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<p>The Nant Brân is a short river which rises on the southern slopes of Mynydd Epynt in Powys, Wales. The word &#39;brân&#39; means &#39;crow&#39; in Welsh: the name may therefore allude to the dark colour of its waters.</p><br>
<p>Its upper reaches are within the military training area of SENTA, the British Army&#39;s Sennybridge Training Area. It flows through the hamlet of Llanfihangel Nant Brân en route to its confluence with the River Usk at Aberbrân, three miles west of Brecon. Along with other tributaries of the Usk, the Nant Brân has been designated as a special area of conservation for various fish amongst which are three species of lamprey, the twaite shad and the European bullhead.</p><br>
<p>Dease Lake is a lake in the Stikine Plateau of the Northern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located at the head of the Dease River, which flows north then northeast from the lake to join the Liard River. The community of Dease Lake, British Columbia, formerly Dease Lake Post, is located at the south end of the lake, straddling a low pass which leads into the basin from the Tanzilla River, a tributary of the Stikine. The area around the lake was the focus of the Cassiar Gold Rush and numerous ghost towns and former settlement sites are scattered around its shores, including Laketon and Centre City. Dease Lake is the burial site and has a monument to English travelogue writer Warburton Pike.</p><br>
<h2>Name origin</h2><br>
<p>The lake was named in 1834 by John McLeod, a Chief Trader for the Hudson&#39;s Bay Company at the former Dease Lake Post, for Peter Warren Dease, superintendent of the New Caledonia Fur District from 1830 to 1834, who had served with the Franklin Expedition of 1825-27 and later was senior officer of the Dease & Simpson Arctic Expedition in 1837-39.</p><br>
<p>White Oak Church, also known as White Oak Baptist Church and White Oak Primitive Baptist Church, is a historic Primitive Baptist church located at Falmouth in Stafford County, Virginia. It was built sometime between 1789 and 1835, and is a rectangular frame structure sheathed in weatherboard. Also on the property are a contributing woodshed, mens and womens outhouses, and two cemeteries.</p><br>
<p>During the Civil War in November 1862, White Oak Church became the center, for seven months, of an encampent of the Army of the Potomac. Around 20,000 soldiers of the VI Corps camped in the immediate area. At this time the church served as a military hospital, a United States Christian Commission station, and as a photographic studio.</p><br>
<p>After the Civil War, some descendants of soldiers in the New Jersey 15th Infantry made reunion trips to the Fredericksburg batlefields and White Oak Church. The reunion group included, J. Frank Lindsley; Henry B. Hoffman; his brother, Dr. Joseph R. Hoffman; Judge John B. Vreeland, a state senator from New Jersey; and Thomas B. Ironside. They aided in the repair of the church.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Dellis Cay is a 560 acre private island located in the Turks and Caicos Islands</p><br>
<p>archipelago.</p><br>
<p>This island sits south of Parrot Cay and north of Pine Cay and can be easily noted in the chain of Caicos Islands.</p><br>
<p>Dellis Cay is located a few miles from Providenciales and is accessible by a 20-minute boat ride. The island got its name from the Dellis family who lived on the island and earned their living sponge farming in the 1950s. In addition to being known for sponge farming and conching, Dellis Cay is also known for its large collection of island shells that can be found along its shoreline.</p><br>
<p>A real estate project "The Residences at Mandarin Oriental Dellis Cay" was expected to open in the middle of 2010, but the project went bankrupt in early 2010 and construction was halted. In early 2011, the project was cancelled due to financial problems.</p><br>
<p>Leland Castle  is a building in New Rochelle, New York. It was constructed during the years in 1855 - 1859 in the Gothic revival style, and was the country residence of Simeon Leland, a wealthy New York City hotel proprietor. Leland began to assemble an estate as early as 1848, and in 1855 began the erection of this palatial sixty room mansion. The home was designed by New York City architect William Thomas Beers. A north and south wing were added to the castle in 1899 and 1902 respectively.</p><br>
<p>Leland Castle and the surrounding property have since been incorporated as part of the campus of the College of New Rochelle. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976 and the New York State Register in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The main structure is a -story, Gothic Revival home constructed of coarse granite stone. The exterior is enhanced on the southeast corner by a tall square tower, by an hexagonal tower on the northeast, and a round tower on the northwest. The main entrance on the eastern facade is framed by a Gothic pointed arch. Tall, black walnut doors ornamented with lion&#39;s heads are flanked by slender sidelights crowned with Gothic details. All windows are decorated with Gothic tracery and topped with heavily molded labels. As late as 1890 a wooden porte cochere with an open balcony above it stood before the main entrance. Two wooden verandas also opened out from the original building, as did a greenhouse on the south end. All these had disappeared before 1900. The greenhouse was replaced by a veranda, which in turn was replaced in 1897 by a room that followed the outlines of the original greenhouse.</p><br>
<p>The entrance hall features walnut paneling and a blue and gold Minton tiled floor. The gothic style library contains a bay window with stained and etched glass borders, original interior shutters and bookcases, and one of the three original fireplaces in the mansion. Some of the first floor rooms are in the Renaissance style, with round arched doorways. The music room arches are crowned with rococo crests bearing busts of English sovereigns. In the dining room, a Renaissance style sideboard and mantel, originally designed for this room, contrast with the Gothic diamond paned windows with etched, amber colored, stained glass borders. The sliding doors between the dining and drawing rooms retain their panels of etched glass.</p><br>
<p>In 1902, a large wing was built onto the north side adjoining the former billiard room and picture gallery extension followed the Gothic style of the original castle. The attic rooms have been subdivided, and a small chapel was installed in a former bedroom on the second floor. In 1926, the wooden parapet of the rear north tower was destroyed by lightning. During the middle part of the twentieth century, the wooden gables, turrets and crenellations over the bay windows were replaced by galvanized iron copies.</p><br>
<p>In 1974 an interior staircase was installed in the square tower. The castle has three multi-flue chimneys which were originally used to heat the interior. The ornate fixtures of the original gas lighting system remain throughout. A chapel, not original to the building, is attached to the south elevation and a dormitory wing, with a larger chapel which was added in 1902.</p><br>
<h2>Historical background</h2><br>
<p>In 1848, Leland purchased a forty-acre site in New Rochelle overlooking Long Island Sound. Like many successful New York businessmen, he took advantage of the railroads development into the rural areas around New York and carefully planned a suburban enclave designed for graceful and stylish living. Famous for his well run and fashionable Metropolitan Hotel in New Yorks theatre district, Lelands home became equally famous as he entertained there regularly.</p><br>
<p>Leland retired in 1872 when his lease on the Metropolitan Hotel expired and was given to "Boss William A. Tweed". He died later that same year deeply in debt and the mortgage on Castleview was foreclosed. The castles new owner, the Manhattan Life Insurance Company&#39;, allowed Mrs. Leland and her children to continue living there until 1880. The home was then leased by the "Queens County Hunt Club" for use as an inn and thus became known as "Castle Inn" for two years.</p><br>
<p>In 1884, Adrian Iselin, Jr., a member of one of the Hunt Club families from Davenport Neck, purchased the Castle and its surrounding acreage for the purpose of developing the land into a residential park. He paved surrounding streets, including Castle Place, put in gas lines and planted many trees, and soon the 40-acre original estate was diminished to just 2 1⁄2 acres, as Iselin’s Residence Park came to occupy much of the former grounds of Leland’s estate.Sister Martha Counihan O.S.U. "Simeon Leland&#39;s Castle at New</p><br>
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<p>The castle temporarily housed the "New Rochelle Collegiate Institute", a boarding school for young boys, from 1889 - 1892, and later to "Miss Morse’s Academy" for young ladies. In 1897 the Castle was further damaged by a fire that broke out in the chimney and caused extensive damage to the roof, plaster and second floor woodwork. Uninsured, Miss Morse was forced to leave the Castle, and, with the promise by Iselin of repairs to the smoke and water damage, it was then purchased by Mother Irene Gill for her Ursuline Seminary.</p><br>
<p>Today the residence survives in a suburban area more densely settled than the original grand country estate, and serves as a symbol of the fashion, taste and life style that Americans idealized in the latter part of the nineteenth century. It is also the only surviving example of the work of William Thomas Beers.</p><br>
<p>The castle currently houses the administrative offices of the College of New Rochelle and the college&#39;s "Castle Art Gallery".</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>Leland Castle, New Rochelle, NY (Front View).JPG</p><br>
<p>Leland Castle, New Rochelle, NY (Rear View Courtyard).JPG</p><br>
<p>The Phi Gamma Delta Fraternity House in Minneapolis, Minnesota is the University of Minnesota chapter house of Phi Gamma Delta. The house, located just across University Avenue from the East Bank Campus, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its distinctive architecture, as well as its role in the development of fraternity housing in Minnesota.</p><br>
<p>The house is a unique example of the Vienna Secession movement, making it unusual during a time when other fraternity houses were being designed with Classical Revival and other period revival architectural styles. The architect, Carl Stravs, used Vienna Secession features such as the overhanging roof slab with a rounded edge, pentagonal window openings on the ground floor, and decorations integrated with the main concrete structure. The living room on the first floor has a stone fireplace on the west wall, which Stravs called, "the center of all the social life in the fraternity house". The fireplace is built in rusticated limestone said to be salvaged from the University&#39;s Old Main building, which was destroyed by a fire in 1904. The wall has niches housing the busts of Greek philosophers, which were also reportedly salvaged from Old Main.</p><br>
<p>Stravs used reinforced concrete to provide fireproof construction. He also did this in accordance with his design principle for the building, which was, "to provide the most economical, simple and substantial rooming for the use of the junior members of the fraternity, with the least amount of space wasted." Thus, the heavy concrete piers and columns in the 35 ft by 30 ft living room are designed simply, without much ornamentation. The second and third floors each contained five bedrooms, with shared bathroom facilities.</p><br>
<p>The Phi Gamma Delta chapter house, like many other fraternities adjacent to the U of M campus, is part of a "fraternity row" along University Avenue, and was part of a first wave of fraternity house construction between 1900 and 1917. Most of these houses featured prominent entries, with a porch or terrace, and had large living rooms and chapter meeting rooms on the first floor. Individual students usually had rooms on the second and third floors of these houses.</p><br>
<p>Excelsior Public School is a former school building in Excelsior, Minnesota, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The school was built in the Georgian Revival style between 1899 and 1901 to serve Excelsior during a time of growth in the community. Before this building was built, two other school buildings were located on the site. The first was moved to 321-323 Third Street, and the second was destroyed by fire.</p><br>
<p>The building originally housed grades 1 through 7 in four classrooms on the first floor, and eights grade and high school students were on the second floor. At the time of its construction, it was deemed the finest school in rural Hennepin County. By 1908, the school served 308 students, and by 1915 the high school students had moved to a new building on Oak Street.</p><br>
