<p>The parish Church of St. Quiricus and St. Julietta in Tickenham, Somerset, England, has 11th-century origins, with the nave and chancel being extended by the addition of aisles and the south chapel in the early 13th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church&#39;s dedication to the saints Quiricus and Julietta is extremely unusual – there are three similar dedications in the UK, two in Cornwall at Luxulyan and St Veep, and one at Swaffham Prior, in Cambridgeshire.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The oldest part of the church is the chancel which has a low Norman arch. Aisles were added to the nave and chancel in the early 13th century. The south aisle west window and north aisle windows date from the mid 14th century. The tower was added in 1497. It was formerly known as the Bave Chapel after the Bave family of Barrow Court.</p><br>
<h2>Fittings</h2><br>
<p>The baptismal font in the south aisle dates from around 1300, and consists of a square bowl with blank trefoiled pointed arch-heads, central shaft and four slimmer Purbeck shafts. There is also a hexagonal Jacobean carved wooden pulpit in the nave.</p><br>
<p>The chancel altar and chapel altar are supported by columns of Elton ware, gift of Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet, in 1895. The stained glass windows include a small early 14th century figures of Christ Crucified and Christ in Majesty in south aisle. There are also later 14thcentury fragments in the north aisle windows.</p><br>
<p>The Goodall House  is a historic house located at 618 Orange Street in Macon, Georgia, is a house built in 1859 with Italianate exterior and ornate interior. As of 1971, it had been very little altered.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 27, 1971. It was deemed significant as a "splendid example of substantial homes built on the Hill as Macons residential section moved to the higher elevation" from the citys business center. While the house was the first built on its block, by 1971 it was compressed between other houses. One of its few changes since construction was loss of a projecting bay window because an adjacent building was so close.</p><br>
<p>The nearby Judge Clifford Anderson House, built in the same era, was also outstanding and well-preserved, as of 1971.</p><br>
<p>In 2017, the Goodall House seems no longer to exist.</p><br>
<p>Mount Benson is a mountain located on Vancouver Island, British Columbia located 9 km west of Nanaimo. There was road access to the peak, and it is popular with local hikers. It has good views of the Strait of Georgia and the mainland coast of British Columbia.</p><br>
<p>Formerly known as Wake-siah, this hill was named in 1859 by Captain Richards, RN, after his friend Alfred Robson Benson, MD, a physician from Whitby (Yorkshire), who was in the Hudson&#39;s Bay Company service 1857-62.</p><br>
<p>Most of the summit is flat with several small lakes, surrounded by clearcuts.</p><br>
<h2>1951 Kemano air crash</h2><br>
<p>In October 1951 23 people died in worst aviation accident to that time in British Columbia history when a Canso operated by Queen Charlotte Airlines en route from Kitimat to Vancouver crashed into Mount Benson at the 490 m level. Remnants remained on the slopes for many years afterwards.</p><br>
<h2>Mount Benson Regional Park</h2><br>
<p>In July 2008 the Mount Benson Regional Park, comprising 212 hectare on the upper north east slope of Mount Benson was established on land acquired in 2005 by the Regional District of Nanaimo and the Nanaimo and Area Land Trust. There is no road access to the park itself. Only a portion of the mountain is within the park not including the twin summits. The park area is the head waters of the Millstone River and, to the east, the Chase River.</p><br>
<p>Kaminia  is a village in the northeast of the island of Lemnos, Greece. It is a community of the municipal unit of Moudros. From 1918 until 1998, it was an independent community. The population in 2011 was 234 for the village and 243 for the community, which includes the village Vroskopos. It is located in the southeastern peninsula of the island, 5 km east of Moudros, 6 km northwest of Fisini and 7 km south of Kontopouli. Its elevation is about 60 m. Its area is 12.847 km, of which 7.60 km are arable.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village was first mentioned in 1346 in a document of the Great Lavra monastery on Mount Athos. During the Turkish rule, all of its residents were Greek. It had 90 families in 1874, and a community school was opened in that year. After the column of Kaminia was discovered in 1885, the village was visited by many tourists.</p><br>
<p>In the 1920s and the 1930s, excavations by the Italian Archaeological School revealed the prehistoric settlement of Poliochne. A new school building was built in 1932, which was closed in 1994. Many of its residents emigrated after World War II, mainly to Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The inhabitants are mainly farmers and shepherds. At present mainly cereals and wine are cultivated, cotton was grown around 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Localities</h2><br>
<h3>Poliochne</h3><br>
<p>The Bronze Age settlement Poliochne has been excavated near the beach of Vroskopos.</p><br>
<h3>Vroskopos</h3><br>
<p>Vroskopos (also Voroskopos) is a small settlement on the coast, 2 km southeast of Kaminia. It was named after the nearby promontory. A settlement at the site of Vroskopos is evidenced by tombs from the 11th to 13th century. It was first mentioned by Florentine traveler Buondelmonti in 1418. A fortress was built in the 13th century. In the 15th century the coastal areas, including Vroskopos, were abandoned, but in the late 16th and 17th centuries the port was used again. The castle and the village were probably destroyed around 1656 in the Fifth Ottoman-Venetian War. Moreover, pirate attacks forced the inhabitants to move to inland villages such as Kaminia. By the 20th century Vroskopos was settled again as the sea port of Kaminia. Tourist facilities were built, and in 2011 Vroskopos had 9 permanent inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>The Ochoco Mountains are a mountain range in central Oregon in the United States, located at the western end of the Blue Mountains. They were formed when Permian, Triassic, and Jurassic rocks were slowly uplifted by volcanic eruptions to form the Clarno Formation. Today, the highest point in the range is Lookout Mountain. The dominant vegetation on the west side of the range is old-growth ponderosa pine; on the east side, western juniper is common. The western area of the mountains is administered by the Ochoco National Forest, while the southeastern section is part of the Malheur National Forest. The Ochoco Mountains are used for hiking, camping, bird watching, rockhounding, and hunting, as well as cross-country skiing in the winter.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Ochoco Mountains run 114 mi north to south and 86 mi east to west. The eight highest peaks in the range are:</p><br>
<p>Lookout Mountain, summit 6,926 ft</p><br>
<p>Spanish Peak, summit 6,871 ft</p><br>
<p>Mount Pisgah, summit 6,816 ft</p><br>
<p>Round Mountain, summit 6,755 ft</p><br>
<p>East Point, summit 6,625 ft</p><br>
<p>North Point, summit 6,607 ft</p><br>
<p>Wolf Mountain, summit 6,483 ft</p><br>
<p>View Point, summit 6,266 ft</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Ochoco Mountains in central Oregon form the western end of the Blue Mountains province. The Blue Mountains are not a single cohesive range, but rather a complex of ranges and inter-mountain basins and valleys that extend from southeast Washington into central Oregon, ending near Prineville. The Ochoco portion of the province is part of a wide uplifted plateau made of rocks from the Permian, Triassic, and Jurassic periods (300 to 200 million years old) that were transported by the Pacific Plate and accreted in the late Mesozoic era (about 100 million years ago) as part of a vast shallow sea, then slowly uplifted by volcanic eruptions during the Eocene epoch (50 to 37 million years ago) to form the Clarno Formation. From 37 to 17 million years ago, eruptions in the western Cascade Range spread ash across eastern Oregon, forming the John Day Formation. From 17 to 14 million years ago, major volcanic eruptions covered much of the province with basalt flows, creating the Columbia River Basalt Group. Since then, continued faulting and uplift has resulted in a deeply eroded landscape. Steins Pillar is an excellent example of this erosion.</p><br>
<p>During the Eocene epoch, central Oregon volcanoes deposited layers of lava and ash up to 1,000 ft thick over the area that is now the Ochoco Mountains. Large mudflows called lahars were also common during that period. These mudflows often covered and preserved the plants and animals, resulting in fossil beds. Today, fossils of prehistoric trees, fruits, nuts, and flowers can be found in the Ochoco Mountains along with fossilized animals including horses, camels, rhinoceros, and hippopotami.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>The vegetation in the Ochoco Mountains ranges from old-growth ponderosa pine on the western slopes and in the mountain valleys to western juniper and sagebrush on the eastern and southern slopes. The high mountain meadows host a wide variety of wild flowers and even ferns in some areas. Big Summit Prairie near the center of the Ochocos is well known for its spring wild flower displays.</p><br>
<p>Ponderosa pine is the dominant tree species in most parts of the Ochoco Mountains. These pines are common at elevations from 3000 to 6000 ft above sea level. Manzanita, antelope bitterbrush, and ceanothus are common shrubs in the pine-dominated areas with Idaho fescue and Ross sedge as the main ground cover. Ponderosa pine forests are tolerant of drought and low-intensity wildfires. Birds commonly found in the pine forests of the Ochoco Mountains include the northern flicker, hairy woodpecker, red-tailed hawk, and Stellers jay. Central Oregon&#39;s ponderosa pine forests are an important winter range for mule deer and Rocky Mountain elk.</p><br>
<p>On the drier, eastern side of the Ochoco Mountains, the western juniper trees survive on as little as 8 in of precipitation per year. The ranges juniper woodlands cover wide areas from 3000 to 4000 ft in elevation. Antelope bitterbrush and sagebrush are common shrubs in these areas with Idaho fescue and bluebunch wheatgrass as the main ground cover. Juniper woodlands are home to mountain bluebirds, Townsends solitaires, and ferruginous hawks during the spring and summer. There are also many small mammals and lizards that are prey for coyote.</p><br>
