<p>Wardley Hall is an early medieval manor house and a Grade I listed building in the Wardley area of Worsley, in Greater Manchester . There has been a moat on the site since at least 1292. The current hall dates from around 1500 but was extensively rebuilt in the 19th and 20th centuries. The 1894 restoration was carried out by John Douglas. The building is timber framed with a slate roof.</p><br>
<p>The skull of St Ambrose Barlow, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales, is preserved in a niche at the top of the main staircase. He was hanged, drawn and quartered at Lancaster on 10 September 1641 after confessing to being a Catholic priest. According to legend, it is a screaming skull.</p><br>
<p>Wardley Hall is the official residence of the Roman Catholic bishops of Salford.</p><br>
<p>St Nicholas&#39; Chapel is a former chapel in St Werburgh Street, Chester, Cheshire, England. Since it ceased functioning as a chapel it has had a number of uses, including being at one time a theatre. It is now used as a shop. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building, and is a scheduled monument.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The chapel was built in about 1300 for Simon de Albo, the abbot of St Werburgh&#39;s, Chester. It was used for a period as the church of the parish of St Oswald, then closed as a church and conveyed to the Mayor and Assembly of Chester in 1488. In 1545 an upper floor was inserted and it was used as the Commonhall and Wool Hall. The building was used for staging plays from around 1750, then further converted as the New Theatre in 1773 and the Theatre Royal in 1777–78. James Harrison modified it again into a hall for concerts and entertainments in 1854–55, when it was known as the Music Hall. It was later used as a cinema, and then as a shop. The alleyway to the side of the building, from Saint Werburgh Street to Northgate Street, is called Music Hall Passage.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>It is built in sandstone and brick with grey slate gabled roofs in two storeys. Some medieval stonework remains on the south side. The Gothic style front is by James Harrison.</p><br>
<p>Oak Hill Cottage, built in 1847 by John Robinson, superintendent of the Sandusky, Mansfield, and Newark Railroad, is an historic Gothic Revival brick house with Carpenter Gothic ornamentation located at 310 Springmill Street in Mansfield, Ohio, in the United States. All of the furnishings and artifacts inside the house are original to about the 1870s and have come down to the present intact.</p><br>
<p>Robinson purchased the land for his home in April 1844 from Edward Wilkinson. He named the plot White Oak Hill. His home was later called, “The one perfect Gothic House I’ve seen in the United States,” by Ralph Adams Cram, architect of the New York Cathedral. The house was built near the railroad for the convenience of its owner, who wished to live near Mansfield’s railroad and business district.</p><br>
<p>After falling on hard times financially, Robinson returned the house to the Farmer’s Bank, which held it until it was bought by Mr. Harvey Hall in 1861.</p><br>
<p>It was acquired by its most prominent and famous owner, Dr. Johannes Jones in 1864 and was the home of his family for over a century.It was Dr. Jones’ wife Francis Barr Jones and their four daughters Madell, Bess, Ida, and Leile who made Oak Hill Cottage a showplace and the centerpiece of Mansfield’s leading social affairs at the time.</p><br>
<p>It was the habit of Dr. Jones to hold informal receptions for musicians who were visiting and performing in Mansfield at Oak Hill.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Jones died in 1895 and his funeral services were held at Oak Hill Cottage. His wife Francis lived on in the home until her death in 1912.</p><br>
<p>The last private owner of the house was the Jones’ youngest daughter Leile Barrett. She maintained the home until her own declining fortunes and failing health caused her to allow the house to fall into disrepair. This led her to sell Oak Hill to the Richland County Historical Society in 1965.</p><br>
<p>The Historical Society restored the house and the furniture inside to about the year 1870, which was around when most of the items inside the house had been bought originally. It was finally open for public tours in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Oak Hill Cottage was the setting of The Green Bay Tree, Mansfield native and grand-nephew to Mrs. Jones Louis Bromfield&#39;s first novel. His fond memories of spending time in the home caused him to memorialize it as “Shane’s Castle” in the 1924 novel.</p><br>
<p>On June 11, 1969, it was added to the National Register of Historical Places. It is now the Oak Hill Cottage and Museum.</p><br>
<h2>Underground Railroad Stop Legend</h2><br>
<p>A common legend surrounding the Oak Hill Cottage is that the house was used as a stop on the Underground Railroad. This legend was disproved by Mrs. Ethel Zott, a relative of John Robinson, the house’s first owner, during a newspaper interview. She stated that she doubted he would use his home as a link in the Underground Railroad. That, in fact, diary entries made by Robinson indicated that he was sympathetic to Southern slave-holding states and did not want Lincoln elected as president.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>The house was bought in 1965 by the Richland County Historical Society which has restored it and now maintains it as a museum open to the public.</p><br>
<p>The Glover Mausoleum, also known as the Glover Vault, is a Greek Revival mausoleum located within the Riverside Cemetery in Demopolis, Marengo County, Alabama. It houses the remains of local plantation owner, Allen Glover, his first and second wives, and many of their descendants.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Greek Revival mausoleum was built between 1841 and 1845 on a chalk bluff overlooking the Tombigbee River, southwest of Demopolis. It was built by Mary Anne Glover, second wife of Allen Glover, on land purchased by him in 1831 and left to his minor daughter, Ann Gaines Glover. Allen Glover died in 1840 and was initially buried elsewhere. Records in the Probate Court of Marengo County show that expenditures on the vault began in January 1841. By the time that it was finished the executors of Allen Glover&#39;s estate had spent at least $2,136.75 on construction. The bodies of Allen Glover, his first wife, and a daughter were moved to the vaults after it was completed in 1845. A Gothic Revival cast iron fence was later added around the vault in 1858. Ann Glover allowed other family members to be buried around the mausoleum in later years, and in 1882 she began to sell lots to the public. This led to the establishment of the site as Riverside Cemetery. The fence has experienced considerable vandalism in more recent years and has been largely removed. The mausoleum was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The mausoleum contains burial vaults for thirty people. There are fifteen vaults on the east and west sides, stacked five horizontally and three vertically. It is a square brick structure, plastered over with smooth stucco and scored to give the appearance of ashlar. A porch surrounds the vaults on all four sides, with solid masonry corners and openings on each side supported by a span of three cast iron columns. The low-pitched masonry roof is topped by a granite orb and cross.</p><br>
<p>Tell es-Sweyhat is the name of a large archaeological site on the Euphrates River in northern Syria. It is located in Raqqa Governorate roughly 95 km northeast of Aleppo and 60 km south of Carchemish. Also, an Uruk site of Jebel Aruda is located just across the river.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Sweyhat dates from 3100–1900 BC, or the Early Bronze Age and the very beginning of the Middle Bronze Age. The site covers approximately 45 hectares and consists of a central, high mound standing 15 meters above the surrounding plain and an extensive low mound surrounded by the remains of an earthen rampart. The site is located within Mesopotamia in a very marginal environment for agriculture, yet in antiquity it was a prosperous city.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>Sweyhat is best known for its intact fortifications of the mid-to-late 3rd millennium BC and its late-3rd-millennium temple located at the summit of the high mound. In 1993, the Penn excavators discovered a large cemetery of shaft-and-chamber tombs in the Low Mound dating to the mid 3rd millennium BC. Sweyhat is a classic example of a Kranzhugel (German, "crown-mound") — a form of ruin mound typical of the Bronze Age in northwestern Mesopotamia consists of a high mound surrounded by a lower ring mound.</p><br>
<p>Sweyhat was excavated by Thomas Holland for the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University in 1973–75.</p><br>
<p>These excavations were part of the Tabqa Dam Salvage Project, initiated to save sites threatened by the formation of the impound lake, Lake Assad, behind a hydroelectric dam on the Euphrates River near the town of Tabqa. These excavations were renewed by Holland from the Oriental Institute of Chicago and Richard L. Zettler from the University of Pennsylvania Museum in 1989. This joint project excavated the site in 1989 and 1991. The Oriental Institute excavated again in 1992 and then halted operations at the site.</p><br>
<p>Zettler carried out field seasons for the UPM in 1993, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2005, and 2007. The project is now directed by Michael D. Danti of Boston University&#39;s Department of Archaeology.</p><br>
<p>Tell Hajji Ibrahim is another important Uruk site in the area.</p><br>
<p>The Carter House State Historic Site is a historic house at 1140 Columbia Avenue in Franklin, Tennessee. In that house, the Carter family hid in the basement waiting for the second Battle of Franklin to end. It is a Tennessee State Historic Site, managed by the non-profit organization The Battle of Franklin Trust under an agreement with the Tennessee Historical Commission. The house is a contributing property and centerpiece of the Franklin Battlefield, a USA National Historic Landmark historic district.</p><br>
<p>Fountain Branch Carter completed construction of the house in 1830. The federal style brick farm house was accompanied by several other outbuildings such as the farm office, smokehouse, and kitchen. In the 1850s, Carter built a cotton gin on his property that became a much-remembered landmark during the Second Battle of Franklin in 1864. Though the cotton gin no longer stands, the house and the other three buildings are still intact and illustrate the horror of the Civil War battle with over a thousand bullet holes still visible.</p><br>
<p>The Carter House played a very important role in the Second Battle of Franklin. Prior to the fight, the house was taken over as the headquarters of the Twenty-Third Army Corps commanded by Brigadier General Jacob D. Cox. Federal breastworks were erected just south of the home extending to both the east and west of Columbia Pike. The Carter family took refuge in the basement of their home during the battle.</p><br>
<p>The middle son of Fountain Branch Carter, Tod Carter, was mortally wounded in the battle. He was still alive the morning after the battle when he was found and brought to the house. There he lived for several more hours, surrounded by his distraught family. Tod Carter died of his wounds December 2, 1864, and was buried in Rest Haven Cemetery just north of town. He came home for the first time in over three years when he fought at the Battle of Franklin in the 20th Tennessee Infantry. The room where Tod Carter died is one of the highlights of the guided tour of the home today.</p><br>
<p>Tours of the Carter House and grounds are available daily. The State of Tennessee has owned the house since it was purchased to save it from demolition in 1953. As one of the Tennessee Historical Commission&#39;s 18 State Historic Sites, the property is administered by the Battle of Franklin Trust, a non-profit organization that also oversees Carnton Plantation.</p><br>
<p>Cammachmore Bay is an embayment of the North Sea between Stonehaven and Aberdeen in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The fishing village of Downies is situated on Cammachmore Bay. Cammachmore is noted for its bouldering and rock climbing opportunities.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Since prehistoric times the locale above Cammachmore Bay has been an area of human occupation with surviving monuments such as Old Bourtreebush stone circle. There is also considerable medieval history associated with this monument&#39;s position along the ancient Causey Mounth trackway. This old drovers&#39; road was constructed on high ground to make passable this only available medieval route from coastal points south from Stonehaven to Aberdeen. This trackway specifically connected the River Dee crossing (where the present Bridge of Dee is situated) via Portlethen Moss, Muchalls Castle and Stonehaven to the south. The route was that taken by William Keith, 7th Earl Marischal and the Marquess of Montrose when they led a Covenanter army of 9000 men in the battle of the Civil War in 1639.</p><br>
<p>The Peter C. DuBois House is located on Slocum Road in the Dutchess Junction neighborhood of the city of Beacon, New York, United States. It was one of the last significant Greek Revival buildings in the Hudson Valley. In the 20th century, it would be reused as a sanatorium and altered with the addition of a third story. Today it is once again a dwelling. In 2004 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>DuBois, a descendant of Huguenot immigrants to nearby Kingston, settled in the area on a 280-acre (1.1 km²) farm, part of land then in the Town of Fishkill his family had long owned. The house was built from brick made of local clay on lands leased from him. Granite quarried in the Hudson Highlands to the south was also used as exterior framing and trim. The house stands on a small rise that overlooks the Highlands and the river, a common practice for manor houses in colonial times.</p><br>
<p>Greek Revival, the preferred architectural style for many grand homes in the area, was nearing the end of its era. Newer fortunes in the era were being made from commerce, not agriculture, and those who made them preferred a different style of home. Andrew Jackson Downing of nearby Newburgh and other architects were criticizing Greek Revivals pretense and championing instead various rustic Gothic Revival styles for the cottages they were building, which sought to harmonize with the surrounding natural environment instead of implying dominance as DuBoiss, and other large colonial landowners, did. DuBois&#39;s would be the last Hudson Valley manor built in the Greek Revival style.</p><br>