<p>The school bell, mounted in a bell tower, had to be removed from the tower in 1962 because of a decaying structure. It was mounted on a granite pedestal next to the Excelsior Public Library in 1966. In 1964, the school was closed, and later became administrative offices for the Minnetonka School District. The building is currently used for office space.</p><br>
<p>Damariscove is an uninhabited island that is part of Boothbay Harbor, Lincoln County, Maine, United States, about 5 nmi off the coast at the mouth of the Damariscotta River. The long, narrow island is approximately 2 mi long and 1,500 ft at its widest point. The island has served in the past as a fishing settlement and a Coast Guard life saving station.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The earliest residents of the island were the Abenaki, who called the island Aquahega or "place of landing." As early as 1604, the island was settled as a commercial fishing enterprise, with Francis Popham among those sending fishing vessels there on yearly expeditions. Captain John Smith charted the island as "Damerils Iles" after a visit in 1614, with the name traditionally attributed to Humphrey Damerill. Damerill had been a member of the failed Popham Colony, but moved to Damariscove in 1608 to establish a store to supply the fishing community. By 1622, the island was home to 13 year-round fishermen, with 2 shallops in the winter The fishermen had also constructed a fort with a palisade and mounted gun. When the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony were facing starvation in the spring of 1622, they sent a boat to Damariscove to beg for assistance. The fishermen responded by filling the colonists’ boat with cod which helped ensure the Pilgrims’ survival.</p><br>
<p>Damariscove had become a thriving community when in 1671, Massachusetts Bay Colony laid claim to the island, extending their eastern borders. Over the next few years, the Massachusetts General Court established a local government there, and appointed a military officer and constable. The court also granted a license for a house of entertainment, while assessing taxes for the first time.</p><br>
<p>On August 20, 1676, in the aftermath of King Philips War, a massive Native American assault attacked and burned every settlement east of the Kennebec River, including the nearby settlement of Pemaquid. Approximately 300 Refugees from Pemaquid, Boothbay, Damariscotta and Sheepscot converged on the island, seeking shelter. Despite the presence at the time of farms, a fort and a tavern, there were not enough provisions to support this many refugees. When nearby Fishermans Island was attacked a few days later, everyone crowded into boats and fled to the better protected Monhegan Island to the east. The residents did not abandon the island for long, as records indicate that a sloop was seized and a man killed in another raid later that year.</p><br>
<p>Damariscove was also the target of attacks at the start of King Williams War in 1689. Richard Pattishall, who had bought the island in 1685, was slain in the first attack. In another raid that summer, thirteen Abenaki were driven back, and no casualties were reported. Despite additional attacks in 1697 and during Father Rales War in 1725, Damariscove Island continued to survive as a fishing station. In 1717, Damariscove was the destination of the pirate Black Sam Bellamy after taking 53 ships and over sixty cannon; but on April 26 of 1717 his ship, Whydah Galley, wrecked on the backside of Cape Code before he could reach the island. According to historian and pirateologist Kenneth J. Kinkor and the Boston trial records of the Whydah&#39;s survivors, it was the intent of Bellamy to establish a pirate republic on Damariscove and join forces with the Pirate Republic of the Bahamas, thus completely blockading the entire Eastern seaboard and wrestling control of North America from England and the rest of Europe.</p><br>
<p>By the time of the American Revolution, farming had begun to play a significant role on the island. Just prior to the Burning of Falmouth in 1775, Captain Henry Mowatt raided the island, burning at least one home to the ground. Historical records show that Mowatt&#39;s forces carried off seventy-eight sheep and three hogs.</p><br>
<p>By the late 19th century, most farming and fishing had moved elsewhere, while many of the surrounding areas, such as Squirrel Island, Southport and Boothbay Harbor were developing into resort communities. The remaining inhabitants of Damariscove Island primarily made a living dairy farming, with some additional income from fishing and running an ice house with ice harvested from the fresh water pond on the island. The produce was delivered by boat to local hotels and summer communities. As recently as 1914, there was a large enough population on the island to establish a school, but by 1917, enough families had moved off the island for the school to close.</p><br>
<h2>Coast Guard station</h2><br>
<p>In 1897, the Damariscove Lifesaving Station was built on the island in response to the frequent shipwrecks on the ledges and shoals that surround the island. The station, which still stands today at the southern end of the harbor, was manned by the United States Life-Saving Service and later the USA Coast Guard until 1959. The station was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>Damariscove Island has been protected land since the majority of the island was donated to The Nature Conservancy by Mr. and Mrs. K.L. Parker in 1966. Prior to the summer of 2005, The Nature Conservancy transferred ownership of the island to the Boothbay Region Land Trust (BRLT), while maintaining a "forever wild" conservation easement. While the life station and surrounding area remains under private ownership, the remainder of the island is now uninhabited. Damariscove harbor is still actively used for moorings and storage docks by the local commercial fishing fleet. BRLT maintains two guest moorings, the stone pier, and several hiking trails that are open to the public during the summer. The northern half of the island is a protected nesting site each spring for the common eider.</p><br>
<p>Because of the island&#39;s rich history and consequent archaeological sensitivity, most of it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Wind power test site</h2><br>
<p>In December 2009, Governor John Baldacci named Damariscove, together with Monhegan and Boon islands as test sites for offshore deepwater wind power technologies. The legislation permits testing off Damariscove for three years, with the intent that successful tests would lead to a permanent wind farm further offshore. Critics have called for careful oversight to ensure that local lobster fisheries and migratory bird paths are not affected.</p><br>
<p>The Howson Range is a north-south trending subrange of the Bulkley Ranges of the Hazelton Mountains in northern British Columbia, Canada. It is located southwest of Telkwa Pass and southwest of Smithers. The highest summit in the range is Howson Peak 54 km southwest of Telkwa with an elevation of 2,759 m.</p><br>
<h2>Mountains</h2><br>
<p>Mountains in the Howson Range include:</p><br>
<p>Howson Peak, 2,759 m</p><br>
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<p>Redemption Peak, 2,592 m</p><br>
<p>Preterition Peak, 2,623 m</p><br>
<p>Tattered Tower, 2,225 m</p><br>
<p>Outcast Peak, 2,435 m</p><br>
<p>Mount Felber, 2,640 m</p><br>
<p>Polemic Peak, 2,579 m</p><br>
<p>Mount Desdemona, 2,574 m</p><br>
<p>Tom Thumb Peak, 2,334 m</p><br>
<p>Lonesome Crag, 2,389 m</p><br>
<p>Barrel Sides Peak, 2,406 m</p><br>
<p>Utica Peak, 2,095 m</p><br>
<p>Loft Peak, 2,150 m</p><br>
<p>Delta Peak, 2,360 m</p><br>
<p>Gamma Peak, 2,400 m</p><br>
<p>Mount Othello, 2,500 m</p><br>
<p>Mount Cassio, 2,394 m</p><br>
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<p>Rehoboth Presbyterian Church is a historic Presbyterian church located at Westover, Maryland in Somerset County near the Pocomoke River and Chesapeake Bay.</p><br>
<p>William Stevens, an influential Somerset County citizen and member of the establishes Church of England (attending at the nearby Coventry Parish Ruins) issued a call to the Reverend Francis Makemie (1658-1708), an Ulster Scots clergyman who arrived in the colony and became known as the "Father of American Presbyterianism."</p><br>
<p>The old church is a simple one-story Flemish bond brick building, three bays wide by three deep, constructed about 1706. It was remodeled in 1888, and the original clear glass windows were replaced with the present leaded ones. The interior features a barrel-vault wooden ceiling, box pews with single raised panel on the ends, and a paneled gallery. A cemetery surrounds it, and several other buildings in complemetary styles were erected nearby.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>Coventry Parish Ruins are the remnants of an historic Episcopal church located at Rehobeth, Somerset County, Maryland. Coventry Parish was one of the original 30 Anglican parishes in the Province of Maryland established when Marylands legislators established the Church of England as the colonys government-supported religion in 1692. These old parishes often had a church and several chapels of ease near population centers. This building, stands surrounded by farm fields and a historic Presbyterian Church near the Pocomoke River in what was then called Rehoboth but is now Rehobeth, Maryland to distinguish it from a beachfront community in Delaware.</p><br>
<p>Coventry Parishs vestry erected a two-story seven-by-three-bay Flemish bond brick church between 1785 and 1788, one of the most difficult times for the denomination in Maryland, since it reorganized as the Episcopal Church as well as was disestablished (lost state support). At the time of its construction, the 76 foot by 56 foot structure was the largest Episcopal church on Marylands Eastern Shore, only slightly smaller than Hungars Church further down the Delmarva Peninsula in Northampton County, Virginia. It was partially built using bricks from an older church nearby, which was dismantled. The church remained in use until the late 19th century, when the few remaining parishioners decided to combine with what had been the chapel of ease, St. Paul&#39;s at Marion, Maryland (where Maryland route 667, on which this stands connects to USA Route 13 down the Delmarva Peninsula, as well as Maryland Route 413). The ruined edifice was stabilized in 1928 and again in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The ruin has been reduced to three primary walls, since the south wall rises only a foot above ground level, except for one single-story pier, and was once known for its 10 arches.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Grayson County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Independence, Grayson County, Virginia. It was built in 1908 to replace an 1850 building. Designed by architect Frank Pierce Milburn and built by E.L. Robbins of Grassy Creek, Virginia, the eclectic brick building employs a Flemish gable flanked by turrets.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Historic 1908 Courthouse</h2><br>
<p>In 1979 the county opened a new courthouse. The 1908 building now serves as an area art and cultural center that is operated by the Historic 1908 Courthouse Foundation, and houses the Grayson Crossroads Museum, Baldwin Auditorium, Treasury Gift Shop, and offices housing businesses and other non-profit organizations.</p><br>
<p>The Grayson Crossroads Museum is a museum of local history, with photos, pioneer and household artifacts.</p><br>
<p>The Baldwin Auditorium seats over 200 people and is located in the former courtroom space. The multi-purpose space is available for rental.</p><br>
<p>The McDowell County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Welch, West Virginia. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 29, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse was built in two phases. The first part was built in 1893 in the Romanesque Revival style. It was the earliest independent work of architect Frank P. Milburn, then practicing in Kenova. Milburn would go on to be prolific designer of courthouses in the southern states. He reported that the original brick design had been built in stone, and that the jail had been turned around, but stated that "the contractors had done a good job of which they could justly be proud." Due to space constraints, the county decided to build an addition in 1908. W. E. & E. L. Shufflebarger of Bluefield were the architects chosen, and the complementary addition was completed in 1909. It was built to the north of the original structure.</p><br>
