<p>Mansar Lake is situated 62 km from Jammu, Mansar is a lake fringed by forest-covered hills, over a mile in length by half-a-mile in width. Surinsar-Mansar Lakes is designated as Ramsar Convention in November 2005.</p><br>
<p>Besides being a popular excursion destination in Jammu, it is also a holy site, sharing the legend and sanctity of Lake Mansarovar. On the Eastern Bank of the Lake there is a shrine to Sheshnag, a snake with six heads. The shrine comprises a big boulder on which are placed a number of iron chains perhaps representing the small serpents waiting on the tutelary deity of the Sheshnag. Two ancient temples of Umapati Mahadev & Narsimha as also a temple of Durga are situated in the vicinity of the Mansar lake. People take a holy dip in the water of the lake on festive occasions.</p><br>
<p>Newlyweds consider it auspicious to perform three circum-ambulations (Parikarma) around the lake to seek the blessings of Sheshnag, the lord of serpents, whose shrine is located on its eastern bank.</p><br>
<p>Certain communities of Hindus perform the Mundan ceremony (First hair cut) of their male children here.</p><br>
<p>There are also some ancient temples on the lake’s shores, which are visited by devotees in large numbers. Mansar is also ideal for boating for which the Tourism Department provides adequate facilities.</p><br>
<p>With all religions belief and heritage behind the Mansar Lake is also picking up its fame among the tourists with all its flora & fauna. The lake has cemented path all around with required illumination, with projected view decks to enjoy flickering of seasonal birds, tortoise and fishes of different species. There is a wild life Sanctuary housing jungle life like Spotted Deer, Neelgai etc. besides other water birds such as Cranes, Ducks etc. One can also witness the traditional and typical distinct life style of Gujjar and Backarwals wearing ethnic costume, living in open Kullhas around on the hills of Mansar Lake.</p><br>
<p>This Mansar lake road joins to another important road that directly links Pathankot (Punjab) to Udhampur (Jammu & Kashmir, Jammu Province. Udhampur is a Town of strategic importance, again on National Highway No. 1A. The shortcut road from Mansar or Samba to Udhampur by-passes the Jammu town. Surinsar Lake, a smaller lake that is linked to Mansar, is 24 km from Jammu (via a bypass road).</p><br>
<p>Lake Desire, also called Echo Lake, is an unimproved watershed 5 mi southeast of Renton, Washington in the United States. It is a small part of the Maple Heights-Lake Desire, Washington area, 45 minutes east of downtown Seattle. According to King County, it has productive water quality, a maximum depth of 21 ft and a surface area of approximately 80 acres. A public boat launch and fishing dock is located to the north of the lake but does require a vehicle use permit from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. On the southeast border of the lake, a 382 acre forested park and wetland area has been allocated by the Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program .</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Fishing is managed as a mixed species fishery. Active species include pumpkinseed, largemouth bass, yellow perch and rainbow trout.</p><br>
<p>Mountain biking is allowed around the lake and in the 382 acre park.</p><br>
<p>Hiking is popular in the 382 acre park that connects Lake Desire and Spring Lake. The park includes part of Cedar Mountain with an 880 ft elevation according to the Washington Trails Association.</p><br>
<p>The Obélisque d&#39;Arles  is a 4th-century Roman obelisk, erected in the center of the Place de la République, in front of the town hall of Arles, France.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The obelisk is made of granite from Asia Minor. It does not feature any inscription. Its height together with its pedestal is approximately 20 m.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The obelisk was first erected under the Roman emperor Constantine II in the center of the spina of the Roman circus of Arles. After the circus was abandoned in the 6th century, the obelisk fell down and was broken in two parts. It was rediscovered in the 14th century and re-erected on top of a pedestal soon surmounted by a bronze globe and sun on March 26, 1676.</p><br>
<p>Designed by Jacques Peytret, these ornaments changed in times of political regimes. During the Revolution, the sun was replaced by a Phrygian cap; under the Empire, the eagle replaced the cap; under Louis-Philippe, the royal sun took the place of the rooster hunting the eagle. Since 1866, the ornaments were permanently removed and replaced by a bronze capstone until a fountain and the sculptures around it were designed by Antoine Laurent Dantan in the 19th century.</p><br>
<h2>Conservation</h2><br>
<p>This obelisk was listed on the 1840 inventory of historic sites in France. It is part of a 1981-designated UNESCO world heritage site, the Arles, Roman and Romanesque Monuments.</p><br>
<p>Kadettangen is a small peninsula outside of Sandvika in Bærum, Norway. Originally named Sandvikstangen, it got its current name from the cadet training conducted by the Norwegian Military Academy for the better part of the nineteenth century. The peninsula is now used mainly for boating, beach life and sports, being the home ground of association football club Bærum SK.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The peninsula is located slightly south of the town of Sandvika, at the outlet of the river Sandvikselva, at the opposite shore of Kjørbo. To the south lies the island of Kalvøya, to which Kadettangen is connected to with a suspension bridge. The southern end of Kadettangen is now used for leisure purposes, with its beach and beach volleyball facilities. Because of its low altitude and consequent problems with flooding, the peninsula was reinforced with fill dirt. The practice of filling around Kadettangen continues to this day, with proposals to increase the land area with leftover material from the excavation of the Løkkeås Tunnel as a part of Norwegian National Road 164.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was formerly a crop field under Kjørbo Manor, The military bought the outer parts of the peninsula for 657 Norwegian speciedaler at an auction in 1869. It was in use by the academy until 1894, after which His Majesty The King&#39;s Guard used it for summer training for two seasons. From 1902 it was rented by Bærum Municipality for 400 Norwegian krone (NOK) per year, including use of the military buildings. A quarter of the rental sum was to be used for maintaining the facility, and the military retained the right to use the site two months each year. The municipality started negotiating a purchase of the land in 1911, initially bidding NOK 20,000. A sales agreement was reached in 1916, when a price of NOK 50,000 was accepted. When the municipality took over, parts of Kadettangen was used as a playground; arenas for organized sport were later built.</p><br>
<p>The inner parts of the peninsula were sold by Kjørbo Manor&#39;s owner, Erich Waller, to Christiania og Omegns Dampskibsselskab in 1857. The steamship company went under five years later and the docks they had established at Kadettangen were auction beck to Waller for 40 speciedaler. The inner parts of the peninsula continued to be used as a harbor, and was eventually owned by Anthon Walle. The municipality bought this section from his estate in 1912, following his death. The area received permission to operate as a port in 1916. The municipality hired a harbor-master to run the facility. The steamship company&#39;s office and expedition building from 1858 was converted to a harbor master&#39;s office. The municipality established a volunteer fire corps in 1876, which was stationed in a dockside building at Kadettangen.</p><br>
<p>Because of the food shortage caused by the First World War, the police in Sandvika converted the former military dining hall as a distribution point for food. The skating rink at Kadettangen opened in 1916. The rowing club Bærum RK, founded in 1917, moved its headquarters from Kalvøya to Kadettangen in 1925, as it found the location on the island too isolated. The club house was also commonly used for revues and from 1935 it also hosted a kayak club. The rowing club fell into financial difficulties through the 1930s, and was forced to auction away their club house in 1936. The municipality won the bid, paying NOK 5000. A new fire station was built in 1927. For a period there was also a cement molding factory on Kadettangen, owned by Waldemar Michelsen.</p><br>
<p>Norske Luftruter stated in 1930 that they would have preferred Gressholmen Airport, the water aerodrome serving Oslo, to have been replaced with a new airport, and mentioned Kadettangen as a suitable location for a water aerodrome. However, the issue was never considered by the authorities. The beach was constructed in the 1930s, which included reinforced the peninsula with fill dirt. IL Tyrving&#39;s shed with inventory burned down in 1955, lashing a major blow to the club as they had not insured their assets.</p><br>
<p>The bridge across to Kalvøya opened in 1963. Prior to this, the military had occasionally built pontoon bridges across the island. Tyrving installed a workman&#39;s shed as club house in 1963, followed by a second shed in 1970. The locker rooms were upgraded in 1967, followed up with an upgrade of the running track the following year, for the first time giving it a circumference of 400 m. Bærum SK completed Bærumshallen 1970, followed by their club house in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Former mayor of Bærum, Gunnar Gravdahl (Conservative), has stated that the sports facilities should be removed and replaced with a public baths. His successor as mayor, fellow party member Odd Reinsfelt denounced the idea, stating that there was no viable replacement location for the sporting activities. In 2009, Bærum SK chairman Jan Erik Aalbu suggested that the sports field be renamed Sandvika stadion. The new name was taken into use the following year. The stadium received a NOK 8-million upgrade in 2012, with the installation of new artificial turf and new stands, allowing Bærum SK to meet the stadium criteria for the Norwegian First Division.</p><br>
<h2>Sports</h2><br>
<p>The northern part of Kadettangen is used for sports. An artificial grass pitch with a tribune along the western sideline serves as the home ground of the football club Bærum SK, which plays in the First Division as of 2014. The stadium has a pitch which measures 95 by and has under-soil heating. There is seating for 602 spectators, of which 400 are under a roof. The attendance record is 1,819 people from a Norwegian Football Cup match in 2004 Norwegian Football Cup, when Bærum SK beat Vålerenga in the third round.</p><br>
<p>Bærum SK was founded in 1910 as Grane, changing its name to Mode in 1946 and taking the current name in 1969. As of 2011 it had 725 members and 40 teams in football. The club has previously played bandy, ice hockey, athletics and handball. The elite football team played in the Second Division in 1980 and again at the second tier in the 2003, 2012 and 2014 seasons.</p><br>