<p>His farm did not last much beyond his death in 1869, and his heirs subdivided and sold it, keeping only the house property. In 1927 DuBois&#39;s grandson sold the house and 67 acres (27 ha) to Dr. Clarence J. Slocum, who had been operating Craig House, a sanatorium on a neighboring parcel and wanted to expand. He added a third floor to the house, a common occurrence for many old farmhouses being modernized at the time, and many more bathrooms and bedrooms, using brick that mimicked the original style and color as much as possible. The renovations as a whole preserved the original aesthetic of house while adapting it for institutional reuse.</p><br>
<p>After Slocums death in 1950 the sanatorium fell on hard times, and had become a nursing home when it closed after Slocums son retired in the 1980s. Like DuBoiss farm, Slocums asylum was eventually subdivided and sold, and newer homes have been built along the street named after him. The whole area was ceded to Beacon by Fishkill in the late 1990s in order to better provide services to it. The house remained vacant for a time after the closure of the sanatorium and redevelopment but has recently become occupied again.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Cole Mountain is a mountain located in Greene County, New York.</p><br>
<p>The mountain named for Thomas Cole (1801–1848), an artist who lived in the area, and is regarded as the founder of the Hudson River School.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Cole Mountain is part of the Blackhead range, and is the fourth highest peak of the Catskill Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Cole is flanked to the east by Black Dome (3,990 ft), and to the west by Camel&#39;s Hump (3,530 ft).</p><br>
<p>Thomas Cole Mountain stands within the watershed of Schoharie Creek, which drains into the Mohawk River, the Hudson River, and into New York Bay.</p><br>
<p>The south side of Thomas Cole drains into East Kill, and thence into Schoharie Creek.</p><br>
<p>The north side of Thomas Cole drains into Batavia Kill, and thence into Schoharie Creek.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Cole Mountain is within New York&#39;s Catskill Park.</p><br>
<p>The Arch Street Friends Meeting House, at 320 Arch Street at the corner of 4th Street in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a Meeting House of the Religious Society of Friends . Built to reflect Friends’ testimonies of simplicity and equality, this building is little changed after more than two centuries of continuous use.</p><br>
<p>Pennsylvania founder and Quaker William Penn deeded land to the Society of Friends in 1701 to be used as a burial ground. The east wing and center of the meetinghouse was built between 1803 and 1805 according to a design by the Quaker carpenter Owen Biddle, Jr. Biddle is best known as the author of a builder’s handbook, The Young Carpenter&#39;s Assistant, published in 1805.</p><br>
<p>Today, the Meeting House continues to be a center for worship and the activities of the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.</p><br>
<p>Notable members of the Religious Society of Friends who worshiped at this meetinghouse include abolitionist and suffragist Lucretia Mott. Edward Hicks, the noted painter and cousin of Elias Hicks, also attended meeting here.</p><br>
<p>The meetinghouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and declared a National Historic Landmark in 2011. The latter designation was as a consequence of the building being the only surviving documented work by Owen Biddle.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>The ground upon which the meetinghouse was built was the first burial ground for Quakers in Philadelphia. Although the plot was officially given to the Society of Friends by William Penn in 1701, burials had been taking place here since as early as 1683. According to reports, Quakers were buried here alongside of “Indians, Blacks and strangers.”</p><br>
<p>Notable interments include:</p><br>
<p>Charles Brockden Brown (1771–1810), the first American novelist (Wieland)</p><br>
<p>Samuel Carpenter (1649–1714) and most of his family and his brother Abraham Carpenter (a non-member who married a Quaker) were buried in the Friends Burial Ground. Samuel was a Deputy Governor under William Penn and the "First Treasurer" of Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Lydia Darrah (1728–1789), Revolutionary War spy</p><br>
<p>James Logan (1674–1751), secretary to William Penn</p><br>
<p>Samuel Nicholas (1744–1790), founder and first commandant of the United States Marine Corps.</p><br>
<p>Robert Waln (1765–1836), USA Congressman</p><br>
<p>Dr. Thomas Wynne (1627–1691), personal physician of William Penn and one of the original settlers of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania. Born in Wales, he accompanied Penn on his original journey to America on the ship Welcome.</p><br>
<p>Caspar Wistar (1761–1818), American physician, professor of anatomy and vice president of the American Philosophical Society. Wistar mentored Meriwether Lewis before Lewis joined William Clark on the expedition to cross the western part of the continent.</p><br>
<p>The Pendleton Center for the Arts is an arts center located in the historic former Umatilla County Library building, also known as Pendleton Public Library in Pendleton, Oregon, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The center is located in Pendleton&#39;s 1915 Carnegie library building near the Umatilla River. The Italian Renaissance Revival-style building was one of the thousands funded by steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie in the early 1900s. The library served as the Umatilla County Library, then as the Pendleton Public Library, until 1996 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>After serving for more than 80 years as a library and community gathering place, the building was renovated by the Arts Council of Pendleton into a multi-venue arts facility.</p><br>
<h2>Galleries and facilities</h2><br>
<p>The 1,800 ft2 East Oregonian Gallery provides a venue for professional and emerging artists from the region and also presents a wide range of art from across the country and around the world through traveling exhibitions and special events.</p><br>
<p>The Lorenzen Board Room Gallery features exhibits by local community members, often sharing their work for the first time.</p><br>
<p>The 110-seat Pearson Auditorium provides a venue for live music performances.</p><br>
<p>The Pendleton Foundation Trust Fine Craft Gallery features work by more than 50 artisans from the Pacific Northwest, showcasing their newest work and many one-of-a-kind offerings.</p><br>
<p>The center makes its rooms available to the public for rental.</p><br>
<h2>Studios and classes</h2><br>
<p>The center has painting, ceramics and digital arts studios, where community members can take a class or work independently in a wide range of media. A full slate of music classes are available as well.</p><br>
<p>The center&#39;s Art Rocks Teens (A.R.T.) program offers free after-school and summer classes to 13- to 18-year-olds. Designed by the teens themselves, the classes cover a wide range of visual and performing arts, including garage band, film making, costume, and jewelry design.</p><br>
<p>Other free classes include "Free for All", a free 30 minute class for youngsters under age 10 years each Saturday at 10 am, and "Hip & Handmade", a free one-hour class for adults each Saturday at 11:00 am. Both classes are drop-in format, no pre-registration is required.</p><br>
<p>Dutchess Manor is a restaurant located along NY 9D in the Town of Fishkill, New York, United States, between the city of Beacon and Breakneck Ridge. It is one of the most distinctive Hudson Valley buildings in the Second Empire architectural style, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Francis Timoney, an Irish immigrant, built the house in 1889 of bricks his three yards had made from clay found along the east bank of the Hudson River just below it. The nearby New York Central Water Level Route gave him and the other brickmakers in the area easy access to New York City and other area markets, allowing him to do well enough to build the estate. It has many common elements of the Second Empire style, such as quoining on the corners and a mansard roof.</p><br>
<p>Since then, it has been converted into a restaurant, with the upper floors used for managerial and residential purposes. It has become a popular site in the area for functions, especially weddings, due to the views of the river and nearby Hudson Highlands available from the property. The south and west wings have been extended to accommodate diners and are no longer considered historic elements of the property. A nearby carriage house built by Timoney, now converted to apartments, has not been altered as much and is considered a contributing property.</p><br>
<p>Boscobel is an estate overlooking the Hudson River built in the early 19th century by States Dyckman. It is considered an outstanding example of the Federal style of American architecture, augmented by Dyckman&#39;s extensive collection of period decorations and furniture. Today it is a historic house museum and popular tourist attraction.</p><br>
<p>It was originally located in the Westchester County village of Montrose. Restoration efforts in the mid-20th century moved it 15 miles (24 km) upriver to where it currently stands, on NY 9D a mile south of the village of Cold Spring in Putnam County.</p><br>
<h2>House</h2><br>
<p>Boscobel&#39;s distinguishing feature is the unusual delicacy conveyed by the front facade and its ornamentation. Unique among Federal style buildings, carved wooden swags in the shape of drapery, complete with tassels and bowknots, grace the top of the second-story balcony. One-third of the face is glass, with thinner and larger contemporary panels used in the restoration to enhance the existing lightness. The windows are slightly recessed, and the front clapboards are closely fitted and matched in an apparent effort to suggest masonry.</p><br>
<p>There have been a few minor alterations since the original construction. A rear entrance and stairway, required by contemporary fire codes, were added in 1958 during reconstruction, and a dirt-floored room in the basement became a visitors&#39; bathroom.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>Dyckman, a descendant of early Dutch settlers of Manhattan, had managed to retain his family fortune despite being an active Loyalist and working in the British Army&#39;s Quartermaster Corps for most of the war, keeping the accounts of various quartermasters. When Sir William Erskine, Quartermaster General, returned to England in 1779 to face an audit and investigation for war profiteering, he asked Dyckman to accompany him. He remained in England ten years, participating in other investigations of quartermasters and only returned to the newly independent United States in 1789.</p><br>
<p>While in London he associated with many wealthy members of society and acquired their tastes, particularly for the neoclassical buildings of Robert Adam. He bought many furnishings and decorative objects, such as a Wedgwood dinner service, and had them shipped back to the United States with him.</p><br>
<p>With the interest on a sizable annuity granted him by Sir William Erskine, Dyckman intended to build an estate on 250 acres (1 km²) near Montrose and named it Boscobel, perhaps after Boscobel House in Shropshire (itself named for the Italianate charm of Bosco Bello, "pretty woodland"), symbolizing his Anglophilia. According to one biographer, he saw himself as a "conspicuously well-fixed farmer, surrounded with objects of taste...who did not farm too seriously". He began this process by marrying Elizabeth Corne, daughter of another Loyalist family, in 1794. But within a year he faced financial difficulties: Erskine&#39;s heirs stopped the annuity after his death, and his own lavish tastes and generous gifts to less fortunate family members contributing to reduce his circumstances.</p><br>
<p>Dyckman returned to London in 1799, expecting to mend his fortunes and return to his wife, son and daughter within a year. Instead he remained three years, finishing the remaining quartermasters investigation under John Dalrymple, himself once one of the inquirys targets. He restored his fortunes by persuading the Erskines to restore their annuity and negotiating an extremely generous settlement with Dalrymple and the other quartermasters whom he had helped clear, apparently by manipulating evidence.</p><br>
<p>Wealthier but injured and ailing, Dyckman returned to the United States in 1803 and set about building the house he had long planned. It is possible that he had blueprints drawn up in England, since work began within six months of his return. The architect is not known, although surviving records show that a William Vermilye was heavily involved as construction manager. Dyckman died in 1806, before it was finished. His widow completed it, and she and their surviving son moved into it in 1808.</p><br>
<h3>Restoration</h3><br>
<p>It would stay in the family until 1920. For the next 35 years, under subsequent owners, it frequently faced the possibility of being demolished. In 1955 an organization called Friends of Boscobel saved it at the last minute from a contractor who had bid $35 to knock it down after the Veterans&#39; Administration had built a hospital on the site. They arranged for it to be moved to a similar location upriver, near Cold Spring, a year later, using photographs from the Historic American Buildings Survey to guide the reconstruction.</p><br>
<p>Lila Acheson Wallace, co-founder of Reader&#39;s Digest, had at first anonymously provided the $50,000 donation to make the move and reconstruction possible. As Friends of Boscobel became Boscobel Restoration, Inc., she took a more public role as a director particularly in overseeing the landscaping and interior decoration.</p><br>
<p>The rebuilt home was formally reopened on May 21, 1961, at a ceremony attended by then-Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who praised it as "one of the most beautiful homes ever built in America". Lila Acheson Wallace later spearheaded the development of a 40-minute sound and light show on the grounds, which ran twice a week in summers until the late 1970s. Around that time, new papers of Dyckman&#39;s were discovered, and the house was closed for six months in 1977 while it was redecorated in a manner more consistent with his recorded tastes. It opened again that summer to lavish praise.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The house is open 9:30 a.m. – 5 p.m. every day of the week (except Tuesdays and holidays) from April through December. The second Tuesday of each month is set aside to allow artists free entry to paint or sketch on the grounds. Tours begin at the gift shop near the entrance; an admission fee is charged. Visitors may picnic on the grounds. The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival performs under a tent during the summer months.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Great Houses of the Hudson River, Michael Middleton Dwyer, editor, with preface by Mark Rockefeller, Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, published in association with Historic Hudson Valley, 2001.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Grove Plantation, also known as the Charles Walker House, is a Greek Revival plantation house located near Faunsdale, Marengo County, Alabama. It is notable in having been the residence of Nicola Marschall for a brief period while the Walker family owned the property. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on 13 July 1993 as a part of the Plantation Houses of the Alabama Canebrake and Their Associated Outbuildings Multiple Property Submission.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house had its beginnings in 1830 with the construction of a two-story log house by Dougal and Malcolm McAlpin, two brothers from Scotland. The former log house is believed to have been incorporated into the main house to become the dining room and a bedroom. The house remained under construction until 1858.</p><br>
