<p>Locko Park is a privately owned 18th-century country house in Dale Abbey in the borough of Erewash, near Spondon, Derbyshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>The estate was acquired by William Gilbert from William Byrde in 1563. The oldest part of the house is the chapel of 1669. The main south facing block of the present house, built about 1725 out of locally sourced Keuper sandstone for the member of parliament, Robert Ferne, has three storeys and nine bays and a substantial Tuscan porch. The architect is believed to have been Francis Smith of Warwick. The current house was built on or close to the site of a hospital of the Order of St Lazarus of Jerusalem, which was in existence at least as far back as 1296. The order was dedicated to the care of lepers, and the name Locko derives from the old French word for rags, loques, in reference to the strips of lint that were applied to sores.</p><br>
<p>John Lowe purchased the estate in 1747 from the last descendant of the Gilbert family. Williams&#39;s daughter and heir, Mary-Anne, married Robert Holden in 1800. Their son William also took the name Drury-Lowe in 1849.</p><br>
<p>Substantial additions were made to the house in the 19th century by architect Henry Stevens of Derby, including, the present west range, the parapet to which bears the dates 1804 and 1896, and the Italianate tower which rises above it dating from 1853. The porch to the east front is dated 1861.</p><br>
<p>The house remains in the ownership of the Drury-Lowes, and is currently the residence of Lucy Palmer, the eldest daughter of Captain Patrick Drury-Lowe, and husband of David Palmer of the Huntley and Palmer biscuit family. The house is not generally open to the public, although it is available for corporate and private functions. Several members of the Drury-Lowe family have served as High Sheriff of Derbyshire. The park used to be host to a substantial herd of fallow deer, and some can still be seen in the area.</p><br>
<h2>A side note</h2><br>
<p>John Lowe and Robert Williams were partners in the banking firm of Lowe, Vere, and Williams. They financed an East Indiaman, Locko, which they named for Locko Park. She completed three voyages for the British East India Company between 1781 and 1788.</p><br>
<p>The Metropolitan Savings Bank Building opened on May 22, 1867 at the northeast corner of Third Avenue  &ndash; now Cooper Square &ndash; and East 7th Street, in New York City. The building, which was designed by architect Carl Pfeiffer in Second Empire style, is four stories high, 45 ft wide and 75 ft deep, and was considered at the time it opened to be one of the most finely constructed edifices, "from garret to basement." Its facades were composed of white marble, with the upper floor being enclosed by a mansard roof. The building was fireproof, as no combustible materials were used during construction, either internally or externally. The entire cost of the structure was $150,000.</p><br>
<p>The building was designated a New York City Landmark in 1969, and was added to the National Register of Historic Place in 1979. It has an alternate address of 61 Cooper Square.</p><br>
<h2>Interior design</h2><br>
<p>The main hall was 53.5 ft in length, and 36.83 ft wide. Its height was 17.33 ft. Its acoustic properties were excellent.</p><br>
<p>Black walnut was used inside for building desks, chairs, and stairways. The office furniture evoked a simple design and reflected excellent taste The President&#39;s room, located behind the banking house proper, was less spacious, as offices were given the maximum space. Another feature of the interior was its immense safe.</p><br>
<h2>Leasees</h2><br>
<p>The fireproof construction of the Metropolitan Savings Bank enabled the rapid renting of any free space not used by the bank. The basement and cellar beneath it was leased for ten years to the Stuyvesant Safe Deposit Company. The floor just above the bank was leased by the United States Assessor of Internal Revenue. The third floor, unlet when the building first opened, was rented for a decade by the Eastern Star Lodge of Freemasons.</p><br>
<h2>Later uses</h2><br>
<p>In 1937, the building was sold to the First Ukrainian Assembly of God, and it has been used since that time as a church, most recently by the First Ukrainian Evangelical Pentecostal Church.</p><br>
<p>The Belvedere is a Beaux Arts style building in Baltimore, Maryland. Designed by the Boston architectural firm of Thomas and Parker and built in 1902-1903, the Belvedere is a Baltimore landmark at the southeast corner of North Charles Street, facing north on East Chase Street in the city&#39;s fashionable Mount Vernon-Belvedere-Mount Royal neighborhood. In 1991 it was converted into condominiums, though areas remain open to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The eleven-story tan brick building rises 118 ft from a rusticated stone base to an elaborately-detailed "French Second Empire" styled crown with a traditional mansard roofline.</p><br>
<h2>Origin</h2><br>
<p>The hotel is named for its site on the former "Belvidere" estate of American Revolutionary War military leader/hero, a later civic and city leader, Colonel John Eager Howard, (1752-1827), of the famous "Maryland Line" regiment of the Continental Army which distinguished itself especially at the Battle of Long Island/Battle of Brooklyn outside New York in August 1776 and the Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina in 1780. Howards lands north and west of old Baltimore Town, known as "Howards Woods" were eventually used to donate plots for several churches and civic sites including the landmark Washington Monument and the four park-like squares surrounding it, when constructed 1815-1827, along with the old Baltimore Cathedral (now the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary), built 1806-1821, by the famed British-American architect, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, (1764-1820), a few blocks southwest on Cathedral Street. Later Howard children and members of the family sub-divided the grand estate beginning in the late 1820s into the 1830s and 1840s for rows of elegant townhouses (and later cultural institutions) extending northward from the harbor-front city, eventually surrounding the old historic mansion situated at the intersection of North Calvert and East Chase Streets until it too was finally razed in the mid 1870s.</p><br>
<h2>Hotel history</h2><br>
<p>The H.B. partners retained the architectural firm of Parker and Thomas of Baltimore and Boston, and the construction firm of W. W. and E. A. Wells of Chicago. Parker and Thomas had also been in the process of designing the new Homewood campus in the northern section of the city along North Charles Street above 30th Street of red brick and white wood trimmed Georgian architecture/Federal-styled architecture at The Johns Hopkins University when it relocated from its original previous downtown site along North Howard and West Centre, Little Ross and West Monument Streets around the same time and continuing for a few decades later.</p><br>
<p>When it was completed, the Belvedere, according to early accounts was considered "something of a sensation for Baltimore." Over the years, it has figured prominently in Baltimores social, political and economic life, especially as it was located in a predominately tiny exclusive residential neighborhood, north of most of the other downtown hotels which were then clustered. In 1912, former President of Princeton University and now Governor of New Jersey, Woodrow Wilson, once a graduate student at the newly established The Johns Hopkins University (1876) in the 1880s, living at nearby Druid Hill Avenue, stayed at the Belvedere Hotel while attending the 1912 Democratic National Convention, sited in Baltimore at the old Fifth Regiment Armory on North Howard Street nearby. That summer of 1912 convention nominated him for President versus incumbent Republican 27th President William Howard Taft and former 26th President Theodore Roosevelt in a landmark USA Presidential Election of 1912, resulting in Democrat Wilsons election as 28th President, the first Democrat since 22nd and 24th President Grover Cleveland in the 1880s and early 1890s.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Belvedere was known as the premier lodging in Baltimore during the first half of the twentieth century, hosting American Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Woodrow Wilson, among others, along with such celebrities as Wallis Warfield Simpson (the Duchess of Windsor), (controversial wife, born and raised in Baltimore, of abdicated King Edward VIII of Great Britain in 1936-1937), General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, actor Clark Gable, and many dozens of others.</p><br>
<p>Sheraton Hotels, a nationwide syndicate/chain purchased the hotel in 1946 and operated it until 1968 as the "Sheraton-Belvedere Hotel".</p><br>
<h3>Conversion</h3><br>
<p>Former owner Victor Frenkil received numerous city loans before selling the hotel in bankruptcy court for 5.5 million in 1990.</p><br>
<p>The Belvedere was converted to condominiums in 1991, although the building&#39;s historic, distinctive grand interior spaces of the ballrooms, restaurants (such as the "John Eager Howard Room" with its large grand murals of pastoral Baltimore scenery, and the "Owl Bar"), and lounges (including the modernistic night club/bistro, "The 13th Floor" and observation level, along with a basement-level shopping arcade) were cleaned, restored and enhanced, remaining open to the general passing public.</p><br>
<p>Monte Baldo is a mountain range in the Italian Alps, located in the provinces of Trento and Verona. Its ridge spans mainly northeast-southwest, and is bounded from south by the highland ending at Caprino Veronese, from west by Lake Garda, from north by the valley joining Rovereto to Nago-Torbole and, from east, the Val d&#39;Adige.</p><br>
<p>The name derives from the German Wald ("forest"); it appears for the first time in a German map in 1163.</p><br>
<p>The Peace Trail (it: Sentiero della Pace), one of the most important long distance trails in Northern Italy, leads over the range.</p><br>
<p>The ridge is reachable through a cable car from the nearby town of Malcesine, on the shore of Lake Garda.</p><br>
<h2>Morphology</h2><br>
<p>Mount Baldo is characterized by a geographical identity, a ridge parallel to Lake Garda, which stretches for 40 km, between the lake to the west and Val d&#39;Adige to the east, and on the south it is bounded by plain Caprino and North Valley Loppio.</p><br>
<p>Mount Baldo reaches its maximum elevation of 2,218 m with the Cima Valdritta, and its minimum elevation of 65 m on Lake Garda. Other prominent peaks in the range are Monte Altissimo di Nago (2,079 m), Cima del Longino (2,180 m), Cima delle Pozzette (2,132 m) and Punta Telegrafo (2,200 m).</p><br>
<p>The Bain Commercial Building is located at the corner of Church and West Main  streets in Wappingers Falls, New York, United States. It is a late 19th-century brick building that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It is the only intact Second Empire-style building from that period in the village. It is also one of the few historic structures in the portion of the village west of Wappinger Creek in the Town of Poughkeepsie that was once known as Channingville before it merged with Wappingers Falls in 1871. It has not been altered significantly since its construction and continues in use as multiple-dwelling residences above and business space at street level.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The Bain building is a two-story five-by-five bay structure with the Second Empire&#39;s signature mansard roof, surfaced in polychrome slate. Its foundation is built into surface that slopes toward the creek, requiring steps to access the building through its front facade, where a central entry to the upper floors is flanked by separate, three-part storefronts themselves consisting of doors flanked by large bay windows.</p><br>
<p>The roofline is decorated with a bracketed and panelled cornice, echoed in smaller, less ornate scale above the storefronts. The five windows on the second story give way to three dormer windows on the roof, pierced by chimneys at the center of the north and south elevations. Cast iron columns support the structure where the facade elements intersect.</p><br>
<p>To better facilitate the building&#39;s conversion into apartments, wooden stairs and sheds have been added to the back. One original shed that remains is considered a contributing outbuilding.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bain family is believed by most of Wappingers Falls to have built the building in 1875, shortly after Channingville became part of the village. It was both their residence and their place of business, with the possibility of rental income from the other storefront.</p><br>
<p>In the 20th century, after the village&#39;s industries declined, the upper residences were converted into apartments and the appropriate modifications made to the building by the Bain descendants who still owned the property. That mix of uses continues today, with one of the storefronts home to a coffee shop.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>Detached Second Empire commercial buildings are not common in urban or suburban settings; the Bain buildings development as such testifies to the minimal development of the Channingville area, particularly as it is some distance from the creek and the villages downtown. Its detachment made possible the more sophisticated applications of the style, such as the roofline, skewed upper window placement and polychrome slate roof.</p><br>
