<p>The Granada Theater in Kansas Citys historic downtown in Wyandotte County, Kansas, United States, is a grand movie palace in the Mission style with Spanish and Moorish influences. Dominating the facade is a large Palladian window, flanked by terracotta pieces. Below the window is the main entrance, which centers on a glass ticket booth. The eastern and western ends of the facades first floor are occupied by small storefronts.</p><br>
<p>Ben Gorman and William A. Toplikar arranged for the theaters erection in 1928, contracting with the Boller Brothers to perform the construction. The theater flourished until the 1960s, when the rising popularity of television reduced the profitability of traditional theaters; after it closed late in the decade, it was periodically reopened by others, but none lasted long. In 2005, the theater was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its architecture and its place in the areas history.</p><br>
<p>Sungir  is an Upper Paleolithic archaeological site in Russia and one of the earliest records of modern Homo sapiens in Europe. It is situated about two hundred kilometres east of Moscow, on the outskirts of Vladimir, near the Klyazma River. It is dated by calibrated carbon analysis to between 32,050 and 28,550 BC and by 2017 DNA analysis at ~34,000. Additional pollen finds suggest the relative warm spell of the "Greenland interstadial  5"</p><br>
<p>between the 305th and 301st centennia BCE as most probable dates.</p><br>
<p>The settlement area was found to have four burials: the remains of an older man and two adolescent children are particularly well-preserved, and the nature of the rich and extensive burial goods suggests they belonged to the same class. In addition, a skull and two fragments of human femur were also found at the settlement area, and two human skeletons outside the settlement area without cultural remains.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site was discovered in 1955, in the course of local digging from clay pits. Some 4500 square miles were excavated in sixteen field seasons between 1957 and 1977 (Bader 1965; 1967; 1978; 1998). Archeology teams from the Geological Institute of the Russian Academy of Science (R.A.S.), University of Groningen, Oxford University, and the University of Arizona in the United States have all worked on the excavations and related studies to review the findings from the site.</p><br>
<p>They determined that the cultural layer was located in what is called Bryansk soil, related to the period (thirty-two to twenty-four millennia ago) of the corresponding interstadial of the Valdai Ice age of the Late Pleistocene. Evidence of only surface dwellings on the site led the team to conclude it was likely used seasonally.</p><br>
<h2>Burials</h2><br>
<p>Graves 1 and 2 at Sungir are described as "the most spectacular" among European Gravettian burials. The three people buried at Sungir were all adorned with elaborate grave goods that included ivory-beaded jewelry, clothing, and spears. More than 13,000 beads were found (which would have taken 10,000 hours to produce). Red ochre, an important ritual material associated with burials at this time, covered the burials.</p><br>
<p>The children are considered a twin burial, thought to have ritual purpose, likely sacrifice. The findings of such complete skeletons are rare in late Stone Age, and indicate the high status of the male adult and children. The children had the same mtDNA, which may indicate the same maternal lineage, but more would need to be known about other people in the settlement.</p><br>
<p>The site is one of the earliest examples of ritual burials and constitutes important evidence of the antiquity of human religious practices. The extraordinary collection of grave goods, the position of the bodies, and other factors all indicate it was a burial of high importance. Two other remains at the site are partial skeletons.</p><br>
<p>The remains are held by the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of R.A.S., Moscow. In 2004, the International Seminar, "Upper Paleolithic People from Sunghir, Russia," was hosted by the Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, U.K. It is the second of two major conferences about this site.</p><br>
<p>Two books have been published in Moscow about the findings. Upper Palaeolithic Site Sungir (graves and environment) (1998) was the first complete publication about the site, including an inventory of artifacts, reconstruction of the Paleolithic man&#39;s clothes, archaic counting and calendar. The second part of the book displays the reconstruction of the environment by geological, palinological, zoological data.</p><br>
<p>The second book, Homo Sungirensis (2000) edited by T.I. Alexeeva et al.(see below), includes articles published since the first book, and new anthropological data derived from morphology, palaeopathology, X-ray study, histology, trace elements and molecular genetic analyses. It has an illustrated catalogue of all the skeletal materials.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeogenetics</h2><br>
<p>In 2017, researchers successfully sequenced the DNA of multiple individuals from Sungir, including one from Burial 1 (Sunghir I) and three from Burial 2: the two adolescent burials (Sunghir II and Sunghir III) and the adult femur accompanying the burial (Sunghir IV). The younger adolescent from Burial 2, Sunghir III, yielded high coverage genomes. Sungir III was previously thought to be female; however, genetic analysis shows that all four of the tested individuals at Sungir were male. Contrary to previous interpretations of the burials, genetic analysis shows that none of the individuals are closely related (none of the individuals were third-degree relatives or closer).</p><br>
<p>However, when compared against other populations, the individuals at Sungir are genetically closest to each other. The individuals at Sungir show closest genetic affinity to the individuals from Kostenki, while showing closer affinity to the individual from Kostenki 12 than to the individual from Kostenki 14. The Sungir individuals descended from a lineage that was related to the individual from Kostenki 14, but were not directly related. The individual from Kostenki 12 was also found to be closer to the Sungir individuals than to the individual from Kostenki 14. The Sungir individuals also show close genetic affinity to various individuals belonging to Vestonice Cluster buried in a Gravettian context, such as those excavated from Dolní Věstonice.</p><br>
<p>mtDNA analysis shows that the four individuals tested from Sungir belong to mtDNA Haplogroup U. The individual from Burial 1 belongs to mtDNA Haplogroup U8c, while the three individuals from Burial 2 belong to mtDNA Haplogroup U2. Y-DNA analysis shows that all four of the tested individuals from Sungir belong to Y-DNA Haplogroup C1a2.</p><br>
<p>DNA analysis shows that the medieval individual Sungir 6 (730-850 cal BP) belong to mtDNA Haplogroup W3a1 and Y-DNA Haplogroup I2a1b2.</p><br>
<p>Van Nuys Branch covers two branch library buildings of the Los Angeles Public Library, both located in Van Nuys, central San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles, California.</p><br>
<h2>"Old" Van Nuys Branch of 1926</h2><br>
<p>The original or "Old" Van Nuys Branch library was built in 1926 based on a Spanish Colonial Revival style design by architects Allen & Allen.</p><br>
<p>In 1987, the "Old" Van Nuys Branch and several other branch libraries in Los Angeles were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic group submission. The application noted that the branch libraries had been constructed in a variety of period revival styles to house the initial branch library system of the City of Los Angeles.</p><br>
<h2>"New" Van Nuys Branch of 1964</h2><br>
<p>The "New" Van Nuys Branch library opened in 1964 in the then new Van Nuys Civic Center. The Mid-century modern style one-story masonry building extends out into the landscape with a modernist colonnade, and is shaded by groves of trees.</p><br>
<p>The building was also headquarters for the Los Angeles Public Library&#39;s bookmobile service. It was temporarily closed and surrounded by a chain-link fence in 2005, and in 2007 the city announced plans to auction off the building. Instead it was renovated to reopen as the branch library again.</p><br>
<p>The restored and updated "New" Van Nuys branch library is again the Los Angeles Public Library branch for Van Nuys, in the expanded Government Center complex of public buildings that replaced the former Van Nuys Civic Center.</p><br>
<p>The Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville, Kentucky is a monument placed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was dedicated in October 1911.</p><br>
<p>During the war, Nathan Bedford Forrest made his winter headquarters at Hopkinsville in 1861&ndash;1862. On December 12, 1864, Confederate General Hylan B. Lyon burned the county courthouse at Hopkinsville, but the records survived.</p><br>
<p>The memorial fountain, eight feet tall and made of white marble, was built after the local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy spent five years raising the funds to erect it. It was initially located at the corner of 9th Street and Main Street, but was later moved to the front of the Christian County Courthouse. It was built as a public drinking fountain, but the mechanism no longer works.</p><br>
<p>On July 17, 1997, the Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville was one of sixty different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. Three other monuments on this Multiple Property Submission were also fountains: two of these are the Confederate Monument of Cadiz and the Confederate Memorial in Mayfield. Fourteen other monuments were built due to the efforts of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The Latham Confederate Monument is also in Hopkinsville; it is located at Riverside Cemetery to the north side of town.</p><br>
<p>John C. Fremont Branch Library is a branch library of the Los Angeles Public Library in Los Angeles, California. It is adjacent to the Hancock Park district. It was built in 1927 based on a Mediterranean Revival design by architect Merl L. Barker.</p><br>
<p>In 1987, the Fremont Branch and several other branch libraries in Los Angeles were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic group submission. The application noted that the branch libraries had been constructed in a variety of period revival styles to house the initial branch library system of the City of Los Angeles.</p><br>
<p>The current facility began construction on December 26, 1926 and was completed in May 1927. The library opened on June 1, 1927. The library closed in 1990 because its masonry was not reinforced and the building was not in compliance with seismic safety codes. The library operated from a temporary location until February 1996. The library re-opened in its current location on March 26, 1996. The in-compliance library gained air conditioning, a meeting room, a small parking lot, wiring for computer and internet usage, and access for disabled persons.</p><br>
<p>The L & N Railroad Depot in the Hopkinsville Commercial Historic District of Hopkinsville, Kentucky is a historic railroad station on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built by the Louisville & Nashville Railroad in 1892.</p><br>
<p>The year 1832 saw the first of many attempts to woo a railroad to Hopkinsville. This first attempt was to connect Hopkinsville to Eddyville, Kentucky. In 1868 Hopkinsville finally obtained a railroad station, operated by the Evansville, Henderson, & Nashville Railroad. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad acquired the railroad in 1879.</p><br>
<p>The Hopkinsville depot is a single-story frame building with a slate roof. It has six rooms: a Ladies Waiting room (the room closest to the street), a General Waiting Room, a Colored Waiting Room, a baggage room (the furthest room from the street), a ticket office (the only room which connected to all three waiting rooms), and a ladies&#39; restroom. Immediately outsides were warehouses for freight, usually tobacco.</p><br>
<p>During its operating years, the Hopkinsville depot was a popular layover spot for those traveling by train. It was the only Louisville & Nashville station between Evansville, Indiana and Nashville, Tennessee where it was legal to drink alcohol. Hopkinsville got the nickname "Hop town" due to train passengers asking the conductors when they would arrive at Hopkinsville, so they could "hop off and get a drink".</p><br>
<p>The Hopkinsville L & N Railroad Depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 1, 1975. It is now used by the Pennyrile Arts Council. The organization was founded in 1977 to promote culture in the Hopkinsville area. CSX, which bought out the Louisville & Nashville, still run trains on the tracks next to the depot, but do not stop.</p><br>
<p>Memorial Branch is a branch library of the Los Angeles Public Library. It was built in 1930 based on a Gothic Revival design by architect John C. Austin, also noted as the lead architect of the Griffith Observatory and the Hollywood Masonic Temple. The library includes a large heraldic work of stained glass created by the artists at Judson Studios.</p><br>
<p>In 1987, the Memorial Branch and several other branch libraries in Los Angeles were added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of a thematic group submission. The application noted that the branch libraries had been constructed in a variety of period revival styles to house the initial branch library system of the City of Los Angeles. In the movie, Bedtime Stories, starring Adam Sandler, this library serves as the children&#39;s elementary school.</p><br>
<p>The Library underwent a major restoration in the mid-1990s, reopening in 1996. The library relocated to office space near John Burroughs Middle School in the interim.</p><br>