<p>Nicola Marschall was a friend of the Walker family and lived with them briefly at their home. The two-story schoolhouse behind the main house is believed to have been used by him as a studio during his time there. This schoolhouse served as a school for children in the area until 1925. The house remained in the Walker family until 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is a two-story frame structure with a gabled roof and double veranda. It is built in a vernacular Greek Revival style. The original porch was altered in 1915 from a one-story design with simple turned wooden columns, spanned by arched latticework, to the multi-level configuration with paneled box columns seen today.</p><br>
<p>The Cherokee National Capitol, now the Cherokee Nation Courthouse, is a historic tribal government building at 101 South Muskogee Avenue in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Completed in 1869, it served as the capitol building of the Cherokee Nation from 1869 to 1907, when Oklahoma became a state. It now serves as the site of the tribal supreme court and judicial branch. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961 for its role in the Nation&#39;s history.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Cherokee Nation Courthouse stands in the center of Courthouse Square, bounded by East Delaware Street, South Water Avenue, East Keetoowah Street, and South Muskogee Avenue. It is a two-story masonry building with neoclassical Italianate style, built out of red brick and white-painted wooden trim. It is five bays wide and seven deep, with slightly projecting sections consisting of the center three bays on each side. Each of these is topped by a pedimented gable with a dentillated cornice. The wall bays are articulated by piers, and have segmented-arch windows on the ground floor and rounded-arch windows on the second. There are entrances on the east and west ends, the main entrance on the west side sheltered by a 20th-century brick vestibule.</p><br>
<p>The Cherokee Nation first established a republican form of government in 1820, while still occupying their ancestral lands in the southeastern United States. The tribe was one of several forcibly relocated to what is now Oklahoma during the Trail of Tears of the 1830s. The Nation reestablished its government quickly, in 1838, following the removal, with Tahlequah as its capital. In addition to establishing its courts and council, the Nation built seminaries for both male and female students, as education was highly valued.</p><br>
<p>Early government meetings of the Nation were held out in the open, with later meetings in log structures. A courthouse was built in the 1840s, but most of the citys public buildings were destroyed during the American Civil War. This building was constructed from 1867-1869, after peace had been restored to the region. The buildings style, a late interpretation of the Italianate, is unusual for Oklahoma. The architect was C. W. Goodlander. Originally it housed the nation&#39;s court as well as other offices, and was used for tribal council meetings. It served the tribal government until 1907, when the state of Oklahoma was established and the tribal government was abolished by an act of the United States Congress.</p><br>
<p>The capitol was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961. The building currently houses the judicial branch of the Cherokee Nation government. In 2013, the nation began a restoration project to preserve the building&#39;s original appearance, including roof repairs with historical-era shingles, new decking, new doors and windows, and adding a cupola to the roof. The project also includes adding a new back porch.</p><br>
<p>Ireby Fell Cavern is a cave system on Ireby Fell, Lancashire, England, near the border with North Yorkshire.</p><br>
<p>It is a segment of the Three Counties System, linking the Rift Pot system to the south with Notts Pot to the north.</p><br>
<p>This popular cave starts with a pitch series that eventually opens out into a very large series of dry sandy passages.</p><br>
<p>The entrance is a vertical concrete pipe at the bottom of a shakehole that was last shored up in 2006. The traditional route is down three pitches (Ding, Dong, and Bell), but there is an alternative Shadow route which escapes most of the water flow in wet weather. After many metres of rift passage is Well Pitch which accesses the main lower sandy passages known as Duke Street.</p><br>
<p>At the far end of Duke Street is Whirlpool chamber where a short sump (not free-diveable) gave access to cave divers into further passages known as Ireby II.</p><br>
<p>In early 2007, a system involving a primitive hand pump and a mud dam to temporarily retain the water in an artificial lake in Duke Street allowed non-divers to enter this part of the cave.</p><br>
<p>This facilitated the digging out of a passage in the roof of Whirlpool Chamber previously blocked by sand, to be dug out from both ends hence creating a bypass to the sump.</p><br>
<p>Digging has also forged a dry bypass to the sump via the aptly named Cripple Creek.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The prominent depression of Ireby Fell was marked as "The Cavern" on the first (1847) issue of the Ordnance Survey maps, though the early explorers could see little justification for the name. Various digs were undertaken from 1932 onwards until in 1949 a small scar on the NW side of the shakehole gave access to a passage that reached the first pitch. Much of the cave was explored and surveyed down to the sump at the end of Duke Street. The cave entrance then became blocked in 1953 until it was reopened in 1963.</p><br>
<p>The Van Ness Mausoleum was designed by George Hadfield. It is said to be a copy of the Temple of Vesta in Rome.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was constructed in 1833, after the architect&#39;s death in 1826, initially for Marcia Burns Van Ness, the wife of John Peter Van Ness who died in 1832. The mausoleum was originally on H Street in Washington, D.C., on the grounds of the orphan asylum founded by Mrs. Van Ness. Built at an estimated cost of $34,000 with space for 18, it ultimately held 7, including John Peter Van Ness, who was interred inside in 1847. The mausoleum was moved by Colonel W. H. Philip to Oak Hill Cemetery in the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., in 1872. The structure was put on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Moggill Creek is a creek in Brisbane, the largest city in Queensland, Australia. The creek rises on the Taylor Range and runs in a south-easterly direction from the southern edge of Brisbane Forest Park in Kholo and Pullenvale, flowing through Upper Brookfield, Brookfield and joining the Brisbane River at Kenmore. Before entering the Brisbane River the creek is crossed by Moggill Road and winds through Rafting Ground Reserve.</p><br>
<p>Aboriginal naming of Moggil Creek comes from their description of the large water-lizards that were hunted and eaten in the area. They called these lizards, "magil" (moggill) when they were disturbed and jumped into the water.</p><br>
<p>There are various land uses within the Moggill catchment, including commercial and residential areas, grazing and natural bushland. Moggill Creek is an ephemeral creek: during period of low rain it may not flow. In contrast to other waterways in the Brisbane area, Moggill Creek is considered to be relatively undisturbed.</p><br>
<p>Gold Creek is a tributary of the waterway and is dammed by a small reservoir called Gold Creek Dam.</p><br>
<p>The creek is a platypus hotspot with a number of locations along the creek being good places to spot the shy animal. The creek has the most platypus sightings for any Brisbane waterway, followed by Enoggera Creek.</p><br>
<p>The Cold Spring Cemetery Gatehouse is located along Peekshill Road in Nelsonville, New York, United States. It is a cut granite Gothic Revival cottage built in 1862, one of the earliest uses of that style in the Hudson Highlands. It is used as a house today and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-story building of coursed granite with a jerkin roof cross-gabled on both north and south (front and back). The roof is pierced by a brick chimney; the arched projecting front entrance is flanked by lancet windows. The east facade, facing the cemetery, has a porch whose roof is supported by four pillars with decorative brackets. There is a projecting bay window on the west side. Both gables are topped by two dormer windows. Opposite the house is a small stone booth with lancet windows, connected to the cemetery&#39;s stone wall.</p><br>
<p>The Cold Spring Rural Cemetery Association bought a 30 acre parcel in Nelsonville shortly after its formation in 1862. New York City architects Mead and Woodward were hired to design the grounds while Woodwards frequent collaborator George Harvey worked on the gatehouse, which closely resembles one in Woodwards pattern book, Woodwards Country Homes. It was finished by 1865 in time for its photograph to be used in the associations bylaws pamphlet.</p><br>
<p>The Mersey Forest is a network of woodlands and green spaces being created across Merseyside and North Cheshire by a wide-ranging partnership of different organisations including local authorities, community groups and businesses. The Mersey Forest is the biggest of twelve community forests covering 420 square miles and accessible to a local population of 1.6 million people. It stretches from Sefton to the north of Liverpool and south to Northwich in Cheshire. Delamere Forest in the south of the area being the largest area of established woodland. The forest is seen as having a major role in attracting new business and tourism to the area.</p><br>
<p>In common with the other community forests it is not a contiguous area of forest, but rather an initiative to increase forestry coverage in an area close to urban communities. An example of this at work is Griffin Wood, clearly visible from the M62 just to the south of St. Helens. This woodland was established in 2007, including Scott&#39;s Copse, planted in recognition of the work done by David Scott.</p><br>
<p>Passengers at Liverpool&#39;s John Lennon Airport are able to offset the carbon used on their flight. The money raised is matched by the airport and used by Mersey Forest to plant new trees.</p><br>
<p>The Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run is a venue for bobsleigh, luge and skeleton located at the Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex in Lake Placid, New York, United States. This venue was used for the 1932 and 1980 Winter Olympics and for the only winter Goodwill Games in 2000. The third and most recent version of the track was completed in 2000 with the track hosting both the first FIBT World Championships and FIL World Luge Championships done outside of Europe, doing so in 1949 and 1983. In 2010 the bobsled track was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
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<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The bobsled track was built in 1930. According to the National Park Service:</p><br>
<p>Carved out of wilderness and surrounded by forested land on all sides, the one and one-half mile long Olympic Bobsled Run was constructed in 1930 and built specifically for the 1932 Winter Olympic Games. The course was designed by Stanislaus Sentzytsky, a renowned German course designer, who designed a course that was radically different from its European counterparts. The Lake Placid course was longer, steeper, and featured a more pronounced drop in curves than European runs, which allowed for steadier driving and faster speeds than those obtained on prior bobsled events. After the American team won two gold medals and one silver in 1932, bobsledding, previously unknown in America, captivated the country’s interest, and USA teams dominated the sport until 1956. Although portions of the course have been retired, parts of the original Olympic Bobsled Run continue to be used for training and recreation.</p><br>
<p>As Mt. Van Hoevenberg Olympic Bobsled Run, the structure was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on February 4, 2010.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the 1932 Winter Olympics, bobsleigh racing took place at the steep hill where the Intervales ski jump would eventually be located. The attendees were delighted by the speeds of the bobsleds though several teams crashed during the run, sending two members of one team to the hospital as a result. The Intervales track only lasted one season (1929–30). Led by Henry Homburger, the first track was surveyed and constructed during 1929-30 at Mount Van Hoevenberg, located in the Whiteface Mountain area though it was in spite of protests of using state-owned lands for construction of the facility for environmental reasons. After construction took place during August–December 1930, the track opened for use on Christmas Day 1930. This track was 2366 meters long with 26 curves, a vertical drop of 228 meters, and an average grade of 9.6%.</p><br>
<p>After the 1932 games, the first 829 meters and ten curves of the track were eliminated, shortening the track&#39;s length to 1537 meters with 16 curves, and an average grade of 9.3%. In 1949, the track became the first venue outside of Europe to host the FIBT World Championships though it would start with tragic results when Belgian bobsledder Max Houben was killed during a practice run off of "Shady" curve prior to the event. The Belgian team withdrew as a result.</p><br>
<p>It would be another twelve years before the track hosted another world championship following safety improvements to the track. Sergio Zardini&#39;s fatal crash at the "Zig-Zag curves" on 22 February 1966 would lead to further safety improvements.</p><br>
