<p>The Hardin County Courthouse is one of Ohio&#39;s courthouses. Located in Kenton, Ohio, United States, it was completed in 1915 at a cost of $275,000. The building was added to the National Register of Historical Places on March 21, 1979, and a state historical marker was placed on the courthouse lawn in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The present courthouse is the third structure to occupy the middle of the citys central square; it replaced an 1880 building, which in turn replaced a structure erected in 1834. It is doubly symmetrical, with the northern and western sides being identical to the southern and eastern sides respectively. Architectural historians have ranked it as a fine example of neoclassical architecture, with elements such as pilasters topped with Doric capitals and walls of dressed stone. The northern and southern sides are divided into seven bays, while four bays are placed on each side of a central colonnade topped with pediments. The building is two stories tall with a ground floor substantially elevated above the surface of the ground. Lit by a skylight with stained glass, the interior features multiple murals and chandeliers made of brasswork. Granite was used to build the curbs surrounding the courthouse square, as well as the buildings steps, while the walls themselves are built of grey Indiana Limestone.</p><br>
<p>Holmes Lake is a Canadian lake in Northumberland County, New Brunswick.</p><br>
<p>Holmes Lake is one of several large lakes forming the headwaters of the Little Southwest Miramichi River. It was named in 1884 for the first lumberman who had worked the area</p><br>
<p>The lake was long the exclusive fishery of the Pratt family of New York. After being introduced to the area by legendary guide Henry A. Braithwaite, George Dupont Pratt constructed the spectacular log camps at the lake in 1909. Ownership of the camps later passed to his son Sherman Pratt, co-founder of Marineland.</p><br>
<p>The Pratt family leased the fishing rights on this lake and the headwaters of the Little Southwest Miramichi River from the provincial government. Sherman Pratt was the founder of the Grenville Baker Boys Club (of Locust Valley, New York), and was kind enough to allow the use of the Pratt Camp as a summer camp for its members, approximately thirty boys each summer.</p><br>
<p>First picture is the main camp building and adult quarters; picture three are the bunk houses; picture four is the cookhouse and dining hall. Holmes Lake is kidney shaped, and the Boys&#39; Club camp was on one shore of the lake. On the "indent" of the kidney, facing in the same direction as the camp but not visible from the camp due to the heavy forestation, was the Pratt "lodge," which was rarely or never used while camp was in session. Facing the camp, on the visible side of the "indent," was the boathouse (pictures five and six).</p><br>
<p>The camp may have also been used by hunters during hunting season.</p><br>
<p>During the seventies and eighties, the property caretaker was Hubert Holmes.</p><br>
<p>Las Vegas High School Academic Building and Gymnasium, now the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies and Performing Arts, is an Art Deco building in Las Vegas, Nevada. It represents a subset of the Art Deco style known as "Aztec Moderne", in which Aztec design motifs were used in an overall Art Deco palette of forms and materials. The academic building and the gymnasium are two of the original 3 buildings that were built. The third was destroyed around 1950.</p><br>
<p>Described as the best example of Art Deco in Las Vegas, the school was designed by father-and-son architects George A. Ferris & Son of Reno, Nevada. The stucco-covered reinforced concrete buildings are decorated with a variety of polychrome medallions and friezes depicting animals and plants. The two-story academic building, measuring 208 by, is part of a seven-building complex within the larger Las Vegas High School Neighborhood Historic District. The gymnasium is of complementary form and construction, measuring 113 by. The gymnasium&#39;s entrance is rendered as a stylized Mayan arch. The Academic Building and Gymnasium are linked by the 1952 Humanities Building, which is not regarded as contributing to the historic character of the complex.</p><br>
<p>The Academic Building and Gymnasium were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 24, 1986. The school became a magnet school for specialized studies in 1993.</p><br>
<p>The Arrowsmith River lies within the Mid West region of Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>The first European to discover the river was the explorer George Grey on 11 April 1839, on his second disastrous expedition along the west coast. He named it after the distinguished English cartographer John Arrowsmith.</p><br>
<p>The river commences just south of Arrino and north-west of Three Springs near the Midlands Road and flows in a westerly direction for a length of 85 km to the coast and terminates in Arrowsmith Lake, 9 km inland from Cliff Head.</p><br>
<p>The river drops a total of 219 m in elevation over the course of its length.</p><br>
<p>Flooding in surrounding areas occurred in 1932 following a torrential downpour that caused the river and surrounding creeks to rise and flood a few hours later.</p><br>
<p>The salinity levels in the river are often higher than 1000 mg/L due to brackish run-off water, but the potential bore yields of the catchment are quite high.</p><br>
<p>Monte Terminillo is a massif in the Monti Reatini, part of the Abruzzi Apennine range in central Italy. It is located some 20 km from Rieti and 100 km from Rome and has a highest altitude of 2,217 m.</p><br>
<p>It is a typical Apennine massif, both for its morphology, articulated but not exceedingly sharp, and for the fauna and vegetation. Its slopes are separated by the neighbouring smaller massifs by deep valleys, including the Valle Leonina, leading to Leonessa, and the Ravara and Capo Scura valleys leading to that of the Velino River. On the opposite sides are the Valle dellInferno ("Hells Valley") and Valle degli Angeli ("Angels Valley") leading to Rietis plain and the mounts of Cantalice.</p><br>
<p>The Terminillo is an active ski resort.</p><br>
<p>The Velino ia a river in central Italy, a tributary of the Nera river. Its source is located on Monte Pozzonis slopes  near Cittareale. Aftwards it runs through a narrow valley next the Mount Terminillo, known as "Gole del Vento"  and, near Antrodoco, receives the Peschiera Springs, which have a discharge of some 18 m³/s  through an aqueduct.</p><br>
<p>Then it receives the waters of its left tributaries Salto and Turano, and then enters the plain of Rieti, where its discharge if further increased by other minor streams to reach 60 m³/s. Near Papigno, it falls into the Nera forming the famous Cascate delle Marmore falls.</p><br>
<p>In pre-Romans times the river ended into a marsh within the plain of Rieti. The falls were created by consul Manius Curius Dentatus and enlarged in medieval times, being updated to the current state in the 18th century by architect Andrea Vici.</p><br>
<p>Bulgoksan is a mountain in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Its area extends over the cities of Seongnam and Gwangju. Bulgoksan has an elevation of 345 m. The mountain shares a name with another mountain in the Gyeonggi-do near Yangju.</p><br>
<p>Mt.Bulgok serves as a public recreation area at the southernmost part of the Seongnam green belt between Jeongja-dong and Gumi-dong. It also hosts hang gliding take-off runs in the Southwest and Northeast.</p><br>
<p>Mt.Bulgok is designated trail with Mt.Youngjang by Seongnam. Its peak is near to Sunae,Jeongja,Gumi-dong. Mt.Bulgok is loved by the citizens of Budang.</p><br>
<h2>Handed down Story</h2><br>
<p>There is a story that the name of mountain is named Bulgok because there was a temple in the mountain. Jeongja-dong residents considered this mountain holy. They had a ritual they performed for the mountain spirit. Because of this the mountain is also called as Mt.Seongduck or Mt.HyoJong. (In Hanja, "seong" means holy and "duck" means virtue.)</p><br>
<h2>Hiking Course Information</h2><br>
<p>Mt.Bulgok&#39;s hiking course is 5.6 km long and requires about 2 and a half hours to complete. It has many rest areas and athletic facilities. This includes 129 rest and meditation spots. The Songnam locals make use of the mountain often because of the easy access from the city itself.</p><br>
<p>You are able to climb the mountain from Sunae, Buljeong, Jeongja, Gumi. The paths that are connected behind the Korea Land and Housing Corporation is tough with high, rocky slopes.</p><br>
<p>The Swansea Bay area of Wales is located north of the sea area of Swansea Bay. The term Swansea Bay is used by the Welsh Assembly Government for policy planning purposes as well as by a number of other organisations.</p><br>
<p>The boundaries of Swansea Bay are defined in the Welsh Assembly Government&#39;s Spatial Plan Data Project. In the Wales Spatial Plan, Swansea Bay includes all of the unitary authorities of Swansea and Neath Port Talbot and parts of Carmarthenshire, Powys and Bridgend county borough. The area is also a Travel to Work Area, which was defined in 2007. The Wales Spatial Plan identifies twenty-one key settlements in the area:</p><br>
<p>The population in the region as of 2007 is approximately 561,900.</p><br>
<h2>Development areas</h2><br>
<p>Welsh Assembly Government supported developments:</p><br>
<p>Baglan Energy Park</p><br>
<p>Coed Darcy</p><br>
<p>Crosshands Business Park</p><br>
<p>Felindre</p><br>
<p>Llanelli Waterside</p><br>
<p>SA1 Swansea Waterfront</p><br>
<p>Swansea city centre</p><br>
<p>Swansea Vale</p><br>
<h2>Swansea Bay city region</h2><br>
<p>The whole of Swansea Bay was being touted as a future city region that would have the city of Swansea as its focus but also include the urban settlements contiguous to Swansea; these would be Llanelli, Neath, Port Talbot, Ystradgynlais and Ammanford. The predicted size of this new city region is around 700,000 people who would live within 30 minutes drive from the centre of Swansea.</p><br>
<p>Following a Welsh Government commissioned report recommending the creation of the city region in July 2012, the Swansea Bay city region was established on 18 July 2013. The city region would include the local authorities of Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Neath Port Talbot and Swansea. Sir Terry Matthews has been appointed chairman of the Swansea Bay City Region Board.</p><br>
<p>The Wood County Courthouse and Jail, located in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States, is Wood County&#39;s third courthouse. It was built after citizens decided to move the county seat from Perrysburg to Bowling Green. Ground was broken on November 28, 1893, and the cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1894. The architectural firm of Yost & Packard of Columbus designed the courthouse and construction was overseen by T.B. Townsend of Youngstown. The winning tender for the project was $153,803 and the final construction costs totaled $255,746.</p><br>