<p>On August 1, 1921, detectives from the Baldwin-Felts agency assassinated Matewan Police Chief Sid Hatfield on the courthouse steps. At that time, Hatfield was a major labor leader within the coalfields of West Virginia. His association with the United Mine Workers and Mary Harris Mother Jones were nationally known. This act set the confrontational tone for labor relations within West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Pier A Harbor House is a municipal pier in the Hudson River at Battery Park near the southern end of Manhattan in New York City. Although did not play any role as a major disembarkation point, it has also been nicknamed in recent years as "Liberty Gateway". Pier A is the last surviving historic pier in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Pier was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and was designated a New York City landmark in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Pier A was built from 1884 to 1886 to serve as the headquarters of the New York City Board of Dock Commissioners (later known as the Department of Docks); it also served as a home for the Harbor Police. The engineer in charge of construction and design was George Sears Greene Jr. (1837-1922), who had served as the engineer-in-chief of the New York City Board of Docks from July 1875 to 1898. He was the son of the civil engineer and Union general George S. Greene (1801-1899). The building&#39;s roof, made of tin, was painted green to resemble the colour of oxidized copper. In renovation by the Battery Park City Authority this roof was discarded, and replaced with copper.</p><br>
<p>The pier was expanded in 1900 and again in 1919 with a clock installed in the pier&#39;s tower as a memorial to 116,000 US servicemen who died during World War I. The clock was unveiled at noon on January 25, 1919 by Rear Admiral Josiah S. McKean, with speeches made by Mayor John Francis Hylan and Docks Commissioner George Murray Hulbert. It is said to be the first World War I memorial erected in the United States.</p><br>
<p>The New York City Fire Department used the pier from 1960 to 1992 as a fireboat station. In 1991, the American Merchant Mariners&#39; Memorial was installed on a rebuilt stone breakwater just south of Pier A, connected to it by a dock. Designed by the sculptor Marisol Escobar, the memorial depicts four merchant seamen with their sinking vessel after it had been attacked by a U-boat during World War II. One of the seamen is in the water, and is covered by the sea with each high tide.</p><br>
<p>From 1992 onward, the pier was vacant and fell into disrepair. Several proposals for redevelopment fell through; for instance, in 2007, Daniel L. Doctoroff, deputy mayor for economic development, proposed to use the pier building for the ferry terminal to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island and other harbor destinations.</p><br>
<p>A restoration of the pier commenced in 2009. Pier A&#39;s restaurant and bar, "Pier A Harbor House", opened to the public in November 2014.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The pier was briefly featured in the 1965 thriller Mirage with Gregory Peck and Diane Baker.</p><br>
<p>Lihiwai was the residence of Territorial Governor George R. Carter in Honolulu, Hawaii. It was designed by the architects Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and Hardie Phillip, built in 1927-29, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, and its boundaries increased in 1987.</p><br>
<p>Governor Carters wife, Eastman Kodak heiress Helen Strong Carter, appears to have had some influence on the design, because the ladies powder room is much larger than the mens smoking room. The houses 40 rooms include servants quarters, which can be distinguished by their lower, 9 ft ceilings, compared with 11 ft ceilings elsewhere, as well as small rooms for arranging flowers and storing luggage. The basement and upper floors are connected by elevator, grand staircase, and servants staircase. The 45 servants included 10 who worked inside the house and 35 who tended the 10 acre grounds.</p><br>
<p>The Carters occupied the house in 1930, but the governor died in 1933, and Mrs. Carter died in 1946. During World War II, she left the house in the care of relatives who opened it to military personnel for R&R. The house was sold after she died, and most of the lower grounds were subdivided into house lots.</p><br>
<p>Charles Montague Cooke Jr. House and Kūkaōō Heiau is a property in Honolulu, Hawaii. The house, also known as Kualii , was built in 1911&ndash;1912 for Charles Montague Cooke Jr., and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. The listing&#39;s boundaries were increased in 2000 to include the Kūkaōō Heiau .</p><br>
<h2>Building history</h2><br>
<p>In 1902, wealthy businessman Charles Montague Cooke (of Castle & Cooke) gave his son Monty (as Charles Montague Cooke Jr. was called) a large tract of land on a high ridge in Mānoa Valley that contained an ancient Hawaiian heiau. That was the year Monty married Lila Lefferts. In 1911, Monty hired two prominent architects, Walter Emory and Marshall Webb, to build a large stone mansion in Tudor style on the hillside above the heiau. The house cost $40,000 and was named for an ancient Hawaiian chief.</p><br>
<p>The basement and ground floor, built of basalt lava rock quarried on site, support two upper floors of half-timber and stucco. At each end of the house is a heavy stone chimney, one rising from the kitchen, the other from the living room. The central entry bay is covered by a porte-cochere with stone columns and a half gabled second floor above it, and flanked by gabled entry bays at each end of the house.</p><br>
<h2>Heiau</h2><br>
<p>The name of the heiau (temple of ancient Hawaii), Kūkaōō, is composed of kū stand + ka the + ōō digging stick, and has several possible translations. According to one source, it means Kū of the digging stick.</p><br>
<p>The square-shaped heiau measures about 12 meters across and stands about 6 meters above the flat, rocky clearing on which it stands. The late Bernice P. Bishop Museum anthropologist Kenneth Emory estimated the heiau to be 1,000 years old. Its gardens used to help sustain the population of the ahupuaa of Waikiki.</p><br>
<p>The land was inherited by Cooke&#39;s daughter, who sold it to a developer in 1992.</p><br>
<p>In 1992, the current owners, Samuel Alexander Cooke (born 1937, grandson of Charles Montague Cooke Jr.) and Mary Cooke, purchased the land and commissioned preservationist Nathan Napoka to reconstruct the walls of the old heiau, which had been badly overgrown. Stonemason Billy Fields relied on survey drawings from the 1930s to rebuild the walls, using only rocks found on-site.</p><br>
<p>In 1996 the Mānoa Heritage Center was established to manage the site and offer educational tours.</p><br>
<p>Kūkaniloko Birth Site, also known as the Kūkaniloko Birthstones State Monument, is one of the most important ancient cultural sites on the island of Oahu. It was first listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973 and its boundaries were increased in 1995,</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Kūkaniloko lies in the Wahiawā Plateau between Oahus two mountain ranges: the Waianaes to leeward, and the Koolaus to windward. It also lies at the intersection of two major paths of overland travel: the Waialua Trail between the North Shore and Ewa Beach, and the Kolekole Trail through the Waianae Range.</p><br>
<p>The present day location is near the intersection of Kamehameha Highway and Whitmore Avenue just north of Wahiawā, Hawaii.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As the geographic piko (navel) of Oahu, Kūkaniloko was symbolically the most powerful birth site for the island&#39;s high chiefs, among whom Kakuhihewa and Maʻilikākahi were perhaps most famous. The Hoolonopahu Heiau associated with the site was later destroyed, as were many others in the area, to make room for sugarcane and pineapple fields in the rich soils where sweet potato and yam once grew in abundance. Chiefly families lived along the slopes of the Waianaes overlooking the plateau and along the shores of Waialua to the north, and many key battles between rivals for control of Oahu were also fought on the central plains surrounding Kūkaniloko.</p><br>
<p>The wide view of the skies from Kūkaniloko might also have made it a sort of Hawaiian Stonehenge. In April 2000, a team from the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy recorded designs and shapes on the stones that could have been used to track the movements of celestial objects for calendrical purposes.</p><br>
<p>Mont Bégo  is a mountain in the Mercantour massif of the Maritime Alps, in southern France, with an elevation of 2,872 m. It is included in the Vallée des Merveilles .</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The name derives from the ancient Indo-European root beg, meaning "divine&quot it was, in factm a sacred area to the Liguri tribe, together with the Monte Beigua and Monte Sagro in Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>It is mostly composed of conglomerates from the Permian period.</p><br>
<h2>SOIUSA classification</h2><br>
<p>According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=South Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Maritime Alps</p><br>
<p>subsection=(Fr:Alpes Maritimes d.l.s.l./It:Alpi Marittime)</p><br>
<p>supergroup=(Fr:Massif Gelas-Grand Capelet/It:Gelas-Grand Capelet)</p><br>
<p>group=(Fr:Chaîne Basto-Grand Capelet/It:Costiera Basto-Grand Capelet)</p><br>
<p>subgroup=(Fr:Nœud du Mont Bego/It:Nodo del Monte Bego)</p><br>
<p>code=I/A-2.1-A.3.e</p><br>
<p>The Elsworth is a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1901 at Hudson, Maryland. She is a 39.9 ft two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She has a beam of 14.3, a depth of 3.1, and a gross registered tonnage of 8 tons. She is one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States.</p><br>
<p>She is owned by the Echo Hill Outdoor School and used for educational excursions on the Chester River and Chesapeake Bay. The Echo Hill School acquired the Elsworth in 1988 and rebuilt her starting in 1996. The Elsworth is kept at the public pier in Chestertown, Maryland alongside the Schooner Sultana.</p><br>
<p>She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Ruby G. Ford was a Chesapeake Bay skipjack, built in 1891 at Fairmount, Maryland. She was a 45 ft two-sail bateau, or "V"-bottomed deadrise type of centerboard sloop. She had a beam of 15.6 ft, a depth of 2.6 ft, and a net tonnage of 5 register tons. She was one of the 35 surviving traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjacks and a member of the last commercial sailing fleet in the United States.</p><br>
<p>According to a first-hand account by Christopher White in his book Skipjack, pp. 292–296, St. Martin&#39;s Press, published in 2009, the Ruby G. Ford was burned to complete destruction, torched by Captain Bart Murphy, who owned her at the time and did not have funds enough to restore her from a state of grave disrepair.</p><br>
<p>She was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Elisha and Lizzie Morse Jr. House is a house in the Whittier neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house is designed in the Italian Villa style. Its most distinctive feature is the cupola with shallow arches over paired windows. The siding is also a unique design. The planks were made to look like cut stone by cutting incisions at regular intervals, then painting the siding with a mixture of paint and sand. This technique was rarely practiced in Minnesota architecture, and there are few surviving buildings with this treatment.</p><br>
<p>The house was originally located at 2402 4th Avenue South and was built for grocer Elisha Morse, Jr. and his family as a country home. It was moved to its present location in 1991. Its previous location was radically altered around 1966 during the construction of Interstate 35W, so its current location is more like the original neighborhood on 4th Avenue South.</p><br>
<p>The Bennett-McBride House is a house in the Central neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a contributing property to the Healy Block Residential Historic District. This house was listed on the National Register in 1977, before the rest of the block was listed in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Theron P. Healy moved to the city of Minneapolis in 1884 and decided to capitalize on the need for housing in the fast-growing city. Queen Anne Style architecture was rapidly becoming popular after the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876. The Bennett-McBride house was built in 1891 for local lumberman H.H. Bennett. While the exterior is similar to most of the Queen Anne houses on the block, the interior has some distinguishing features, particularly in its woodwork. The dining room features quarter-sawn oak, and the lacy fretwork has been well preserved, both on the inside and outside.</p><br>
<p>The house was selected in the Goodwill Industries Designer Showcase Home in 1976, as a local part of the American Bicentennial celebration. In 1977 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for local significance in architecture as one of Minneapolis&#39;s leading examples of Queen Anne-style residences. Its recognition spurred research into other homes on the block.</p><br>
<p>The Scottish Rite Cathedral of San Antonio, Texas is located at 308 Avenue E in San Antonio. Construction began on it in 1922 and was completed in 1924, at a cost of $1.5 million.</p><br>