<p>Following the world bobsleigh championships of 1969, 1973, and 1978, many race officials of those championships would serve on the organizing committee for the bobsleigh part of the 1980 Winter Olympics. In 1978 actual construction took place during September 1978-February 1979 with the creation of a reinforced concrete, artificially refrigerated bobsleigh track. The bobsleigh track was approved for competition in December 1979. In fall 1977, a separate luge track for the 1980 Games, the first one in the United States, was constructed with completion in time for the test competition in February 1979. During preparations for the 1980 Games, a combined two-man bobsleigh and luge track was considered, but abandoned to high cost and the track was redesigned with permission from the International Luge Federation (FIL). Following the 1980 games, both tracks hosted their respective world championships in 1983. The 1932 track continued to be used strictly for passenger riding after the new combined track was sanctioned.</p><br>
<p>Skeleton racing debuted during the 1990s with the bobsleigh part of the track hosting the world championships in 1997. By the late 1990s, parts of both tracks were demolished to make way for a new track that was constructed for the 2000 Winter Goodwill Games that was completed in January 2000. The track has been part of the Lake Placid Olympic Sports Complex since the end of the 1980 Winter Olympics as part of the Olympic Regional Development Authority (ORDA).</p><br>
<p>Since 2006, it has hosted the Chevy Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge, an annual event which has NASCAR drivers take a run down the track to benefit the Bo-Dyn Bobsled Project (co-created by the former NASCAR driver and 1986 Daytona 500 winner) in use by the United States since the start of the 1994 Winter Olympics. In 2009, the competition took place between NASCAR and the National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) which was won by Jeg Coughlin Jr. (NHRA) won the event. The 2010 event took place at the track 8–10 January with Melanie Troxel on the NHRA becoming the first woman to competes in the event.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, the track became the first to host bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton world championships in the same year in a non-Winter Olympic year (The bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Park City, Utah was the first to do so for the 2002 Winter Olympics in neighboring Salt Lake City).</p><br>
<h2>Current track statistics</h2><br>
<p>The track names were given by John Morgan during Speed Channels World Cup bobsleigh coverage on 30 December 2006. Turn one is not listed. Even though luge - mens singles has their starthouse to the right of bobsleigh and skeleton start, the men&#39;s singles start in the same location as the bobsleigh and skeleton.</p><br>
<h2>Previous tracks</h2><br>
<p>The only curves mentioned in the 1932 Winter Olympics official report of the 26 total are shown below:</p><br>
<p>The bobsleigh track used for the 1980 Winter Olympics consisted of 16 curves that was 1557 meters long with an elevation difference of 148 meters, a maximum grade of 14.0%, and an average grade of 9.5%.</p><br>
<p>The luge track used for the 1980 Winter Olympics had two different settings to the different start houses used during the competition. For the mens singles event, the track consisted of 14 curves that was 1014 meters long with an elevation difference of 95.55 meters, a maximum gradient of 30% and an average grade of 9.35%. In the womens singles and men&#39;s doubles event, the track consisted of 11 curves that was 749 meters long with an elevation difference of 59 meters, a maximum grade of 30%, and an average grade of 9.35%.</p><br>
<h2>Championships hosted</h2><br>
<p>Winter Olympics: 1932, 1980</p><br>
<p>FIBT World Championships: 1949, 1961, 1969, 1973, 1978, 1983, 1997 (mens skeleton), 2003 (Mens bobsleigh), 2009, 2012</p><br>
<p>FIL World Luge Championships: 1983, 2009</p><br>
<p>Keyes Gap or Keyes&#39; Gap is a wind gap in the Blue Ridge Mountain on the border of Loudoun County, Virginia and Jefferson County, West Virginia. The gap is traversed by Virginia State Route 9/West Virginia Route 9. The Appalachian Trail also crosses the gap.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Originally known as Vestals Gap, the 906 ft gap is one of the lowest crossings of the Blue Ridge in Virginia. During the colonial period the main road between Alexandria and Winchester ran through the gap. As such, part of General Edward Braddocks army under George Washington crossed through the gap on their way to Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War.</p><br>
<p>By 1820, the main route west became the newly completed Snickers Gap Turnpike which crossed the Blue Ridge to the south at Snickers Gap, and Keyes Gap lost its prominence. Despite this, Keyes Gap was still of strategic importance during the American Civil War, as it provided an alternate "back route" from Virginia to the key point of Harpers Ferry.</p><br>
<p>Broneirion is a Victorian house and grounds on the hillside across the River Severn from the village of Llandinam. It was built by Welsh industrialist David Davies. It has been used as a training centre for Girl Guides since 1946 and has been owned by Girlguiding Cymru since 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in the italianate/Romanesque revival style in 1864-5 by the architect David Walker It is set in four and a half acres. The roof is Welsh slate. In November 1996, Broneirion House, Coach House, and the Lodge all became Grade II listed buildings. The bridge from the main road towards Broneirion was the first iron bridge constructed in Montgomeryshire, designed by Thomas Penson and built by Davies. It spans 90 feet (27.5 m).</p><br>
<p>The Davies family moved into the house in 1864.</p><br>
<p>In 1940, Davies, by then Lord Davies, offered use of the house to Gordonstoun school, which needed a new home due to World War II.</p><br>
<h2>Guiding Centre</h2><br>
<p>David Davies and his son, Edward, both died in 1944. Edward&#39;s widow, Lady Davies, was a supporter of Guiding. Her friend, Heather Kay was enthusiastic for a training centre for Welsh Guides, so Lady Davies offered Broneirion for this purpose.</p><br>
<p>Broneirion became the Welsh Training Centre for the Girl Guide Association in 1946 and was opened by the World Chief Guide, Olave Baden-Powell, in 1947. In 1992 it became the property of Girlguiding Cymru after a campaign that raised £510000 for the purchase and an endowment fund. At the same time, a much-needed campsite was purchased close to the house and named Cae Gwenllian. In 1995, the opportunity unexpectedly arose to buy Broneirion Lodge, on the property boundary. Both the house and grounds are used for training and camping activities, and the site is used by Guides, other organisations and private groups. The Brownie house, originally the Davies children&#39;s summer house is now a Pack Holiday facility.</p><br>
<h3>Cae Gwenllian</h3><br>
<p>Broneirions campsite, Cae Gwenllian, was purchased in 1994. It is named after Girlguiding Cymrus much loved Treasurer and a former Chief Commissioner, Hon. Gwenllian Philipps. It has a toilet block and equipment store.</p><br>
<h2>Broneirion Gallery</h2><br>
<p>Lake Marian is an alpine lake at the southern end of the Darran Mountains in the Fiordland National Park in the South Island of New Zealand. The lake is located just above the treeline in a hanging valley leading northwest from the Hollyford Valley near The Divide pass. The valley is sheltered by steep snow-covered peaks of over 2,000 m on all sides apart from the entrance.</p><br>
<p>The lake is fed and drained by Marian Creek which in turn feeds into the Hollyford River. Marian Creek&#39;s catchment upstream of Lake Marian includes several permanent snowfields in a cirque at the head of the valley northeast of the peak of Mount Crosscut. There the creek drains two smaller alpine lakes, Lake Mariana and Lake Marianette, followed by the 122 m tall Lyttle Falls, before it reaches Lake Marian.</p><br>
<p>A 3-hour return tramping track leads to the lake from a car park along the Hollyford Road, only 1 kilometre in from the Milford Road (SH94). The track starts by crossing the Hollyford River on a swing bridge before leading upstream alongside Marian Creek as it cascades over a series of small waterfalls. After this, the track becomes rougher and can be muddy in places, with the climb up to Lake Marian strenuous as it ascends almost 400 m in height.</p><br>
<p>A good view of Lake Marian as it sits in the hanging valley between the peaks of Mt Christina, Mount Crosscut, and Mt Gunn can also be glimpsed from Key Summit on the opposite side of the Hollyford Valley on a short side track from the Routeburn Track.</p><br>
<p>The Boley Historic District , in Boley, Oklahoma is the original business area of an all-black town founded in 1903. The town of Boley prospered from the time of its incorporation until the onset of the Great Depression. According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Boley became the largest and best-known of all the All-Black Towns. African-Americans migrated from other states to escape the Jim Crow Laws that promoted discrimination against them. However, falling farm prices starting in the late 1920s, caused many agricultural workers to move elsewhere in the county, and Boley began to decline.</p><br>
<p>BHD was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1975.</p><br>
<p>It is roughly bounded by Seward Avenue, Walnut and Cedar Streets, and the southern city limits of Boley. The site of the historic district covers 34.5 acres. The district includes 14 buildings or other structures, all built between 1903 and 1921, which are considered supporting structures.</p><br>
<p>More recent construction in Boley has had little or no effect on the historic character of the BHD. According to the NRHP application, "It is still considered by many of the town&#39;s senior residents to be as much the same as before."</p><br>
<p>A group of photographic images attached to the NRHP inventory document have been published on the web. These were taken in 1974, and show that time has not been kind to the buildings and structures that still remain. Many appear to be abandoned or neglected and in various stages of decay.</p><br>
<p>Kidston Dam as so known as Copperfield Dam and was built for the local mine. The Kidston Gold Mine closed July 2001. It has a capacity of 20 400 ML.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This storage and associated pipeline was built to provide water to the Kidston Goldmine in the early 1980s on the Copperfield River, a tributary of the Einasleigh River in the Gilbert River catchment. The dam was one of the first dams built in Australia using the Roller Compacted Concrete technique.</p><br>
<p>At the closure of the mine, the storage was handed back to the state and is owned/ managed by DEWS. Downstream properties receive water via a pipeline which was built to supply the mine and associated township. There is also a local arrangement to release water (towards the end of winter) to fill downstream waterholes. This allows riparian properties access to water for stock and domestic use until the coming wet season.</p><br>
<h2>Pumped storage project</h2><br>
<p>A nearby 50 MW solar farm is scheduled, and the Kidston Dam is suggested to supply pumped storage hydroelectricity for matching supply and demand between solar farm and grid. The project was later upgraded to 250 MW solar and 1,500-2,000 MWh pumped storage, at an expected cost of $330 million.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>The area is popular with recreational fisherman. In recent years the dam has seen an exponential growth in the redclaw population. There have been instances of a single fisherman catching 1500 crayfish.</p><br>
<p>Creek National Capitol, also known as Creek Council House, is a building in downtown Okmulgee, Oklahoma, United States. It was capitol of the Muscogee  Nation nation from 1878 to 1907, when Oklahoma became a state. In 1919 the USA Department of the Interior sold the building to the city of Okmulgee.</p><br>
<p>It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961.</p><br>
<p>The building now houses the Creek Council House Museum, with artifacts and exhibits about the history of the Muscogee (Creek) people and Native American arts and crafts. Since 2006 the Muscogee (Creek) Nation had expressed an interest in buying back the building. In August 2010 the city of Okmulgee agreed to sell the building back to the tribe for $3.2 million; the sale was completed and ownership transferred in November 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Historical timeline</h2><br>
<p>1837 - Although some members have already made the trek, the majority of the Muscogee (Creek) Tribe are forced to move west by the USA government. The survivors of the trail of tears, they arrive in what is called Indian Territory and hold a meeting at the historic Council Oak Tree which still stands in the city of Tulsa, Oklahoma.</p><br>
<p>1860s - Tribal unity is tested as the USA creates a Civil war amongst themselves and leaders such Opithleyahola attempt to keep the tribe as neutral as possible, although many tribal citizens choose sides and fight.</p><br>
<p>1867 - Tribal life begins to flourish again as a new Creek government is established in Indian Territory and Okmulgee is selected as the Capital of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.</p><br>
<p>1868 - A log Council House is constructed to conduct tribal business. The contract calls for a double log two story structure with six rooms and two great stone chimneys with fireplaces (built by Jeff Berryhill) on each floor not only to give heat but for the ventilation of the rooms.</p><br>
<p>1877- On October 17 an act was passed by Council and approved by Chief Ward Coachman Appropriating $10,000 for constructing a new Capitol building of stone or brick upon the site of the log Council House.</p><br>
<p>1878 - On January 10 the log Council House was sold for the highest bid which was sixty dollars. The Muscogee (Creek) Council convened for the first time in the new Council House on September 23.The facility contained separate chambers for the Executive and Judicial branches of the government, with the Legislative branch divided into the House of Kings and House of Warriors.</p><br>
<p>1900 - The turn of the century sees the Muscogee (Creek) continuing to conduct tribal business and establish sovereignty, the Federal Government though, continue to distrust Tribes to conduct all their affairs and future actions will prove so</p><br>
<p>1906 - With the US Federal Government&#39;s passage of the Five Civilized Tribes Act, national self-governance of the Muscogee Creek Nation and other four tribes comes to an end</p><br>
<p>1907- Indian Territory becomes part of the State of Oklahoma</p><br>
<p>1907 - The Council House is leased to Okmulgee County for $2,000 a year to serve as the Okmulgee County Courthouse. This arrangement continued until 1917.</p><br>
<p>1908-Tribal business in the Council House ends as the United States Congress authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to "take possession of all lands belonging to the Five Civilized Tribes, now or heretofore used for government, school, or other tribal purposes..." sovereignty is basically ceased from the tribe itself.</p><br>
<p>1919 - The City of Okmulgee purchases the Creek Council House and grounds for $100,000 underthe supervision of the department of the Interior The deed conveying title was executed by the Principal Chief. G. W. Grayson. Proceeds of the sale being deposited in the USA Treasury in the name of the tribe.</p><br>