<p>Bærum SK&#39;s club room, raised in 1984, is located in an adjacent building which is shared with the athletics and orienteering club IL Tyrving. Bærum SK also has an indoor football arena, Bærumshallen, which is used for exhibitions and sales in addition to sports. The 1947 Norwegian Athletics Championships were held at Bislett Stadion in Oslo, although the decathlon event was organized by Tyrving at Kadettangen. The site of the indoor arena was used for three ice hockey matches at the 1952 Winter Olympics. This involved the United States beating Germany 8–2, Switzerland beating Norway 7–2 and Czechoslovakia beating Finland 11–2. During the 1950s and 1960s, speedway was regularly contested at Kadettangen. Other former activities at the sports field are speed skating and bandy.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Kadettangen is a starting point for island-hopping in the local section of the Oslofjord. The company Sandvika Fjordturer operates out of an office at Kadettangen, and its two ships, Rigmor and Rigfar, are in quay at the western shore of the peninsula. Since 1963 Kadettangen is also connected to the island Kalvøya by bridge. On the eastern shore, there is a calling port for medium-sized ships.</p><br>
<p>In terms of public transportation, Kadettangen is served by the lines 705 and 706 of the Ruter bus network; the bus station is named Sandvika rådhus. The proximate railway station is Sandvika. The European Road E18 runs through Sandvika, more or less separating Kadettangen from the town.</p><br>
<p>The Knox Mansion is a historical mansion in the city of Johnstown, Fulton County, New York. The house was built in 1889 by the gelatine magnate and businessman, Charles Knox, who owned Knox Gelatine and the Knox Gelatine Factory which also resides in Johnstown. It has 42 rooms, an elevator, a grand staircase, a solid lava ash fireplace which was an import from a castle in Italy, the castle which it is came from is unknown. It is also reported that Rose Knox had paid $200,000 for it to have it shipped brick by brick. The house was $1.2 million dollars to build back in 1889. When Rose Knox died in 1950, the house was sold to her doctor, Dr. Larrabee. It was later sold to Antique Dealers. The house was sold to Marty Quinn, and it is operated as a Museum/Bed & Breakfast/Limousine Agency/Private Residence. It has several secret compartments such as windowless room just off the attic, and a hidden panel behind a built in shelf in the billiard.</p><br>
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<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Haunted image</h2><br>
<p>The mansion is believed by some to be haunted. Guests have said that the lights have flickered, lamps dropped, footsteps heard, voices heard, ghosts sighted, cold feelings felt, sheets having been pulled off, piano being played by itself (even though there is a player piano also in the billiard), and other phenomenon. Children have reportedly seen the long since deceased gardener who apparently loved the company of children.</p><br>
<p>The Working Boys Home is a historic orphanage building at 333 Nahanton Street in Newton, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The four story Romanesque brick building was designed by church architects constructed William H. and John A. McGinty, and built in 1896. The building follows a rough H pattern, with a seven-story tower at the right front. The building&#39;s walls are red brick, with granite trim elements. The roof is slate, with copper flashing and two coppered cupolas. The building cost $300,000 to build, a large sum for the time, and very nearly bankrupted the organization, which provided housing for homeless boys in exchange for a share of their wages. The facility was managed by the Xaverian Brothers until the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The property is now the campus of the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center.</p><br>
<p>The Winslow–Haskell Mansion, also known locally as The Castle, is a historic house at 53 Vista Avenue in Newton, Massachusetts. The large Gothic Victorian house was built c. 1870, and enlarged and remodeled in 1882. The early construction included Gothic pointed-arch windows and vergeboard trim. Later work added Queen Anne styling, including the three-story tower, with polychrome roofing and cement-like wall surfacing. It has several ornately decorated porches. The house was purchased in 1872 by Edwin Haskell, owner of the Boston Herald.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, and included in the Lasell Neighborhood Historic District in 1986. It was converted into a multiunit condominium in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The Windsor Road Historic District is a residential historic district just north of the village of Waban in Newton, Massachusetts. It includes 48 houses on Windsor, Kent and Hereford Roads, a cul-de-sac subdivision adjacent to the village center and the Brae Burn Country Club, which was mostly developed between 1888 and 1920. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Windsor Road area was among the landholdings of William Strong, a farmer and real estate developer, who acquired 93 acre in 1875. He actively promoted the construction of the Circuit Railroad (now the MBTA Green Line "D" Branch), which arrived in 1888, and formed the nucleus of Waban village. Strong laid roads out on his land, and between 1888 and 1907 fifteen houses were built on Windsor Road. By 1950, the area was built out by the addition of another twenty houses, and by construction of the Brae Burn Country Club.</p><br>
<p>Windsor Road extends northward from the center of Waban village, and turns west before ending at a dead end adjacent to the country club. Kent and Hereford are spur roads between Windsor Road and the country club. The district is 26 acre in size, and includes a total of 48 residences on large landscaped lots. Several of these houses were designed by architects, including Strong&#39;s own house at 48 Windsor Road, built in 1896 to design by H. Langford Warren, and 102 Windsor, also designed by Warren. Both of these houses are Queen Anne in style, with Shingle overtones. The Colonial Revival is well-represented in the district, with fine examples at 55 Windsor (1897) and 63 Windsor (1903). There are also fairly early examples of Tudor Revival houses at 92 Windsor and 210 Kent Road. The district has only four houses that were built after 1950; none of them contribute to its historic significance.</p><br>
<p>The former Weeks Junior High School, also known as John Wingate Weeks Junior High School, is an historic school located at 7 Hereward Road, corner of Rowena Road in the village of Newton Center in Newton, Massachusetts. built in 1930, it was named for John Wingate Weeks , who was mayor of Newton 1903–1904 before becoming a United States Representative from Massachusetts from 1905 to 1913, a United States Senator from 1913 to 1919, and the United States Secretary of War from 1921 to 1925. He also was a co-founder in 1888 of the investment firm Hornblower & Weeks. His son Sinclair Weeks was mayor of Newton when the school was opened.</p><br>
<p>Weeks Junior High School was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Today the former Weeks Junior High School building is John W. Weeks House, a HUD apartment complex owned by the city and managed by the Newton Community Development Foundation, Inc.</p><br>
<p>The Webster Park Historic District is a residential historic district in Newton, Massachusetts, encompassing a very early residential subdivision designed by nationally known landscape architect Alexander Wadsworth and laid out in 1844. The district includes Webster Park, a lozenge-shaped park, along with a collection of houses flanking the park and extending eastward along Webster Street. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The district includes 12 acre of a 56 acre subdivision laid out in 1844 after the Boston and Worcester Railroad was built near the area in 1834. This surviving element was the earliest portion of the area to be developed, and has 26 houses, all but three of which contribute to the district&#39;s significance. The district was laid out by Wadsworth, best known for his contribution to the landscaping of Mount Auburn Cemetery, on commission for William Porter, a real estate speculator. Most of the houses in the district were built between 1847 and 1870, with Gothic Revival and Italianate styling predominant. Only three houses were built after 1900.</p><br>
<p>The Gothic Revival structures are the most visually significant of the district. There are eight such houses, which are nearly identical in basic structure, having all been designed by Edward Shaw, a Boston architect who had published a popular book on architecture. He was hired by builder John Rollins, who acquired many of the lots laid out by Wadsworth. Although siding has at least partially compromised the integrity of some of these houses, most of them retain at least some original elements of their styling.</p><br>
<p>Walker Home for Missionary Children is a historic boarding house complex for the care of the children of religious missionaries while they were away from home. It is composed of eight buildings, located at 161-63, 165, 167 Grove Street, 136, 138, 144 Hancock Street in the Auburndale village of Newton, Massachusetts. The oldest building, the Harding House, was built c. 1850 by the father of Eliza Walker, founder of the Walker Home. The main building in the complex, Walker House, is a large institutional Colonial Revival structure designed by Coolidge & Carlson, architects known for their academic structures, and built after Eliza Walker&#39;s original house burned down in 1911.</p><br>
<p>The complex was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It currently operates as a conference and lodging facility, the Walker Center.</p><br>
<p>The Union Street Historic District is a historic district on Union Street between Langley Road and Herrick Road, and at 17-31 Herrick Road in Newton, Massachusetts. It encompasses the city&#39;s only significant cluster of 19th century commercial buildings. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Development in the Newton Centre area did not begin until the arrival of the railroad in the late 1880s, and the construction in 1890 of the railroad station that served the village. The district includes five buildings: three commercial buildings that line the north side of Union Street, the railroad station, and an apartment block on Herrick Street.</p><br>
<p>The Newton Centre Station (no longer formally affiliated with the railroad line, which now serves the MBTA Green Line "D" Branch) was designed by H. H. Richardson and completed after his death by his successor firm, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge. It has typical Richardsonian Romanesque styling, with brownstone and granite construction, and an overhanging slate roof with arched eyebrow dormer windows. The station and an adjacent freight and baggage house were listed on the National Register as part of a district of surviving Richardson railroad stations in Newton; the freight building was mostly demolished in 1985, with parts of the original building being incorporated into new construction on the site, and original landscaping by the Olmsted Brothers also does not survive.</p><br>