<p>The County Commissioners took possession of the new building on August 31, 1896, and the new Common Pleas Courtroom was dedicated on September 7, 1896.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Sandstone from Amherst, Ohio, granite from Vermont, and marble from Italy were used in the construction of the courthouse. Architecturally, it is Richardsonian Romanesque in design with architectural sculpting throughout the building done by Whyte and Priest of Dayton, Ohio. Ornate stained glass panels cover much of the ceiling on the third floor and are visible from ground level due to the large open staircase which ascends through the middle of the second floor. The staircase consists of polished marble steps with brass railings.</p><br>
<p>The clock tower rises to a height of 195 ft. At the time of its construction, the clock hands were the second largest in America spanning 16 ft in diameter. They were only exceeded by the hands on the clock of the Chronicle newspaper building in San Francisco which were 16.5 ft in diameter. The clock was made by the E. Howard & Co. at a cost of $3000. The clock tower bells weigh 2,000 lb.</p><br>
<p>Murals decorate the east and west walls of the third floor. The murals were painted by I. M. Taylor (mayor of Bowling Green from 1911–1920). The east wall depicts Fort Meigs, a vital outpost in the War of 1812, and the west wall depicts a train passing through oil derricks in southern Wood County, a major producer of oil in the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>A major restoration of the interior of the courthouse was undertaken in 1980, and a restoration of the exterior of the building was completed in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>The clock tower is still in use. The original chimes are in working order and ring the hour, every hour, by denoting one chime per hour. All four clockfaces are quite remarkable, with two layers of Roman numerals. The inner layer closest to the center is golden and can be viewed easily when in shade. The outer ring on numerals is painted black iron which is easily readable when in direct sunlight. The tower also contains a box designed for use by nesting falcons.</p><br>
<p>There are two common pleas courtrooms and accompanying judicial offices located on the third floor as well as a jury assembly room, holding cell and conference rooms. A probate courtroom and judicial offices are located on the second floor, as is the Clerk of Courts Office. The first floor houses court security, court administration and a domestic relations courtroom with magistrates&#39; offices and conference rooms. A five-story office building adjoining the courthouse contains a third common pleas courtroom and judicial offices as well as other county offices including the auditor, treasurer, engineer, commissioners, prosecutor, adult probation, building inspection and board of elections. A glass-enclosed atrium joining the courthouse and office building was completed in 2004. At that time existing entrances and exits to both buildings were closed and the atrium became the only public entrance to either building. It is staffed by court security who monitor people entering the buildings.</p><br>
<h2>The jail</h2><br>
<p>Construction of the old Wood County Jail, located next to the courthouse, was begun on May 21, 1901, and completed in 1902 at a cost of $49,000. The Fremont firm of Fronizer and Andrews constructed the building, which continued in use as the county jail until 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Jones, Paul Willis. Wood County Historical Highlights 1894-2005. Bowling Green: Wood County, 2006.</p><br>
<p>The Jackson County Courthouse, also known as the Truman Courthouse, in Independence, Missouri is located on Independence Square at Main & Maple Street in Independence.</p><br>
<p>In 1922, Harry S. Truman won election as county judge for eastern Jackson County as a candidate of the Tom Pendergast faction of the Democratic Party. He failed to be re-elected in 1924, but, then won election as presiding judge in 1926. Truman served in this position in effect as county commissioner for eight years. He divided his time between the two Jackson County courthouses; this one in Independence, and the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City. (Truman later had an office in the Kansas City courthouse during most of his first term as USA Senator from 1935 to 1939.)</p><br>
<p>No county offices are currently in the building. The county offices have moved a few blocks away to the Independence Courthouse Annex, located at 308 W. Kansas. The Jackson County Historical Society office and archives are housed in the building. It underwent a massive renovation to restore President Truman&#39;s office and courtroom, and to fix major structural issues.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse grounds include statues of Presidents Harry S. Truman and Andrew Jackson, and historical markers and monuments commemorate pioneers, the Civil War, and the trails heading west – Santa Fe, California and Oregon trails – that marked the Independence Square as their starting point.</p><br>
<h2>Jackson County Historical Society</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse is now the home of the Jackson County Historical Society. The Society&#39;s facilities include a History Center, an Archives and Research Center that is available by appointment, a museum of art, and Harry S Truman Office and Courtroom that is available for guided tours.</p><br>
<p>Oak Cottage is a historic home built around 1820 and located at the peak of Schooleys Mountain in the Long Valley section of Washington Township in Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The property includes a mill and carriage house built in 1828 and is a contributing property to Schooleys Mountain Historic District which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Oak Cottage is a three-story home constructed as a General Grant or Second Empire style Victorian with a Mansard roof. The home has 13 rooms including 6 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms and is located in Schooley&#39;s Mountain Historic district in Washington Township area of Unknown, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>The carriage house and mill on the property was used as an apple cider distillery. It was constructed while the home was owned by Ephraim Marsh and was powered by a water wheel. Marsh was a hotel owner, judge, and president of the Morris Canal.</p><br>
<p>A historic photo of the home in 1908 can be seen in a photograph from The Roads Home by Henry Charlton Beck and in its 2008 real estate ad. The property was for sale in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The home was nicknamed The Gem of the Mountain and was located in an area of health resorts, due in part to the local mineral springs. There were</p><br>
<p>several large hotels with more than 300 rooms. Many prominent Americans visited the area including Thomas Edison, Vice President George Dallas, Governor Edward Coles, General J. Chadwalader, Governor William Pennington, E.D. Morgan, the Vanderbilts, C.V.S. Roosevelt and Ulysses S. Grant.</p><br>
<p>The Asse II mine  is a former salt mine used as a deep geological repository for radioactive waste in the Asse Mountains of Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony, Germany.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Asse II mine was developed between 1906 and 1908 to a depth of 765 m. Initially extracting potash, the mine also produced rock salt from 1916 to 1964. Potash production ceased in 1925.</p><br>
<p>Between 1965 and 1995, the state-owned Helmholtz Zentrum München used the mine on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Research to test the handling and storage of radioactive waste in a repository. Between 1967 and 1978 low-level and intermediate-level radioactive waste were emplaced in 13 chambers in the Asse II mine. Two chambers are located in the middle part and ten in the southern flank of the mine at depths from 725 m to 750 m below surface. Between 1972 and 1977, exclusively medium-level radioactive waste was emplaced in a chamber on the 511 m level. Research was stopped in 1995; between 1995 and 2004 cavities were filled with salt.</p><br>
<p>After media reports in 2008 about brine contaminated with radioactive caesium-137, plutonium and strontium, politicians accused the operator, Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health, of not having informed the inspecting authorities. On 8 September 2008, the responsible ministers of Lower Saxony and the German government replaced the operator with Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz - the Federal Office for Radiation Protection. In 2009, Greenpeace published a letter of the Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz to the German Bundesumweltministerium from 1996 in which the former had warned the latter that there is the risk of severe radioactive contamination if the mine runs full of water and that further investigation is urgently needed.</p><br>
<h2>Instability of the mine</h2><br>
<p>Typically salt mining is structurally unsupported. Stresses produced in the remaining salt structure during construction of the mine voids are accommodated in the overlying rock. Plasticity effects are taken into account as they occur naturally in salt domes. Significant mechanical stress is built up between the surrounding diapir and the mine construction. The overlying rock mass in Asse II moves 15 cm per year, undermining the strength of the mine construction.</p><br>
<p>Because of the large number of tunnels and chambers, and the decades of use, deformation in Asse II has reached a state where the pressurised surrounding salt is losing its stability: "The supporting construction is softening by creep deformation, plasticity effects and local fractures from ground pressure."</p><br>
<p>In 1979 a report on the stability of the mine was released by a working group under HH Juergens, which describes an imminent scenario of uncontrolled plastic flow from the surrounding rock on the southern flank resulting in the subsequent loss of the load carrying capacity. The manager of Asse II in 1979 and his advisers categorised this report as "unscientific" and declared that there were no stability problems.</p><br>
<p>In 2007 the Institut für Gebirgsmechanik (IfG) in Leipzig, which had been monitoring Asse II since 1996, predicted that an increase in the rate of loss of load carrying capacity would result in an increased displacement of the surrounding rock. The shifts would lead to an uncontrollable increase in water inflow and make continued dry operation impossible.</p><br>
<h2>Water inflow</h2><br>
<p>A significant inflow of water and a subtle loss of mechanical stability may jeopardise the underground mine integrity – the site is in danger of collapsing and becoming flooded.</p><br>
<p>For the period 1906 to 1988 there were 29 documented water breaches. They were sometimes successfully sealed off, partly dry or sometimes with negligible inflows (less than 0.5 m³ per day).</p><br>
<p>Between 1988 and 2008 32 new entry points were recorded. Most of the brine influx is concluded as coming from the diapir in the southern part of the mine. The brine is captured before it comes in contact with the storage drums, at the 658, 725 and 750 metre levels and, since 2005, at the 950 metre level. The 2008 influx was 11.8 m&sup3; per day. The liquid is tested for the radionuclide caesium-137. All measured values have been below the detection limit. The liquid is also tested for tritium. The weighted mean concentration is about 100 Bq/litre, which is the value that must be present in accordance with the European drinking water standard. The brine is pumped into a tanker and transported to the abandoned K+S AG mines (Bad Salzdetfurth, Adolfsglück and Mariaglück) The brine in Mariaglück is also tested for caesium-137 and tritium.</p><br>