<p>The Tullie Smith House is a small plantation or farm house, built circa 1840 by Robert Smith. It is typical of the usual kind of plantation houses owned by small farmers. The house was located in Dekalb County, Georgia on 800 acre. The last Smith to occupy the property was Tullie, the great-great-granddaughter of Robert. By the 1960s the house was surrounded by highways and development, and was donated to the Atlanta Historical Society. The house was moved in 1969 to its present site in Atlanta on the grounds of Swan House.</p><br>
<p>The house has been restored and is operated by the Atlanta History Center as a 19th-century historic house museum known as the Smith Family Farm. Living history presentations are given during special events.</p><br>
<p>The Swan House was built in 1928 for Edward and Emily Inman in Atlanta, Georgia. The Inmans had accumulated wealth from cotton brokerage and investments on transportation, banking and real estate. After their house in Ansley Park burned in 1924, the Inmans commissioned the Atlanta architectural firm of Hentz, Reid and Adler to design a new house in on 28 acre in Buckhead, a northern Atlanta community. The new mansion&#39;s design was executed by Philip Trammell Shutze, combining Renaissance revival styles with a Classical approach on the main facade. The rear facade is less formal, and is sited at the top of a small hill with terraced gardens and a fountain cascading down the hillside. A recurring motif are sculpted or painted swans throughout the house and grounds.</p><br>
<p>Noted architect Philip T. Shutze designed Swan House and its gardens, as well as many other important buildings in the city. He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Columbia School of Architecture, and the American Academy in Rome, Italy.</p><br>
<p>Edward Inman died in 1931, but Emily collected her family into the house and lived there until 1965. The house and grounds were acquired by the Atlanta Historical Society in 1966. The house is operated as part of the Atlanta History Center and is maintained as a 1920s and 1930s historic house museum, with many of the Inmans&#39; original furnishings.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, the Atlanta History Center completed a $5.4 million restoration of the house and its furnishings.</p><br>
<p>This historical building served as the finish line of the 19th season of The Amazing Race.</p><br>
<p>It was also used to film some scenes in the 2013 film The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, and in its 2015 sequel, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2.</p><br>
<p>It appears in the opening sequence of the 1980 movie Little Darlings.</p><br>
<p>It was also to be used for "TCM Remembers 2014" on Turner Classic Movies.</p><br>
<p>Station 13 of the Minneapolis Fire Department is a fire station in the Ericsson neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota. The station, at 4201 Cedar Ave. S., was built in 1923 during a period when the city was growing rapidly. Between 1919 and 1922, nearly 5,000 new homes had been built in Minneapolis, and city planners of that era were concerned about fire protection for buildings located near the city limits. That era saw other construction projects such as Roosevelt High School, built in 1922; Standish Elementary School, built in 1920; and Roosevelt Community Library, built in 1925.</p><br>
<p>The city wanted the station to blend into its surrounding residential area, so the building was designed in the American Craftsman bungalow style. It had a low, horizontal roof and a front yard, which distinguished it from other fire stations that typically had two stories and prominent entries. It served as a fire station until 1979, when the Minneapolis Fire Department initiated a remodeling and expansion program. It later held an emergency medical technician unit before being converted to offices. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Station 28 of the Minneapolis Fire Department is a former fire station in the Linden Hills neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The station was built in 1914, during a time when the population of Minneapolis was growing rapidly. The Linden Hills neighborhood was evolving from a remote lakeside community to a neighborhood fully integrated into the city. This period of expansion also saw the construction of Lake Harriet Public School in 1898, city sewers in 1905, and Linden Hills Community Library in 1911.</p><br>
<p>The station was the second-to-last station originally built by the city, and it was the first to be designed solely for motorized equipment. The earlier horse-drawn rigs required more space and time, as well as upkeep for the horses. Motorized fire engines were less expensive and more efficient, and they were able to cover more territory with a decreased response time.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. The building has since been converted to office space, while Station 28 is now housed in a building at 2810 West 50th Street.</p><br>
<p>For at least the past four years, there has been a restaurant, Cafe 28, located on the street level of this building.</p><br>
<p>Akimoto Lake  is a lake that is technically classified as a reservoir. It straddles the border of the village of Kitashiobara and the town of Inawashiro, both in the Yama district of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Along with Hibara Lake and Onogawa Lake, it forms what is known as the "Inner Bandai Plateau Tri-Lake Formation".</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>The lake itself did not exist as late as the Meiji period in the area now known as the "Inner Bandai Plateau", which was once the site of the village of Hibara. In 1888, Mount Bandai—which is located to the south—erupted, and part of the mountainside caved in as a result of the accompanying phreatic explosion; a large rockslide—and then mudslide—in the direction of Hibara destroyed the village. It was previously assumed that one large phreatic explosion had occurred, but the destruction of the mountain is now thought to have been caused by several medium-sized explosions.</p><br>
<p>Rivers like the Nagase River and Onogawa River that flow in the Inner Bandai area became clogged up due to the destruction of the mountain and mudslide; Lake Hibara, Lake Onogawa, Goshiki Marsh and other such dammed lakes were thus formed. Akimoto Lake was formed by the damming of Ōkura River and Nakatsu River. It is the deepest of the lakes in the inner Bandai tri-lake area, and is second to Lake Hibara in surface area.</p><br>
<p>Akimoto Lake’s water flows in from Nagase River, and forms a delta at its lower section which pours into Lake Inawashiro. Water then flows from Lake Inawashiro into Nippashi River, from which it connects to Agano River at Kitakata City. Because of this path that the water takes, Akimoto Lake is designated under the River Act as part of the Agano River water system, and managed as a class-1 water system by Fukushima Prefecture.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Akimoto Lake, along with Lake Hibara, Lake Onogawa, Goshiki Marsh and others are designated as part of Bandai-Asahi National Park, a major tourist destination in the Aizu region. Particularly noteworthy are the changing colors of the fall leaves, which reflect vividly on the water surface. Caution is necessary as visitors flock to the area in the fall and cause traffic jams along Route 459, which leads to the Inner Bandai tri-lake area. The sun rising over Akimoto Lake is a favorite subject of photographers, and many come in the morning to get shots of the scenery in the morning light.</p><br>
<p>Boating is permitted on Akimoto Lake. Boats can be rented on a time limit. Fishing is permitted, but numbers of the smallmouth bass—an invasive fish—have been increasing in recent years, drawing bass fishing lovers as well as the ire of the local fishing co-op, which sees the species as posing a threat to local aquatic insects and indigenous fish. There is a bicycling road on the shore of Akimoto Lake, and it is possible to venture out to the Nakatsu ravine on the upper reaches of the Nakatsu River. The lake also has a camping ground, and is popular as a general outdoor spot.</p><br>
<p>Akimoto Lake is accessible by taking the Ban-etsu Expressway or the Inawashiro-Bandai Highland Interchange to Route 115, and then transferring to Route 459, turning right at Goshiki Marsh Entrance and heading straight. Coming from Mount Adatara, take Route 115 and make a right at the Takamori intersection, going straight on Fukushima Prefectural Road 70—the Fukushima-Azuma-Inner Bandai line—and then transfer to the Bandai-Azuma Lake Line. Coming from this direction, you can view the upper reaches of Akimoto Lake. To access the lake via public transportation, take JR East&#39;s Ban-etsu West Line to Inawashiro Station or Kitakata Station and board the Bandai Toto Bus headed for Inner Bandai, get off at Akimoto Lake Entrance, and then proceed on foot.</p><br>
<h3>Hydroelectricity production</h3><br>
<p>The Agano River water system that Akimoto Lake is a part of has an ample amount of water and flows quickly, making it an ideal spot for the generation of hydroelectricity. In 1889, the first hydroelectricity production on the Agano River water system began with the opening of the Numagami Hydroelectric Plant, which operated via the Asaka Aqueduct.</p><br>
<p>Later, in the Taishō period, the Inawashiro Hydroelectric Energy Company began full-scale hydroelectricity production on Lake Inawashiro and Nippashi River, and in 1914 boasted what was at the time the largest hydroelectric plant in Japan—Inawashiro Electric Plant #1—successfully completing an overhead high-tension power transmission line that sent electricity to Tokyo. Inawashiro Electric Plant #2 (in 1918) and #3 (in 1926) were later constructed, furthering development of Lake Inawashiro and the Nippashi River.</p><br>
<p>The Inner Bandai tri-lake area drew attention due to its abundance of water, and in 1923 plans were made for further hydroelectricity generation on Onogawa Lake and Akimoto Lake. The Onogawa Power Plant was completed on Akimoto Lake in 1937, with an output of 34,200 kW made possible by utilizing a tunnel to move water from Onogawa Lake. Construction was later begun on Akimoto Lake, but the wartime Energy Management Act of 1939 was enacted, essentially forcing all electric companies to assimilate with Japan Electric Generation and Transmission Company. Construction under the Japan Electric Generation and Transmission Company proceeded, and Akimoto Power Plant was completed in 1940. In order to generate an effective supply of energy, plans called for an earth dam, increasing the storage capacity of the lake. When the dam was completed, Akimoto Power Plant boasted a permitted output of 107,500 kW, which at the time was the highest on the Agano River water system.</p><br>
<p>After the war, Japan Electric Generation and Transmission was designated to be broken up under the Economic Decentralization Act, and in 1951 was split into 9 smaller electric companies. The hydroelectric plants around Lake Inawashiro were placed under the management of Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc., where they remain today. Tokyo Electric Power Company has adjusted the water level of Akimoto Lake in compliance with requests from Fukushima Prefecture.</p><br>
<h2>Multi-purpose dam</h2><br>
<p>In August 1989, the Inner Bandai area experienced heavy torrential rains. The water level at Akimoto Lake, as well as Lake Onogawa and Lake Hibara, had rapidly risen, and the entire river basin sustained major damage. Akimoto Lake has a drainage pumping station at the center of the dam that is used to discharge excess lake water, but the torrential rains outpaced the station&#39;s ability to pump water, making it impossible to regulate the water level properly. More water than could be handled under water use regulations was being discharged, and the Nagase River eventually flooded, causing even more damage to the surrounding region.</p><br>
<p>Fukushima Prefecture, shaken by how quickly the river overflowed, drew up new flood prevention plans for the Inner Bandai tri-lake area. Because of the nearby Bandai-Asahi National Park, environmental protection concerns prevented the construction of levees or dikes. It was decided that a multi-purpose dam would be built to facilitate unspecified water utilization, flood control for Lake Hibara, Lake Onogawa and Akimoto Lake, as well as a normal stream level for the Nagase River; work began at the Inner Bandai tri-lake area in 1997 under the Comprehensive River Development Project.</p><br>
<p>The practice of damming natural lakes for flood prevention and water usage is performed nationwide, with some of the more prominent examples being Lake Biwa, the Seta River Wash Weir, Lake Kasumigaura and the Hitachi River floodgate, which are all under direct control of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism, and others like Lake Chūzenji/Chūzenji Dam in Tochigi Prefecture and Yogo Lake/Yogo Dam in Shiga Prefecture, which are controlled at the prefectural level. Natural lakes in Fukushima Prefecture that are dammed include Lake Inawashiro and the Jyūryoku Bridge floodgate. Lake Hibara now features a 3.4 meter-high gravity dam, Lake Onogawa has a 4.9 meter-high fill dam, and Akimoto Lake—in addition to its earth dam—now has a gravity dam with an emergency floodgate on its left bank, making it a combined dam. Facilities such as dams, weirs and flood gates enable flood prevention and water usage for natural lakes and marshes, and can be referred to as "water level regulation facilities." While places like Akimoto Lake are in fact lakes, they are classified as dams under river-related regulations.</p><br>