<p>The Bray building at 93-105 is the other major building on Union Street. This 2-1/2 story Classical Revival building is built out of buff-colored brick, with a copper-clad hip roof, and a modillioned cornice. Arched windows in the attic are also lined with copper. It was built in 1893 for Mellen Bray, who also built the apartment block at 17-31 Herrick Street.</p><br>
<p>The Union building at 65-73 Union Street was built in 1896. Georgian Revival in style, it has seven bays with storefronts on the ground level, and an entranceway recessed behind an arch flanked by brick pilasters. It also has a modillioned cornice, with dentil moulding.</p><br>
<p>The Thayer House is a historic house at 17 Channing Street in Newton, Massachusetts, USA. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The 1-1/2 story wood frame house was built c. 1860, and is an unusual combination of Carpenter Gothic and Second Empire styling. The front facade has three steeply-pitched gables clad in flushboarding, and the gable windows are framed in scroll-sawn decorations. The house corners have rounded corner pilasters, and the main entrance is framed by Ionic columns and topped by a low-pitch gable with more scroll-sawn woodwork. A mansard-roofed addition extends from the rear of the house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>By 1869, the neighborhood around Channing Street was developed into house lots on land belonging to Phineas A Johnson, a cabinetmaker. Local Newton resident, developer, and businessman Joseph N. Bacon and Watertown resident Luke Forbes both bought and subdivided Johnson&#39;s land creating the neighborhood located on and around Channing Street. Until 1878, when it was incorporated as a city street, Channing Street was known as Linden Street and the neighborhood was built to serve bustling Newton Corner with its convenient rail transportation to Boston. With the exception of 34 Channing Street, an early 20th-century Colonial Revival building, the historic homes along Channing Street were all built within roughly a ten-year period between 1860 and 1870.</p><br>
<p>Historically, the structure is important for its contribution to the architectural history of Newton as a locally distinctive combination of historic architectural styles (Gothic Revival and Second Empire), as the residence of local merchant Stephen O. Thayer, and as a contributing element in the 19th century character of Channing Street. The property is also historically associated with the development of Newton Corner during the late 19th century as a desirable urban village residence in proximity to railroad transportation to Boston.</p><br>
<p>The Sumner and Gibbs Streets Historic District is a residential historic district encompassing a cohesive collection of houses representing the styles commonly built in the Newton Centre area of Newton, Massachusetts during its first period of growth. The houses are located along Summer Street, between Cotswold Terrace and Willow Street, as well as the adjacent house at 184 Gibbs Street. The houses were built between 1865 and 1899, and are predominantly Queen Anne and Colonial Revival in styling. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Summer Street is a residential street running north-south between Willow and Ward Streets in central Newton, just north of the main village of Newton Centre. This district encompasses roughly the southern third of the street, as well as a single house west of Summer on Gibbs Street, which bisects the district. Development of this area was spurred by the improvement of rail service in Newton brought by the introduction of the Circuit Railroad in 1886, and further intensified by the construction of Commonwealth Avenue, crosses Summer Street north of the district.</p><br>
<p>The district contains sixteen houses built between 1865 and 1899. The oldest house in the district is 184 Gibbs Street, a high-quality example Second Empire architecture. 166 Summer Street is an Italianate house built in 1870. Six houses are Queen Anne in style, the most of any individual style. There are three Colonial Revival houses, and one Shingle style house with Colonial Revival features. There is one Georgian Revival house, and two that are Second Empire (the 1867 house at 139 Summer Street joining 184 Gibbs Street in this category.)</p><br>
<p>The Joseph L. Stone House is a historic house and carriage barn at 77 and 85 Temple Street in Newton, Massachusetts. The 2-1/2 story house, now at 77 Temple Street, has a brick first floor and wood frame upper floors, with a roughly three-part facade. On the left is a projecting section with a gabled roof, and on the right is a rounded two story tower section topped with an octagonal roof. In between is a recessed porch on the second floor, with a projecting gabled dormer above. The walls are sheathed in decorative shingle work, and the porch and porte-cochere are elaborately decorated. The carriage barn, now converted to a residence at 85 Temple, is of similar styling. The house and carriage barn were built in 1881 by Joseph L. Stone, a banker.</p><br>
<p>The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Old Capitol Building is a building in Olympia, Washington. Designed by Willis A. Ritchie, it was built from 1890 to 1892 as the Thurston County Courthouse, and served from 1905 until 1928 as the state capitol, seat of the legislature of Washington; in 1928 the legislature moved to the current Capitol Building. It is now the office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.</p><br>
<p>The building has survived several disasters, after each of which it has been repaired. A fire in 1928 resulted in the loss of a central tower. After the 1949 Olympia earthquake, the building was evacuated and suffered severe damage to its masonry exterior that had to be repaired over the following few months at a cost of $1.1 million. 10 of the 12 towers were lost in the earthquake, along with a rotunda, the House chamber, and several galleries in the East Wing.</p><br>
<p>The John Winthrop Jr. Iron Furnace Site is a historic archaeological site at 61 Crescent Street, Quincy, Massachusetts. The site is called Braintree Furnace in some texts; the West Quincy location at the time of operation was in a part of Braintree, Massachusetts, that later became Quincy. Its importance lies in the fact that it was the first iron blast furnace established in what would become the United States. Furnace Brook, a stream which begins on the eastern slopes of the Blue Hills and meanders for about four miles from southwest to northeast through the middle of Quincy toward Quincy Bay, was named for the iron works site.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the 17th century, iron was an used to manufacture a number of indispensable goods, including nails, horseshoes, cookware, tools, and weapons. The production of iron required a complex manufacturing process, which was not available during the early years of the North American colonization. Thus, all of the colonists iron goods had to be imported. As it took at least two months to sail to the nearest foundry, iron goods were very expensive.</p><br>
<p>John Winthrop the Younger wanted to establish an iron works in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He believed that because the colonies had a cheap and abundant supply of raw materials, an iron works in Massachusetts could produce goods that could be sold profitably in the New England and Chesapeake Colonies as well as in England. In 1639, Winthrop sailed to England to get the capital he needed to fund the project. Winthrop selected Braintree as the location of the first iron furnace. Construction began in 1644 and was completed in 1645. On October 15, 1645, Winthrop secured the Undertakers an exemption from taxes and a 21-year monopoly on iron production from the Massachusetts General Court.</p><br>
<p>The Braintree iron furnace, however, was unsuccessful due to a lack of iron ore in the area and an inadequate supply of water to power the machinery. The furnace shut down in 1647, not long after the Saugus Iron Works was completed.</p><br>
<p>Several workers from the Braintree Furnace would go on to establish iron works in other locations. In the 1650s, James Leonard would help establish the Taunton Iron Works on the Two Mile River in Taunton, Massachusetts. His brother Henry Leonard would return to Saugus for a while before establishing a new works at Rowley in 1668. He would later move to New Jersey with his sons where several other works were built. Ralph Russell, another ironmaster from Braintree moved to Dartmouth where he set up a forge at what became known as Russells Mills, on the Paskamanset River.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>The Winfield House was a historic house at 853 Hancock Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. Built c. 1880, it was a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure with exuberant Queen Anne styling. It was built by John Chamberlin, a traveling hardware salesman. The house was particularly distinctive for its onion-domed tower near the center of the structure, an unusual placement and topping for such a tower. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>Winfield House served as a restaurant for 50 years. The house was demolished in 1998 by its then owners, Eastern Nazarene College, to make way for a campus expansion; all that is left now is stairs leading up to an empty house lot and the elm tree.</p><br>
<p>Now Over the years, an with it being the year 2017, the whole site was demolished, along with the motel, and a new Quincy Middle School was built in the place of where the old Winfield historic house, Presidents City Motel and the great restaurant "The Egg and I" used to be.</p><br>
<p>The A. C. Smith & Co. Gas Station is a historic gas station at 117 Beale Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It is a single-story brick, with a front facade divided into three vehicle bays on the left and an office on the right, with a pedestrian entrance to the work area in between. A low-pitch gable at the center acts a kind of parapet, and there are round decorative panels on the front facade. The building was constructed in 1926, and is a little-altered example of an early functional automotive filling and service station. Its original brickwork remains in good condition, and its service bays are distinctively illuminated in part by original skylights.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Quincy Shore Drive is a historic parkway in Quincy, Massachusetts. The road is one of a series of parkways built by predecessors of the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, to provide access to parks and beaches in the Greater Boston area. Its development was proposed in 1893 by Charles Eliot, who promoted the development of many of the area&#39;s parks and parkways. Planning began in 1897, with land acquisition following around 1900. Construction of the 4 mi road was begun in 1903 and completed in 1907.</p><br>
