cross-section of the reef. In 1948, the Bliffert Concrete Company bought the quarry and concrete plant and leased it to the Fuller Company. It was abandoned two years later.</p><br>
<p>In recent years, an apartment complex named The Reef was constructed in front of the reef site.</p><br>
<p>The Barn Door Hills of north-central Connecticut are a pair of prominent rocky trap rock knobs separated by a steep sided gap. They are located in Granby, Connecticut. The hills are an outlying section of the narrow, linear Metacomet Ridge that extends from Long Island Sound near New Haven, north through the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts to the Vermont border. The crest of the Metacomet Ridge is located 3.75 mi east at Hatchet Hill.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation and conservation</h2><br>
<p>East Barndoor Hill is located in the 4,000 acre McLean Game Refuge founded by former United States Senator George P. McLean, and now a National Natural Landmark. A hiking trail summits the hill. West Barndoor Hill is maintained by the Granby Land Trust.</p><br>
<p>Mallela Theertham is a waterfall located in the Nallamala Forest in Mahbubnagar, Telangana, India. The River Krishna flows through this forest. It is located around 58 km from Srisailam and 185 km from Hyderabad.</p><br>
<h2>Waterfall</h2><br>
<p>Mallela Theertham is in the middle of the dense forest. A walk down 350 steps is required to access the waterfall.</p><br>
<p>The best flows are from the months of October to February. March to June is the dry season. The remaining months are rainy months, and it is very difficult to drive on the muddy road. The water comes from a small rivulet and from this area, it flows through the dense jungle and then meets the Krishna RiverThis place is near to Achampet.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is said that many sages have performed penances there for Shiva and Shiva has himself appeared there to many of his devotees. It is believed that many tigers visit there to drink water during summer.</p><br>
<p>Foothills Baptist Church is an historic Carpenter Gothic church located at 2172 New York Route 22 in the Boquet section of Essex, New York, in the United States. Built in 1855 as St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church, it became the Union Church at Boquet Chapel in 1880, the Church of the Nazarene in 1949 and Foothills Baptist Church in 2005. It has also been known as Boquet Chapel.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Church of the Nazarene in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Boquet Chapel was built in 1855 for St. Johns Episcopal Church, three years after the publication of Upjohns Rural Architecture in which the design appears. In 1880 St. John&#39;s built a new church in Essex and sold the chapel to the Union Church at Boquet Chapel composed of Presbyterians and Baptists, which used it until 1922 when it was closed. It was reopened in 1949 as the Church of the Nazarene. In 2005 it was dedicated as the Foothills Baptist Church.http://www.pressrepublican.com/0804_faith_and_spirituality/</p><br>
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<p>It is located W of Essex on NY 22, Essex.</p><br>
<p>Bury Castle was an early medieval moated manor house in Bury, Lancashire. Its remains are listed as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The manor house was built by Sir Thomas Pilkington &ndash; lord of the manors of Bury and Pilkington, and an influential member of Lancashires gentry &ndash; in 1469. He was given permission by Edward IV to: It is situated on the top of a slope overlooking the River Irwell in a strong defensive position. Excavations have revealed there were six main construction phases on the site. The first phase was between 1359 and 1400 and produced a house platform surrounded by a moat. The building was razed to the ground on the orders of Henry VII after Sir Thomas Pilkington supported the House of York in the Wars of the Roses, particularly the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. On top of this, all of Sir Thomas lands were confiscated.</p><br>
<p>In 1540, antiquary John Leland described Bury Castle as "a ruin of a castle by the Parish Church in the town". In 1753, Thomas Percival drew plans of the visible foundations of the walls of Bury Castle, measuring by. The ruins were looted to provide building material for the town of Bury. In 1865, further foundations were discovered, this time of a keep or defensive tower by with walls thick.</p><br>