<p>Due to the fact that each is less than 15 meters in height, they are technically classified as weirs under river law, but they provide valuable service in the form of flood prevention and hydroelectricity generation among the Nagase River, Akimoto Lake and the other Inner Bandai tri-lake area lakes. Work was completed on the secondary dam in 1999, and control over regulation of water levels that had been performed by Tokyo Electric Power Company was thereafter done directly by Fukushima Prefecture&#39;s Inawashiro office of civil engineering.</p><br>
<h2>Related links</h2><br>
<p>List of lakes and marshes in Japan</p><br>
<p>Dammed lakes</p><br>
<p>Mount Bandai</p><br>
<p>Bandai-Asahi National Park</p><br>
<p>Agano River water system</p><br>
<p>The Embassy of the United States of America in Moscow is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America in the Russian Federation. The embassy complex is located in the Presnensky District in the city center of Moscow. Its address is: Bolshoy Deviatinsky Pereulok No. 8. The US citizen center is located nearby at 21 Novinskiy Bulvar.</p><br>
<h2>Organization</h2><br>
<p>The embassy consists of the following sections:</p><br>
<p>Political Section</p><br>
<p>Management Section</p><br>
<p>Regional Security Office</p><br>
<p>Economic Affairs Section</p><br>
<p>Public Affairs Section</p><br>
<p>Consular Section</p><br>
<p>Environment, Science, Technology, & Health Section</p><br>
<p>Law Enforcement Section</p><br>
<p>In addition, representatives of several USA federal agencies work in the embassy.</p><br>
<p>The embassy oversees the following Consulates General in Russia: Saint Petersburg, Vladivostok and Yekaterinburg.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>In 1964, covert listening devices were discovered within the US Embassy in Moscow.</p><br>
<p>On August 26, 1977, a fire erupted on the eighth floor of the embassy building. Although it was extinguished, a large amount of information was lost or stolen. (Several firefighters were in fact KGB personnel charged with removing sensitive material.)</p><br>
<p>Construction of a new embassy building began in 1979. In 1985, the building&#39;s columns, which had been built by Soviet workers, were found to be riddled with listening devices, to such an extent that classified information had to be handled in the old embassy. In retaliation, Soviet diplomats were not allowed to occupy their new embassy in Washington, D.C. The standoff was resolved in 1994 when American workers were allowed to partially dismantle and rebuild the embassy with four completely new upper floors. In 2000, the new building was finally opened with classified business confined to the upper floors, while standard consular business is conducted in the insecure lower floors.</p><br>
<p>On a Russian television program, Igor Korotchenko, editor of a magazine called National Defense and a former specialist in Russias military command, described the structure of the current embassy building as follows: "The N.S.A. is a global electronic vacuum cleaner, which monitors everything. Look at the top two floors of the new building of the USA Embassy—its a huge antenna, which listens to the Moscow air."</p><br>
<p>The New York Times reported on November 14, 2017 that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson hired a Russian company with a K.G.B. link to Vladimir V. Putin to guard the United States Embassy in Moscow.</p><br>
<h2>Ambassadors</h2><br>
<p>The position of United States Ambassador to Russia is currently held by Jon Huntsman Jr.</p><br>
<p>Akan Volcanic Complex is a volcanic group of volcanoes that grew out of the Akan caldera. It is located within Akan National Park, about 50 km Northwest of Kushiro in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>A number of peaks are arranged around therim of Lake Akan ( Akan-ko), which fills a 24×13 km caldera, the tallest being Me-Akan (Meakan), O-Akan (Oakan) and Akan-Fuji.</p><br>
<p>Oakan is prominently located at the Northeast side of the caldera, while Meakan occupies the opposite, Southwest side, in a cluster of nine stratovolcanoes that include Akan-Fuji, one of many symmetrical Japanese volcanoes named after the renowned Mount Fuji, and Fuppushi volcano (a.k.a. Fuppushi-dake, not to be confused with Mount Fuppushi, which is located in Southwestern Hokkaido).</p><br>
<h2>Volcanology</h2><br>
<p>The Akan caldera was formed 31,500 years ago. Its elongated shape is due to its incremental formation during major explosive eruptions, from the early to the mid-Pleistocene periods.</p><br>
<p>The Nakamachineshiri crater of Meakan volcano was formed during a major eruption about 13,500 years ago.</p><br>
<p>The Me-Akan group of nine overlapping cones on the eastern side of Lake Akan has had mild eruptions since the beginning of the 19th century. The last eruption of this historical volcano was in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Oakan, Meakan, Furebetsu and Fuppushi are the major post-caldera volcanoes of the Akan volcanic complex.</p><br>
<p>Me-Akan is one of the most active volcanoes of Hokkaido. Its summit contains the active craters of Ponmachineshiri and Naka-Machineshiri, sites of frequent phreatic eruptions in historical time. Akan-Fuji and O-Akan have not erupted in historical time.</p><br>
<p>Akan is rated with a volcanic explosivity index of 4 on the Smithsonian VEI scale, the scales fourth-highest score, based on the volcanos largest known eruption, around 7050 BC.</p><br>
<p>Following are prominent features of Akan:</p><br>
<h3>Cones</h3><br>
<p>Me-Akan-Dake (Mount Meakan) (1499 m) Stratovolcano</p><br>
<p>Akan Fuji (Akan-Fuji, Akan-Huji) (1476 m) Stratovolcano</p><br>
<p>Kita-Yama (1400 m) Cone</p><br>
<p>O-Akan-Dake (Mount Oakan) (1371 m) Stratovolcano</p><br>
<p>Kenga-Mine Cone 1336 m</p><br>
<p>Nishi-Yama (Nisi-Yama) (1300 m) Cone</p><br>
<p>Fuppushi (Huppusi) (1226 m) Stratovolcano</p><br>
<p>Miname-Dake (1217 m) Stratovolcano</p><br>
<p>Higashi-Dake (Higasi-Dake) (1140 m) Cone</p><br>
<p>Furebetsu (Hurebetu) (1098 m) Stratovolcano</p><br>
<p>Kobu-Yama Cone</p><br>
<p>Futatsu-Dake Pyroclastic cone</p><br>
<h3>Craters</h3><br>
<p>Nakamachineshiri (Nakamatineshiri) Crater</p><br>
<p>Ponmachineshiri (Ponmatinesiri) Crater</p><br>
<h3>Thermal features</h3><br>
<p>Akan-Kohan Thermal Feature</p><br>
<h3>Other peaks</h3><br>
<p>Mount Ken</p><br>
<p>Mount Ahoro</p><br>
<p>Fat Tong Chau  is a former island of Hong Kong. It is now part of Tseung Kwan O  and Clear Water Bay Peninsula, Sai Kung as a result of land reclamation. It is located in the southeastern part of Junk Bay.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Fat Tong Chau is located south of the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate and directly west of TVB City. The South East New Territories Landfill (SENT) is located south of Fat Tong Chau. Before land reclamation, Fat Tong Chau formed the northern boundary of Tathong Channel.</p><br>
<h2>Chinese Customs Station</h2><br>
<p>The site of Chinese Customs Station, a declared monument of Hong Kong, is located in the northwestern part of Fat Tong Chau. Archaeological finds from the site are being exhibited at Hong Kong Museum of History, including the "Foster benevolence over Indo-China; tributes and taxes circulate from afar" stone tablet.</p><br>
<p>The Garfield Place Historic District is a small residential neighborhood in southern Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. It is a 20 acre area covering all properties on Garfield Place, which runs for two blocks between Franklin and Montgomery streets, as well as some on nearby sections of Montgomery and Barclay. In 1972 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Today&#39;s Garfield Place was originally part of a 53 acre area known as the "Little Commons", owned by the van Kleeck family, when Poughkeepsie was incorporated as a village in 1799. In the first decades of the new century, it grew rapidly and a man named Bronson French bought a portion of the Little Commons. In turn he sold it to a partnership of four local businessmen in 1836, who saw it as desirable for upscale homes since it was close to the center of the village and situated on a hill with commanding views of the Hudson River.</p><br>
<p>They surveyed the property and subdivided it into building lots shortly afterward. At auction, the lots sold for an average of $25 per square foot. However, the Panic of 1837 slowed the economy shortly afterwards, and ground was not broken until the early 1850s when Joseph Corlies, one of the partners, built himself the house at 28 Garfield as a demonstration of what sort of home could be built on the new street.</p><br>
<p>Others followed, lured by advertising that cited the quietness of the streets, the view of the river and its proximity to the growing citys downtown. By the 1880s South Liberty Street had been pretty much built out. In 1881, the streets name was changed to Garfield Place in memory of recently assassinated President James A. Garfield. The last lots would be developed in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The houses continued to remain among the citys most desirable addresses, and later on a carriage house originally built for Corlies home was converted into another residence, 30 Garfield.</p><br>
<p>Pic Tyndall  is a minor summit below the Matterhorn  in the Pennine Alps, on the boundary between Aosta Valley  and Switzerland. Because of its small prominence it was included in the enlarged list of alpine four-thousanders. It was named in honour of John Tyndall who made the first ascent.</p><br>
<h2>First ascent</h2><br>
<p>Pic Tyndall was not considered as a goal in itself but it was located on the Lion ridge, where most of the attempts to climb the Matterhorn took place. Its summit was effectively reached during one of those attempts by John Tyndall accompanied by his guides Johann Joseph Bennen and Walter. Jean-Antoine Carrel and César Carrel were engaged as porters. The five men started from Breuil on July 27, 1863.</p><br>
<p>A wooden ladder, which Tyndall had taken with him, helped them over the most difficult passage, subsequently named the "grande corde". They could not go any higher than Pic Tyndall since the cleft that separated it from the final peak of the Matterhorn, named the enjambée, stopped them. It was at the time, the highest altitude reached by man on the Matterhorn.</p><br>
<p>John Tyndall wrote:</p><br>
<p>Loudoun Mansion is a historic house located in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>An example of Federal-style and Greek-revival architecture, the main structure was built by Thomas Armat in 1801 and expanded in 1810. The Greek portico was built in 1830. The house stands on one of the highest hills overlooking Philadelphia and the Delaware River from Germantown. During and after the Battle of Germantown many wounded soldiers were carried to the top of the hill where Loudoun now stands.</p><br>
<p>The house was donated to the City of Philadelphia in 1939. The house is a contributing property of the Colonial Germantown Historic District. It was badly damaged by a fire in 1993 and is not open to the public.</p><br>
<p>It is alluded to significantly throughout the novel Loving Day by the African American novelist Mat Johnson.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Jenkins, Charles Francis. The Guide Book to Historic Germantown, Prepared for the Site and Relic Society. 1926.</p><br>
<p>Marion, John Francis. Bicentennial City: Walking Tours of Historic Philadelphia. Princeton: The Pyne Press, 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Upper Burial Ground is a cemetery in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is notable as the last resting place of 58 American soldiers from the Battle of Germantown in the American Revolution. Here also lies many of the founders of Germantown, including William Dewees, sheriff of Germantowns independent government. Also buried here is Zachariah Poulson, who died in 1844 after having published The American Daily Advertiser, Philadelphias principal daily newspaper for many years. Another significant grave is that of Alexander Mack, the founder of the Schwarzenau Brethren . Originally buried in Axes Burial Ground in 1735, his remains were carefully removed in 1894 along with his field stone to the Gods Acre in the rear of the Brethren church, where they now repose beside those of his son, Alexander, and family.</p><br>
<p>One of the earliest stones is Cornelius Tyson who arrived in Germantown in 1684 and died in 1716 at age 63. It is adjacent to the Concord School House.</p><br>
<p>The Upper Burial Ground is a contributing property of the Colonial Germantown Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Yim Tin Tsai is an island of Hong Kong located in Tolo Harbour.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Yim Tin Tsai is located in Tolo Harbour and forms part of the southern border of Plover Cove. It is connected to the mainland in the north by a road, leading next to The Beverly Hills, and to the island of Ma Shi Chau in the east by a tombolo that is only accessible when the tide is low. Sam Mun Tsai New Village (三門仔新村) and Luen Yick Fishermen Village (聯益漁村) are located in the north of the island. The two villages are facing the Shuen Wan Typhoon Shelter (船灣避風塘).</p><br>
<p>While Yim Tin Tsai is not part of the Ma Shi Chau Special Area, a small unnamed island located about 100 m northeast of its shore belongs to the Area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A late Neolithic prehistoric site dating back to about 4,000 years ago has been identified on Yim Tin Tsai. Prehistoric sites have been discovered on two other islands of Tolo Harbour, namely Yuen Chau Tsai (3,000 years, Bronze Age) and Centre Island (6,000 years, mid-Neolithic Age).</p><br>