<p>The Latham Confederate Monument in Hopkinsville, Kentucky&#39;s Riverside Cemetery, is a monument on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>A native of Hopkinsville then living in New York City, John C. Latham, desired that deceased veterans on both sides in Hopkinsville be buried together. Latham was a millionaire in the cotton business, who fought for the Confederate States of America during the conflict. However, most of the Union veterans had already been buried at the Fort Donelson National Cemetery, so instead the mass burial would involve only Confederate veterans, 101 in total, that were scattered at various burial locations. Latham gave $14,000 to the city of Hopkinsville for the project. The dedication of the monument and the accompanying graves was on May 19, 1887, with a book, The Story of a Monument, was published by Dennison & Brown in 1888 with notes about the monument and its dedication. Latham would also donate $50,000 for the construction of turnpikes.</p><br>
<p>Latham had Hallowell Granite Works, a company based in Bangor, Maine, build the monument. The monument is made of granite and is 37 feet tall. The monument has several decorations: 18 in cannonballs, Laurel wreaths, bronze cannons, and two swords.</p><br>
<p>On July 17, 1997, the Latham Confederate Monument was one of sixty different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. The Confederate Memorial Fountain in Hopkinsville is also in Hopkinsville; it is located by the Christian County Courthouse in downtown Hopkinsville.</p><br>
<p>Maltz Performing Arts Center at Temple–Tifereth Israel built in 1924 is a historic synagogue building located on University Circle at Silver Park in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1963, a branch synagogue, Tifereth-Israel, was established in suburban Beachwood, which is now the main place of worship. The congregation now known as The Temple - Tifereth Israel still owns the University Circle building, whose Silver Sanctuary, named for longtime rabbi, Abba Hillel Silver, is still used on the High Holy Days as well as for life cycle events and meetings.</p><br>
<p>In Mar 2010, Case Western Reserve University and the Temple Tifereth-Israel announced a historic partnership to create the Milton and Tamar Maltz Performing Arts Center, which was led by a donation of $12 million from the Maltz Family Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland. The university estimates that the total renovation of the building will require $25.6 million, with an additional $7 million needed for construction of a pedestrian bridge/walkway to connect the building to the university campus. Under the agreement, the Jewish community will continue to use the facility for yearly special events.</p><br>
<h2>Temple Museum of Religious Art</h2><br>
<p>The Temple at University Circle is one of three gallery locations for the Temple Museum of Religious Art, operated by Temple-Tifereth Israel. Other locations include the Temple-Tifereth Israel Gallery at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage and Temple Tifereth-Israel in Beachwood. The museum was founded in 1950 by Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver as part of the 100th anniversary celebration for The Temple-Tifereth Israel.</p><br>
<p>On August 30, 1974, The Temple was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The Temple was designed by architect Charles R. Greco.</p><br>
<p>The Temple possesses three notable stained glass windows by Arthur Szyk. They depict Gideon, Samson and Judah Maccabee.</p><br>
<p>The 7th District Police Station, or Maxwell Street Station in Chicago, Illinois, was built in 1888 in response to the need for increased police presence in "Bloody Maxwell", known colloquially as "the Wickedest Police District in the World." The neighborhood, a changing melting pot of Irish, German, Italian and European Jewish immigrants, grew mightily in the years following the Chicago Fire of 1871. The housing and sanitation situation in the district was substandard, and the residents poor. Criminal activity flourished.</p><br>
<p>The Romanesque style station is architecturally significant as an example of pre-1945 police stations in Chicago. It was designed by Willoughby J. Edbrooke and Franklin Pierce Burnham. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Chicago Police Department vacated the station in 1998. After extensive renovation, the red brick and limestone building became the home of the University of Illinois at Chicago Police Department. The renovations were done in a manner designed to uphold the historic significance of the building&#39;s architecture. "The building’s original windows were sent to a company in Kankakee for restoration, the masonry cleaned and repaired, the roof replaced, and parapets at the top of the station rebuilt using custom-made bricks, the exact texture and color of the originals." In order to be handicap-accessible, the renovations included constructing a new street-level main entrance where the vehicle entrance had been, to the east of the original front doors and their six steps.</p><br>
<p>The building is known in popular culture because the outside was used as the picture of the precinct house in the opening and closing credits, and establishing shots of the iconic television series, Hill Street Blues. It is also used as the exterior of the precinct house in the television series Chicago PD, and the television series Sense 8.</p><br>
<p>Upper Mesa Falls is a waterfall on the Henrys Fork in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest. Upstream from Lower Mesa Falls, it is roughly 16 mi away from Ashton, Idaho.</p><br>
<p>Upper Mesa Falls is roughly 114 ft high and 200 ft wide.</p><br>
<h2>Formation</h2><br>
<p>Mesa Falls Tuff, which is the rock over which Upper Mesa Falls cascades, was formed 1.3 million years ago. A cycle of rhyolitic volcanism from the Henrys Fork caldera deposited a thick layer of rock and ash across the area.</p><br>
<p>This layer compressed and hardened over time.</p><br>
<p>Between 200,000 and 600,000 years ago, the river eroded a wide canyon which was subsequently partly filled with basalt lava flows. The Henrys Fork of the Snake River then carved the channel through the basalt; which is the inner canyon seen today.</p><br>
<p>The William Paca House  is an 18th-century Georgian mansion in Annapolis, Maryland, United States. William Paca was a signatory of the Declaration of Independence and a three-term Governor of Maryland. The house was built between 1763 and 1765 and its architecture was largely designed by Paca himself. The 2 acre walled garden, which includes a two-story summer house, has been restored to its original state.</p><br>
<p>The William Paca House and Garden was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The original one-story office and kitchen pavilions, and their connecting hyphens, were altered in the 19th century with the house&#39;s conversion to a hotel, by a second story added to the hyphens and the west wing. These changes have since been reversed, and the building approximates its original outward appearance, both inside and out.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1780, Paca sold the house to Thomas Jenings, the attorney general of Maryland.</p><br>
<h3>Carvel Hall</h3><br>
<p>The house and grounds were eventually acquired by the Annapolis Hotel Corporation, and the house became the lobby and conference rooms for a new hotel constructed in the garden immediately to the rear. The hotel, known as "Carvel Hall," opened with two-hundred guest rooms in 1906. But, by 1964, a mixed-use development was proposed for the site that would have demolished the house and the hotel, putting high rises in its place.</p><br>
<h3>Restoration</h3><br>
<p>After the plans to demolish Carvel Hall became public, the house was acquired by Historic Annapolis, Inc. (later the Historic Annapolis Foundation, or HAF), and the surrounding property (garden) was acquired by the State of Maryland in 1965. The additions were removed in 1966-67 and ownership was transferred to the Maryland Historical Trust. The property is administered by Historic Annapolis Foundation, and is open to the public for guided tours of the house and self-guided garden year round.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Paca House is a Georgian five-part house. The brick structure comprises a central 2-1/2 story block on an elevated basement, flanked by symmetrical 1-1/2 story end pavilions, connected to the central structure by 1-1/2 story hyphens. The interior is a center hall plan with two rooms on either side of the hall. Original woodwork remains only in the central hall, stair hall and the west parlor, including the stair&#39;s original Chinese Chippendale balustrade.</p><br>
<p>The Brice House is, along with the Hammond-Harwood House and the William Paca House, one of three similar preserved 18th century Georgian style brick houses in Annapolis, Maryland. Like the Paca and Hammond-Harwood houses, it is a five-part brick mansion with a large central block and flanking pavilions with connecting hyphens. Of the three, the Brice House&#39;s exterior is the most austere, giving its brickwork particular prominence.</p><br>
<p>The Brice House was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Brice house was built by James Brice, who served as Mayor of Annapolis (1782–83 and 1787–88) and as acting Governor of Maryland in 1792. The house remained in the Brice family until 1874. The house was purchased by St. John&#39;s College in the 1920s and was used as a faculty residence. In 1953 the house was acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Stanley S. Wohl, who undertook restorations in 1953 and 1957.</p><br>
<p>Archeological excavations at the Brice House in 1998 uncovered hoodoo caches, spiritual offerings placed by African-American slaves who were house servants at the mansion.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Brice House is a simplified Georgian-style mansion that relies on its elevated site along a narrow street, its scale and the mass of its brickwork to make it one of the most impressive buildings of its style in the United States. It is a five-part plantation house transplanted to an urban setting. The interiors, while Georgian in detailing, are comparatively elaborate in character.</p><br>
<p>The house is sited on a terrace overlooking East Street. The 2½ story house main house is flanked by 1½ story wings connected at a lower elevation to the main house by 1½ story hyphens. The entire five-part ensemble rests on an elevated basement, which adds to the impression of height from the street. The hyphens and end pavilions are dormered, but the plain steep roof of the central block is uninterrupted, adding to the mass of the house. Tall, thin chimneys bookend the main block.The house is of brick construction on a fieldstone foundation, with the street (south) and garden (north) facades laid in an all-header pattern using oversized bricks.</p><br>
<p>Windows are nine-over-nine sashes on the main level and six-over-nine on the upper floor. Wood stairs reach the main doors on the north and south sides and are reconstructions based on an 1853 photograph. The south doors are original to the house and deeply recessed under a wood architrave. A unique pseudo-Palladian window is centered above the south entrance. The central block was originally roofed with cypress shingles, now replaced by non-combustible tiles.</p><br>
<p>The interior is not symmetrical, with an offset central hallway extending halfway into the house. A parlor occupies two bays on the south side, while a ballroom occupies three bays of the north side. The ballroom is among the largest of its kind, larger and more impressive than the ballroom in the similar Hammond-Harwood House.Interior detailing is late Georgian in style. The ballroom fireplace is a direct copy of a design from Abraham Swans stylebook British Architect of 1745. It was once considered that architect William Buckland executed these designs, but it is now thought to have been the work of William Brampton, who completed them between 1769 and 1772. The second floor comprises four bedrooms. The end pavilions contain a kitchen and servants quarters on the east side and a carriage house on the west side, connected by a narrow passage through the hyphens, which themselves each contain two rooms.</p><br>
<p>The house is substantially original in all respects, retaining its plasterwork, glass, woodwork and flooring.</p><br>
<p>Humboldt Park is a 207 acre park located at 1400 North Sacramento Avenue, on the West Side of Chicago, Illinois.</p><br>
<p>The park was named for Alexander von Humboldt, a German naturalist and botanist.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>William Le Baron Jenney began developing the park in the 1870s, molding a flat prairie landscape into a "pleasure ground" with horse trails and a pair of lagoons. The park opened to the public in 1877, but landscape architects such as Jens Jensen made significant additions to the park over the next few decades. Between 1905 and 1920, Jensen connected the two lagoons with a river, planted a rose garden, and built a fieldhouse, boathouse, and music pavilion.</p><br>
<p>The park played a prominent role in the past for Chicago&#39;s Polish Community. The Polish Constitution Day Parade once traditionally terminated here at the Tadeusz Kosciuszko statue that was located here before it was moved to Solidarity Promenade on the lakefront Museum Campus in 1981. Additionally, pianist and Polish statesman Ignace Paderewski delivered a famous address where he rallied Chicagoans to the cause of a free and independent Poland.</p><br>
<p>From 2012 to 2014, Humboldt Park was the home of the punk rock–based music festival Riot Fest and Carnival. For 2015, the three-day music festival was met with opposition from Alderman Roberto Maldonado and local residents over the condition of the grass, lack of accessibility during and after the festival, and gentrification of the surrounding area. This led to the festival&#39;s relocation south to Douglas Park.</p><br>
<h2>Landmarks</h2><br>