<p>Big Summit Prairie is a large high-country meadow covering 20 square miles in the middle of the Ochoco Mountains. The prairie is covered by water-loving grasses, overgrown by willows and shrubs in some areas. Tufted hairgrass, elephants head, and horsetail are common ground cover in the meadowlands. Quaking aspen with shrubby undergrowth attract wildlife not found in other parts of the Ochoco Mountains. Common birds include sandhill crane, Wilsons snipe, long-billed curlew, and northern harrier. Even the rare dickcissel has been sighted at Big Summit Prairie. Larger animals include mule deer, pronghorn, Belding&#39;s ground squirrel, northern pocket gopher, meadow mice, and coyotes. Also, Rocky Mountain elk move into the area in the fall.</p><br>
<p>Big Summit Prairie is particularly well known for its wildflowers and butterflies. From April through June, flowers cover Big Summit meadow. The first wildflowers to bloom are usually grass widow, wild parsley, and shooting stars. From May through June, Wyethia, buttercups, and camas display their colors. In drier areas, bitterroot bloom with large white and pink flowers. In June and July, other flowers take over the display including Missouri iris, larkspur, Indian paintbrush, checkermallow, and arrowleaf balsamroot. One notable plant is Peck’s mariposa lily, a type of Calochortus with lavender petals. This plant is found only in the Ochoco Mountains. Butterfly species common to the Big Summit Prairie include hairstreak, skipper, eastern tailed-blue, Lycaenidae, checkerspot, fritillary, swallowtail, admiral, and tortoiseshell.</p><br>
<h2>Human uses</h2><br>
<p>Most of the Ochoco Mountains are public lands administered by the United States Forest Service. The Ochoco National Forest is responsible for most of the mountain area; however, the southeastern part of the range is in the Malheur National Forest. Some land in the Ochoco area is also administered by the Bureau of Land Management. Hiking, fishing, camping, hunting, horseback riding, bird watching, and rockhounding are all popular activities.</p><br>
<p>The Ochoco National Forest maintains 27 campgrounds in or near the Ochoco Mountains. The largest are the Antelope Flat Reservoir, Ochoco Divide, Walton Lake, and Wildcat campgrounds. The Malheur National Forest has several campgrounds in the Ochoco Mountains as well. The largest is the campground at Delintment Lake.</p><br>
<p>Antelope Flat Reservoir campground has 24 campsites surrounded by a scenic pponderosa pine forest. The reservoir is not visible from the campground, but it is only a 10-minute walk to the lake shore. The campground is at 4,600 ft above sea level. Potable water is available at the site along with picnic tables, fire pits, and vault toilets. The area is lightly used except on holiday weekends. Fishing, swimming, boating, and hiking are favorite activities.</p><br>
<p>Ochoco Divide Campground is located in an old-growth ponderosa pine forest just off USA Highway 26, 30 mi east of Prineville. The campground is located at 4,600 ft above sea level. It has 28 campsites, picnic tables, fire pits, and vault toilets. The campground is commonly used as an overnight stop for highway travelers, who then move on in the morning. As a result, the campground is often full at night but very quiet during the day. Bandit Springs highway rest stop is one mile (1.6 km) west of the campground. The rest stop is the trailhead for several hiking trails. These trails are popular for hiking and mountain biking in the summer and cross-country skiing in the winter.</p><br>
<p>Walton Lake is a small lake surrounded by old-growth ponderosa pine and mountain meadows. The lake is stocked with rainbow trout each summer. Two hiking trails are located in the area. The Walton Lake Trail is a one-mile loop around the lake while Round Mountain National Scenic Trail is a 7.5 mi hike that offers the opportunity to see high-country wildlife and many varieties of birds. The campground is 5,000 ft above sea level. The site has potable water, picnic tables, fire pits, level tent sites, and vault toilets. There is also a day-use picnic area with two tables, cooking grills, a sandy lake shore beach, and a fishing pier. Fishing, swimming, boating, and hiking are popular activities at Walton Lake.</p><br>
<p>Wildcat Campground is located at the southwest corner of the Mill Creek Wilderness, approximately 19 mi from Prineville. The campground is at an elevation of 3,700 ft. It has 17 sites, potable water, picnic tables, fire pits, and vault toilets. A trailhead leading into the Mill Creek Wilderness is located adjacent to the campground. It connects to a network of hiking trails in the Mill Creek and Twin Pillars areas.</p><br>
<p>Delintment Lake Campground is located 45 mi northwest of Burns. The campground is 5,600 ft above sea level. It has 33 sites, potable water from a hand-pump, 12 picnic sites, and vault toilets. Hiking, fishing, swimming, boating, and wildlife viewing are popular activities at Delintment Lake.</p><br>
<p>The unique geology of the Ochoco Mountains is such that a wide variety of rock types are located in a relatively small area. This brings rockhounds to the area every summer. The Bureau of Land Management and the Ochoco National Forest both have designated areas where rockhounds can search for agate, jasper, petrified wood, petrified moss, and dendrite. These rock collection sites are for personal use only; gathering rocks for commercial purposes is prohibited. Thundereggs can be found at Whistle Springs. Even though the area has been worked by rockhounds for many years, quality thundereggs are still found at the site. There are also some rare rocks and minerals in central Oregon in or near the Ochoco Mountains, including opals, amethyst, gem quality calcite, cinnabar, selenite, gypsum, and amygdaloid nodules.</p><br>
<h2>Wilderness areas</h2><br>
<p>The Ochoco National Forest has three wilderness areas in the Ochoco Mountains. They are the Bridge Creek Wilderness, the Black Canyon Wilderness, and the Mill Creek Wilderness.</p><br>
<p>The Bridge Creek Wilderness is very remote, and at 5,400 acre, it is the smallest wilderness in Oregon. It has few visitors except during the fall hunting season. Its topography is dominated by steep, forested slopes and barren plateaus, although it has some mountain meadow lands as well. The wilderness contains important winter elk habitat along Bridge Creek. Other large mammals common to the area include mule deer, black bear, and cougar. Pileated woodpecker, goshawks, and prairie falcons nest in the Bridge Creek area. There are no trails in the Bridge Creek Wilderness, so this area is for experienced outdoorsmen.</p><br>
<p>The Black Canyon Wilderness encompasses 13,400 acre with elevations ranging from 3900 to 6400 ft above sea level. The Black Canyon environment ranges from dense forest to steep basalt cliffs. The Black Canyon Wilderness is home to a wide range of wildlife including deer, elk, black bear, and cougar. Wildflowers such as crimson columbine, lupine, and Indian paintbrush can be found throughout the wilderness. There are several hiking trails, all very rugged.</p><br>
<p>The Mill Creek Wilderness includes 17,000 acre of protected land. The wilderness is characterized by deep canyons and towering pinnacles including a pair of volcanic plugs called the Twin Pillars. These two rock outcroppings are found along the Twin Pillars Trail National Recreational Trail. The trailhead is at Wildcat Campground, just outside the wilderness boundary. The Mill Creek Wilderness has a 21 mi network of trails. The trails are used by both hikers and horse riders; however, the entire trail system is extremely rugged with many steep climbs and descents. The wilderness is dense pine and fir forest dissected by Mill Creek and its tributaries. Elk and deer are common in the Mill Creek area, as are black bear, wild turkey, pileated woodpeckers, and goshawks. In the fall, the Mill Creek Wilderness is a popular area for hunters.</p><br>
<p>The mainly 15th-century parish Church of St Andrew in Banwell, Somerset, England, is a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The body of the church has a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles and a rather short chancel, considering the proportions of the rest of the church. The font dates from the 12th century and there is a carved stone pulpit from the 15th century and a carved rood screen built and set up in 1552, which escaped the Reformation.</p><br>
<p>The 100 ft (30 m) high tower, which dates from around 1417, contains ten bells dates from the 18th to 20th century and the clock is dated 1884. Bells dating from 1734 and 1742 were made by Thomas Bilbie, of the Bilbie family. On the western face of the tower is a representation of the Annunciation. In the Virgin Mary&#39;s niche there is a lily pot symbol of purity, and a lily leaf motif also to be found in the font and pulpit.</p><br>
<p>The churchyard contains the war grave of a Hampshire Regiment soldier of World War I.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Peter and St Paul dominates the village of Bleadon, Somerset, England.</p><br>
<p>It was built in the 14th century (dedicated in 1317), being restored and the chancel shortened in the mid 19th century. It is a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The tower, which has been dated to around 1390, contains five bells dating from 1711 and made by Edward Bilbie of the Bilbie family, and one from 1925 by the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the church includes a Norman tub font and a pulpit dating from about 1460. The Sweetland organ dates from 1893 and was moved to its present position in 1956. The stained glasswindow is from 1964.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican parish is part of the Bleadon benefice within the archdeaconry of Bath.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Holy Trinity in Burrington, Somerset, England, is from the 15th century and was restored in 1884. It is a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The tower is square with diagonal buttresses but joins somewhat uncomfortably with the nave. It dates from the early 14th century. It contains a bell dating from 1713 and made by Edward Bilbie of the Bilbie family.</p><br>
<p>The rest of the church is all late Perpendicular. There are a few remnants of pre-Reformation stained glass but the great majority of the windows are Victorian. Of these the most notable are: the window in the south wall of the south aisle by Warrington; the window from the east in the south aisle by Charles Eamer Kempe; the west window of the south aisle by Warde and Hughes; and the west window of the north aisle by Heaton, Butler and Bayne. One window includes the arms of the Capels of Langford Court.</p><br>