<h2>Inventory</h2><br>
<p>Asse II is licensed for the storage of intermediate radioactive waste (LILW-LL, Long lived) and low level waste (LILW-SL, Short lived), defined as waste without significant heat generation. After public speculation about the presence of radioactive high level waste in the mine all material was once again reviewed in August 2008:</p><br>
<p># 125,787 drums of low level radioactive waste stored from 1967 to 1978 in various chambers at the 750 metre level. The containers are mostly drums with volumes from 100 to 400 litres or concrete vessels. The declared total activity at the time of storage was 1.8·10 Bq. Around 50% of the containers came from the former Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe nuclear reprocessing plant, 20% from nuclear power plants and 10% from the former Jülich Research Centre. The containers typically included mixed and laboratory waste, rubble, scrap, filter residues and combustion residues. Liquids such as evaporator concentrates, sludges, oils, resins and solvents had to be bound as solids. According to some former employees barrels of liquid waste were accepted in the early days of storage.</p><br>
<p># 1,293 containers with medium-level radioactive waste stored from 1972 to 1977 in Chamber 8a at the 511 metre level. Only 200-litre roll drums were permitted with waste fixed in concrete or bitumen. The declared total activity at the time of storage was 2.8·10 Bq. About 97% of the packages (over 90% of the total activity inventory of Asse II) originated from the Karlsruhe reprocessing plant. Some of the Karlsruhe drums contained waste from the reprocessing plant itself, and thus fissile material. Storage limits per drum were 200 grams U-235, 15 g U-233 and 15 g Pu-239. These limits were not reached. Maximum values per drum were 24 g U-235, 5.7 g Pu-239 and less than 1 g U-233 on the 511 metre level.</p><br>
<p>Morelli House at 861 East Bridger Avenue, Las Vegas, Nevada is listed on the city, state and National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1959, it is a classic example of mid-century modern construction.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Originally located at 52 Country Club Drive, Las Vegas, Nevada, within the Desert Inn Country Club, the house was moved to 861 East Bridger Avenue in September 2001. The house is famous for being the home of Sands Hotel band leader and musical conductor Antonio Morelli and his wife Helen during the Rat Pack heyday of the 1950s and 60s. For thirty years it served as an after-hours congregating spot for some of the biggest names in entertainment including Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Nat King Cole, Judy Garland, and many other famous names in show business. Morelli was very active in music circles in Nevada and he and his wife were also very active in various charitable causes through the years.</p><br>
<p>Designation as a landmark followed the move.</p><br>
<p>LDS Moapa Stake Office Building, also known as the Virmoa Maternity Hospital, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Overton, Nevada. It was built between 1917 and 1919 to serve the community of Moapa Valley as a local office, classroom and records repository for the LDS Church. In 1939, the local stake decided to relocate their offices to Las Vegas as travel between the communities became easier. The building then sat vacant.</p><br>
<p>In 1940, the Southern Nevada Memorial Hospital leased the building and converted it into a hospital which opened on January 9, 1941 as the Virmoa Maternity Hospital. The name "Virmoa" is a contraction of Virgin and Moapa. The hospital then was changed into an emergency room in the 1960s. In 1970, the emergency room closed and the Daughters of Utah Pioneers purchased the building for use as a meeting hall and museum. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places for its association with the development of Moapa Valley as a religious and later a medical site.</p><br>
<p>Trimble Knob, located southwest of Monterey in Highland County, Virginia, is a conical hill composed of basalt, a volcanic rock, of Eocene  age. It is the eroded remnant of what was an active volcano or diatreme that last erupted approximately 35 million years ago, making it one of the youngest volcanos on the east coast of North America.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Trimble Knob is an isolated conical hill in an otherwise relatively flat valley, surrounded by farmland. USA Route 220 lies along the southeast flank of the hill. Trimble Knob is the most obvious of many igneous intrusions in the area.</p><br>
<p>The central part of the hill is composed of basalt with a diameter of approximately 150 m. The basalt intrudes through the gently dipping Devonian Needmore Formation (fossiliferous shale and calcareous mudstone), and is near the axis of a syncline in the center of the valley.</p><br>
<h2>Age</h2><br>
<p>The basalt at Trimble Knob (and other igneous dikes in the area) was originally thought to be of Paleozoic age by relative age dating using cross-cutting relationships. In 1993, Southworth and others give a date of 35.0 ± 0.5 Ma for basalt of Trimble Knob, placing it in the Eocene. The basalt intrudes the Devonian Millboro Shale.</p><br>
<p>Mole Hill, located in Rockingham County, is geologically similar to Trimble Knob and thought to be contemporaneous with it, along with other intrusive igneous rocks near Ugly Mountain in Pendleton County, West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Crap Sogn Gion  is a mountain  and cable car station  located near Flims in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. Regarding the definition used in the Alps by the Swiss Alpine Club it cannot be called a mountain  but only a location at the end of a ridge descending from the Vorab in the Glarus Alps.</p><br>
<p>As the location has no distinctive peak nor sudden drops in its gentle sides, it is absolutely not an impressive mountain but even more a very appropriate place to run a skiing resort. Comparing to other skiing resorts in Switzerland the missing neighbouring mountains to the south - which is the location of the giant prehistoric Flims Rockslide – make it even more exposed to the sun even at the sun&#39;s lowest orbit in deep winter.</p><br>
<p>A very small hut of the Ski Club Flims was the first building on Crap Sogn Gion, still standing there although hardly noticed. From 1962 the area was accessible by platter lift, followed 1967 by the then biggest aerial cable car with cabins to hold as much as 125 passengers, which is still in use today along with several modernised chairlifts.</p><br>
<p>A more recent aerial cable car was built to Crap Masegn, from where another gondola lift leads to the glacier at Vorab, which made the ski resort a safe one in regards of snow even in winters of poor snowfall.</p><br>
<p>For a walk in summer you may find Crap Sogn Gion on Swisstopo Map 1194, Flims, in the 1:25&#39;000 scale. National Maps of Switzerland are a set of official map series designed, edited and distributed by Swisstopo, the Swiss Federal Office of Topography.</p><br>
<p>Fil de Cassons  is a mountain in the Glarus Alps, located near Flims in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland.</p><br>
<p>The southern face is referred to as "Flimserstein", dominating the appearance of the town of Flims. In its east lies Bargis from where a valley leads to its north face, while to its western face the sliding surface tears off of the biggest visible landslide in the world, Flims Rockslide. Piz Dolf is lying to the north across the Bargis valley, and to its west Piz Segnas, both showing the tectonic line of the Glarus thrust in its upper part, a now UNESCO world heritage.</p><br>
<p>The easiest access to Fil de Cassons is an aerial cableway from Flims to this ridge, that actually allows also walks and an alpine experience from the cablecar for people that would not dare to walk a steep mountain path. Walking on top you will easily identify the tectonic line under your feet, as rocks turn from greenish to bright light grey on top of the wide ridge.</p><br>
<p>For hikers aiming for more than a walk, several routes reach the high plateau and the very wide ridge, among them a historic Via Ferrata called Pinut. One hiking route uses the ascent via Val Bargis and Scala Mola, the path that the cows are being sent up to graze in summer. If you stay at the base of the valley of Bargis, you will hike on a path leading more or less around Fil de Cassons from east to northwest before reaching its top.</p><br>
<p>Being a ridge, there is very often hardly snow, allowing walks even in winter along at least one mile on Fil de Cassons.</p><br>
<p>The Calanda is a mountain in the Glarus Alps with two main peaks Haldensteiner Calanda  and Felsberger Calanda , both located on the border between the cantons of St. Gallen and Graubünden in eastern Switzerland. It looms over Chur, the capital city of Graubünden.</p><br>
<p>Although other peaks with 286 metres Topographic prominence (for the Felsberger Calanda) would claim to be called mountain on their own, within this massive it is commonly spoken of only one mountain with different peaks due to its sole position - cut off by an old route of the Rhine river through Tamina Valley to its northwestern face and the actual Rhine Valley to the south and east.</p><br>
<p>The name Calanda derives from the Latin "calare", roughly meaning roll down, which refers to the ever-moving southern face that can be seen at Felsberg and is still an active rock slide.</p><br>
<p>Due to the much steeper descent to the northwesterly Tamina valley most of the mountain lies on the territory of the canton of Graubünden within the municipalities of Mastrils, Untervaz, Haldenstein, Felsberg and Tamins, whereas all of the Tamina valley side north of the territory of Tamins (which reaches north across the Kunkels pass) lies in the Canton of St. Gallen and the municipality of Pfäfers.</p><br>
<p>Some secondary peaks are called Rossfallenspitz and Güllenchopf, whereas the names of Berger Calanda and Taminser Calanda do refer to points that could not really be called a peak but mark the end of a respective ridge.</p><br>
<p>On the northerly plateau of Felsberger Calanda there can be regularly seen Ibexes.</p><br>
<p>On the Haldenstein territory there is an alpine club mountain hut Calandahütte on 2073 m.</p><br>
<p>The summits can be reached from south on a Swiss grade T3, (Felsberger Calanda T4) which requests experience in hiking and an absence of Acrophobia to a certain degree.</p><br>
<p>At Felsberg, the local produced wine is called Goldene Sonne, a reminder of a gold mine in the southern face of Calanda.</p><br>