<p>The park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The boathouse pavilion was named a Chicago Landmark on November 13, 1996. The Humboldt Park Stables and Receptory became a Chicago Landmark on February 6, 2008.</p><br>
<h2>National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture</h2><br>
<p>With the support of Chicago&#39;s Puerto Rican community, Puerto Rican leaders in Chicago leased the historic Humboldt Park stables near Paseo Boricua to house the National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts and Culture. About $3.4 million was spent to renovate the exterior of the building and another $3.2 million for the interior.</p><br>
<p>The facility was opened in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Statues</h2><br>
<p>Near the boathouse stands a ten-foot-tall monument of the parks namesake, Alexander von Humboldt. Sculpted by Felix Gorling and donated by Francis Dewes, the statue encompasses a globe, a twig in his right hand, a lizard atop a manuscript, and plants at his feet. These inclusions were to symbolize Humboldts travels and role in establishing geophysics and physical geography sciences.</p><br>
<p>At the east entrance to the park, a pair of bronze American bison face the gardens. The sculptor, Edward Kemeys, also known for the lions at the entrance of the Art Institute of Chicago, created the Bison for the 1893 Worlds Columbian Exposition. The bronze reproductions of the Bison were created by Jules Bercham. They have been sitting in Humboldt Parks formal garden since 1915.</p><br>
<p>The German American residents of Chicago commissioned to have a monument created of Fritz Reuter, a German novelist and political martyr.</p><br>
<p>The German American sculptor for this monument, Franz Engelsman had also originally created four relief plaques depicting Reuter&#39;s achievements that were placed at the base of the sculpture. However, they were stolen in the 1930s and never salvaged.</p><br>
<p>The Leif Ericson monument is a bronze Viking sculpture set atop a granite boulder in Humboldt Park. Some believe Ericson to be the first European to discover North America. The Norwegian American community of Chicago commissioned for his monument and was sculpted by the Norwegian artist Sigvald Asbjornsen.</p><br>
<p>Additionally, the park was once home to a statue of Tadeusz Kosciuszko by Kazimierz Chodzinski that was built thanks to funds raised by Chicagos Polish community and moved in 1981 to the citys lakefront.</p><br>
<p>Hunt Armory  is an armory located at 324 Emerson Street in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Pittsburgh architects W.G. Wilkins Co. Announced on August 29, 1909 and budgeted at $450,000  it was completed by 1916. The armory was named after Spanish American War hero, metallurgist, and industrialist Captain Alfred E. Hunt , best known for founding the company that would eventually become Alcoa, the world&#39;s largest producer and distributor of aluminum. The Hunt Armory occupies an entire city block covering an area of 56,000 ft&sup2, also reported as 1.84 acres.</p><br>
<p>For many years, it was used (along with the Syria Mosque) as the city&#39;s main auditorium. Until the Pittsburgh Civic Arena was completed in 1961, the Hunt Armory was the largest auditorium in Pittsburgh and was frequently the host for concerts and political events including:</p><br>
<p>October 20, 1944: Presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey.</p><br>
<p>October 23, 1948: President Harry S. Truman with a crowd of over 25,000.</p><br>
<p>September 7 - October 4, 1952: Billy Graham&#39;s Pittsburgh crusade.</p><br>
<p>October 27, 1952: Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower.</p><br>
<p>October 30, 1952: Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson.</p><br>
<p>October 9, 1956: President Eisenhower.</p><br>
<p>October 31, 1956: Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson speaks to 12,000.</p><br>
<p>January 21, 1969: Led Zeppelin North American Tour 1968–1969</p><br>
<p>In 1952, the venue launched the "Pittsburgh crusades" of the Reverend Billy Graham.</p><br>
<p>Although superseded in size in 1961, the Armory remains in use.</p><br>
<p>It hosted the Handmade Arcade.</p><br>
<p>The Armory is closed for military use. Historically appropriate redevelopment is planned under the City&#39;s Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). Hunt Armory has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places since November 14, 1991. It received City of Pittsburgh historic landmark status on February 25, 2014.</p><br>
<p>Trylen is a small lake 17 km  south of central Stockholm, Sweden. Shared by Huddinge Municipality and Haninge Municipality, it forms part of the Tyresån Lake System.</p><br>
<h2>Catchment area</h2><br>
<p>With its catchment area characterized by morass and pine covered rock faces, Trylen is a popular spot for walks and bathing. Motorboats are not permitted on the lake. Fishing permits do not apply in the lake.</p><br>
<h3>Environmental influence</h3><br>
<p>Nutrients only reaches the lake from the air, which makes water quality high.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>An inventory in 1998 documented common reed, water horsetail, Menyanthes, yellow water-lily, white water-lily, floating-leaf pondweed, and flatleaf bladderwort. Additionally, there are red algae and mosses such as Fontinalis dalecarlica.</p><br>
<p>Birds by the lake includes mallard and common goldeneye. Toads were reported in the lake in 2004, as were dragonflies such as brown hawkers and brilliant emerald. No reports are available concerning bats, fishes, and crayfish.</p><br>
<p>Kattavia  is a small village located on the southernmost tip of the island of Rhodes. It is located within the municipal unit of South Rhodes  and was at the epicentre of the 2008 Dodecanese earthquake.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>Kattavia is a part of the Municipality of Southern Rhodes which is one of 10 municipalities on Rhodes. The municipality seat is Gennadi, which is located about 14 km north of Kattavia.</p><br>
<p>Kattavia village square or platia is situated over a creek which is dry for most of the year. The village currently has five full-service cafes and two general stores.</p><br>
<p>Kattavia is generally considered to be a traditional village which hasn&#39;t been affected much by overdevelopment. The Municipality of Southern Rhodes requires all new construction to adhere to strict traditional building designs when located within the village limits.</p><br>
<p>In recent years, the village has become a destination due to its proximity to Prasonisi, a popular windsurfing beach.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>When the Knights Hospitaller ruled Rhodes, Kattavia was turned into a fortified village where the population could find refuge when attacked by forces of the Ottoman Empire.</p><br>
<h3>Historical Sites</h3><br>
<p>The church of Agia Paraskevi, the patron saint of the village (19th century), and the church of Panagia Katholiki a 10th-century church located within the villages cemetery.</p><br>
<p>On the way to Prasonisi on the right hand side, the archaeological site of “Vroulia” is found. It is an ancient coastal settlement that many to believe to the predessecor to modern day Kattavia known for its terracotta vessels called “vessels of Vroulia”. Other historical sites include:</p><br>
<p>Saint George (17th century)</p><br>
<p>Saint Minas (19th century)</p><br>
<p>Prophet Elias (19th century)</p><br>
<p>Apostle Paul (20th century)</p><br>
<p>Saint Panteleimonas (20th century)</p><br>
<p>Saint Mark (Italian Catholic church (20th century) reopened (August, 2017) as a Greek Orthodox Church)</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Kattavia&#39;s current population is 250 people, but its registered population is around 600. In the summer months the population of Kattavia swells to over 700, due to the Greek Diaspora returning home from countries such as the United States and Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Festivals</h2><br>
<p>The village&#39;s patron saint is Aghia Paraskevi. Her feast day is July 26, when the village throws a 3-day festival held within the village square. Festivals throughout the year include:</p><br>
<p>Saint Paraskevi on July 26. The festival takes place the night before and ends the next evening.</p><br>
<p>Saint Panteleimonas on July 27. The festival takes place the night before and ends the next evening</p><br>
<p>Dormition of the Virgin Mary on August 15.</p><br>
<p>The Calvinistic Congregational Church is an historic church building located at 820 Main Street in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. In 1967, the congregation joined with the First United Methodist Church of Fitchburg to form a cooperative ministry called Faith United Parish. Built in 1896. the church was designed by architect Henry M. Francis, and is one of the city&#39;s finest examples of Richardsonian Romanesque architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The current pastor is Rev. Jeff Conlon.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The Faith United Church stands at the southern end of the Fitchburg Upper Common, adjacent to the city&#39;s central business district. It is a rectangular structure, built out of red sandstone and brick. Its gable roof is oriented parallel to Rollstone Street, which runs just north of the building. The front gable is stepped and is topped by a finial; a lower cross gable on the side is also stepped. A tall tower, over 158 ft in height, stands at the corner of the two streets, rising to a clock level, belfry, and octagonal spire. A lower tower stands at the right rear of the sanctuary, the cross gable between them set above a group of four windows with a half-round window above the center two. The interior decoration includes five Tiffany windows.</p><br>
<p>The congregation that had the church built in 1896 was founded in 1802 as a traditional Congregationalist alternative to Fitchburg&#39;s first church, founded in 1768 and converted to Unitarianism at the time of the split. This congregation built its first church in 1806, and a larger one in 1845. The present building was built, its design probably a gift of local architect Henry M. Francis, who was one of its parishioners and then late in his career. The church is one of his finest examples of the Richardsonian Romanesque style, and one of the finest example of that style in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Calvinist Congregational Church, its enrollment declining, entered a ministry union with the First United Methodist Church. Although the congregations are separately managed (retaining separate affilitions with the United Church of Christ and the United Methodist Church), they share the facilities and the minister.</p><br>
<p>The Blackstone Viaduct, or the New York & New England Railroad Viaduct is a historic viaduct in Blackstone, Massachusetts. The viaduct was built in 1872 by the Boston, Hartford and Erie Railroad and the American Bridge Company. The viaduct is 1,600 ft long structure, consisting of masonry arches and earthen embankments in the Massachusetts portion of the village of Waterford. It runs from the Blackstone River in the east to a still-watered section of the defunct Blackstone Canal to the west. The most prominent portion of the structure is an 800-foot earthen embankment running west from the river that is 25 ft high, and then a 375 ft multiple-arch masonry bridge constructed out of granite which was sheathed in concrete in 1918. The structure was built as part of a project by the Boston, Hartford and Erie to build a complete run between New York City and Boston.</p><br>
<p>The structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The East Blackstone Village Historic District is a historic district roughly along Elm Street at the junction with Summer Street in eastern Blackstone, Massachusetts. It encompasses a small 19th-century mill village center that developed along what was once a major roadway connecting Worcester with Providence, Rhode Island. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Setting</h2><br>
<p>East Blackstone village is centered on the junction of Elm and Summer Streets in Blackstone, a community in southeastern Worcester County and abutting Rhode Island to the south. Elm Street is the historic major route connecting Worcester to the northwest with Providence to the southeast. The Mill River flows roughly parallel to the road to its southwest, and its waters provided the power for the villages early industries, a grist mill (1753) and a saw mill (1760), at a point where the river passes under Elm Street west of Summer on a c. 1850 stone arch bridge known as Kelly&#39;s Bridge. Only archaeological and foundational remnants survive of the mills at this site. Although this area is separated from the center of the village, it is included in the historic district because of its early importance in the later development of the village.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The district includes fourteen residential buildings, a school, and a former retail building, as well as a number of archaeological resources. Most of them are located on the south side of Elm Street, west of the Summer Street junction, or on Summer Street to the south. The oldest building is the c. 1760 Seth Kelly House (174 Elm Street), with most of the other buildings dating to the first half of the 19th century. The majority of the houses are either Greek Revival or Federal style in their architecture, although later Italianate buildings are also present. One house, the Lyman Paine House at 116 Elm, is an 1850s that was modified in the 1870s by the addition of a then-fashionable mansard roof. The school building, a c. 1830 brick building (one of very few in Blackstone), has been converted into a residence. The Stone Store is one of only three 19th-century stone buildings in the town; it is a three-story structure fashioned out of coursed buff-colored stone.</p><br>