<p>The pews were installed in 1913 in memory of William Wills, 1st Baron Winterstoke.</p><br>
<p>In 2000 a gold leaf weathervane was erected at the top of the tower.</p><br>
<p>St. Bridget&#39;s Church in Chelvey, Brockley, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century, and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church is dedicated to the Irish saint Brigid of Kildare.</p><br>
<p>The building includes a Norman south doorway and the octagonal font. There is also an inscribed Purbeck marble slab in the Tynte chapel under the Jacobean altar table. It dates from between 1250 and 1275, and shows the tall figure of an unknown 13th-century knight, clad in a long surcoat, grasping a spear in one hand and the scabbard of a sword in the other.</p><br>
<p>Near the pulpit is a replica sand-filled hour glass in an iron frame, previously used for preachers to time their sermons.</p><br>
<p>The churchyard cross is 1.5 m high and sits on an octagonal base. At the top is a box and ball decoration which was added in 1877.</p><br>
<p>In the late 20th century the building had fallen into a state of disrepair with water seeping into the building, damaging the stonework. In 2008 an appeal was launched which raised money for the restoration, new lighting and a new organ.</p><br>
<p>At the Dammersfeldkuppe in Bavaria is the second highest mountain after the Wasserkuppe  in the Rhön, a low mountain range straddling the states of Bavaria, Hesse and Thuringia in Germany.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Dammersfeldkuppe is situated in the districts of Bad Kissingen (Bavaria) and Fulda (Hesse) and is one of the peaks of the "High Rhön" (Hohe Rhön). Its dome is in Bavaria about 200 m southeast of the border with Hesse between Gersfeld (Hesse), Bad Brückenau and Wildflecken (both in Bavaria).</p><br>
<p>The entire mountain lies within the Wildflecken Military Training Area and is surrounded by the Bavarian Rhön Nature Park and Rhön Biosphere Reserve.</p><br>
<p>The Rhine-Weser watershed runs through the Dammersfeldkuppe. The source of the Schmalnau is on the northern flank of the mountain; its waters flow through the Fulda into the Weser. On the mountains southern flank rises the Kleine Sinn ("Little Sinn"), the Bavarian name of the Schmale Sinn, whose water makes its way via the Sinn, Franconian Saale and Main to the Rhine.</p><br>
<h2>Annual training area walk</h2><br>
<p>Because part of the Wildflecken Military Training Area extends over the Dammersfeldkuppe it is usually closed to the public. However a tradition that was started by the US Forces and continued by the Bundeswehr after the Americans pulled out of Wildflecken in 1994, is the annual summer walk or Volksmarsch through the out-of-bounds area. This provides an opportunity to walk across the otherwise inaccessible terrain and the summit of the mountain on specified paths.</p><br>
<p>Lake Jasper is a permanent freshwater lake in the South West area of Western Australia. The lake is the largest freshwater lake in Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>The lake is located on a flat sandy plain, the Scott Coastal Plain, with a high dune ridge to the west and the Donnelly River to the East. The lake is contained within the boundaries of the D&#39;Entrecasteaux National Park.</p><br>
<p>A camp site exists on the eastern side of the lake but be aware there are no fireplaces and all campfires are banned all year round completely in this area, the shoreline of the lake is only accessible on foot, no vehicles are allowed on the shore. There are picnic tables, but you cannot park next to them, the camp site is only accessible by 4WD.</p><br>
<p>Lake Jasper has two smaller lakes located to the East; Lake Wilson and Lake Smith. All of these bodies are part of the Donnelly River catchment area and they all are inhabited by all of the regions endemic freshwater fish species.</p><br>
<p>The lake has significant floristic value as it supports an extensive area of tall sedgeland. The area is also an important habitat for fish, waterbirds, invertebrates and frogs.</p><br>
<p>The lake is known as a White Water Lake due to the lack of tannic acid in the water allowing good light dispersion. The lake water is of a high quality and high quality artesian water also exists in the area.</p><br>
<p>Lake Jasper was named in memory of Jasper Taylor Molloy Bussell (18631864), son of Alfred and Ellen Bussell.</p><br>
<p>The Small House in Macon, Georgia, also known as Ralph Small House or Napier-Small House, is a "distinguished" example of high-style Greek Revival architecture that was built in 1846 by Skelton Napier.</p><br>
<p>Among Greek Revival works, it has two extraordinary features. One is that the Doric columns of its portico are in antis, i.e. set in between square columns (antae), at the two front corners. There is no known precedent in original Greece or in the Greek Revival style, for columns used in antis for a "pro-style temple type portico". The four fluted Doric columns and the antae support the entablature of the portico.</p><br>
<p>The second is that it has a low wooden parapet with carved acroteria above the entablature, serving as a gallery or corona, that is exceptionally well executed. This ornamentation is "a satisfying response to the theme set by the laurel wreaths of the frieze and at the same time a kind of counter-point to the baldness of the antae which terminate the colonade."</p><br>
<p>It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1936.</p><br>
<p>It was built facing Vineville Avenue and was approached along a long driveway lined with cedar trees. However, when the area was broken up into smaller lots it was moved and turned and no longer has a spacious and stately setting.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>Millwood is the site and ruins of an antebellum plantation house at 6100 Garner&#39;s Ferry Road , Columbia, South Carolina. Owned by Colonel Wade Hampton II and his wife Ann Fitzsimmons Hampton, it was the boyhood home of their first son Wade Hampton III and other children. He later became a Confederate general and later, South Carolina governor, and USA Senator.</p><br>
<p>After the death of Wade Hampton II in 1858, the house was inherited by his four unmarried daughters. On February 17, 1865, it was burned by General Sherman&#39;s troops the same time the city of Columbia was burned. On March 18, 1971, the ruins were named to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Hampton family</h2><br>
<p>Wade Hampton I (1752–1835) was a lieutenant colonel in the American Revolutionary War, brigadier general in the War of 1812, a congressman, and a wealthy planter. When he died in 1835, he was considered one of the wealthiest men in America with plantations in Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina; he was the wealthiest planter in the Southern United States.</p><br>
<p>Wade Hampton II (1791–1858) was called Colonel due to a commission in the South Carolina Militia. He served two terms in the South Carolina Senate. Although he never sought another political office, he played a major role in South Carolina politics. He was an avid sportsmen, hunter, and horse breeder.</p><br>
<p>Wade Hampton III (1818–1902) was the first son of Wade Hampton II. He served in the Confederate Army by leading Hampton&#39;s Legion rising to the rank of lieutenant general. After the war, near the end of Reconstruction, he was elected as the first Democratic, was after the Civil War a governor in the South since before the Civil War. He later was elected as a USA Senator from South Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Various sources indicate that Millwood was constructed in 1817, 1830, or after 1815 and probably in the 1830s, Since many early houses were expanded over the years, it is possible that there is truth in all the statements.</p><br>
<p>Wade Hampton II married his first wife, Ann Fitzsimons, in 1817. His father had given him his Mill Tract north of the present Garners Ferry Road. His fathers home was the original Woodlands south of the Garner&#39;s Ferry Road. Wade Hampton II built a raised, two-story cottage prior to the birth of Wade Hampton III in 1818. In 1837 or 1838, Millwood was remodeled in Greek Revival style by the architect Nathaniel Potter from Rhode Island. His plan had a wing on each side, six two-story columns at the center, and three smaller columns on each wing. The renovations took about two years. During this time, the family lived away including a resort near White Sulphur Springs.</p><br>
<p>An artistic rendition of the house has been published. It shows the central, two-story section with the prostyle, hexastyle portico. There were matching one-story wings fronted by three columns on either side. The central section of the sketch resembled the extant Millford Plantation house, which was built by Hampton&#39;s youngest sister and brother-in-law in Sumter County, South Carolina. Millford and the renovations of Millwood had the same architect, Nathaniel Porter.</p><br>
<p>A conjectural floor plan of Millwood&#39;s first floor was published based on Hampton family accounts. This shows that there was a central hall with two rooms on each side of the front of the house. With wide folding doors between these rooms, the entire width of the house could be open for entertaining and dancing. There was a cross hall behind these rooms that connected to the wings. There was a curving staircase to the second floor at the end of the main hall. The wings extended beyond the back of the central section.</p><br>
<h2>Millwood's role in South Carolina</h2><br>
<p>Because of the elegant entertaining and powerful guests, Millwood has been called the "social center of South Carolina" in the antebellum period. In addition to major South Carolina politicians, planters, and "aristocracy," national guests included Henry Clay and Daniel Webster.</p><br>
<p>The inaugural party for Governor William Aiken, Jr. in 1844 was held at Millwood.</p><br>
<h2>Destruction in 1865</h2><br>
<p>All that remained of the original Millwood were the twelve columns, the smoke house, the wing house, and a portion of the stable. Sometime later, the six shorter columns that were in front of the wings were torn down. Around 1930, one of the round columns toppled. Its base remains along with the three other round columns and two square columns.</p><br>
<p>The Miss Hamptons built a nearby cottage after the war. This was burned by arsonists after the bitterly contested gubernatorial election that Wade Hampton III won in 1876. They rebuilt a new two-story house around the old kitchen and laundry near the ruins of the original Millwood.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Michael in Clapton in Gordano, Somerset, England, dates from the 13th century and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is a redundant church in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust. It was vested in the Trust on 1 June 1995.</p><br>