<p>The remains of Bury Castle drew public attention in 1973 when amateur archaeologists uncovered stonework that had previously lain underneath a car park. The site, which is owned by Bury council and has undergone "restoration and enhancement work", has been open to the public since 2000. Bury Castle is about north of Radcliffe Tower, an early 15th-century moated manor house.</p><br>
<p>Lake Cadillac is a lake located within the city of Cadillac, Michigan. It is part of the Muskegon River watershed.</p><br>
<h2>Natural features</h2><br>
<p>Lake Cadillac is fed by two inlets: a small river flowing from Lake Mitchell and a short canal of the same origin. There is one outlet, the Clam River.</p><br>
<p>In 2005, infestations of Eurasian water milfoil were discovered. During the summer, over a quarter of the lake&#39;s surface area became inhabited by the milfoil. Treatments for the invasive began in 2006. In 2007 the infestation was brought down to acceptable levels.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Historically, Lake Cadillac was referred to as Little Clam Lake.</p><br>
<p>In 1873, local businessman George A. Mitchell founded the village of Clam Lake (renamed Cadillac, Michigan, in 1882) and constructed the Clam Lake Canal, connecting Little Clam Lake to Big Clam Lake. At the time, the canal enabled logging on the west side of Big Clam Lake; logs floated through the canal entered Little Clam Lake, on the east shore of which stood lumber mills, the railroad and the Village of Clam Lake.</p><br>
<p>The names of the two lakes were changed in 1903, with Little Clam Lake renamed as Lake Cadillac (for the renamed community) and Big Clam Lake as Lake Mitchell, in honor of William W. Mitchell, the nephew and business partner of George A. Mitchell.</p><br>
<p>Following the passing of the lumber era the lake became a regional tourist destination. William Mitchell State Park, popular with campers, now occupies the west shore of the lake, adjacent to the canal.</p><br>
<p>The Kake Cannery is a historic fish processing facility near Kake, Alaska. Operated by a variety of companies between 1912 and 1977, the cannery was one of many which operated in Southeast Alaska, an area historically rich in salmon. The cannery&#39;s surviving buildings are among the best-preserved of the period, and provide a window into the labor practices of the cannery operators, which emphasized production over working conditions, and made significant use of immigrant contract workers. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1997.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Kake Cannery is located about 1 mi southeast of the small community of Kake, Alaska, located on the northeastern coast of Kupreanof Island. It is about 90 mi south of Juneau. The complex includes 18 buildings, out of an estimated 21 that were built by the cannery&#39;s owners and operators during its period of use. All of these buildings are mounted on wooden pilings, and are connected by boardwalks. Its main structures included four large buildings: the main cannery and three warehouses. Warehouse No. 1 housed the company offices and storage facilities, and housed a retail operation. Warehouse No. 2 housed facilities for storing and repairing nets, as well as storing canned fish. The cannery and these two warehouses were built around 1912. Warehouse No. 4 (there is no documented Warehouse No. 3) was built in the 1930s, and housed a mechanized can-forming operation.</p><br>
<p>The complex includes a variety of living quarters. There are two bunkhouses, one which was specifically designated for Japanese and Filipino workers, and another for whites. A third bunkhouse, for Chinese workers, has not survived. Six single-family dwellings also survive, one set aside for the supervisor, and another for the cook.</p><br>
<p>The cannery was built in 1912 by the Sanborn Cutting Company. It was operated over the next several decades by Sunny Point Packing and the Alaska Pacific Salmon Packing Corporation, growing under the latter in the 1930s to become one of the largest fish packers in the region. During this time, the operators used generally race-based division of labor, assigning positions of responsibility to white men, and various lower-level menial tasks to immigrants from China, Japan, and elsewhere. Native Tlingit were employed to catch fish. Most of this labor was hired through contractor middlemen, who were responsible for housing and feeding the workers.</p><br>