<p>It is a 5.5-story building in the style of a classic revival temple, and serves as a headquarters and meeting place for Scottish Rite Masonry in San Antonio, and for the South Texas Region. The building also frequently serves as an event hall for performing arts and various cultural events.</p><br>
<p>The building features notable architectural elements including: gabled front portico, Corinthian columns, a terracotta frieze, and elaborately sculpted bronze front doors featuring George Washington and Sam Houston which were created by Pompeo Coppini. Coppini was a thirty-second degree member of the San Antonio Consistory. In 1936, sculptor Coppini was one of the honored guests who delivered an address at the November 15 dedication and installation of the doors.</p><br>
<p>The cathedral was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Mahoras Brook is an approximately 3.5 mi long spring-fed tributary of Waackaack Creek that flows through Monmouth County, New Jersey. It rises in a small glen shortly west of Middletown, at {{coord|40.4201|N|74.1370|W|format=dms|region:US-NJ_type:river_source:GNIS|name=Mahoras Brook }} and makes a bend north, flowing through the northwest section of Tatum Park. The creek flows under Holland Road and runs north in a small, forested swale through a dominantly residential area, roughly paralleling Laurel Avenue , and receives a small tributary on the left bank. Then it flows under New Jersey State Route 35 and soon, its mouth is on the left bank of Waackaack Creek at {{coord|40.3894|N|74.1370|W|format=dms|display=inline,title|region:US-NJ_type:river_source:GNIS|name=Mahoras Brook }}.</p><br>
<p>Temple Emanuel , also known as Congregation Emanuel, is a Reform  Jewish synagogue located in Denver, Colorado. Founded in 1874 with 22 members, the congregation dedicated its first synagogue building at the corner of 19th and Curtis Streets on September 28, 1875. In 1882, Emanuel moved to a new facility at 24 Curtis Street, which was gutted by fire in 1897. The congregation rebuilt at 1595 Pearl Street  and moved in January 1899.</p><br>
<p>Temple Emanuel officially celebrated its 75th anniversary on November 20, 1949, announcing at the time it was the oldest and largest synagogue between Kansas City and the West Coast.</p><br>
<p>The congregations current home, located on Grape Street in Denvers Hilltop neighborhood, was built in 1956 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Rabbi William S. Friedman, a founder of the United Way, served as Rabbi of Temple Emanuel from 1890 to 1941.</p><br>
<p>Rabbi Joseph R. Black has served as Senior Rabbi since 2010. He was preceded by Rabbi Steven E. Foster who served as Temple Emanuel&#39;s spiritual leader from 1981 to 2010 and as Assistant or Associate Rabbi from 1970 to 1981.</p><br>
<p>Chale Bay is a bay on the south west coast of the Isle of Wight, England. It lies to the west of the village of Chale from which it takes its name. It faces south west towards the English Channel, its shoreline is 5km in length and is gently curving. It stretches from Artherfield Point in the north west to Rocken End in the south east.</p><br>
<p>The seabed is a mixture of mud, sand and shells. The beach is predominantly shingle.</p><br>
<p>In 1996, a sailing boat was washed ashore by high waves generated from the arrival of Hurricane Lili.</p><br>
<p>The bay is best viewed from the car park on the A3055 above Blackgang Chine or anywhere along the Isle of Wight Coastal Path which follows the whole coastline along the cliff top. Since the closure of the steps at Whale Chine, the beach at Chale Bay has become somewhat inaccessible, with no way down from the clifftop anywhere along its three miles. Parts of the beach are sometimes used by naturists.</p><br>
<p>The Cranston Street Armory is an historic building in the Broadway–Armory Historic District of Providence, Rhode Island. It was built in 1907 at a cost of $650,000.00. The building was occupied by the Rhode Island National Guard from its opening until 1996. Since then, parts of the building have been used as film studios, and some of its offices occupied by the Rhode Island State Fire Marshal. The National Trust for Historic Preservation listed the Armory as one of "America&#39;s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places" in its annual list for 1997. Its distinctive yellow bricks, crenellated turrets, and decorative stonework mark it as a historically significant building and neighborhood icon.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The architects were William R. Walker & Son and the buider was Michael J. Houlihan. The armory was built with a steel-truss frame, with a large open central hall and two towers with a total of 165,000 ft&sup2; of space. The main hall alone is as wide as two football fields. After World War I, the armory was used by 243rd Coast Artillery, and in later years by the 43rd and 118th as well.</p><br>
<p>The films Outside Providence (1999) and Underdog (2007) were filmed using the open areas within the Armory for bluescreen work, as well as exterior shots of adjacent areas.</p><br>
<p>The Armory was used for several years by the Rhode Island Interscholastic League to host indoor track and field meets including the Rhode Island state championships and the Brown Invitational track meet.</p><br>
<h2>Decline</h2><br>
<p>In 1981 structural problems were discovered that closed the main hall to public events. The National Guard however did not have the funds for the extensive repairs and upkeep required by the buildings age.</p><br>
<p>As of 1986 the Cranston Street Armory was home to the following Rhode Island National Guard units:</p><br>
<p>Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 103d Field Artillery Brigade</p><br>
<p>Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 1st Battalion, 103rd Field Artillery Regiment</p><br>
<p>Service Battery, 1st Battalion, 103rd Field Artillery Regiment</p><br>
<p>A Battery, 1st Battalion, 103rd Field Artillery Regiment</p><br>
<p>Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 43rd Military Police Brigade</p><br>
<p>Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment, 118th Military Police Battalion</p><br>
<p>119th Military Police Company</p><br>
<p>Around 1990 the tenant units were transferred to other armories. The Field Artillery units were moved to the Armory of Mounted Commands in Providence and the Military Police units were moved to the Warwick Armory in Warwick.</p><br>
<p>In 1996 the State of Rhode Island took over the property, and the National Guard moved out the following year. After the state passed tax incentives to encourage filming in Rhode Island the armory served a brief stint as a sound stage. In 2004 a proposed bond issue to finance renovation and restoration of the armory was placed on the ballot and supported by the West Broadway Neighborhood Association, but did not pass. In recent years, the building has hosted car shows, inaugural balls, track meets and home shows, and currently houses the office of the state fire marshal, and storage space for other R.I. state agencies. Today the building is in desperate need of repair. A small part of the building on the Parade Street side is occupied by the State of Rhode Island Fire Marshal and Bomb Squad, the main hall is used for storage.</p><br>
<p>In 2014 Governor Chafee announced that the state would cut back on a renovation plan, and a state Senator proposed adding $3 million to the state budget for repairs.</p><br>
<p>In January 2015, Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza held his inauguration gala in the building. A few weeks later, it was named as one of 2015&#39;s "Most Endangered Properties" by the Providence Preservation Society, one of many times it has earned that distinction.</p><br>
<h2>Broadway–Armory Historic District</h2><br>
<p>The Cranston Street Armory has lent its name to the surrounding area of Providence&#39;s West End, which is often known as the "Broadway–Armory Historic District." Several area businesses also take their name from this building. Most of the buildings in the area were built around 1840 to 1920.</p><br>
<h3>Dexter Training Ground</h3><br>
<p>The Amory stands at the southern end of the Dexter Training Ground, a plot of land which was donated to the City of Providence by Ebenezer Knight Dexter for holding military exercises. The Training Ground was used as an encampment and drill field during the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Today the land is a heavily used neighborhood park. The park features a playground, and attracts dog walkers and strollers. A statue of benefactor and namesake Ebenezer Knight Dexter stands in the northern end of the park.</p><br>
<p>The Siahan Range is a mountain range in the central part of Balochistan Province of southwestern Pakistan. The Siahan Range is primarily made up of limestone and sandstone and was formed when the north western Indian Plate collided with the Eurasian Plate.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The total length of the Siahan Range from Shireza to the western frontier is about 176 mi. The highest point of the range is on the east and is Razak (6758 ft): other peaks are Mughal Pabb (5979 ft) and Choto-e-Jik (5874 ft); westward the range decreases in height to about 5000 ft.</p><br>
<h3>Sub-ranges and ridges</h3><br>
<p>The Siahan Range, from the term applied to the western extremity of the range, is the name which may be given to the long ridge which separate Kharan from the valley of the Rakshan River and eventually fades westward into the hills of Iranian Balochistan.</p><br>
<p>The range has never been thoroughly explored. It consists of two ridges:</p><br>
<p>the southern one runs west-south-west from a point near Shireza</p><br>
<p>on the north a parallel one starts from the desert east of Washuk in Kharan District and tends westward toward Dizzak in Iran, where it is known as the Siahan or the Siahan koh.</p><br>
<p>It is from this range that the name for the whole mass has been taken. It forms the main ridge at the western extremity of the mass, but at the eastern end, a more southerly range predominates.</p><br>
<p>The eastern end of the range is variously known merely as Band, or as the Kharan-rakshan Lath, while on the west and north of Panjgur it is known as the Koh-e-Sabz. The Koh-e-Sabz is only well defined to the west of the Korkian Pass, from which place it gradually rises to a height of nearly 5400 ft before it is crossed by the defile known as the Tank-e-Grawag. On the other hand, the Kharan- Rakshan Lath descends gradually toward Jang-ja-e-gajiun in Panjgur, and forms the hilly country between the latter place and the Koh-e-Sabz. It follows, therefore, that a traveler to the Kharan plain on the north, from the part of the Rakshan basin which lies to the east of the Korkian Pass, must cross two main ridges, while immediately north of Panjgur he must traverse three, viz. the hilly country consisting of the extremity of the eastern main range and lying between Panjgur and the Koh-e-sabz; the Koh-e-Sabz and the Siahan or Siahan Koh proper.</p><br>
<p>The northern ridge between Washuk and the valley of Palantak torrent is known as the Cher Dem in the Washuk Niabat of the Kharan District. Its height is about 5000 ft. at its western end a well known peak Hetai, which lies to the west of the Tank-e-zurrati through which the Mashkel River breaks northward to the Hamun Mashkel.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Geologically the Siahan Range has never been fully studied but its general aspect is abrupt, rugged and broken. The Koh-e-sabz portion is composed of shale and volcanic rock, contorted in many places into fantastic shapes with synclinal and anticlinal curves.</p><br>
<p>The shale which lies throughout in perpendicular parallel layers or at a slight angle to its base, gives the hill a very sharp and jagged appearance, but though difficult they are not unscalable, very steep and precipitous escarpments being rare and generally limited to the sides. The range being on consolidated upheaval, there are no valleys ascents and descents from one ridge to another being made by following the rivulets.</p><br>
<h2>Drainage</h2><br>
<p>The Rakshan tributary of the Mashkel River carries off all the drainage from the southern slopes. On the north a number of hill torrents descend, either to lose themselves in the Kharan Plain or to join the Mashkel River. Some of the more important are the Gujjar, the Regintak, the Gresha Kaur, the Palantak, the Pillin, the Bibi Lohri and the Barshonki.</p><br>
<p>Of the two gorges already mentioned the Tank-e-Grawag lies in the Koh-e-Sabz and the Tank-e-Zurrati in the northern ridge of the Siahan Koh. The former is so termed from the reeds called Grawag which grow here in great abundance. There is also a small patch of cultivation where a few date palms grow at the point where it makes its first turn. It is six miles in length and is easily passable when the river is low, but is subject to great and violent floods. The latter is just over eight miles long and of medium width, being nowhere less than 80 yards and generally nearly 150. The perpendicular cliffs which enclose it are about 200 feet in height. Quicksands exist at some of the fords and there is perennial water in both defiles.</p><br>
