<p>The Matsieng Footprints are engraved petroglyphs found in southern Botswana. Matsieng may have once been used as a ritual site for many peoples due to its role in local folktales. It shares its name with a character in African origin stories, Matsieng the great hunter. The site contains up to 117 engravings and three natural rock-holes, dating back between 3,000 to 10,000 years. Many of the footprints are human or feline-like in design.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>Matsieng is a site in south east Botswana, near the city of Gaborone. It is known for its rock art, or petroglyphs, called the Matsieng Footprints. The site is littered with depressions, or holes, thought to have been formed as volcanic vents. They fill with rainwater, and are sometimes used by local peoples still today for water collection. There are two deeper cavities on the site; around the north east one is where most of the rock art is found.</p><br>
<p>Most of the site is littered with carved footprints, both human and animal, but there are also a few profile depictions of common African animals, such as giraffes. The outlines of footprints were crafted by pecking, a form of engraving, by ancient peoples. On the site, there is evidence of LSA dated artifacts, but it is more likely that the engravings were created earlier by hunter-gatherers, perhaps by ancestors of the San or the Basarwa.</p><br>
<p>Matsieng is located on a flat outcrop of sandstone. The area was used as a watering hole for herders’ livestock and many of the petroglyphs suffered from the heavy foot traffic until recently. In 1918, study of the Matsieng footprints was conducted by Maria Wilman, who took rubbings of various petroglyphs onsite. Human footprints on the site are distinguished by their shape, often u- or v-shaped heels with well-defined toes and an average length between 120-290 millimeters – excluding one larger footprint of 340 mm. Footprints are rarely found in pairs, only a few are distinctly right or left feet; they create no clear trails to any destination and are often accompanied by big cat-like prints.</p><br>
<h2>Ideology</h2><br>
<p>There are multiple origin stories about the creation of Matsieng. The legend of Matsieng is generally the same across many of the local people in the surrounding areas. Oral tradition of the Tswana people depicts Matsieng as a one legged giant, who emerged from a waterhole with his animals. Other traditions depict Matsieng to be two legged, but the rest of the story is the same. He was followed by the San, the Kgalagadi and the Tswana tribes.</p><br>
<p>As the giant and his followers emerged, they left footprints in the soft earth around the waterhole, which hardened over time. Though there are several places that are thought to be the place of Matsieng&#39;s emergence, the archaeological site of Matsieng is most significant, given it holds that same name as the folklore character.</p><br>
<p>No one knows exactly what the Matsieng site was used for in the past, though many believe it served as a ceremonial site for ‘rain-making’. Up until recently, the site was used by local peoples. They would bring their animals for a drink from the rainwater collecting holes. Today it is used as a ritual site, where local peoples conduct ceremonies to bring the seasonal rains. Although no longer used as a watering hole, the petroglyphs were damaged by herding practices and are still battered by the elements.</p><br>
<p>The Washington Marriott Wardman Park is a hotel located at 2600 Woodley Road NW, in the Woodley Park neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The hotel is on Connecticut Avenue and is adjacent to the Woodley Park station of the Washington Metro. It is two blocks from the Omni Shoreham Hotel. In addition to its 1,152 guest rooms, the hotel contains 195,000 ft&sup2; of total event space and 95,000 ft&sup2; of exhibit space.</p><br>
<p>The hotel is operated pursuant to a franchise agreement with Marriott International.</p><br>
<p>The hotel&#39;s Wardman Tower wing was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 31, 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Built between 1917 and 1918 by local developer Harry Wardman, the Wardman Park Hotel was an eight-story, red brick structure modeled on The Homestead resort in Virginia. The hotel was the largest in the city, with 1200 rooms and 625 baths. It was nicknamed Wardman&#39;s Folly, due to its location far outside the developed area of Washington.</p><br>
<p>It opened on November 23, 1918, just days after the Armistice with Germany ending World War I. No elaborate opening festivities were held, however, as "large gatherings were prohibited because of the deadly influenza outbreak" that was then sweeping the globe. The hotel was quickly occupied due to the housing shortage caused by Washington&#39;s growth during World War I.</p><br>
<p>In 1928, the hotel was expanded with an eight-story, 350-room residential-hotel annex, designed by architect Mihran Mesrobian. That building is today the only surviving portion of the original Wardman Park, known as the Wardman Tower and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wardman was forced to sell the hotel in 1931, due to the Great Depression, to Washington Properties.</p><br>
<p>Before the United States&#39; entry into World War II, a British spy named Cynthia operated out of the premises as she spied on the Vichy French Embassy. At night, she would visit her lover, an embassy employee whom she had compromised, and steal top-secret documents, transporting them back to the hotel and photographing them in a lab she had set up in her room.</p><br>
<p>The hotel contained a full service drug store/pharmacy; the pharmacist was known as Doc Wardman. There was also a USA Post Office and in the basement one could shop at a butcher, grocery store, and dry cleaner. Despite World War II, one could always get meat, butter, and other rationed goods in the basement.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1940s, the Olympic sized hotel pool was utilized by the 5th Marine Reserves who were taught how to swim with their clothes on. Images of Army Special Forces soldiers rappelling down the side of the Sheraton Park Hotel have also been located, taken during a training exercise on October 3, 1962.</p><br>
<p>The first televised broadcast of NBC&#39;s Meet the Press took place in 1947 in the Wardman Tower, where host Lawrence Spivak was a resident. Other shows broadcast from the hotel include The Camel News Caravan, The Today Show (Frank Blair segments), and The Arthur Murray Dance Program.</p><br>
<p>In 1953, Washington Properties sold the hotel to Sheraton Hotels. Renamed the Sheraton-Park Hotel, the largely residential hotel was gradually converted to house mainly overnight guests.</p><br>
<p>Substantial additions were made to the property, transforming it into a full-scale convention hotel, including large new ballrooms and the 1964 addition known as the Motor Inn and later known as the Park Tower.</p><br>
<p>By the late 1970s, it was decided that the 1918 main building was outdated and unable to be modernized. Construction began in 1977 on a modern replacement hotel, immediately adjacent on the property. When it opened in 1980, as the Sheraton Washington Hotel, the original building closed and was demolished.</p><br>
<p>In 1998, following a protracted lawsuit against Sheraton by the hotel&#39;s then owners, John Hancock Insurance and the Sumitomo Corporation, Marriott International took over management of the property, renaming the hotel the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel. In 1998, Thayer Lodging Group of Annapolis, Maryland purchased the hotel for $227 million and spent another $100 million on renovations. In 2005, the hotel was sold to JBG Smith and CIM Group for $300 million.</p><br>
<p>On November 20, 2008, while giving a speech at the hotel to the Federalist Society, United States Attorney General Michael Mukasey collapsed. He lost consciousness but was talking when he was led away to George Washington University Hospital.</p><br>
<h3>Conversion of a portion of the hotel to condominiums</h3><br>
<p>In 2015, JBG renovated floors 3-8 of the Wardman Tower into 32 luxury condominiums. The first and second floors remain part of the hotel. The condos are separate from the hotel and do not share an entrance or connecting interior passageways. The shape of the structure—a circular core structure with four equidistant projecting wings—led the architects, ACG Architects and interior designer, Deborah Berke Partners, to create an entry hall, narrow long gallery (off of which is a toilet as well as a guest bedroom with full bath), and wide gallery (off of which is a guest bedroom and a master bedroom, each with full bath) which led to the kitchen, living room, and dining room at the end of each wing. Six two-bedroom, three-bath, 2,600 ft&sup2; condominiums are on the first four floors, while the two upper floors have four four-bedroom, four-bath, 4,800 ft&sup2; condominiums each. A four-bedroom, four-bath, 4,800 ft&sup2; penthouse condominium occupies the roof, and has access to a private terrace. The building also includes a rooftop deck with outdoor kitchen for use by all residents, a fitness center, a library/lounge, private garden, private storage units, two entertainment rooms, a catering kitchen, and 64 parking spaces.</p><br>
<p>The project was financed by a $54 million investment from North America Sekisui House LLC (NASH), the North American division of the largest homebuilding corporation in Japan, in February 2014. One of the condominium units sold for $8.4 million.</p><br>
<h2>Residents</h2><br>
<p>The Wardman Tower building has been home to a number of politicians and other public figures, including two USA presidents:</p><br>
<p>President Lyndon B. Johnson for about 45 days as Vice-President</p><br>
<p>Vice President Spiro Agnew</p><br>
<p>Vice President Charles Curtis</p><br>
<p>Actress Marlene Dietrich</p><br>
<p>Senator Bob Dole</p><br>
<p>President Dwight D. Eisenhower</p><br>
<p>Former airline Trans World Airlines (TWA) President Jack Frye and wife, Helen</p><br>
<p>USA Attorney Paul M. Gagnon</p><br>
<p>Senator Barry Goldwater</p><br>
<p>Secretary of State Cordell Hull</p><br>
<p>President Herbert Hoover</p><br>
<p>Socialite Perle Mesta</p><br>
<p>Senator Chuck Robb</p><br>
<p>Chief Justice Frederick M. Vinson</p><br>
<p>Vice President Henry Wallace</p><br>
<p>Chief Justice Earl Warren</p><br>
<p>° Senator Milton Young</p><br>
<p>Senator Prescott Bush</p><br>
<p>Senator Prentiss M. Brown</p><br>
<p>David Eisenhower and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, during the summer of 1970</p><br>
<p>Former Peruvian Ambassador to the United States Mr. and Mrs. Celso Pastor de la Torre</p><br>
<p>President of the British Cartographic Society Dr Alexander Kent, during the summer of 2017</p><br>
<p>Vice President Thomas R. Marshall lived for a short time in the Wardman Park Hotel that was destroyed in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>As one of the largest event spaces in Washington DC, the Marriott Wardman Park hosts many annual events including:</p><br>
<p>Conservative Political Action Conference</p><br>
<p>International Telecommunications Week (ITW) trade show and idea summit</p><br>
<p>American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) annual meeting</p><br>
<p>Anime USA, an anime convention</p><br>
<p>The Hotel is included in the rotation of cities in which the American Contract Bridge League holds North American Bridge Championship tournaments.</p><br>
<p>The annual meeting of the Transportation Research Board was held at the Marriott Wardman Park for nearly 60 years, although it was moved to the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in 2015.</p><br>
<h3>Cvent ranking</h3><br>
<p>In March 2017, Cvent, an event management company, ranked the Marriott Wardman Park 87th in its annual list of the top USA hotels for meetings.</p><br>
<p>The Black Deep is a channel which forms the most important of the three main permanent shipping routes past the shoals in the North Sea and outer Thames Estuary, the others being the Barrow Deep and Princes Channel.</p><br>
<p>The Black Deep begins in open sea east of Foulness Point and south of Clacton-on-Sea and is bounded by two substantial sandbanks, the Knock John and Sunk Sands to the north-west, and the Girdler and Long Sands spread out to the south and east.</p><br>
<h2>Nautical markers</h2><br>
<p>Deep-draught vessels making for the Port of London from the North Sea use it to approach from the north-east from the position of the Sunk lightship, thence into the Knock John channel, to enter the Thames.</p><br>
<p>Passing south of the West Knock buoy off Shoeburyness, large bulk carriers also tend to use the channel when entering or exiting the Medway estuary as it has a minimum depth of 14 metres as far as Kingsnorth.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Thames Estuary was historically a difficult area to navigate due to its many sandbanks. One of the earliest references to maritime pilotage dates from 1387 and refers to a pilot "of the Black Deeps" in the estuary. Richard Caundish, the sixteenth-century maker of the oldest known English maritime chart, who had charted the Thames shoals, was assisted by a pilot who had found a new, safer route through the Black Deep.</p><br>
<p>A rumour current in the sixteenth century, repeated by the chroniclers John Rastell and Edward Hall, by a continuer of John Hardyng&#39;s chronicle and subsequently by John Speed, suggested that Richard III, aided by the priest of Sir Robert Brackenbury, had disposed of the bodies of the murdered Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York in the Black Deep, "whereby they should never rise up, or be any more seen".</p><br>
<p>As a strategically important area, access to the Deep has been restricted in wartime, while during the Second World War naval forts were constructed at Sunk Head and Knock John to deter German minelaying activity. Until 1967 sewage sludge from the City of London was dumped in the Black Deep at a point around 60 mi below London Bridge; after this time the Barrow Deep was used. From the same time a programme of dredging by the Port of London Authority increased the depth of Knock John channel, to open the Knock John - Black Deep route to large tankers for the first time.</p><br>
<p>Through much of the 1980s, Knock John Deep was the anchorage spot for Radio Carolines Ross Revenge ship.</p><br>
<h2>London Array</h2><br>