<p>St Michael’s closed in 1995 but due to its architectural interest was adopted by the Trust, however occasional services are still held throughout the year.</p><br>
<p>The 12th-century tympanum is the oldest visible part of the church to have survived, however the majority of the building is from the 13th century.</p><br>
<p>Inside are reredos and benches, a 14th-century font and a late 17th-century monument. The 13th-century oak screen in the church originally divided the Great Hall and the Buttery in the adjacent Court House.</p><br>
<p>The first record of the church is an agreement dated 1226 between William, son of Arthur de Clopton and Richard of Keynsham Abbey.</p><br>
<p>The Bray House is a historic house at 100 Pepperell Road in Kittery Point, Maine, United States. It is one of the oldest surviving buildings in the state. Long thought to be a 17th-century structure, the architectural evidence indicates that standing home was probably not built before 1710–1720. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bray House is set on the south side of Pepperell Road (Maine State Route 103), on a site overlooking the mouth of the Piscataqua River. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame residential structure, whose main block is five bays wide, with a side gable roof, large central chimney, clapboard siding, and granite foundation. The entrance, centered on the river-facing south facade, is flanked by sidelight windows and pilasters and topped by an entablature. A former two-story extension to the east added two bays, and a narrow connecting segment joined the main house to a second 2-1/2 story house, oriented perpendicular to the main block, that was moved to this property in the early 20th century. All but the original central structure were demolished in 2017.</p><br>
<p>While this location is known to be the place where John Bray built a house in about 1662, it was impossible at the time of the National Registry of Historic Properties nomination to determine whether parts of Brays original house survive in the present structure; the construction methods and styling of the house are consistent with a construction date of about 1720. This is still adequate to make the house one of Maines oldest surviving structures. Extensive formal Georgian interior detailing was added in the mid-18th century.</p><br>
<p>Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates fame purchased the house at auction in 2008 and undertook a partial restoration. He sold the restored property for $2.0 million; the new owners have demolished all but the original structure, which is now flanked by modernist angular new construction.</p><br>
<p>Bennett Mountain, also commonly known as Bennett Peak, is a 1,909 ft summit in the Sonoma Mountains of California. Located on the west edge of Annadel State Park, it separates Bennett Valley in the Russian River drainage basin from Sonoma Valley in the Sonoma Creek drainage basin.</p><br>
<p>Bennett Valley was named for James N. Bennett, an emigrant from Illinois who settled in the area in the 19th century.</p><br>
<h2>Viticulture</h2><br>
<p>Grapes were planted on Bennett Mountain as early as 1862, when Isaac DeTurk planted 30 acre at the base of its western slope. By 1878 he was producing 100,000 USgal of wine from his own and purchased grapes at a winery on Grange and Bennett Valley roads. Since 2003, the summit has formed the eastern edge of the Bennett Valley AVA.</p><br>
<p>Bellair, in Albemarle County, Virginia, is a historic farm. The farm is significant for the architecture of its buildings and for its association with owners important in the political, religious, and economic life of the state. A 250-acre portion of the farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Martin Dawson, owner in 1819, was a co-founder of the Rivanna Navigation Company and eventually became the largest donor to the University of Virginia up to the time of his bequest.</p><br>
<p>Its southern boundary is the Hardware River.</p><br>
<p>The main house on the property is a Federal-style building with dual chimneys dating from 1794 to 1817 period.</p><br>
<p>Architect Marshall S. Wells designed and/or supervised some Colonial Revival style additions in the 1930s and there was further addition of a Palladian window and more in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>A smokehouse is one additional contributing building on the property.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican Church of St Andrew in Congresbury, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>Congresbury is named after St Congar, who is said to have performed three miracles in the area. The second part of the name is thought to come from burh meaning fortified place. The archaeologist Mick Aston identified an Anglo-Saxon sculpture of St Congar which is believed to have come from St Andrews Church, and which is now in the Museum of Somerset in Taunton.</p><br>
<p>The present church was consecrated by Bishop Jocelin of Wells on 11 July 1215.</p><br>
<p>The church was remodelled in the 15th century, in a Perpendicular style; further restorations followed in 1825, 1856 and 1950-2.</p><br>
<p>The Tower contains a heavy ring of 8 Bells, the Tenor (the biggest bell) weighing 3812lb or 1729kg and it strikes the note of C. The oldest bells date back to 1606 and were cast by George Purdue.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Congresbury with Puxton and Hewish St Ann within the deanery of Locking.</p><br>
<p>The Fundy Islands, also known as the Fundy Isles, is a term given to a group of Canadian islands in the Bay of Fundy along the southwestern coast of New Brunswick, Canada, in the provincial county of Charlotte. There are over 25 islands within this group including several parishes including the West Isles. Some of the larger islands are inhabited year-round while some of the smaller islands may have seasonal residents. The largest of the islands is Grand Manan with the second and third largest islands being Campobello Island and Deer Island respectively. Deer Island shares its coastline with not only the Bay of Fundy, but also Passamaquoddy Bay to its north. Smaller island exist along each of the larger islands as well as within Passamaquoddy Bay and along the New Brunswick mainland. Some of these islands include White Head Island , Macs Island and Pendelton Island , Minister&#39;s Island and Hospital Island .</p><br>
<p>Juncal Island is an island belonging to Uruguay, located where the Uruguay River empties into the Río de la Plata, a bit above the Uruguayan town of Carmelo. It is separated from Uruguay by the Canal de Camacho.</p><br>
<p>The much smaller Juncalito Island lies a kilometer north; to the west, separated by the principal channel, lies Portuguese Island (Isla del Portugues), which belongs to the Argentine province of Entre Rios.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The chief historical event associated with Juncal Island is the Battle of Juncal, one of the most important naval battles of the Cisplatine War. Occurring on 8 and 9 February, 1827 between squadrons of the Brazilian Empire and the United Provinces of the Río de la Plata, the result was a complete victory for the United Provinces.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>From a geological point of view, the island is a mass of riverine affluvient founded on a precambrian granite core. The coasts are sandy and feature gentle inclines near the channels. The island is low and flat, and can be completely submerged during high water. It has a total length of 4.91 km and a maximum width of 1.95 km.</p><br>
<p>The western coast of the island is washed with waters from the river Guazú in addition to those of the Uruguay River from the north, while the east receives the cleaner and more oxygenated waters of the Camacho River; in this area a type of fish called a pejerrey (Odontesthes bonariensis) can be found in abundance. As a result, it is a habitual destination for fishing boats.</p><br>
<p>The vegetation of the island is primarily scrubland, although some trees can be found towards the center.</p><br>
<p>Neotropical silversides</p><br>
<p>The parish church of St Michael the Archangel in Dundry, Somerset, England has a tower which was built in 1484, with the rest dated 1861. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The four-stage tower was erected, around 1484, by the Society of Merchant Venturers of Bristol as a landmark and is visible from many parts of Avon.</p><br>
<p>The rest of the church was built in 1861 by G.B. Gabriel, replacing the previous medieval building.</p><br>
<p>The church became part of a joint benefice with the Church of St Andrew, Chew Magna in 1977 and in 2000 were joined by Holy Trinity Church, Norton Malreward.</p><br>
<p>In 2015 the church was closed because of safety concerns due to falling plaster from the ceiling. Repairs to the roof have been estimated to cost £225,000. Funding to help with the repairs has been received from the Heritage Lottery Fund and work is expected to start on the reapair of the nave in November 2015. Work will then be suspended in spring 2016 because the roof is used as a roost by Pipstrelle bats. It is hoped that the work, including repairs to the heating system and the installation of toilets will take place in time to fully reopen the church in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>Churchyard</h2><br>
<p>Outside the church is a 5 ft cube of dressed stone, from Dundry Main Road South Quarry. It known as the dole table, which was used to give alms to the poor. There is also a 3 m high churchyard cross on an octagonal base. The head of the cross was installed in the 19th century to the same design as one which had previously occupied the site. It has been scheduled as an ancient monument.</p><br>
<p>Chest tombs in the churchyard include those to the Dowling family which is thought to date from the mid 18th century, and one of the same age to the Holbrook family.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The four-stage tower is 97 ft high and is a prominent feature in its hill-top position with its tower visible for many miles around.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Paul in Kewstoke, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century with the tower being built in 1395. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The tower is in two stages, with rendered, diagonal buttresses with setbacks which rise through parapet as corner pinnacles. A polygonal stair turret at the south east corner rises to a pyramidal cap. The first stage has two 2-light perpendicular west window under a plain drip mould, and similar but smaller window with carved stops to the south. The second stage has one 2-light perpendicular window under a drip mould with carved stops on each side; all louvres except the west which is blank. A quatrefoil pierced parapet has gargoyles at the corner. The tower has a peel of 6 bells.</p><br>