<h2>People</h2><br>
<p>The range possesses no permanent inhabitants; among the nomads who pasture their flocks on it are the Muhammad Hasnis, Nasrois, Bullozais, Sopaks and Hajizais of the Rakshan valley and a few people from Kuhak called Siahani. Some nomads from Kharan Plain also visit it, chiefly Rikis and Kuchai Siahpad and Taghapi Rakshanis.</p><br>
<h3>Footpaths and trails</h3><br>
<p>The range is crossed by numerous footpaths and trails, which are used by Balochistani people, including the Simmij, Sabzap, Kasag, Miani, Sorani, and Sechi.</p><br>
<p>Commencing from the east the passes chiefly used by people are the Zard, to the northwest of Shireza; the Paliaz north of Nag-e-Kalat; and the Sagar-e-Kandag and Korkian passes on the road from Panjgur to Washuk. The Hetai is an important pass north of Tank-e-Grawag, on the road from Panjgur to Dehgwar in Kharan.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>The range is predominantly desert habitats. Many of the seasonally torrential river channels contain Tamarix, and some Asafoetida. The date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) flourishes in oasis and irrigated locations.</p><br>
<p>Casa Basso is an Italian restaurant located on the eastern end of Long Island in Westhampton, New York. It is the site of the Theophilus Brouwer House. The property including both Casa Basso and the house has been designated a Westhampton Hamlet Heritage Resource, as it includes ruins of the pottery studio and kiln of Theophilus Anthony Brouwer, Jr.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>The Location</h3><br>
<p>The property is bordered by Montauk Highway to the front and the Beaver Dam Creek to the back. It was originally purchased in the late 19th century by American artist Theophilus Anthony Brouwer, Jr. As a young man, Brouwer traveled and studied art in Spain and Italy, and when he returned to Long Island, he built a castle like one he remembered near Seville. After completing the castle, he adorned the property with romantic sculptures which include two twelve foot swordsmen, a Roman lion, and a Psyche. This man-made property would later become known as Pinewold Park and be open for public viewing.</p><br>
<h3>Restaurant</h3><br>
<p>Casa Basso was opened as a restaurant for the first time in 1928 by New York restaurateur M.L. Basso and his family. The Basso family successfully operated the restaurant until 1958 when it was purchased by Valerio "Rene" Mondini. In 1986, Mondini sold the restaurant to his longtime apprentice, Bejto Bracovic, who became the new owner and executive chef.</p><br>
<p>The Ringgold–Carroll House  is an historic residence located at 1801 F St Northwest, Washington, D.C. Built in 1825, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It has been adapted as office space by the Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired  organization.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1825 for Tench Ringgold, who was one of a three-member presidential commission charged with supervising the restoration of public buildings in the capital following the War of 1812 and burning by the British. He was also still serving as US Marshal in the District of Columbia, having first been appointed under the President James Monroe administration.</p><br>
<p>From 1832–1833, Chief Justice John Marshall of the United States Supreme Court resided as a boarder with Ringgold in the house. Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story also boarded there, and both men considered Ringgold a friend.</p><br>
<p>In 1835, the house was sold, and a number of prominent people have since lived in the house, including William Thomas Carroll, a clerk at the Supreme Court, for whom the house is also named; Chief Justice Melville Fuller, Senator Joseph Medill McCormick, and Congressman Robert Low Bacon. The Diplomatic and Consular Officers Retired (DACOR) organization now uses the house as office space, and a number of other organizations rent office space in the building as well. The historic property is open to the public only on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 2:30–4:30 p.m. as the "Ringgold Museum".</p><br>
<p>The Coley Building was a historic two-story commercial building in Mobile, Alabama. It began as a one-story Federal style masonry structure in 1836. It was the last 19th century building to survive on its city block. The block, situated between the streets of St. Francis, Royal, Water, and St. Michael, was a center for many of Mobile&#39;s brokerage firms prior to the American Civil War. The building was seized by the Confederate government during the war from a suspected Union collaborator. It was enlarged and remodeled in the 1870s, with the addition of a second floor and the application of a Beaux-Arts-influenced cast iron facade.</p><br>
<p>The building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 22, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Rays Hill is a mountain ridge in Pennsylvania&#39;s Ridge and Valley Appalachians region. It is bordered to the east by Sideling Hill. About halfway along its run, the west side of Rays Hill ties into Broad Top Mountain, a large plateau. On its west it is bordered by Tussey Mountain south of Broad Top Mountain and Rocky Ridge north of Broad Top Mountain.</p><br>
<p>The ridge is known both as "Rays" and "Wrays". To the north of Broad Top Mountain it is most often spelled "Wrays" and to the south most often "Rays."</p><br>
<p>The southern section holds the Rays Hill Tunnel, one of the abandoned tunnels of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The northern section holds Wrays Hill Tunnel, one of two on the East Broad Top Railroad.</p><br>
<p>This mountain ridge forms the boundary between Bedford and Fulton counties in south central Pennsylvania, and also extends northward into Huntingdon County.</p><br>
<p>Part of Buchanan State Forest lies on Rays Hill.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Rays Hill is held up by the Mississippian Pocono Formation, which dips to the southeast. The Mississippian-Devonian Rockwell Formation and Devonian Catskill Formation are exposed on the northwest flank of the mountain below the Pocono. Town Hill, to the west, and Rays Hill form a syncline.</p><br>
<p>Storforsen, a rapid in the Pite River in Swedish Norrbottens län is located approximately 38 km northwest of Älvsbyn. With an average flow of 250 m/s, the rapids are one of the biggest in Europe. The rapids stretch over a distance of 5 km in which it drops 82 meters 60 of which are a single waterfall.</p><br>
<p>Flow usually is highest at midsummer: 870 m/s. During the floodyear 1995 a volume of 1200 cubic metres flowed down Storforsen each second.</p><br>
<p>To prevent accidents the rocks surrounding the rapids are fenced, views being readily accessible to the public via ramps. While the rapids were used in previous years to transport logs, today its surroundings are part of a nature park, visited by 150,000 people each year.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<p>Indian Castle Church is a historic mission church at Indian Castle in Herkimer County, New York. The church is located on NYS Route 5S near present-day Danube. It is a one-story, rectangular wood frame structure, clad in clapboard with a gable roof and steeple. To the rear of the church is a burial ground containing the remains of both Mohawks and Europeans.</p><br>
<p>It was erected in 1769 by Sir William Johnson, British Superintendent of Indian Affairs, as an Indian mission church for the Mohawk nation. They were the easternmost of the Five Nations of the Iroquois League, who occupied most of New York west of the Hudson River.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The land was donated by siblings Joseph and Molly Brant, two prominent Mohawk in their village of Canajoharie, located on the south side of the Mohawk River. Construction was done under the direction and at the expense of Sir William Johnson, Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Molly Brant was a longtime companion and common-law wife of Johnson. Her brother Joseph Brant became a prominent Mohawk military leader, allied with the British, during the American Revolutionary War and later led the Mohawk after their migration to Canada.</p><br>
<p>The church is located within what is now designated as the Mohawk Upper Castle Historic District, a National Historic Landmark. It is the only colonial Indian missionary church surviving in New York State. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Teterower See is a lake within the Mecklenburgische Schweiz und Kummerower See Nature Park in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated immediately to the north-east of the town of Teterow, and is about 200 km north of Berlin.</p><br>
<p>The lake is approximately 3.3 km long and 1.9 km wide, with an average depth of 4 m and a maximum depth of 10.7 m. It has an area of 3.36 km², and is only 2.4 m above sea level. The southern shoreline is heavily indented, and includes the Sauerwerder peninsular and the Burgwallinsel island.</p><br>
<p>Burgwallinsel is accessed by the Teterower See Ferry, a cable ferry. Also operating on the lake is the historic cruise ship Regulus, originally built in 1910 and first used on the Teterower See in 1930. During the Second World War it was sunk. In 1999, the wreck was found in the lake and salvaged. It was returned to use in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Tsaparang was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Guge in the Garuda Valley, through which the upper Sutlej River flows, in Ngari Prefecture  near the border of Ladakh. It is 278 km south-southwest of Senggezangbo Town and 26 km west of the 11th-century monastery at Thöling, and not far west of Mount Kailash and Lake Manasarovar. The Tsaparang Dzong was located here. Nearby is the Bon monastery of Gurugem.</p><br>
<p>Tsaparang is a huge fortress perched on a pyramid-shaped rock rising about 500 to 600 feet (152 to 183 m) at the end of a long narrow spur. It contains numerous tunnels and caves that have been carved out of the rock. At its base was a village where the common people lived. Above them were two public temples - the Lhakhang Marpo (Red Chapel) and the Lhakhang Karpo (White Chapel), and quarters for the monks. Further up, ascending a twisting stone staircase in a tunnel, were the royal quarters, and at the very top, the summer palace.</p><br>
<p>TV Presenter and historian Michael Wood, in the "Shangri-La" episode of the BBC TV/PBS documentary series In Search of Myths and Heroes, suggested that Tsaparang was the historical origin of the legend of Shangri-La, and that its two great temples were once home to the kings of Guge in modern Tibet.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to some accounts, Tsaparang was made the capital of a Kingdom of Guge by Namde Wosung, one of the sons of the Langdharma the anti-Buddhist king of Tibet 838-841 CE, after Langdharma was assassinated. The Tibetan Empire was then plunged into civil war and split into a number of independent kingdoms. Other accounts say that two of Langdharma&#39;s grandsons fled to Western Tibet about 919 CE. The eldest one, Nyima Gon, established himself at Purang and conquered a large area including Ladakh and parts of Spiti. After his death his kingdom was split up between his three sons into the kingdoms of Guge, Purang, and Maryul (=Ladakh).</p><br>
<p>Guge controlled an ancient trading route between India and Tibet. It emerged in the region previously known as Zhangzhung and became an important regional power by the 10th century CE.</p><br>
<p>In the summer of 1624 two Portuguese Jesuit missionaries, Fr. António de Andrade and Brother Manoel Marques, came to the region looking for Christian kingdoms that had long been rumored to lay beyond the Himalayas. After a harrowing journey (they were the first known Europeans to traverse the Himalayas) they arrived in Tsaparang, where they managed to gain permission from the king of Guge to freely preach their religion throughout the kingdom, and left after less than a month. After gaining formal permission and funds to start a mission in Tibet from the Jesuit superior at Goa, Andrade, Marques, and three other Jesuits journeyed to Tsaparang the next summer and built a church at the foot of the citadel and another one at Rudok 130 miles (209 km) away. António de Andrade left Tibet in 1628, and in 1630 the king of Ladakh, Senge Namgyal, invaded and overthrew the kingdom of Guge, taking the pro-Jesuit king (Tri Tashi Drakpa) and his family captive. Under Ladakhi rule the mission quickly fell into disarray; Andrade was assassinated in Goa in 1634. In 1640 Manuel Marques led an expedition back in an attempt to reestablish the mission but he was captured and the rest of his party fled. He wrote a pitiful letter to the Jesuit headquarters at Agra in India begging to be rescued, but was never heard from again.</p><br>