<p>The London Array wind farm is sited immediately to the east of the Deep.</p><br>
<p>Huftarøy is the largest island in the municipality of Austevoll in Hordaland county, Norway. The 50.4 km&sup2; island lies in the Austevoll archipelago, just west of the Bjørnafjorden, south of the Korsfjorden, east of the Mokstrafjorden, and north of the Selbjørnsfjorden.</p><br>
<p>The largest settlement on the island is the municipal centre of Storebø on the northern part of the island. The 1.53 km&sup2; village of Storebø has a population (2013) of 1,322; giving the village a population density of 864 PD/km2. Austevoll Church is the main church for the island and it is located in the village of Storebø. Other villages on the island include Birkeland, Haukanes, Husavik, Kolbeinsvik, Otterå, and Vinnes.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>The island currently has no bridge or tunnel connections, however the planned Hordfast bridge-tunnel network may connect the island to the mainland. This project is currently in the planning stages and the Austevoll option is one of several possibilities.</p><br>
<p>The island has two regular ferry connections. The northern ferry stops at Hufthammar and runs northward to Krokeide (near Fanahammaren in Bergen municipality on the mainland. The southern ferry stops at Husavik and it runs southward to Sandvika on the island of Stord in Tysnes municipality. The island of Stord is connected to the mainland by an undersea tunnel.</p><br>
<p>There are several smaller islands surrounding Huftarøy which are connected to each other by road bridges. The Storholmbrua-Austevollsbrua bridge network connects Huftarøy to the islands of Hundvåko and Stora Kalsøy to the northwest. Two very short causeways connect Huftarøy to the small islands of Drøna and Rostøya to the west. The Selbjørn Bridge connects to the islands of Selbjørn and Stolmen to the southwest.</p><br>
<p>Gimsøya is an island in Vågan municipality in Nordland county, Norway. Gimsøya is situated between the islands of Austvågøya and Vestvågøya in the Lofoten archipelago. The 46.4 km&sup2; island has a population  of 207.</p><br>
<p>The European route E10 highway passes through Gimsøya linking the island to Austvågøya by the Gimsøystraumen Bridge and to the island of Vestvågøya by the Sundklakkstraumen Bridge. The main population centres on Gimsøya include Vinje (where Gimsøy Elementary school is located), Hov (where the golf course is located), Hovsund (where the marina and the abandoned fish factory is located), Barstrand (where some fishing industry is located), Gimsøysand (where Gimsøy Church is located), and Årrstranda.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The southern and eastern part of Gimsøya is mountainous. The highest point is the 767 m tall Bardstrandfjellet. In the north and west, the island is flat and marshy, with the exception of the 368 m tall Hoven mountain. There are large protected areas in Gimsøya related to fauna and bird life. "Gimsøy marshes nature reserve" (Gimsøymyrene naturreservat) is located on the island.</p><br>
<h2>Media gallery</h2><br>
<p>James Peak is a high mountain summit in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 13,300 ft thirteener is located on the Continental Divide in the James Peak Wilderness of Arapaho National Forest and Roosevelt National Forest, 8.4 km east-southeast  of the Town of Winter Park, Colorado, United States. The summit is the tripoint of Clear Creek, Gilpin, and Grand counties. The peak is the highest point in Gilpin County and the James Peak Wilderness.</p><br>
<p>James Peak is named after Dr. Edwin James, the botanist on Major Stephen H. Long&#39;s expedition of 1820. James is the first known person to successfully climb Pikes Peak.</p><br>
<p>James Peak has a broad south slope that is very popular with hikers. The steep, sheer walls of the east face, offer multiple technical couloirs for snow climbers, skiers, and snowboarders. From south to north, these routes are named Bailout, Starlight, Sky Pilot, Shooting Star, and Superstar.</p><br>
<p>The Pioneer Memorial Cemetery  is a historic pioneer cemetery in the Columbia-Tusculum neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. It is located on a small hill overlooking Lunken Airport at 333 Wilmer Avenue on Cincinnati&#39;s east side.</p><br>
<p>The oldest cemetery in Hamilton County, it lies at the site of Columbia Baptist Church, founded in 1790. Columbia is the oldest settlement in Hamilton County, as it was founded in 1788, one month before Losantiville (later Cincinnati). The cemetery is the only extant remnant of the Columbia settlement.</p><br>
<p>Included in this cemetery is the grave of Major Benjamin Stites, 1734–1804, founding father of Columbia. The fellow founder of Columbia and pioneer, soldier, and legislator Ephraim Kibbey (1756-1809) is memorialized here on the monument "To the First Boat-load" erected in 1879.</p><br>
<p>Frederick L. Payne, then Supervising Horticulturalist for the Park Board, began a restoration project in 1967 for the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery is listed on the National Register of Historic Places under its historic name of "Columbia Baptist Cemetery".</p><br>
<p>Since 1958, the Pioneer Cemetery has been known as an archaeological site — in that year, evidence was discovered that the terrace upon which the cemetery lies was once a Native American village site. Due to the presence of the cemetery, no excavation has ever been conducted there; consequently, all that is known about the village is that it was inhabited during the Woodland period.</p><br>
<p>The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company Building, also known as the Northern Implement Company and the American Trio Building, is a warehouse building in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. PPG Industries of Pittsburgh constructed the structure. It was designed by locally notable firm Kees and Colburn and shows strong influences of noted architect Louis Sullivan. The arches in the top floor windows are modeled after Louis Sullivans designs, which in turn were influenced by Henry Hobson Richardsons Richardsonian Romanesque style. The corners of the building are subtly chamfered in at the bottom and rise toward a flaring cornice at the top, echoing John Wellborn Root&#39;s design of the Monadnock Building in Chicago.</p><br>
<p>The building has now been converted to loft apartments.</p><br>
<p>The H. Alden Smith House is a historic Richardsonian Romanesque house just west of downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It was designed in 1887 by noted local architect William Channing Whitney. Its owner was a wealthy businessman, a partner in Smith and Wyman Sash and Door Company. It was once part of a group of a greater mansion district on Harmon Place, but the area is now primarily home to medium-density apartments, cafes, retail stores, and Minneapolis Community and Technical College. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>H. Alden Smith lived in the home until 1906, when he died of a heart attack. His wife sold the home to a mortuary called Davies Mortuary, which resided in the building until the 1970s. It was then used as a restaurant for about two years, then as an office building, a counseling clinic, and a filming location for the movie Drop Dead Fred. In 1993 the Minneapolis Community College Foundation purchased the building for $350,000 and raised funds to renovate the structure. It is now called the Wells Family College Center and is used by Minneapolis Community and Technical College for miscellaneous purposes.</p><br>
<p>Castle Farms is a special events facility located in Charlevoix, Michigan. It was constructed in 1918 by Albert Loeb, who was the Vice President of Sears, Roebuck and Company, and it was designed by Arthur Heun. Albert Loeb, in addition to being a wealthy businessman, was the father of murderer Richard Loeb, who with schoolmate Nathan "Babe" Leopold, committed the infamous Leopold and Loeb murder in Chicago.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Albert Loeb built Castle Farms as a model farm to showcase livestock in addition to new farm equipment that was sold by his company. The original estate covered 1600 acres, and included the Loebss summer home, caretakers houses, fields, orchards, and this livestock barn complex. Loeb hired Chicago architect Arthur Heun to design the buildings on the estate, including these farm buildings. During the farms operation, Loeb bred prize-winning stock of Holstein-Friesian cattle, Duroc-Jersey hogs, and Belgian horses. The farm also established a premium-quality mail-order business in butter, syrup, honey, poultry, eggs, and other products. Albert Loeb died in 1924, but his son Ernest continued the farm for a few years until financial difficulties forcced its closure in 1927.</p><br>
<p>After the farm ceased operations, the buildings remained in the Loeb family and were rented for storage space until 1962, when it was purchased by John Van Haver, an executive who restored the facility and opened it to the public. In 1969, it was sold to Arthur and Erwina Reibel and was mainly used for rock concerts.</p><br>
<p>In 2001, Castle Farms was sold to current owner Linda Mueller who finished restoring it to its original condition by 2005. Today, it is open year round, and is primarily used for weddings and receptions. However, Castle Farms is also used for other various festivals and social events, such as the Charlevoix Renaissance Festival. In 2008, a model railroad was added that provides a scenic journey through Charlevoix&#39;s history.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The original 1917/18 buildings at Castle Farms include seven structures: dairy barn, horse barn, blacksmith&#39;s shop, equipment shed, ice house, office, and cheese shop. They all have walls constructed from locally gathered fieldstone, and have high hip, conical, or pyramid roofs. The buildings are grouped into a horse barn complex and a dairy barn complex.</p><br>
<p>There was once a Chicken Coop on the property, which was torn down between 1943-1944. The wood was used to build a cottage on lake Charlevoix that still stands today.</p><br>
<p>The horse barn with its wagon sheds, the ice house, and the office form an open courtyard, facing the dairy barn. The blacksmith&#39;s shop, with a forge and massive chimney, sits next to the barn. The horse barn is a long rectangular structure with a high hip roof, pierced on both sides by dormers with pointed-arch windows. The wagon sheds, once open, have been enclosed. The icehouse is a windowless octagonal building standing at the corner of the courtyard. At the adjacent corner is the round office with a conical roof.</p><br>
<p>A rectangular, one-story, hip-roof building used as a cheese shop stands between the horse barn and dairy barn complexes. The dairy barn consists of a U-shaped cattle barn and a connected service wing with what was originally a dairy, a dormitory, a bunk house, a kitchen, and four round-plan silos. The barn consists of a high hip-roof section at the base of the U and lower gable-roof sections forming the legs. The barn has horizontal bands of square-head windows. The service wing has an arched gateway that leads to the courtyard against the dairy barn.</p><br>
<p>The Hunter House  is located at 3985 Trumbull Avenue in the Woodbridge Neighborhood Historic District of Detroit, Michigan. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974. It was previously operated as the Woodbridge Star, a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1890, William Northwood, the co-founder of the Howard-Northwood Malt Manufacturing Company, commissioned architect George F. Depew to design this home. The structure was completed in 1891 at a cost of $13,500. and in 1966, a side porch and conservatory were demolished. In the early 1970s, the home was purchased by the Hunter family, who converted it back to a private residence. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. The house was sold at a later date in 2016 to an unknown buyer.</p><br>
<p>The home was recently operated as the Woodbridge Star, a seven-room bed and breakfast. Very few exterior alterations have been made to the home, and the interior remains highly original.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>George F. Depew designed the elaborate three-story house in French Renaissance Châteauesque style with a red brick and rusticated stone exterior. Round and square towers project from the main section of the house, each with a different roof style. The house has 6,500 ft&sup2;. The sides of the house differe in their appearance. Incised brick and colored sandstone add ornamentation to the façade. The roof has red slate shingles with metal cresting; shingle-covered gables facing the front of the home extend from the roof. The transom windows are filled with stained and leaded glass, and the house boasts polished jasper collonettes.</p><br>
<p>The pic de Nore  at 1211 metres is the highest point in the Montagne Noire, on the border of the Aude and Tarn departments, near to the Parc naturel régional du Haut-Languedoc in southern France. The Arnette and Clamoux rivers both have their sources on the slopes.</p><br>
<h2>Landmarks</h2><br>
<p>The main feature of the summit is the 102 metre transmission tower, which broadcasts:</p><br>
<p>FM: 4 transmitters at 80 kW PAR.</p><br>
<p>Analogue TV: 1 transmitter in VHF at 100 kW PAR / 2 transmitters in UHF at 56 kW PAR / 3 transmitters in UHF at 160 kW PAR / 1 transmitter in UHF at 205 kW PAR.</p><br>
<p>Digital TV: 5 transmitters in UHF at 8 kW PAR.</p><br>
<h2>Cycling</h2><br>
<p>Since 2002 the summit is the finishing line for two timed climbs from Mazamet and Villegly (flat until Cabrespine).</p><br>
<p>The current record holder for both routes is Michel Ambrosini:</p><br>
<p>Mazamet (via Pradelles): 52&#39;30 "(28.57 km/h)</p><br>
<p>Cabrespine: 40&#39;52 "(25.69 km/h)</p><br>
<p>The climb from Cabrespine is 17.5 km long with a 5.2% average gradient.</p><br>
<p>The climb from Mazamet is 17 km long with a 5.7% average gradient.</p><br>
<p>The climb from Mazamet (via Pradelles) is 25 km with an 3.9% average gradient.</p><br>
<p>The climb up the slopes of Mas Cabardès, is shorter, at 15.1 km with a 6.1% average gradient but with some very difficult passages over 13%.</p><br>