<p>In 1849 a reliquary was found in St Pauls Church that was believed to have come originally from the priory and to contain the blood of Thomas Becket. It is believed that it was moved to St Pauls for safe keeping at the time of the Dissolution of the Monasteries and is now in the Museum of Somerset in Taunton.</p><br>
<p>The font dates from the 14th century, but has been re-cut, with the bowl being much older than the base.</p><br>
<p>The Church of All Saints in Kingston Seymour, Somerset, England dates from the late 14th or early 15th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The base of the font is older than the church itself being Norman in origin.</p><br>
<p>The church is almost surrounded by water and was inundated with water to a depth of 5 ft during the Bristol Channel floods of 1607. A brass plaque in the church reads:</p><br>
<p>An inundation of the sea water by overflowing and breaking down the Sea banks; happened in this Parish of Kingstone-Seamore, and many others adjoining; by reason whereof many Persons were drown&#39;d and much Cattle and Goods, were lost: the water in the Church was five feet high and the greatest part lay on the ground about ten days. WILLIAM BOWER</p><br>
<p>The highest point reached by the water, which was 7.74 m, is marked on the church.</p><br>
<p>The tower contains a peel of six bells, including three from 1632 which were cast by Purdues of Bristol.</p><br>
<p>The shaft of the churchyard cross is 1.5 m high and stands on an octagonal base. The shaft was added in 1863.</p><br>
<p>The stained glass includes the Smyth-Piggot memorial in the west window which was replaced in a restoration of 1917 to designs by Roland Paul.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The parish is part of the Yatton Moor benefice within the deanery of Portishead.</p><br>
<p>The Himmeldunkberg or Himmeldunk is a m high, extinct volcano in the High Rhön  in Germany. It straddles the Bavarian-Hessian state border.</p><br>
<h2>Location and surrounding area</h2><br>
<p>The Himmeldunkberg lies in the southwestern part of the Langen Rhön ("Long Rhön") which is in turn part of the High Rhön. 2 km south is the village of Oberweißenbrunn, 4 km to the southeast is the town of Bischofsheim an der Rhön and 3 km northwest is Gersfeld.</p><br>
<p>The Rhine-Weser watershed runs over the summit of the Himmeldunkberg and neighbouring hill of Hohe Hölle and forms the boundary between Bavaria and Hesse as well as the long-distance trail, the Rhön-Höhen-Weg (RHW). Border stones erected in 1872 show where the old border between the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Kingdom of Prussia ran.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Himmeldunkberg consists mainly of the volcanic rocks basalt and tuff.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The northern slope falls steeply away and is covered with mixed, deciduous forest. The arc from southwest to east is open; mainly covered by grasses, blackthorn, rose hips, silver thistles and bellflowers.</p><br>
<p>The Himmeldunkberg lies in a nature reserve of the same name; for that reason mountain bikes may only be used on tracks with mountain bike signs.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is however a very important site for unpowered aerial sports because it has the only suitable terrain for the demanding sport of model gliders with an east-west disposition for about 50 km around and was also previously used by kite flyers and paragliders.</p><br>
<p>A refuge hut, the Würzburger Hütte, belonging to the Würzburg branch of the German Alpine Society (DAV) is situated on the western slope at a height of 835 m. There are plans to move the hut to a "place more compatible with nature preservation", and also to reach an agreement with the glider flyers who are not allowed to use the mountain any more.</p><br>
<p>About 50 m south, below the summit, is the Hexenbuchen ("witches&#39; beeches") nature monument, which is a favourite photographic subject.</p><br>
<p>From the plateau there is a superb view over Bischofsheim to the Kreuzberg, the Osterburg ruins, the Arnsberg, the Black Mountains, the Schachen, the Eierhauck, the Dammersfeld, the Reesberg, the valley of the Brend and the upper Sinn. In very good conditions the Fichtelgebirge mountain range can be seen.</p><br>
<p>From the northeastern flank the Heidelstein is also visible.</p><br>
<p>Cook County Courthouse in Grand Marais, Minnesota, United States, was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>When Cook County was first organized, county business was conducted in a trading post on a spit of land that extended into Lake Superior. The first real courthouse building was built in 1889 and was a 24 by two-story frame building. It later received a one-story 20 by addition. The original frame courthouse was seen as "obsolete, limited in space, and far too modest an expression of the county&#39;s future," so in 1910, voters authorized the sale of bonds to build a new courthouse. The new building, completed in 1912, was built in the Classical Revival style and features Ionic columns supporting a cornice. It stands on a hill overlooking the city of Grand Marais and Lake Superior.</p><br>
<p>Briarcliff was the mansion and estate of Asa Griggs "Buddy" Candler, Jr. , and is now the Briarcliff Campus of Emory University. The estate was built in 1922 on 42 acres on Williams Mill Road, now Briarcliff Road in Druid Hills near Atlanta. Williams Mill Road would be renamed Briarcliff Road in the 1920s after the estate that Asa, Jr. would build there. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Asa, Jr. was the eccentric son of Asa Griggs Candler, co-founder of Coca-Cola. Candler, Jr. helped build his father&#39;s business into an empire. He later became a real-estate developer, opening the Briarcliff Hotel at the corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and N. Highland Ave. in Virginia Highland.</p><br>
<h2>Beginnings as Briarcliff Farm</h2><br>
<p>In 1910 Asa, Jr. moved from the fashionable Inman Park neighborhood where his father also had a mansion, to a "ramshackle" farmhouse on Briarcliff Farm, 42 acres. The farm was just north of Callanwolde, his brother Charles&#39; estate. Asa, Jr. managed a huge agricultural operation which provided meat and produce to local retailers. Cows, sheep, pigs and chickens were raised on the farm. During World War I, Briarcliff Farm supplied milk to Fort Gordon.</p><br>
<p>The farm was lauded for its use of electric lights and fans, even individual drinking fountains for the cows, its cleanliness, air and light, resulting in sanitary conditions that led to higher yields and quality.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Briarcliff was built between 1920 and 1922, and featured a Georgian Revival exterior. Architect Dan Bodin assisted Frazier in overseeing the completion. In 1925 Candler had the mansion enlarged, including the music room.</p><br>
<h2>Features of the estate</h2><br>
<p>Features of the mansion included:</p><br>
<p>1,700 ft2 music room, now DeOvies Hall, with its three-story-tall vaulted Tudor interior, limestone fireplace and painted walls.</p><br>
<p>Entry Hall</p><br>
<p>paneled library</p><br>
<p>living room</p><br>
<p>kitchen large enough for commercial restaurant equipment</p><br>
<p>Breakfast Room</p><br>
<p>A family Dining Room</p><br>
<p>A second dining room that seats 75 people, paneled with carved ceilings and mouldings and fireplace of carved white European marble, and sterling silver chandeliers and candelabra</p><br>
<p>solarium with high ceilings a fish pond, and two oil murals painted by a friend of Asa at either end of the room. Only one of these remain.</p><br>
<p>another pond in the back courtyard</p><br>
<p>additional solarium on the far side of the porte cochere built for the wedding of his daughter where the ceremony took place.</p><br>
<p>seven bedrooms including two masters each with a carved marble fireplace. The second master was used as a sitting room after the addition of the Music Room in 1925 due to the presence of the balcony which overlooked the Music Room.</p><br>
<p>one huge room on the third floor, the ballroom, painted in gold-leaf with access by stairs, and bathroom with three showers, three sinks and three toilets</p><br>
<p>basement including a large walk-in safe</p><br>
<p>beautiful red tile roof, which has been replaced with asphalt for the homes protection, and copper gutters.</p><br>
<p>The estate included:</p><br>
<p>main house</p><br>
<p>servants&#39; quarters</p><br>
<p>tennis courts</p><br>
<p>stables</p><br>
<p>greenhouses</p><br>
<p>laundry</p><br>
<p>zoo buildings</p><br>
<p>golf course</p><br>
<p>community pool</p><br>
<h3>Aeolian organ</h3><br>
<p>His father and older brother had Aeolian organs, and to outdo them, in 1925 Candler had a $94,000, 88-rank, 187-stop, cathedral-sized Aeolian installed in the music room. It was the largest privately owned organ in Georgia at the time, and the 8th largest that Aeolian had ever built for a private residence. It was inaugurated in November 1925 in a recital by family friend Palmer Christian, which was broadcast over radio station WSB. In 1952 the organ was given to Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia. It was renovated in 2008 and is now known as the Goodwyn-Candler-Panoz organ.</p><br>
<h3>Menagerie of exotic animals</h3><br>
<p>Candler collected exotic birds and animals in a menagerie held at his estate with cages designed by architect Bodin. The collection included a Bengal tiger, four lions, a black leopard, a gorilla, baboons, and six elephants: Coca, Cola, Pause, Refreshes, Refreshing and Delicious. In 1935 Candler, in financial trouble, put up his pipe organ for sale. A neighbor sued and won a $10,000 settlement because "a baboon jumped over the wall of the zoo and devoured $60 in currency out of her purse". He gave away his entire menagerie of animals to the Grant Park Zoo, now Zoo Atlanta.</p><br>
<p>The mansion also included two swimming pools, one open to the public for 25 cents per person. The pool had a neon-lighted fountain that was lit at night. The pool area was landscaped with flowers and shrubs. There was a stand to buy Coca-Cola and snacks.</p><br>
<h2>Sale of estate and later uses</h2><br>