<p>Members of the Hakka Chan (陳) clan moved from today&#39;s Shenzhen and settled in Yim Tin Tsai during the 19th century. Other members of the clan settled in Yim Tin Tsai in Sai Kung and in Ping Yeung, in Ta Kwu Ling, North District. Salt fields were operated on Yim Tin Tsai at that time.</p><br>
<p>The fishermen now residing in Sam Mun Tsai New Village used to live on boats at the original Sam Mun Tsai, close to Tai Kau of Luk Heung, now at the northeastern shore of Plover Cove Reservoir. They were relocated to their current residence in 1966, as a result of the construction of the Plover Cove Reservoir. At the time, 36 families were moved to housing on land. Extensive renovation work was conducted at the village in 2006-2007.</p><br>
<p>The B.O. Cutter House is a house in the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It was built in 1856 by master carpenter B.O. Cutter, who was working on other buildings around the University of Minnesota. He built this house on the outskirts of the campus at the time. The house was built in the Carpenter Gothic style with hand-carved molding around the eaves. In 1869, he sold the house to John Gilfillan, who was an educator, regent of the University of Minnesota, banker, attorney, and a USA representative in the 49th United States Congress.</p><br>
<p>The house was remodeled in 1943, at which point it was covered in stucco. The interior was remodeled in 1949 to accommodate the Theta Delta Chi fraternity. It was heavily damaged in a 1992 fire, but was restored. It now houses the local chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Charles J. Martin House is a house in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. The 1903 Renaissance Revival mansion and its grounds are a well-preserved example of an early-20th-century urban estate. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978 for having local significance in architecture.</p><br>
<p>The house was built for Charles J. Martin. He served for many years as the secretary and treasurer of the Washburn-Crosby Company, a predecessor of General Mills. Martin also promoted civic causes such as city parks, libraries, and art societies.</p><br>
<p>The house was designed by prominent Minneapolis architect William Channing Whitney in the Renaissance Revival style, which was popular for large urban residences at the beginning of the 20th century. The house has been well preserved and well maintained.</p><br>
<p>Pigeon Key is a small island containing the historic district of Pigeon Key, Florida. The 5 acre island is home to 8 buildings on the National Register of Historic Places, some of which remain from its earliest incarnation as a work camp for the Florida East Coast Railway. Today these buildings serve a variety of purposes, ranging from housing for educational groups to administrative offices for the non-profit Pigeon Key Foundation. The former Assistant Bridge Tenders House has been converted into a small museum featuring artifacts and images from Pigeon Keys colorful past. It is located off the old Seven Mile Bridge, at approximately mile marker 45, west of Knight&#39;s Key,  and just east of Moser Channel, which is the deepest section of the 7 mi span.</p><br>
<p>The island was originally known as "Cayo Paloma" (literally translated as "Pigeon Key") on many old Spanish charts - said to have been named for large flocks of white-crowned pigeons (Columba leucocephala Linnaeus) which once roosted there. During the building of Henry Flaglers Overseas Railroad Key West Extension between 1908 and 1912, there were at times as many as 400 workers housed on the island. While these workers built many bridges along the route through the lower keys, the Seven Mile Bridge, spanning the gap between Knights Key and Little Duck Key remains the largest and most impressive component of what was once referred to as "the 8th Wonder of the World". A number of buildings from the Flagler era remain on the island and are now part of the Pigeon Key Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Pigeon Key was one of the locations for the "Bal Harbor Institute" in the 1995 series of Flipper. It was seen in three episodes during season one including the pilot episode. It was also the site of the finish line of The Amazing Race 18 "Unfinished Business" in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>Pigeon Key Historic District</h2><br>
<p>The Pigeon Key Historic District is a USA historic district (designated as such on March 16, 1990) located on Pigeon Key in Florida. The district is off USA 1 at mile marker 45. It contains 11 historic buildings and 3 structures. The old Seven Mile Bridge (closed to vehicular traffic) crosses over the island and has a pedestrian exit ramp going to the island.</p><br>
<p>The Wichita-Sedgwick County Historical Museum is a non-profit 501 organization dedicated to preserving and presenting the local history of Wichita and Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. It is located at 204 South Main , and east of the central Wichita Public Library.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The museum was established in 1939 as the Wichita Public Museum. Today the museum resides in the original City Hall building designed by William T. Proudfoot and George W. Bird in 1890. Exhibits are housed on four floors and are open to the public six days a week for a nominal admission fee. The museum is supported in part through city and county funding and through the support of its sizable membership base.</p><br>
<p>The museum has been accredited by the American Alliance of Museums since 1972. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1971.</p><br>
<p>Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church is a church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, adjacent to the University of Minnesota East Bank campus. The church was built in 1915-1917 by a Swedish Lutheran congregation to serve university students. It was designed by Chapman and Magney and built in the Gothic Revival style.</p><br>
<p>The congregation was organized in Minneapolis in 1903 by the Swedish immigrant-dominated Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church. At the time, Minnesota boasted a large population of Swedish immigrants. In 1905, the state had 126,000 Swedes, of whom 38,000 lived in Minneapolis and Saint Paul. In Minneapolis, there was a concentration of Swedish settlers in the Seven Corners neighborhood, around Washington and Cedar Avenues, on the west bank of the Mississippi River. Grace Church was organized as one of the first English-speaking congregations of the Augustana Synod in Minneapolis. In 1914, the congregation merged with Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Sharon Church of Minneapolis, located on the east bank of the Mississippi.</p><br>
<p>The two congregations, now united under the name Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church, decided to sell their individual properties and build a common church near the University of Minnesota and Minnesota College, a school run by the synod. Minnesota College donated land at the corner of Harvard and Delaware Streets, and the church retained the firm of Chapman and Magney to design their new building. The firm was also responsible for designing the Sumner Community Library in 1915 and the Saxe Movie Theater, later the Forum Cafeteria, in 1914. The design was well-received, and construction of the new church building began in late 1915. The first service was held on December 24, 1916, in the basement of the partially completed building. Construction was finished in late 1917, and the church was dedicated on December 9, 1917. However, the congregation had run short on funds for furnishing the interior, so some temporary lighting fixtures and seating were used until the congregation could afford permanent furnishings.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Amrita Club building is located at the southeast corner of Church  and Market streets in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. It was once home to the club, one of the citys most prestigious gentlemens organizations. In 1982 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places .</p><br>
<p>The club was established in the late 19th century, but the building was not erected until the early 20th. It is one of only two brick Colonial Revival buildings in the city, and a sophisticated application of that style.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The Amrita Club is in a very historic neighborhood. It is across the street from the Market Street Row, a group of houses that includes Poughkeepsie&#39;s oldest frame house, and immediately north of the Hasbrouck House, with the Adriance Memorial Library a few houses down. It is across Church from the armory and across on the opposite corner is the Old Poughkeepsie YMCA. All of these are also listed on the Register.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a rectangular structure three stories tall, with raised basement, and eight to nine bays wide by three deep. Its double-doored, centrally-located entrance has a marble surround consisting of columns with sculpted capitals and a dentilled entablature. Below that, the doors themselves are topped with a stained glass transom. The whole doorway is further topped with a keystone decorated with fleur-de-lis and ribbons on either side.</p><br>
<p>On either flank of the entrance, the first floor features French windows and iron balconies, except for the smaller windows next to the door, trimmed with marble lintels and sills. A similar pattern is found on the larger windows of the third story. Above them is a dentilled cornice and architrave; two large chimneys rise from the hipped roof. The rear elevation features two porches with Doric columns.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The club was founded in 1873 for local businessmen and professionals, with future neighbor and prominent local lawyer Frank Hasbrouck as one of the charter members. It excluded Catholics, African-Americans and Jews, and soon became synonymous with the citys elite. In 1905, local historian Edmund Platt described as "the first club of any importance". "Much of Poughkeepsies growth was decided at the Amrita Club&#39;s dinner table", writes Carolyn Burke in her biography of Lee Miller, whose father was a member during her childhood.</p><br>
<p>It met either in rented rooms or refurbished older buildings until it decided to build its own clubhouse in 1912. Designed by Alfred E. Barlow of New York, it cost the club $100,000 (equivalent to $ in ).</p><br>
<p>Over the course of the 20th century, the club&#39;s influence waned as the city grew more diverse and its industrial base declined. In the 1980s it eventually disbanded and the building became city property. Unoccupied, it decayed until 1999 when Decision Technologies International (DTI), a software consulting firm based in nearby Wappinger, reached a deal with the city to renovate the building and use it as its headquarters. The city committed $800,000 in urban-redevelopment grants to help the company.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, almost a year and a half after DTI had last withdrawn funds from the account, the city moved to foreclose on the property since it believed DTI was not serious about redeveloping it and it had been approached by others who were. DTI insisted it was serious, and after first threatening to contest any action vigorously, agreed to waive certain defenses in exchange for a 30-day reprieve.</p><br>
<p>Desolation Peak is in the North Cascade Mountains of Washington state, about 6.2 mi south of the Canada–United States border and in the Ross Lake National Recreation Area. It was first climbed in 1926 by Lage Wernstedt, who named it for the destruction caused by a forest fire that swept the slopes bare that same year. At the summit stands a small, wooden, one room fire lookout belonging to the National Park Service. The lookout is 15 mi from the nearest road and overlooks miles of forest and numerous other peaks.</p><br>
<p>Jack Kerouac spent 63 days during the summer of 1956 as a fire lookout on Desolation Peak. He wrote about his experiences in the books Lonesome Traveler, The Dharma Bums and Desolation Angels.</p><br>
<p>Desolation Peak Trail, is a steep hike to high meadows, great views and the fire lookout. It is a very popular hike but strenuous along the East Bank Trail. The trail is often hot and dry.</p><br>
<p>Gračanica Lake or Badovc Lake or Badovac Lake  is an artificial reservoirs on the river "Gračanka" two kilometers above Gračanica, Kosovo, built in 1963–1966 in order to supply city of Pristina with water. The dam height of 52 m, a width of 246 m, was built in Badovac ravine below Androvac mountains, near the mine "Rainwater".</p><br>
<p>When it is full, the lake is 3.5 km long and up to 500 m wide, maximum depth is 30 m, a total volume of 26 million cubic meters of water. The lake has a catchment area of 109 km&sup2;. In February 2014, water levels were threatened, due to a very dry winter.</p><br>
<p>During its construction displaced the Serbian village of Novo Selo, in Gaza waters of the lake, and Badovac, below the dam. With them were sunken remains of the old church of St. Archangel Church and cemetery in Novo Selo.</p><br>
<p>Lemon Hill is a Federal-style mansion in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, built around 1800 on land owned by Henry Pratt. Pratt was a merchant who owned a fleet of ships and speculated in real estate. The mansion is situated on a parcel of land that had been part of Robert Morriss 300 acre estate called The Hills. Pratt purchased 43 acre of The Hills at a sheriffs sale for $14,654 in 1799 after Morris had financial misfortunes and was taken to debtors prison. who named his mansion after the many lemon trees in Morriss greenhouse. The adjacent gardens and greenhouse were included in the purchase and Pratt opened them to the public for an entry fee. Pratt did not stay year-round at Lemon Hill, as he lived mainly in his Old City townhouse on Front Street. Lemon Hill was used as his summer retreat from the city; a place which he used for business entertaining and general socializing.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 7, 1972 as an inventoried contributing structure within Fairmount Park.</p><br>