<p>Puig de Massanella is the second highest peak on the Spanish island of Mallorca. It is situated in the Serra de Tramuntana mountains. It is the highest peak on the island whose summit is accessible, as its higher neighbour Puig Major has an antenna complex on the summit. It is a very popular mountain to climb. There is a walking route to the summit from the south, various scrambling routes from a high col to the north, marked with small cairns and red dots painted on rocks, and an easy scrambling route which starts slightly lower down on the south west side of the col. The summit is unusual in having a deep pit which appears to have been formed by limestone dissolution  which was said to have been used for storing snow in the past. There are several ruins on a col near the summit which used to be snow houses ).</p><br>
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<p>Tatton Old Hall is a historic building in Tatton Park near Knutsford, Cheshire, England. It is designated by English Heritage as a Grade II* listed building which is owned by the National Trust and administered in conjunction with Cheshire East Council. Its site is a Scheduled Ancient Monument.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The hall stands on a site near the village of Tatton, which has since disappeared. It remained in the possession of the Egerton family until 1958 when it was given to the National Trust.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The hall is built in red brick with a stone slate roof. It was originally timber-framed, but this was replaced by brick in the late 17th or early 18th century. The hall is L-shaped and externally appears to have two storeys. Internally the floors which were added to the older hall have been removed, exposing the complex wooden roof. This has a carved wall plate, carved beams and three tiers of quatrefoil wind braces. The hall contains a gallery which was added in the 20th century. The newer wing retains its two floors and is divided into separate rooms.</p><br>
<h2>Cruck barn</h2><br>
<p>In the grounds of the hall is a cruck barn dating from the beginning of the 17th century which was originally in a farm at Frodsham, Cheshire. In a dilapidated state, it was removed from its original site in 1976 and rebuilt and restored at Tatton. The barn is 70 ft long and contains four crucks on sandstone plinths. The long walls of the barn are timber-framed with brick infill on a stone base and the short sides are in plain brick. The roof is thatched in Norfolk reed with sedge on the ridge. On the southeast front are two double doors and one single door; on the northwest front is one single door. Internally, cambered ties have been inserted between the crucks. The barn is listed at Grade II.</p><br>
<h2>Present use</h2><br>
<p>The hall and barn are open on advertised days for escorted tours, and group or educational visits can be arranged. Historical re-enactments are organised on the site, which may have a medieval theme.</p><br>
<p>Palairos  is an ancient city and a modern town in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform Palairos is part of the municipality Aktio-Vonitsa, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 205.843 km. The municipal unit was formed as the independent municipality Kekropia in 1994 from the former communities Palairos and Pogonia, and was expanded with the former communities Vatos, Plagia and Peratia as a part of the 1997 Kapodistrias reform. The name was changed to Palairos in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Palairos was a city of ancient Greece, situated in the southern part of the region of Epirus. During antiquity it was part of Acarnania, according to the Theodorokoi. The city, ruinous for centuries, is thought to have existed during the Mycenean period, since parts of the city walls appear to date back to 2000 B.C. The construction of the walls interchanges between the square-shaped and the polygonal system and the parts belong to different periods.</p><br>
<p>It lies high in the mountains overlooking the Ionian sea and Lake Vourkaria. The city is thought to have had a population of over 10,000 people.</p><br>
<p>At nearby Actium, Mark Antony and Cleopatra were defeated in a sea battle by Octavius. According to tradition, the salt lake was the saviour of Cleopatra, who hid her ships there.</p><br>
<p>The citadel on the eastern part of the yard is separated by a partition and is considered to be the most ancient part of the wall, probably from the Mycenean period. The ruins are close to the present-day town of Palairos.</p><br>
<p>Union Hill is a local Old and Historic District of Richmond, Virginia. As a neighborhood situated slightly north of the James River, it is located on the high western bluff above Shockoe Valley, just east of Downtown Richmond. The neighborhood is on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Among the many unique qualities exhibited by Union Hill, the fact that it is a complement to its high-style contemporary, Church Hill, is perhaps its strongest. While Church Hill is aligned in accordance with the early tradition of the Richmond grid, Union Hill retains character of geography. It is a neighborhood that displays not only vernacular architecture but also a special sort of vernacular land plan not regularly found in Richmond. Residents understand and appreciate these qualities about Union Hill and the impact that the preservation of this built environment can have upon the morals and character of future generations.</p><br>
<p>Union Hill comprises a remarkable mix of homes, churches and commercial buildings are balanced along the irregular, picturesque and sometimes narrow streets that follow the curves of the original hilly terrain. Visitors may find a diverse mix of antebellum, Victorian, classical revival and modern architecture. A very small portion of existing buildings are noncontributing to the historic character of the neighborhood. The community takes its name from the joining of two large hills via street grading that began in the late 1800s and continued through the early 1900s. The homes that line Jefferson Park have a clear view of downtown Richmond. Bordered on the south by Jefferson Avenue, on the north by Carrington and O Streets, on the east by 25th Street, and by Mosby on the west. Union Hill&#39;s history began early in the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>The Union Hill Historic District was added to the Virginia Landmarks Register in December 2001 and to the National Register of Historic Places in December 2002. On November 23, 2009 Richmond City Council voted 8-1 to designate Union Hill as a City of Richmond Local Old and Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Camp Sherman Community Hall is the center of social activity in the community of Camp Sherman in central Oregon. The hall hosts a variety of public and private events throughout the year. The building is owned and operated by the Camp Sherman Community Association. Because of its unique rustic architecture and importance to the history of the Camp Sherman area the hall is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Camp Sherman Community Hall is located in the small unincorporated community of Camp Sherman, Oregon. The hall was constructed by local volunteers under the direction of Wayne L. Korish. One of the main builders of the community hall was Luther Metke, known for his hand strewed log cabins and many bridges built in the central Oregon area. It is a simple rustic design. The building is a wood post-and-beam structure with a shingled exterior. The foundation is concrete. The roof is metal and asphalt.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the community hall has a large meeting area downstairs along with kitchen and bathroom facilities. The structural beams are hand-hewn and are exposed on the interior giving the main hall a rustic feel. The interior walls are covered with knotty pine paneling, and the floor boards are straight-grain fir. There is a large stone fireplace located on the north side of the main hall. The upstairs is an attic storage area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Camp Sherman Community Association was formed in 1948 to meet the social and civic needs of the Camp Sherman community. The following year, the association built a community hall facing Camp Sherman Road on property donated by Hays and Roblay McMullin, who owned Lake Creek Lodge at that time. The project was financed by local fund raising. The building was constructed using labor donated by members of the Camp Sherman community.</p><br>
<p>Since 1949, the Camp Sherman Community Hall has been the gathering place for local residents and the venue for countless events. The hall is the site of pancake breakfast events on Memorial Day, Fourth of July, and Labor Day. It is also used for the community’s Christmas bazaar, winter potluck dinners, community meetings, and well known quilt fairs held twice a year. Dances, bingo nights, and other social events are held in the hall as well. The building is also available for private events such as weddings and family reunions. During elections years, the hall is the venue for candidate forums.</p><br>
<p>Volunteers remodeled the community hall in 1983, expanding the kitchen and storage areas. Indoor plumbing was also added at the rear of the hall. During the 1990s, other improvements were made to the building including replacing the roof, installing a new propane heating system, and a new stage was built. On the outside, a lawn with picnic tables was added south of the building.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, volunteers from the Camp Sherman community completed a major renovation of the community hall. The project included excavations beneath the building to replace floor beams and sill plates, installation of a new heating system, and restoration and refinishing of the floor in the main hall. The fireplace and chimney were also repaired, and new front doors were installed. The projected was financed by contributions from the local community and a grant from the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Camp Sherman Community Association</h2><br>
<p>Anyone who owns property or rents a home full-time in the Black Butte School District is eligible for membership in the Camp Sherman Community Association. Membership fees are used to preserve, maintain, and operate the Camp Sherman Community Hall. Association members are eligible to rent the hall for private events such as wedding and family reunions. Members also receive a newsletter with community news and upcoming events scheduled at the hall.</p><br>
<p>According to its Articles of Incorporation, the association’s purpose is:</p><br>
<p>...the establishment, maintenance, and management of an association for the promotion of social intercourse among persons living in or owning property in the Camp Sherman community; to construct, operate, and maintain a recreation hall for such purpose; to promote, aid, and assist in the civic betterment of said community; and to do all the things deemed necessary or proper to promote the welfare of said community.</p><br>
<p>Since it was built, the Camp Sherman Community Hall has played an important part in meeting the social and civic goals of the Camp Sherman Community Association.</p><br>
<p>Swinger Bay, is a bay on the north west shore of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea. Named by John Moresby after HMS Swinger. It is also known as Stringer Bay.</p><br>
<p>Swinger Bay was selected as a site for an amphibious training centre in 1943 during World War II, which relocated from HMAS Assault, Port Stephens, Australia. Construction started in late 1943 by a detachment of the 91st Naval Construction Battalion (Seabees), whose main element had arrived 21 October 1943 from Port Hueneme, California in . The detachment built facilities, on a site noted as being high and relatively dry, for about 800 men and 30 officers that included storage, shops, housing, roads, water and electrical systems and a 350 ft jetty to water of 12 ft depth. The 91st was relieved by 105th Naval Construction Battalion in January 1944.</p><br>
<p>The amphibious training centre consisted of housing for 1,500 men in quonset huts and developed 2,000 ft of waterfront for training purposes.</p><br>
<p>In March 1945, the amphibious training centre closed and relocated to Subic Bay, Philippines.</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
<h2>Citations</h2><br>
<p>The Rock of Guatapé , also known as the Stone of El Peñol , or simply La Piedra or El Peñol, is a landmark inselberg in Colombia. It is located in the town and municipality of Guatapé, Antioquia. The town of El Peñol, which borders Guatapé, has also historically claimed the rock as their own and thus the monolith is sometimes referred to as the "Stone of El Peñol" instead of the "Rock of Guatapé".</p><br>
<p>The landform is a granitic rock remnant that has resisted weathering and erosion, likely as result of being less fractured than the surrounding bedrock. Peñón de Guatapé is an outcrop of the Antioquia Batholith.</p><br>
<p>Near the base of the Rock, there are food and market stalls for shopping. About halfway up the stairs, there is a shrine to the Virgin Mary. The summit contains a three-story viewpoint tower, a convenience store, and a seating area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The indigenous Tahamí, former inhabitants of this region, worshiped the rock and called it in their language mojarrá or mujará (meaning "rock" or "stone").</p><br>
<p>The rock was first climbed officially in July 1954. In 2006, Luis Villegas, Pedro Nel Ramirez, and Ramón Díaz climbed the rock in a five-day endeavor, using sticks that were fixed against the rock&#39;s wall.</p><br>
<p>A new species of plant, named Pitcairnia heterophylla by a German scientist, was found on the top of the rock.</p><br>
<p>A viewing spot was built on top of the rock, where it is possible to acquire handicrafts, postcards, and other local goods. It is possible to see the 500 km shore-perimeter dam. There are 740 steps to the uppermost step atop the building at the summit, a fact reinforced by yellow numbers also seen in the climb up the stairs.</p><br>
<p>In the 1940s, the Colombian government declared it a National Monument.</p><br>
<h3>Graffiti</h3><br>
<p>On the northern face of the stone there are painted large white letters "G" and an incomplete "U" (only the single vertical stroke was completed). The towns of Guatapé and El Peñol had long disputed ownership of the rock, and the residents of Guatapé decided to settle the matter by painting the town&#39;s name on the rock in huge white letters. It did not take long for the residents of El Peñol to notice the work, and a large mob was assembled to stop it. Only the "G" and part of the "U" were completed.</p><br>