<p>In 1940 the cannery was purchased by P. E. Harris & Company. The salmon fishery, however, was in decline, and the cannery was closed in 1946. It was sold in 1949 to a Native corporation, and operated as the Keku Cannery, but its packing operation was limited by the reduced fishery, and the eventual banning of the use of traps by the state Alaska after statehood. It was permanently closed in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The John C. Breckinridge Memorial, on the courthouse lawn of Lexington, Kentucky, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS. It commemorates John C. Breckinridge, who had been born and died in Lexington. He was Vice President for James Buchanan and ran against Abraham Lincoln in the United States presidential election, 1860, winning nine Southern states. He served in the Confederate States Army, and was the last Confederate States Secretary of War, fleeing the country after the South lost.</p><br>
<p>The memorial was done by New York&#39;s Henry-Bonnard Bronze Company. The pedestal is made of granite, with the statue done in bronze. Breckinridge is seen standing contraposto The state government of Kentucky funded the construction of the monument.</p><br>
<p>Breckinridge&#39;s memorial was built in 1887, 24 years before the John Hunt Morgan Memorial, also on the courthouse lawn and part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS.</p><br>
<p>The Fayette County Courthouse has been moved, the building is now under renovation and will serve as an tourism, entertainment, and office hub.</p><br>
<p>In 2010 the monument was moved about 50 feet to a new location facing Main Street. This was done as part of the Cheapside pavilion construction project.</p><br>
<p>In November 2015, a committee, the Urban County Arts Review Board’s, voted to recommend removal of both the Breckinridge statue and the Morgan statue.</p><br>
<p>The Ladies&#39; Confederate Memorial is an American Civil War monument erected in 1874 in Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 17, 1997, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS. Unlike most Confederate monuments in Kentucky, it represents grief rather than Southern patriotism.</p><br>
<p>The Ladies Memorial and Monument Association was founded by the wife of John C. Breckinridge on May 19, 1869, after she saw the unveiling of the Confederate Monument in Cynthiana, Kentucky. After six years of funding, the memorial was dedicated on May 26, 1875.</p><br>
<p>The statue features a marble cross shaped as if made of logs. A broken sword and broken flagstaff are among the motifs, which include lilies, with rugged rocks being the motif for the limestone pedestal. It was designed by George W. Ranck (1841–1901), a Lexington historian, and paid for by the Ladies Memorial and Monument Association of Lexington. The cross was made in Italy, with the pedestal supplied by Louisvilles Muldoon Monument Company. It was called "probably the most perfect thing of its kind in the South" by Frank Leslies Illustrated Newspaper.</p><br>
<p>It is believed that the memorial might have been inspired by a poem written by Abram Joseph Ryan, a Confederate chaplain:</p><br>
<p>Take that banner down! &#39;tis tattered</p><br>
<p>Broken is its staff and shattered,</p><br>
<p>And the valiant hosts are scattered</p><br>
<p>Over whom it floated high.</p><br>
<p>The Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington is a few feet away, and was also part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky MPS.</p><br>
<p>Monte Cimone is the highest mountain in the northern Apennines, of Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The mountain has an elevation of 2,165 m and is also the highest point in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.</p><br>
<p>It encompasses the comuni of Fiumalbo, Sestola, Fanano and Riolunato in the province of Modena. Its interior houses a military structure; for this reason, during the Cold War, access to the peak was forbidden.</p><br>
<p>During World War II it was a German radar site and anti-aircraft gun battery. Later it was used as a communications relay site by the USA Air Force, until removed in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Skiing</h2><br>
<p>It is a frequented winter ski resort. In the resort there are 31 ski trails for a total length of more than 50 km (the longest trail is 3,6 km) served by 26 lifts. Ski season starts usually at the beginning of December (often in the last week end of November) and ends in the middle of April.</p><br>