<p>In 1679–80 Tsaparang and the Guge kingdom was conquered by the Central Tibetan government in Lhasa under the leadership of the 5th Dalai Lama. In spite of massive damage then, and the destruction of most of the statues and murals in both chapels by the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution, many magnificent frescoes have somehow survived.</p><br>
<p>Ifield Water Mill is a 19th-century weatherboarded watermill in the Ifield neighbourhood of Crawley, a town and borough in West Sussex, England. Built on the site of an earlier, smaller flour mill, which itself replaced an iron forge—one of many in the Crawley area—it fell into disuse in the 1930s. The local council, which acquired the land for housing development in the 1970s, leased the mill to local enthusiasts, who restored it to working order. The mill and an associated house are listed buildings, and there is also a cottage  on the site.</p><br>
<h2>History of the site</h2><br>
<p>The area around Ifield was originally thickly wooded, forming part of St Leonard&#39;s Forest. Small brooks and tributaries of the River Mole run through the soil, which is an area of Weald clay between the sandier soil to the south and a narrow outcrop of limestone further north. At least one mill had been established in the village by the 13th century, although this was further north. No records of its ownership survive, but tithe documents refer to it several times and it may have belonged to the Lord of the Manor.</p><br>
<p>An iron forge existed on the site by the late 16th century. The Lord of the Manor owned the section of Ifield Brook (a tributary of the Mole) which ran from the furnace at nearby Bewbush, 1 mi to the southwest. The brook was dammed in the 16th century to form a mill pond, which provided power for the forge. By 1606, "a house, barn, mill, mill pond and two crofts of land known as Ifield Mill and Ifield Mill Pond" had been established.</p><br>
<p>The Sussex iron industry declined quickly in the mid-17th century. Bewbush furnace closed in 1642 because the area had been completely deforested and there was no more wood to use for fuel; the following year, as the English Civil War raged, Parliamentarians overran the area and destroyed all remnants of the industry. The site of Ifield forge was cleared, and a corn mill was built in its place.</p><br>
<p>The mill was a small-scale operation at first, but as the milling process became more efficient it was able to expand. It was rebuilt in 1683. The Middleton family owned the mill and its associated buildings outright by this time; another prosperous local businessman, Leonard Gale, bought it in 1715. By this time it was the largest corn mill in the area; when Napoleon threatened to invade the United Kingdom, a survey was undertaken to determine the output of all mills, which found that Ifield Mill could supply 16 sacks of flour and 120 loaves of bread each day. Other local mills could manage no more than four sacks per day.</p><br>
<p>Despite its efficient output, the mill fell into disuse in the 1810s after London-based businessman Abraham Goldsmid bought it in 1809. It lay unused for eight years until Thomas Durrant, a miller from nearby Merstham, bought it for £1,200 in 1817. Durrant was the first owner who also acted as miller, and under his ownership the mill was completely rebuilt.</p><br>
<h2>Reconstruction</h2><br>
<p>The 1683 building was demolished and the structure which stands today was built in its place. A decorative stone tablet with the date 1683 and the initials of Thomas Middleton and his wife Mary was salvaged and mounted on the exterior. (Middleton was the owner at the time of the 1683 rebuilding.) Also, in 1837, a competing windmill had been built near the centre of the village, and two other millers were recorded in Ifield parish by 1821. and it was put up for sale with the adjacent Mill Cottage in 1934. Described as "a gentlemans residence with a picturesque disused water mill", it was clear that the mills importance had ebbed away.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The mill stood unused, apart from for storage, and nominally for sale until Crawley Borough Council used a compulsory purchase order to buy it in 1974. The council was acquiring land on the edge of Ifield for housing. It allowed a group of volunteers to attempt to restore the mill, which was in poor structural condition. Work started on 15 June 1974.</p><br>
<p>All parts of the structure were affected by the neglect and long period of disuse. Trees had invaded the building, dislodging the roof; the main timbers holding the building up were rotting and needed replacement; a retaining wall had collapsed inwards; and the water wheel, while still sound, was embedded in the mud. The work took eight years—much longer than the original estimate of three, although large donations of money paid for many interior fittings which had not been taken into account. On the exterior, the weatherboarding was removed and a layer of waterproof cladding installed. Much of the boardwork had to be replaced, although the original appearance was preserved. The roof was also repaired inside and out to prevent it decaying any further.</p><br>
<p>Replacing the load-bearing timbers and supports was particularly difficult. The whole building had to be lifted with hydraulic jacks and suspended aloft temporarily while new timbers were installed.</p><br>
<p>Despite its scale and the difficulty of many of the tasks, the restoration was carried out almost entirely by volunteers working mostly at weekends. Some unemployed people enrolled in a job creation programme were briefly used, but no professional engineers, construction personnel or other qualified workers were employed at any time during the eight-year process. The wooden parts of the waterwheel in this reconstruction rotted after about 30 years, so with some financial help from the Lottery Heritage Fund a new waterwheel was constructed in steel.</p><br>
<p>Efforts have been made to improve the ecological and wildlife balance of the mill pond and the surrounding area. The northern part of the pond had to be drained in 1976 during the reconstruction work, and trees started to become established in the bed; the part south of the railway line, meanwhile, was described as a "virtual desert" ecologically. By 1979, however, it had been restocked with more than 30,000 fish, and birds quickly became established again: a study recorded 58 species. The soil is considered to be of good quality, which improves the chances of suitable vegetation becoming established.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Ifield Water Mill is a tall, externally weatherboarded structure of three storeys, consisting of a brick-built ground floor and two gabled upper floors of timber. The slate roof has eaves carried out beyond the walls on brackets. The mill hoist, whose surrounding timberwork and brickwork was found to be very badly corroded during the restoration, projects from the north face.</p><br>
<h2>Current activities</h2><br>
<p>Ifield Water Mill was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 21 June 1948. It is one of 79 Grade II structures, and 100 listed buildings of all grades, in the Borough of Crawley. The Borough Council still own the building, but it is leased to Crawley Museum Society. Before Crawley Museum was established in Goffs Park in the Southgate neighbourhood, a temporary museum and exhibition was housed in the mill.</p><br>
<p>The mill house and cottage were also bought by the council as part of their land acquisition programme, and have been leased to private tenants since then. The cottage is not listed separately by English Heritage. It was built in the 16th or 17th century as a barn, but was converted to residential use in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The Pence Automobile Company Building is a building in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed in the Classical Revival style by the Minneapolis architectural practice of Long and Long and built in 1909. The building housed sales showrooms and offices, automobile repair and service, and storage for parts, accessories, and finished vehicles. It was listed on the National Register as a commemoration of the extraordinary growth of the auto industry during the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The owner of the company, Harry Pence, was born in Springboro, Ohio. He moved to Minneapolis at age 18 to join his uncle, John Wesley Pence, who had various business interests in the area. In June 1902, Harry Pence attended an auto race between Minneapolis and Lake Minneapolis (sic) and decided to go into business selling automobiles. He decided on selling the Cadillac based on his perceptions of its good service and reliability. His dealership was the second auto dealership in Minneapolis, and in 1903 he sold 83 cars. Pence eventually decided that automobiles should have larger engines than one cylinder, but Cadillac turned his idea down. Buick agreed to make a larger engine, so Pence switched to selling Buicks. Pence&#39;s dealership grew to sell, at one time, 29 percent of all Buicks that were being manufactured.</p><br>
<p>The building resembles the work of Louis Sullivan and George Grant Elmslie and other skyscraper pioneers. It has a common arrangement of a base, shaft, and column, with a rather plain shaft but a good assortment of detail around the base. The applied ornamentation around the base has classical sculptural details, but also has terra cotta ornamentation more in line with Louis Sullivan&#39;s work.</p><br>
<p>The Termit Massif  is a mountainous region in southeastern Niger. Just to the south of the dunes of Tenere desert and the Erg of Bilma, the northern areas of the Termit, called the Gossololom consists of black volcanic peaks which jut from surrounding sand seas. The southern Termit is a roughly east-west range of heavily eroded black sandstone. Its foothills on the south west are the Koutous hills.</p><br>
<h2>Human settlement</h2><br>
<p>The small population of the Termit is mostly nomadic, with Toubou settlements in the north and east, and more Tuareg and Diffa Arabs to the west. Covering much of the north of the Zinder and Diffa Regions, there are few permanent settlements or all weather roads in the area. Communities within the region include Termit Kaoboul in the south centre and Kandil Bouzou in the southeast. Neighbouring settlements include Tasker, Abourak and Haltouma to the southwest; Béla Hardé to the southeast, and Koussa Arma, Oyou Bezezé Denga, and Agadem on the eastern fringe. Settled communities on the south west fringe are largely Hausa, and to the south east Kanuri. The large Kanuri town of N&#39;guigmi is to the southeast and the Hausa cities of Goure and Zinder are to the southwest.</p><br>
<h2>Ecological protection</h2><br>
<p>Termit is home to the Termit Massif Reserve, a 700,000 hectare faunal reserve established in 1962 to protect endangered antelope and Addax populations.</p><br>
<p>In 2006, the government of Niger applied to UNESCO to have the Termit Massif area named a UNESCO World Heritage site.</p><br>
<p>The Minneapolis Fire Department Repair Shop is a building in Minneapolis, Minnesota listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. The repair shop was established by the city of Minneapolis to reorganize and consolidate the services of the fire department. The shop was also used to convert horse-drawn fire equipment to motorized vehicles.</p><br>
<p>Between 1929 and 1932, the shop built eight large pumpers because the existing Pierce Arrow touring car chassis, the usual platform for fire equipment at the time, had insufficient capacity. Representatives of the Minneapolis Fire Department visited the Milwaukee Fire Department to learn how they were building their own new pumpers. The Minneapolis shop then started building its new pumpers using components from the Four Wheel Drive company. Four Wheel Drive built the engines, drivetrains, suspension components, and other components, while the Minneapolis Fire Department shops provided the frames, bodywork, pumping equipment, and all other firefighting equipment. The Minneapolis Fire Department also completed the assembly of these vehicles. Although the pumpers had an ungainly appearance and were hard to steer, some of these pumpers remained in active service until 1955.</p><br>
<p>As of 2014, the property has been renovated into commercial space containing a restaurant/bar and offices.</p><br>