<h2>Composition</h2><br>
<p>The rock rises from the bottom of the hydroelectric dam of Peñol-Guatapé. This monolith was spotted as a border landmark between country farms and the two cities.</p><br>
<p>At its highest part, on the rear (southeast side), it has an elevation of 2,135 m over sea level. with an average temperature of 18 &deg;C. The "Peñol" has 22 Mm3 of rock mass and it is 385 m long, with an approximate weight of 66 milliontonne. It has some rock breaks, one of which was used for the construction of the 650 stairs that can be used to go to the top.</p><br>
<p>The Stone of Peñol is composed of quartz, feldspar and mica.</p><br>
<p>Pratt Rock, also known as Pratts Rock, is a rockface or other landform that includes a series of stone carvings in Prattsville, New York depicting the life of Zadock Pratt. Pratt was supposed to be buried in a tomb carved into the stone, but work was stopped after only a small recessed chamber was created because water leaked through the rock overhead, and excavating the stone was providing to be too difficult. The rock was originally a monument for Pratts son, George W. Pratt, who was killed in the Civil War. It is considered the first memorial for the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Ripleys Believe it or Not once called it "New Yorks Mt. Rushmore".</p><br>
<p>As Pratt Rock Park, the place was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Alpine Mountain Ski & Ride Center is a ski area in The Poconos of Pennsylvania located south-east of Scranton, Pennsylvania. It has 21 trails including 3 greens, 12 blues and 6 diamonds. It also has a terrain park located on the east side of the mountain at the bottom of the Swivel trail.</p><br>
<p>The mountain was Voted On the Snow&#39;s 2013 Best Family Ski Area in the Mid-Atlantic/Southeast Region.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the mountain was put up for sale in a closed bid auction. It was purchased by an undisclosed buyer and the ski resort opened for the 2013-14 season on December 20, 2013.</p><br>
<p>After two years of operation under new management, the mountain closed once again in 2015 it was sold in 2017 to a family local to the community who has not yet announced their plans on what will become of the operation.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church is located at 1519 Martin Luther King Boulevard in the Woodbridge Historic District of Detroit, Michigan. The church was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1979 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is now known as Spirit of Hope.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Epiphany Reformed Episcopal parish was founded in 1878 as a place where Anglicans not pledged to the Episcopal bishop of Michigan might worship. In 1880, the congregation built a small frame church, and in 1889 changed their name to Trinity Episcopal.</p><br>
<p>James E. Scripps, owner of The Detroit News, was a member of the Trinity congregation. Scripps was born in London,</p><br>
<p>In 1896, Trinity members voted to unite their church with the Episcopal diocese of Michigan. However, the declining population of the surrounding area led to a decline in the congregation.</p><br>
<p>In 2001, the nearby Jeffries Housing Projects were torn down; the Faith Memorial Lutheran Church, founded in 1956 to serve the community, found itself with a drastically reduced congregation. The congregations of Faith Memorial Lutheran and Trinity Episcopal began exploring the concept of merging, and in April 2006, the two joined to become the Spirit of Hope.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, Kathleen Brennan began the Spirit of Hope Urban Farm which was featured in the September/October 2011 Natural Home & Garden magazine.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>James E. Scripps commissioned architects Mason & Rice to design this English Gothic-style church. The floorplan of Trinity Episcopal Church is laid out in a cruciform pattern. The walls are two feet thick Trenton limestone, and the root is sheathed with copper. Smooth brown limestone used as trim offsets the white limestone used for the bulk of the walls. The 85 ft central, supported by stone arches and buttresses, tower contains ten bells. The exterior holds over two hundred carvings, including gargoyles that serve as water drains. Inside the sanctuary, ten stone angels supporting the nave beams face inward; several windows contain stained glass, including a Tiffany, a LaFarge, and a window over the altar was created by Franz Mayer & Co. of Germany. A 1200-pipe organ manufactured by the Jardine Company of New York City is also inside.</p><br>
<p>The Inn at 97 Winder is a luxurious historic Inn located at 97 Winder Street in Midtown Detroit, Michigan, within the Brush Park district. Originally known as the John Harvey House, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. The Detroit hotel is two blocks from Comerica Park and three blocks from Ford Field.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John Harvey was a successful pharmacist in Detroit, Harvey established Detroit&#39;s Industrial School and later the Sabbath Mission School to educate indigent children.</p><br>
<p>John Harvey died in 1905, but his widow lived in the house into the 1920s. In the 1920s, Jesse Hobbs, an automobile worker, purchased the home. In 1938, the structure was converted into a rooming house; some of the larger rooms were partitioned.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>John Harvey employed John V. Smith to design this house with its Second Empire, Queen Anne architecture, located in the prestigious Brush Park neighborhood. Originally completed in 1887, the John Harvey House is constructed of red brick atop an ashlar foundation with a mansard roof. The façade features a center entrance and wooden brackets supporting the sills of the multi-storied towers and window bays. The house has 11,000 ft&sup2, eight marble fireplaces, and three-story staircase.</p><br>
<p>Developers purchased the John Harvey House in 1986, renovated the structure, and, in 2005, opened it as the historic Inn at 97 Winder with 10-room guest rooms.</p><br>
<p>Ye Olde Salutation Inn is a public house dating from around 1240 that lays claim  to being the oldest in Nottingham.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The current building was constructed as a workshop for a tanner with living accommodation above in 1240 on the site of an old alehouse known as The Archangel Gabriel Salutes the Virgin Mary. The name led local historian J. Holland Walker to speculate a connection with the local Carmelite monastery but no documentary has been found to support this.</p><br>
<p>Borough records from 1440 record a private dwelling belonging to John Alastre on the site.</p><br>
<p>During the English Civil War (1642–1646) both factions established recruiting rooms in the Inn. Following the Puritan victory the authorities objected to the religious implications of the sign and the Inn was renamed Soldier and Citizen. The original name was restored along with the Monarchy in 1660.</p><br>
<p>An investigation by the Thoroton Excavation Society in 1937 dated the caves to the 9th century and concluded that they were part of a Saxon farm later used for servants&#39; accommodation and brewing.</p><br>
<p>Extensions to the pub in 1966 included the hanging of a wrought iron hand outside that was stolen that same night.</p><br>
<p>The Inn was featured along with its rivals Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem Inn and The Bell Inn in a 1998 episode of the Channel 4 TV series History Hunters which used records, building architecture and timbers, and local legends to decide which was truly the oldest.</p><br>
<p>Devils Head is a mountain summit in the Rampart Range of the Rocky Mountains of North America. The 9,749 ft peak is located in Pike National Forest, 22.9 km southwest by south  of the community of Sedalia in Douglas County, Colorado, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Mountain</h2><br>
<p>Devils Head is topped by the Devil&#39;s Head Lookout, an active United States Forest Service fire lookout tower. Access to the summit and lookout tower is via the Devils Head National Recreation Trail.</p><br>
<p>Devils Head name comes from prospectors of the late 1800s. From the southwest of Devils Head, and looking northeast toward the mountain, one can see a shape of a face laying flat, as if the mountain was looking up. Some of the forest has softened the looks, as there used to be a more obvious eye socket, and facial features. However, from this angle, one is still able to see the face and even horns.</p><br>
<h2>Historical names</h2><br>
<p>The Sleeping Indian</p><br>
<p>Camels Back</p><br>
<p>Devils Head – 1923</p><br>
<p>Platte Mountain</p><br>
<p>Warrens Crag</p><br>
<p>Kaufman-Straus was a local department store that operated in Louisville, Kentucky, from 1879 to 1969. In 1879, local retail clerk Henry Kaufman opened the first store on Jefferson between 7th and 8th. Four years later, Benjamin Straus entered into partnership with Kaufman. In 1887, the Kaufman-Straus store moved to South 4th Street in space leased from the Polytechnic Society of Kentucky. The new flagship store opened in 1903, at 533-49 South 4th Street, designed by local architect Mason Maury. In 1924, Kaufman-Straus was acquired by City Stores Company and the following year the flagship store underwent extensive renovations. City Stores rebranded the company as Kaufmans in 1960. It operated two stores in suburban Louisville at The Mall and Dixie Manor. In 1969, Kaufmans was acquired by L. S. Ayres, and the downtown Louisville store was subsequently closed in 1971. The flagship store was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The Mead Johnson River-Rail-Truck Terminal and Warehouse is a historic terminal / warehouse at the Port of Evansville in Evansville, Indiana. The complex was built in 1931 and consists of the terminal building and warehouse. The terminal building is a rectangular canopied structure measuring 285 feet long, 110 feet wide, and 62 feet high. The building is cantilevered 45 feet over the Ohio River. The terminal is serviced by two electric cranes that each measure 54 feet long. The original warehouse is 585 feet long and 150 feet wide. It was enlarged by a 310-foot addition in 1957. The terminal is operated by Kinder Morgan and is served by CSX Transportation.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The East Kangaroo Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 157 hectare unpopulated limestone island with granite outcrops and dolerite dykes, located in the Bass Strait, west of the Flinders Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia.</p><br>
<p>Prior to its declaration as the East Kangaroo Island Nature Reserve, the island was previously used to graze sheep, with overgrazing causing severe erosion. The island is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher and crested tern. Cape Barren geese also breed on the island. Reptiles present include the metallic skink and White&#39;s skink. The only terrestrial mammal is the introduced House mouse.</p><br>
<p>The Chalky Island, part of the Big Green Group within the Furneaux Group, is a 41 hectare unpopulated granite island with limestone outcrops and dolerite dykes, located in the Bass Strait, west of the Flinders Island, in Tasmania, in south-eastern Australia. The island is contained within a conservation area and is part of the Chalky, Big Green and Badger Island Groups Important Bird Area.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Recorded breeding seabird and wader species are little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, white-faced storm petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher, pied oystercatcher, black-faced cormorant, Caspian tern and fairy tern. Reptiles present include the metallic Skink, White&#39;s skink, white-lipped snake and tiger snake.</p><br>
<p>The Ootu Peninsula, though connected to the main island of Aitutaki atoll of the Cook Islands, may in many respects be considered as one of the reef islands, being the largest and longest of them. It is located at the northern end of the eastern perimeter of Aitutaki Lagoon to the north and then west of the northernmost true reef island, Akitua, from which is separated by a channel 50 metres wide and less than two metres deep. The southernmost point of the peninsula is called Aumoana. The northernmost point of the peninsula, Teaumera, is also the northernmost point of Aitutaki as a whole. In the northeast is Kopu a Ruatapu, a boat passage through the fringing coral reef.</p><br>
<p>The peninsula is 3.25 km long north-south, and has an area of 1.75 km. It is 400 metres wide on the average, with a minimum of 250 metres. At its widest, where it joins the main island, it reaches 750 metres in with. By comparison, Tekopua, the largest true reef island of Aitutaki, is 2.25 km long and 0.71 km in area.</p><br>
<p>The seaward beach crest on the east side rises 2 to 3 metres above high water, and the surface slopes gently to the lagoon in the east. There are no dunes except at the southern end. The reef sediments of Ootu have been measured to be 13 to 20 metres thick.</p><br>
<p>The Ootu Peninsula is the site of Aitutaki Airport. The longer 1804 meter runway in the southeast intersects a second runway of 1388 meters to the northwest, along the northern shore, which is not in use anymore. The airport was constructed during World War II. Thereby, much of the vegetation had to be cleared. Only along the western shore towards the lagoon, and on the south of the longer runway, original vegetations remains relatively undisturbed, although there have been some holiday resort developments, such as the Popoara Ocean Breeze Villas.</p><br>
<p>Ootu Peninsula is part of Vaitupa District, one of eight districts of Aitutaki. The district consist of two tapere, Taakarere in the northwest and Vaitupa in the southeast. The peninsula is likewise divided between the two tapere, with the narrower southeastern part falling within the tapere of Vaitupa, and the larger northwestern part within the tapere of Taakarere.</p><br>