<p>The resort is composed by six different area (Passo del Lupo, Polle, Cimoncino, Lago Ninfa, Montecreto and Pian del Falco) well-linked by trails and lifts.</p><br>
<p>Famous trails are the no. 9-Nord Funivia (red trail, length 1,9 km), no. 10-Direttissima (black trail, length 1,7 km), no. 17-Sette Fontane (red/black trail, length 2,7 km) and no. 5-Delle Aquile (red-black trail, length 2,7 km).</p><br>
<p>The resort is frequented also by snowboarders as it hosts a large snowpark in Passo del Lupo&#39;s area (with a half pipe 85 mt length, woops, two jump rail, three kink box, three box, three C box, four double tube, one triple kink box, one kink, one rainbow box, one triple kink, kicker three-12m, one-16m, one spine 20m 3 box in line 6m), plus two minor snowparks in the areas of Lago Ninfa and Polle.</p><br>
<p>The Edward H. White II Museum of Aerospace Medicine was a museum of the United States Air Force and was located in Hangar 9 at Brooks Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Brooks Air Force Base closed in 2011 under Base Realignment and Closure Commission  procedures, and the museum closed at the same time.</p><br>
<p>Brooks Field Hangar 9 is located in the Brooks City-Base mixed-use community being developed on the site of the former air base. The development authority has proposed to preserve the historic area around the property.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bexar County Historical Survey Committee assumed sponsorship of the restoration of Brooks Field Hangar 9 of the old Army Air Corps Brooks Field. The restoration of the Hangar would be used to house an aviation museum. This museum was intended to display the early history of Brooks Field and to preserve and display an extensive collection of photographs and equipment related to aviation and aerospace medicine. It became the Edward H. White II Museum of Aerospace Medicine.</p><br>
<p>The museum was named after San Antonio native Edward Higgins White, an astronaut and the first American to "walk" in space.</p><br>
<h2>Historic registration</h2><br>
<p>The Brooks Field Hangar 9 was accepted and listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and became a National Historic Landmark in 1976. The State of Texas has designated this old Hangar 9 as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, and a City of San Antonio Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<h2>Other Air Force museums</h2><br>
<p>The Bogotá savanna is a montane savanna, located in the southwestern part of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the center of Colombia. The Bogotá savanna has an extent of 4,251.6 km&sup2; and an average altitude of 2,550 m. The savanna is situated in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes.</p><br>
<p>The Bogotá savanna is crossed from northeast to southwest by the 375 km long Bogotá River, which at the southwestern edge of the plateau forms the Tequendama Falls (Salto del Tequendama). Other rivers, such as the Subachoque, Bojacá, Fucha, Soacha and Tunjuelo Rivers, tributaries of the Bogotá River, form smaller valleys with very fertile soils dedicated to agriculture and cattle-breeding.</p><br>
<p>Before the Spanish conquest of the Bogotá savanna, the area was inhabited by the indigenous Muisca, who formed a loose confederation of various caciques, named the Muisca Confederation. The Bogotá savanna, known as Bacatá, was ruled by the zipa. The people specialised in agriculture, the mining of emeralds, trade and especially the extraction of rock salt from rocks in Zipaquirá, Nemocón, Tausa and other areas on the Bogotá savanna. The salt extraction, a task exclusively of the Muisca women, gave the Muisca the name "The Salt People".</p><br>
<p>In April 1536, a group of around 800 conquistadors left the relative safety of the Caribbean coastal city of Santa Marta to start a strenuous expedition up the Magdalena River, the main fluvial artery of Colombia. Word got around among the Spanish colonisers that deep in the unknown Andes, a rich area with an advanced civilisation must exist. These tales bore the -not so much- legend of El Dorado; the city or man of gold. The Muisca, skilled goldworkers, held a ritual in Lake Guatavita where the new zipa would cover himself in gold dust and jump from a raft into the cold waters of the 3,000 m high lake to the northeast of the Bogotá savanna.</p><br>