<p>1920s - Many citizens of the City of Okmulgee do not exactly embrace the possession of the Council House in the beginning, but attempts to tear it down are not successful. Plans were to include a hotel or other business attractions to take its place. City continues to grow as a state of the art entertainment building is built just southeast of the Council House. Will Rogers visits Okmulgee and tells the citizens to preserve the Council House. Citizens begin to listen and future attempts to destroy the Council House are put to rest.</p><br>
<p>1923 – The Creek Indian Memorial Association (CIMA), the parent organization of the Creek Council House Museum, is formed on April 24.</p><br>
<p>1934-Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act is created as Tribes begin to slowly rebuild their sovereign status.</p><br>
<p>1930s–1960s - With the Council House in City possession, different uses are made of the historic building, from a Sheriff&#39;s office, a Boy Scout meeting room and a YMCA.</p><br>
<p>1961 - The Council House and surrounding grounds are listed on the National Register of Historic Sites and was designated as a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>1970 - Congress allows the Five Tribes to hold elections to vote for a Chief.</p><br>
<p>1971 - Claude Cox is the first elected Chief of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation since the early part of the century, all others up to this time were appointed by the President. A tribal constitution will begin to be created through the decade as well as a communal land base for offices and other tribal uses.</p><br>
<p>1979 - Tribal sovereignty is fully renewed as a new constitution is adopted and does away with the one that was used since 1867. Like the USA Constitution, 3 branches of government are formed, an Executive, Legislative, and Judicial. This new constitution will help the tribe select future directions, such as forming an administration, and in education, health, and even gaming. It will also be a factor in focusing the tribe to regain things that were lost, such as the Council House, later on.</p><br>
<p>1989 - The CIMA initiates a $1 million drive for the historic restoration of the Creek Council House and is also given 501-C-3 tax exempt status on February 2, 1989.</p><br>
<p>1992 - The Council House restoration is completed and the museum reopened after being closed for one year.</p><br>
<p>1993 - The Creek Council House Museum received the National Preservation Honor Award by the National Trust for Historic Preservation for the complete historic restoration of the building.</p><br>
<p>1997 - The City of Okmulgee and the CIMA enter into a Management Agreement that provides $149,650 annually for the operation of the museum. The lease of the Creek Council House between the City of Okmulgee and the CIMA was renegotiated through 2050. All employees of the museum ceased to be city employees and became employees of the museum association.</p><br>
<p>2000 - On November 2, 2000 the Muscogee (Creek) Nation signs into law an annual appropriation of $35,000 for the support of a Creek Council House Museum curator.</p><br>
<p>2005 – The CIMA officially renames the organization to the Creek Council House Museum Association.</p><br>
<p>2010 - Although there has always been a desire to regain legal possession of the Creek Council House throughout the years, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation has never organized a total concentrated effort to obtain it back, until 2010. Negotiations begin between the City of Okmulgee and the Muscogee (Creek) after Principal Chief A. D. Ellis signs legislation to begin talks with the City in April to formally purchase the Council House back. After several meetings city officials agree to sell the Council House for an amount of 3.2 million. On August 31, the Creek Council House is officially for sale, but according to city statues, a waiting period of 30 days is enforced to allow Okmulgee citizens to file a formal notification and follow with a petition if they wish to protest the sale. So far, no formal notification has been filed. If after September 30, (30 days) no formal notification is filed, the sale of the Council House will be finalized and the Muscogee (Creek) Nation will re-take legal possession of the Creek Council House which will culminate in an official ceremony that is planned on Saturday, November 20, 2011</p><br>
<p>Beverly Lake  is a lake in the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located north of the Arctic tree line about 150 km northwest of Baker Lake, Nunavut. The western half of the lake is within Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary. The Thelon River, at the confluence with the Dubawnt River, empties into the lakes southwestern bank. The Kazan River empties into the Thelon River at Beverly Lakes southeastern bank, between Beverly and Aberdeen Lakes. A delta occurs on the Beverly Lake&#39;s southern edge, which includes the Isarurjuaq Peninsula.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Most of the area is underlain by Dubawnt sandstone.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>The vegetation is low Arctic.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>The lake boasts boreal and arctic fish species, uncommon to the area. Approximately 10,000 moulting Canadian Geese use the Beverly/Aberdeen Lake area, including Lesser Snow Geese colonies on islands within Beverly Lake, making it a key migratory bird terrestrial habitat site, and the largest concentration of the large race Canada Geese within Canada. Raptors nest on the lake&#39;s north shore. The area directly north of the lake is mainly notable, however, as calving grounds for the Beverly herd, numbering over 200,000, of barren-ground caribou, as well as other herds of barren-ground caribou, totalling 500,000 strong.</p><br>
<h2>Ethnography</h2><br>
<p>Akiliniq (A-ki, "the other side") is the hilly area on the lakes northern shores. It is the ancestral home of the Akilinirmiut, a Caribou Inuit people whose artifacts, mainly tent rings, meat caches and inuksuit were located in archeological sites. Because of driftwood abundance from the Thelon to Beverly Lakes banks, the area was also historically a source of winter wood and a trade center for generations of other central Arctic Inuit.</p><br>
<h2>Notable artist</h2><br>
<p>Paul Toolooktook (1947 - 2003), born in Beverly Lake, became an artist of some notability with his basalt stone carvings and graphite/crayon drawings.</p><br>
<p>The Guthrie Historic District  is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the commercial core of Guthrie, Oklahoma, US. According to its National Historic Landmark Nomination it is roughly bounded by Oklahoma Avenue on the north, Broad Street on the east, Harrison Avenue on the south, and the railroad tracks on the west; it also includes 301 W. Harrison Avenue. The National Historic Landmarks Program on-line document describes the boundaries as "14th Street, College Avenue, Pine Street and Lincoln Avenue. One building, the Logan County Courthouse, is at 301 E. Harrison Avenue, outside the main boundaries of the GHD," This article relies on the former source, which is more detailed. According to the 1998 nomination, the proposed district covered 31 acres. The nomination included 112 resources, classed as 69 contributing buildings, 38 non-contributing buildings, 1 non-contributing structure and 3 noncontributing objects. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1999 for its historic significance as the first capital of the Oklahoma Territory and of Oklahoma.</p><br>
<h2>Period of significance</h2><br>
<p>The period of significance is defined as 1889 to 1910, when most of the contributing buildings were erected. The most notable architect at the time was Joseph Pierre Foucart, who designed many of the buildings in the table below. The city of Guthrie was founded in 1889 in the wake of the Land Rush of 1889 which opened lands of the Indian Territory to white settlement. Guthrie promptly became the capital of the Oklahoma Territory. When Oklahoma became a state on November 16, 1907, Guthrie became the first state capital, a role it held until 1910, when the seat of government moved to Oklahoma City. Guthrie thereafter declined in commercial importance and changed little for many years. The GHD was assessed to have a high degree of historic integrity.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural styles</h2><br>
<p>Late Victorian</p><br>
<p>Italianate</p><br>
<p>Romanesque</p><br>
<p>Late 19th & Early 20th Century Revivals</p><br>
<p>Beaux Arts</p><br>
<p>Classical Revival</p><br>
<p>Late 19th & Early 20th Century American Movements</p><br>
<p>Commercial Style</p><br>
<h3>Building classifications</h3><br>
<p>As part of the application process, all of the significant buildings within the proposed district boundaries were labeled as either "Contributing" or "non-contributing". Buildings in the former category had to meet the following criteria:</p><br>
<p>Built between 1893 and 1910</p><br>
<p>Had not lost their historical character through remodeling or conversion to other uses</p><br>
<p>The table presented here identifies the buildings contained by the GHD, as defined in the NRHP application. Data are largely derived from text descriptions in the application.</p><br>
<p>Principio Furnace and village is in Cecil County, Maryland, 4 miles  northeast of Havre de Grace, MD.</p><br>
<p>The Principio Iron Works were started here in 1719 by Joseph Farmer with capital from England and an ironmaster, John England, who made it one of the most successful in the colonial ironworks by the 1740s, producing pig iron for sale in London. Thomas Russell, Jr., England’s successor, produced cannonballs for the Continental Army during the Revolution.</p><br>
<p>The works were part of the (larger) Principio Company, whose other holdings included the Accokeek or Potomac Ironworks on the land of George Washington&#39;s father, Augustine Washington (north of Ferry Farm near Fredericksburg, Virginia). This works was developed by England originally as a source of iron ore. As early as 1726, it may have included a cold blast charcoal furnace. Accokeek/Potomac served as the headquarters of the Principio Company until it was closed sometime in the mid-1750s.</p><br>
<p>The Maryland works were destroyed by the British in 1813.</p><br>
<p>In 1836, the site and its ruined buildings were purchased by Joseph Whitaker, his brothers George Price Whitaker and Joseph Whitaker II, and partners Thomas Garrett (a prominent abolitionist) and William Chandler. The site still had water power; more importantly, it was crossed by the freshly laid tracks of the Philadelphia, Wilmington, and Baltimore Railroad. (Chandler was a director of the company.) The investors rebuilt the iron works and resumed production, opening a new blast furnace in 1837 and other improvements over the decades.</p><br>
<p>Before the Civil War, the Whitakers divided their holdings geographically, with Joseph receiving the Pennsylvania properties and George Price the Maryland and Virginia ones. George Price Whitaker and his descendents continued to be involved in the iron and steel business; their holdings became part of the Wheeling Steel Company in 1921, and eventually of Wheeling-Pittsburgh Steel.</p><br>
<p>The site produced iron until 1925. Part of the stone furnace still remains on the site. In 1972, Principio Furnace was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>St. Martin’s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located on Route 113 at the intersection with Route 589 in Showell, Worcester County, Maryland. Much of the original Flemish bond brick structure is retained. Built as the first parish church of Worcester Parish, which had been established in 1753, it was started in 1756 and completed in 1759. Attendance dwindled after St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church was established in nearby Berlin in 1824, and by the end of the century the facility was used only sporadically.</p><br>
<p>By the 1970s the facility was in serious disrepair. The St. Martins&#39;s Church Foundation was established in 1993 to organize its restoration, and now operates the building as St. Martin’s Episcopal Church Museum. The museum accurately preserves the original interior.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>St. Martin&#39;s Church is a rectangular-plan Georgian styled church constructed of brick laid in Flemish Bond with glazed headers. The church is oriented with the main entrance to the south, a secondary entrance to the west, and the communion table to the east. The south facade is three bays wide, with the central bay occupied by the doorway and a large transom which extends to the height of the neighboring windows. The east and north sides of the church each have two bays. The west facade features a central doorway surmounted by a window which opens into the gallery. All window and door openings, with the exception of the west door and window, are topped with jack arches with raised keystones executed in rubbed bricks.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the church is laid out in two aisles running east and west, with a gallery extending across the west end, accessed by a staircase in the southwest corner of the building. Centered on the north wall of the church is the pulpit, which is crowned with a simple sounding board. The communion table, positioned on a raised platform, is centered on the east wall of the church. Original brick pavers still cover the aisles. The entire nave is covered by a barrel vaulted ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The Conger Range, also called the Conger Mountains, is a mountain range in Quttinirpaaq National Park on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, Canada, beginning about 16 km west of Mount Osborne. It is part of the Arctic Cordillera which is a vast dissected mountain system extending from Ellesmere Island to the northernmost tip of Labrador and northeastern Quebec. The Conger Range is a structural extension of the Garfield Range and continues into the highlands north of the head of Hare Fiord. The overall extent of the range is about 180 km. Most of its peaks are ice-covered, although nearly all of the southern slopes are ice-free. Many of the valleys between the peaks are filled with glacial tongues spilling out to the south from the Grand Land Ice Cap. Its highest point is Mount Biederbick at 1,542 m.</p><br>
<p>The Conger Range was named by American Polar explorer Adolphus Greely, who sighted them during a dog sleding exploration to the interior of northern Ellesmere Island in 1882.</p><br>
<p>The Academy Street Historic District is a historic district located along that street between Livingston and Montgomery streets in the city of Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. It is a few blocks from US 9, just northeast of Springside, Matthew Vassar&#39;s never-completed estate that is now a National Historic Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Its 140 acres (56 ha) contain 46 buildings, mostly houses, in a variety of 19th and early 20th-century architectural styles. It was the first planned neighborhood in the city.</p><br>