<p>The Farnums Gate Historic District is a historic district encompassing a neighborhood of Blackstone, Massachusetts, associated with the locally prominent Farnum family. The area, on Main Street roughly between Austin Street and the St. Pauls Bridge, includes a number of homes built in the 1840s by prominent local industrialists, during a period of prosperity in the Blackstone River valley. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Farnums Gate Historic District is linear in nature, extending along Main Street (Massachusetts Route 122), with its western end roughly midway between its two junctions with Austin Street, and its eastern end a few houses east of the St. Paul Bridge, which spans the Blackstone River. Standing just west of the bridge is the 1835 Welcome Farnum House, a large Federal style structure that now houses professional offices. The districts name is derived from Farnum, whose family owned and developed land in the area, and the bridge, which was the gate by which the Farnums reached their mills on the opposite side of the river. Across Main Street stands the house of Welcome&#39;s brother Moses, a Greek Revival house with a Greek Revival entry porch. To its right stands the Queen Anne Victorian house of Joseph Southwick, with the Greek temple-fronted Estus Lamb House beyond. The only non-residential buildings in the district are the Federated Church (1928 brick Gothic Revival), and the former Blackstone High School (1920), now housing the public library.</p><br>
<p>Welcome and Darius Farnum arrived in this area (from their native Uxbridge in 1825, and established a textile mill on the south side of the river, and expanded their business along the river over the next ten years. Welcome Farnum was a dominating figure in the local economy, investing in the Blackstone Canal and the local railroad, as well as funding numerous civic improvements, including churches and schools. The cluster of houses located near the bridge were built and owned by either Farnum relatives or business associates, on land originally held by Welcome Farnum. Houses further to the west were typically owned by merchants and other local businessmen.</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District encompasses the historic late 19th and early 20th-century commercial heart of Webster, Massachusetts. It consists of fourteen buildings on Main Street in downtown Webster, between High and Church Streets. This area contains the highest concentration of period commercial buildings in the town. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Webster was settled in 1713 as part of Dudley, from which it was separated in 1832. The densely built portion of its downtown is located south and east of a bend in the French River, on an east-west stretch of Main Street. Originally residential in character, the first commercial block was built here 1888. By 1905 the area had acquired a more distinctly commercial character, with several commercial or mixed residential-commercial buildings on both sides of the street. Development between 1912 and 1925 solidified the area&#39;s commercial character. Business declined in the downtown after World War II, when suburban shopping centers began to draw economic activity away.</p><br>
<p>The historic district consists of fourteen buildings, of which eight are on the north side of Main Street between High and Church Streets. When the district was listed on the National Register in 1982, there were ten in this area; two have since been demolished. On the south side of the street there are six buildings, clustered opposite Tracy Court. All are between two and four stories in height, and of masonry construction, generally brick with stone trim. Stylistically they are in a diversity of styles popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including the Classical Revival, Queen Anne, and Renaissance Revival. One of the buildings includes within it the structure of an 1875 Italianate house.</p><br>
<p>The Angle Tree Stone is a historic boundary marker astride the border of North Attleboro, Massachusetts and Plainville, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The slate marker was built in 1790 by a father and son team of gravestone makers. The stone was added to the National Historic Register in 1976. The stone replaced the "Angle Tree" from the 17th century, which was a surveying landmark for the boundary between Bristol and Norfolk counties, and also between North Attleborough and Plainville, Massachusetts. The county border is a straight east-west line coming from Cumberland, Rhode Island to the site of the tree (now the stone) and then turning at an angle (hence the "angle tree" designation) and running in a straight line from there almost to Massachusetts Bay near Cohasset.</p><br>
<p>The Angle Tree Stone has been encased in a brick and plexiglass structure since 1985 to protect it from the ravages of graffiti. It is set back 1/4 mile down a dirt access road and foot path.</p><br>
<p>In 1640, the Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony had agreed that a line from Accord Pond, in Hingham, to Wrentham, Massachusetts, should be the dividing line between the colonies. It was an extremely important point because at that time the grant to Massachusetts extended to the Pacific Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The line was often the subject of disputes and not finally settled until two USA Supreme Court decisions were handed down two centuries later in Rhode Island v. Massachusetts, 37 USA 12 Pet. 657 (1838) and 45 USA 591 (1846).</p><br>
<p>The Capron House is an historic house on 42 North Avenue in Attleboro, Massachusetts. It is one of the town&#39;s oldest surviving buildings, built about 1740 by the son of one of its first settlers. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Capron House stands in what is now a mixed residential-commercial area north of downtown Attleboro, on the west side of North Avenue north of its junction with Deanville Road. It is now set close to the road; it originally had a larger front lawn, much of which was taken in the late 19th century when a streetcar line was laid. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a side gable roof, two asymmetrically placed interior chimneys, and an exterior of wooden shingles laid over original wooden clapboards. It is five bays wide and two deep, with single story ells extending its left side. Its main entry is flanked by pilasters and topped by a four-light transom window and a full pedimented gable. Interior features include original wide pine flooring and horizontal wainscoting.</p><br>
<p>One of the early settlers of the area that is now Attleboro was Banfield Capron, whose family would continue to be prominent in town affairs for many years. He gave each of his seven children 200 acre of farmland. This house was built about 1740 by one of those children. The property is now much reduced in size, only 1/3 acre. One of the house&#39;s 19th-century residents, Joseph Capron, kept a detailed journal about events and conditions of the property.</p><br>
<p>The East Attleborough Academy is an historic former school building at 28 Sanford Street in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Built in 1843, it is the towns only example of a Greek Revival temple front building. It originally served as a private academy, and has since served as the towns first high school, and as an office building. It is now home to the town&#39;s historical society. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former East Attleborough Academy building is located on the north side of the Attleboro&#39;s town center, on the north side of Sanford Street, where it shares a lot with a municipal parking lot. It is a two-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof and clapboarded exterior. Its prominent feature is the Greek Revival temple facade, in which four fluted Doric columns rise to an entablature and fully pedimented gable. It is set on a brick foundation that was built on top of its original stone foundation, the building having been moved twice. The main entrance is at the center of the facade behind this portico, which is otherwise unadorned; it is flanked by fluted pilasters. The building corners sport paneled pilasters, and the sides each have four regularly spaced windows. A two-story ell extends to the rear of the main block.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1843 as a private academy, a role it served until 1864. In 1867, the town leased the building from its private owners to house its first public high school. It was moved a short distance (records are unclear on exactly where) in 1874, and was moved back to its original location in 1889, albeit on a new brick foundation. The high school vacated the premises in 1882. In 1900 it housed the offices of the town&#39;s school superintendent, and in 1920 the town finally purchased the building.</p><br>
<p>The building now houses the local historical society. Architecturally, it is the only example of a Greek Revival temple front in the town, either institutional or residential.</p><br>
<p>The Falls Fire Barn Museum, also known as the Fire Barn or "Falls Fire Station No. 2" is an historic fire station on Commonwealth Avenue in the village of Attleboro Falls in North Attleborough, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Italianate two story structure was built in 1893 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It was an active fire station until 1976 and housed Engines 1 and 2, when it was replaced by a station built on Kelly Blvd (Rte 152). It has since been made into a museum for the local fire dept as well as the town history in general, and has many artifacts of local interest. The first curator was the late George Cunningham, who was active there until his late 90s.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting information</h2><br>
<p>It is supported by admission fees and by fundraisers sponsored by the local historical society. The museum is open Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church is a historic Baptist church meeting house at 149 William Street in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The Greek Revival building was constructed in 1829, and has been a prominent landmark of the city ever since. Its tower appears on the city seal.</p><br>
<p>The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and included in the County Street Historic District in 1976.</p><br>
<p>In 1863 Major Henry M. Robert attended the annual general meeting at the First Baptist Church in New Bedford and on the spot was elected the chairman pro tem of the meeting. He was embarrassed because he knew nothing of how to run a meeting. It was that meeting that caused him to begin studying parliamentary law, which culminated in the publication of the first edition of his book, Robert&#39;s Rules of Order, in 1876.</p><br>
<p>In 2015 the landmark was declared a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<p>The First Baptist Church and Society is an historic Baptist church on Baptist Street in Swansea, Massachusetts. The congregation, founded in 1663, is the oldest Baptist congregation in Massachusetts and one of the oldest in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was founded in 1663 by John Myles as the first Baptist congregation in Massachusetts, and Myles brought the Ilston Book with him from Swansea in Wales. The congregation in Swansea, Massachusetts was located relatively nearby the First Baptist Church in America in Providence.</p><br>
<p>The current Greek Revival meeting house was constructed in 1848 and is the fifth building occupied by the congregation. The adjacent cemetery dates to 1731. The building and cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The First Parsonage for Second East Parish Church was an historic church parsonage at 41 S. Main Street in Attleboro, Massachusetts. Built in 1822, it was a good local example of Federal period architecture. At the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, it was the oldest documented building in the town center. It was demolished in 1998.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The First Parsonage of the Second East Parish Church was located in the central village of Attleboro, on the west side of South Main Street. Its location is approximately that of a parking lot between a row of commercial buildings and a senior living center. It was a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a hip roof and clapboarded exterior. The hip roof included a feature rarely seen in period houses: a rectangular monitor at its center. Its main facade was five bays wide, with sash windows set in simple surrounds, and those on the upper level butting against the cornice moulding, also a Federal period feature. The main entrance was in the center of the facade, sheltered by a late 19th-century Italianate hood. A single-story ell extended to the rear of the main block.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1822 to serve as the parsonage for the towns east parish (the first parish now is in North Attleborough). It only served as home to the parishs third pastor, Rev. John Ferguson, from 1822 to 1835. It then passed through a succession of owners, the locally most notable being Joseph Capron. He was active in town affairs, serving as the town surveyor and in numerous other capacities. He was also president of a local mutual fire insurance company, and of the Attleboro Gaslight Company, an important utility that furthered the town&#39;s economic development. In its later years it had been subdivided into apartments. It was demolished in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Fort Taber District or the Fort at Clarks Point is a historic American Civil War-era military fort on Wharf Road within the former Fort Rodman Military Reservation in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The fort is now part of Fort Taber Park, a 47-acre town park located at Clarks Point. Fort Taber was an earthwork built nearby with city resources and garrisoned 1861-1863 until Fort Rodman was ready for service.</p><br>