<p>After a journey of almost a year, where the Spanish lost over 80% of their soldiers, the conquistadors following the Suárez River, reached the Bogotá savanna in March 1537. The zipa who ruled the Bogotá savanna at the arrival of the Spanish was Tisquesusa. The Muisca posed little resistance to the Spanish strangers and Tisquesusa was defeated in April 1537 in Funza, in the centre of the savanna. He fled towards the western hills and died of his wounds in Facatativá, on the southwestern edge of the Bogotá savanna. The Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada established the New Kingdom of Granada with capital Santa Fe de Bogotá on August 6, 1538. This started a process of colonisation, evangelisation and submittance of the Muisca to the new rule. Between 65 and 80% of the indigenous people perished due to European diseases as smallpox and typhus. The Spanish introduced new crops, replacing many of the New World crops that the Muisca cultivated.</p><br>
<p>Over the course of the 16th to early 20th century, the Bogotá savanna was sparsely populated and industrialised. The rise in population during the twentieth century and the expansion of agriculture and urbanisation reduced the biodiversity and natural habitat of the Bogotá savanna severely. Today, the Metropolitan Area of Bogotá on the Bogotá savanna hosts more than ten million people. Bogotá is the biggest city worldwide at altitudes above 2,500 m. The many rivers on the savanna are highly contaminated and efforts to solve the environmental problems are conducted in the 21st century.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The Bogotá savanna is named after Bogotá, which is derived from Muysccubun Bacatá, which means "(Enclosure) outside of the farm fields".</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Bogotá savanna is the southwestern part of the larger Andean plateau, the Altiplano Cundiboyacense. The savanna is a montane savanna, bordered to the east by the Eastern Hills, the Sumapaz mountains in the south, the hills of Tausa and Suesca in the north and western hills of Cundinamarca in the west. The total surface area is 4,251.6 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<h3>Climate</h3><br>
<p>The average temperature of the plateau is 14 &deg;C, but this can fluctuate between 0 and. The dry and rainy seasons alternate frequently during the year. The driest months are December, January, February and March. During the rainy months, the temperature tends to be more stable with variations between 9 and. June, July and August are the months that present the largest variations of temperature, and during the morning frost in the higher terrains surrounding the savanna is possible. Sometimes also ground frost is present, which has a negative impact on agriculture. Hail is a relatively common phenomenon on the savanna.</p><br>
<h3>Hydrology</h3><br>
<h4>Rivers</h4><br>
<p>Bogotá River - 375 km</p><br>
<p>Bojacá River</p><br>
<p>Fucha River</p><br>
<p>Teusacá River</p><br>
<p>Juan Amarillo River</p><br>
<p>Tunjuelo River</p><br>
<p>Soacha River</p><br>
<p>Neusa River</p><br>
<p>Río Frío</p><br>
<p>Subachoque River</p><br>
<h4>Lakes</h4><br>
<h4>=Natural=</h4><br>
<p>Lake Guatavita - overlooking the northeastern part of the savanna</p><br>
<p>Lake Herrera</p><br>
<h4>=Artificial=</h4><br>
<p>Tominé Reservoir - northeast, biggest waterbody on the Bogotá savanna - 690 Mm3</p><br>
<p>Neusa Reservoir - north - 102 Mm3</p><br>
<p>El Muña Reservoir - south - 42 Mm3</p><br>
<p>Lake Herrera (since 1973)</p><br>
<h3>Waterfalls</h3><br>
<p>Tequendama Falls - southwestern limit</p><br>
<h3>Wetlands</h3><br>
<p>There is a system of wetlands (humedales) that regulate the soil moisture acting like sponges for the rain waters. Fifteen wetlands have a protected status, with various wetlands as unprotected. In 1950, the total surface area of the wetlands amounted to 150,000 hectare, but due to the urbanisation of the Colombian capital the total area has been reduced to 1,500 hectare.</p><br>
<h2>Biodiversity</h2><br>
<p>Despite the continuous urbanisation and industrial activities, the Bogotá savanna is a rich biodiverse area with many bird species registered. The diversity of mammals, amphibians and reptiles is much lower. Before the arrival of the European colonisers, the savanna was populated predominantly by white-tailed deer, the main ingredient of the Muisca cuisine. Today, this species of deer, as well as the once common spectacled bear, is restricted to protected areas surrounding the Bogotá savanna. The Thomas van der Hammen Natural Reserve is a protected area in the north of Bogotá.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The earliest confirmed inhabitation of present-day Colombia was on the Bogotá savanna with sites El Abra, Tequendama and Tibitó, where semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers lived in caves and rock shelters. One of the first evidences of settlement in open area space was Aguazuque, whose oldest dated remains are analysed to be 5000 years old. This prehistorical preceramic period was followed by the Herrera Period, commonly defined from 800 BCE to 800 AD.</p><br>