<p>The northern terminus of Quincy Shore Drive is at Hancock Street (Massachusetts Route 3A), just south of the Neponset River. It runs northeasterly for about 1 mi through a neighborhood area, reaching the Quincy Shore Reservation at a junction with East Squantum Street. This section is four lanes wide (two in each direction), separated by a tree-lined median, with additional trees on the sides of the roadway providing an attractive canopy. At East Squantum Street the road turns southeasterly to follow the shore for about 2 mi. The inland side of the roadway is lined primarily with houses, while the shore side provides angled parking and beach access, and provides dramatic views of Boston and outer Boston Harbor. This segment is also four lanes, divided by a grassy median.</p><br>
<p>After passing Fenno Street, the road enters Wollaston Beach Reservation, a city-owned park, which it passes through until it crosses over Black Creek and reaches Furnace Brook Parkway, which provides access to the Blue Hills Reservation. It then runs southerly, away from the shore and through a residential area, reaching its southern terminus at Sea Street.</p><br>
<p>The road was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>Quincy Point Fire Station is a historic fire station at 615 Washington Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. Built in 1941, it is the third firehouse to occupy the location, and is one of the city&#39;s finest examples of Colonial Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Quincy Point Fire Station is set at the southwest corner of Washington Street (Massachusetts Route 3A) and Cleverly Court, in northeastern Quincy. It is a two-story brick structure, with a T-shaped layout. It is topped by a truncated hip roof, and has a central gambrel-gabled section projecting slightly to the front. This section houses the entrances to the two vehicle bays, and has three sash windows at the second level; there are single sash windows flanking it on either side. The city seal is near the peak of the gable. The interior of building has a spare modern look that is a marked contrast to the exterior Colonial Revival styling.</p><br>
<p>The first station built at Quincy Point was a Greek Revival wood frame structure erected in 1844; this was replaced in 1893 by a Shingle style building that included a tall tower for drying hoses. The current building was constructed in 1941 to a design by George E. Robinson, a Boston architect with a known reputation for his firehouse designs. His design lacked the then-typical hose drying tower, opting instead for drying facilities (eventually supplemented by a heating system to speed the process) in the basement. (Modern fire hoses no longer need to be dried after use.)</p><br>
<p>Cow Island is an island on Rice Lake in Ontario, Canada, just west of the mouth of the Otonabee River.</p><br>
<p>There are approximately 50 privately owned lots of land on the island. The majority of settlements on Cow are located on the north and west parts of the island, as much of the east is marsh, and cannot be easily accessed by boat.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Cow Island was once a marshy peninsula. In 1819, the southern section was called Fothergill Point. It was the location of Charles Fothergills hunting lodge, Castle Fothergill. It was renamed Jubilee Point in 1887, by steamboat entrepreneur Henry Calcutt, to honour the 50th anniversary of Queen Victorias reign. The island was named for the Cow (now Cowie) family of Hiawatha. Other places in Peterborough County have been named for members of this family, such as Jacks Lake near Apsley, named for "Handsome" Jack Cow, and Polly Cow Island below Youngs Point, named for his daughter. In 1867, part of Cow Island, along with others mentioned, was purchased by Alfred Harris. It has always been a popular spot to trap muskrats. It is said that Rice Lake muskrats possess the finest skins in the world. Victor Harris, a great-great grandson of Alfred Harris carries on the operation of the Rice Lake Fur Company at this location.</p><br>
<p>The early Mississauga name for Rice Lake was Pem-e-dash-cou-tay-ang or Lake of the Burning Plains. This refers to the hunting grounds on the southern shore where native peoples burned the vegetation each spring to encourage the growth of a type of grass relished by deer. The Mississaugas, according to records "by a provisional treaty signed on November 5, 1818, and later confirmed, surrendered a large tract of land to the British Crown, including the Otonabee region." When the native settlements of the Rice Lake Indian Village (later Hiawatha) and Alderville (named for the Rev. Robert Alder, English secretary of the Wesleyan Missionary Society) were established in 1829 and 1837, respectively, the colonial government referred to the Rice Lake islands by number. The Mississauga&#39;s influence, however, is evident in some of the names of the islands such as Cow, Paudash and Sugar, named by and for native people. Most retain these names today.</p><br>
<p>Several of the present islands, particularly near the northern shoreline, were former marshy peninsulas. These peninsulas became flooded during the construction of the Trent Canal system starting in 1838 when a dam was built at Hastings. It is said the present lake level is about six feet higher than earlier. In 1913, compensation was given by King George V to some owners for damage caused by the Trent Canal.</p><br>
<p>Around 1867, according to Registry Office records, the superintendent-general of Indian Affairs, on behalf of the Crown, began to sell the Rice Lake islands. A few were retained by the Crown and reserved for the native peoples. The proceeds from some sales were to benefit the Alnwick or Alderville natives and some the Mississaugas of the Rice Lake Indian Village and Mud Lake.</p><br>
<h2>Islands of Rice Lake</h2><br>
<p>Cow Island is one of several islands on Rice Lake. Other islands include: Black, Foley (Upper and Lower), Grasshopper, Grape (East and West), Harmony, Harris, Hickory, Long, Margaret, Paudaush or Paudash, Rack, Sheep, Spook or Spooke, Sugar (East and West), Tic, and White&#39;s.</p><br>
<h2>Web site</h2><br>
<p>Official web site for Cow Island, including portal for owners:</p><br>
<p>There is also a Facebook fan page for Cow Island, Rice Lake:</p><br>
<p>Irshad pass ; spelled also as Ershād Yūvīn, Yirshod Wuyin, Irshad Pass, Irshad Urween, Irshād Uwin Pass, Kotale Ers̄āḏ Owīn, Kowtal-e Ershād Owīn; is a high mountain pass that connects Chapursan river valley  in Gojal tehsil of Gilgit district in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan with Wakhan Corridor in Afghanistan.</p><br>
<p>According to a map shown in the National Geographic Magazine the height of the Irshad Pass is slightly higher than the figure given above at: 4,979 m. or 16,335 ft. The article mentions that the few remaining nomadic Kyrgyz people of the Wakhan Corridor, who total only about 1,100 people now, cross the Irshad Pass in spring or autumn to trade animals for supplies at Babaghundi Ziarat in north-western Hunza, Pakistan.</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
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<p>The Troy Gas Light Company was a gas lighting company in Troy, New York, United States. The Troy Gasholder Building is one of only ten or so remaining examples of a type of building that was common in Northeastern urban areas during the 19th century. It was designed by Frederick A. Sabbaton who was a prominent gas engineer in New York State. Originally sheltering a telescoping iron storage tank for coal gas, the brick gasholder house is an imposing structure from a significant period in the history of Troy. For twenty-seven years the company held a monopoly on the manufacture of illuminating gas in the city.</p><br>
<h2>Troy gasholder</h2><br>
<p>The Troy gasholder was a telescoping two-lift type. Its top section had a diameter of 100 ft and a height of 22 ft. The lower section, of the telescoping lift, had a diameter of 101 feet, 6 inches, and a height of 22 ft. The gas storage capacity was 333,000 cuft of gas. The weight of the gasholder provided pressure for the distribution of gas in the supply mains. The Troy gasholder pressure was 4½ inches of water column. The pressure was measured in inches, in terms of a height of column of water, because the pressure was too low to measure in the more conventional pounds per square inch.</p><br>
<h2>Troy Gas Light physical plant</h2><br>
<p>The gasholder house was just one part of the complex that comprised the Troy Gas Light’s physical plant. The main element of the production facilities were two blocks north of the gasholder house, in a block bounded by Liberty Street, Fifth Avenue, and Washington Street, bounded by the tracks of the New York Central, the former site of the Little Italy Farmers Market.</p><br>
<p>Extending along Fifth Avenue to Liberty Street was a coal shed; it was rectangular in plan, and 200 ft by 34 ft. The shed was brick, with an iron doors along Fifth Avenue, with a wooden cornice, measuring 28 ft to the cornice.</p><br>
<p>Adjoining the south end of the coal shed, was the retort house, trapezoidal in plan, measuring 200 ft by 50 ft, with its longitudinal axis running east to west. It was a brick structure, with iron roof beams, and measured 22 ft to the cornice. The retort house is the core of the operations. It is where coal was burned to produce a crude form of the gas.</p><br>
<p>Fronting on Hill Street, and adjoining the retort building, at the southwest corner was the condenser building. This small rectangular building was rectangular in shape and 10 by 20 ft with a brick façade. The condensers separated coat tar from the crude gas.</p><br>
<p>Adjoining the condenser building on the north was the exhauster building, or pump that force gas through the system into the holders. A 12 horsepower engine was used to drive the pumps or the exhausters powering this system. Off the north-side of this building was another small building housing a 75 horsepower steam boiler, both of these buildings were one story.</p><br>
<p>In the open space in the middle of the block north of the retort house, and west of the coal shed were two iron gas holders, each 50 ft in diameter, neither contained in a gasholder house.</p><br>
<p>At the northwest corner of the property was the purifying building where sulfur was removed from the gas. This building was a two story brick structure and measured 35 by 49 ft. Adjoining this building on the south was a two story building containing the meters, and steam heated offices.</p><br>
<p>At the south end of the property was another coal shed, built of brick and 24 ft high. A tar well was also located at this spot. The company also had coal on a dock at the foot of Division Street, seven blocks away. There was also an additional coal shed 100 ft by 30 ft wide, 130 ft to the north of the gasholder house. In the 1870s the company burned gas coal supplied by Freeman Butts of Cleveland, Ohio.</p><br>
<h2>Frederick A. Sabbaton, engineer of the Troy gasholder</h2><br>
<p>Frederick A. Sabbaton (1830–1894), was a specialist in the construction of gas works, and was the superintendent of the Troy Gas Light Company, from 1862 to 1890. Sabbaton worked extensively in New York State, and came from a family of engineers. His father, Paul A. Sabbation, was a close friend of Robert Fulton, prepared plans and specifications for The Clermont. Frederick Sabbaton&#39;s two brothers, and two sons were all employed as gas engineers. Sabboton supervised, constructed, and owned gas works in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and throughout New York State. He was also involved in the manufacturing of aniline dye, made from coal tar, and designed a gas governor valve.</p><br>