<p>The Shaw House, also known as the Shaw House Inn, is a historic Carpenter Gothic Victorian style house located at 703 Main Street in Ferndale, Humboldt County, California. It served historically as a courthouse, a post office, and a single-family dwelling.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Shaw House was built in 1854 by Seth Shaw, who with his brother Stephen W. Shaw had arrived by canoe in 1852 to build a cabin, clear some land, claim it and found the town of Ferndale. Despite long-standing local legend, the house was not inspired by Nathaniel Hawthornes House of the Seven Gables, but rather by the home of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo in Sonoma, California which had been drawn and painted by Stephen W. Shaw. In the early days, the Shaw House served as the areas first courthouse as well as post office.</p><br>
<p>The building was owned by the family, vacant for several years at the end, until sold in 1967. Fully restored by two owners, the Shaw House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 13, 1984.</p><br>
<p>It remains the oldest house in Ferndale and functions as a bed and breakfast under the Shaw House Inn name. It still features the marble fireplace that Isabella Shaw, Seths bride, picked out at Gumps in San Francisco.</p><br>
<p>The Fox Theater, Westwood Village, also known as the Fox Village Theater, is a historic, landmark cinema in Westwood, Los Angeles, California, in the Westwood Village. Located in the heart of Westwood as well as being only a couple of minutes from UCLA. It is currently operated by Regency Theaters under the name Regency Village Theater. The theater has been one of the leading film premiere theaters in the history of cinema.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Designed by architect Percy Parke Lewis the Fox was originally built in 1930 and first opened on August 14, 1931, with a Spanish Mission style to it. The theatre was part of a widespread cinema construction program undertaken by Fox West Coast Theatres. The Fox Theater quickly became the most recognizable symbol of the new Westwood Village, a Mediterranean-style village development adjoining the University of California Los Angeles planned by Harold and Edwin Janss of the Janss Investment Company.</p><br>
<p>It was remodeled in the late 1940s to the early 1950s. It became famous for the many Hollywood movie premieres held there and remains one of the main venues for movie premieres in Los Angeles.</p><br>
<p>National General Theatres, the former Fox Theatres-West Coast, sold the theater to Ted Mann, then owner of the Chinese Theatre, and it became part of the Mann Theatres chain.</p><br>
<p>In 1988, the Fox Theater was designated by the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission as an Historic Cultural Monument (HCM #362).</p><br>
<p>When Mann Theatres went out of business, Regency Theatres purchased both the Village Theater and a multiplex cinema at "The Plant" in Van Nuys, California in 2010.</p><br>
<p>With ongoing efforts to revitalize Westwood Village, the Fox Theater continues to be a major drawcard and asset for the area.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural features</h2><br>
<p>The most striking feature of the Fox Theater is the iconic 170-foot white Spanish Revival/Moderne tower which looms over the Broxton and Weyburn Avenues intersection. Atop the tower is a blue and white metal Art Deco “Fox” sign, which was renovated in the late 1980s.</p><br>
<p>Carved winged lions sit halfway up the tower at the base of projecting columns. A blue and white sign with the legend "Fox Westwood Village" is positioned at the bottom of the tower just above the entrance. By night, the elegant white tower literally becomes a beacon with its signs and the shaft of the tower illuminated.</p><br>
<p>The rectangular cinema building immediately behind the tower features long rows of Churrigueresque stucco decorations. Perched atop the corners of the building stand carved griffins.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>The seating capacity of the cinema is about 1,400. The interior of the theater was remodeled during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The lobby and exits were upgraded and California Gold Rush artwork was added in the lobby. Golden flourishes were added near the stage areas.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1970s new 70mm projection equipment was installed and a larger screen added. The Fox Westwood Village has a reputation for top quality sound and projection. The most recent re-modeling was about 1998-1999 with the theater getting new seating and carpet. In 2014, Regency added the immersive Dolby Atmos sound system to the theater in time for the movie Transcendence. It remains one of the few remaining THX certified theatres in Los Angeles.</p><br>
<h2>Movie premieres</h2><br>
<p>A number of movie premieres have been held at the cinema, including: A Star Is Born, James Bond films, JFK, Mission: Impossible, Batman, each Harry Potter film, Independence Day, The Terminator, The Emoji Movie, The Lego Movie, Shrek, Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, and hundreds of others. Typically the streets get shut down and are used for red carpet arrivals.</p><br>
<p>Portage Point Inn Complex is a resort hotel located at the western end of Portage Lake at Portage Point, Michigan. In October 1985, this 1902 resort hotel and its associated buildings was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It operates today as the Portage Point Resort.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area around Portage Lake was originally settled in the late 1800s during the lumber boom. A water-powered sawmill was constructed at the original outlet of Portage Lake, located a short distance from the inn, in 1845. The adjoining property on Portage Point, where the inn now stands, was purchased in 1869 by Lucius S. Marvin. By 1880, the mill and its associated buildings was moved a few miles away to Onekama.</p><br>
<p>As timberlands were exhausted and lumbering slowed in the 1890s, the potential of the lakeshore for recreational uses began to be exploited. Marvin sold the property on the Point to two associates, and in 1902 they turn they sold the property to a private development corporation, the Sunnyside Assembly. Sunnyside shortly changed their name to Portage Point Assembly, and construction of the Inn was started July 12, 1902. The building was opened for tourists in June 1903. Additional buildings, including a large Main Hotel, the Beech Lodge (Hotel Annex), a Casino / dancing pavilion, and twenty cottages were added during the next ten years. In addition, the channel leading to the complex was dredged, allowing larger steamers to dock directly at the hotel.</p><br>
<p>In 1909, the Northern Michigan Transportation Company, a steamship company, became involved as an investing and operating partner of the Inn, and in 1914 the company took over the management completely. The resort complex continued to expand rapidly. In 1932, the Inn was sold to J.J. Smith, who moved his clientele from the Pine</p><br>
<p>Ridge Resort complex at Hamlin Lake near Ludington, after that resort burned. Smith owned the Inn until his death in 1960.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Portage Point Inn Complex is located on Portage Point, a peninsula which separates Lake Michigan from Portage Lake. The complex contains fifteen buildings constructed between 1902 and 1954; all but the last 1954 building contribute to the historic character of the complex. The buildings include:</p><br>
<p>Original Inn (1901-02, 1913-14) The original inn is a three-story Colonial Revival structure with a gambrel roof, clad with white clapboards. Originally constructed in 1901/02, the veranda was enclosed in 1913/14.</p><br>
<p>New Inn (Main Hotel) (1911-1912) The main hotel is a three-and-a-half story structure with a gambrel roof, fronted by a two-story portico with Tuscan columns.</p><br>
<p>Casino/Dance Pavilion (1908) The casino is a rectangular, one-and-one-half-story structure with a high, gable roof surrounded by verandas.</p><br>
<p>Beech Lodge (1906) The Beech Lodge is an H-shaped, two-and-one-half-story cross-gable Craftsman structure with a steeply pitched roof supported by open triangular brackets. A wood beltcourse accents the structure.</p><br>
<p>Hull House Cottage (1900-1901) The Hull House Cottage is a two-story, gable-roofed, structure clad with white clapboards. It has a Queen Anne style wraparound porch.</p><br>
<p>Rexwood Cottage (1917) The Rexwood Cottage is single story T-shaped Colonial structure with a gable roof and a wooden square-post porch.</p><br>
<p>Lakeview Cottage (c.1910) The Lakeview Cottage is single story L-shaped Colonial structure with a gable roof and a wooden square-post porch.</p><br>
<p>Avalon Cottage (1911) The Avalon Cottage is single story L-shaped Craftsman structure clad with clapboards. It has a curved pergola-porch entry portico, and triangular stick brackets supporting broad eaves.</p><br>
<p>Dollhouse Cottages 1-6 (190 and 1918). the Dollhouse Cottages are six identical single story end-gable structures with shed-roof porches.</p><br>
<p>Terrace Building (1954) The Terrace building, designed by Cincinnati architect Jarres Nordloh, is a two-story Neo-Colonial structure with a gable roof and clad with white-painted shingle. Double-decker verandas face the lake.</p><br>
<p>The Phillips Mansion is a Second Empire style historic house in Pomona, Los Angeles County, California. It was built in 1875 by Louis Phillips, who by the 1890s had become the wealthiest man in Los Angeles County. Situated along the Butterfield Stage route, the Phillips Mansion became a center of community activity in the Pomona and Spadra area. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974, making it among the first 25 sites in Los Angeles County to be so designated .</p><br>
<h2>Louis Phillips</h2><br>
<p>The Phillips Mansion was built in 1875 by Louis Phillips (c. 1830 - 1900). Phillips was born Louis Galefsky to a Jewish family in Prussia (now Kempen, Poland) and moved to California in the early 1850s, changing his name to Phillips. He moved to Spadra (now part of Pomona) in 1862 and began engaging in sheep herding and cattle raising. In 1864, he purchased 12,000 acre of the old Rancho San Jose for $30,000. The Times noted that Phillips was worth "not a dollar less than $3,000,000" and stated that, in addition to his land holdings in Los Angeles, he had a ranch that produced wool, honey and wheat.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture of the house</h2><br>
<p>The Phillips Mansion was built in 1875 at a cost of over $20,000. It was built with 3 ft walls, 16 ft ceilings and six fireplaces. The interior of the mansion is finished in cherry and maple wood that was hauled by horse and wagon from San Pedro. The mansion represented a number of firsts in the Pomona Valley, including the following:</p><br>
<p>The first home built with fired bricks</p><br>
<p>The first home fitted with gas lighting; and</p><br>
<p>The first example of mansard roof architecture.</p><br>
<p>Other than two Mexican-era adobe structures (the Ygnacio Palomares Adobe and the La Casa Primera de Rancho San Jose), the Phillips Mansion is also the oldest surviving house in the Pomona Valley.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Rancho San Jose</h3><br>
<p>The property on which the Phillips Mansion was built is part of the 22,000 acre Rancho San Jose land grant awarded in 1837 by Gov. Juan B. Alvarado to Ricardo Vejar and Ygnacio Palomares. The Phillips Mansion was preceded by an adobe built in the 1860s, when the property was still part of the Rancho San Jose. Even before the construction of the Phillips Mansion, it was said that "the cluster of buildings by San Jose Creek at the foot of the Spadra Hills" was the center of life on the rancho.</p><br>
<h3>Use by Louis Phillips</h3><br>
<p>In 1864, Schlesinger and Tischler acquired the ranch in a foreclosure, and Phillips, who had previously been a manager on the ranch, Phillips was one of the local land promoters (along with Garey, Holt and Towne) who laid out the town of Pomona in the summer of 1875. The new community was named after the goddess of fruit trees. However, Phillips preferred Spadra to Pomona, and retained 2,241 acre surrounding his mansion, which he operated as a cattle and sheep ranch.</p><br>
<p>It has been said that the Phillips Mansion "heralded the Yankee period" in the Pomona Valley. Phillips also became postmaster for the Spadra area, and the mansion became both the post office and a center of social activities for the scattered settlers of the Pomona Valley in the late 19th Century.</p><br>
<h3>Changes in ownership</h3><br>
<p>Phillips died from pneumonia at the mansion in 1900. At that time, the property consisted of the house and 40 acre with 4,000 ft of frontage on Pomona Boulevard. George, who then lived in Hollywood, retained 200 acre of walnut groves.</p><br>
<p>In 1942, the house was sold to C.H. Brandmyer from Glendale, California. At that time, the property consisted of the house and 21 acre of citrus, and the Los Angeles Times reported that the home had never been remodeled.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, the house was converted into an apartment house. At one time, the house was cut up like a rooming house into four apartments, and the dark interior woodwork was painted over. By 1959, ownership of the property had passed to Earl Isbil.</p><br>
<h3>Acquisition and operation by Historical Society</h3><br>
<p>During the 1960s, the area surrounding the Phillips Mansion had become largely industrial. In 1966, the mansion had been heavily vandalized, At that time, the Historical Society of Pomona Valley, led by Fred W. Sharp, began a campaign to save the old mansion. The Historical Society ultimately purchased the mansion and restored it as a Yankee period museum to complement the Ygnacio Palomares Adobe, which was operated by the Historical Society as a museum focusing on the Mexican period. Pomona architect Amos W. Randall was in charge of the renovation master plan, and the restored mansion was opened for its first public viewings in 1978. Title to the mansion was later transferred to the City of Pomona, and the city and Historical Society now operate the mansion jointly.</p><br>
<p>In 1973, the house was used as a location in the movie, Lemora: A Child&#39;s Tale of the Supernatural, which also used the small jail structure on the property.</p><br>
<p>In 1981, a time capsule containing handmade bricks and squared nails from the Phillips Mansion, was buried at the entrance to a master-planned community called "Phillips Ranch." The community consists of 3,000 new single-family homes and was built on the site of Louis Phillips&#39; ranch.</p><br>