<h3>Muisca Confederation</h3><br>
<p>At the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, the region was inhabited by the Muisca who lived in hundreds of small villages scattered across the plateau. These villages were individually ruled by caciques who at the same time paid tribute to the zipa, ruler of Bacatá. The Muisca were known as "The Salt People", thanks to their extraction of rock salt from brines in large pots heated over fires. This process was the exclusive task of the Muisca women.</p><br>
<p>The economy of the Muisca, meaning "person" or "people" in their indigenous version of Chibcha; Muysccubun, was self-sufficient due to the advanced agriculture on the fertile soils of the frequently flooding Bogotá savanna. More tropical and subtropical agricultural products as avocadoes and cotton were traded with their neighbours, in particular the Guane and Lache in the north and northeast and the Guayupe, Achagua and Tegua in the east.</p><br>
<p>The Muisca were known as skilled goldworkers, represented in the famous Muisca raft, that symbolises the initiation ritual of the new zipa in Lake Guatavita. This ritual, where the zipa covered himself in gold dust and jumped in the 3,000 m altitude lake, gave rise to the -not so much- legend of El Dorado.</p><br>
<h3>Spanish conquest</h3><br>
<p>In April 1536, a group of around 800 conquistadors left the relative safety of the Caribbean coastal city of Santa Marta to start a strenuous expedition up the Magdalena River, the main fluvial artery of Colombia. Word got around among the Spanish colonisers that deep in the unknown Andes, a rich area with an advanced civilisation must exist. These tales bore the -not so much- legend of El Dorado; the city or man of gold. The Muisca, skilled goldworkers, held a ritual in Lake Guatavita where the new zipa would cover himself in gold dust and jump from a raft into the cold waters of the 3,000 m high lake to the northeast of the Bogotá savanna.</p><br>
<p>After a journey of almost a year, where the Spanish lost over 80% of their soldiers, the conquistadors following the Suárez River, reached the Bogotá savanna in March 1537. The zipa who ruled the Bogotá savanna at the arrival of the Spanish was Tisquesusa. The Muisca posed little resistance to the Spanish strangers and Tisquesusa was defeated in April 1537 in Funza, in the centre of the savanna. He fled towards the western hills and died of his wounds in Facatativá, on the southwestern edge of the Bogotá savanna. The Spanish conquistador Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada established the New Kingdom of Granada with capital Santa Fe de Bogotá on August 6, 1538. This started a process of colonisation, evangelisation and submittance of the Muisca to the new rule. Between 65 and 80% of the indigenous people perished due to European diseases as smallpox and typhus. The Spanish introduced new crops, replacing many of the New World crops that the Muisca cultivated.</p><br>
<p>The Spanish colonizers engaged in the construction of Spanish-style towns to replace all the indigenous villages and in the process of assimilation and religious convert of the Muisca. The majority of those villages kept their indigenous names, but some were slightly modified in time, like Suacha which became Soacha, Hyntiba becoming Fontibón and Bacatá becoming Bogotá.</p><br>
<h3>Modern history</h3><br>
<p>Over the course of the 16th to early 20th century, the Bogotá savanna was sparsely populated and industrialised. The rise in population during the twentieth century and the expansion of agriculture and urbanisation reduced the biodiversity and natural habitat of the Bogotá savanna severely. Today, the Metropolitan Area of Bogotá on the Bogotá savanna hosts more than ten million people. Bogotá is the biggest city worldwide at altitudes above 2,500 m. The many rivers on the savanna are highly contaminated and efforts to solve the environmental problems are conducted in the 21st century.</p><br>