<p>Originally part of Bronson Smith&#39;s 1805 farm, the land today part of the district was sold to a group of speculators in 1836. While the financial crisis that ensued the following year set back home construction, later on in the 19th century the purchase proved fruitful as many, many homes were built on it in a mix of styles, with houses near the north end of the district, closer to downtown Poughkeepsie, having smaller lots and yards than the ones further away. Christ Church, also built during this time, remains largely unaltered and is considered a contributing property.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1970s, 85% of the residents voted in favor of establishing the district, after seeing how successful the nearby Garfield Place Historic District had been at enhancing property values and preserving that neighborhood&#39;s historic character. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The district designation has spurred the redevelopment and restoration of homes within and has been used as a selling point by real estate agents.</p><br>
<p>Today it is one of three historic districts recognized under city zoning and subject to special architectural rules enforced by the citys Historic District and Landmark Preservation Commission (HDLPC). The HDLPCs jurisdiction over the district is not supreme; in 1986 the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation ruled that the city&#39;s Planning Board was to be lead agency and have primary jurisdiction over a proposed 18-unit condominium complex within the district.</p><br>
<p>Notable former residents include William Allen Adriance (154 Academy St), farming equipment manufacturer, father of actress Jan Sterling, and founder of Adriance Memorial Library, the main public library in Poughkeepsie.</p><br>
<p>The Robert Frost Farm, also known as the Homer Noble Farm, is a National Historic Landmark in Ripton, Vermont. It is a 150 acre farm property off Vermont Route 125 in the Green Mountains where American poet Robert Frost  lived and wrote in the summer and fall months from 1939 until his death in 1963. The property, historically called the Homer Noble Farm, includes a nineteenth-century farmhouse and a rustic wooden writing cabin . The property is now owned by Middlebury College. The grounds are open to the public during daylight hours.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Frost Farm is set about 3 mi east of the center of Ripton, down an access road on the north side of Vermont Route 125. The 150 acre property is surrounded on three sides by the Green Mountain National Forest, and partially abuts Middlebury Colleges Bread Loaf Campus property. A cleared meadow, located in the western portion of the property, is where its buildings are located. The principal buildings are the 19th-century farmhouse, and a modest cabin in which Frost did most of his writing. The farmhouse is a 1-1/2 story wood frame clapboarded structure, and is set on the west side of the end of the access road. The cabin, a roughly square log structure with a gable roof, stands near the northern edge of the cleared area. It has a screened porch on the west side and a shed-roof woodshed to the north. Its interior is divided into a living area occupying the southern half, with the northern part taken up by a kitchen, bath, and two small bedrooms. The area between the cabin and the house is taken up by a small apple orchard established and tended by Frost. Southwest of the house is a small shed, and on the east side of the drive are the foundational remnants of a barn that was standing during Frosts ownership.</p><br>
<p>Robert Frost (1874-1963) was one of the United States most celebrated poets, publishing eleven volumes of poetry and winning four Pulitzer Prizes. Frost purchased this property in 1940, and lived here each summer and fall until his death. Five of his volumes were written here, most notably A Witness Tree, the 1943 Pulitzer Prize winner. In the cabin, where he did most of his writing, he kept an extensive collection of literature, which was donated by his family to the Jones Public Library of Amherst, Massachusetts. Frosts Morris Chair, originally in the cabin, is now on display at the Middlebury College Davis Family Library. The property was acquired by Middlebury College in 1966, which has maintained but not substantially improved it.</p><br>
<p>Phewa Lake, Phewa Tal or Fewa Lake is a freshwater lake in Nepal located in the south of the Pokhara Valley that includes Pokhara city; parts of Sarangkot and Kaskikot. The lake is stream-fed but a dam regulates the water reserve, therefore, the lake is classified as semi-natural freshwater lake. It is the second largest lake in Nepal the largest in Gandaki Zone followed by Begnas Lake. It is the most popular and most visited lake of Nepal. It is the only one lake of Nepal which has temple at the centre part of lake, Natively called Barahi Mandir. Phewa lake is located at an altitude of 742 m and covers an area of about 5.23 km&sup2;. It has an average depth of about 8.6 m and a maximum depth of 24 m. Maximum water capacity of the lake is approximately 43,000,000 m&sup3;. The Annapurna range on the north is only about 28 km  away from the lake. The lake is also famous for the reflection of mount Machhapuchhre and other mountain peaks of the Annapurna and Dhaulagiri ranges on its surface. The Taal Barahi Temple is situated on an island in the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Lake economy</h2><br>
<p>Phewa lake and water sports is the main tourist attraction of Pokhara city and the north shore of the lake has developed into a tourist district, commonly called Lake-Side, with hotels, restaurants and bars catering to the tourists. The water from Phewa lake&#39;s outlet is used to generate electricity. The Phewa Power House is located about 1.5 km from the southern part of the Phewa lake. A part of the lake is also used as commercial caged fisheries.</p><br>
<h2>Major Attraction</h2><br>
<p>Tal Barahi Temple, located at the center of Phewa Lake, is the most important religious monument of Pokhara.This two-storied pagoda is believed to be dedicated one of the Hindu god known as Vishnu. Mostly it gets crowded in the Saturdays.</p><br>
<p>Baidam is the eastern banks of Phewa lake also known as Lakeside. This part contains seemingly endless strip of hotels, lodges, restaurants, bookshops and souvenir shops. This side is one of the best known tourist area of Nepal. It is also the starting point of the tour to Pokhara.</p><br>
<p>Sarankot and para gliding, Sarankot is the only one place in Nepal, for the para gliding, from where you can fly over the Fewa lake.</p><br>
<p>Myrina  was one of the Aeolian cities on the western coast of Mysia, about 40 stadia to the southwest of Gryneion. The former bishopric is now a Latin Catholic titular see.</p><br>
<p>Its site is believed to be occupied by the modern Sandarlik at the mouth of the Koca Çay, near the town of Aliağa in Izmir Province, in the Aegean Region of Turkey, near Kalavas(ar)i.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is said to have been founded by one Myrinus before the other Aeolian cities, or by the Amazon Myrina. Artaxerxes gave Gryneium and Myrina to Gongylus, an Eretrian, who had been banished from his native city for favoring the interests of Persia.</p><br>
<p>Myrina was a very strong place, though not very large, and had a good harbor. Pliny the Elder mentions the fame of its oysters and that it bore the surname of Sebastopolis; while, according to Syncellus, it was also called Smyrna. An inscription (Bulletin de correspondance hellenique, V, 283) tells us that Myrina formed part of the Kingdom of Pergamon in the 3rd century BC. For some time Myrina was occupied by Philip V of Macedon; but the Romans compelled him to evacuate it, and declared the place free.</p><br>
<p>Under Roman rule, Myrina was part of the Roman province of Asia Prima. It twice suffered severe earthquakes; first in the reign of Tiberius, on which occasion it received a remission of duties on account of the loss it had sustained; and a second time in the reign of Trajan. The town was restored each time, and continued to exist until a late period. It was the birthplace of Agathias, a Byzantine poet and historian of the 6th century. Myrina minted coins in Antiquity, some of which survive.</p><br>
<h2>Remains</h2><br>
<p>The site of Myrina was discovered at the mouth of the river that was the ancient Pythicos, whose alluvia have covered what was the citys harbour. Excavations (1880-1882) brought to light about four thousand tombs, dating from the last two centuries BC, in which were found numerous objects representing the divinities of the Greek pantheon; childrens toys, reproductions of famous works, etc.: most of these may be seen today in the Museum of the Louvre.</p><br>
<h2>Ecclesiastical history</h2><br>
<p>Under Roman rule, Myrina was part of the Roman province of Asia Prima and its bishopric was a suffragan of the capital&#39;s Metropolitan see of Ephesus. The names of some of its bishops are known: Dorotheus, 431 AD; Proterius, 451; John, 553; Cosmas, 787.</p><br>
<p>It still existed as a residential see in the 14th century, but was suppressed.</p><br>
<h3>Titular see</h3><br>
<p>It is now included in the Catholic Church&#39;s list of titular bishoprics. nominally restored in the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>It is vacant, having had the following incumbents, of the lowest (episcopal) rank :</p><br>
<p>Matthaeus Prichard, Recollect Fathers (O.F.M. Rec.) (1713.09.20 – 1750.05.22)</p><br>
<p>Karl Aloys von Königsegg und Rothenfels (1770.03.12 – 1796.02.24)</p><br>
<p>John Ryan (1825.09.31 – 1828.03.17)</p><br>
<p>Pietro India (1836.02.01 – 1837?)</p><br>
<p>François-Alexis Rameaux (穆導沅), Vincentians (C.M.) (1838.12.11 – 1845.07.14)</p><br>
<p>Pierre Lavaissière (石伯鐸), C.M. (1846.03.27 – 1849.12.19)</p><br>
<p>Raffaele Bacchettoni (1880.12.13 – 1881)</p><br>
<p>Giovanni Rosati (1882.03.30 – 1884.03.14)</p><br>
<p>Joseph-André Boyer (包), Paris Foreign Missions Society (M.E.P.) (1886.04.13 – 1887.03.08)</p><br>
<p>Isidorus Barriga (1890.06.26 – 1894?)</p><br>
<p>Maximilian Gereon Graf von Galen (1895.07.16 – 1908.11.05)</p><br>
<p>Joseph Gaudentius Anderson (1909.04.29 – 1927.07.02)</p><br>
<p>Edward John Galvin (高爾文), Missionary Society of St. Columban (S.S.C.M.E., founder) (1927.07.14 – 1946.04.11), as first Apostolic Vicar of Hanyang (China); previously first Apostolic Prefect of Hanyang (November 1, 1924 – July 14, 1927), later first bishop of Hanyang (April 11, 1946 – February 23, 1956)</p><br>
<p>Alfred-Jean-Félix Ancel, Prado (1947.02.17 – 1984.09.11)</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents</h2><br>
<p>Agathias, Byzantine historian and poet</p><br>
<p>Saint Gera  or Trdina Peak  is the highest peak of the Žumberak Mountains, at a height of 1,178 m. It is located along the border between southeastern Slovenia and Croatia, and the summit is subject to a border dispute between the two nations.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The peak was originally called Sveta Gera in Croatian and Sveta Jera in Slovene (Mount St. Gertrude) after the 15th-century church of Saint Gertrude some hundred meters from the highest point of the peak. In June 1921, however, the president of the Novo Mesto Mountaineering Club Ferdinand Seidl proposed to rename it after Janez Trdina, an ardent describer of the region. The proposal was submitted to the central Yugoslav government, which published a decree on the new name on 1 July 1922. On 15 August 1923, the peak was ceremonially renamed by a Slovene girl, while the accompanying ecclesiastic rituals were performed by a Croatian priest.</p><br>
<h2>Border dispute</h2><br>
<p>At the top of Sveta Gera, at an altitude of 1178 meters, there are a telecommunication tower and a military barracks whose location is strategically important to Croatia. Barracks was used by the Yugoslav Peoples Army (YPA) until early 1991 when its soldiers withdrew from the site following breakup of Yugoslavia. In June of the same year, Slovenian soldiers entered barracks on the basis of an oral agreement between Presidents of Slovenia and Croatia, Milan Kučan and Franjo Tuđman. Croatian President Tuđman considered that it would be better for Croatia to avoid conflicts with a friendly Slovenian army in the west since the country was threatened by hostile YPA from the east. Although Slovenian army announced many times that its soldiers would leave the barracks, particularly in 1998 and 2000, it didnt happen. In 2004, President Kučan stated in an interview for Večernji list that it was time for the Slovenian soldiers to leave the barracks, adding that there wasn&#39;t a sufficient will of the Slovenian governing officials to do so. On 29 June 2017, the Arbitration Tribunal of the Permanent Court of Arbitration that was deciding on another border dispute between Croatia and Slovenia, mentioned in its verdict that Sveta Gera indeed belonged to Croatia but that it neither had jurisdiction to decide on the matter nor it could order Slovenian soldiers to withdraw.</p><br>
<p>Kitekite Falls  is a scenic 3-tiered waterfall near Auckland, New Zealand. The falls drop a total of 40 m. From the lookout on Kitekite track the falls appear even higher because there is white water running over rocks into a small pool from the upper swimming hole, then falling down into a large pool, then falling to a small pool before beginning an almost vertical descent in the final 3-tiers, making the total height closer to 80 m. They are located on the Glen Esk stream near Piha Beach.</p><br>
<h2>Kitekite Falls walk</h2><br>
<p>From the carpark at the end of Glenesk Road, directions are clearly signposted. A well formed loop track, used by around 30,000 people a year (2005), follows the Glen Esk Stream with minor undulations (on the south side) up to a lookout where you find a huge Macrocarpa bench seat to rest on and admire the view. The bench seat was made by offenders doing community work (2005). The track then descends down wooden steps to the base of the falls (40 minutes from the carpark). The track then crosses the stream next to the lower swimming hole and returns down the north side. However, instead of going down again, a walker can climb a reasonably steep track (the Connect Track) which begins about 100m from the base of the falls on the northern side of the stream. It takes about 15 minutes to get to the top of the falls. There is a good swimming hole at the top although the water is cool. From this high vantage point there are great views down the valley.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area was milled for kauri from 1910-1921 until milling stopped. All the mature trees in the area were cut down. At the top of the falls, it is clear to see the notches in the rocks (rectangular cutouts for large pieces of wood to rest in). This was the location of the Glen Esk dam. The first attempt to drive logs down the falls resulted in their destruction on the rocks below and the dam was thereafter only used to flush the logs waiting in the stream below down to the mill. The remains of the heavy beams used can still be found in the stream today although they tend to move from time to time. In 2007 a beam fell, broke and half of it wedged itself into rocks at the base of the three tiered falls.</p><br>