<p>Lechouri  is a mountain village and a community in the municipal unit of Aroania, Achaea, Greece. In 2011, it had a population of 209 for the village and 288 for the community, which includes the villages Kerasia and Selli. The village is situated at about 1,000 m above sea level, near the mountain Kallifoni, which is part of the Erymanthos range. It is 4 km northeast of Livartzi, 6 km south of Ano Vlasia, 4 km northwest of Kamenianoi and 18 km southwest of Kalavryta.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Historian G. Poretsano has two theories about the origin of the name Lechouri. The first is the Homeric word "ουρέα" which means "mountain peaks" and the second is the Cretan word "λέσκες" which means "ridges".</p><br>
<p>In the region Roman villas and cemeteries have been found. Lechouri was the crossroads of mountain trails leading to Patras by Vlasia and Chalandritsa. Many fighters in the 1821 Greek War of Independence came from Lechouri. In the village tower Imvraim Arnaoutoglou, the Turkish commander of Kalavryta, was imprisoned after the liberation of the town. This tower, also known as Lechouritis Tower, has been converted into a museum. Another important monument of the past is the small 16th monastery of St George, aiona.To Lechouri now kept alive with rich events Association of Athens and Patras.</p><br>
<p>The Broken Hills is a range of low-lying mountains and ridges in northern Fauquier County, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The range begins just to the west of the southern Bull Run Mountains, north of Warrenton, Virginia and continues westward to the eastern edge of Blue Ridge Mountain. Interstate 66 and Virginia State Route 55 run just north of the range, while US-211 runs to the south. The stretch of US-17 between Warrenton and Marshall traverses the range.</p><br>
<p>The Broken Hills form the southern border of the Loudoun Valley.</p><br>
<h2>Notable Mountains</h2><br>
<p>Wildcat Mountain</p><br>
<p>Rappahanock Mountain</p><br>
<p>Pignut Mountain</p><br>
<p>Prickly Pear Mountain</p><br>
<p>Viewtree Mountain</p><br>
<p>Swains Mountain</p><br>
<p>Thumb Run Mountain</p><br>
<p>Waters Mountain</p><br>
<p>Piney Mountain</p><br>
<p>Tuần Châu is a schist island on the southwest side of Hạ Long City in Vietnam.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>Covered by pine forests, Tuần Châu island has an area of 2.2 km² and to the east and south are two man-made beaches endowed with very white, fine sand. Nowadays, Tuần Châu Island is one of the most touristic destinations in Hạ Long.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>In the feudal time, the royal army set up a guard station here to patrol and defend the borderland. The name of Tuần Châu is the combination between ‘linh tuan’ (the patrolman) and ‘tri chau’ (district chief).</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Tuần Châu is located an important position at the entrance of the waterway system of Thăng Long, Bặch Đằng and Vân Ðồn.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island has many archaeological sites pertaining to the ancient Hạ Long culture from 3,000 to 5,000 years ago.</p><br>
<p>Because of its location, the royal army set up a guard station here to patrol and defend the borderland. The Office of Feudal Customs was also installed there.</p><br>
<p>President Hồ Chí Minh used to spend holidays there, in an octagonal house that has now become a memorial site.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Tuần Châu Island can be reached via the 2-km cement road from the mainland. The construction of this road was undertook by Tuan Chau 5-star yacht company and officially started on February 28, 1998. Investments have been poured into the island to turn it into a modern tourist resort. It includes attractions such as the dolphin, sea lion, and performing-seal club, animal circus club, golf course, cultural-sports center, beach, rural market, ornamental fish lake, villas in Hill 1 and Hill 2, guesthouses, five 80-room villas by the beach. The ensemble of five restaurants and one round house built in the pagoda motif can serve up to 500 guests at the same time.</p><br>
<p>From 2014, there is another way to reach Tuan Chau Island from Hanoi that is directed flight from Hanoi to Tuan Chau Island, Halong Bay by seaplane of Hai Au Aviation. The flight can allows you to enjoy a bird’s eye view of the thousands of limestone karsts jutting up from the jade green waters and see remote fishing villages before landing at Tuan Chau Island Marina.</p><br>
<h3>The Marina</h3><br>
<p>The pier of Tuần Châu island hosts only 10% of all boat companies cruising on Halong bay and provides cruisers with cafés, souvenir shops, and daily entertainment shows with young local dancers performing modern dances. Some boat companies also offer private lounges for their passengers awaiting boarding time. Tuần Châu island is at present constructing a much larger marina integrated in a touristic resort that should be completed in years to come.</p><br>
<p>In 2004, Miss Vietnam was held there. In 2005, Tuần Châu was where "Vietnam: The Island of Mr. Sang" episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations was filmed.</p><br>
<p>The Abraham Brower House is located at Water and Division streets in New Hamburg, New York, United States. It is a mid-19th century home of one the hamlet&#39;s early residents that was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>It is a modest brick structure, built in a vernacular interpretation of the Greek Revival style popular in the decades preceding its construction. A kitchen wing was added after the Civil War, but otherwise there have been few significant alterations since then.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The main block is a one-and-a-half-story, three-bay structure of brick laid in common bond. The gabled roof is shingled in slate laid in a decorative floral pattern. A chimney rises from the south side.</p><br>
<p>Across the west-facing front facade runs a hip-roofed porch. Its columns, and the doorway, match the nearby Adolph Brower House. The front windows are trimmed in stone.</p><br>
<p>A smaller, similar addition was built later on the east (rear) elevation. Its roof decoration matches the main house. A full-length porch on its south side has been enclosed in clapboard. There is also a small brick outbuilding with asphalt-shingled roof at the northwest corner of the house&#39;s lot.</p><br>
<p>The interior follows the classic Greek Revival side-hall pattern. Most rooms, save the kitchen, are as they originally were. Woodwork, especially a mantel in the parlor, is also preserved. A full brick beehive oven remains in the cellar of the addition.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Adolph Brower, whose own house across the intersection is one of the oldest in New Hamburg, sold the lot to a relative, Abraham, in 1841. At the time both Browers were involved in the lime quarrying operations along the nearby riverside that were the hamlet&#39;s major industry after river commerce. The house, likely built around 1845 although the exact date is not known, had at the time an unobstructed view over the quarries.</p><br>
<p>It is first recorded in 1867, at which time the kitchen wing was added. Its roof was originally plain slate, but was later redecorated to match the main house. Similarly, the wing&#39;s tin-roofed porch was originally unenclosed, and modified sometime later in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Locally, it is believed that the outbuilding was originally a boathouse. Although modified during the 20th century for use as a garage, it is too small to have served as a stable prior to that and the low rafters on its collar beams were ideal places to hang sails to dry.</p><br>
<p>The Villa of the Quintilii  is an ancient Roman villa beyond the fifth milestone along the Via Appia Antica just outside the traditional boundaries of Rome, Italy. It was built by the rich and cultured brothers Sextus Quintilius Valerius Maximus and Sextus Quintilius Condianus .</p><br>
<p>The ruins of this villa suburbana are of such an extent that when they were first excavated, the site was called Roma Vecchia ("Old Rome") by the locals, as they occupied too great a ground, it seemed, to have been anything less than a town. The nucleus of the villa was constructed in the time of Hadrian. The villa included extensive thermae fed by its own aqueduct, and, what was even more unusual, a hippodrome, which dates to the fourth century, when the villa was Imperial property: the emperor Commodus coveted the villa strongly enough to put to death its owners in 182 and confiscate it for himself.</p><br>
<p>In 1776 Gavin Hamilton, the entrepreneurial painter and purveyor of Roman antiquities, excavated some parts of the Villa of the Quintilii, still called "Roma Vecchia", and the sculptures he uncovered revealed the imperial nature of the site:</p><br>
<p>There he found five marble sculptures, including "An Adonis asleep", that he sold to Charles Townley and have come to the British Museum and "A Bacchante with the tyger", listed as sold to Mr Greville. The large marble relief of Asclepius found at the site passed from Hamilton to the Earl of Shelburne, later Marquess of Lansdowne, at Lansdowne House, London. The "Braschi Venus" from the site was purchased by Pius VI&#39;s nephew, Luigi Braschi Onesti.</p><br>
<p>Today the archeological site houses a museum with marble friezes and sculptures that once adorned the villa. The nympheum, the hall of the tepidarium and the baths may also be visited. A grand terrace overlooking the Via Appia Nuova, which dates back to 1784, commands a fine view of the Castelli Romani district. The villa&#39;s grounds extended even beyond the route of the Via Appia Nuova.</p><br>
<p>Meintjieskop is a hill in Pretoria on which the Union Buildings  in Afrikaans) were constructed.</p><br>
<p>Marthinus Wessel Pretorius, later to become first president of the Transvaal Republic, was the original owner of the farm Elandsfontein on which Meintjieskop stands. In 1856 Andries Francois du Toit (1813–1883), in exchange for a Basuto pony, acquired part of the farm, which he named Arcadia. He was also Pretoria’s first magistrate and was responsible for planning the layout of the city. During this period he sold his land for £1200 to Stephanus Jacobus Meintjies (1819–1887), and by 1870 it bore the name Meintjieskop.</p><br>
<p>Meintjieskop is part of the Witwatersberg Ridge, which runs east–west through Pretoria. Geologically it forms part of the Pretoria Group of the Transvaal sequence.</p><br>
<p>Loch Creran is a sea loch in Argyll, on the west coast of Scotland. It is about 10 km long from its head at Invercreran to its mouth on the Lynn of Lorne, part of Loch Linnhe. The loch separates the areas of Benderloch to the south and Appin to the north. The island of Eriska lies at the mouth of the loch. The loch is bridged at its narrowest point at Creagan, by the A828 road. The village of Barcaldine lies on the south shore of the loch.</p><br>
<p>At the head of Loch Creran lies the Glasdrum Wood National Nature Reserve, an internationally important atlantic oakwood managed by Scottish Natural Heritage, classified as both a Special Area of Conservation and a Site of Special Scientific Interest.</p><br>
<p>This predominantly ash and oak woodland is home to butterflies like the rare chequered skipper (Carterocephalus palaemon), as well as being frequented by otters (Lutra lutra).</p><br>
<p>Mount Ikeda is a mountain located in the towns of Ikeda and Ibigawa, in Ibi District, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is 923.9 m high and is in the center of the Ibuki Mountains. Mount Ibuki, the namesake of the mountain range, lies to the east-northeast of Mount Ikeda. The mountain is protected as part of the Ibi Sekigahara Yōrō National Park (揖斐関ヶ原養老国定公園).</p><br>