<p>The Candlers sold their estate to the General Services Administration in 1948. The planned veterans&#39; hospital never emerged, and the estate was used to house the Georgian Clinic (later the DeKalb County Addiction Center), which opened in 1953 as the first alcohol treatment facility in Georgia—poignant, as Asa Jr. was a severe alcoholic himself. The clinic kept the pool open for its patients until the late 1950s, then closed it for lack of funds.</p><br>
<p>From 1965–1997, the estate housed the Georgia Mental Health Institute in a multi-story tower surrounded by multiple cottages connected by underground tunnels.</p><br>
<p>There are reports of hauntings at the estate.</p><br>
<p>The complex is now the Briarcliff campus of Emory University but the mansion remains empty and in disrepair.</p><br>
<p>The Stari Grad Plain on the island of Hvar is an agricultural landscape that was set up by the ancient Greek colonists in the 4th century BC, and remains in use. The plain is generally still in its original form. The ancient layout has been preserved by careful maintenance of the stone walls over 24 centuries, along with the stone shelters , and the water collection system. The same crops, mainly grapes and olives, are still grown in the fields, and the site is also a natural reserve. The site is a valuable example of the ancient Greek system of agriculture.</p><br>
<p>The plain demonstrates the comprehensive system of agriculture as used by the ancient Greeks. The land was divided into geometrical parcels (chora) bounded by dry stone walls. The system included a rainwater recovery system involving the use of gutters and storage cisterns. The original field layout has been respected by the continuous maintenance of the boundary walls by succeeding generations. Agricultural activity in the chora has been uninterrupted for 24 centuries up to the present day. What we see today is a continuation of the cultural landscape of the original Greek colonists.</p><br>
<p>The Stari Grad Plain is Croatia&#39;s 7th location protected by UNESCO.</p><br>
<p>The Bohai Sea or Bo Sea, also known as Bohai Gulf, Bo Gulf or Pohai Bay , is the innermost gulf of the Yellow Sea and Korea Bay on the coast of Northeastern and North China. It is approximately 78,000 km  in area and its proximity to Beijing, the capital of China , makes it one of the busiest seaways in the world.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Until the early 20th century, Bo Hai was often called the Gulf of Chihli or the Gulf of Pechihli or Pechili . Zhili and Beizhili were historic provinces in the area surrounding Beijing.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Bohai Sea is bounded by the Changshan Islands chain between the Liaodong and Shandong Peninsulas. It has become one of busiest sea routes in recent times. There are three major bays inside the Bohai Sea: Laizhou Bay to the south, Liaodong Bay to the north, and Bohai Bay to the west. At the easternmost end of the Bohai Sea, between the southernmost end of the Liaodong Peninsula and northernmost end of the Shandong Peninsula, is the Bohai Strait . A few of the rivers entering the gulf include the Yellow, Hai, Liao, and Luan Rivers. There are a few important oil reserves in the vicinity of the gulf, including the Shengli Field. Important island groups or islands in the gulf include the Changshan Islands , Changxing Island , and Xizhong Island . The PRC provincial-level divisions that have a Bohai Sea coastline are, from the south, going clockwise: Shandong, Hebei, Tianjin, Hebei again, and Liaoning.</p><br>
<h2>Major ports</h2><br>
<p>There are five major ports along the Bohai Sea rim, with throughputs over 100 million tons, though the port of Tangshan is further subdivided into Jingtang and Caofedian:</p><br>
<p>*Port of Yingkou</p><br>
<p>*Qinhuangdao Port</p><br>
<p>*Port of Jingtang</p><br>
<p>*Port of Tangshan</p><br>
<p>*Port of Tangshan Caofeidian</p><br>
<p>*Tianjin Port</p><br>
<p>*Port of Huanghua</p><br>
<p>Caofeidian and Jingtang are usually treated as one port for statistical purposes. The ports of Dalian and Yantai are also traditionally considered part of the Bohai rim, even though strictly speaking they lie outside the limits of the sea. The Port of Longkou reached 70 million tons of cargo in 2013, and is expected to reach the 100 million ton landmark in the near future.</p><br>
<h2>Major cities along the Bohai Sea coast</h2><br>
<p>*Tianjin</p><br>
<p>*Dalian, Liaoning</p><br>
<p>*Qinhuangdao, Hebei</p><br>
<p>*Yantai, Shandong</p><br>
<p>*Longkou, Shandong</p><br>
<p>*Penglai, Shandong</p><br>
<p>*Weihai, Shandong</p><br>
<p>*Weifang, Shandong</p><br>
<p>*Laizhou, Shandong</p><br>
<h2>Hydrocarbon resources</h2><br>
<p>The Bohai Bay contains significant oil and gas reserves, providing much of China&#39;s offshore production. The main field in the region is named Shengli and has been exploited since the 1960s. It is still producing about half a million barrels a day, but is declining. Production is dominated by Chinese majors (China National Offshore Oil Corporation was mostly created for this region) but foreign companies are also present, like ConocoPhilips, Roc Oil, and others.</p><br>
<p>The Gudao Field, located in the Zhanhua sedimentary basin, was discovered in 1968, based on gravity, magnetic and seismic surveys between 1963-1964. The reservoir includes the Guantao (Miocene) and Minghuazhen (Pliocene) geologic formations within the dome-like anticline.</p><br>
<p>Oil spills have been reported frequently in this region: three spills occurred in a two-month timeframe in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>Tunnel crossing</h2><br>
<p>In February 2011, the PRC announced that it would build a road and rail tunnel across the Bohai Strait to connect the Liaodong and Shandong peninsulas. When completed, the tunnel would be 106 km long. This plan seems have been superseded as of July 2013, with a modified plan involving a 123 km tunnel between Dalian, Liaoning and Yantai, Shandong.</p><br>
<p>The overall concept had its origins in a 1994 plan, which had been intended for completion by 2010 at a cost of $10 billion.</p><br>
<p>Clendinning Lake is a medium sized, very remote lake located in the Clendinning Range about 98.5 km northwest of Squamish. It is the source of Clendinning Creek, a major tributary of the Elaho River.</p><br>
<h2>Stature</h2><br>
<p>Oddly enough, most of the lake isn’t within Clendinning Provincial Park. Only the very northernmost section (which includes the lake outlet) is within the park. About 3.1 km long and 0.5 wide, the only thing that feeds the lake is the Clendinning Glacier, which is located at its far, southern end. The lake outlet is located at the near, southern end. Rising above its east shore is Frontline Mountain and situated on a ridge above the west shore of the lake is the Doolittle Glacier.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Accessing the lake is very difficult, as it requires one to make a minimum 2-3 day trek up the Clendinning Creek Valley. There is no trail and much of the trip requires bushwhacking. Fording icy Clendinning Creek at least once would be an almost certainty, and it may also be needed to ford Wave Creek near its confluence with Clendinning Creek as well.</p><br>
<p>Washington Avenue Historic District is a national historic district located at Evansville, Indiana. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The district, bounded roughly by Madison and Grand Avenues and East Gum and Parrett Streets, sprang up in the late 19th century, during an economic boom when the city&#39;s population went from 29,200 in 1880 to more than 59,000 by 1900.</p><br>
<p>When the neighborhood was nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980, local preservationists cited the district’s “important collection of late-Victorian frame houses” – grand styles, from Gothic Revival to French Second Empire, designed by the city’s leading architects for some of its leading citizens. Among those who built stately homes on Washington Avenue were Max deJong, an importer and fine clothing retailer; Antonio Sierra, superintendent of the Fendrich Cigar Company; and William Akin Jr., a well-to-do meatpacker who later became mayor of Evansville.</p><br>
<p>The Washington Avenue district – where 23 percent of the houses have been demolished in the last quarter-century – never attracted the investment that other districts in the city have. Local and state preservation experts fear the demolition of structures in the Washington Avenue district along with the accelerating decline of what remains could jeopardize the area’s status on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Frascati is an early 19th-century Federal-style plantation house near Somerset in Orange County, Virginia. Frascati was the residence of Philip Pendleton Barbour, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and statesman.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Frascati was built between 1821 and 1823 for Philip Pendleton Barbour, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and statesman. Barbours father, Thomas Barbour arrived in Orange County as a young man from Culpeper County. In 1806, Thomas Barbour and his wife, Mary, sold their home tract of 885 acre to their son, Philip. Barbour entered into his "Articles of Agreement" with master builder John M. Perry on 7 November 1821. Barbour was familiar with Perrys capabilities through his work at the University of Virginia and was attracted to Somerset, the home of his neighbor, Thomas Macon. Like Somerset, Frascati was influenced by the more conventional, central hall Federal house style. This conventional format contrasted with the tastes of Barbours brother, Senator James Barbour of Barboursville. Barboursville was designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1822 and displayed Jeffersons mixing of French and Palladian forms similar to that at Monticello.</p><br>
<p>Frascati was Barbours home until his death in 1841. Barbours wife sold the estate in 1848 to Captain James Magruder, another local builder who had worked under Jefferson on the University of Virginia. Frascati was then long the home of Mrs. William H. Lyne, followed by Mr. A. D. Irving, a distant relation to Washington Irving. The residence is now owned by the Barrow family, who have preserved its farm setting.</p><br>
<p>Frascati was added to the Virginia Landmarks Register on 16 September 1980 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 28 June 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Frascati is one of the Piedmonts best-documented 19th-century dwellings. The original building contract is preserved in the collections of the Virginia Historical Society and called for "exterior walls of the whole house to be faced with rubber stretchers well burned..." with the brickwork also "to be equal to any... at the University of Virginia." It was designed by John M. Perry of nearby Albemarle County, Virginia. Perry was one of the master builders employed by Thomas Jefferson both at Monticello and the University of Virginia. Frascatis Tuscan portico and classical detailing are Jeffersonian architectural characteristics.</p><br>