<h3>Timeline of inhabitation</h3><br>
<h2>Cities</h2><br>
<p>The main cities of the Bogotá savanna, in addition to the capital city of Bogotá, are: Mosquera, Soacha, Madrid, Funza, Facatativá, Subachoque, El Rosal, Tabio, Tenjo, Cota, Chía, Cajicá, Zipaquirá, Nemocón, Sopó, Tocancipá, Gachancipá, Sesquilé, Suesca, Chocontá and Guatavita.</p><br>
<h3>List of municipalities</h3><br>
<h2>Panoramas</h2><br>
<p>The Penny Ice Cap is a 6,000 km&sup2; ice cap in Auyuittuq National Park of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada. It forms a 2,000 m high barrier on the Cumberland Peninsula, an area of deep fiords and glaciated valleys. It is a remnant of the last ice age. During the mid-1990s, Canadian researchers studied the glacier&#39;s patterns of freezing and thawing over centuries by drilling ice core samples.</p><br>
<p>The ice cap has been thinning and its valley glaciers have been retreating in recent decades related to rising summer and winter air temperatures across the eastern Arctic.</p><br>
<p>The ice cap is named after Captain William Penny, a whaling captain from Aberdeen in Scotland who pioneered over-wintering with native Inuit at Cumberland Sound in order to be able to start whaling (in the nineteenth century) much earlier in the season. He was also engaged by Lady Franklin to search for her husband John, lost with all souls in the search for the North West Passage.</p><br>
<p>Stockport Castle was a promontory castle in Stockport, Cheshire. The castle was in the medieval town, overlooking a ford over the River Mersey. It was first documented in 1173, but the next mention of it is in 1535 when it was in ruins. What remained of the castle was demolished in 1775.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Stockport Castle was an urban castle in the town of Stockport. The medieval town was on the south side of a valley at the confluence of the rivers Goyt and Tame, where they form the River Mersey. The site of the castle is a 10 m sandstone spur, overlooking a ford. The castle was flanked by cliffs or steep slopes on its north, south, and west sides.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first mention of Stockport Castle comes from 1173, when Geoffrey de Costentyn held it against Henry II during the barons&#39; rebellion of 1173–1174. There is a local tradition that Geoffrey de Constentyn was the son of Henry II, Geoffrey II, Duke of Brittany; in fact, Geoffrey de Constentyn was a local lord who not only owned the manor of Stockport, but land in Staffordshire and Ireland. The bailey would originally have been defended by a wooden palisade and earthworks; these were replaced by stone walls at the beginning of the 13th century. Two fragments of the wall survive.</p><br>
<p>Dent suggests that the castle began to decline in the 14th century when the Warren family became Lords of the Manor of Stockport; Stockport was not the only manor that the family owned, and they favoured the manor of Poynton over that of Stockport. The castle falling out of use mirrors a trend with the other castles in the Greater Manchester area; by the 13th century, apart from Dunham Castle, there was no indication of activity in castles in Greater Manchester. According to antiquarian John Leland, the castle lay in ruins by 1535. At this stage, the gaol was still present and a market was held in the castle&#39;s bailey. The castle grounds had been divided and rented out by the Lord of the Manor. The ruins were levelled in 1775 by Sir George Warren, the lord of the manor, and a cotton mill built on the site. In 1974, excavations of the motte were carried out to establish how long the castle had been occupied.</p><br>
<h2>Layout</h2><br>
<p>A motte-and-bailey castle was a common type of fortification in medieval England. It consisted of a usually artificial mound surmounted by a tower or keep, with a large defended enclosed area next to the mound and was usually used for storage and barracks. Stockport Castle&#39;s motte was where Castle Yard is today – although it was previously called Castle Hill – influencing the name of the area. The bailey was situated south-east of the motte. The castle was probably similar in size and shape to castles such as Launceston in Cornwall, and Pontefract in West Yorkshire. The keep surmounting the motte was irregularly shaped, and according to plans drawn in 1775 by the Reverend John Watson, a local antiquarian, measured 31 by. No trace of the keep remains from the levelling of the area in 1775 and 1853.</p><br>