<p>The Shelton McMurphey Johnson House, or Castle on the Hill, in Eugene, Oregon, United States, is a Victorian-era residence that is listed on the National Register of Historical Places. It is named for the three families who called it home over the years. The house is now open for public tours and pre-arranged private events.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Shelton McMurphey Johnson House is located at 303 Willamette Street in Eugene, Oregon at the south side of Skinner Butte.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Queen Anne-styled house, built in 1888 for T. W. Shelton, was designed by Salem, Oregon architect Walter D. Pugh. It has undergone several modifications, including an enlargement in the 1910s for Robert McMurphey, and a remodel by Curtis and Eva Johnson in 1951 which restored its original turret. The house suffered two major fires, one during its initial construction, and a second one in 1950 during the Johnson remodel.</p><br>
<p>The house was deeded to Lane County by Eva Johnson in 1976. It is now owned by the City of Eugene and kept open to the public by Shelton McMurphey Johnson Associates, a nonprofit group.</p><br>
<p>Scott Lake is a lake in Thurston County, Washington, United States. It is located 3.2 mi south of the Tumwater city limits, 8.4 mi south of the Olympia city limits, and 14.1 mi north of the Centralia city limits. The location for Scott Lake is in Sections 33 and 34, Township 17N, Range 2W, Willamette Meridian.</p><br>
<p>The lake receives its water from a creek that comes out of Deep Lake. The creek is officially unnamed, but is referred to as Spruce Creek by the Millersylvania State Park.</p><br>
<p>The creek that flows out of Scott Lake is officially named Allen Creek. Allen Creek flows into Beaver Creek, a tributary of the Black River. Thus it is part of the Chehalis River watershed.</p><br>
<p>A nine-hole golf course that is opened to the public, and a private park opened only to residents of the Scott Lake Community are located next to the lake.</p><br>
<p>Eurasian water-milfoil (myriophyllum spicatum), an invasive species, was found in the lake in the spring of 1996.</p><br>
<p>The area is subject to occasional flooding in winter. Its causes are being studied.</p><br>
<h2>Climate of Scott Lake</h2><br>
<p>The climate of Scott Lake is cloudy and rainy during the fall, winter, and spring. Summers are generally warmer and sunnier. There is an average of 161.6 days of precipitation per year, and an average of 228.5 days of complete cloud cover per year. On June 21, there is 15 hours and 53 minutes of daylight. and July 29, 2009. The lowest temperature ever recorded was −8 °F on January 1, 1979. The most rain ever recorded in one day was 4.82 inches on January 7, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The closest weather station to Scott Lake is located at Webster Nursery near Tumwater. The closest weather station to Scott Lake that has a long history of weather records is located at the Olympia Regional Airport in Tumwater.</p><br>
<p>For the weather forecast for Scott Lake go to: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?CityName=Olympia&state=WA&site=SEW&lat=46.92&lon=-122.93</p><br>
<p>For the current conditions at Webster Nursery (the closest weather station to Scott Lake) go to: http://weather.wsu.edu/awn.php?page=station_details&UNIT_ID=330153</p><br>
<h2>The Scott Lake Community</h2><br>
<p>The Scott Lake Community is the community next to Scott Lake. Its location is Section 33, Township 17N, Range 2W, Willamette Meridian and Section 4, Township 16N, Range 2W, Willamette Meridian. It is an unincorporated community that began as a housing development. The Scott Lake Community had 581 houses as of March 9, 2009, which would likely place the population around 1,505 people based on the average number of people per household in the United States. There are 38 streets in the Scott Lake Community. The Scott Lake Community forms two voter precincts, Scott Lake North and Scott Lake South.</p><br>
<p>The Scott Lake Community Center is a building owned by the Scott Lake Maintenance Company, a non-profit community owned organization. The Scott Lake Community Center is where decisions are made for the community by the Scott Lake Board of Trustees. The community center is used to hold an annual community garage sale. The community center is also rented out for private events as well.</p><br>
<p>Scott Lake Grocery is a store located at the entrance of the Scott Lake Community. It is a gas station and grocery store. It has been in existence since 1962.</p><br>
<p>Scott Lake Golf Course is a nine-hole golf course located next to the lake. As of 2009, it was owned and operated by Joel Boede. The Scott Lake Golf Course has been in existence since 1964.</p><br>
<p>The highest point in the Scott Lake Community is the top of Champion Hill, which sits at an elevation of 100.5 m. The lowest point in the Scott Lake Community is the surface of Scott Lake, which sits at an elevation of 189 ft.</p><br>
<p>The official website for the Scott Lake Community is http://www.scottlake.net</p><br>
<h2>History of Scott Lake and the community</h2><br>
<p>Scott Lake was originally called Scott&#39;s Lake. It was likely named after Joseph M. Scott who homesteaded a property in 1869. The corner of the property came close the lake.</p><br>
<p>The official name today is Scott Lake, and has been so since at least 1947. However, the name Scotts Lake without the apostrophe is still officially listed as a variant name.</p><br>
<p>In September 1961, a trust agreement between E. Clifford, J. Clifford, Richard A. Clifford, Edward A. Clifford, B. Clifford, Josephine Clifford, Charles B. Jennings, P. Jennings, J. Swanson, V. Swanson, Paul O. O’ Reilly, and June O’ Reilly was made to form the Scott Lake Development Company. The Scott Lake Development Company bought the farm next to Scott Lake to turn it into a housing development. The land was surveyed and platted by Hugh G. Goldsmith. The first building in the Scott Lake Community was a real-estate office, built in 1961. On February 21, 1962, all roads in the Scott Lake Community were dedicated to the public. On March 29, 1962, the Scott Lake Development Company filed with the state as a corporation. During the early years of this development, the Scott Lake Community was accessible from Interstate 5. McCorckle Rd. (now called 113th Ave.) used to be a crossroad that intersected the freeway.</p><br>
<p>The Scott Lake Store was built in 1962. The store has been called Scott Lake Grocery since before 1984, and has sold gas for many years.</p><br>
<p>The Scott Lake Park, a private park by the lake opened to community residents was built in 1963.</p><br>
<p>The Scott Lake Country Club (now called the Scott Lake Golf Course) officially opened on April 30, 1965, and the official opening lasted until May 9. It started out as a nine-hole golf course. Half of the golf course could only be used during the summer dry months. The ground was too wet and muddy to use that half during the rest of the year. The cost to maintain it was too expensive, and the golf course was reduced back to a nine-hole golf course.</p><br>
<p>The Scott Lake Maintenance Company, a non-profit community-owned organization, formed on July 5, 1973. The water system was turned over to the board of directors that day; it was the formation of Scott Lake Water. The Scott Lake Community Center was built in 1973.</p><br>
<p>In 1975, Thurston County changed the names of 27 roads in the Scott Lake Community during a county-wide change.</p><br>
<p>On August 4, 1991, a 1947 single-engine RC-3 Republic CB airplane crashed into the waters of Scott Lake.</p><br>
<p>On June 29, 2003, a large fire broke out on the side of Champion Hill. Seven fire departments worked over three hours putting out the fire. Due to the winds, the fire burned up over 4 acre.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Louisville and Nashville Combine Car Number 665, also known as the "Jim Crow Car", is a historic railcar on the National Register of Historic Places, currently at the Kentucky Railway Museum at New Haven, Kentucky, in southernmost Nelson County, Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>The Combine car was built at the American Car and Foundry Company located in Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1913; a custom design given to it by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. It was number 865, later numbered 665. It served at least three different branches of the L&N: Maysville Branch, Glasgow Branch, and Springfield Branch.</p><br>
<p>Its nickname, the "Jim Crow Car", relates to the Jim Crow laws of pre-1965 United States, which allowed for separate facilities for blacks under the policy of separate but equal. A law passed on May 24, 1892, called the Separate Coach Law, specifically declared that railroad passenger cars must be segregated. It is the only preserved two wood side steel car; one of only two ever made. The car is 77.5 ft by 9.66 ft and weighs 104,300 lb. It has a central baggage section separating two passenger sections. Each passenger section has a cast iron stove and a bathroom. Waste from the bathrooms was deposited directly on the rails.</p><br>
<p>In 1919 the L&N was forced by law to have a separate coach for blacks; often white drunks would be placed in the black car instead of one of those for whites.</p><br>
<p>In 1958 the car was given to the Kentucky Railway Museum by the Louisville and Nashville Railroad.</p><br>
<p>When The General of Great Locomotive Chase fame was undergoing restoration in 1962 by the L&N, the Combine Car was hooked up to The General to test how well the engine was repaired. During the trips the Combine Car held several different artifacts related to the Chase for its passengers to admire.</p><br>
<p>The Frankfort and Cincinnati Model 55 Rail Car, also known as "The Cardinal" is a historic railcar on the National Register of Historic Places, currently at the Kentucky Railway Museum at New Haven, Kentucky, in southernmost Nelson County, Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1927 by the Brill Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a steel rail car, heavy four-cylinder gasoline mechanical drive train engine, that could hold 43 passengers and baggage, with measurements of 43.42 ft long by 8.33 ft wide. Weighing only 29,000 lb, it was cheap to use, costing only 16 cents a mile. Due to always being painted red, it was called "The Cardinal", in tribute to the state bird.</p><br>
<p>The Cardinal ran the "Whiskey Route" of the Frankfort and Cincinnati Railroad traveling from Frankfort, Kentucky to Paris, Kentucky, with a major stop in Georgetown, Kentucky; a distance of 40 mi. On December 31, 1952, when the F&C stopped passenger service, The Cardinal was retired; passenger trains could not compete with automobiles. The Cardinal broke an axle on Christmas Eve eight days before, and for the last week of passenger service the F&C Superintendent A.E. Parker used his own sedan to transport what few passengers the F&C still had from Frankfort to Paris.</p><br>
<p>The Kentucky Railway Museum gained possession of The Cardinal in 1960. In 1997 it was one of a maximum of six known gas-powered motor rail cars left in the United States, and the only one in the Southeastern United States.</p><br>
<p>The Frankfort and Cincinnati Model 55 Rail Car is one of four train vehicles at the Kentucky Railway Museum on the National Register. The others are the Louisville and Nashville Steam Locomotive No. 152, the Louisville and Nashville Combine Car Number 665, and the Mt. Broderick Pullman Car.</p><br>
<p>The F&C had two Brill Railcars: M55-1 and #2. It was #2 that broke the axle while crossing the Southern Ry at Georgetown, Ky.</p><br>
<p>DeJarnette&#39;s Tavern, also sometimes called DeJarnette House, Daniel DeJarnette Tavern, or Staunton River Hunt Club, is a nationally registered historic place near Nathalie, Halifax County, Virginia. This wooden structure with stone foundations and chimneys was built in the late eighteenth century, perhaps about 1780, and consists of one and one-half stories, with a supra-attic and cellar. Most of the first floor was occupied by a large tavern room.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The tavern served as a stagecoach station, and perhaps as a mustering location for Revolutionary War soldiers. It is named after Daniel DeJarnette, who was the son of Revolutionary War captain, James Pemberton DeJarnette. Several accounts indicate that Daniel DeJarnette may have won the tavern in a contest of strength or wrestling.</p><br>
<p>According to a 1980 newspaper story:</p><br>
<p>The DeJarnette tavern is believed to have attracted a sports minded clientele – those interested in horse racing, card playing, cock fighting and the like. One rumor about the house that has been passed down through the generations is that a Yankee peddler was killed and buried there. One version of the legend has the peddler buried under the house, and another has him lying under the large rocks which go out from the front porch toward the highway.</p><br>