<h2>Local flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>It has taken many decades for the young kauri (Agathis australis), known as rickers to regenerate and finally, begin to emerge through the forest canopy again. Many sharp pointed, cone shaped, rickers can be seen from the Kitekite loop track near the falls. At about 100 years old, kauri begin to develop a spreading crown. It is now approaching 100 years since milling stopped. The crowns generally continue to expand for a further 500 years.</p><br>
<p>The walk to the falls progresses through an impressive patch of nikau palms where the call of the Tui (bird) is frequently heard from above. Other native plants include silver tree ferns, puriri trees whose red berries attract kereru (native pigeon), and the rangioroa plant (bushman&#39;s friend due the soft underside of its broad leaf). The falls have been identified as a site of a rare moss Fissidens rigidulus var. pseudostrictus.</p><br>
<p>New Zealand longfin eel, (Anguilla dieffenbachii) hide among the rocks around the base of the falls.</p><br>
<h2>Place names</h2><br>
<p>Kitekite is a misspelling of the original name which was Kitakita. According to a Maori/English dictionary the word Kitakita is defined as (stative) be bright (of colours), tightly, fast, intensely. Pronunciation of Kitakita:</p><br>
<p>The i in Maori is pronounced similar to the ee in sleep.</p><br>
<p>Glen Esk stream was named by Dr William Stockwell. He emigrated to New Zealand in 1876 and bought land above Kitekite Falls soon after his arrival. He named the area Glen Esk because it reminded him of his homeland in Scotland. Glen, from Gaelic, an Indo-European language spoken in Scotland (UK) and Ireland means valley. Esk is of Celtic origin and means water.</p><br>
<h2>Canyoning</h2><br>
<p>The falls are used for canyoning by an Auckland Regional Parks licensed operator. The issuing of the licence was a hot issue at the 2002 AGM of the Piha Ratepayers and Residents Association where residents voiced concern over the environmental impact to the Kitekite Falls. However, ARC recreation coordinator Lee Whiley said there were no concerns. This recreational activity continues to this day under close monitoring by council. Climbing on the falls (going off track) is strictly prohibited and can only be done with a permit or licensed guide. Restrictions are in place to protect the rare moss growing in the wet areas of the waterfall.</p><br>
<p>The Rainey Street Historic District is a street of historic homes, many of the bungalow style, in downtown Austin, Texas.</p><br>
<p>Rainey Street is positioned near Lady Bird Lake and Interstate 35 in the southeast corner of downtown. Though 21 buildings are specifically identified as a part of the historic district, the stretch of Rainey between River and Driskill includes 31 buildings built before 1934, giving the neighborhood a historic character relative to other areas of the city. The district includes 120 acre from 70 to 97 Rainey Street. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Redevelopment controversy</h2><br>
<p>The situation at Rainey Street is unique in that the area was once a sleepy residential street, albeit nestled right next to downtown, was rezoned as part of Austin&#39;s central business district in 2004. The hope at the time was to encourage development near the Austin Convention Center and the since-built Emma S. Barrientos Mexican American Cultural Center. But while grander development has stalled, bars and eateries have flocked to Rainey, since CBD zoning enables traffic-heavy cocktail bar or restaurant use without any additional zoning request. As such, old bungalows have been fixed up and turned into bars and cocktail lounges with ample backyards and porches. Indeed, there are many new bars under construction on Rainey</p><br>
<p>Street: Bangers Sausage House and Beer Garden, the Blackheart, Javelina, Jack and Dianes and Rainey Street Bar are all under various stages of construction/rehabilitation.</p><br>
<p>Rainey Street remains dominated by single-family homes. Its National Register status has become controversial as land values surrounding the district have skyrocketed, leaving most of the homes worth significantly less than the land they sit on. New developments nearby, including multiple high-rise condominium buildings and Austin&#39;s new Mexican-American Cultural Center, have contributed greatly to this.</p><br>
<p>Deliberations are underway within the city government to develop a long-term plan for the area that allows redevelopment while preserving the streets historic and residential character. Since none of the individual buildings within the district have been designated as historic structures, they are eligible for demolition, though each building destroyed must be approved by the citys historic landmark commission.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The street is referred to in the Texas-themed TV series King of the Hill, including the episode "The Redneck on Rainey Street". Show creator Mike Judge is an Austin resident.</p><br>
<p>Yathkyed Lake  is a lake in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. Located between Angikuni Lake and Forde Lake, it is one of several lakes on the Kazan River.</p><br>
<p>Yathkyed lake was named by Sayisi Dene, historical barren-ground caribou hunters of the area. Caribou Inuit artifacts have also been found here.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>It is part of the Hearne Domain, Western Churchill province of the Churchill craton, which is the northwest section of the Canadian Shield.</p><br>
<p>According to the Atlas of Canada the geographical centre of the country lies just south of the lake at 62&deg;24&prime;N latitude, 096&deg;28&prime;W longitude.</p><br>
<h2>Minerals</h2><br>
<p>The Yathkyed Sedimentary Basin is notable for its uranium/copper/molybdenum deposits. The Kaminak Gold Corporation has a mining stake in the area, owning approximately 200,000 acre.</p><br>
<p>The Robbins School, originally called Franklin School, is located at 4302 South 39th Avenue in South Omaha, Nebraska, United States. It was built in 1910 to serve a newly established and growing Polish community in south Omaha. A 2000 rehabilitation converted the former school to rental residential use.</p><br>
<p>A pedimented central portico, pilasters, Palladian window and detailed cornice make Robbins School one of the best Neoclassical Revival style buildings remaining in Omaha. After closing in 1994, the building was renovated in the 1990s and converted into apartments.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally named Franklin School. In 1928 two local boys whose last name was Robbins rushed into their burning house to save their invalid mother. One of the boys died in his heroic attempt. The second survived, only to be killed later in the same year in an unrelated sledding accident.</p><br>
<p>Wells Harbour is located in the town of Wells-next-the-Sea in the county of Norfolk, England. The harbour is 21 miles west of Cromer, 34.8 miles north of Norwich and 123 miles north of London. The harbour lies north of the A149 between King’s Lynn and Great Yarmouth. The nearest railway station is now at Sheringham for the Bittern Line which runs between Sheringham, Cromer and Norwich. The nearest airport is Norwich International Airport.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Harbour is on the North Norfolk Coast. It is used by a small fishing fleet and by visiting commercial and fishing vessels, including vessels engaged in surveys, crew transfer or safety boat operations. The harbour also caters for a growing number of leisure craft which are both local boats and an increasing amount of visiting craft. Coastal trips to see the seals at Blakeney Point and chartered fishing and diving trips are also available in the high season. Berthed at the quay is the historic vessel Albatros. The vessel is used for a variety of functions including charters, cruises and sometime just as a venue for entertaining.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There has been a port at Wells for over 600 years. The harbour is protected by salt marshes behind a sand bar. Because it is a natural safe haven from the unpredictable North Sea weather the Port of Wells was one of England&#39;s major harbours in Tudor times and a thriving, centre for shipping and maritime industry in the 18th and 19th centuries. Its greatest period of prosperity was probably from 1830 to 1860. The stone quay side was constructed in 1845 following an Act of Parliament the previous year. The coming of the railway in 1857 marked the beginning of decline though there was a resurgence from 1960 to 1989 when coasters bringing fertilizer and animal feed came in some numbers. The Granary with its distinctive gantry was built around 1904; it has now been turned into apartments. The gantry allowed grain to be transferred between the building and ships without disrupting road traffic. The railway closed in 1964 and in 1976, the Wells Harbour Railway was constructed to link the town with the beach and Pinewoods Holiday Park. It replaced a withdrawn bus service.</p><br>
<p>As part of the development of the Sheringham Shoal Offshore Wind Farm in the late 2000s the harbour and channel were dredged to allow wind farm maintenance vessels to be based there. A 150 m pontoon jetty was also built; the work was completed early 2010.Sources:</p><br>
<h2>Approaches</h2><br>
<p>Approaches to Wells can be made from Blakeney Overfalls, South Race, The Woolpack or Burnham Flats. Details on Imray Chart C28: The East Coast - Harwich to Wells-next-to Sea. A course should be made for Wells Leading Buoy, keeping to the port side of the marker for the deepest water over the sand bar. Vessels arriving from the East should come close to the buoy or pass it to port before turning for the harbour entrance rather than making directly for Buoys Number 1 and 2 in the channel. On arrival or prior to arrival at the leading Buoy it is advisable to contact the Harbourmaster for advice about the approaches. The Harbourmaster can be contacted on channel 12 (Wells Harbour). Depth at the entrance and at the quays is 3.04 metres to 3.66 at high water.</p><br>
<h3>Channel Navigation</h3><br>
<p>The channel over the bar and into the harbour changes from time to time although the established buoyage system on the channel can usually be relied on to stay constant. A look out should be made for temporary pellet buoys and beacons to show changes in the channel. 175 degrees in from the leading buoy is a large conical buoy Number 1 flashing green and the large red Number 2, can buoy flashing red on the bar itself are both visible in most weather conditions. It is advisable to make good a course between these buoys until the smaller buoys of the channel become visible, after which it is better to favour the starboard side because there is a considerable east going tidal stream across the harbour entrance from approximately two hours before every high water. From the starboard buoy No.9 known as the Knock, the channel bends away towards the South East into considerably quieter waters. The wide sweep to the eastward just past the lifeboat house must be made with the red beacons close to port as the channel is quite narrow at this point. On passing the green buoy named the Pool, turn to the South West and follow the buoys to the last red can buoy (Number 14) then arc back Easterly close to the marsh edge and follow the red beacons to the Quayside.</p><br>
<h3>Draft</h3><br>
<p>During Spring tides Vessels drawing up to 10 feet (3 m) can use the harbour at high water and vessels of up to 1.5 metres draft can look at entry two hours either side of high water. On neap tides the Harbour may be entered by craft drawing up to 6 feet (1.75 m) at high water or at most one hour before or after high water.</p><br>
<h2>Wells Harbour Commissioners</h2><br>
<p>Wells Harbour is legally administered by a panel of commissioners named the Wells Harbour Commissioners. The commissioners operate the harbour under the trading name Port of Wells, and they employ a Harbourmaster, three Deputy Harbourmasters, and a number of other staff including administrators, ships&#39; crew, and both land-based and sea-based patrols. The commissioners came into being in 1663 under an Act of Parliament described as "an Act for repairing and better preserving the quay, creeks, channel and landing place of the Port of Wells in the County of Norfolk", and recently celebrated 350 years of operation. Under the title "Port of Wells" the commissioners currently operate six vessels and several land vehicles. The commissioners also operate a "Beach Patrol" of five uniformed officers who patrol the harbour, creek, and beach, offering advice, and preventing by-laws infingements.</p><br>
<h3>Port of Wells service vessels</h3><br>
<p>Harbour Launch - the harbourmaster&#39;s launch, and general purpose vessel</p><br>
<p>Provider - vessel used for positioning navigational aids, towing duties, and escort duties (8.5 m)</p><br>
<p>Frank-T - navigational buoy vessel, and service vessel for the outer harbour (14 m, with 9tonne crane)</p><br>
<p>Kari Hege - heavy ocean-going motorised barge, with dredging equipment (24 m)</p><br>
<p>Tender-S - hopper barge, with dredging facilities (20 m)</p><br>
<p>Harbour Patrol - unnamed fast inflatable RIB for use by the harbour patrol officers</p><br>
<h2>Quayside Facilities</h2><br>
<p>Off Beach Road there are easy accessible pontoons available for mooring. The pontoons provide electricity hook ups and fresh water points. Fresh water is also provided on the main quay. There is a diesel refuelling berth available on the tide. On the quayside there are bulk disposal bins for refuse. There is also a facility for the disposal of used engine oil at the east end of the Harbour. There are also toilet and shower facilities for the use of visiting crews along with a laundry. There is also a sewage pump-out point. The car parks are pay and display. Permits can be purchased for all these facilities from the harbour and information for pilotage and navigation in the area is also available.</p><br>
<h3>Storage Facilities</h3><br>
<p>Wells has a purpose-built secure outdoor compound with security surveillance which can be used year round as well as for storage in the winter. The facility can be found at the east end behind the sea wall close to the slipway. There is 15 metres of quayside which are used for craning and hard standing. The site is covered by security lighting and there are electricity and water hook up points.</p><br>