<p>Lemon Hill is located on a bluff overlooking the Schuylkill River and Boathouse Row. Exceptional architectural features include its three oval parlors, stacked one on top of the other, with curved fireplace mantles and doors.</p><br>
<p>To protect its water supply, the City of Philadelphia began purchasing properties along the Schuylkill River, beginning with Lemon Hill in 1844. The Lemon Hill area formed the basis for what is now Fairmount Park.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was restored by the architectural historian Fiske Kimball who lived there from 1926&ndash;55 while director of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He conjectured that Robert Morris had built the mansion; however, in 2005, Pratt&#39;s letterbooks were found at the William L. Clements Library of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor by an assistant curator of the Art Museum. Tax records indicated that the mansion did not exist at the time Pratt had purchased the land. The records also revealed that Pratt was both the designer and general contractor for his mansion.</p><br>
<p>Owned by the City of Philadelphia, it is operated as a house museum by the Colonial Dames of America and the Friends of Lemon Hill. Long hidden by dense trees on the sides of the hill, a restoration of the historic views was undertaken in 2007, recreating the original vistas of, and from, the mansion.</p><br>
<p>Kallithea  is a village in the Greek island of Lemnos, part of the municipal unit Nea Koutali. In 2011 its population was 182.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Kallithea is situated in the central part of the island of Lemnos, west of the Gulf of Moudros. It is amphitheatrically built on a low hill 800 m from the Gulf. Due to its panoramic location, it was renamed to Kallithea ("nice view") in 1955. It is 1 km southeast of Livadochori, 1 km northeast of Nea Koutali, 6 km northwest of Moudros and 12 km east of Myrina. The Lemnos International Airport is 2 km northeast.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village was mentioned as Sarpin in a census document of the Great Lavra monastery in 1361. Although the name was perceived as Turkish in the 1950s, it actually predates the Ottoman era. This may be one of the few Mycenaean names that survive in Lemnos, meaning "wooden house".</p><br>
<p>Formerly, the village was built more to the east, on the Agios Georgios Bay. Due to pirate attacks and other risks of its low location, its residents were forced to resettle, probably in the 18th century. It had 66 men in 1856 who paid 1,058 piastres to avoid conscription. 50 families lived in the village in 1863 and 55 in 1874. In the same year it had 63 houses and was part of the municipality (koli) of Kondia. The village had a representative in the Lemnos provincial council.</p><br>
<p>The Sarpi Paleologiki School was opened in 1868, the first school on the island outside the capital. It was funded by Doukas Palaiologos (1790–1870), a descendant of a family of captains from Sarpi who had an insurance firm in England. His firm paid for the school until 1896. It became a community school in 1900.</p><br>
<p>Sarpi finally joined Greece in 1913 after the Balkan Wars. It became an independent community in 1918. In the interwar years, it saw a small growth. It recorded 381 inhabitants in 1928, most of these work in agriculture, livestock farming, fishing and orchards. After the Second World War, its population declined due to internal and external emigration. Its population was 399 in 1951, fell to 203 in 1981 and has more or less stabilised since then.</p><br>
<p>Brock Gap  is a natural pass across Shades Mountain in Hoover, Alabama, most notable as being the location used by the South & North Railroad  to reach the Birmingham area in the late 19th century from the mineral deposits to the south, spurring economic development in the area.</p><br>
<h2>Geographic description</h2><br>
<p>Brock Gap is located at an elevation of 518 feet (158 meters) above mean sea level. The surrounding Shades Mountain is over 700 feet in elevation.</p><br>
<h2>Historical rail use</h2><br>
<p>John Milner was tasked by the State of Alabama in 1858 to survey a route across Shades Mountain for the S&N Railroad. The S&N was intended to connect the mineral resources south of Shades Mountain, coal, limestone, and iron ore, with the developing industries in the area of Jones Valley that would become Birmingham around the junction of the S&N Railroad and the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad. Brock Gap was selected and the rail line north was constructed between 1858 and 1871, interrupted by the Civil War. At Brock Gap, workers used nitroglycerin to blast a cut 75 feet deep through limestone bedrock.</p><br>
<h2>Current rail use</h2><br>
<p>Today, the 19th century cut is actively used by the CSX Lineville Subdivision, made up of part of the former Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway, in its route from Birmingham to Atlanta, Georgia and Florida via Manchester, Georgia. The direct successor of the S&N Railroad, the CSX S&NA South Subdivision, is carried through a more recently constructed tunnel slightly east of the 19th century cut.</p><br>
<p>Castaway Island, or Qalito, is an island of the Mamanuca Group in Fiji. It is inhabited, with a tourist resort on its west side. The island has an area of 70 hectare.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Castaway Island is located about 20 km offshore from Nadi International Airport. It is accessible by either boat, seaplane or helicopter. The sea trip takes about 1 hour and 50 minutes, travelling past several other Mamanuca Islands.</p><br>
<h2>Resort Map</h2><br>
<p>The island’s 174 acres are covered in rich tropical rainforest, surrounded by white sand beaches, vibrant coral reefs and azure waters.</p><br>
<p>http://www.castawayfiji.com/our-island/castaway-fiji-map You can view a Castaway Island Fiji Resort Map here</p><br>
<h2>Traditional Fijian Name and present day use</h2><br>
<p>Known traditionally by the Fijians as “Qalito”, Castaway Island today is a private island resort used for holidays and vacations - in particular honeymoons and family holiday vacations.</p><br>
<h2>Island Inhabitants</h2><br>
<p>The Fijian resort staff live on-island in a staff village. The bulk of the staff are from the Main island of Viti Levu.</p><br>
<p>Mount Oakan is a shield volcano located in Akan National Park in Hokkaidō, Japan.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and geology</h2><br>
<p>Mount Oakan sits in the Akan caldera northeast of Lake Akan. The volcano rises some 900 m above the surrounding terrain. The top of the volcano is 1,370 m above sea level. The volcanic cone is some 8 km in diameter. There are three explosion craters at the summit. At Kitanakahara at about 800 m, there is a fumarole. The volcano is made mostly from non-alkalai mafic volcanic rock. The main rock type is andesite and dacite.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mount Oakan emerged in the Late Pleistocene dropping pumice on Minamishikata. After that, continuous lava flows formed the bulk of the volcano. In the final stages of its life, a parasitic volcano formed a lava dome at the summit.</p><br>
<p>According to its name and local legend, Mount Oakan is the male counterpart to Mount Meakan on the other side of Lake Akan.</p><br>
<p>Court Avenue is a small street in downtown Bellefontaine, Ohio, United States, located adjacent to the Logan County Courthouse. First paved in 1893, it is known for being the first street in the United States to be paved with concrete.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>Court Avenue, like Bellefontaines other streets, was originally a dirt road that could easily become dusty or muddy in bad weather. In 1886, concrete pioneer George Bartholomew moved to Logan County, where he found high-quality raw materials used for concrete production. By 1891, he had hopes of using concrete for street pavement, so he gained the Bellefontaine city councils permission to pave a few square feet of the nearby Main Street as a test patch. Although some feared that concrete pavement would quickly be damaged or destroyed, the pavement endured, and in 1893, the council permitted the pavement of all the streets surrounding the courthouse, including Court Avenue. While Bartholomew provided the materials, the actual process of laying the concrete was led by James Wonders, the county engineer. The council was not initially enthusiastic about the proposal, nevertheless; having found no previous examples of such paving methods, it required Bartholomew to donate the cement and to pay a $5,000 bond to ensure that the pavement would last for five years. These fears also led authorities to have the concrete covered in sawdust in cold weather.</p><br>
<h2>Intermediate history</h2><br>
<p>Although Bartholomew paved all four streets surrounding the courthouse, Main and Opera Streets and Columbus Avenue have since been paved over with asphalt due to damage from a broken water main in the 1950s. Consequently, Court Avenue has become a center of historical interest and preservation efforts as the only remaining example of Bartholomews original pavement. Various anniversaries have seen celebrations and reconstructions, including the placement of a large concrete memorial on the courthouse grounds on the 50th anniversary, rededication on the 70th anniversary, and recognition with a historical marker on the 75th anniversary. Bartholomews concrete was strong enough to see little damage for its first several decades, requiring the expense of only $1,400 for maintenance in its first fifty years, although it required reconstruction in the 1960s. On February 25, 1974, the street was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>In recent years, Court Avenue has been the center of various historic preservation efforts. The street was the focus of a centenary celebration in 1991: a monument of Bartholomew was placed at the western end of the street, both to honor the pioneer and to close the street to motor vehicles, and the street was turned into a pedestrian mall. However, few people (except for skateboaders) used the street, and its impact on the downtown traffic flow led to its reopening several years later. The monument to Bartholomew remains, but has been moved to ensure that only the eastbound lane is usable. Today, the Logan County Historical Society and others hope to see the street restored to its car-free state, although downtown businesses and many other local residents want it to stay open for traffic.</p><br>
<h2>Composition and structure</h2><br>
<p>The pavement as originally laid was composed of two levels of concrete made in a method similar to that used to pave sidewalks. Aside from Bartholomews cement, made from clay and limestone, the concrete included aggregate of no larger than ½ and 1½ inches (top and bottom layers respectively), with water-cement ratios of 0.45 and 0.60 (top and bottom), laid on a 4 in-deep base. Mixed by hand, the concrete has an air mixture of about 8% and a total strength of about 34.5 megapascals, or slightly over 5,000 psi. The total cost of paving the street was approximately $9,000, aside from the bond. Restorations performed on the pavement since the original construction have proven less resilient; most patches in poor condition are those that have been restored, with Bartholomews remaining segments withstanding damage more satisfactorily.</p><br>
<p>The Hurt Building is an 18-story building located at 50 Hurt Plaza in Atlanta, Georgia with a unique triangular shape. One of the nation’s earliest skyscrapers, the Hurt Building was built between 1913 and 1926, and was the initial home for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. It was renovated in 1985. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Concept</h3><br>
<p>The eponymous building was conceived and developed by Joel Hurt, a prominent Atlanta businessman and prolific developer. Hurt had already built the citys first skyscraper, the original Equitable Building, nearly two decades before. He was part owner of Atlanta and Edgewood Street Railroad, the citys first electric streetcar, which connected the city center to the Inman Park residential area he developed. He also co-founded the Trust Company of Georgia (an early predecessor of what is now Suntrust) and was its president for nine years starting in 1895. Moreover, Hurt married into the Woodruff family, which would eventually control both the Trust Company of Georgia and The Coca-Cola Company.</p><br>
<p>Hurt made preliminary drawings, which for several years, before choosing well-known New York architect J.E.R. Carpenter to complete the design. Though Carpenter was based in New York by then, he was born and raised outside of Nashville, Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>It was the 17th largest office building in the world at the time of its construction, it is considered a good example of the skyscraper developed by the famed Louis Sullivan and the Chicago School style.</p><br>
<h3>Construction and design</h3><br>
<p>The Hurt Building was constructed during a turbulent economic period between 1913 and 1926 that was marred by four recessions as well as World War I, which delayed the construction of the wings and light court of the building until 1924. Nonetheless, the bulk of the building was completed in 1913, with a courtyard and the entry rotunda pushing the final completion to 1926.</p><br>