<h2>Activities</h2><br>
<p>Because there are no other mountains to block the view from the eastern side of Mount Ikeda, climbers can easily see the cities of Gifu and Ōgaki in Gifu Prefecture, and Ichinomiya and, if conditions are clear enough, Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture. Because of the clear view, it is one of famed spots for night views in the Tōkai region.</p><br>
<p>Also, because of the clear space and favorable winds on the eastern side, it is popular for many sky sports, such as hang gliding and paragliding.</p><br>
<p>The Cordillera Central is the highest mountain range in the Dominican Republic and in all of the Caribbean region, running through the heart of the island of Hispaniola.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Connected to the Massif du Nord in Haiti, it gradually bends southwards and finishes near the town of San Cristóbal on the Caribbean coastal plains. Because of its altitude, cool temperature, and scenic vistas, the Cordillera Central is also known as the "Dominican Alps". The Cordillera Central is home to the highest peaks in the West Indies: Pico Duarte (3,098 m) (the highest point in the Caribbean), La Pelona (3,094 m) and La Rucilla (3,049 m).</p><br>
<h3>Parks</h3><br>
<p>José Armando Bermúdez National Park (Parque Nacional Armando Bermúdez) is located in the range, protecting a diversity of flora and fauna species. The Pale Magnolia tree (Magnolia pallescens), an endangered species endemic to Hispaniola, grows in the range and park.</p><br>
<h2>Other ranges</h2><br>
<p>In the southwest corner of the country, south of the Cordillera Central, there are two, largely dry and rocky ranges. The more northerly of the two is the Sierra de Neiba, while in the south the Sierra de Bahoruco is a continuation of the Massif de la Selle in Haiti.</p><br>
<p>Phu Kradueng , is a 1316 m high mountain in Loei Province, Thailand. It is located in Phu Kradueng District, giving its name to the district, but its western side borders with Nam Nao District of Phetchabun Province. This mountain is part of the Phetchabun Mountains, a massif forming a natural boundary between North Thailand and Isaan.</p><br>
<p>Phu Kradueng rises 9 km west of Highway 201.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The name of the mountain comes from the fact that its silhouette seen from afar has the shape of a large bell (กระดึง; Kradueng). There is also a local legend that a mysterious bell sound, believed to be the bell of Indra, can be heard in the area of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Phu Kradueng seen from above is heart-shaped. It has a relatively flat plain on its top, sloping slightly to the north. The summit, located in the southwestern part of the plateau, is inconspicuous. The western, southern and eastern edges of the mountain have a fairly regular shape and are formed by abrupt sandstone cliffs, while the northwestern corner is deeply indented, containing a number of streams and seasonal waterfalls.</p><br>
<p>Geologically Phu Kradueng is formed by Jurassic and Cretaceous sandstone. Large parts of the mountain are covered in mixed evergreen forest. At the base of the mountain deciduous Dipterocarp forest dominates. Dry evergreen forest follow hill evergreen forests with bamboo clumps at higher altitudes. There are wide stretches of grasslands mixed with pine trees at the top.</p><br>
<h2>Protected area</h2><br>
<p>The Phu Kradueng National Park is located in the area around the mountain. Phu Kradueng is a popular camping spot for Thai people and the temperature of the plateau at the top is chilly, which is pleasant during the hot season. Average daily temperature is 20 °C in the daytime. Between December and January the nightly temperature can sink to 2 °C.</p><br>
<p>The mountaintop is covered in mist both during the rainy season as well as during the cooler months. The park is closed to visitors during the rainy season (1 June - 30 September).</p><br>
<p>Albany, Alabama, also known as New Decatur, Alabama, was a city in Morgan County, Alabama, United States, situated immediately to the southeast of the city of Decatur near the Tennessee River. New Decatur/Albany existed as a city from 1887 until 1927, when it merged with the city of Decatur. Today, it exists as a neighborhood within the city of Decatur, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the American Civil War, the important transportation hub of Decatur, Alabama often changed hands between the Union and the Confederacy. Eventually, the entire city (except for three buildings) fell victim to the war and burned to the ground during the Battle of Decatur. Just as the city was coming back to life, a yellow fever epidemic swept the area in 1878, causing the population of the community to dwindle to approximately 400 by 1880.</p><br>
<p>On January 11, 1887, as Decatur was still rebuilding from the destructive results of the war and the outbreak, the Decatur Land Improvement and Furnace Company, Inc., funded by Eugene C. Gordon, C.C. Harris, and W.W. Littlejohn, invested $7.5 million toward 5,600 acre of land southeast of the city. The company formed a new city as a means of reinventing Decatur as a manufacturing and transportation center following the war. They named their new city New Decatur and gave it the nickname "The Chicago of the South," referencing its status as a transportation hub, and as a marketing tool toward Midwesterners. New Decatur was designed as a planned community with the help of famed landscape architect Nathan Franklin Barrett. The company set aside 100 acre of this land for churches and schools and established what is known today as Delano Park, an oddly-shaped stretch of parkland designed to break the monotony of an urban-like street grid. New Decatur&#39;s charter was confirmed by the Alabama State Legislature on February 18, 1889.</p><br>
<p>The company advertised this new development across the Northeast and Midwestern United States as "the healthiest city in the South," following the installation of a modern water and drainage system, which was thought to ward off disease. The new city saw an initial boom, but slowed soon after due to deteriorating economic conditions. Eventually, though, because of the city&#39;s industries and quality of life, many Americans began to move south to New Decatur and inhabit the city. In an effort to mend fences and avoid favoritism toward one region of the United States or another, streets in New Decatur were named in honor of generals from both the Union (Grant and Sherman) and Confederate (Johnston and Jackson) Armies.</p><br>
<p>Though New Decatur was built to complement, not compete with, the existing city of Decatur (by then called "Old Decatur"), the influx of "Northerners" angered many residents of the existing city. As a result, hostility between inhabitants of Old Decatur and New Decatur began to surface as wounds from the Civil War were still healing. In 1916, the need to ease these rivalries led New Decatur to adopt the new name of Albany, giving it an identity completely separate from Old Decatur. The city&#39;s residents nominated the name in honor of Albany, New York. By this time, the cities of Albany and Old Decatur had formed a major metropolitan area with an estimated population of 8,000.</p><br>
<p>Eventually, the hostilities between the two cities began to die down, and the need for a common bridge over the Tennessee River united them. On August 28, 1923, a measure to consolidate the two cities failed due to tax inequities. On February 4, 1927, the two cities finally merged into one, taking the original name of Decatur.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The evidence that two cities once existed on the site is strong. The street layouts are vastly different, and most of the original street names still exist. As a result, duplicate street names persist throughout modern Decatur and can cause confusion for drivers.</p><br>
<p>Both cities business districts remain in existence less than a mile apart and form modern Decaturs sprawling downtown area. Much of the original turn of the 20th century architecture of the two cities still exists as well, and both Old Decatur and Albany each have neighborhood historical associations charged with maintaining and promoting their separate histories. In addition, the two areas of town still maintain moderately distinct cultures. As Decatur has continued to expand to the south and west (and become more modern in the process), the Albany and Old Decatur neighborhoods stand out as the city&#39;s historic core.</p><br>
<p>The historic Albany neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 3, 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>Indian Lake is a 12 mi long, 4,255 acre lake with a southwest to northeast orientation in the towns of Indian Lake and Lake Pleasant in Hamilton County, in the Adirondack Park of New York State, in the United States. The hamlet of Indian Lake is located 2 mi north of the north end of Indian Lake. New York State Route 30 runs along the west shore of the lake. Most of the shore is part of the Forest Preserve. Indian Lake is fed by the Jessup River, and drains through the Indian River into Lake Abanakee, and from there through the Indian River to the Hudson River.</p><br>
<p>The State of New York operates a campground offering campsites in Indian Lake, most of which are on islands, that are accessible only by boat. The campground is 12 miles south of Indian Lake village on NY 30, and is open from mid-May until Columbus Day.</p><br>
<p>The lake was made famous by the 1968 pop song "Indian Lake" performed by the Cowsills.</p><br>
<h2>Tributaries and locations</h2><br>
<p>Camp Island &ndash; An island located by the Indian Lakes Islands Campground. Has a campsite on the island.</p><br>
<p>Crotched Point Island &ndash; An island located north of Camp Island. There is a campsite on the island.</p><br>
<p>Doherty Island &ndash; An island located where the Doherty Brook enters the lake. There is a campground on the island.</p><br>
<p>Green Island &ndash; An island located south of Doherty Island. There is a campground on the island.</p><br>
<p>John Mack Bay &ndash; A bay of the lake that is located near Moose Island.</p><br>
<p>Kirpens Island &ndash; An island located in Normans Cove.</p><br>
<p>Moose Island &ndash; An island located at the mouth of the Jessup River bay. The largest island on the lake. There is a campsite on the island.</p><br>
<p>Norman&#39;s Cove &ndash; A bay of the lake located on the east shore across from Sabael.</p><br>
<p>Poplar Point &ndash; A point located between the mouths of Willow Brook and Forks Brook.</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>Fish species present in the lake are brook trout, lake trout, brown trout, landlocked salmon, smallmouth bass, northern pike, lake whitefish, black bullhead, yellow perch, smelt, pumpkinseed sunfish, and white sucker. There is a state owned hard surface ramp launch in the campground off NY-30, 14 miles north of Speculator, New York. There are also boat rentals available and a marina.</p><br>