<h2>Troy Gas Light Company</h2><br>
<p>The Troy Gas Light Company first supplied illuminating gas in 1848. They maintained a monopoly on the manufacturing of gas until 1875, when the Troy Citizens Gas Light Company was found. Ten years later in 1885, addition competition from the Troy Fuel Gas company was created by the founding of this company. On October 11, 1889, these three companies were consolidated to form the Troy Gas Company. In about 1893, the Troy Electric Light Company (founded 1886), was merged into the Troy Gas Company. Additionally, in 1908 the Beacon Electric Company was merged into the company. In the 1926, the Troy Gas Company, joined with the Mohawk Hudson Power Corporation, which in turn joined with the Niagara-Hudson Power Corporation in 1929.</p><br>
<p>The gasholder house was in operation in 1912, and taken out of service during the 1920s when a new central plant was built in Menands, NY. In the 1930s the gasholder was removed and sold as scrap metal. The gasholder house has been used for storage by a circus manager, and for marching practice by local bands. It is currently used for storage and a garage, as well as occasional music and arts presentations.</p><br>
<h2>Half-Elevation and truss details</h2><br>
<p>Larder Lake is a freshwater body of the district of Timiskaming in Northeastern Ontario, Ontario, Canada. This lake straddles the townships of McGarry, McFadden Geo and Larder Lake.</p><br>
<p>Forestry is the main economic activity of the sector; recreational tourism activities, second. This hydrographic slope is served on the north side by Highway 66 (East-West direction).</p><br>
<p>Annually, the lake surface is generally frozen from mid-November to late April, however, the period of safe ice circulation is usually from mid-December to mid-April.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The main hydrographic slopes near Lake Larder are:</p><br>
<p>North side: Bear Lake, Crosby Lake, Wawagoshe Lake</p><br>
<p>East side: Milky Creek, Larder River, Raven Lake (Larder River)</p><br>
<p>South side: Flanagan Creek, Larder River, Ward Lake, Skead Lake</p><br>
<p>West side: Grassy Lake, Grassy River, Misema River.</p><br>
<p>This lake has the following bays: Southwest Arm, Spoon Bay and Northeast Arm. A long peninsula of 5.5 km extends to the north (up to the Big Narroows Strait) separating the lake into two parts. The big islands of this lake are: Big Pete Island, Island CC and Island U.</p><br>
<p>The village of Larder Lake, Ontario is located on the northwest shore of Spoon Bay, which is an extension of the Larder Lake "Southwest Bay". The villages of Viginiatown, Ontario and Kearns, Ontario are located at the bottom of the Larder Lake "Northeast Arm".</p><br>
<p>The mouth of Lake Larder is located at:</p><br>
<p>6.2 m West of the Ontario - Quebec border</p><br>
<p>27.8 km Northeast of the mouth of the Larder River (confluence with the Blanche River (Lake Temiscaming)</p><br>
<p>11.0 km Southeast of the village center of Larder Lake, Ontario</p><br>
<p>53.0 km Northwest of the mouth of the Blanche River (Lake Temiscaming)</p><br>
<p>From the mouth of Larder Lake, the Larder River, Ontario flows over 54.0 km, forming a hook to the west, before spilling on the northeast shore of the Blanche River (Lake Temiscaming). The latter flows southeast to lake Temiscaming, which straddles the Ontario - Quebec border.</p><br>
<h2>Toponymy</h2><br>
<p>The term "Larder" is a family name of English origin.</p><br>
<p>The Greifensteine is a rock tower in the Ore Mountains, Germany, between the towns of Geyer, Ehrenfriedersdorf and Jahnsbach. The highest of the seven granite rocks reaches 731 m. Another six rock towers were demolished by quarrying, which ended in 1923.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Geologically, the Greifensteine is the top of a pluton. During the Variscan orogeny, magma intruded along structural zones, but cooled and solidified before reaching the earth surface. When the Erzgebirge block raised, the resulting granite formation raised with it. The surrounding softer material eroded and the harder granite remained, creating the tors of the rock formation. The deposition of ores associated with the intrusion gave the area its name (Erzgebirge, literally ore mountains).</p><br>
<h3>Mineral finds</h3><br>
<p>Due to the productiveness of its ore deposits, the Greifensteine are also a well-known site of many different minerals and their varieties. As of 2014, a total of around 50 minerals and 10 varieties have been discovered here, including inter alia the well-known minerals andalusite, beryl, gypsum, haematite, muscovite, sphalerite, pyrite, topaz, wavellite and zircon, as well as various garnets, tourmalines, (dravite, elbaite, schorl) and wolframites. There are also rare minerals such as childrenite and natrodufrénite, as well as the radioactive minerals autunite and torbernite.</p><br>
<p>The Greifensteine is also a type locality for the following minerals: fluorapatite, greifensteinite, lacroixite and roscherite.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first indications of a settlement on the Greifensteine are from around 1180, and in 1349 the von Waldenburg family are seignory to the "Grifenstein" castle. The castle is documented in 1372 as "Slosz Cryfenstein". The castle was destroyed in the 14th century by fire, and was rebuilt afterwards. It was abandoned in the 15th century, the area was used as a quarry and all traces of the former castle are removed. Of the originally 13 rock towers, six have been demolished and used for their granite over the years. This activity was stopped in 1928, and the area has become a nature reserve.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Today, the Greifensteine is a nature reserve and a popular tourist attraction. The areal has a restaurant, a small museum and an outdoor theater that uses the rock towers as a dramatic backdrop. Stairs lead up to the tallest rock, which offers a nice view of the surrounding Erzgebirge. There are several rock climbing paths. In the surrounding area are the Greifenbachstauweiher and the Röhrgraben.</p><br>
<h3>Stülpner-Höhle</h3><br>
<p>Karl Stülpner (1762–1842), a local renegade and folk hero (the Robin Hood of the Erzgebirge) had a hiding place in one of the numerous caverns of the Greifensteine area. This Stülpner-Höhle (engl.: Stülpner&#39;s cavern) can still be visited today.</p><br>
<p>Macclesfield Castle  was a fortified manor house/castle in Macclesfield, Cheshire. John de Macclesfield began construction of the castle in 1398. It was made from sandstone, and was square with projecting wings. Alterations were made in the 15th century, and it passed through the hands of two families of earls. By 1585 the building was ruinous, and all that survived to the 20th century was the porch. This was dismantled in 1932, and the site reused for cottages and shops.</p><br>
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<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Between 1392 and 1398, John de Macclesfield, an officer in the court of Richard II and Keeper of the Great Wardrobe. began acquiring land in the town of Macclesfield for the purpose of building a manor house. Construction of the house – Macclesfield Castle – began in 1398. In 1398, and again in 1399, Macclesfield applied for a licence to crenellate his new manor house. The historian of the castle, R.C. Turner, attributes this to the crisis towards the end of Richard IIs reign. The king died before he could grant Macclesfields request, however, and was succeeded to the throne by Henry IV. Although he fell out of favour and returned to his home in Macclesfield after being replaced as Keeper of the Wardrobe, John was granted a licence to crenellate in 1410. John de Macclesfield was a commoner, despite his previous position as Keeper of the Wardrobe, and to allow him to fortify his home – which was in the royal borough of Macclesfield – was very unusual.</p><br>
<p>When John de Macclesfied died in 1422, his estates passed to his bastard children. By 1444, these lands had been bought by Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham. The castle passed from the possession of the Dukes of Buckingham – after whom the house became known as Buckingham Palace or Buckingham Castle – into the hands of the Stanley family, Earls of Derby from 1485. It is assumed that when Henry VII visited the Earl of Derby in Macclesfield in 1496, he stayed at Macclesfield Castle. The castle had fallen into disrepair by the late 16th century, as in 1585 it was described by William Smith as a "huge place all of stone in a manner of a castle – but now gone into much decay".</p><br>
<p>Parts of the castle were still in use in 1793–1811, when a room of the castle was used by Macclesfield&#39;s Roman Catholic congregation. By the 20th century, all that remained of the building was the porch (or gateway) – which dated to the reign of Henry VII – where Palace Yard is now and parts of the curtain wall. Despite plans to preserve the porch, it was dismantled in 1932 and the site reused to build cottages and shops. In 1985, dressed stone that had originally been part of the castle was accidentally discovered, although it was heavily weathered; the site was excavated the same year.</p><br>
<h2>Layout</h2><br>
<p>When the castle was described in 1585, Smith recorded that Macclesfield Castle was a square building with projecting wings and decorative towers. Because so little of the building survives, it is unknown whether it had a great hall, but Turner believes the building was probably influenced by the contemporary construction of Bodiam Castle and alterations to Kenilworth Castle; Turner comes to this conclusion as he believes John de Macclesfield would have been involved in organising payment for the construction of these castles in his role as Keeper of the Wardrobe. Macclesfield Castle was constructed from sandstone, and the remains of it which were uncovered in 1985 have not survived well due to weathering. The overall layout and size of Macclesfield Castle is uncertain, but it was probably 140 by The porch which survived until 1932 was on the west side and measured 4.5 m square and 7.31 m high. It was built from coursed rubble sandstone and faced with ashlar; it probably had a castellated parapet. Unusually, it featured a vaulted interior with an unusual Tudor rose, dating it to the reign of Henry VII.</p><br>
<p>The Quail rock art panel is a panel of Native American rock art located at the intersect of Grand Gulch and Step Canyon in Cedar Mesa, San Juan County, Utah. Grand Gulch contains a large number of relatively well-preserved rock art and ledge dwellings. The Quail Panel is a grouping of pictographs that were probably created by people of the Basketmaker II or Fremont culture. Cedar Mesa is located at a point where the two cultures overlapped.</p><br>