<p>With restrained ornamentation, it occupies a middle ground between Beaux Arts classicism and the emerging modernist aesthetic. The 17-floor building is characterized by a unique triangular shape, most closely associated with the Flatiron Building in New York City, which was necessitated by its triangular site.</p><br>
<p>The building is constructed of steel frame and reinforced concrete. The building envelope is uninterrupted marble and glazed brick piers with ornamental terra cotta spandrels terminating in a heavy decorative cornice exemplifying the craftsmanship of the early 1900s. It is composed of straight fronts, a flat roof, level skyline, subordination of ornament, a regular pattern of fenestration, and cornices of moderate projection. The lower four floors were designed to fill the building&#39;s footprint with the exception of the apex of the building, which faces Five Points, and was cut back 30 feet to allow a greater window area and a more majestic view of the building. The upper 13 floors above lower base is arranged in a V-shape, with the two wings extend from the western apex of the property along both Exchange Place and Edgewood Avenue leaving an open light court between the wings opening toward Ivy Street.</p><br>
<p>Another key feature is three-story domed rotunda. The original 1913 chandelier underscores the artistically vibrant ceiling, decorated with brilliant gold leaf panels and dramatic sunbursts, reflected in the circular grand marble staircase leading to the Venetian Room, an event space.</p><br>
<p>The first tenant occupied the Hurt Building in October 1913. Among the first tenants was the newly created Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, which paid rent of $6,500 for the first year, $8,000 for the second, and $9,000 for the third. until its own building was completed in 1918 at 104 Marietta Street.</p><br>
<p>Six decades later, beginning in 1983, the Hurt Building was completely renovated, inside and out, reopening in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Hurt Building at 96 years old became the first commercial office building in the state of Georgia (and 6th oldest in the nation) to earn LEED-EBOM Gold Certification as well as the first in Georgia to be awarded the BOMA 360 designation, both in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The NBC legal drama Matlock, starring Andy Griffith, used exterior shots of the Hurt Building to represent the office of the fictional Ben Matlock. In the 2016 crime thriller Triple 9, the Hurt Building was the site of the bank robbery committed at the start of the film.</p><br>
<p>Altes Lager  is a site 1.5 km south of the village of Menzlin near Anklam, Western Pomerania, Germany. The site, on the banks of the river Peene, was an important Viking trading-post during the Viking Age. At that time, Pomerania was inhabited by Slavic Wends, yet several Viking trading-posts were set up along the coast .</p><br>
<p>The settlement covered an area of approximately 18 hectares in the 9th century. Remnants of a bridge and a cemetery have been excavated. Some artifacts found in the graves originated in Ireland and in the lands east of the Baltic. Following Scandinavian customs, the dead were buried either in stone ships, i.e. ship-like graves, or within stone circles. The graves excavated so far have been found to be the tombs of women. Most findings date back to the 9th and 10th centuries.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The ancient name of the site is unknown. Altes Lager, the current name, dates back to Friedrich Wilhelm I of Brandenburg&#39;s 1676 siege of Anklam.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>J. Hermann (Hrsg): Archäologie in der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik. Stuttgart 1989</p><br>
<p>Ulrich Schoknecht: Menzlin: Ein frühgeschichtlicher Handelsplatz an der Peene. Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte der Bezirke Rostock. Schwerin und Neubrandenburg 1977</p><br>
<p>H. Keiling: Menzlin, frühstädtisches Zentrum der Slawen mit Niederlassung skandinavischer Händler. In: H.Keiling: Archäologische Freilichtmuseum Groß Raden. Museumskatalog 7, Museum für Ur- und Frühgeschichte Schwerin 1989</p><br>
<p>The Bützistock is a mountain of the Glarus Alps. It lies on the border between the cantons of Glarus and St. Gallen in Eastern Switzerland. The top is 2,496 m  above sea level or 513 meters above the surrounding terrain. The width at the base is 18 km.</p><br>
<p>The terrain around Bützistock is mainly mountainous, but the nearest surrounding area is hilly. The highest point nearby is Piz Sardona, 3,056 meters (roughly 10,026 ft) above sea level, 13 km (roughly 8.1 miles) south of Bützistock. The closest locality is Engi on the southern side.</p><br>
<p>The area around Bützistock consists mainly of grassland. Around Bützistock, it is quite sparsely populated, with 38 inhabitants per square kilometer. Tundra climate prevails in the area. The annual average temperature in the area is -1 °C (30.2 °F). The warmest month is July, when the average temperature is 10 °C (50 °F), and the coldest is January, with -12 °C (10.4 °F). The average annual precipitation for the area is 1,929 mm (roughly 76 in). The rainiest month is November, with an average rainfall of 246 mm (roughly 9.7 in), and the driest is March, with 78 mm (roughly 3.1 in).</p><br>
<p>The Scribner House is located on Roe Avenue in Cornwall, New York, United States. It was built in 1910 as the main house for the summer estate of New York City publishing executive Charles Scribner II, one of Charles Scribner&#39;s Sons.</p><br>
<p>It combines Colonial Revival interiors with a Shingle style exterior, including some hints of the Arts and Crafts Movement. After the Scribners sold the estate, most of the land was sold and this is all that remains. In 1996 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is located near the front of a 10-acre (4 ha) lot along a residential section of Roe Avenue opposite Woodside Lane, just outside the Cornwall-on-Hudson village line. Large evergreen trees shield most of it from public view and provide shade.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-and-a-half-story frame building with a gambrel roof shingled in wood. It is similarly sided. A large stone central chimney is complemented by a smaller brick one at the northeast corner.</p><br>
<p>Two pavilions project from the main block, separated by a gable-roofed dormer and a pent-roofed dormer on the second story. The south side has a one-and-a-half-story gambrel-roofed wing, and there is a two-story gabled wing on the east side. A one-story hip-roofed porch is located on the north, and the east wing has a one-story addition that extends around its southern and eastern sides.</p><br>
<p>The main entrance, on the west, is a centrally-located recessed wooden double door with a molded wooden surround and sidelights. Atop it are patterned glass transoms. It opens onto a porch with a stone foundation and steps. Its flat roof is supported by two round Doric columns. A wooden balustrade runs along the top of the porch.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the house retains much original finishing. There is oak woodwork, including architraves and wainscoting on the walls and ceilings. The main staircase has an intricate newel at its base trimmed in garlands and a Doric balustrade at the landing. Also in the house are brick fireplace mantels, a wood-burning stove and the original light fixtures.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>The large scale of the house and its siting, with views available of the Hudson River and nearby Highlands, is a distinctive feature of country estate houses such as the one the Scribner estate originally was. Its more detailed landscaping distinguishes it from the country houses of earlier periods in Cornwall.</p><br>
<p>The architecture combines a Shingle-style exterior treatment with a Colonial Revival interior. The former is most visible on the outside not only in the choice of siding but features such as the projecting dormers, strips of windows, and recessed entrance.</p><br>
<p>The exterior also shows the influence of the contemporary "Parks" period of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Houses of the "Parks" period, many of which were built in the Adirondack and Catskill parks elsewhere in New York in the early 20th century. It focused on the relation of people in the house to their surroundings, particularly the natural environment. Features of the Scribner House that reflect that period are the large window areas and interior spaces, meant to integrate outside and inside, and the use of natural motifs such as leaves and flowers in the wood detailing and stained glass in the house.</p><br>
<p>Most of the interior trim reflects the Colonial Revival movement, also current at the time of construction. Its most notable features in the house are the woodwork: the oak staircase, landing, wainscoting and corner fireplaces.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Scribners built the house in 1910, at a time when Cornwall was still the popular summer destination it had become late in the previous century. Originally it was part of a much larger estate in a park-like setting outside the village of Cornwall-on-Hudson, where most other resort housing was. Mead and Taft, a local firm also responsible for other summer houses in Cornwall like Cherry Croft, was the architect.</p><br>
<p>In the 1950s, the original large veranda along the second story was removed, leaving only the current section atop the porch. This is the only significant change that has been made to the house during its entire existence. Scribners&#39; heirs sold the property in the 1960s, and the estate was gradually subdivided until only the current ten acres were left.</p><br>
<p>Sugar Island is a small island in the Detroit River between Grosse Ile and Boblo Island. Sugar Island is part of Grosse Ile Township, Wayne County, Michigan, United States, and lies about 0.5 mi west of the border with Canada. Currently the island is uninhabited and was recently converted to a wildlife refuge by the US Fish and Wildlife service . The majority of the island is wooded and it is known for its white sandy beaches and easy access by boat.</p><br>
<p>In the early part of the 20th century (c. 1900-1940), Sugar Island was the site of a resort park and large dance pavilion. Access to the island was by steam ferry, including the. Tashmoo met her fate on the night of June 18, 1936 while departing Sugar Island she struck a rock. She was able to land her passengers in Amherstburg, Ontario before sinking.</p><br>
<p>For many years Sugar island was held in private ownership with plans to build a bridge and residential housing on the island. There were objections to this plan, mainly by environmental groups, as the island is a resting point for many species of migratory birds. The island was recently purchased by the US Fish and Wildlife service for $434,100 and will be made into a wildlife refuge. While the conversion of the island to refuge status is heralded by environmentalists and concerned citizens. However, there is a large population of boaters who will no longer be able to use the island as a weekend gathering space for sunbathing and partying. The island will still be accessible to hunters with in-season permits, as well as educational groups and researchers.</p><br>
<p>Baltimore Block is a series of eight rowhouses in the SoNo district of Atlanta, Georgia. Rowhouses of the kind that are abundant in Baltimore are an unusual housing type in Atlanta, where duplexes or semidetached housing, such as shotgun houses, were more common forms of high-density housing. Built in 1885 by Baltimore native Jacob J. Rosenthal, the houses were leased on long-term ground lease terms, a common practice in Baltimore. By the 1920s, the houses began to fall out of fashion, and four units were torn down while the others became derelict. A recovery began in the 1930s, and in the 1960s the area became a center of counterculture. Extensive renovation took place during the 1980s, when the units were consolidated and converted to office use.</p><br>
<p>Like many Baltimore houses, the brick three-story rowhouses of Baltimore Block present a unified wall-like front to the street with a continuous cornice line.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Temple  is a Jewish center in Atlanta, Georgia. The oldest Jewish congregation in Atlanta, the Hebrew Benevolent Society, was established in 1860 to serve the needs of German-Jewish immigrants. The Temple, designed by Philip Trammell Shutze in a Neoclassical style, was completed in 1931.</p><br>
<p>Previous temples of the congregation were located at:</p><br>
<p>1875–1902: Garnett and Forsyth Streets, downtown</p><br>
<p>1902–1929: South Pryor and Richardson Streets, Washington-Rawson neighborhood southeast of downtown</p><br>
<p>During the 1950s and 1960s The Temple became a center for civil rights advocacy. In response, white supremacists bombed The Temple on October 12, 1958, with no injuries. While arrests were made, there were no convictions. Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor Ralph McGill&#39;s outraged front-page column on the Temple bombing won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing. The Temple (location) as well as the bombing event was used as a central theme in the Academy Award-winning Best Picture "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989).</p><br>