<h2>Fort Taber</h2><br>
<p>After the Civil War began in April 1861, it was apparent that the Fort at Clarks Point was still years from completion. Fort Taber, a small earthwork with six cannon, was built nearby with city resources and named after New Bedfords mayor during that period. The Fort Taber name was unofficially used to refer to the Fort at Clark&#39;s Point for many years, even by the garrison in letters home, and is used to refer to the stone fort in some recent references.</p><br>
<h2>Fort Rodman</h2><br>
<h3>Civil War era</h3><br>
<p>Also known as the Old Stone Fort, Fort Rodman (known as "Fort at Clarks Point" until 1898) began construction in 1857 under the third system of US fortifications, and in 1862 construction became overseen by Henry Robert, author of Roberts Rules of Order and an Army Corps of Engineers officer. The fort, as built, had emplacements for 72 cannon in three tiers; a fourth tier was originally planned, but this was removed from the design to allow more timely completion. Construction was halted in 1871, and the fort as planned was never completed.</p><br>
<p>The fort is awaiting restoration and is not open to the public.</p><br>
<h3>Endicott period</h3><br>
<p>With new batteries being constructed under the Endicott program in 1898, the USA Army officially named the military reservation at the site and the fort as Fort Rodman Military Reservation, in honor of Lieutenant Colonel Logan Rodman, a New Bedford native with the 38th Massachusetts Infantry who died in the assault on Port Hudson, Louisiana in 1863. It was the primary fort of the Coast Defenses of New Bedford. Along with gun batteries, facilities for planting and controlling an underwater minefield were built. The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Endicott period batteries at Fort Rodman were built 1898-1902, with other batteries added later as follows:</p><br>
<p>Battery Walcott was named for William H. Walcott of the 17th USA Infantry in the Civil War. Battery Barton was named for William Barton of the Revolutionary War. Battery Cross was named for Charles E. Cross, an engineer officer killed at the Battle of Fredericksburg in the Civil War. Battery Craig was named for Presley O. Craig, 2nd USA Artillery, killed at the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War. Battery Gaston was named for William Gaston, 1st USA Dragoons, killed in 1858 fighting Native Americans. Battery Milliken was named for Alfred S. Milliken, an engineer officer killed in World War I.</p><br>
<h3>World War I through World War II</h3><br>
<p>After the American entry into World War I many 5-inch guns were withdrawn from forts for potential service on field carriages on the Western Front. However, Battery Cross&#39;s two guns were removed in 1917 and installed on the Army transport ship USAT Kilpatrick. They were returned to Fort Rodman in March 1919, and scrapped in 1921 under a general removal from Coast Artillery service of 5-inch guns. The 8-inch guns of Batteries Walcott and Barton were dismounted for potential service as railway artillery in June 1918, but were remounted later without leaving the fort.</p><br>
<p>In 1920 the Driggs-Seabury M1898 3-inch guns of Batteries Craig and Gaston were removed due to a general removal from service of this type of gun; they were not replaced.</p><br>
<p>Battery Milliken was built 1917-1921 as part of a general upgrade of the Coast Artillery with existing 12-inch M1895 guns on new long-range carriages, initially in open mounts. Compared with disappearing carriages, this increased the range of this type of gun from 18,400 yd to 30,100 yd. This effectively replaced the forts previous 8-inch guns, but those were not removed until World War II. Battery Milliken housed the post switchboard, and during World War II this was operated by the Womens Army Corps, for which the latrines were re-arranged.</p><br>
<p>In 1925 the Coast Defenses of New Bedford were renamed the Harbor Defenses of New Bedford, as were all similar commands.</p><br>
<p>In 1938 a battery of two 155 mm guns on "Panama mounts" (circular concrete platforms) was built at Fort Rodman. In 1940-1941 numerous temporary buildings were constructed on site to accommodate newly mobilized units. In 1942 the two 8-inch guns of Batteries Walcott and Barton were scrapped, leaving only the 12-inch Battery Milliken and the 155 mm battery active. Battery Milliken was casemated for protection against air attack during the war.</p><br>
<p>In 1946, with the war over, Fort Rodman was disarmed and subsequently turned over to the Commonwealth.</p><br>
<h3>Associated batteries</h3><br>
<p>Several additional small-caliber batteries defended New Bedford and Buzzards Bay during World War II. Chief among these was Battery 210 at Mishaum Point Military Reservation in Dartmouth. It had two 6-inch M1 guns in long-range shielded mounts with a large bunker for ammunition and fire control between them. It currently has a private residence built on it. A two-gun 155 mm battery was at the location until the 6-inch battery was completed in 1945, along with the harbor entrance control post for New Bedford.</p><br>
<p>Defending the passage to New Bedford between Dartmouth and Cuttyhunk Island were two batteries of 90 mm guns, one at Barneys Joy Point Military Reservation and one on Cuttyhunk Island, part of the Elizabeth Islands Military Reservation. These were called Anti-Motor Torpedo Boat Batteries (AMTB) 931 and 932, respectively. The AMTB batteries had an authorized strength of four 90 mm guns, two on fixed mounts and two on towed mounts. An additional 90 mm battery, AMTB 933, was on Nashawena Island, just east of Cuttyhunk Island.</p><br>
<p>Protecting the southern entrance to the Cape Cod Canal was a two-gun 155 mm battery on Panama mounts, replaced in 1943 by AMTB 934, at Butler Point Military Reservation in Marion.</p><br>
<h2>Present</h2><br>
<p>The forts guns were all scrapped by 1948. The fort grounds and garrison buildings became a military reserve center, and eventually a wastewater treatment plant was built on part of the site. Southeastern Massachusetts University (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth after 1991) occupies some of the forts buildings. The reserve center closed in the 1970s. Today most of the former fort is a public park, but the stone fort and gun batteries are fenced off, and the Endicott batteries are overgrown. The stone fort has occasionally been opened for special events.</p><br>
<h2>Lighthouse</h2><br>
<p>The Clarks Point Light stands on the parapet of the fort. Originally established as a freestanding tower, it was moved to the fort in 1869 because the fort&#39;s walls obscured the beacon from some angles. it was deactivated in 1898, but was relit in 2001 by the city as a private aid to navigation.</p><br>
<h2>Fort Taber Historical Association Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Fort Taber Historical Association Museum is located at Fort Taber Park, and features a miniature model of the fort, uniforms from different eras during the fort&#39;s active use, photos and military memorabilia. It is operated by the Fort Taber/Fort Rodman Historical Association and opened in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Park amenities</h2><br>
<p>The park includes several gun batteries, and American Revolution, American Civil War, and World War II re-enactments are held in the park. The stone fort and 20th-century batteries are fenced off but can be viewed.</p><br>
<p>A World War II M-4 Sherman tank recovered from the debris of Exercise Tiger is on display in the park, and serves as the US memorial for the dead of the Exercise. A commemoration ceremony is held annually.</p><br>
<p>Övre Rudasjön , or Övre Rudan for short, is a lake in Haninge Municipality, 18 km  south of central Stockholm, Sweden. Forming part of the Tyresån Lake System, its major inflow comes from lakes Nedre Rudasjön  and Trylen to the south, while its outflow passes over Dammträsk into Drevviken to the north.</p><br>
<p>The tall buildings of Handen commercial centre along the eastern shore of the lake contrast the dense forest of the Rudan Open-air Area on the opposite shore. The proximity to the commuter rail station at Handen, makes the lake easily accessible to a large number of people, while the forests surrounding it makes it attractive to open-air lovers. It is used for bathing in summers and cross-country skiing in winters.</p><br>
<p>Compared to other lakes in the Tyresån Lake System, levels of phosphorus in the lake are moderate.</p><br>
<p>With are 28 species of vascular plants by the lake and 1 species of Stoneworth in it, the lake fauna is considered relatively rich in species.</p><br>
<p>Brayton Methodist Episcopal Church is an historic former Methodist church building located at 264 Griffin Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. The wooden Gothic Revival church building was constructed in 1897 through the generosity of John Summerfield Brayton and his sister Mary Brayton Young. It was designed by local architect Charles H. Farnham.</p><br>
<p>The church was unique in that it was built by and named for the Braytons, a prominent local family, yet it was a "mill-workers&#39;" church, located in the southern section of the city near several mills. The church, a handsome vernacular example of Late Victorian Gothic style.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The building is now owned by Citizens for Citizens, a non-profit social agency.</p><br>
<p>B.M.C. Durfee High School is an historic former high school building at 289 Rock Street in Fall River, Massachusetts. The school was built in 1886 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. In 1978, it was replaced by the current B.M.C. Durfee High School building. The old building was restored in the early 1990s and is now operated as a probate and family courthouse by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.</p><br>
<h2>Historical background</h2><br>
<p>The building was built as a donation from Mrs. Mary B. Young to the people of the city of Fall River, in memory of her son Bradford Matthew Chaloner Durfee, who had died at a young age in 1872, leaving a sizable inheritance.</p><br>
<p>George A. Clough, a Boston architect was chosen to design the building. Ground was broken in August 1883. The first story of the school is constructed of native Fall River Granite, while the stone of the upper portions is from Mason, New Hampshire. The new high school was formally dedicated to the city on June 15, 1887.</p><br>
<p>The building occupies a commanding position atop a hill in the citys Highlands neighborhood, and is visible from miles around. Even today, the schools sports teams are known as the "Durfee Hilltoppers".</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>In 1978, the city opened a new, much larger high school in the north end, also named "B.M.C. Durfee High School". The old high school remained vacant until the early 1990s when it was taken over by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, for use as a Probate Court House. The restoration was completed in the mid-1990s. The Southeast branch of the Massachusetts Housing Court is located in the building as well.</p><br>
<h2>Telescope</h2><br>
<p>The building features a rare 4-foot telescope with an 8-inch lens, built by the Warner & Swasey Company in 1887. The observatory sat idle for decades, until volunteers began work restoring the telescope and clock mechanism in 2009. The telescope opened for public viewing for select nights in 2015.</p><br>
<p>Panamá Viejo, also known as Panamá la Vieja, is the remaining part of the old Panama City and former capital of the country. It is located in the suburbs of the modern city. Together with the historical district of Panamá, it has been a World Heritage Site since 1997.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1539 and 1563, the city suffered a number of fires which destroyed parts of it but did not impede the city&#39;s development. In 1610, the city reached a population of 5000, with 500 houses and convents, chapels, a hospital and the cathedral.</p><br>
<p>At the beginning of the 17th century, the city was attacked several times by pirates and indigenous people from Darién. On 2 May 1620, an earthquake damaged many buildings in the city. On 21 February 1644, the Great Fire destroyed 83 religious buildings, including the cathedral. At this time, there were 8,000 people living in the city.</p><br>
<p>In 1670, the city counted 10,000 inhabitants. On 28 January 1671, the Welsh pirate Henry Morgan attacked the city with 1,400 men marching from the Caribbean coast across the jungle. Morgans force defeated the citys militia then proceeded to sack Panamá. Either Morgan and his army started a fire that burned the city or the Captain General Don Juan Pérez de Guzmán ordered the gunpowder magazines exploded. Either way, the resulting fire destroyed the city. Morgan&#39;s attack caused the loss of thousands of lives and Panamá had to be rebuilt a few kilometres to the west on a new site (the current one).</p><br>
<p>Henry Morgan was arrested but after proving he knew not of the recent treaty he was freed and later rewarded.</p><br>
<h2>Popular culture</h2><br>
<p>This UNESCO World Heritage Site was the pit stop of the 19th season of The Amazing Race.</p><br>
<p>The reward feast from a reward challenge in the 7th season of the CBS show Survivor was held at this place.</p><br>
<p>Mynydd Machen is a 362 m hill lying between the town of Risca and the village of Machen in Caerphilly County Borough in south Wales. Its summit is crowned by a trig point and a mast.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill lies at the southeastern extremity of the South Wales Coalfield where the varied Carboniferous Period rock strata of the coalfield margin are tilted steeply northwestwards into the coalfield basin. The sequence which outcrops on Mynydd Machen in northeast-southwest aligned bands is this (oldest at base):</p><br>
<p>Warwickshire Group</p><br>