<p>Kaminak Lake  is a lake in Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada. The sub-Arctic lake is one of eleven lakes of the Ferguson River system which ultimately flow into the northwestern Hudson Bay. The abandoned outpost of Tavani is 60 mi to the east.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>It is within a permafrost region of Canada, and part of the Herne Domain Western Churchill province of the Churchill craton, which is the northwest section of the Canadian Shield.</p><br>
<h2>Minerals</h2><br>
<p>Around 1971, after reviewing 2,000 samples, the Geological Survey of Canada discovered: "an unusual and unsuspected distribution of above background Mercury concentrations in natural waters". While this offered the potential for mineral explorations, it was also notable as commercial fishing occurs in Kaminak Lake. In the mid 1970s, the Kaminak Lake fishery was moved further up the Ferguson River to Qamanirjuaq ("Kaminuriak") Lake; it did not exhibit elevated Mercury levels. Other prospecting and mapping studies followed and exploration companies found gold at the lake, including on an island within the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Kaminak Lake is part of the barren-ground caribou migration area.</p><br>
<p>Stob a&#39; Choire Mheadhoin is a mountain in the Scottish Highlands, it is situated 19 km east of Fort William in the Lochaber area of the Highland council area.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>Stob a&#39; Choire Mheadhoin reaches a height of 1105 metres (3625 feet), making it one of the higher Munros. It is closely associated with the adjoining peak of Stob Coire Easain which is just 10 metres higher and stands one km to the SW across a high col with a height of approximately 965 metres. The two are usually climbed together and have the informal nicknames of “The Easains” or “The Stob Coires”.</p><br>
<p>Some people regard Stob a Choire Mheadhoin as fortunate to be regarded as a separate mountain rather than a subsidiary “top” of Stob Coire Easain. The hill was not named on older maps, being shown as unnamed summit. However its dominating presence above Glen Spean presumably led to its Munro status, which it has held ever since the first publication of Munros Tables in 1891. The best views of Stob a&#39; Choire Mheadhoin are from the NE from where it is seen as a separate mountain. From the Laggan Dam it appears as a conical peak, while from Stob Coire Sgriodain on the opposite side of Loch Treig, the mountain shows the steep slopes which fall into the loch and its impressive craggy Coire Meadhon which gives the mountain its name which translates as “Peak of the Middle Corrie“.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Stob a&#39; Choire Mheadhoin has a long NE ridge which descends for over five km to the hamlet of Fersit at the head of Loch Treig. This ridge is the most common route of ascent and though mostly a moderate gradient it does have several steep sections, most notably the rocky climb up to Meall Cian Dearg which requires some mild scrambling. The mountains eastern flank falls steeply to Loch Treig with the slope rising from loch side to summit for 850 metres and an average gradient of over 30 degrees. These slopes are well seen when travelling on the West Highland Railway on the east side of the loch.</p><br>
<p>A ridge goes SW from the summit to connect to the mountains twin Munro of Stob Coire Easain, this ridge hugs the lip of the impressive Coire Easain Beag which stands between the two mountains. This corrie has patches of red rock on its upper slopes especially on its Stob a&#39; Choire Mheadhoin side, a point on the ridge at the head of the corrie is actually named Càrn Dearg (Red Cairn) on the OS map. There are several corries on the eastern side of the mountain, the most impressive of these by far is Coire Meadhon which falls directly from the summit with steep crags on its southern side. The northern slopes of the mountain descend into Coire Laire which is drained by the Allt Laire which goes north to join the River Spean as does all rainfall from the mountain.</p><br>
<h2>Ascents</h2><br>
<p>The most popular starting point for the ascent of Stob a Choire Mheadhoin is the small hamlet of Fersit at grid reference, from there the long NE ridge can be accessed and followed to the summit. An alternative ascent can be made from Corrour railway station utilising the West Highland Railway. This is a long walk of around 30 km and involves a substantial hike in from the station around the head of Loch Treig to reach the foot of Stob Coire Easain which is climbed first before continuing over Stob a Choire Mheadhoin to reach Tulloch railway station for the evening train.</p><br>
<p>Carroll Avenue is a street situated in Los Angeles, near Echo Park. It is in Angelino Heights, one of the older neighborhoods of Los Angeles. It consists of Victorian-era houses within a picturesque neighborhood, which has served as the backdrop for countless motion pictures from the earliest days of cinema to the present.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Carroll Avenue is one of Los Angeles first suburbs, and bears its name well, as it brings the city many tourists and visitors. The houses, or rather Victorian manors, are now used as private homes, as they were in the 19th century. Some of the more well known residents from the Victorian era include: merchant Aaron P. Philips in 1887, real estate agent Charles C. Haskin in 1894, and warehouse operator Michael Sanders in 1887. One of Los Angeles first City Councilmen, Daniel Innes, resided at 1329 Carroll Avenue.</p><br>
<p>The house at 1345 Carroll Avenue was used in the final scene of Michael Jackson&#39;s Thriller.</p><br>
<p>The house at 1329 Carroll Avenue was used as the home for the main characters in the supernatural drama television series Charmed.</p><br>
<p>The house at 1324 Carroll Avenue was usse for the main home in Adam Sandlers 2006 comedy Grandmas Boy.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designations</h2><br>
<p>The entire 1300 block of Carroll Avenue was listed under the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Several individual residences along Carroll Avenue have been named as Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments, including the following:</p><br>
<p>1337 Carroll Avenue (September 1962)</p><br>
<p>1330 Carroll Avenue (May 24, 1967)</p><br>
<p>1329 Carroll Avenue (February 3, 1971)</p><br>
<p>1345 Carroll Avenue (February 3, 1971)</p><br>
<p>1355 Carroll Avenue (February 3, 1971)</p><br>
<p>1316 Carroll Avenue (February 3, 1971)</p><br>
<p>1320 Carroll Avenue (February 3, 1971)</p><br>
<p>1324 Carroll Avenue (February 3, 1971)</p><br>
<p>1344 Carroll Avenue (February 3, 1971)</p><br>
<p>1325 Carroll Avenue (January 3, 1973)</p><br>
<p>1321 Carroll Avenue (July 13, 1977)</p><br>
<p>1407 Carroll Avenue (May 3, 1978)</p><br>
<p>1411 Carroll Avenue (May 3, 1978)</p><br>
<h2>Gallery of Homes on Carroll Avenue</h2><br>
<p>The Joel N. Cornish House is located at 1404 South 10th Street in South Omaha, Nebraska. The 1886 construction is considered an "excellent example of the French Second Empire style." The house was converted into apartments after the Cornish family moved out in 1911.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is a three story mansion with a full basement with an addition was constructed in 1911. The wooden roof consists of tongue and groove joint construction, with the floor made of mosaic tile. A broad central concrete stairway leads up to the front doors, and the exterior walls are load-bearing brick. The brick walls of the addition are broken up by small, evenly spaced, double hung windows in vertically parallel rows. The foundation is also brick, in places faced with rough-hewn sandstone blocks.</p><br>
<p>Two notable features of the house are the porches. The porch on the east facade is supported by triple wooden corner columns. The wooden porch on the south facade has been established as an original part of the building by a family photograph. Its ornate carving embellishes the tongue and groove joint construction in the floor and ceiling. French doors provided access to the house.</p><br>
<p>The slate mansard roof, with arched dormer windows is accentuated by cornices at its base and top. The slates are several different patterns set in rows of three; the central east facade of the roof is crowned by a wooden cupola with windows and a spire. Double hung arched windows are arranged in horizontally and vertically parallel double rows equally spaced around the house. Two porches rise the entire height of the rectangular, three story addition to the original house.</p><br>
<p>Several alterations have altered the original appearance of the exterior. Some of the changes include the removal of a wrought iron fence crowning the entire roof and the small roof of the cupola. A small balustrade that was once located above the east porch between the two bay windows of the second floor was removed, as well. Several onion shaped ornaments no longer cap the dormer on the third story and the round windows in the roof of the cupola. Also, a small unornamented service porch on the south side of the southwest corner, has been removed, although the door still remains.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the late 1800s, the original "Gold Coast" area of Omaha lay south of the business district, roughly from Pierce to Dorcas between 8th & 11th Streets. Within the borders could be found the most elegant homes of many of Omaha&#39;s most successful citizens. Much of the land which had once belonged to the estate of Adolph Kountze and had been subdivided into the fashionable new Forrest Hills addition. It was here that Colonel Joel Northrop Cornish selected a site at 1404 South 10th Street for his home in Omaha. Colonel Cornish came to Omaha in 1886 from Hamburg, Iowa but he was an easterner by birth, and his new mansion was to reflect much of that taste.</p><br>
<p>The Cornish house was built in a period when Omaha was witnessing an influx of cultured eastern families who brought with them wealth and professional skills. Homes in this period were often designed by eastern architects who transplanted design forms of European origins. They added American touches of more elaborate millwork in the exterior detailing. The almost pure French Second Empire Cornish house was such a structure, but the front veranda shows a clear manifestation of the American taste in residential architecture. Each member of the family had his own sitting room attached to his bedroom suite. The fifteen-room mansion with its thirteen-foot ceilings, beautiful floors bordered with parquet woodwork, and four fireplaces, was the showplace of an already elegant neighborhood. The third floor ballroom echoed with music and parties which included Henry Fonda.</p><br>
<p>Colonel Cornish died June 7, 1908 at the age of 82. The family continued to maintain the house for a while, but soon plans were drawn to convert the mansion to apartments. The huge kitchen with its pantries was partitioned off into smaller rooms. The first floors lavish rooms were converted into two separate apartments. Over the years an addition was constructed at the rear of the original home. There was no attempt to follow the style of the original architecture. The high ceilings in the main house were retained. the original Cornish house remained with the Cornish heirs until June 13, 1956, when Virginia Cornish Fischer sold it to Carl Meyers. On September 15, 1958 the house became the property of the Grace Bible Institute and is now used as apartments.</p><br>
<p>Bearpen Mountain is a mountain located in the Catskill Mountains of New York.</p><br>
<p>The mountain&#39;s highest peak is in Greene County, but its northwest subpeak at 42&deg; latitude, 16.42&deg; longitude is the highest point in Delaware County.</p><br>
<p>Bearpen Mountain is flanked to the north by Roundtop, and to the southeast by Vly Mountain.</p><br>
<p>The northeast side of Bearpen Mountain drains into Little West Kill, thence into Schoharie Creek, the Mohawk River, the Hudson River, and into New York Bay.</p><br>
<p>The west side of Bearpen drains into Batavia Kill, thence into the East Branch of the Delaware River, and into Delaware Bay.</p><br>
<p>The south side of Bearpen drains into Vly Creek, thence into Bush Kill, Dry Brook, and the East Branch of the Delaware.</p><br>
<p>Bearpen Mountain is the most well-known mountain for Greene County ATV riders, even though using ATVs is illegal. With various labeled trails, that the ATVs destroy, riders enjoy this journey up the mountain while frightening bears and other animals that linger in the woods.</p><br>
<p>Chaney Glacier is in Glacier National Park in the USA state of Montana. The glacier is situated in a cirque to the southeast of Mount Kipp on the eastern side of the Continental Divide. Chaney Glacier is one of several glaciers that have been selected for monitoring by the USA Geological Survey&#39;s Glacier Monitoring Research program, which is researching changes to the mass balance of glaciers in and surrounding Glacier National Park. The glacier is being monitored using remote sensing equipment and repeat photography, where images of the glacier are taken from identical locations periodically.</p><br>
<p>Since 1911, Chaney glacier has retreated considerably. Between 1966 and 2005, the glacier lost over 29 percent of its surface area. The repeat photographs below document the changes to the glacier from 1911 to 2005.</p><br>
<p>Soper Lake  is a large, irregularly shaped lake in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is located on Baffin Islands Meta Incognita Peninsula. The Inuit name references the lakes meromictic attribute, a mixture of fresh and salt water caused by a set of reversing falls and 9 - tides in Pleasant Inlet. The fresh water of Soper River drains into the lake which drains into the salt water Pleasant Inlet before reaching the Arctic Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The hamlet of Kimmirut (previously, Lake Harbour) is situated at Glasgow Bay. In 1911, Hudson&#39;s Bay Company established its first south Baffin trading post at Lake Harbour.</p><br>
<p>The river and lake were named by Canadian biologist and Arctic explorer, J. Dewey Soper who travelled in the area in 1931.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>The lake is home to Greenland cod.</p><br>
<p>Agia Anna  is a mountain village in the municipal unit of Oleni, Elis, Greece. In 2011 its population was 168. Agia Anna is built on the slopes of the hill Axofolia, a western spur of the Foloi plateau. In the village square, the elevation is 450 m, and the top of the hill is around 670 m. Agia Anna is 2 km northeast of Goumero, 4 km west of Klindia, 10 km southeast of Simopoulo and 10 km northeast of Karatoula. The area is forested, but suffered damage from the 2007 Greek forest fires.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village Agia Anna was founded in a remote place during Ottoman rule, to hide from the Turks. The village is named after its church. Between 1841 and 1912, the community was part of the old municipality of Lampeia. It was an independent community until 1997, when it became part of the municipality of Oleni under the Kapodistrias reform.</p><br>