<p>The Phillips Mansion was damaged in the February 1990 Upland earthquake and the June 1991 Sierra Madre earthquake. The earthquakes caused the mansion&#39;s chimney to topple and resulted in cracks throughout the structure. The house was reopened on a limited basis for tours in October 1991, though visitors were required to wear hard hats.</p><br>
<p>Between 2002 and 2008, the Historical Society and the City of Pomona have undertaken extensive renovation work on the house, which has been closed during this time. In July 2008, the mansion suffered a further setback when it was damaged in the Chino Hills earthquake. Though the house had been scheduled to reopen to the public in the fall of 2008, visible cracks in the front of the building and back porch raised doubts about the date of its reopening. The Mansion is closed except for annual Historical Society of Pomona Valley events and occasional schools tours. Before being fully restored the Mansion had been used for two Halloween program presentations.</p><br>
<p>Zapadnaya Litsa River  is a river in the north of the Kola Peninsula in Murmansk Oblast, Russia. It is 107 km in length. The area of its basin is 1,190 km². The Zapadnaya Litsa River originates on the Kuchintundra and flows into the Barents Sea. Its biggest tributary is the Lebyazhka River.</p><br>
<p>From 1941 to 1944, the Litsa River formed the Arctic frontline between German and Finnish troops west of the river – trying to capture Murmansk – and Soviet troops on the east, defending the city. This frontier was of vital importance for both sides, as Murmansk was the only Soviet harbour left in Europe and the northern route to Murmansk and Arkhangelsk supplied the Soviet Union with approximately 25% of all lend-lease aid. During the stalemate that lasted four years, thousands perished in the tundras on both sides of the river. At the time the Litsa valley was called Death Valley (Долина смерти, Dolina smerti) by the Soviets; though later the expression Valley of Honor (Долина славы, Dolina slavy) became fashionable.</p><br>
<p>The defense of Murmansk succeeded; the Germans never reached the city and the supply lines were not seriously interrupted, although the Germans bombed Murmansk to rubble from occupied Norway. See also: Operation Silver Fox and Operation Platinum Fox.</p><br>
<p>The remains of the WW II fighting (trenches, pillboxes, defense pits etc.) can be visited with some specialised travel agencies.</p><br>
<h2>Memorial for the Defenders of the Soviet Arctic on Litsa River (images)</h2><br>
<p>Trunk Line Bridge No. 1, also known as Peshekee River Bridge, is a bridge adjacent to US Highway 41/M-28 . It was the first of many trunkline bridges designed by the Michigan State Highway Department. It was built in 1914, and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Trunk Line Bridge No. 1 is a multiple-span concrete bridge which is located 5 mi east of Michigamme. The bridge used to carry US 41/M-28 across the Pesheskee River near the river&#39;s mouth at Lake Michigamme. It is located between a Soo Line Railroad (ex-Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railway) bridge to the south and the modern replacement bridge to the north.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is 240 ft in length, composed of six 40 ft concrete through girders. This carries a concrete deck and full-height abutments over solid concrete piers with bullnosed cutwaters. In total, it used some 600 cubic yards of concrete in the design. The girder walls feature rectangular recessed panels capped by concrete copings.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Today, drivers cannot use the Peshekee River Bridge south of US 41/M-28 in western Marquette County&#39;s Michigamme Township, although access can be had on foot from the eastern side. The bridge is under the supervision of the Michigan State Parks with the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and is part of the Van Riper State Park. The bridge was built in 1914 in response to the 1913 State Trunk Line Act passed by the Michigan Legislature. This act created the State Trunkline Highway System comprising nearly 3,000 mi. The act further said that the Michigan State Highway Department would design, build and maintain trunkline bridges spanning 30 ft or more so long as the local governments improved an adjacent 3 mi of roads. Marquette County built a mainline road from Marquette west to Michigamme near the county line, including an improved 3 mi section in 1913 to encourage the state to build the bridge. The bridge was designed by C.V. Dewart for the department and built by the local firm of Powell and Mitchell in Marquette. The Peshekee River Bridge would later be incorporated into the routing of US 41 in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999 as "Trunk Line Bridge No. 1" for its engineering and architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>The Peterboro Land Office is located in the hamlet of Peterboro, in the Town of Smithfield in Madison County, New York. The small, Federal style building was built in 1804. It was constructed of locally produced brick laid in Flemish bond on the facade and common bond elsewhere. The main room is 24 by. The interior has plaster walls and ceiling and a brick over plank floor. The entrance vestibule is in the center of the south wall between two windows. There is a window each on the east and west walls. The north walls has built in shelves and drawers on the east side and a 4 ft iron vault door on the west side.</p><br>
<p>Peter Smith arrived in Utica, New York, then called Fort Schuyler, in 1784, and over the next ten years formed close ties with the local Native American tribe, the Oneidas. In 1794, Peter Smith leased, and subsequently acquired full title to, 50,000 acre of land from the Oneidas under Chief Skenadoah. The tract comprised the central portion of modern-day Madison County and parts of the current Oneida County. Over 100,000 acre of land in the northeastern part of the country were transferred in thousands of transactions at the land office, which was used for that purpose until the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Gerrit Smith, Peters son, continued in the land business after his father. He also established the Peterboro Academy in 1853 and an orphanage in 1871. He was an active abolitionist. His grandson, Gerrit Smith Miller, was a noted philanthropist and active in the womens suffrage movement.</p><br>
<p>The land office was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984, and is part of the larger Gerrit Smith Estate which was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Dartmouth Range is a mountain range in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in the United States. The range lies in the township of Low and Burbank&#39;s Grant and the town of Carroll in Coos County.</p><br>
<p>The Dartmouth Range is a wooded ridge which runs east-west from Jefferson Notch just west of Mount Jefferson in the Presidential Range to Mount Deception in the town of Carroll, overlooking Bretton Woods and the Mount Washington Hotel. No trails currently traverse the range.</p><br>
<p>The named summits in the range, from west to east, are Mount Deception, at 1,116 m, Mount Dartmouth, the highest point in the range at 1,136 m, and Millen Hill, at 1,028 m. Mount Mitten, at 932 m, lies off the main ridge to the north of Mount Dartmouth.</p><br>
<p>Water flowing north from the crest of the range is within the drainage basin of the Israel River, by way of the South Branch of the Israel River and Mill Brook. To the south of the ridgecrest, water flows via Jefferson Brook and Halfway Brook to the Ammonoosuc River. Water off the west end of the range flows via Deception Brook into the Ammonoosuc. The Ammonoosuc and Israel rivers both flow west to the Connecticut River, which carries their water south to Long Island Sound.</p><br>
<p>Tompkins Street–Main Street Historic District, formerly known as Tompkins Street Historic District, is a historic district in Cortland, New York. It encompasses 109 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the central business district of Cortland and the surrounding residential areas. It includes about 60 commercial buildings built between 1860 and 1910, public buildings such as the separately listed USA Post Office, and the Cortland Rural Cemetery. Residences date as early as the 1830s and include mansions from the 1890-1916 period. Most residences are 2 1/2 stories and of frame construction.</p><br>
<p>Under the Tompkins Street name, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Its boundaries were increased to include Main Street from Tompkins to Clinton Streets in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District in Medina, New York, United States, is the downtown commercial core of the village. It is a 12 acre area stretching south along Main Street from the Erie Canal to the railroad tracks.</p><br>
<p>Its buildings, all but three of which contribute to its historic character, reflect the development of Medina from the early days of the canal, where a bend in the route made it a natural harbor, in the 1830s to the 1920s. They are brick or stone buildings in a variety of architectural styles from the 19th century, primarily Italianate. Many of them have been renovated after a period of decline in the mid-20th century. In 1995 it was designated a historic district and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Two years later, a rail freight depot at the south end was added when further research established that it was historically related to other buildings in the district.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The district is an irregularly shaped area whose axis is Main Street for a block and a half north and south of East and West Center Street (NY 31 and 31E/63 respectively. South of the Main-Center intersection, Main Street is also itself part of routes 31 and 63). Its boundaries are defined by lot lines and streets. The terrain is level with a slight descent to the canal and creek at the northeast.</p><br>
<p>At the north, the district includes the properties on the east side of Main north of Pearl Street that back on the canal just north of the bend it takes after crossing the Oak Orchard River to the immediate east. Its boundary continues along the rear property line of the east side of Main, excluding the parking lot at the canal basin, then expanding westward at East Center to include some properties on both sides of the street east of Manilla Place, stopping just short of St. Johns Episcopal Church, the "Church in the Middle of the Street" and one of Medinas oldest public buildings. It then returns to the rear lines of the east side of Main, following the CSX railroad tracks back to the street.</p><br>
<p>On the west side of Main it includes all the properties down to North Avenue. The district takes in the large railroad complex, excluding the hardware store on the corner with West Avenue, which it follows north to just past the tracks. The 1997 boundary increase added the Medina Railroad Museum across the street, extending the southwest corner of the district to Gwinn Street. After that the boundary crosses the street again and takes in the old train station building, then turns north at the back of City Hall to follow rear property lines on the east side of Main, including the buildings with frontage on the east side of Proctor Place. One lot south of Pearl Street, it turns east to exclude a house and vacant lot along that back to Main, which it then follows back up to the north end of the district.</p><br>
<p>This tightly drawn boundary encloses an area of 12 acre. Of the 52 buildings within it, only three are too modern to be considered contributing properties. There are no houses; most are multistory commercial buildings with a few having apartments above street level. The railroad-related properties, First Presbyterian Church and City Hall and its fire station are the few exceptions. It excludes Medinas Register-listed post office and St. Johns, found eligible.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The settlement of what became Medina began with the announcement of the canals construction in 1817. Within a few years some houses had sprung up for canal workers near the bend, and by 1825 the area in the northeastern portion of the district known as the docks, had been well developed, with a general store. At the time what is now Main Street was known as Shelby Street. None of those buildings are extant, mostly wood frame structures, are extant, having been demolished to make way for the current buildings. The foundation of the former Arcade at 343–347 Main Street is the only remnant of the villages early years still extant.</p><br>
<p>In 1823 the Holland Land Company, the original European owners of much of Western New York, sent Ebenezer Mix to survey and lay out a village at the Ridgeway-Shelby town line. He completed this by 1826. This, combined with the settlement around the docks, became Medina. At that time, it was a way station along the canal for barges and an overnighting point for passengers. Many of its early buildings were hotels.</p><br>
<p>Medina grew quickly. In addition to the canal it had good waterpower on Oak Orchard Creek (two mill races, one of which is reportedly still intact underground, ran along today&#39;s Main Street) and fertile land surrounding it. The settlement incorporated as a village in 1832, just seven years after its establishment. The 1840 census recorded 700 inhabitants. By the middle of the century the southwest portion of the village was being developed as a residential area.</p><br>
<p>In 1855 the villages oldest extant hotel, the Paddock at 500–506 Main Street, was built. Around that time the Rochester, Lockport and Niagara Falls Railroad, the "Falls Road", was built through the village, at the southern end of the district. It took some, but not all, of the canals traffic. By providing easier access to raw materials and markets for finished goods the railroad, which eventually became part of the New York Central Railroad, spurred industrial development along Main Street. The former main station, at 615 Main Street, built early in the 20th century, is one of the district buildings using locally quarried Medina sandstone, enjoying its peak usage as a building material at the time. At the same time the Rochester, Lockport and Buffalo Railroad offered electric trolley service that passed through Medina on tracks running along East Center, up Main and then to Commercial Street and east along a private right-of-way to Salt Works Road and then to West Center.</p><br>