<p>The panel is probably named for a conspicuous depiction of a quail or quail-like bird with a vivid green and red-brown eye. The panel contains a row of anthropomorphs or warriors with shields and topknots or feathered headbands. The collection includes two green figures, which is a rare pigment for southwestern rock art. The panel also includes a red, scowling visage that may represent a mountain lion.</p><br>
<p>Hiking to Quail Panel is 9.6 miles via the "Government Trail" past Polly&#39;s Island. This is typically the easiest and shortest route. The Government Trail passes the Big Man Panel. Hiking to Quail Panel is 18.5 miles from the Collins Spring trailhead through Collins Canyon and 19.5 miles from the Kane Gulch Ranger Station trailhead through Kane Gulch.</p><br>
<p>Brykill Farm, originally just Brykill, is a family-owned organic grass-fed beef ranch located on Bruynswick Road  in Gardiner, New York, United States. Formerly a country estate, its 180 acre have a panoramic view of the Shawangunks to the west.</p><br>
<p>First built as a small settler&#39;s home in 1724 and used as a court during the mid-19th century, it was expanded considerably in 1927 in a sympathetic style and material. In 1983 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It has been a ranch, with cottages for weekend visitors, since 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land where Brykill now stands was first granted to Gertrude Bruyn in 1694 by William III and Mary II, hence the name Bruynswick for the area. Later grants followed, and in 1720 an Isaac Smedes bought the land. Four years later he built a small stone house, the first of several structures that would be merged into today&#39;s main house. In 1736 he expanded it to the size of the main block.</p><br>
<p>From Smedes the house would pass into the hands of various members of the locally prominent Jansen and Hasbrouck families, remaining mostly unchanged. During the latter&#39;s ownership, around 1850, the large dining room may have been used as a local courtroom. The waterside gazebo was added in 1890.</p><br>
<p>In 1926, William Bruyn, a descendant of the original landowners, purchased the property for use as a country estate. He retained Kingston architectural firm Halvorsen and Teller to expand the property in a manner that preserved and reinforced its original aesthetics. This entailed adding onto the main block and connecting its components, and building the service complex.</p><br>
<p>Dulahazara Safari Park was developed on an undulating landscape of around 2,224 acre of area at Chakaria Upazila in Cox&#39;s Bazar District, Bangladesh, some 107 km away from the port city, Chittagong, with an objective to create facilities for eco-tourism, research work and entertainment as well as from conserving wild animals in a natural environment.</p><br>
<p>Dulahazara Safari Park is home to at least 4,000 animals of 165 species. After the new government took over in January 2007, joint forces rescued many of these new residents of the park during their drives at houses and establishments owned by graft suspects. Many individuals also donated some of the animals to the park during this period. The seized and donated animals recently sent to the park include 90 spotted deer, 42 barking deer, three sambar deer, one freshwater crocodile, one saltwater crocodile, nine black bears, four pythons, 17 peacocks, 19 Turkish pheasants and two emus.</p><br>
<p>Another source of animals is the Dhaka Zoo. The animal population in Dhaka zoo has increased over the years due to their breeding, and the Dhaka zoo donated a number of lions and tigers to the Dulahazara Safari Park.</p><br>
<h2>Visitor attractions</h2><br>
<p>The park itself protects a large number of wild elephants which are native to the area. In the safari park there are domesticated elephants which are available for a ride. Other animal attractions include lions, Bengal tigers, crocodiles, bears, spotted deer and many types of birds and monkeys.</p><br>
<p>Since the park was opened to the public, it has been drawing a huge crowd all year round — 6,000 visitors daily during peak season (November to March) and 2,000 visitors daily during off season (April to October).</p><br>
<p>Randow  is a river in the Uckermark region of Brandenburg and the Vorpommern region of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, in part constituting these regions&#39; frontier. An ancient name is Lochnitza, the town of Löcknitz derived its name from it. Since 1700, Randow is exclusively used.</p><br>
<p>The source is near Penkun, from which the river flows both to the North and to the South. The southern fork ends with its confluence to the Welse river, the northern fork ends with the confluence with the Uecker only a few kilometers before reaching the Oder Lagoon. The swampy Randow valley is known as Randowbruch, the historical crossing of the Randowbruch swamps are at its narrowest point in Löcknitz. The river lent its name to the former district of Uecker-Randow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, also to the historical Landkreis Randow of the Province of Pomerania.</p><br>
<p>The Tsarap River or the Tsarap Chu , is a river 182 km long, which forms the eastern part of the Zanskar valley, in the Ladakh region of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Tsarap River has its source in the glaciers near Pankpo La Pass at the border of Jammu and Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh. After rising from its source, the Tsarap River flows southwest up to Sarchu, a camping site at the Leh-Manali Highway, here the Tsarap River joins a confluent of three rivers of Lingti, Yunan and Sarchu River. At village Purne, the Tsarap River is joined by Kargyag River which originates near Shingo La pass. Then the Tsarap River flows down in the main Zanskar valley, through the towns of Mone, Tichip, Jamyang Lang, Dorzong and Chia. The river then passes a confluence with its tributary, the Stod River, at Padum, the capital of Zanskar. Together, these two rivers form the Zanskar River, a tributary of the Indus River.</p><br>
<p>The Tsarap River contributes to the minimal agricultural production of the Zanskar valley, mainly to the lower areas of Chia, by providing irrigation to the fields of barley, wheat, buckwheat and peas. Accessible in the summer, the Pensi La mountain pass which connects Zanskar with rest of the country, receives heavy snowfall along with the other pass Zojila, which results in the valley being cut off during winter from rest of the state, with the river freezing during this season. The river source at Pankpo La near Sarchu lies 255 km southeast from the nearest airport of Leh. The Tsarap River is famous for adventure sports. Rafting events are organised in the Tsarap, Stod and the Zanskar rivers.</p><br>
<h2>Landslide Dam</h2><br>
<p>A lake has been formed on the Tsarap River due to a landslide dam at 33&deg;17&prime;25&Prime;N latitude, 77&deg;17&prime;06&Prime;E longitude, 90 mi upstream (south) of Padum the commercial hub of Zanskar. The landslide, which occurred on 31 December 2014 between Shun and Phuktal villages, was first noticed when the Alchi Hydroelectric Power Project down the river reported recession in water level. The dam created by the debris is 60 m high, 90 m wide and 600 m long and the artificial lake is at 80% of the height of the debris. As of February 1, 2015, the artificial lake formed behind the dam is nearly 14 km long and covered about 110 hectares of land.</p><br>
<p>The material of barrier is believed to be of fine-grained with boulders having a narrow crest. A report submitted by local authorities prohibited the use of explosives to clear debris as it would trigger more landslides and aggravate the situation. They have called up on the National Disaster Management for assessment of the situation. According to the deputy collector of Zanskar, "The lake has been created around 90 km from the Padam area of Zanskar and beyond 43 km no one can go by foot. After consulting all local engineers, including Army engineers, we were not able to do anything". On 20 February 2015 the National Disaster Management after a ground survey submitted a report on which the Committee headed by the Union Cabinet Secretary deployed a team at the site to carry out controlled blasting and manual work to allow channelized flow of water.</p><br>
<p>The severe temperatures in the region which are below -20 °C have frozen the lake and chances of a breach will rise with a rise in temperature in the following days. Authorities have closed down the old trade route, the Chadar Trek and have airlifted the people stranded therein to the safer places. People living in downstream areas of Tsarap have also been informed to move to higher and safer places. Control rooms have been set up at Padum and Phuktal to keep a close watch on the situation.</p><br>
<p>The White Lion Inn was a public house located in Henley Street, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, an example of Elizabethan architecture that first appears in historical records in either 1541 or 1591. The building was mentioned by both Harriet Beecher Stowe and Rupert Graves.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The earliest references to the White Lion Inn date to either 1541 or 1591. The original building, which was at nos, 16, 17, 18 Henley Street was demolished and rebuilt in 1753 making it one of the largest inns on the Holyhead Road by its landlord at the time, John Payton.</p><br>
<p>In its heyday the White Lion Inn was considered to be on a par with some of the better eating establishments in London and was reported to offer “a bill of fare equal to that of the Piazza Coffee House”. In 1785 members of the household of Louis XVI of France stayed here and in 1806 the Prince Regent (later George IV of the United Kingdom) stayed in specially prepared apartments. During the English Civil War the building was taken over by parliamentary soldiers.</p><br>
<p>The Garrick Jubilee of Shakespearean performances in 1769 came about because of an idea by John Payton, the landlord of the White Lion. Payton was a genuine Shakespeare enthusiast and a friend of the Shakespearian editor George Alexander Steevens. In 1768, when Steevens was staying at the White Lion, Payton invited some of his friends from the town corporation to meet him. The new Town Hall had just been finished and it was regretted "that an open niche had been constructed on the north side of it without any prospect of obtaining a statue or even a bust to grace it". A statue of Shakespeare was suggested as the most fitting adornment and Steevens offered to persuade David Garrick to present one. The corporation elaborated on his suggestions by offering to confer on Garrick the freedom of the borough in a box made from the wood of Shakespeare&#39;s mulberry tree. This led Garrick not only to present a statue of Shakespeare, but to come down and organize a Shakespearian festival at Stratford.</p><br>
<p>The remaining portions of the building were added to the English Heritage list of protected buildings in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Witchcraft and Wizardology Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Witchcraft and Wizardology Museum at 21 Henley Street is a privately amassed collection of ephemera and articles that reflect on the history of Witchcraft and Wizardology from pre-Christian times to the present day. Concentrating on providing a fair and balanced viewpoint that remains family orientated whilst retaining the darker and more sinister aspects of human sacrifice and the Knights Templar link to the craft.</p><br>