<p>Gobba di Rollin  is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, straddling the border between Switzerland and Italy. It is located south of the Breithorn and it is largely covered by ice, the summit area being particularly flat. On the north side is the Breithorn Plateau of the Theodul Glacier, on the east side is the Ghiacciaio di Verra and on the south is the Glacier d&#39;Aventine.</p><br>
<p>Gobba di Rollin is notable as having the highest ski lift in Europe on its top, since it is the highest point of the ski area Matterhorn Glacier Paradise on the Theodul Glacier, between Zermatt and Breuil-Cervinia. It is connected to both the Klein Matterhorn and Testa Grigia by ski lifts. The shortest access is from the Klein Matterhorn station (3,820 m), less than two kilometres away, from where it can be easily reached by a piste on the glacier. The summit had even been reached via the Theodul Pass by 4x4 vehicles.</p><br>
<p>The Einshorn is a mountain of the Lepontine Alps, overlooking Hinterrhein in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.</p><br>
<p>The peak can be seen from the Swiss A13 motorway. It looks very much like Pizzo Ucello that can be seen from the southern entrance into the San Bernardino tunnel (which made a year-round opening of the road possible from 1967), and many people think that they saw the same mountain twice - before and after the tunnel. They actually form a ridge together but only one each can be seen from each side.</p><br>
<p>Before the construction of the tunnel, both passes from Splügen, the Splügen Pass and the San Bernardino Pass passing under Einshorn were similarly important but nowadays only one of them, San Bernardino, is open during winter. In ancient times, Splügen Pass was the more important connection. Thanks to its lack of importance it is now a quiet pass where essential portions of the historical roads and paths have survived allowing a good historical review for hikers on Via Spluga.</p><br>
<p>Parallel to the Splügen Pass route and directly under Einshorn lies Val Curciusa, a very remote valley compared to most alpine valleys as there is no road into it and besides some huts for grazing aninmals no traces from this highly industrialized and densely populated country.</p><br>
<p>The peak can be reached from the south on a Swiss grade T5, which demands experience in hiking and a real absence of Acrophobia.</p><br>
<p>Lake Dapao is a deep water lake located in the province of Lanao del Sur, southwest of Lake Lanao, in the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. It is one of the deepest lakes in the country, reaching a maximum depth of 120 m. It has an estimated surface area of 1,011 hectare. The lake receives water from local run-off and several small rivers.</p><br>
<p>In 1965, the lake and its vicinity was declared as a protected national park under Republic Act 4190 that covers an area of about 1,500 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>Plants growing in the lake includes hydrilla (Hydrilla spp) and the filamentous alga (Clodophora spp). The lake is also rich in fish that includes dalág (Ophicephalus striatus), Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus), common carp (Cyprinus carpio), goby (Glossogobius giurus) and catfish (Clarias spp).</p><br>
<p>Gunung Chamah lies in the north-western corner of Kelantan and is the fifth highest mountain in Peninsular Malaysia. It is one of the Peninsula&#39;s G7 . Gunung in Malay literally means mountains with an elevation of 1,000 m and above. In Peninsular Malaysia, there are several of these mountains located along the main mountain ranges called the Titiwangsa Range. On one of these popular mountain peaks is the Gunung Chamah with an elevation of 2,171m.</p><br>
<p>During the heyday of communist insurgency, this area was totally out of bounds for ordinary citizens. However, after the peace agreement between the Malaysian government and the Communist signed in Hatyai, South Thailand during the 80s, the authorities in Malaysia began to relax their rules on jungle trekking on the Titiwangsa Range.</p><br>
<p>Today, jungle trekking and mountaineering is one of the most popular outdoor sports/activities in Malaysia. Thanks to the peace agreement made some 20 years ago, more and more Malaysian youths are opting for this activities as it will be more fun and adventuring as more species of flora and fauna are being discovered in the forest. It is most evident during the holiday seasons that most of the mountain tops in the Peninsular are jammed with hikers and trekkers. Preparations, training and bookings for permits and transport have to be done months ahead.</p><br>
<p>Gunung Chamah is one of the harder mountains, because of getting there (to the start of the trek) as well as the trek itself. However, it is also one of the best treks, as the place is rather untouched and beautiful. Be careful, as tigers still roam around the treks there.</p><br>
<p>Climbing Gunung Chamah, the fifth highest mountain in Peninsular Malaysia, has always been a challenge.</p><br>
<p>Embsay Reservoir is located above the village of Embsay, near Skipton in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It is owned by Yorkshire Water, and is used to supply water to the north and west of Skipton, feeding 25,000 homes. It has a dam height of 24 m.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir was built by Skipton Urban District Council to service the needs of a rapidly rising population in the area. Forty acres of Embsay Pasture were compulsorily purchased in 1905, and work started almost immediately, with the main contract being awarded to the specialist company, Messrs G H Hill and Son. Work was completed before the end of 1909, and the reservoir was full by January 10 of the following year. It was officially opened on June 21, 1910. No dwelling houses were submerged.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir is used for leisure activities such as sailing, fishing, and walking, and is the home of the Craven Sailing Club. There are car parking facilities for visitors.</p><br>
<p>Platja den Bossa  is a major holiday resort on the Spanish island of Ibiza primarily catering for the British, German and Italian package holiday market. It is in the municipality of Sant Josep de sa Talaia and is situated approximately 3.1 km to the South of Ibiza Town.</p><br>
<p>The islands main airport is approximately 3.4 km away from Platja den Bossa.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>At 2.7 km long, the resort has the longest beaches on the island and is characterised by large hotel complex, restaurants, retail stores and residential property. There are both low and high rise buildings. In the summer months the area is one of the busiest resorts on the island.</p><br>
<h2>Clubbing</h2><br>
<p>Platja den Bossa is a popular resort for its many bars and nightclubs. One of the islands so called super-clubs called Space is located in the resort. This club occupies what was once the islands conference and exhibition centre which failed and was sold. In 1987 it was sold and was opened as a nightclub. In the early 1990s DJs in the club began to carry on their sessions out in the open air terrace next to the club, and so began the legendary after hours parties which feature today. Over the years many world famous DJs have appeared in the club including Carl Cox, Paul Oakenfold, Sasha, Erick Morillo, Groove Armada, Danny Tenaglia and Robbie Rivera. In recent years another venue within the resort has become a popular place for music and events. It is called Ushuaïa and has held events for BBC Radio 1 in Ibiza. Sankeys is also located in Playa d&#39;en Bossa.</p><br>
<p>Liberty Hall, also known as John Robert McDowell Place, is a historic plantation house near Camden, Alabama. The two-story Greek Revival style main house was built in 1855 for John Robert McDowell by W.W. Robinson. The two-story front portico features two central Ionic columns flanked by a square column to each side, reminiscent of a distyle-in-antis arrangement. The floor plan is centered on a broad hall that separates four large, equally proportioned rooms on both levels. The formal rooms and hall on the lower level have elaborate plasterwork that was designed, in part, by Harriet McDowell, wife of John Robert McDowell. The house is currently owned by the great-granddaughter of the original owner. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Tristram Bethea House, also known as Pleasant Ridge, is a historic plantation house in Canton Bend, Alabama. The two-story brick house was built in 1842 in the Federal style. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 11, 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Tristram Bethea House was built in 1842 by Tristram Benjamin Bethea, an attorney from South Carolina. It was acquired by George O. Miller on October 7, 1850, when Bethea moved to Mobile. Miller paid $2800 for the house and 157 acre. It was later purchased by Joseph Eugene Strother and remained in that family until 1987, when it was purchased by Cliff Redenour and Ron Smith. Redenour and Smith did a major restoration of the house and sold it to the Blanton family in 1995. It was sold again to the Stewart family in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>A simple two-story central portico with simple box columns adorns the front elevation and shelters the doors on both levels. The front doorways on the first and second stories both feature sidelights and full fanlights. It is the only brick antebellum house in Wilcox County.</p><br>
<p>Windsor Harbor Road Bridge is a historic Pratt through truss bridge located at Kimmswick, Jefferson County, Missouri. It was built in 1874-1875 by the Keystone Bridge Company; the bridge was dismantled and re-erected at its present site in 1930. It measures 20.3 feet wide and the span is 123.3 feet.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>A sign outside the bridge states:</p><br>
<p>WINDSOR HARBOR ROAD BRIDGE</p><br>
<p>Carondelet, Missouri, 1874-1928</p><br>
<p>Moved to this site 1930</p><br>
<p>The County Commission of Jefferson County, Missouri, transferred ownership of this bridge to the Kimmswick Historical Society following its placement on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Since the construction of the adjacent modern bridge, this historic bridge has been closed to all but pedestrian and non-motorized traffic.</p><br>
<p>The Edward C. Peters House, also known as Ivy Hall, is a Queen Anne style house in Atlanta, Georgia. It occupies a lot covering an entire city block on the southeast corner of Piedmont Avenue and Ponce de Leon Avenue in Midtown Atlanta, just north of the SoNo neighborhood. Its current owner is the Savannah College of Art and Design.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1883 for Edward C. Peters. The architect was Gottfried I. Norrman, a Swedish immigrant. The house incorporates references to the Peters family, such as tiles depicting the Philadelphia Fish and Chowder Society founded by Edwards great-grandfather Richard Peters, Jr. Edwards father, also named Richard Peters, was instrumental in the founding and transformation of the small town of Marthasvillle into Atlanta. Edward inherited Richard&#39;s railroad and trolley interests in 1889.</p><br>
<p>The Peters House survived the Great Atlanta Fire of 1917, when houses between North Avenue and Ponce de Leon Avenue were dynamited as a firebreak. After the death of Peters&#39; daughter-in-law in 1970 the house was threatened with demolition, but it became The Mansion restaurant three years later.</p><br>