<p>The 57 x 39 structure is executed in very even Flemish-bond brick with tooled penciled joints. Frascatis shallow hipped roof covers the two-story, double-pile residence. Frascatis main entrance has paneled double doors set within a frame containing a large semicircular transom and complementing sidelights all encircled with elaborately patterned wooden tracery. The frame consists of symmetrical architraves with paneled corner blocks. The main entrance is sheltered by a tetrastyle, pedimented Tuscan portico on a brick podium. Frascati&#39;s Tuscan portico has stuccoed columns, a full entablature, and a pediment with a semicircular lunette in the tympanum.</p><br>
<p>Fenestration throughout Frascati consists of six-over-six sash windows set in wooden architraves and flanked by original louvered shutters. Paired interior-end chimneys are located on Frascatis north and south elevations. A later semi-exterior chimney is found on the homes rear elevation. The roof is covered with standing-seam sheet metal.</p><br>
<p>Frascati&#39;s central hall plan and interior are discussed at some length in the original specifications:</p><br>
<p>The house to have a passage through the middle of it ten feet wide in the clear; and to have a cross partition wall so as to divide the floors of each story into four rooms besides the passage; both the passage walls and cross walls to go from the foundation to the top to be of brick and of the same thickness in the several stories as in the outer walls; the whole house bapement story and all, to be well plaistered with a due preportion of plaister of Paris.... The drawing room and passage each to have a handsome cornice of plaister, and each a handsome center ornament of plaister in the ceiling; the general style of all the wood work to be like Thomas Macon&#39;s dwelling house... there are to be two staircases one private from the dining room and chamber, with a closet under it; the other an elegant ornamental one out of the passage....</p><br>
<p>The parlor exhibits plasterwork ceiling medallions and entablatures, the latter copied from a design in Asher Benjamins American Builders Companion (1806). Surviving on the Frascati estate grounds are the original kitchen outbuilding and remnants of the extensive original gardens.</p><br>
<p>In 1952, Frank Lloyd Wright completed his last Los Angeles building, the Anderton Court Shops, a small three-story group of shops on fashionable Rodeo Drive in the downtown section of Beverly Hills, California.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The entrance to all the shops is off of an angular</p><br>
<p>ramp which wraps around an open parallelogram as it leads upward to the shops. Four shops</p><br>
<p>were envisioned with the penthouse space, an apartment. Like the Marin Civic Center,</p><br>
<p>this is another example of a secular Wright building with a "steeple". The inverted “V” front</p><br>
<p>elevation stands out in sharp contrast to its traditional, flat-front urban neighbors.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>Since the Anderton Court Center&#39;s completion, the space has been subdivided. Today the</p><br>
<p>complex consists of six small shops; three on each side, each staggered a half-floor from one</p><br>
<p>another and offset by the ramp. The facade, which was once light buff with</p><br>
<p>oxidized-copper-color trim, has been painted white with black detailing. Today&#39;s canopy and</p><br>
<p>signage are later additions, not consistent with Wright&#39;s original design.</p><br>
<p>The Anderton Court Shops are on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Holly Grove Mansion, also known as Holly Grove Inn or Ruffner Mansion, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia on the grounds of the West Virginia State Capitol. It is a large brick house with a front section made to accommodate three floors and rear section housing two. It features a massive two story, semi-circular portico at the front entrance. It was constructed originally in 1815 as the home of Daniel Ruffner, one of a family which helped develop the early salt industry in the Kanawha Valley. It gained its present-day appearance in about 1902 when new owner, John Nash, undertook substantial remodeling. In 1979, the mansion underwent an extensive rehabilitation when it became headquarters for the West Virginia Commission on Aging.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Battle of Cornwall was a Spanish raid on Cornwall in 1595 during the Anglo-Spanish war of 1585-1604. It was conducted by a Spanish naval squadron on patrol from Brittany, France.</p><br>
<h2>Landings</h2><br>
<p>Carlos de Amesquita commanded three companies of arquebusiers (about 400 men in total) and four galleys (Nuestra Señora de Begoña, Salvador, Peregrina and Bazana) from the fleet under Pedro de Zubiaur. He sailed from Port Louis, Brittany, on 26 July. After calling at Penmarch, they sank a French barque manned by an English crew and with a cargo bound for England.</p><br>
<p>Amesquitas forces eventually landed at Mounts Bay, Cornwall on 2 August. Amesquita was guided by English Catholic Richard Burley of Weymouth. The town of Penzance had also been bombarded by the Spanish galleys; 400 houses were destroyed and three ships "laden with wine and other goods" were sunk. Three local residents were killed by the Spaniards.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the campaign a traditional Catholic mass was held on English soil, at St. Mary Chapel in Penzance and, on re-embarking soon afterwards on 4 August, the Spanish commander promised to build a Catholic church on its site within two years, once England had been conquered. He then released all his prisoners ashore and evaded a fleet sent against them under Francis Drake and John Hawkins. On 5 August Amesquita met a Dutch squadron of 46 ships, sinking two of the Dutch ships and causing much damage to the others but at the cost of 20 men killed. The rest of the Dutch ships limped away. He then stopped at Penmarch for repairs and finally arrived back at Port Louis on 10 August.</p><br>
<p>Lake Magenta is an ephemeral salt lake in the Wheatbelt area of Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>The lake is located 55 km north-east of Jerramungup and 62 km east of Pingrup.</p><br>
<p>The lake is part of the 1,080 km&sup2; Lake Magenta Nature Reserve as is the bushland to the west of the lake. The area is in relatively pristine condition and contains a rich array of flora and fauna. Water quality and the health of vegetation has begun to decline in the area as salinity of surface runoff has increased and groundwater levels have risen.</p><br>
<p>Lake Magenta has a wetland area located to the south, and is on the southern end of an 80 km chain of lakes from Lake Biddy in the north, through Lake Stubbs (and the town of Newdegate), Lake Buchan and Lake Lockhart. There are three other lakes nearby to the east: Lake Morris, Lake Royston and Lake Cobham.</p><br>
<p>The lake is a broad flat-floored valley with long paleo-drainages to the north and more steeply incised drainage lines to the south. The soils in the area are described as siliceous and calcareous loamy soils of minimal development. The rest of the area is composed of hard and sandy alkaline yellow and mottled sands.</p><br>
<p>The Clinton Avenue Historic District in Albany, New York, United States, is a 70 acre area along that street  between North Pearl  and Quail streets. It also includes some blocks along neighboring streets such as Lark and Lexington.</p><br>
<p>It originated with the citys creation of Clinton Square at its east end, shortly after the opening of the Erie Canal. Herman Melville lived for a year in one of the early rowhouses on the square. The rowhouse became the standard form as development continued to the west in later decades as the city industrialized. Today 92% of its nearly 600 buildings are 19th-century rowhouses in different architectural styles, predominantly Italianate, many built as speculative housing for the citys middle class. This is the greatest concentration of such houses in the city of Albany. All but 20 buildings are contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>Many remain intact both outside and in, and in 1981 it was recognized as a historic district by the city, and seven years later, in 1988, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). Urban decay still affects the district, and the city has spent federal grant money on revitalization and stabilization efforts.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The district centers along the 1.5 mi stretch of Clinton between Broadway and North Quail. This stretch of the road rises from the flatlands next to the Hudson River to the plains of the city&#39;s western neighborhoods, first steeply up the side of the bluff known as Sheridan Hollow, then more gently to the Quail intersection, a total climb of 190 ft. Through here, Clinton remains unusually wide for Albany (briefly divided at its eastern end, where it receives traffic off Interstate 787 from the nearby Dunn Memorial Bridge.</p><br>
<p>It is just north of downtown and the state buildings of Empire State Plaza. Other historic districts, such as Arbor Hill, Broadway-Livingston Avenue and Ten Broeck Triangle, abut it on the north.</p><br>
<p>Its boundaries were precisely drawn to follow the rear lot lines along both side of Clinton Avenue. There are extrusions taking in some sections of side streets where similar housing was built.</p><br>
<p>On its east end, starting at the Palace, it includes the west side of North Pearl Street (NY 32), just north of the First Church in Albany, itself listed on the Register, and the east side north of the modern Leo O&#39;Brien Federal Office Building. Three rowhouses along the south side of Livingston are included; the rest of this neighborhood is part of the Arbor Hill–Ten Broeck Triangle Historic District. The area to the east of the intersection is included in the Broadway-Livingston Avenue Historic District.</p><br>
<p>South of the Clinton-North Pearl intersection, the boundary takes in the two remaining rowhouses on Clinton Place, the oldest extant buildings in the district. After excluding the properties on either side of the Ten Broeck Street intersection, it continues westward along Clinton&#39;s rear property lines until the southern Lark Street intersection, where US 9W branches off to the south from Route 9, the beginning of a highway to the George Washington Bridge in Fort Lee, New Jersey. Here it extends down the street for several blocks, all the way to Elk Street, taking in the nine-house row along the north side to the east of the intersection.</p><br>