<p>Amassed over 40 years, this collection of articles, rituals and ephemera challenges the accepted stereotypes of witches whilst avoiding the standard "everything behind a glass case" approach. Encouraging a hands on approach to the more traditional aspects of witchcraft it provides a focal point for discussion and those seeking knowledge in a non threatening environment.</p><br>
<p>Regularly described as one of the most haunted buildings in the country by the owner and visited by paranormal investigators, parapsychology groups and ghost hunters, it continues to offer a glimpse into the world of the supernatural and the unknown.</p><br>
<p>The Solomon Nightengale House  was a historic house at 429 Granite Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. The 1-1/2 story Cape style house was built c. 1820 by Solomon Nightengale, whose family had owned the land since the 18th century. It had a four-bay facade, with a central chimney and a sheltered entry in the center-left bay. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The house shown in the image is at the correct address (429 Granite Street) and lot, as verified by reference to the site map provided on the Massachusetts Historical Commission report precedent to its nomination to the National Register. Since it bears little resemblance to the house shown in the, it appears that the 1820 house has been torn down and replaced by the house shown and its identical twin to the left.</p><br>
<p>The Munroe Building is a historic commercial building at 1227-1259 Hancock Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. Built in 1929 to a design by Shepard & Stearns, it is the best-preserved of two adjacent Colonial Revival two-story commercial blocks built on Hancock Street in the 1920s. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Munroe Building is set on the southwest side of Hancock Street in downtown Quincy, between the street and the Quincy Center MBTA station. To its southeast is a public park, with Quincy City Hall at the far end. It is a rectangular two-story structure, faced in brick with stone trim. The street and park-facing facades are similar, with commercial storefronts on the ground floor that are predominantly 1980s vintage glass and aluminum. The upper level is characterized by a series of gables, each of which has a central window topped by a blind round arch, and flanking sash windows, in a variant of the Palladian window concept. The central window is surrounded by a garland. Between the gable sections are smaller sections with single sash windows that have blind segmented-arch tops.</p><br>
<p>The Colonial Revival building was designed by Shepard and Stearns and built in 1929. Then, as now, it housed retail stores on the ground floor and professional offices above. It was built by Henry Faxon, a major real estate owner of the period. The Dimmock Building, a block down Hancock Street, is another Colonial Revival building from 1929; it has been substantially altered.</p><br>
<p>Moswetuset Hummock is a wooded historic place in Quincy, Massachusetts. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The site is located at the northern end of Wollaston Beach along Quincy Bay on East Squantum Street near the junction with Quincy Shore Drive. It was the seat of the ruling Massachusett chief Chickatawbut, who was visited in 1621 by Plymouth Colony commander Myles Standish and Tisquantum (Squanto), a Patuxet guide. Moswetuset means "shaped like an arrowhead".</p><br>
<p>In his 1747 volume A History of New-England historian Daniel Neal described Moswetuset Hummock as the origin of the name of the indigenous Massachusett tribe, and thus the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts:</p><br>
<p>The Sachem or Sagamore who governed the Indians in this part of the country when the English came hither, had his seat on a small hill, or hummock, containing perhaps an acre and a half, about two leagues to the southward of Boston, which hill or hummock lies in the shape of an Indians arrowhead, which arrow-heads are called in their language MOS, or MONS, with O nasal, and hill in their language is WETUSET hence, this great sachems seat was called Moswetuset, which signifies a hill in the shape of an arrow&#39;s head, and his subjects, the Moswetuset Indians, from whence with a small variation of the word, the Province received the name MASSACHUSETTS.Hummock is a geological term for a small knoll or mound.</p><br>
<p>The Massachusetts Fields School is a historic former school building at the corner of Rawson Road and Beach Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. Built in 1896, it is a high-quality Colonial Revival brick building, built during Quincy&#39;s revolutionary transformation of its school system in the late 19th century. The school was closed in 1982 and was renovated into apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Massachusetts Fields School building occupies the length of a city block on the south side of Rawson Road, bounded on the west by Willet Street and on the east by Beach Street, in the city&#39;s Wollaston neighborhood. It is a two story brick structure with granite trim, set on a high granite foundation, with a hip roof. A granite water table separates the foundation from the first floor, and a similar stringcourse separates the two floors. Windows are set in openings with granite sills and brick lintels. The original part of the building is T-shaped with a projecting central pavilion that is flanked by lower entry porches. A large addition, built in 1923-24, stands to the rear of the original block.</p><br>
<p>Following the publication in 1873 of a blistering report on the poor quality of the city&#39;s district schools, Quincy embarked on a program of improvement that included the construction of new, more centralized, graded school buildings. Between 1892 and 1900 four new school buildings were built, including this one, which was completed in 1896. It was designed by Arthur W. Wright, possibly in conjunction with the builder, Stephen O. Moxon, and is similar in plan to two of the other schools built, the Gridley Bryant School and the Cranch School. The building was named for the broad plain between Mount Wollaston and the Neponset River. It was enlarged in 1923-24 due to increased enrollment, using similar materials, but with more Colonial Revival styling than the original. The school was closed in 1982, and has been converted into residences.</p><br>
<p>Lyon&#39;s Turning Mill is a historic granite turning mill on Ricciuti Drive in Quincy, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>The first quarry on the site, one of the earliest quarries in Quincy, was established on the site about 1825. In the late 1880s James Lyon bought the quarry and organized the Lyons Granite Company in 1893 with a paid in capital of $40,000. The mill, 200 ft by 90 ft (60m by 27m) was built in 1893-94 and equipped with lathes for turning large granite cylinders and jennies for polishing.</p><br>
<p>The mills power plant had a 150 hp steam boiler and 100 hp steam engine which ran the shaft, belt and pulley system that drove the plants machinery. It had a 20-ton traveling derrick and three other derricks with capacities ranging from 5 to 25 tons. It was capable of producing spheres up to 6 ft (1.8m) diameter and cylinders up to 3 ft (1.9m) diameter and 22 ft (7m) long.</p><br>
<p>The mill employed about 80 workers in various trades until 1907, when it closed for unknown reasons.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 1980. It is the proposed home of the recently formed Quincy Quarry & Granite Workers Museum.</p><br>
<p>The George A. Barker House is a historic house located at 74 Greenleaf Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. Built in the late 1870s for the son of a local granite quarry owner, it is a good local example of Queen Anne architecture with Stick style details. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The George A. Barker House is located in a residential area north of downtown Quincy, at the northwest corner of Greenleaf and Putnam Streets. It is set on a 0.5 acre lot with a low granite retaining wall on the two street-facing sides. The house is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a truncated hip roof, and an exterior finished in wooden clapboards. It has applied woodwork detailing typical of the style, as well as asymmetrical massing and angled bracketing on the front porch. The main roof eave is adorned with brackets and a band of jigsawn picket fence woodwork. The main facade is three bays wide, with the entrance at the center, were a gable is set above the porch stairs. An early 20th-century garage is located at the back of the property.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in the late 1870s for George Barker, the son of Henry Barker, owner of some of the largest of Quincy&#39;s granite quarries, whose own house also stands on Greenleaf Street. It is one of two Stick Style houses on Greenleaf Street, and one of two well-preserved examples of the style in the city.</p><br>
<p>The Baxter Street Historic District is a residential historic district roughly at 19-34 Baxter Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. It encompasses an enclave of four duplex worker housing units of a type called the "Quincy Cottage", which were built in the 1880s for workers in a locally important shoe manufacturing company. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Baxter Street is located in a densely-built residential area east of Quincy Center, south of Washington Street and east of Revere Street. It was laid out on a farm previously owned by Josiah Baxter. John E. Drake established a shoe factory a short way east of these houses in the 1870s (near the corner of Parmenter Place), and was employing 250 workers by the 1880s. He built the four duplexes in this district in the 1880s to provide residential space for some of his workers.</p><br>
<p>The four duplexes are all wood frame structures, of a type called a "Quincy Cottage" which were once quite numerous in the city. The basic form is a 1-1/2 story rectangular block, with a projecting entrance and a pair of gabled dormers in the roof. This district includes 19-21, 25-27, 26-28, and 32-24 Baxter Street. Stylistically they represent several subtypes of the form, with some finished in clapboards and others in stucco. The presence and configuration of porches varies, as do added stylistic details such as bracketing in the eaves and the shape and size of dormers. All have gabled dormers framed by carved brackets.</p><br>