<p>Buildings at 10, 12, 14, and 16 East Chase Street is a historic set of rowhouses located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Number 10 is a -story brick townhouse with a 3-bay front façade, fitted with marble facing from ground to first floor level. It is believed to have been designed by Bruce Price and / or E. Francis Baldwin, architects of neighboring Christ Church. Numbers 12, 14, and 16, by contrast, are identical -story, two-bay houses constructed of green serpentine marble with contrasting stone detail. The group dates from between 1870 and 1875. They represent a fine example of the Gothic Revival style as interpreted for domestic architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Buildings at 10, 12, 14, and 16 East Chase Street were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The David Bachrach House, also known as Gertrude Stein House, is a historic home located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It is a late 19th-century Victorian style frame structure consisting of two stories plus a mansard roof in height. It was constructed about 1886 and occupied by David Bachrach , a commercial photographer who figures prominently in the annals of American photographic history. Also on the property is a one-story brick building on a high foundation that was built for Ephraim Keyser  as a sculpture studio about 1890 and a one-story brick stable. Ephraim Keyser and Fannie  Bachrach were brother and sister. Gertrude Stein  was a niece of Mrs. David Bachrach and lived in this house for a short time in 1892.</p><br>
<p>The David Bachrach House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Pedra da Mina is the fourth highest mountain in Brazil, located in the Serra Fina section of the Mantiqueira Mountains, one of the country&#39;s most important mountain ranges. The mountain stands on the border of the states of Minas Gerais and São Paulo, respectively to its north and south. With a 2,798-metre  elevation, it is the highest point of the Mantiqueira Mountains and of the state of São Paulo, and the second highest mountain in the state of Minas Gerais.</p><br>
<p>In addition to being one of the highest Brazilian mountains, Pedra da Mina is also remarkable for its peculiar history (see below), as in spite of its high altitude and of being located relatively close to densely populated areas, until the turn of the 21st century the mountain was virtually unknown, so was its exact altitude, and its importance was not acknowledged until very recently, showing that even in the 21st century, geographical exploration may still hold surprises. In this case, official statistics and schoolbooks had to be corrected, and a new popular mountaineering and ecotourism destination appeared.</p><br>
<p>Like all of Serra Fina, Pedra da Mina is composed of highly alkaline nepheline syenite, a type of rock that is easily eroded and for this reason is not usually found at very high altitudes. Pedra da Mina is believed to be the highest mountain made of that type of rock in the Americas and possibly in the world.</p><br>
<p>Pedra means "rock" in Portuguese; mina usually means "mine", but it can also mean "spring, water source". So, the name of the mountain means "Water Spring Rock", and it is due to the fact that four small creeks rise from the mountain close to the top.</p><br>
<p>Pedra da Mina is not located in any national or state park, but it is within the Mantiqueira Mountains Environmental Protection Area, and therefore still legally protected to some extent.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>First documented ascent and subsequent years (1955-1999)</h3><br>
<p>The first documented climb of Pedra da Mina happened in 1955, by a party of eight, on the initiative of four German immigrants (Henning Bobrik, Gunther Engels, Felix Bernhard Hacker and Theodor Reimar Hacker). They had been Alpine mountaineers in their homeland, maintained the hobby when they came to Brazil, and decided to explore the then relatively unknown Serra Fina range, which they had seen from a distance when exploring the nearby Itatiaia Massif. They were aided by farmer José Dias from the nearby town of Passa Quatro, and three of his employees (José Vidal, Geraldo Américo and Sebastião Pedro). They chose to approach the range from the much less steep north side, and after a very difficult four-day trek in very cold, wet and misty conditions, the eight men reached the top of Pedra da Mina, which they correctly identified as Serra Fina&#39;s highest summit, on 8 July 1955. Using a barometer, they measured an altitude of 2,718 m. The descent took three further days.</p><br>
<p>Later, the relative isolation of the Serra Fina range, which is uninhabited, traversed by no mountain passes or roads, and surrounded by dense vegetation, made the area little known, poorly mapped, and rarely explored until the end of the 20th century, other than occasional expeditions by members of the small São Paulo Alpine Club, starting from the 1970s. Old maps of the area showed highly discrepant altitude values for Pedra da Mina, from as low as 2,437 m in some aeronautical charts to 2,770 m in the 1974 official topographic chart of the area by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), the government institution that holds the authority for all official geographic information in Brazil. Indeed, in January 2000 a small airplane crashed on the mountain right next to Pedra da Mina, probably due to inaccurate charts, killing its four occupants. The wreckage can still be seen on the mountain, which because of that is now known as Morro do Avião ("Airplane Hill").</p><br>
<h3>New altitude measurements and popularization (2000-)</h3><br>
<p>Without a precise measurement of the Serra Fina mountains, until 1999 the highest point of the Mantiqueira Mountains was thought to be the well-known and distinctively shaped Pico das Agulhas Negras, in the Itatiaia Massif, with a then-official height of 2,787 m. That year, geographer Lorenzo Giuliano Bagini, then still an undergraduate student at the University of São Paulo (USP) who was also a mountaineer and familiar with the area, suspected that Pedra da Mina might be higher than it was thought and measured its altitude by GPS, obtaining 2,796 m, which would make the mountain a few metres higher than Agulhas Negras. He notified the university, which eventually sent an official expedition the following year with high-precision professional GPS equipment, and found an altitude one metre higher still than Bagini&#39;s first measurement.</p><br>
<p>Still, according to Brazilian federal law, no geographic data can be officially accepted in the country if not published by IBGE. Although the USP expedition was very much credible and authoritative, and the accuracy of its measurement was not doubted, IBGE cannot legally accept or recognize any geographic data other than its own; moreover, IBGE uses altimetry methods and georeferencing parameters that are different from USPs. This was one of the motivations for IBGE to launch a project in association with the Brazilian Military Institute of Engineering (IME) to accurately measure the altitude of the highest Brazilian mountains, using the latest GPS technology. Thus, as parts of the project, both Pedra da Mina and Agulhas Negras were climbed in 2004, and their altitudes measured. The joint expedition once again confirmed that Pedra da Mina was indeed slightly higher at 2,798.39 m, compared to 2,791.55 m for Agulhas Negras - a 6.84-metre difference. IBGE soon revised its published data to reflect the mountains new official altitude and ranking.</p><br>
<p>The fact that the highest point of Brazils most populous state and of one of the countrys most important mountain ranges had been virtually unknown until then caught the country by surprise and was widely reported in the Brazilian press, creating a sensation and a lot of curiosity about it among Brazilian adventurers and mountaineers, who started climbing Pedra da Mina and exploring the Serra Fina range more often.</p><br>
<p>In 2015, IBGE completed a new and more accurate mapping of the Brazilian territory regarding the geoid, the irregular imaginary surface based on the Earths gravitational field that is the reference for altitude measurements. This led the institution to recalculate the altitude of the mountains measured in the earlier project, according to the new reference. The new data were published in February 2016. Pedra da Minas altitude was slightly revised to 2,798.06 m - a difference of 33 cm or about one foot. Pico das Agulhas Negras was then found to stand at 2,790.94 m, a difference of 61 cm or about two feet. Thus, Pedra da Mina slightly increased its advantage over the neighbouring rival to 7.12 metres.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>Considering that the town of Queluz lies only 14 km south of the mountain by a straight line, but the town lies on the Paraíba do Sul river valley only 497 m above sea level, Pedra da Mina&#39;s southern (São Paulo) slope has one of the largest and most abrupt differences in elevation in Brazil: 2,301 m. The southern slope includes a nearly vertical, 100-metre (328-ft) high rock wall near the top, and the slope is so steep that Brazilian climbers planning to climb Aconcagua have been known to use it for practice. By contrast, because the neighbouring area of Minas Gerais to the north is already a high-altitude hilly plateau, the northern slope is much less steep, and the difference in elevation is much smaller.</p><br>
<p>Just east of the mountain lies the Ruah valley, the highest in Brazil, and to the south is the source of the Claro river, located at about 2,500 m above sea level, which is possibly the highest river source in Brazil, although the title is disputed with the source of the Aiuruoca river in the Itatiaia Massif.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>There are four possible ascent routes to Pedra da Mina, but as of 2016, one of them is closed. The mountain is nearly always climbed from the north (Minas Gerais) side, where the shortest route is through a strenuous one-day hike to the top (with a few steeper scramble sections), camping there overnight and returning the next day, on a well-marked trail that starts at a farm next to the hamlet of Paiolinho, near the town of Passa Quatro, at an elevation of 1,566 m; the trailhead can be reached by regular vehicles on a dirt road.</p><br>
<p>The fourth route would be from the southern (São Paulo) slope, starting just north of Queluz. This is known as the Claro River Trail (Trilha do Rio Claro) because it follows that river valley up until its source near Pedra da Minas top. This route is extremely difficult and dangerous, though. It requires almost vertical rock climbing in some sections (particularly near the top), traversing steep boulder fields in others, and presents several other difficulties. The area is so hardly accessible that search and rescue would only be possible by helicopter in most of the trail. The greatest hindrance, however, is that the mountains entire southern slope is private property (a farm and private nature reserve which reaches up to the state border at the ridge crest), and the owners no longer authorize passage. So, as of 2016 this route is off-limits and unfeasible.</p><br>
<p>In spite of the intense cold by Brazilian standards, with subfreezing temperatures and frost common in the Southern Hemisphere winter months (May–September), this is the recommended season for climbing Pedra da Mina, as summer (October–April) is also the rainy season in this part of Brazil, which makes the trails slippery and dangerous, with lightning also a concern.</p><br>
<p>Pedra da Mina and Serra Fina were once regarded as the most difficult Brazilian mountain area to hike and climb, because of the range&#39;s very cold and inhospitable conditions, relative remoteness, irregular terrain, unstable weather (particularly in summer), lack of potable water, and thick vegetation on the slopes, but after the range became better known and explored, trails were better marked and a wealth of on-line information allowed mountaineers to better prepare themselves, it is now one of the most visited areas by Brazilian mountaineers. It is estimated that just during the Corpus Christi extended holiday of June 2011, approximately 250 people attempted the traverse of Serra Fina and hence passed through Pedra da Mina (not all of them on top of the mountain at the same time), not counting those who climbed Pedra da Mina by the direct Paiolinho trail.</p><br>
<p>Stewart&#39;s Department Store, also known as the Posner Building, is a historic department store building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Catholic Relief Services is currently headquartered there.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Stewart&#39;s Department Store structure was designed in 1899 by Charles E. Cassell and is a six story brick and terra cotta steel-framed building detailed in a highly ornate Italian Renaissance Revival style. It features an exuberant ornamental detail includes fluted Ionic and Corinthian columns, lion heads, caryatids, wreaths, garlands, cartouches, and an elaborate bracketed cornice.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This building served as the flagship store for Stewart’s Baltimore operations and anchored Baltimore’s premier downtown retail location at Lexington and Howard Streets.</p><br>
<p>Stewart&#39;s Department Store Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