<p>South Wales Coal Measures Group</p><br>
<p>Marros Group</p><br>
<p>Pembroke Limestone Group</p><br>
<p>The summit of the hill is formed from the sandstone of the ‘Brithdir Member’ of the Pennant Sandstone Formation. A large quarry towards the south of the hill works the dolomitic limestone of the Pembroke Limestone Group.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Numerous public footpaths criss-cross the hill, some being followed by promoted recreational walking routes such as the Rhymney Valley Ridgeway Walk, the Sirhowy Valley Walk and the Raven Walk. The upper slopes of the hill and most of the woodland which clothes its slopes is mapped as open access under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and thereby open to access on foot by the public.Ordnance Survey Explorer map 152 Newport & Pontypool</p><br>
<p>Tubli Bay   is a bay in the east of Bahrain, between Bahrain Island and Sitra island. The body of water is directly south of the Manama peninsula. The island of Nabih Saleh lies in the bay.</p><br>
<p>The area was known for its rich marine and bird life, and the mangrove forests around its borders. The mangroves thrived on the run-off of water of freshwater springs after it passed through farms into the bay. The bay is a major breeding ground for shrimp and fishes. It is also a stopover for several migratory bird species.</p><br>
<p>Today Tubli Bay has suffered from illegal land reclamation, environmental pollution and decreasing freshwater supply from springs. Land reclamations have reduced the size from 25 km² in the 1960s to just 11 km² today. The mangroves that used to exist along much of the coast have been reduced to just a few small patches at Ras Sanad and Ras Tubli.</p><br>
<p>In 1997, Tubli Bay was added to the list of Ramsar wetlands of international importance.</p><br>
<p>The San Jose de Gracia Church, also known as Church of Santo Tomas Del Rio de Las Trampas, is a historic church on the main plaza of Las Trampas, New Mexico. Built between 1760 and 1776, it is one of the least-altered examples of a Spanish Colonial Pueblo mission church, with adobe walls rising 34 ft in height. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The village of Las Trampas is located on New Mexico State Road 76, the "high road" between Santa Fe and Taos. Its main plaza is an open dirt expanse on the east side of that road, with the church on the plaza&#39;s north side. The church has a cruciform plan, and is built out of adobe finished in mud plaster. Its nave is 100 ft long and 52 ft wide (as measured on the outside), with transepts and an apse extending the structure to the north, east, and west. The walls vary in thickness from 4 to 6 ft, and rise to a height of 34 ft. The adobe roof is supported by vigas overlaid by planking, the vigas mounted into specially shaped corbels. An unusual and distinctive feature of this church is a clerestory window above the nave that is oriented to allow sunlight to fall into the apse area. The main entrance is at the southern end of the nave, between a pair of buttresses, which also support a wooden balcony at the gallery level.</p><br>
<p>The community of Las Trampas was founded in 1751 by twelve Spanish families. Originally sheltered by an adobe wall that encircled the plaza, the community grew to 63 families 1776, when the church was completed. The church escaped significant alteration due to the economic isolation of the community until the 20th century. The church ceiling is painted with 18th and 19th century designs, and the interior is decorated with notable artworks of 18th and 19th century santeros. The annual feast day is March 19.</p><br>
<p>The Wood River is a short river in the southern region of the USA state of Oregon, and part of the Klamath Basin drainage. It flows 18 mi through the Fremont-Winema National Forests, Bureau of Land Management land, and private property in southern Oregon. Its watershed consists of 220 square miles of conifer forest, rural pasture land, and marsh. The river provides habitat for many species of wildlife including an adfluvial  and resident populations of native Great Basin redband trout.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The Wood River flows through Klamath County, Oregon with headwaters emanating from a large natural spring located in Jackson F. Kimball State Recreation Site. The aquifer that feeds the spring is believed to originate 20 mi to the northwest in the east side drainage of Crater Lake National Park. The Wood River meanders through pine forest and agricultural land for 18 mi before flowing into Agency Lake.</p><br>
<p>The Wood Rivers largest tributary is Annie Creek which originates inside the boundary of Crater Lake National Park, and is fed by the parks snowpack as well as groundwater from natural springs. After leaving the park, Annie Creek passes through the Fremont-Winema National Forests and then runs along the western border of Sun Pass State Forest for about a mile. It then crosses private pastureland and is joined by Sun Creek before joining the Wood River, about a mile south of Kimball State Recreation Site.</p><br>
<p>From there, the Wood runs south through the Fremont-Winema National Forests and private pasture land before Fort Creek joins the flow. Below Fort Creek, the river flows through private pasture land and then opens into a wide marsh. Much of the original marsh is now pasture land. Water from the river is diverted into a system of canals to irrigate grazing land in the surrounding valley. Finally, Crooked Creek joins the Wood approximately one mile before it empties into Agency Lake, which is connected to Upper Klamath Lake.</p><br>
<h3>Discharge</h3><br>
<p>The average discharge of the Wood River at its mouth is 319 cuft/s.</p><br>
<h2>Watershed</h2><br>
<p>The Wood River watershed drains 220 square miles forest land in the Cascade Mountains southeast of Crater Lake and the Wood River Valley. The drainage around its headwaters is forest county dominated by ponderosa pine and lodgepole pine with some quaking aspen in meadow lands. Annie Creek drains steep alpine forest country. From near its headwaters to the border of Crater Lake National Park, the creek has cut a deep canyon through the forest that is a well known feature within the park. After leaving the park, Annie Creek flows into flat meadow lands on the western border of Sun Pass State Forest. Annie Creek also feeds several irrigation canals including Scott Ditch, Shattuck Ditch, Loosely-Streeter-Cardwell Ditch, and Copeland Lateral Ditch. Excess flow from these canals is returned to Annie Creek and the Wood River. The lower Wood River flows through pasture land and ultimately opens into a large marsh before draining into Agency Lake.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1863, the United States Army established Fort Klamath near the Wood River in south central Oregon. Soldiers constructed a sawmill on Fort Creek, and use the lumber it produced to build officers quarters, troop barracks, a guardhouse and arsenal, a small hospital, a bakery, stables, and other structures. To the north of the post, the army planted 3,000 acre of grass to supply fodder for it horses and mules. The fort was abandoned in 1889. None of the original buildings remain today.</p><br>
<h2>River habitat</h2><br>
<p>The Wood River habitat supports wild, self-sustaining populations of brook, brown, Great Basin redband, and coastal rainbow trout. These species are widely distributed throughout the river system from the headwaters to Agency Lake. Bull trout are native to upper Sun Creek inside Crater Lake National Park. Great Basin redband trout and coastal rainbow trout are species, both rainbow trout subspecies, native to the Klamath basin. The Wood River Species Management Unit (SMU) for redband trout is considered secure by the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.</p><br>
<p>Annie Creek and Sun Creek are extremely important because of the relative rarity of water and riparian habitat in the area. Both creeks are classified as a large, fish-bearing stream under provisions of Oregon Forest Practices Act. This reserves sufficient stream flow to support aquatic life, but does not override the most senior water rights.</p><br>
<p>The waterway provides habitat for river wildlife including beaver, river otter, and muskrats. The river also supports non-aquatic animals. Common animals in the Wood River area include raccoons, gray squirrels, martens, mink, red fox, gray fox, mule deer, bobcats, and black bear. Domestic beef cattle are common in the Wood River Valley.</p><br>
<p>In September 1992, USA Congress appropriated funds for the Bureau of Land Management to purchase 3,200 acre of natural wetland along the north end of Agency Lake at the mouth of the Wood River. This wetland area was converted to pasture land in the 1950s and 1960s. The land purchase was completed in 1994. Since acquiring the Wood River property, the Bureau of Land Management has successfully restored the wetland area and adjacent Wood River channel to a more natural state. The channel restoration project was completed in 2001. The new channel meanders through the marsh, increasing the length of the Wood River by over one half mile. Overall, this project has improved water quality and created better habitat for fish, birds, and wildlife.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>There are several recreation sites along the Wood River. Jackson F. Kimball State Recreation Site has a day-use picnic area and ten campsites. Water activities like fishing, canoeing, and kayaking are available. A short trail connects the main campground to the Wood River&#39;s headwaters spring. The park is located just off Oregon Route 232, approximately 20 mi southeast of Crater Lake National Park, and 40 mi northwest of Klamath Falls, Oregon.</p><br>
<p>The Fremont-Winema National Forest maintains a day use site along the Wood River. The Forest Service site provides access to hiking trails and shoreline fishing. It also has picnic tables and restrooms, but visitors must bring their own drinking water. The site is located 33 mi north of Klamath Falls on Sun Pass Road, a mile off Highway 62 (also known as Crater Lake Highway).</p><br>
<p>At the mouth of the Wood River, the Bureau of Land Management maintains the 3,200 acre Wood River Wetland area. The Wood River Wetland is open year round for day use activities including fishing, canoeing, kayaking, bird and wildlife watching, and waterfowl hunting in season. Facilities include a paved parking area, restrooms, picnic areas, nature trails, a canoe launch, and interpretive signs; however, there is no drinking water at the site. Motorized vehicles are not allowed beyond the parking area. During hunting season, the Wood River Wetland opens two hours before sunrise and closes a half-hour after sunset. The entrance to the Wood River Wetland is just off Modoc Point Road, 26 mi north of Klamath Falls.</p><br>
<p>Wood River offers excellent fishing that can be accessed from the shore or by canoe or kayak. Brook, brown, and Great Basin redband and coastal rainbow trout are found in the Wood River and its tributaries.</p><br>
<p>The Kennedy Farm is a National Historic Landmark property on Chestnut Grove Road in rural southern Washington County, Maryland. It is notable as the place where the radical abolitionist John Brown planned and began his raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in 1859. Also known as John Brown&#39;s Headquarters and Kennedy Farmhouse, the log, stone and brick building has been restored to its appearance at the time of the raid. The farm is now owned by a preservation nonprofit, and the grounds surrounding the building are open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Historic significance</h2><br>
<p>The Kennedy Farm is a parcel of under 2 acre of land on the west side of Chestnut Grove Road, a few miles north of Harpers Ferry, West Virginia in a rural part of southern Washington County, Maryland. It is part of a much larger farm property that was purchased in 1852 by Dr. Robert Kennedy. Kennedy took the small log cabin on the property, and mounted it on a tall (one-story in height) stone foundation, added a frame addition to one side, and covered both with a gabled roof. Kennedy died in 1858.</p><br>
<p>Brown arrived in Maryland in 1859 and rented the house. For three months Brown and his co-conspirators lived here, planning an attack on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry in a bid to incite a slave rebellion. During that time he assembled his group of family members and followers, as well as a small arsenal of weapons. The raid, which began October 16, 1859, was an abject failure in achieving Brown&#39;s objective. Some of his band were killed, and Brown himself was arrested, tried, convicted, and hanged for the action. However, the raid had the effect of hardening and galvanizing pro and anti-slavery positions in the United States prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War.</p><br>
<h2>Post-raid history</h2><br>
<p>The house underwent a number of ownership changes, and significant alterations, over the next 100+ years. In 1950, the IBPOEW (Black Elks) purchased the property as a memorial to John Brown and operated it as their National Shrine. During the years leading up to their selling of the property in 1966, the Elks built several buildings on the then-235 acre property, including a 50 by 124 auditorium that was used as a meeting place for Elks gatherings of up to three thousand persons on Fourth of July and Labor Day weekends.</p><br>
<p>The auditorium (visible in the top photo behind the trees to the left of the farmhouse) was rented on summer weekends by a local black entrepreneur, John Bishop, who booked into that venue dozens of the biggest stars of rhythm and blues on the Chitlin&#39; Circuit, including Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, B. B. King, Eartha Kitt, Otis Redding, Etta James, the Coasters, and the Drifters.</p><br>