<p>The Main Street Historic District in New Hamburg, New York, United States is located along that street just west of the train station. Six buildings on a single acre  are an intact remnant of the hamlet as it was developed in the middle of the 19th century, prior to the Hudson River Railroad&#39;s construction, which cut it in half.</p><br>
<p>Its contributing buildings, three houses and three commercial buildings, are made of brick and representative of vernacular applications of the then-popular Greek Revival and Gothic Revival styles. The neighborhood was recognized as a historic district and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. It is the smallest in area of the 62 Main Street Historic Districts on the Register.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The district includes all the lots along the north side of Main between Railroad and Bridge streets. On the south side, a former church building converted into apartments at 12 Main Street is not included due to those modifications. All buildings save one on the remaining lots between Main and Bridge are considered contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>9A Main Street. A 2-story five-bay frame residence built by John Lawson c. 1845 on a brick and stone foundation. It has been subsequently modified with a hipped-roof porch with Tuscan columns and a spindle-turned balustrade.</p><br>
<p>10 Main Street. A 2-story commercial clapboard commercial/residential structure built c. 1876.</p><br>
<p>11 Main Street. A -story three-bay frame house on raised brick foundation built c. 1850. Low-pitched saltbox roofline is accentuated by eyebrow windows around cornice.</p><br>
<p>12 Main Street. A -story five-bay brick residence on stone foundation, built in 1875 as the New Hamburg post office. Projecting roof has paired brackets and spiked finials at corners.</p><br>
<p>13 Main Street. A -story five-bay brick house on stone foundation built in two sections c. 1855 by Conklin Bishop. Eyebrow windows on south (front) elevation under corniced roof. Decorative porch added later. A more recent garage with gambrel roof is the district&#39;s only non-contributing resource.</p><br>
<p>15 Main Street. Built c. 1855 as the Central House Hotel, it is the largest and most elaborate building in the district, a five-bay -story brick structure with tin gabled roof and two end chimneys. The front facade has a full-length, two-tier verandah with chamfered, bracketed posts and decorative jigsaw cutout on the balustrades. The lower floor was used as a tavern while guests slept above.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>New Hamburg began as a port community on the river, with ships loaded and unloaded along nearby Point Street and then taken to Poughkeepsie and Wappingers Falls via road. By the 1840s, most of the Point Street lots had been taken and newer residents were turning to Main Street, a few blocks inland. The house at 9A Main Street, built by John Lawson, a descendant of the area&#39;s first European settlers, is the earliest known to have been built in the current district.</p><br>
<p>In 1848 construction began on the Hudson River Railroad. An 800 ft tunnel was built through a hillside north of town, and the work being done there triggered the development of Main Street as a commercial area. This continued after the tunnel was completed, since a passenger station and freight facilities were built for transshipment purposes. An 1858 map of the area shows four of the six houses already complete, and by 1876 another map shows all of them.</p><br>
<p>The railroad that had nurtured Main Street eventually caused its decline. In 1928, now part of the New York Central, the line was expanded from one track to two, and in the process Main Street&#39;s grade crossing was eliminated in favor of a new overpass called Bridge Street, one block to the north. Traffic to what little commercial activity remained at the riverfront simply followed the new street straight to it, turning Main into a short side street that remained important to the community only as the location of its general store.</p><br>
<p>After the Second World War, the railroad would itself decline, taking commercial activity along Main and in New Hamburg with it. The station was eventually closed, but later reopened as a commuter rail station by Metro-North Railroad, which eventually succeeded the New York Central (later the Penn Central and then Conrail) as the regional passenger operator on the line. Most of the buildings along Main were converted to primarily residential use.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>The mid-century houses show the influence of the Greek Revival style still popular at the time of their construction. Their form is rectilinear; their interiors follow that style&#39;s central-hall format. The eyebrow windows are a further touch common to such buildings.</p><br>
<p>Later buildings show the rise of the Gothic Revival movement. The Central House&#39;s steeply-pitched front cross-gable is the most notable application, showing the sophistication of the Picturesque mode. It may have influenced the later additions in that style to some of the other buildings, most notably the Lawson House.</p><br>
<p>Lake Buluan is a lake located in the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. With an estimated surface area of 61.34 km&sup2, it is the third largest lake in Mindanao, after Lake Lanao and Lake Mainit. It has an average elevation of 4.5 m.</p><br>
<p>The lake is sandwiched between the provinces of Maguindanao and Sultan Kudarat. The lake falls under the political jurisdiction of the municipalities of Buluan of Maguindanao and President Quirino and Lutayan in Sultan Kudarat.</p><br>
<p>The lake actually consists of adjoining marshy basins of the Pulangi, Maanoy, Buluan, Alah rivers, which are all tributaries of the Mindanao River.</p><br>
<h2>Species of Fish</h2><br>
<p>The following species of fishes are found in the lake:</p><br>
<p>Climbing gourami (Anabas testudineus)</p><br>
<p>Snakehead murrel (Channa striata)</p><br>
<p>Milkfish (Chanos chanos)</p><br>
<p>Walking catfish (Clarias batrachus)</p><br>
<p>Common carp (Cyprinus carpio carpio)</p><br>
<p>Sundari bele (Glossogobius giuris)</p><br>
<p>Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus)</p><br>
<p>Spotte barb or common barb (Puntius binotatus)</p><br>
<p>Snakeskin gourami (Trichopodus pectoralis)</p><br>
<h2>Environmental Concerns</h2><br>
<p>Mining operations in the nearby provinces of South Cotabato and Davao del Sur as well as Sultan Kudarat poses a threat to the lake habitat.</p><br>
<p>Widney Alumni House is a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument  on the campus of the University of Southern California. It is the oldest university building in Southern California, having been in continuous use since 1880. Widney Alumni House has been designated as a California Historical Landmark , as Original Building of the University of Southern California. The landmark plaque states,</p><br>
<p>"Dedicated on September 4, 1880, this original building of the University of Southern California has been in use continuously for educational purposes since its doors were first opened to students on October 6, 1880, by the university&#39;s first president, Marion McKinley Bovard. The building was constructed on land donated by Ozro W. Childs, John G. Downey and Isaias W. Hellman under the guiding hand of Judge Robert M. Widney, the university’s leading founder."</p><br>
<p>St. Vincent de Paul Church is a Roman Catholic parish and Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument  in the South Los Angeles section of Los Angeles, California. The church was built in the 1920s and designed by architect Albert C. Martin, Sr. Paid for by local oilman Edward J. Doheny and thus is known colloquially as "the Church of Holy Oils." It was dedicated in 1925, it was located in what was then one of the wealthiest sections of the city, on land adjacent to the Stephen Dorsey mansion and Stimson House. It was the second Roman Catholic church in Los Angeles to be consecrated. Composer Amédée Tremblay notably served as the church&#39;s organist from 1925–1949.</p><br>
<p>The climactic scene of the 1999 film End of Days, featuring Arnold Schwarzeneggers battle against Satan was filmed in the church. The churchs altar is featured prominently in the film&#39;s final scenes. The church also appears in the movie Constantine. The church was also featured in the Warrant video "The Bitter Pill" (acoustic version), with lead singer Jani Lane performing the song in front of and around the church.</p><br>
<p>St Augustine the Less was a Church of England parish church in Bristol, England, first attested in 1240, rebuilt in 1480, damaged in 1940 by fire, and demolished in 1962. It took its name from its proximity to the church of the Abbey of St Augustine , which is now Bristol Cathedral.</p><br>
<p>The parish was united with that of St Georges Church, Brandon Hill, after the Second World War. After demolition the site remained vacant until the early 1980s, when an archaeological investigation was undertaken before an extension to the Royal Hotel was built over it; over 100 burial vaults were discovered below the former churchs floor, together with coins of various periods; the finds were deposited in the Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery.</p><br>
<h2>Archives</h2><br>
<p>Parish records of St Augustine-the-Less church, Bristol are held at Bristol Archives (Ref. P.St Aug) () including baptism and marriage registers and one burial register. The archive also includes records of the incumbent from 1235-1938, churchwardens, overseers of the poor, charities, schools, societies and vestry plus deeds.</p><br>
<p>The Five Dragon Pool  is a</p><br>
<p>culturally significant pond fed by artesian</p><br>
<p>karst springs in the city of Jinan, Shandong</p><br>
<p>Province, China. It is one of the best known springs among the 72 famous springs of Jinan.</p><br>
<p>The spring that supplies the water for the Five Dragon Pool belongs to</p><br>
<p>a group of springs that also contains 28 other springs, such as the</p><br>
<p>Tianjing Spring, Seventy-three Spring, Ximizhi Spring, Dongmizhi</p><br>
<p>Spring, Yueya Spring, Jing Spring, and the Congming Spring. The</p><br>
<p>water of the Five Dragon Spring originates from the deepest</p><br>
<p>circulation of all the springs in Jinan City.</p><br>
<p>Legend links the Five Dragon Pool to the Tang Dynasty general</p><br>
<p>Qin Shubao, whose residence is said to have stood at the</p><br>
<p>site. According to the legend, the spring pool formed after torrential</p><br>
<p>rains that submersed Qin Shubao&#39;s home.</p><br>
<p>In 1985, the Five Dragon Pool Public Park () was established and the garden landscape surrounding the springs was restored</p><br>
<h2>Springs in the group</h2><br>
<p>* Gu Wen Spring ()</p><br>
<p>* Xianqing Spring ()</p><br>
<p>* Tianjing Spring ()</p><br>
<p>* Yueya Spring ()</p><br>
<p>* Ximizhi Spring ()</p><br>
<p>* Guanjiachi Spring ()</p><br>
<p>* Huima Spring ()</p><br>
<p>* Qiuxi Spring ()</p><br>
<p>* Jade Spring ()</p><br>
<p>* Lian Spring ()</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Five Dragon Pool is located to the west of the historical city</p><br>
<p>center of Jinan and to the north of the Baotu Spring. The street</p><br>
<p>address of the park is No. 18 Kuangshi Street, Shizhong District,</p><br>
<p>Jinan City, Peoples Republic of China.</p><br>
<p>Hangar One, commonly referred to as Hangar No. 1, is an airplane hangar located on the grounds of Los Angeles International Airport  in Los Angeles, California. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Hangar No. 1 was built in 1929 and was the first structure built on what was then known as Mines Field. At the time, the airport consisted of a dirt landing strip in the middle of bean and barley fields. The building was constructed by the city for $35,000, and leased to the Curtiss Wright Flying Service. The airport opened in 1930 as the Los Angeles Municipal Airport, and was purchased by the city in 1937 and renamed the Los Angeles Airport. During this period the hangar was used by Charles Lindbergh and the German LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin was tied down near its doors during its stop in Los Angeles. In 1933 and 1936, tens of thousands of spectators lined up near Hangar No. 1 to watch the National Air Races. Commercial passenger air service did not begin at the airport until December 5, 1946.</p><br>
<p>The building was declared a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument No. 44 by the city&#39;s Historical Heritage Board on November 16, 1966. However, the building fell out of use in the 1970s and sat vacant. It was marked for demolition in the early 1980s to make way for airport expansion, however a group with interests in architecture and aviation stepped in and persuaded airport officials to save the building.</p><br>
<p>In 1990, a $2 million renovation brought it up to modern earthquake codes and restored its 1930s appearance. As a condition of renovation, the developer, Texas-based AVIA Development Group, earned permission to develop two new cargo buildings nearby. AVIA also made the application to the National Register of Historic Places, partly in order to gain $400,000 in tax credits.</p><br>
<p>It currently serves as a cargo building for the Aviation Facilities Company.</p><br>
<p>The two-story brick and concrete building was one of five designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, and is the only remaining structure. The hangar is noted for its architecture, especially its elaborate towers, tile roofs and arches. The designers&#39; intent was likely to promote the new airport. The building is 17,037 ft&sup2, currently divided into 10,497 ft&sup2; of cargo handling space and 6,540 ft&sup2; of office space. The bay is 99 ft in width by 114 ft in length and is 20 to 24 ft in height. It has two apron-side doors with a 26 x door width and height.</p><br>