<p>A series of fires in the 1860s and 1870s led to the construction of most of the districts extant buildings between 1870 and 1900. As a result, they are visually cohesive and uniformly scaled. The most architecturally distinguished building in the district, Bents Opera House at the northwest corner of Main and Center, is an early product of this period.</p><br>
<p>The village had a diverse group of industries and retailers in the first decades of the 20th century. The fruit orchards in the farms around the village created a need for cold storage facilities near the railroad tracks. Three buildings, the warehouse at 630 Main Street that is now a carpet store, the 613-615 Main Street building and the railway museum building on West Street, reflect the importance of fruit growing at that time. So prosperous was Medina during this period that residents named the new municipal building in 1908 City Hall, out of the expectation that the village, now with a population of 5,000, would eventually become one.</p><br>
<p>Most of those industries declined and eventually closed down over the next few decades. The canal, by then carrying a small fraction of its former traffic, was widened and incorporated into the New York State Barge Canal system in the late 1910s. It continued to decline. The railroads were affected as well. In 1931 the trolley service was discontinued; the tracks themselves remained for another 30 years. After World War II the market for Medina sandstone dwindled as well. Freight and passenger traffic across the state began using the New York State Thruway, 10 miles (16 km) to the south, and eventually the Central discontinued passenger service along the route before going bankrupt itself.</p><br>
<p>The buildings of downtown Medina have remained. Many were restored and renovated with state and federal grant programs. The village has continued to benefit from the canal, which is now mainly a recreational resource but still carries some freight.</p><br>
<h2>Significant contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The district&#39;s boundaries contain 54 buildings, one structure (the railroad tracks) and one site (Rotary Park, at the southeast corner of Main and Center). The park and three nearby buildings, as well as one near the train station, are the only non-contributing properties in the district. Among the others, some are notable within the context of the district. None have been listed individually on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Austin and Dye Cold Storage Warehouse, 613–615 Main Street. A 1901 three-story Medina sandstone vernacular building that occupies the southeast corner of the district.</p><br>
<p>Bancroft Hotel, 343–347 Main Street. Its foundation dates to 1835, making it the oldest building element in the district. The rest of the building was replaced after a 1927 fire. Today it houses an auto-parts store.</p><br>
<p>Bent Block, 444 Main Street. Built in 1865, this Medina sandstone building once housed an opera house and was the center of Medina&#39;s cultural life.</p><br>
<p>Building at 415 Proctor Place. Records show that a public right-of-way once went through this former wagon shop with a bricked-over tunnel.</p><br>
<p>Building at 435 Main Street. The district&#39;s oldest building is a stone structure with brick facade built in 1846.</p><br>
<p>Building at 512 Main Street. This brick Italianate building has some excellent Art Deco storefronts with red and black Carrara glass.</p><br>
<p>Central Bank of Medina, 514 Main Street. The district&#39;s only neoclassical building dates to 1890, with a facade remodeled in 1926.</p><br>
<p>City Hall, 600 Main Street. The only government building in the district, built in 1908, is also its only Richardsonian Romanesque, with rockfaced Medina sandstone and round-headed arch moldings. Its name reflects the village&#39;s ambitions at the time of its construction. Modern rear addition is home to the fire department.</p><br>
<p>S.A. Cook Building, 526–540 Main Street. A long, horizontal brick building that was seen as very modern when it was built in 1911.</p><br>
<p>First Presbyterian Church, 520 Main Street. The district&#39;s only church is an 1872 brick Romanesque Revival structure set back slightly more from the street than its neighbors.</p><br>
<p>Fuller Block, 428 Main Street. Decoration on this 1875 Italianate commercial building includes drip molding on the round-arched windows, intricate brick corbelling and a bracketed cornice. Housed the local G. C. Murphy store for many years.</p><br>
<p>Hart House, 111–115 West Center Street. Built in 1876 as a hotel, this five-bay brick structure is one of the most accomplished of the Italianate buildings in the district, with full-height brick pilasters, segmentally arched windows, stone crowns and a bracketed cornice.</p><br>
<p>Maher Brothers Block, 116–120 East Center Street. This 1873 building is the only one with a neo-Renaissance facade, added 30 years after construction.</p><br>
<p>Medina Cold Storage Warehouse, 630 Main Street. Built in 1907, it is similar to the Austin and Dye building across the street. A wood frame packing house was added to the south elevation in the early 1920s.</p><br>
<p>Medina Railroad Museum, 530 West Street. A 300 by timber frame clapboard-sided structure built in 1905 that is believed to be the largest extant wooden freight depot in the country. It was converted to its present purpose in 1991.</p><br>
<p>New York Central Railroad Station, 615 West Street. A hip roofed structure presently used as a senior center, it was built in 1908 of mixed materials and remains mostly intact.</p><br>
<p>Paddock&#39;s Hotel, 500–506 Main Street. The oldest hotel building in the district dates to 1855.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>Medina has made the district part of a historic overlay district in its zoning code. The villages district includes some areas outside of the Register-listed one, such as an extension north to Eagle Street and more of East Center Street along the canal basin. It is meant to protect the districts historic character within the context of Medina&#39;s commercial zoning.</p><br>
<p>In 2009 the Genesee/Finger Lakes Regional Planning Commission, with the cooperation of the village and representatives of its downtown business community, drafted a revitalization plan for the district. Business and consumers were surveyed to get data as to what they thought downtown&#39;s issues were. Consumers were also asked where they came from and how they used downtown.</p><br>
<p>Businesses, many of which were independent and owned the space they operated from, represented a diverse group of activities, primarily retail goods and services. They employed about 222 people. Most indicated that what they would be most interested in to improve downtown was grant or loan programs to assist with business improvements. Half of them thought parking was an issue for their customers.</p><br>
<p>The customers surveyed were primarily older women. Most were residents of the area who drove downtown to shop (usually at the grocery or drugstore) and attend to personal care needs. They came to downtown a few times a month and were most likely otherwise to go to a big box retailer, shops in nearby towns like Albion or Middleport or malls in the Buffalo area to the southwest. They liked the small-town feel of downtown, but felt it could use more parking and more attention to the appearance of vacant buildings.</p><br>
<p>The plan recommended that the village add a section to its comprehensive plan dealing with downtown. Specific measures that were suggested to address the issues were several measures to instill pride in the historic downtown, such as the redistribution of sections of the Register application to promote awareness of the district&#39;s historic qualities, a window display program in vacant storefronts, making property owners aware of the tax credits available to them for renovating income-producing property, and the creation of a Business Improvement District. A separate parking overlay was suggested, based on recalculated demand, to address that issue.</p><br>
<p>Molista  is a settlement in the Ioannina regional unit in Epirus, Greece. It is situated on the northwestern slope of Smolikas, between the villages Monastiri to the southwest and Gannadio to the northeast. It is part of the municipality of Konitsa. In 2011 its population was 23. The GR-20 , the old road is approximately 5 km west. The village is uninhabited during the winter months.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is unknown when the village was founded. In the area around 3,000 years old lekythoi containing ashes have been found by archeologists. This may indicate that the first inhabitants were Molossians. Others claim that the village was settled later, during the Byzantine times ir the 17th century. Molista was part of the Ottoman Empire until 1913, when it came to Greece.</p><br>
<h2>Notable People from Molista</h2><br>
<p>Hasan Tahsin Pasha, military officer of the Ottoman Empire</p><br>
<p>The Tenth Island, sometimes called Barrenjoey, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is a 900 m&sup2; uninhabited granite islet and nature reserve, situated in Bass Strait, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia. The islet has no vegetation and much of it is wave-washed in winter storms.</p><br>
<p>Other islands in the Waterhouse Group include Ninth, Maclean, Waterhouse, Little Waterhouse, Baynes, St Helens, Foster, Swan, Little Swan, Cygnet and Paddys islands and Bird Rock and George Rocks islets.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna and marine life</h2><br>
<p>The island is home to a significant breeding colony of Australian fur seals, with up to 400 pups born each year, though many drown in storms. black-faced cormorants also breed on the island and little penguins roost there.</p><br>
<p>In the waters surrounding Tenth Island, Therese Cartwright, aged 35 years and a mother of five children, was killed as a result of a human shark attack fatality on 5 June 1993 when a reportedly 5 m long great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) attacked Cartwright while she was scuba diving at the seal colony.</p><br>
<p>The Ninth Island, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is a 32 hectare uninhabited granite island situated in Bass Strait, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia.</p><br>
<p>Other islands in the Waterhouse Group include St Helens, Tenth, Waterhouse, Little Waterhouse, Maclean, Baynes, Foster, Swan, Little Swan, Cygnet and Paddys islands and Bird Rock and George Rocks islets.</p><br>
<p>The island is situated within the Dorset Municipality.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>As well as the black-faced cormorants, recorded breeding seabirds and waders include the little penguin, short-tailed shearwater, common diving-petrel, white-faced storm-petrel, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher and crested tern. Cape Barren geese also breed there, European rabbits have been introduced and the southern grass skink is present.</p><br>
<p>The island is approximately 1.3 km long and 550 m wide, lying 11.7 km from the north-eastern coast of Tasmania. It is partly privately owned and has been badly affected in the past by grazing, frequent fires and, in July 1995, by the oil spill which killed between 2000 and 6000 little penguins. The island forms part of the Ninth and Little Waterhouse Islands Important Bird Area (IBA), so identified by BirdLife International because it holds over 1% of the world population of black-faced cormorants.</p><br>
<h2>Ownership and conservation</h2><br>
<p>In approx 1988-1989, Ninth Island was purchased for 64,000. In February 2015, Ninth Island was advertised for sale with an asking price of A$500,000; however in July it was passed in at auction for 1.19 million.</p><br>
<p>The island currently does not have a jetty or an airstrip, so the only way to access the island is via helicopter.</p><br>
<p>In 2012 the 26.4 hectare Ninth Island Conservation Area was formed on the island. This conservation area completely surrounds the central hill on the island and extends all the way to the shoreline. In addition, the full tidal region of the island&#39;s shoreline has been designated Tidal Crown Land, managed by the Tasmanian National Parks and Wildlife Service. A conservation covenant exists on the island, owing to the fact a mutton-bird rookery exists on the island.</p><br>
<p>The H. H. Richardson Historic District of North Easton is a National Historic Landmark District in the village of North Easton in Easton, Massachusetts. It consists of five buildings designed by noted 19th-century architect Henry Hobson Richardson, and The Rockery, a war memorial designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The landmark district is contained within the larger North Easton Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 3, 1972. It also contains the Old Colony Railroad Station which was individually listed on the NRHP on April 11, 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Easton was first settled in 1694 and was officially incorporated in 1725. In 1694, the first settler, Clement Briggs established his home near the Easton Green. In 1711, the Taunton North Purchase area became Norton, and in 1713, the twenty-six families settled in Easton and hired Elder William Pratt as their first minister. There was no legal parish in Easton until 1722 when the East Precinct of Norton was recognized. In 1725, the area was incorporated as the Town of Easton; it was so named because it was formerly called the "East End" of the Taunton North Purchase and was shortened by pronunciation to Easton.</p><br>
<p>In 1803, the Ames Shovel Company was established and became nationally known as having provided the shovels which laid the Union Pacific Railroad and opened the west. In 1875, the shovel production of the Ames plant was worth 1.5 million. The most notable of the Ames family were Oakes Ames, a key figure in the Crédit Mobilier of America scandal, and Oliver Ames, governor of Massachusetts from 1887–1890.</p><br>
<p>The Ames family shaped the town&#39;s economy, and was responsible for the presence of a number of landmark buildings in the town designed by H. H. Richardson, originator of the Richardsonian Romanesque style and designer of Trinity Church in Boston.</p><br>