<p>When it was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974, it was described as a -story house that used stone, brick and log construction with a stucco overlay. It had four bays, with a double-tiered porch running outside three rooms on the first and second floors. There were two rooms in the attic, and a small shed addition to the rear. An interior stair links the central rooms inside, and an exterior stair links the porch&#39;s two levels.</p><br>
<p>The house then underwent a major restoration effort, funded by public and private sources, to return it to its 1850s appearance.</p><br>
<p>Boone Lake is a reservoir in Sullivan and Washington counties in northeastern Tennessee, formed by the impoundment of the South Fork Holston River behind Boone Dam.</p><br>
<p>The dam and reservoir are maintained and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). The lake has a surface area of about 4,400 acre and a flood-storage capacity of 75,829 acre.ft. Water levels in the reservoir fluctuate over a range of about 20 ft over the course of a year.</p><br>
<p>Recreational facilities on the lake include a swimming area and a boat ramp. Water skiing and fishing are popular activities on the lake. Children and women who are pregnant or breastfeeding are advised not to consume these two species, and other persons are advised to limit their consumption to one meal per month.</p><br>
<p>The Rachel Carson House is a historic house at 11701 Berwick Road in Colesville, Maryland, an unincorporated area near Silver Spring, Maryland. Built in 1956, this typical suburban ranch-style house was where writer Rachel Carson wrote her classic work Silent Spring in 1962. The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1991 for its association with Carson.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The one-story house is typical of its era, finished in brick with an asphalt shingle roof. The interior, virtually unchanged since Carson lived there, contains a living room to the right of the entry, with Carson&#39;s study to one side, on the corner of the house. A kitchen and dining room are at the rear, behind the living room. Bedrooms are to the left of the entry. A basement contains a bedroom and bathroom and a multi-purpose room, as well as unfinished space.</p><br>
<p>Carson&#39;s original landscaping is largely intact, with only a small area of lawn. The wooded landscape of evergreens, azaleas and daffodils is in keeping with her desire to keep a "woody section" of the yard.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Designed by Carson and built for her use, the new home provided "all the special things that I need." She began writing Silent Spring at the house in 1958, rarely using the Maine cottage where she wrote The Edge of the Sea published in 1955. As Carson continued work on the book, the nature of the research, involving public documents and correspondence with scholars, and her own health encouraged her to spend more and more of her time at home in Silver Spring. After the publication of Silent Spring in 1962, Carson spent most of the next two years in Silver Spring before her death on April 14, 1964.</p><br>
<p>The Chase–Lloyd House is a historic house at 22 Maryland Avenue in Annapolis, Maryland. Built in 1769-1774, it is one of the first brick three-story Georgian mansions to be built in the Thirteen Colonies, and is one of the finest examples of the style. Its interiors were designed by William Buckland. Its construction was started for Samuel Chase, who would later be a signatory to the Declaration of Independence and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, but Chase sold the building unfinished to Edward Lloyd IV in 1771. Lloyd completed the house in 1774 with assistance from Buckland and another architect, William Noke. The house remained in the Lloyd family until 1847, when it was sold to a relation of Chase. Hester Anne Chase was the daughter of Jeremiah Townley Chase who was Samuel Chase&#39;s cousin. When she died, she left the house to her 3 orphan nieces, Francis, Matilda, and Hester. In 1888 the house was bequeathed for use as a home for elderly women by the will of the last living niece, Hester. It continues in this use today. While the upper floors are off limits to visitors, the main floor and the extensive gardens are open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The three story brick house stands over a tall basement and measures 54 ft wide and 43 ft deep. The 18 in thick walls are laid in Flemish bond with belt courses of rubbed brick at the second and third floor lines. The front is accented by a central three-bay wide projecting pavilion. The three-part central door with pediment, entablature, fanlight and sidelights is unusual for pre-Revolutionary times. Above the door a triple window on the second floor is followed by an arched window on the third floor. Windows are capped by flat arches of rubbed brick. First and second floor windows are six-over-six, while third floor windows are six-over-three. The rear pavilion features a large Palladian window that relates to the main stair landing on the interior.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s plan is of the four room, center hall type, but on a very large scale. The entrance hall contains a screen of free-standing Ionic order Ionic columns, beyond which a central stair rises to the large Palladian window at the landing. The ascending stair flights split at the landing, rising in parallel runs to flank the first run on either side. The flights were originally unsupported, but supports have since been inserted to correct sagging.</p><br>
<p>Interior ceilings feature plaster moldings in the manner of Robert Adam. The woodwork, and particularly the door frames of the first floor, is extensively carved. Interior doors are six-panel mahogany with wrought-silver handles. The most elaborate woodwork is in the dining room; this room has, however, lost its original plaster ceiling. On the second floor the bedrooms are accessed through arched openings with panels in the reveals. The house&#39;s original kitchen was located in the basement.</p><br>
<p>A separate structure to the rear, called the Chase Annex, is a 19th-century addition.</p><br>
<p>The house was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Hanford Carnegie Library, now the Hanford Carnegie Museum, is located in Hanford, Kings County, central California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was built in 1905, in the Romanesque Revival style with Richardson Romanesque elements. It was one of the many Carnegie libraries that were funded by steel magnate Andrew Carnegie, who awarded the city $12,500 to construct it.</p><br>
<p>The Hanford Library was open in the Carnegie building until 1968, when the city and Kings County libraries were combined and moved into new building. Concerned local citizens raised the money to save the old library building from destruction, and to renovate it.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Hanford Carnegie Museum opened in the restored Carnegie Library building in 1974. The history museum has displays of Victorian furniture, antiques, and vintage photographs, to describe the history of Hanford&#39;s people and the area in the western San Joaquin Valley.</p><br>
<p>The Edna E. Lockwood is a Chesapeake Bay bugeye, the last working oyster boat of her kind. She is located at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in Saint Michaels, Maryland. She was built in 1889 at Tilghman Island, Maryland by John B. Harrison and is of nine-log construction, similar to the smaller log canoe, and was launched on October 5, 1889 for Daniel Haddaway, at a cost of $2,200. She worked for at least seven sets of owners from 1899 until 1967, and was then sailed as a yacht until donated to the museum in 1973. The museum undertook an extensive restoration of the Lockwood from 1975 through 1979, which restored the bugeye to its 1910 appearance with the "patent stern" that had been added sometime prior to that year. She is the last bugeye retaining the sailing rig and working appearance of the type. Her length is 53.5 ft, with a 15.25 ft beam and a draft of 2.58 ft with the centerboard up, and a maximum sail area of approximately 1700 square feet.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Lockwood was boatbuilder John B. Harrison&#39;s seventh bugeye, of the 18 he would build. Harrison was 24 years old when he built the Lockwood for Daniel W. Haddaway. Haddaway dredged for oysters from Tilghman Island with the Lockwood until 1892, when he sold the boat to James A. Roe and Richard T. Richardson. In 1895 Roe bought out Richardson, then sold Lockwood to John F. Tall, who operated from Cambridge, Maryland on the Choptank River. Tall installed the patent stern, wheel steering gear and powered dredge gear. Tall sold Lockwood to William H. Warfield in 1910, who in turn sold her to J. Hilleary Wingate in 1912, but the next year Warfield re-acquired a partial interest in the boat. Wingate eventually became sole owner and retained ownership until 1955, when he sold Lockwood to Nettie Wingate. From 1910 the Lockwood was homeported in Baltimore, but returned to Cambridge in 1923. From 1910 she oystered in the winter and hauled produce to Baltimore from the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the summer.</p><br>
<p>Nettie Wingate sold the Lockwood to William Jones, Jr. in 1956, who in turn sold her to John Robin Kimberly. Kimberly used the Lockwood for dredging in 1966 and 1967. He donated the boat to the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Lockwood&#39;s nine-log bottom is original, using locally-harvested pitch pine timbers. The keel log is 6 in thick, with four outer logs on each side tapering to 2.5 in. The logs are connected with wrought iron bolts. The hull form is round-bottomed with a sharp entry and stern making her double-ended, and derives its shape from the original log canoe prototype. A "patent stern" is framed above the sternpost to widen the rear deck area. Framing and planking is used above the logs to add freeboard, with oak transverse frames 24 in apart from the keel log to the top sheer strake supporting 1.5 in oak planking. The sheer strake is oak, 2.5 in by 8 in. Planking is fastened with galvanized bolts. The centerboard, which allows better performance to windward while retailing a shallow draft, is located in a pine trunk fastened to the keel log. Decking is 2¼" × 4" fir laid fore-and-aft, supported on beams joining the frames. A king plank, composed of two 3½" × 4" boards, runs beneath the deck from the stem to the hatch abaft the foremast. A main hatch is located amidships between the masts, and a small cabin is abaft the mainmast. A small box for the steering gear is at the extreme stern.</p><br>
<p>The Lockwood is rigged with two pole masts, made from trimmed pine trees. The foremast is 50 ft high and 12 in in diameter, while the shorter mainmast is 46 ft high and 9 in in diameter. Masts are raked at a traditionally extreme 15 degrees, facilitating sail reefing and maintaining a steady center of force under most rigging conditions. The rake also permitted the mast to be used as a crane for unloading the hold. The fore and main masts carried baggy triangular leg of mutton sails, with a jib on the foremast to the bowsprit.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum acquired the Lockwood in 1973 in near-sinking condition. Retsoration began in 1975 and was completed by 1979 under the supervision of Maynard Lowery to naval architect John Lord&#39;s plans. Changes from the original construction included stronger full frames instead of the original partial frames, and some heavier framing members.</p><br>
<p>The Lockwood was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1994. The identity of her namesake Edna E. Lockwood remains unknown. The boat is maintained in sailing condition and sails the Chesapeake Bay for special events.</p><br>
<p>The Rebecca T. Ruark is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack built at Taylor&#39;s Island, Maryland. She is homeported at Tilghman Island, Maryland. Built in 1886, she is the oldest surviving skipjack in the Chesapeake Bay fleet. She was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Rebecca T. Ruark is a typical sloop-rigged skipjack, built for the shallow draft, low freeboard and high stability needed to work the Chesapeake Bay oyster beds. She has a rounded chine with a sharp, convex clipper bow on a sloop hull. The Ruark is fore-and-aft planked. Her wood plug rudder is carried well forward beneath the transom, astern of the centerboard. As part of her 2000 USA Coast Guard certification to carry passengers for hire she received a watertight bulkhead ahead of the mast. An aluminum hatch provides access into the new space, which is used for sail and line storage. The deck is 2 in fir forward of the main hatch and pressure-treated pine aft. Deck beams are oak, with two 11.5 in king planks running from the bow to the main hatch. A central hatch measures 55 in long by 64.75 in wide. Behind the hatch is a small trunk cabin with a three-sided doghouse aft, with double doors leading from the doghouse to the hold. A fuel tank for the push boat is on the starboard side of the cabin. Pipe rails have been added for passenger carriage.</p><br>
<p>The Rebecca T. Ruark carries a standard skipjack rig of jib-headed mainsail and a large jib. The present mast is new from 2000 and is 12 in in diameter and 69 ft high. The Dacron mainsail is laced at the bottom and carried by hoops on the mast. The jib is clubbed along its foot. For dredging work the Ruark carries a powered pushboat from davits over her stern.</p><br>