<p>The interiors have been largely preserved, although a fire in 2000 caused the restaurant to close. In 2005 the house was acquired by the Savannah College of Art and Design. A full restoration of Ivy Hall was undertaken, reopening on October 3, 2008. A portion of the grounds was developed with housing.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>See for more photos.</p><br>
<p>Garrett State Forest is a located in the state of Maryland northwest of Oakland.</p><br>
<p>Garrett State Forest is the birthplace of forestry conservation in Maryland. The generous donation of 1,917 acres originally named "Swallow Falls" by the Garrett Brothers in 1906 serves as the foundation of the Garrett State Forest, as well as Maryland&#39;s present Public Lands system. Mountain forests, streams and valleys make up the 8,042 acres of Garrett State Forest in Garrett County.</p><br>
<p>The forest is home to red oak, white oak, scarlet oak, black cherry, hickory, red maple, white pine and hemlock along the stream banks. Mountain streams trickle throughout the region, offering visitors glimpses of beaver ponds and cranberry bogs. Many wildlife species make their home in this forest.</p><br>
<p>The forest offers a number of recreational opportunities including cross country skiing, camping, fishing, hiking trails, historic interest, hunting, riding trails and snowmobiling.</p><br>
<p>This state forest has about 20 miles of hiking trails in between Swallow Falls and Herrington Mannor State Parks. The trails range from relatively flat and easier to intermediate and somewhat steep.</p><br>
<h2>Kindness Demonstration Area</h2><br>
<p>Garrett State Forest includes the Kindness Demonstration Area, a 387 acre tract located west of Oakland which introduces visitors to modern forest management techniques. A series of displays along a 1.25 mi one-way trail explain what is occurring on the surrounding lands.</p><br>
<p>The Youghiogheny Scenic & Wild River is a river given special protected status by the state of Maryland. The wild and scenic portion of the Youghiogheny River is located in Western Garrett County, in Western Maryland. The Yough drains an area comprising approximately 397 square miles in Maryland, flowing through forests and farms. It rises from the west side of Backbone Mountain in Preston County, West Virginia, near the state&#39;s border with Garrett County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the late 1800s, Garrett County’s economy prospered with the agricultural, coal, and timber industries. When the B&O Railroad arrived in the area after World War II, resources were able to be harvested at a maximum to make room for the railroad. The railroad provided transportation for passengers as well as a way to export timber and coal. Because of the multitudes of waterfalls in this stretch of the Youghiogheny, timber could not be floated down the river. Logging railroads went through the Youghiogheny river valley, permitting exploitation of its timber and coal.</p><br>
<p>In 1889, the Confluence and Oakland railroad was built to reach the timberlands along the river held by the Yough Manor Land Company. It followed the path of the river from Confluence, PA through Friendsville, MD to the town of Kendall, where a major barrel manufacturer and a sawmill company were located. In 1908, Kendall was a thriving town. Due to operations of the mills ceasing in 1912, however, the town quickly deteriorated. Very little of the town of Kendall exists today. Because of the decrease in industry in the Youghiogheny River Valley, the land naturally regenerated. Through the efforts of landowners through the years, much of the land has been restored to its original state. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is acquiring land along the river to be preserved for future generations to enjoy.</p><br>
<h2>Wild and Scenic Rivers Act</h2><br>
<p>The Youghiogheny Scenic and Wild River is considered to be an ecological greenway with a water trail, which is a piece of land that has been set aside to preserve open space. The water trail is the flowing Youghiogheny River. The Yough is one of the nine rivers that are recognized under the Maryland Wild and Scenic Rivers Act. The act was enacted by congress in 1968 and is meant to recognize and protect rivers with outstanding scenic, geological, ecological, historical, and cultural value. The Wild and Scenic Rivers act encourages the preservation and protection of the natural values of the river, strives for enhanced water quality to fulfill conservation purposes, and encourages the wise use of resources. The Yough is included under this act due to the substantial natural values it possesses, such as the outstanding white water, the scenic beauty of narrow, heavily forested gorges, and the abundance of trout fisheries. The act strives to keep the river in the free-flowing condition it is in. It is up to the state and local governments to enforce the act.</p><br>
<p>A Scenic and Wild Review Board is necessary to effectively enforce the act. The duties of the board members are to review, study, and plan. They are always to be looking for ways to improve the conditions of the river and review recommendations that have been made. One of their duties includes creating regulations that pertain to the river. For example, they prohibit federal support that could jeopardize the act. The board members also developed a regulation that maintains a balance between construction of dams and preservation of the river&#39;s natural state so they can enforce permanent protection on certain parts of the river. The members are also required to meet regularly and proceed with business with the advice and consent of the appropriate local governing body. Members of the board include the secretary of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, the secretary of the Maryland Department of Agriculture and the secretary of the Environmental Protection Agency. Members also include the director of planning and a County Commissioner. Since the wild and scenic portion of the river runs through Garrett County, the Garrett County Commissioner is on the Board.</p><br>
<h2>Designation as Wild and Scenic</h2><br>
<p>The portion of the Youghiogheny River located in Garrett County, Maryland is the wild and scenic portion. The State Scenic and Wild River System was created when the Maryland General Assembly passed the Scenic and Wild Rivers Act in 1968.Department of Natural Resources. "Youghiogheny Scenic & Wild River." Youghiogheny</p><br>
<p>Scenic & Wild River. Maryland Park Service The process of designating a river as scenic, wild, or both occurs in four steps:</p><br>
<p>an inventory of the river’s resources and landmarks is taken to decide if the river is eligible to be determined as scenic or wild,</p><br>
<p>local governments officially propose and endorse the designation of the river,</p><br>
<p>The Scenic and Wild Rivers Board reviews the proposal, and</p><br>
<p>the Maryland General Assembly officially designates the river.</p><br>
<p>To be determined as scenic, the river must be a, “free-flowing river whose shoreline and related land are predominantly forested, agricultural, grassland, marshland, or swampland with a minimum of development for at least 2 miles of the river length.” To be determined as wild, the river must be a, “free-flowing river whose shoreline and related land are undeveloped, inaccessible except by trail, or predominantly primitive in a natural state for at least 4 miles of the river length.”</p><br>
<h2>Activities</h2><br>
<p>The Youghiogheny River isn’t just known for its white water rafting, it is also known for its large number of brown and rainbow trout. There is also a large aquatic insect population that consists of mayflies, caddisflies, and large green drake. There are plenty of sculpin and bait fish for the trout to feed on, making this river a prime place for fly fishing, which is open all year round. In the spring, the tailwater has numerous hatches of aquatic insects, making springtime a great time to fish. In the summer, the water stays cool and provides good fishing. In the fall, the brown and brook trout spawn, and the fishing is excellent. In the winter, one can catch trout using midges as bait.</p><br>
<p>There are also trails used for hiking—the best trail access can be found at Swallow Falls State Park. Other access points and trails are very primitive and require the use of map and compass. One can also cruise the many trails of the Scenic and Wild Yough on mountain bikes that are available for rent.</p><br>
<p>The Snow Hill Normal and Industrial Institute, also known as the Colored Industrial and Literary Institute of Snow Hill, was a historic African American school in Snow Hill, Alabama. It was founded in 1893 by Dr. William J. Edwards, a graduate of Tuskegee University, and began in a one-room log cabin. The school grew over time to include a campus of 27 buildings, a staff of 35, and over 400 students. The school was operated as a private school for African American children until Dr. Edwards retirement in 1924, when it became a public school operated by the State of Alabama. The school closed in 1973, after the desegregation of the Wilcox County school system. Out of the original 27 buildings, only eight survive today. They range in architectural style from Queen Anne to Craftsman and include the founders home, five teachers&#39; cottages, and the library. The National Snow Hill Alumni Association and the local Snow Hill Institute supporters determined to save the remaining structures in 1980. The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1995.</p><br>
<p>The William L. Slayton House located in the Cleveland Park neighborhood in Washington, D.C., is a house that was designed by I.M. Pei in the International Style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 2, 2008,</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The house&#39;s distinguishing feature is a poured-in-place concrete roof with three arched vaults. The front and rear elevations of the house are all glass, resulting in a largely transparent house. The side walls are pale red brick.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The owner, William Slayton, met Pei in 1958 when they were both working in the office of William Zeckendorf. Zeckendorf developed rather utilitarian buildings such as parking garages, apartment complexes, and office buildings, but he had developed a love of architecture. In 1948, he wanted to become the patron of "the greatest unknown architect in the country", so he consulted with Nelson Rockefeller and embarked on a search which ended in his hiring I.M. Pei, who was then an assistant professor at Harvard University. Slayton was the vice-president in charge of the redevelopment of Washingtons Southwest Urban Renewal Area. Slayton asked Pei in 1958 to design a home for him. Slayton recalled in his memoirs, "...on Ieoh Mings and my next flight together, I asked if he would design us a house... He said he would be honored...but that I had to understand that it would have a major design feature that would be expensive." Slayton later served as the commissioner of the Urban Renewal Administration&#39;s Housing and Home Finance Agency during the John F. Kennedy administration.</p><br>