<p>The Stone Street Historic District is a one-block section of the west side of that street in the hamlet of New Hamburg, New York, United States. It was recognized as a historic district and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987 as the largest group of intact houses in the hamlet.</p><br>
<p>An acre in area, it includes four houses built in the middle of the 19th century in vernacular styles ranging from Greek Revival to the only Second Empire house in the hamlet, reflecting architectural tastes of that time. Located atop a small rise with views to the Hudson River from the rear, they were in their time the premier residential area of their small community. The houses opposite them were demolished in a railroad expansion, but the remaining homes have been altered very little.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The district includes all four homes on the lots on Stone between Bridge Street on the south and Division Street on the north. The house at 18 Division is also included. All are contributing properties. There are two outbuildings, one of which is also considered contributing.</p><br>
<p>5 Stone Street. A two-story, three-bay brick home on a raised brick-and-stone foundation built circa 1858. Front doorway behind full-length porch has original paneled door with side and transom lights divided by pilasters.</p><br>
<p>7 Stone Street. A Second Empire home of similar composition, size and fenestration built in 1870. It has a mansard roof with slate tile and pedimented dormer windows. Has a small, contributing barn with tin roof in rear.</p><br>
<p>9 Stone Street. One-and-a-half-story frame house on raised basement with L-shaped gabled roof in diamond-patterned slate, built ca. 1870. Three-bay front porch has bracketed cornice.</p><br>
<p>18 Division Street. Five-bay two-story clapboard house originally built in 1845 and heavily renovated in 1870. Bracketed cornice on all elevations; windows have architraves with straight corbeled heads.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Stone Street lots were originally the property of Samuel and Maria Ellis, who bought them all in 1841 and built the original home at 18 Division Street. After Samuel Ellis died in 1857, Maria and her children began selling off the other lots. The recent construction of the nearby Hudson River Railroad had made Stone Street a prime residential property location, atop a low rise a short walk from downtown.</p><br>
<p>Marvin Van Anders, owner of the New Hamburg Hotel on Point Street, built 5 Stone Street for himself later that year. The lot next door went through several owners until Peter and Rachel Leroy bought it and built the house where they would live for the next 20 years. Finally, 9 Stone was sold in 1870 to William Bogardus, baggage master for the railroad. The original house at 18 Division Street was heavily renovated that year as well.</p><br>
<p>Around 1900 the neighborhood changed significantly when the New York Central, which now owned the tracks, decided to convert the tunnel originally built north of the New Hamburg station to an open cut. In order to do this, it acquired the homes on the east side of the street and demolished them, opening up the space in front of the homes on the west. The neighborhood changed again in 1928, when the railroad decided to expand the main line to four tracks and closed off the Main Street grade crossing. It was replaced by the new Bridge Street, which intersected Stone just south of today&#39;s district, making it a little more accessible to the center of the small community.</p><br>
<p>Since then some of the houses have been converted into apartments, as New Hamburgs days as a commercial shipping center have long ended, and the New York Central has given way to Metro-Norths commuter service. Stone Street has remained largely intact.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>5 and 7 Stone Street present an interesting contrast in styles. The Greek Revival forms of the former are extremely conservative for their time, suggesting an almost deliberate choice of a mode that had largely fallen out of favor by then, even in smaller towns. The Second Empire stylings of its neighbor are, by contrast, an early use for such a small town. It is possible that Leroy, a riverboat captain, had greater exposure to contemporary architectural trends through his work and visits to other Hudson Valley communities and reflected that in the way he chose to build his house.</p><br>
<p>A unifying touch to all four houses is the Hudson River Bracketed porches. This too reflects some awareness of architecture outside the immediate vicinity of New Hamburg.</p><br>
<p>I was told that at some time in the past #5 and # 7 had the same roof but a fire at #5 forced them to rebuild the roof in a more conventional style.</p><br>
<p>Kodaikanal Lake, also known as Kodai Lake is a manmade lake located in the Kodaikanal city in Dindigul district in Tamil Nadu, India. Sir Vere Henry Levinge, the then Collector of Madurai, was instrumental in creating the lake in 1863, amidst the Kodaikanal town which was developed by the British and early missionaries from USA. The lake is said to be Kodaikanal&#39;s most popular geographic landmark and tourist attraction.</p><br>
<p>Over the years a boat club, boathouse and boat service (with rowing boats and pedalling boats and a public ferry) for the public and tourists has become fully functional and is of aesthetic significance for tourism. Boat Pageant and Flower Shows are a regular feature in the summer season which attracts tourists.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>A railway line extended from Chennai to Tirunelveli with an intermediate station at Ammaianayakkanur (later renamed Kodai Road) was built in 1875, to provide a gateway to Kodaikanal town and there on to the lake through a foot trek of 18 km from the railhead. The nearest railheads to the lake presently are the Kodai Road railway Station at 80 km and the Palani Railway station at 64 km distance, from the town. Madurai (at 121 km) and Coimbatore (at 135 km) airports are the closest to the Lake. Kodai Lake is well connected by road with regular bus services operating to Madurai, Palani, Kodaikanal Road, Theni, Dindigul, Thiruchirapalli, Kumili, Erode, Bangalore and Coimbatore.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>The lake is star-shaped, centrally located in the town of Kodaikanal and is surrounded by lush green hills of the northwestern Palani Hills range, which is the main watershed for the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Hydrology</h2><br>
<p>An earthen dam was constructed to create the lake in a marshy where three streams flowed. The lake catchment experiences an average annual rainfall of 1650 mm. The climate is salubrious with summer temperatures of 19.8 °C (max) and 11.3 °C (min) and winter temperatures of 17.3 °C (max) and 8.3 °C (min). The out flow from the Lake forms the waterfall of 180 foot, called the Silver Cascade, 8 km downstream of the lake outlet.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>Kurinji (Strobilanthes kunthiana), a unique flowering plant is reported from the catchment area of the Lake. It is reported that this flower last bloomed in 2004 and that it blooms once in 12 years. Hill-plantain fruits and plums are popular in the area.</p><br>
<h2>Aqua fauna</h2><br>
<p>The Lake has moderate to dense growth of macrophytes of all types. The littoral zone of the lake is reported to be rich in periphytic biota associated with macrophytes. Diatoms, protozoans and rotifers which are also associated with macrophytes are found in the lake. Many aquatic insect larvae and adults, molluscs, cladocerans and the fish Danio aequipinnatus, Rasbora daniconius and Gambusia affinis are reported. Rainbow trout and common carp are the main fish found in the lake. The fish yield as per past records was 5.3 kg/ha/year. Recently two new species of diatom was found in this lake.</p><br>
<h2>Condition of the lake</h2><br>
<p>Human health risk assessment of the physico-chemical parameters of the lake water reveals that:</p><br>
<p>A study conducted by the Department of Atomic Energy confirmed that Kodaikanal Lake has been contaminated by mercury emissions by the thermometer factory of Hindustan Unilever Company.The Hindu,</p><br>
<p>A study on water quality assessment on diatom indicators</p><br>
<p>, (2007-8-23),</p><br>
<p>As per microbial analysis, the water is not potable and needs to be processed prior to domestic use.</p><br>
<p>Several ecological factors have influenced the plankton diversity and abundance.</p><br>
<p>Eight aquatic macroinvertebrate taxa have been identified.</p><br>
<p>Tourists and nearby residents are causative factors for lake contamination and water pollution</p><br>
<p>Encroachment of the banks of the lake by buildings has violated the court order which prohibits constructions within 200 ft from the banks of the lake</p><br>
<p>The impact on the quality of water is transitory as compared to closed water body.</p><br>
<p>High pollution loads of organic matter from hotels and other commercial establishments around the lake are causing pollution.</p><br>
<h2>Lake conservation plan</h2><br>
<p>The Ministry of Environment & Forests, Government of India has initiated a Centrally Sponsored Scheme called the National Lake Conservation Plan (NLCP), since June, 2001, on 70:30 cost sharing basis between the Central Government and the respective State Government, with the objective of restoring and conserving the polluted and degraded lakes in urban and semi urban areas in the country. On the basis of studies carried out, 62 lakes including the Kodaikanal Lake in Tamil Nadu have been identified as polluted and degraded requiring conservation.</p><br>
<p>Treatment and eco-restoration works for the Kodaikanal Lake were undertaken by the Government of Tamil Nadu with funds provided by the Govt. of India, under the above stated cost sharing formula, by the National Lake Conservation Plan (NLCP) of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, to abate pollution and, thereby benefit the local and floating population. The project envisaged Bio remediation, Sewage Treatment, Low cost sanitation Facilities, awareness, de- Weeding, Interception and Diversion Works, Fencing, Horse sheds, Data Collection and Dredging, at a total cost of about Rs 10.33 crores (US $2.6 million).</p><br>
<p>The Clark Avenue Railroad Underpass, also known as the Bonanza Underpass, is a bridge and underpass in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The bridge is so named since at the time of construction it crossed Clark Avenue which was later renamed to Bonanza Road. The underpass is currently part of Nevada State Route 579.</p><br>
<h2>Historic significance</h2><br>
<p>It is significant as the underpass allowed for access between Las Vegas and the settlements west of the city. Previously, it was a dangerous undertaking to cross the Union Pacific Railroad (ex-San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad) tracks.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The bridge was constructed in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration. The structure has changed over time, primarily due to a widening project on Bonanza Road.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Leavitt House, a brick house built in the nineteenth century in Bunkerville, Nevada, United States, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Leavitt House was built by Thomas Dudley Leavitt (1857&ndash;1933), who was born in Santa Clara, Utah, the son of Lemuel Sturdevant Leavitt and his wife Laura Melvina (Thompson). Thomas Dudley Leavitt settled in Bunkerville, Nevada, originally called Mesquite, in 1877 with 22 other members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.</p><br>
<p>Leavitt&#39;s group harked back to church pioneer Joseph Smith, founding a utopian community based on an economic system based on cooperative labor and communal property ownership, principles that Mormon leader Brigham Young had set aside in favor of the tithing system. But Young permitted the settlement to proceed despite his differences with the utopian ideals of the United Order settlers.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Leavitt built a two-story brick home in Bunkerville for his first wife Louella (Abbott). Then Leavitt subsequently married a second wife Ada (Waite). The prosperous Leavitt, who had thrived growing grain, raising cattle and selling molasses, built another home for the family. The T-shaped house, two stories high and one room deep, had chimneys at each end. The design was typical of the homes of Mormon settlers dispersing from Salt Lake northward to Idaho and southward towards Nevada. The house featured multiple exterior doors, which in a Mormon polygamist community meant that the house would allow circulation while allowing some interior privacy. The house had no hallways, and was surrounded by large wooden porches on the exterior.</p><br>
<p>Eventually, the large home couldnt contain the Mormon settlers entire brood. He had gone on to father some 22 children—11 with each wife. So Leavitt built a house next door for his wife Ada. The original brick house today is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It sits on a large lot surrounded by a picket fence, with honey locust trees, chicken coops and the house&#39;s original stone granary out back. The house retains the character of the early Mormon utopian settlement.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Dudley Leavitt Park in Bunkerville is also named for the early Mormon pioneer.</p><br>