<p>The Ruark has been extensively rebuilt, with her keel, keelson, some ribs and portions of the centerboard trunk believed to be original. She does, however, retain her original appearance, with some concessions to the passenger excursion trade.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Rebecca T. Ruark is the oldest skipjack in the Chesapeake Bay fleet. Her rounded chines went out of style in favor of simpler-to-build sharp chines, at the cost of favorable sailing qualities in the newer flat-bottomed boats. She was built by Moses Geohegan in 1886 at Taylors Island, Maryland for William T. Ruark, and named for Ruarks wife. She is stated to have originally been rigged as a two-masted schooner and converted to a sloop. The saddle for a mainmast was claimed to have existed until a 1986 rebuild, however, she is known to have carried a sloop rig since 1887. She was homeported in Baltimore, Maryland from 1887 to 1899, then moved to Crisfield, Maryland before moving back to Baltimore in 1902. In 1923 W. Alvin Cook of Cambridge, Maryland bought her and moved her to Cambridge. He sold her to Herman B. Cook in 1939 for $5.00. In 1951 Emerson G. Todd and his wife Linda bought her, again for $5.00, and sold one-third shares to Donald S. Todd and Emerson Todd, Jr. for $5.00 each. In 1979, following an accident in which two crew members drowned, she was placed in a corporation, Rebecca T. Ruark, Inc., for $30,000. The Todds continued to own her until 1984 when Wade H. Murphy of Tilghman Island, Maryland bought her and kept her at Tilghman.</p><br>
<p>Murphy took Ruark to Deltaville, Virginia and had her rebuilt in 1986 at a cost of $80,000. Afterwards he continued to use her as she was intended, to dredge oysters. On November 3, 1999 she was caught in a gale at the mouth of the Choptank River and sank in 20 ft of water, despite attempts to tow her to shelter. A $12,000 grant from the Maryland Port Authority raised her, and she was rehabilitated at a cost of $60,000 in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Kathryn, a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, was built at Crisfield, Maryland in 1901. Ported at Chance, Maryland, she is reputedly one of the fastest skipjacks on the Bay. She was designated a National Historic Landmark on April 19, 1994. She is one a small number of older skipjacks to survive in working condition.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Kathryn is 50 ft long, 15.67 ft wide and draws 4.17 ft of water. She is somewhat unusual in having a "soft" chine rather than a "hard", sharply angled chine. Kathryn otherwise follows the pattern of a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, with a clipper bow-style cutwater, a sharp convex bow, beamy middle, and a flat transom stern. Like all present-day skipjacks she has a stern-mounted push plate to allow operation with a pushboat. She is fore-and-aft-planked, unlike most skipjacks, which are cross-planked. Her flush deck follows the standard skipjack plan, with a main hatch abaft the mast, followed by dredging gear, a smaller hatch, a doghouse over a very low cabin, the steering gear and a set of davits for the pushboat. The cabin is finished with varnished tongue-and-groove paneling, and has a bunk on each side under the deck. Steering gear is hydraulic.</p><br>
<p>The Kathryn carries the standard skipjack rig with a raked mast, 64 ft tall and 12 in in diameter, carrying a clubbed jib and a jib-headed mainsail. The mainsail is laced to the boom and is carried on wooden hoops on the mast. Unusually, the mast is topped with a gold-leafed wood ball. She has been altered from her original appearance by the features necessary to carry the pushboat. The rear of the cabin has been extended to provide better protection to the helmsman.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Kathryn was built at Crisfield in 1901, using fore-and-aft planking characteristic of early skipjacks, and may have been the first to use the herring-bone technique. Her early history is unknown, as the Reedville, Virginia custom office records were destroyed by fire. She was homeported in Crisfield until 1907, when she was moved to Tappahannock, Virginia. In 1914 she moved to Reedville. In 1925 Kathryn was purchased by John E. Spriggs of Ewell, Maryland and John C. Marshall for $1800 from J.A. Dodson of Fairport, Virginia. Kathryn was moved back to Crisfield at this time. Wells W. Evans bought Kathryn in 1938 for $608, then sold her for "$5.00 etc." in 1945 to Irving F. Cannon, who changed her homeport to Cambridge, Maryland. Malcolm "Mac" Wheatley bought a half interest, again for "$5.00 etc." and served as her captain. She received a major rebuild in 1954 at the Krentz Marine Railway in Harryhogan, Virginia, which was published in Chesapeake Sailing Craft. In 1963 Wheatley became Kathryn&#39;s full owner.</p><br>
<p>Johnnie R. Parkinson, Jr. bought Kathryn in 1975 for $18,000 and moved her to Crisfield. She was sold in 1981 to Herman Russell Dize (whose father had worked aboard Kathryn 70 years before) and William James Roe, Jr.</p><br>
<p>Capt. Harold "Stoney" Whitelock of Dames Quarter, Maryland purchased Kathryn in 2008 and is currently working to restore her.</p><br>
<p>The 1500 kilowatt capacity Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant was constructed at Nooksack Falls on the Nooksack River in 1906 by Stone & Webster, which is the second oldest operating facility in western Washington. The plant operated for over 90 years and ceased operation in 1997 due to a fire which destroyed the generator. The generator was replaced in 2003 and the plant resumed operations.</p><br>
<h2>Bellingham Bay Improvement Company</h2><br>
<p>In 1889, an association of investors led by Pierre B. Cornwall formed the Bellingham Bay Improvement Company (BBIC). The company was mostly made up of wealthy California businessmen who were investing heavily into Bellingham with the vision that it would one day become an important urban center for commerce and trade. The BBIC invested in several diverse enterprises such as shipping, coal, mining, railroad construction, real estate sales and utilities. Even though their dreams of turning Bellingham into a Pacific Northwest metropolis never came to fruition, the BBIC made an immense contribution to the economic development of Bellingham. The BBIC had the franchise for providing electricity to the city of Bellingham, which at that time primarily went to street lighting and electric streetcars. However, by 1903 the small generator powering Bellingham was proving to be inadequate for the growing city. The BBIC began developing a hydroelectric plant on the North Fork of the Nooksack River, below Nooksack Falls.</p><br>
<p>In 1904, the BBICs electrical franchise with the city of Bellingham was up for renewal and the city council made it abundantly clear that they were not happy with BBICs performance up to this point. The city event threatened to build a municipally owned hydroelectric plant at Whatcom Falls. After a survey showing that BBIC was supplying Bellingham with cheaper power than any of the municipal proposals, the city subsequently backed off.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the hostility felt by the city council, the BBIC was also encountering construction problems at Nooksack Falls. In 1903 the BBIC had bored six tunnels, yet the generator and transformers for the plant were waiting fifty miles away. Moving heavy hydroelectric equipment through the mountains to the Nooksack site proved to be a challenge. The heaviest equipment ended up being shipped to the railhead at Glacier, loaded on a sled and pulled through the mountains. The first piece of heavy equipment to be brought in was a crane with a forty thousand pound capacity. Lighter equipment and parts were brought in by pack animals. Many local residents were paid to lease out their animals. However, all the difficulties of maintaining a generator and trying to construct the Nooksack Site took its toll on BBIC. In 1905 the board of directors announced the sale of its utility holdings.</p><br>
<h2>Stone & Webster</h2><br>
<p>In 1905, Stone & Webster bought out the power and lighting properties that were once owned by the BBIC. These included the York Street Steam plant and the partially built Nooksack Falls Hydroelectric Power Plant. Stone & Webster took over construction operations and on September 21, 1906, Bellingham received power from the plant via a 47 mi transmission line.</p><br>
<p>For much of the plant&#39;s history, it served as the center of a small community. Because of its remote location, rugged landscape, and primitive transportation, the only practical way to operate the plant was to have employees on site. The utility company employed one chief-operator and two assistant operators, housed in three frame cottages. In addition, a school teacher was hired to tutor children. A two story wood frame hotel was built around 1905 to house company officials, construction workers and other visitors. A section of the hotel was used as a classroom. Employment for the plant reached its peak between 1906 and the mid-1920s. Once the plant became automated by 1978, the cottages were demolished in order to discourage squatters from living there.</p><br>
<p>The Power Plant was placed on The National Register of Historic Places on December 15, 1988.</p><br>
<p>Illinois Institute of Technology Academic Campus or IIT Main Campus is one of five campuses of the Illinois Institute of Technology. It is located in the Douglas community area and has an official address of 3300 South Federal Street and is roughly bounded by 31st Street, State Street, 35th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway. Its Main Building and Machinery Hall were designated a Chicago Landmark on May 26, 2004. The entire Academic Campus was designated as a National Register of Historic Places listing on August 12, 2005.</p><br>
<p>Machinery Hall (built in 1901) The original cost of the Main Building (3300 South Federal Street) in 1892 was $500,000 ($ million today), and Machinery Hall (100 West 33rd Street) cost $150,000 ($ million) in 1901.</p><br>
<p>Hwanseon Cave  is a cave located in Gangwon province, South Korea. It is one of the largest limestone caves in Asia, and the biggest in Korea, with 6.2 km of known passages and a total suspected length of 8 km, 1.6 km of which are visited by over 1 million people per year. In 1966 the South Korea government designated this cave and a neighboring cave not open to the public, Gwaneum cave , National Monument 178. Hwanseongul was opened to the public in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Situated in a rugged karst range near the city of Samcheok, the cave&#39;s 10 m tall entrance is a grueling 30 to 45 minute uphill hike from the ticket office. Once inside, the temperature varies between 10° and 14°C. The walls spout water from innumerable cracks and seeps, which join to make good-sized streams, waterfalls and ten large pools. Some rooms in the cave are vast, 100 m tall, and bridges have been built across chasms in them. The usual fanciful names have been given to the various formations, but the high rate of water flow has prevented the building up of many stalagmites or stalactites. Flowstones, rimstones, popcorn, pipes and curtains are more abundant. There are 47 species of wildlife found in the cave, including the lungless Korean clawed salamander Onychodactylus fischeri, the spider Allomengea coreana, the cave cricket Diestrammena asynamora, the millipedes Epanerchodus kimi and Antrokoreana gracilipes, the moth Apopestes indica, and a species of amphipod in the genus Pseudocrangonyx. Four species are unique to Hwanseon Cave, including the beetle Kurasawatrechus latior.</p><br>
<p>The cave is open year-round, and the self-guided tour costs ₩4000, about $4, and takes about an hour to traverse 1.6 km on steel catwalks, not including the 1.3 km long, 200 m climb to and from the entrance.</p><br>
<p>Tiberiopolis  was a town in the Roman province of Phrygia Pacatiana, mentioned by Ptolemy, Socrates of Constantinople and Hierocles.</p><br>
<p>It struck its own coins at least from the time of Trajan.</p><br>
<p>It was situated at the modern village of Yunuslar, Beyşehir district, in Konya Province, Turkey. At Tiberiopolis the famous Roman sarcophagus showing the Twelve Labours of Hercules now displayed at the Konya Archaeological Museum was recovered.</p><br>
<p>It must have been Christianised at an early date. Nicephorus, a presbyter at Tiberiopolis was martyred in 361 or 362, and later cannonised. His feast is celebrated on 28 November.</p><br>
<h2>Bishopric</h2><br>
<p>The bishopric of Tiberiopolis appears in the oldest Greek Notitiae episcopatuum among the suffragans of Laodicea in Phrygia, capital and metropolitan see of the late Roman province of Phrygia Pacatiana, but in the 8th century it was attached to Hierapolis in Phrygia, capital and metropolitan see of Phrygia Pacatiana Secunda, and as such appears in the Notitiae episcopatuum of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople until the 13th century, when the area was overrun by the Seljuk Turks.</p><br>
<h3>Bishops</h3><br>
<p>Le Quien mentions five of its bishops known by their presence at councils:</p><br>
<p>Eustathius at a synod in Constantinople (536)</p><br>
<p>Silas at the Second Council of Constantinople (553)</p><br>
<p>Anastasius at the Quinisext Council (692)</p><br>
<p>Michael at the Second Council of Nicaea (787)</p><br>
<p>Theoctistus at the Fourth Council of Constantinople (879).</p><br>
<h3>Roman Catholic titular see</h3><br>
<p>Tiberiopolis remains a titular see in the Roman Catholic Church. Titular bishops have been:</p><br>
<p>Thomas Williams, O.P. (1725&ndash;1740), Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District</p><br>
<p>John MacDonald (1761&ndash;1779), Vicar Apostolic of the Highland District</p><br>
<p>Istvan Gosztonyi (1815&ndash;1817)</p><br>
<p>Pablo García Abella, C.O. (1827&ndash;1833), Bishop of Calahorra y La Calzada</p><br>
<p>Gabriele Maria de Marchis (1834&ndash;1858)</p><br>
<p>Michael Flannery (1858&ndash;1859), Bishop of Killaloe</p><br>
<p>Pedro José Tordoya Montoya (1860&ndash;1875). Bishop of Cusco</p><br>
<p>Eusebio Marie Semprini, O.F.M. (1876&ndash;1893)</p><br>
<p>Mariano Antonio Espinosa (1893&ndash;1898), Archbishop of Buenos Aires</p><br>
<p>Antonio Scotti (1898&ndash;1919)</p><br>
<p>Adalbero Joseph (Michael) Fleischer, C.M.M. (1922&ndash;1963)</p><br>
<p>Adolfo Rodríguez Herrera (1963&ndash;1964), Archbishop of Camagüey</p><br>