<p>Pei was known mostly as an architect of corporate buildings, municipal buildings, and art museums. He only designed three houses in his career. Besides the Slayton House, he designed his own residence in Katonah, New York, in 1954 and the Tandy House in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1969.</p><br>
<p>Lake Venado is an endorheic lake located at the foot of Mount Apo in the province of North Cotabato, Mindanao, Philippines. It is the second highest lake in the country after Bulalacao Lake of Mount Tabayoc in Benguet, found in coordinates 7°00′8″N 125°16′10″E, with an estimated surface elevation of 7,200 feet . The lake is fed by local run-off and there is no outflow from the lake. The lake usually loses two-thirds of its size during dry months due to evaporation.</p><br>
<p>The name of the lake comes from the Spanish word venado, "deer," owing to the deer-like shape of the lake. However, the people living in the area called the lake Linaw, a Cebuano word for "clear", because its crystal-clear waters reflect the peak of Mount Apo. Local tribes believe the lake to be enchanted, inhabited by spirits.</p><br>
<p>The vicinity of the lake is a popular camping site for mountaineers en route to and coming down from the peak of Mount Apo, the Philippines&#39; highest mountain. In 2007, a Filipino mountaineer descending from the summit drowned in the lake.</p><br>
<p>Lake Apo is a crater lake in Barangay Guinoyoran in the city of Valencia in Bukidnon province in the Philippines. It is located in a hilly area about 640 m in elevation, about 11 km WSW of the city poblacion . Lake Apo was awarded the cleanest inland body of water in Northern Mindanao Region  in the late 1990s. The green body of water has an estimated area of 24 hectare with maximum depths reaching up to 26 m.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The name of the lake come from the bisaya term apo, meaning elder or grandparent. According to legend, there was a man living in the mountains who assaulted his granddaughter and was punished by the mountain deities for his disrespectful act by flooding the area forming the Lake Apo.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The lake is a crater lake, a basin formed on an old volcanic cone that was later filled with water. It was erroneously reported as a circular rift lake, as this area is not a rift zone but a volcanic area evident by the presence of nearby volcanic peaks like Musuan Peak (7 km to the E), Mount Kalatungan (20 km to the NW), Mount Dagumbaan (10 km to the SW), Mount Kidongin (25 km to the SW), and the volcanic field east of Pangantucan, Bukidnon (7 km to the west). Another small volcanic cone is located just 2 km southwest of Lake Apo.</p><br>
<h2>Incidents</h2><br>
<p>March 29, 2015 – 2 teens were drowned after trying to cross the lake using a small bamboo raft; the said bodies were recovered on April 1.</p><br>
<p>The Kwisa  is a river in south-western Poland, a left tributary of the Bóbr, which itself is a left tributary of the Oder river.</p><br>
<p>It rises in the Izera Mountains, part of the Western Sudetes range, where it runs along the border with the Czech Republic. At the slope of the Smrk massif it turns northwards, flowing along the towns of Świeradów-Zdrój, Mirsk, Gryfów Śląski, Leśna, where it is dammed at the Lake Leśnia reservoir, to Lubań, Nowogrodziec and Kliczków. It finally joins the Bóbr river approximately 2 km north-west of Małomice and 5 km south-east of Żagań. For most of its length it is in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, but it also flows through Lubusz Voivodeship for several kilometres before reaching its mouth.</p><br>
<h2>Border river</h2><br>
<p>From about 937 the southeastern outskirts of the Saxon Marca Geronis, established in the conquered lands settled by the West Slavic Milceni tribes, reached to the left banks of the Queiß-Kwisa. After the partition of the march in 965, the lands west of the river belonged to the Imperial Margraviate of Meissen, while the adjacent territory to the east was gradually incorporated into the Silesian region recently conquered by of the Early Polish state under the Piast duke Mieszko I until 992. His successor Bolesław I Chrobry further extended the Polish reach of power to the west, campaigning the Milceni lands around Bautzen (Budissin), which after several years of German-Polish struggle Emperor Henry II the Saint ceded to him according to the 1018 Peace of Bautzen.</p><br>
<p>Nevertheless, the Land Budissin, later called Upper Lusatia, was reconquered by Emperor Conrad II in 1031 and again held by the Meissen margraves until King Henry IV of Germany in 1071 enfeoffed Duke Vratislaus II of Bohemia, his ally in the looming Saxon Rebellion. The Bohemian rule was again confirmed by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in favour of Duke Vladislaus II in 1158, accompanied by the royal title. Meanwhile, the territory east of the Kwisa had been incorporated into the Polish Duchy of Silesia in 1138, which after the Emperor&#39;s 1163 expedition to Poland was held by the Silesian Piast descendants of Duke Władysław II the Exile. From that time on the river marked the border between the historical regions of Lower Silesia—i.e. the Duchy of Legnica from 1248, the Duchy of Jawor from 1274—in the east and Upper Lusatia in the west.</p><br>
<p>Together with the lower Bóbr, the Kwisa was therefore one of the rivers considered as a possible marker of the Polish–German border after World War II during the negotiations at the 1945 Potsdam Conference, that finally led to the establishment of the Oder–Neisse line about 50 km (30 mi) to the west.</p><br>
<p>Park Region Luther College is a former educational institution in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. The college&#39;s main building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is now occupied by Hillcrest Lutheran Academy, a private Christian junior high and boarding high school.</p><br>
<p>The historic building was constructed in 1901 with dormitory rooms for 200 students by the Norwegian Lutheran Synod to house the college. The four-story red brick and sandstone building, located on a hilltop overlooking the city, is in the Romanesque Revival style and was designed by Twin Cities architects Omeyer and Thori, who also designed educational buildings at St. Olaf College, courthouses in Windom and Ada, and the E.J. Webber house and Ole Hagen&#39;s Autograph Block in Fergus Falls. Its construction, supervised by contractor John Lauritzen, required all of the brick masons available in the area. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the red brick and sandstone building required all the brick masons that could be found in the area. Arched windows, gabled dormers and a pencil-point belfry accentuate the buildings height. As the topography levels off west of the city, the colleges hilltop location contributes a commanding appearance in Classicized Revival.</p><br>
<p>Park Region Luther College operated on the site until 1932, when the synod decided to concentrate its academic efforts on Concordia College in Moorhead. Three years later, the campus was sold to the Church of the Lutheran Brethren, which operates Hillcrest Lutheran Academy.</p><br>
<p>Ring Mountain is an elevated landform on the Tiburon Peninsula in Marin County, California. This mountain was named for George E. Ring, who served as a Marin County Supervisor from 1895 to 1903.</p><br>
<p>A number of rare and endangered flora inhabit Ring Mountain. The landscape is strewn with many sizable boulders which exhibit a variety of lithologies including high-pressure metamorphic rocks of amphibolite and eclogite grade.</p><br>
<p>Native American pecked curvilinear nucleated petroglyphs created by the Coast Miwok people are also found here.</p><br>
<h2>Animal life</h2><br>
<p>Though Ring Mountain is an island ecosystem surrounded by Highway 101 and suburbs, it hosts a variety of wildlife, including deer, skunks, and many birds and reptiles.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Ring Mountain is a popular hiking area and provides spectacular 360 degree views of the northern Bay Area.</p><br>
<p>Yangzonghai Lake  is located between Yiliang County, Chenggong District and Chengjiang County, 45 kilometers east of Kunming City in Yunnan Province, China. About 30,000 people rely on the Lake as their drinking water. Yangzonghai Lake is noted for its underwater springs and is one of several scenic areas in Yunnan province, which is known for its biodiversity. The lake is a popular resort destination for people living in the nearby provincial capital of Kunming, which itself borders Dianchi Lake, one of China&#39;s biggest freshwater lakes but also one of its most polluted.</p><br>
<h2>Pollution</h2><br>
<p>As recently as 2002, Yangzonghai had been noted for having water clean enough for drinking and swimming. But as of September 2008, it was officially considered unfit for drinking, swimming in or fishing in, when the provincial government announced high levels of arsenic in its waters. The arsenic contamination was discovered (in June 2008) when an inspection was made of enterprises operating in the Yangzonghai basin. Eight companies were found to have been engaged in illegal polluting practices. Yunnan Chengjiang Jinye Industrial and Trade Co Ltd (云南澄江锦业工贸有限公司) was named as the main polluter. The company allegedly failed to build the legally required treatment facility for its wastewater, with years of accumulated arsenic seeping into the local water table. It had been fined multiple times in the past, but the relatively small fines were viewed by the company as an extra cost of doing business.</p><br>
<p>Yunnan Communist Party Secretary Bai Enpei (白恩培) and Yunnan Governor Qin Guangrong (秦光荣) have pledged to take "decisive action" to remedy the situation. In February 2008, Kunming Communist Party Secretary Qiu He (仇和) visited Yangzonghai, warning local enterprises that the lake must not become a "second Dianchi".</p><br>
<p>An article posted on xinhuanet.com, October 22, 2008 said: "Three executives of a company were arrested and 12 government officials fired in connection with polluting a lake in southwest China&#39;s Yunnan Province, according to a provincial inspection department spokesman on Wednesday. The executives were Li Dahong, chairman of the board of directors with Jinye Industry and Trade Co., Ltd., and Jin Dadong, director in charge of production in the company. The spokesman did not disclose the identity of the third executive. The 12 fired officials included Chen Zhifen, a vice mayor of Yuxi City, Yang Zhenqiang, assistant to the mayor, Fang Jianhua, director of the city environmental protection bureau, and two unnamed officials with the provincial water resources department. The others were removed from county-level government departments."</p><br>
<h2>Cleanup project</h2><br>
<p>The Yunnan provincial government has initiated the "China Yunnan Yangzonghai Lake Water Pollution Reduction, Arsenic Removal and Water Quality Restoration" project in a bid to clean up the lake via the Yunnan Provincial Scientific and Technological Development Research Institute. The main objective of the project will be to reduce the amount of arsenic in Yangzonghai&#39;s waters from the current 0.128 grams/liter to 0.050 grams/liter within a three-year period.</p><br>