<p>The Baxter–King House is a historic house at 36 Heritage Road in Quincy, Massachusetts. The 2-1/2 story wood frame house was built in the 1860s, and is one of the city&#39;s finest Italianate houses. The L-shaped house dominated by a three-story square tower with a shallow hip roof that has a bracketed and modillioned eave. An elaborately decorated entry projects from the tower. Windows are varied in shape, including round-arch windows with drip moulding, and single and doubled sash windows. The house was built by James Baxter Jr., whose daughter Helen married Theophilus King. King owned a leather business in Boston and was president of the Granite Trust Company.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Cranch School is a historic school building at 250 Whitwell Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. Built in 1900 to a design by local architect Arthur Wright, it is a high-quality local example of Renaissance Revival and Queen Anne architecture. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It was converted to a condominium building in the 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Cranch School occupies a roughly triangular lot in a residential area of central Quincy, bounded on the south by Whitell Street, the north by Glendale Road, and the west by Maywood Avenue. It is a two story brick building, rectangular in layout with a projecting central pavilion on the main (west-facing) facade. The two main floors are separated by a granite belt course, and there is a band of corbelled brickwork at the eave below the slate hip roof. The projecting section, two stories with sash windows, is flanked by single-story shed-roofed entrance pavilions, with the entrances recessed under round-arch openings that have a basket-weave brick pattern in the arched section. The side elevations have four sash windows at each level, and the rear has 18 bays, roughly grouped in four and five sets of windows.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by Arthur Wright, and built in 1900, a period of significant growth in the city. It was named for Richard Cranch (1726-1811), a prominent local politician who once owned the land on which the school is located. The building was converted to residential use in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The Forbes Hill Standpipe is a historic water tower structure located on Reservoir Road in Quincy, Massachusetts, USA. The tower was built in 1899-1902 to contain a 330,000 gal steel water tank. The site originally included an adjacent reservoir that supplied the Quincy with water from the Metropolitan Boston Water System. The standpipe was taken out of service in 1955 and the reservoir was filled in.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The tower was constructed by the Metropolitan Water Board (now the MWRA), after the City of Quincy joined the system in 1897. Dexter Brackett was the supervising engineer for the project. It is built from local Quincy granite, and is 30 ft in diameter and 64 ft in height. Although now closed to the public, the crenelated tower roof is accessible via a spiral staircase located between the steel tank and inside tower walls. The standpipe and reservoir were fed from the Chestnut Hill Reservoir. The adjacent rectangular reservoir measured 280 feet long by 100 feet wide at the bottom, with sloping concrete sides, and an average depth of 18 feet.</p><br>
<p>The Forbes Hill reservoir provided a reserve capacity of 5,100,000 gal, as part of the southern high-service system that fed Quincy, Milton and parts of nearby Dorchester. The Forbes Hill reservoir and standpipe were discontinued in the 1950s, after the construction of the Blue Hills Reservoir in the southern part of Quincy.</p><br>
<p>Lake Bunot is one of the Seven Lakes of San Pablo, Laguna in the Philippines. It is located in Brgy. Concepcion, San Pablo City. Only 4.5 km from the city proper, Bunot is known for its cultured tilapia and fishpens for Nilotica fingerlings. Bunot has a normal surface area of 30.5 hectare with a maximum depth of 23 m.</p><br>
<h2>Legend</h2><br>
<p>It is said that in the Spanish Era, some Spanish soldiers came upon a quiet lagoon and wanting to know its name for surveying purposes enquired such from a man husking coconuts by the lakeshore. As is common to many Philippine etymological myths, the man misunderstood the foreign soldiers as asking for the name of the coconut husk, and replied in Tagalog Bunót. The Spaniards left muttering the word, thinking that it was the name of the lake.</p><br>
<p>Lake Palakpakin is one of the Seven Lakes of San Pablo in Laguna province in the Philippines. Palakpakin is located in Brgy. San Buenaventura, San Pablo City. With an area of 43 hectare, it has a maximum depth of 7.5 m.</p><br>
<p>Residents around the lake rely on income from fishpens and fishcages that grow cultured tilapia and silver carps.</p><br>
<h2>Legend</h2><br>
<p>A few kilometers north of the city proper was a village which had become known then for its ancient tree which had a hollow trunk. It was called Palakpak. Some villagers said that on moonlit nights they could see a beautiful, red-haired lady washing her long hair with the hollow trunk serving as her wash basin. There is also river nearby where a big fish appeared each night when the beautiful lady was around. The villagers would not catch it, believing that it must be her pet.</p><br>
<p>One day, a stranger came to the village and tried to solve the mystery about the red-haired lady and the fish. And so one moonlit night, he waited for her. Seeing the lady in her pristine glory, the stranger approached her. All of a sudden there was thunder and lightning. The earth quaked with terrible intensity, while the river swelled alarmingly into a lake. From that time onwards, that lake produces a large quantity of shrimps which when cooked, turned red. People since then had affectionately called their village Palakpakin, after that ancient tree and the shrimps in the lake became a principal source of livelihood, which they call Hipong Palakpakin or Palakpakin Shrimp.</p><br>
<p>Lake Muhikap  is one of the seven lakes of San Pablo City, in the province of Laguna, Philippines. The lake, located in Brgy. Santa Catalina, has an area of 14.5 hectare and is one of the main suppliers of water in the city. The waters of San Pablo Lakes provide a generous source of tilapia for Metro Manila and suburbs.</p><br>
<h2>Legend</h2><br>
<p>The legend of Lake Muhikap is quite similar to those of Lakes Pandin and Yambo to the east. A couple had a very sickly daughter named Munica, and they frequently prayed to God for her health. They promised to do anything in exchange, to which God granted their prayer on condition that Munica must not set foot on soil. She thus grew up to be healthy and very industrious.</p><br>
<p>One day while her parents were away, Munica was sewing a dress. The ball of thread she was using fell on the ground and when she tried to retrieve it, she fainted and fell. She suddenly sank with the entire neighbourhood, and a lagoon was formed. This body of water was later called Muhikap, derived from the unfortunate girl&#39;s name, and mahikap, which means industrious in the local dialect of Tagalog.</p><br>
<p>Lake Calibato is one of the seven crater lakes collectively called Pitong Lawa or Seven Lakes of San Pablo in Laguna province in the Philippines. The lake is situated in Brgy. Sto. Angel in San Pablo City. Calibato has an area of 42 hectare and maximum depth of 135 m. Calibato&#39;s maximum water capacity is approximately 29,600 m&sup3;. Its supplies the city and nearby towns with abundant fish and aquatic plants. The lake is the deepest recorded lake among the seven-lake system; no recorded depths are available for Muhikap.</p><br>
<h2>Legend</h2><br>
<p>It was told that the area was once a valley inhabited by a Diwata (benevolent fairy or nymph) who had wanted to keep her realm free from the intrusion of mankind. Thus, she was angered when people built rocky pathways that criss-crossed her valley. She then caused a strong earthquake and severe storm that transformed her valley into a lagoon.</p><br>
<p>The villagers living in the surrounding hills were awestruck the following morning, and named the body of water Lake Calibato, taken from the criss-crossing stone pathways of the valley, a portmanteau of Cali (corrupted from the Spanish calle, "street") and the Tagalog Bato ("rock").</p><br>
<p>Pandin and Yambo are twin crater lakes separated by a narrow strip of land. They are part of the Seven Lakes system in San Pablo, and are situated at Brgy. San Lorenzo in San Pablo City of Laguna province in the Philippines.</p><br>
<p>Lake Pandin is said to be "the most pristine" of the seven lakes of San Pablo.</p><br>
<h2>Pandin Lake</h2><br>
<p>Pandin has an area of 20.5 hectares and a maximum depth of 63 meters. It has a calculated volume of 6,600 cubic meters of water in storage.</p><br>
<p>Pandin is considered oligotrophic because of the abundant plant and fish life.</p><br>
<h2>Yambo Lake</h2><br>
<p>Yambo has a normal surface area of 28.5 hectares.</p><br>
<p>Yambo, like pandin is considered oligotrophic, and is suitable for swimming, outings, and picnics.</p><br>
<h2>Legend of the Lakes</h2><br>
<p>It was told that these two lakes were named after two lovers. According to the legend, a beautiful woman named Pandin was cursed not to step on the earth, otherwise, something terrible would befall her. Yambo, her ardent lover, did not know about the curse and had made her step on earth, after which there was a terrible noise followed by the cracking grumble of the earth and a heavy downpour eventually converted the area into twin lakes separated from each other by a bare strip of land.</p><br>
<p>The Cooley Mountains are located on the Cooley Peninsula in northeast County Louth in Ireland. They consist of two ridges oriented northwest to southeast, separated by the valley of Glenmore with the Big River running through it.</p><br>
<p>Slieve Foy at 588 metres is the highest peak on the eastern ridge and the highest peak in County Louth. The ridge rises at The Foxes Rock (404m), and runs for roughly 6 km in a southeasterly direction to the town of Carlingford, County Louth. The entire ridge is known as Carlingford Mountain. Two other mountains in the Cooley mountains are locally known as Maeves Gap and Paddys top. Maeves Gap received its name from the Legendary Queen Maeve who led her Armies through this area.</p><br>
<p>The highest hill in the eastern ridge is Clermont Carn (510 m).</p><br>
<p>Also the mythological home of Hurling game as told in the Táin Bó Cúailnge, when Setanta traveled through these mountains hitting his sliothar (ball) before him on his way to Emain Macha, this feat is re-enacted every year in the All-Ireland Poc Fada Championship which takes place on Annaverna Mountain.</p><br>
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<p>The George C. and Winona Flavel House is a house built in 1879 in Astoria, Oregon. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>This was the residence of Captain George Conrad Flavel (1855–1923) and his wife Winona from 1879 to 1901. George Conrad Flavel was the son of George Flavel (1824–1893), also a captain. The house was a wedding present to the junior Flavel from his grandfather, Conrad Boelling. George Conrad Flavel married C. Winona Callendar in 1879. An 1893 remodeling included expansion of the house. The couple lived in this house until 1901, at which time they moved to a newly built, larger house at 15th Street and Franklin Avenue (also in Astoria) and sold the 1879 dwelling. Their 1901-built house is also listed on the National Register, as the Captain George Conrad Flavel House.</p><br>