<p>The five Richardson buildings in the Historic Landmark District include:</p><br>
<p>Ames Free Library</p><br>
<p>Oakes Ames Memorial Hall</p><br>
<p>Old Colony Railroad Station (houses the Easton Historical Society; original NRHP designation, April 1972)</p><br>
<p>Ames Gate Lodge (located on Elm Street; privately owned by the Ames family)</p><br>
<p>F. L. Ames Gardener&#39;s Cottage</p><br>
<h2>Other associated buildings</h2><br>
<p>Though this school complex was not made by Richardson himself, it was dedicated to him and made in his style:</p><br>
<p>H. H. Richardson/F. L. Olmsted Intermediate School</p><br>
<p>Although intended to be the town hall, the Oakes Ames Memorial Hall was never accepted by the town and never used for that purpose.</p><br>
<p>In addition, there is a commercial building at 66 Main Street which designed and build in the nineteenth century by Richardson&#39;s office in a Richardsonian style. The Richardson buildings are all located within a compact area designated as the H. H. Richardson Historic District. The area also includes The Rockery, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also landscaped grounds of Oakes Ames Memorial Hall and the Ames Free Library.</p><br>
<p>Mount Amagi is a range of volcanic mountains in central Izu Peninsula in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, forming the border between Izu City and Higashi-Izu Town. It is also referred to as the Amagi Mountain Range.</p><br>
<p>The Amagi mountains have several peaks, the tallest of which are Bansaburōdake at 1,406 m, Banjirōdake at 1,300 m, and Tōgasayama at 1,197 m.</p><br>
<p>There are several hiking routes to the top. Flora in the area include rhododendrons, Japanese andromeda, stewartia monadelpha and Siebold&#39;s beech.</p><br>
<p>Many ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy were named after it, including a corvette, a battlecruiser and an aircraft carrier.</p><br>
<p>Amagi is listed as one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains in a book composed in 1964 by mountaineer/author Kyūya Fukada.</p><br>
<p>Easley High School Auditorium is a historic building built in 1909 in Easley, South Carolina and now on the National Register of Historic Places. It is historically significant for its long association with education and civic life in Easley in the first half of the 20th century. The building served as Easley’s first and only high school from 1909 to 1940 and was central to the early experience and training of almost every local resident of that period.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Architecturally, the load-bearing masonry building in the Renaissance Revival style is significant for its early efforts to introduce steel trusses into traditional masonry-bearing wall and heavy timber construction. It has also been noted as an outstanding early example of the work of architects Frank H. and Joseph G. Cunningham. At the time of construction, use of steel trusses was still in the experimental phase. The design of the building is an early example of “the gradual replacement of load-bearing masonry and heavy timber structures with steel frame construction.” The building has 86 tall windows with segmental arches, laid out like those in many textile mills in the region.</p><br>
<h2>Later Use</h2><br>
<p>When the building opened in the fall of 1909, its classrooms allowed the seventh through tenth grades to have their own rooms for the first time (an eleventh grade was added in the 1920-21 school year.</p><br>
<p>The school had outgrown the facility by 1938 and a new building was constructed on a different site in 1939-40. Following completion of the new school building, the auditorium was occupied by a shirt manufacturer until 1964.</p><br>
<p>From that time until its listing on the National Register, the building went through various periods of vacancy and occupation by a local furniture store for limited storage use.</p><br>
<h2>Recent Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The building had fallen into disrepair when the Easley Chamber of Commerce applied for its recognition as one of the most-endangered properties in the state.</p><br>
<p>Occupants of the building following its use as a school had torn out interior classroom walls, a portion of the roof had been destroyed as the result of wind damage from a 1998 storm (this was replaced with temporary corrugated metal sheets), and metal panels had been installed over many windows to prevent water damage. All but one original chimney as well as an entry porch on the building&#39;s south side had been removed, "virtually all windows and doors" and much of the plaster work were "severely deteriorated".</p><br>
<p>Following a 1997 study that identified the building as a key ingredient in downtown Easley&#39;s revitalization, the town engaged in a period of planning on how to return it to a place of prominence within the community. In the early 2000s the building was rehabilitated and restored to private use as residential condominiums.</p><br>
<p>The building stands at 112 Russell Street and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The South Carolina Department of Archives and History has additional pictures and information, as well as the NRHP nomination document.</p><br>
<p>The Bardstown Historic District, comprising the center of Bardstown, Kentucky, is a registered historic district on the National Register of Historic Places. Prominent architecture located within the district include the Cobblestone Path, Nelson County Jail, Old L & N Station, Old Talbott Tavern, and Spalding Hall, all individually on the National Register, and the historic old Nelson County Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The district consists of twenty-six blocks with a total of 279 properties. Over one third of the buildings in the district are Federal or Georgian architecture dating from the 1780s to 1850, reflecting Bardstowns status as one of the first towns in Kentucky, first settled in 1780 and formally established in 1788. Twenty-four of the blocks are in the initial grid pattern used to lay out the towns lots in 1797.</p><br>
<p>The town was originally to be called Salem when it was first settled in 1780 by 33 people, on land given as 1,000 acre grant to John Owings and David Bard by Virginia governor Patrick Henry. Bard sent his brother William Bard to manage the holdings, and with William donating 2 acre for a courthouse, the town was renamed Bardstown. In 1789 alone 150 log houses were built in the district. In the antebellum area the district became a cultural center for nearby localities, especially for Catholics; Bardstown had the largest concentration of Catholics of any town in Kentucky for a time. Its decline began when the Louisville and Nashville Railroad decided to initially bypass Bardstown, not building a railroad for the town until 1860, and not extending the line from Bardstown until 1887, after which Bardstown&#39;s population remained steady until it became the center of bourbon production.</p><br>
<p>At different times during the Civil War, commanders from both armies held their headquarters within the district.</p><br>
<p>The Old Courthouse, which lies in the center of the district surrounded by US 31E and US 150, was constructed in 1892 at the cost of $30,000. It now serves as the Visitor Center for Bardstown, with the new courthouse being built where the original Wal-Mart in Bardstown was located.</p><br>
<p>Thanks to the Nelson County Historical Society and the 1965 Historical District Zoning laws, much of the district retains its historical nature, save for a few commercial buildings along Third Street, also known locally as Louisville Road (which eventually reaches Louisville, where it is called Bardstown Road). By the 1980s over 200,000 tourists visited the town, which has steadily increased due to the continuing attractions of the Kentucky Bourbon Festival and My Old Kentucky Home State Park, located on the next hill to the east of the historic district.</p><br>
<p>United States President Jimmy Carter held a town hall meeting in the district in 1979.</p><br>
<p>File:Old Talbott Tavern.jpgOld Talbott Tavern</p><br>
<p>File:Downtown Bardstown.jpgShops along 3rd Street</p><br>
<p>File:Old Nelson County Jail.JPGHistoric old stone jail</p><br>
<p>File:Bardstown Farmers Bank Trust.JPGFarmer&#39;s Bank & Trust</p><br>
<p>File:Cobblestone Path 2.JPGCobblestone Path</p><br>
<p>File:Old L & N Station Bardstown.JPGOld L & N Station</p><br>
<p>File:Old Nelson County Courthouse KY back.JPGBackview of old Court House</p><br>
<p>The Pomona City Stables, also known as the Pomona City Yards Brick Building, is a stables building completed in 1909 to house horses owned by the City of Pomona, California.</p><br>
<p>Built at a cost of $6,000, the Pomona City Stables building was designed by Pomona architect Ferdinand Davis from the firm of Davis and Higgs. Upon its opening, the building was occupied by twenty-two head of horses owned by the city and a caretaker.</p><br>
<p>The building is reported to be one of the oldest municipal buildings extant in California. In 2003, the Pomona Historic Preservation Commission recommended recognition of the stables building as a historic landmark, and the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in October 2004. However, the listing of the building has not led to any cessation of the building&#39;s deterioration. Located in the middle of a fenced-off yard used by the City of Pomona for storage of municipal vehicles, fuel, and other materials, the building has fallen into a serious state of disrepair and dilapidation. After the July 2008 Chino Hills earthquake, city officials posted a sign (pictured at left) on the entrance to the stables restricting access due to its dilapidated condition.</p><br>
<p>The Old Talbott Tavern, also known as the Old Stone Tavern, a historic tavern built in 1779, is located in the Bardstown Historic District of Bardstown, Kentucky, across from the historic Nelson County Courthouse. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 30, 1973. According to tradition, the tavern has never closed since its opening in 1779.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Old Talbott Tavern was built in 1779, a year before the settlement of Salem (later renamed Bardstown) began, making it the "oldest western stagecoach stop" still in operation. According to an old map of Bardstown, the lot was originally purchased by a man named Hynes; the tavern was called the Hynes Hotel. It was strategically located near the end of the stagecoach road that once led east to Philadelphia and Virginia. George Rogers Clark used it as a resource base during the end of the American Revolutionary War; Daniel Boone stayed here, and the exiled Louis-Philippe of France, stayed at the tavern on October 17, 1797, with a member of his entourage painting murals that were rediscovered in the 20th century and were on display until the 1998 fire.</p><br>
<p>Visitors in the 19th century included future presidents Andrew Jackson, William Henry Harrison, and Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln&#39;s parents stayed at the tavern when a court ruling went against them, leading the family to move to Indiana when Lincoln was only seven years old. Other prominent figures who visited the tavern were Henry Clay, the inventor of steamboats John Fitch, environmentalist John James Audubon, songwriter Stephen Foster, and Jesse James, who is said to have been the cause of the bullet holes in the murals as he was drunk and shooting at imaginary butterflies.</p><br>
<p>George Talbott purchased the tavern in 1886. Within two years, six of his children died in the tavern.</p><br>
<p>Queen Marie of Romania is known to have lunched at the tavern in 1926. Likewise, World War II general George Patton once visited the tavern.</p><br>
<p>Throughout its history, the tavern has been called different names: Hynes House, Bardstown Hotel, Chapman&#39;s House, Shady Bower Hotel, the Newman House, Talbott Hotel, Talbott Tavern, and the Old Stone Tavern. The Talbott Tavern was the official name from 1885 to 1968.</p><br>
<p>On March 7, 1998, a fire damaged the tavern, severely damaging the roof and second floor. The fire also damaged the Louis-Philippe murals, which have still not been restored. The renovations to repair the fire damage were described as "generic". The Old Talbott Tavern reopened on November 8, 1999.</p><br>
<p>The old Talbott Tavern currently serves as both a restaurant and a five-room bed and breakfast. A writer for Travel and Leisure magazine described it as having "slightly spooky charm". It has been featured on Food Network and Travel Channel, and was once ranked the 13th most haunted inn in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The inn&#39;s most famous ghost is the outlaw Jesse James. It is believed that until now, he still visits the inn. If you visit the hotel, you can still see the painting riddled with bullet holes which Jesse James put there himself. There are also reports of a mysterious woman who continues her haunting of the hotel.</p><br>
<p>It is next to the historic Nelson County Jail.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The original tavern consisted of the present eastern section, built of stone walls two feet thick and heavy ceiling timbers, with two separate fireplaces to cook the food. It originally had two guest rooms on the second floor: one for men and one for women, as individual rooms for guests did not become widespread in the United States until the early 19th century. The brick western section was built a century later.</p><br>
<p>The Little Waterhouse Island, part of the Waterhouse Island Group, is a 2.5 hectare granite island situated in Banks Strait, part of Bass Strait, lying close to the north-eastern coast of Tasmania, Australia.</p><br>
<p>The Waterhouse Island Group includes the Waterhouse, Little Waterhouse, Swan, Little Swan, Cygnet, Foster, St Helens, Ninth, Tenth, Paddys, Maclean, and Baynes islands and the Bird Rock, and George Rocks islets with their associated reefs.</p><br>
<p>Most of the island is bare rock. The island forms part of the Ninth and Little Waterhouse Islands Important Bird Area (IBA), so identified by BirdLife International because it holds over 1% of the world population of black-faced cormorants.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>As well as black-faced cormorants, recorded breeding seabird and wader species are the little penguin, Pacific gull, silver gull, sooty oystercatcher and Caspian tern.</p><br>