<p>At the next intersection west along Clinton, Henry Johnson Boulevard, US 9 leaves Clinton Avenue for the latter. The district continues to follow the Clinton property lines to Lexington Avenue, where it includes the houses along the west side to midway between First and Second streets, and short rows along either side of First Street west of the Lexington intersection. From there the district returns to Clinton all the rest of the way to Quail, including 2 Judson Street only because it fronts on Clinton and is part of a row in that area.</p><br>
<p>The 70 acres (28 ha) delineated by this boundary are urban and mostly developed, with a few vacant lots. There are 576 buildings in it. Only 20 of them are considered non-contributing, most of them modern commercial intrusions like supermarkets and gas stations. Of the 556 contributing buildings, 530 (or 92% of the total) are two- or three-story brick rowhouses, built over a century and reflecting different architectural styles. The remaining historic buildings include the theater, churches, an old police station and two schools.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The development of Clinton Avenue from northern boundary of the city of Albany to densely developed urban residential area closely parallels the citys growth during the districts period of significance (1820–1931) in response to changes in its economy. It begins with the creation of Clinton Square and ends with the construction of the Palace Theatre at that same intersection.</p><br>
<h3>Colonial and Revolutionary periods</h3><br>
<p>In 1686, when Albany received the Dongan Charter from the British, the future route of Clinton was set as the citys northern boundary, at this time the streets name was Patroon Street. To its north were the lands of the van Rensselaer family&#39;s patroonship. A decade before the Revolution, Stephen van Rensselaer II had the area just north of the city surveyed and laid out a grid plan for future growth. On March 7, 1788 the state of New York divided the entire state into towns eliminating districts as administrative units. This transformed the Western District of the Manor of Rensselaerswyck into the town of Watervliet, which incorporated the lands north of Patroon Street. The neighborhood in this town along the north edge of Patroon Street would be incorporated as a municipality under the name of Colonie in 1791 but would stay within Watervliet. Colonie would become incorporated again, this time as a district in 1801, and a village in 1804, then a separate town in 1808. In 1815 Colonie would be split between the city of Albany and the town of Watervliet.</p><br>
<p>The area began to grow and the planned streets became reality. In 1815, with a thousand people already living between the river and Knox Street (which later became Northern Boulevard and then changed again to Henry Johnson Boulevard) it was annexed to Albany. It became the city&#39;s Fifth Ward. It was in 1815 after the annexation that Albany renamed Patroon Street to Clinton Avenue.</p><br>
<p>Development in the area began to increase when the Erie Canal, which connected to the Hudson at the Albany Basin, was completed in 1825. On December 29, 1828 notable residents Israel Smith and Samuel Pruyn, among others, petitioned the Common Council to improve the junction of Clinton and North Pearl streets, an area increasingly visible to visitors to the city. It wasnt until a month later, on January 26, 1829, that the Common Councils committee on the subject reported in favor of the improvement and recommended that the square be named Clinton Square. It was on August 17, 1829 that the Common Council declared North Pearl Street between Orange Street and Clinton Avenue to be widened and renamed Clinton Square, and the park to be roughly 200 by 60 feet. A small park, it was considered one of the citys major achievements of the time. It was considered the first city improvement north of downtown, the city being focused on the southern section prior to this. The creation of Clinton Square marks the beginning of the districts development and history. By March 1831, however, the opening of the square was denounced as "a monument of the stupidity of its originators" and "had a tendency to reduce rents in that quarter". By 1914 the few trees that were there were in poor shape and the square was a grassy area with a single diagonal path.</p><br>
<h3>Early 19th century</h3><br>
<p>During the 1830s, many of the dilapidated colonial-era houses around the square were demolished and the first rowhouses, their decoration reflecting the contemporary Greek Revival style, built on Clinton Place overlooking the park, along with a church. Only two houses, 3 and 5 Clinton Place, survive. Herman Melville lived in the former during 1843.</p><br>
<p>The Clinton Place rowhouses set that form as the standard for the rest of the district as the century progressed. It was a convergence of the building traditions of the city&#39;s early Dutch settlers, where a long and narrow lot was almost completely covered by the house, with the more English-influenced buildings preferred by the Albanians of the early 19th century, many of whom had emigrated west from New England.</p><br>
<p>North Pearl Street was completed to Livingston Avenue at this time, and the first railroads were built into the city. The Mohawk and Hudson&#39;s tracks came into the city a half-mile (1 km) north of Clinton Avenue, primarily delivering lumber from the vast forests in the northern and western regions of the state to the nearby Albany Lumber District along the Erie Canal. This triggered a building boom along Clinton in the 1840s. The oldest rowhouses along the street, the three buildings between 65 and 75, were part of a group of six built as speculative housing by local landowner Thomas Ludlow in 1845.</p><br>
<p>In the 1850s the street was gradually built out between North Pearl and Swan streets. Houses built during this time reflected the early adoption of the Italianate mode and its preference for the bracketed cornice. These elements were usually made of sandstone before the Civil War but of wood afterwards. The Italianate style dominated in rowhouses on Clinton Avenue until 1880; today it still accounts for the majority of rowhouses in the district. The houses at 133–143 Clinton, dating to 1851, exemplify the prewar Italianate rowhouses. The unbroken row from 250–272 Clinton, dating to the 1870s, demonstrates the postwar application of the style.</p><br>
<p>The population grew enough that School 5, now a church, was built at 226-228 North Pearl. Development pressure on the west end of Clinton Avenue came later in the 1850s when Erastus Corning combined many of the states railroads into the New York Central. To handle the new roads maintenance needs, he began building a yard north of Clinton Avenue west of Northern Boulevard. The facility also had the largest stockyard east of Chicago. The city expanded its horsecar lines to run further west along the former Schenectady Turnpike, now Central Avenue, in the 1860s. This made possible the development of the blocks at the west end of the district. Many of the clapboard-sided homes there were filled by German immigrants.</p><br>
<h3>Late 19th century</h3><br>
<p>In 1867 the city built a fire station at 126 Clinton Avenue. This increase in services prefigured the 1870 annexation of the land on the west of Northern Boulevard, putting the entirety of Clinton Avenue within Albany city limits. Two years later, in 1872, the city established a horsecar line along Clinton from North Pearl to Lexington, bringing the city&#39;s downtown within reach of the neighborhood. This made it more desirable and housing began to supplant the brickyards that had previously been located there.</p><br>
<p>The decades of the Gilded Age were marked by a building boom along Clinton. Many of the remaining undeveloped lots, particularly along the western section of the street, were bought and speculative rowhouses built. Most were rented to the various laborers and craftsmen moving into the area. Construction began to come up Lark Street, the first one west of downtown Albany that crossed the Sheridan Hollow ravine (since filled in) at grade. Following the annexation, Lexington Street was extended northward a few blocks, and brick rowhouses were built there as well.</p><br>
<p>Development continued in the 1880s, with some earlier construction being demolished to make way for newer houses. Builders began moving beyond the Italianate style, experimenting with the Richardsonian Romanesque and Queen Anne styles. Hope Baptist Church, at the west end of the McPherson Terrace row on the north side of Clinton west of Judson, is the foremost Romanesque building in the district. The Queen Anne style is responsible for the oriel windows found at 5 Wilson Street (on the North Pearl corner), the row of 152½, 154 and 154½ (identical buildings with arched windows on the first story) and 168 Clinton, with a projecting gabled pavilion. The two styles blend in a row faced in stone between Lexington and Robin streets. The Gothic Revival style made an appearance in 1883 when the former St. Luke&#39;s Methodist Church was built at the northwest corner of the Lexington intersection.</p><br>
<p>Building finally slowed down in the 1890s, since most of the district had been developed. What new construction took place was primarily the infill of the remaining vacant lots. The most significant of this was the completion of the eastern end of McPherson Terrace.</p><br>
<h3>20th century</h3><br>
<p>Since the district had been almost built out by 1890, the architectural movements of the early 20th century made little impact on it. An American Foursquare was built at the southwest corner of Clinton and Lexington in 1905, and a few more stone and brick rowhouses were built on North Pearl in that decade. Most buildings in early 20th century styles were public ones, like the Classical Revival police station built at 222 Pearl Street in 1911. The 1931 opening of the Palace Theatre at Clinton and North Pearl, where its history began, gave the district its newest contributing property and ended its period of significance.</p><br>
<p>The Clinton Street area remained a thriving middle-class residential neighborhood throughout the first half of the century. After World War II, suburbanization began and many of the residents moved out of the city. The poorer residents who replaced them, particularly west of Northern Boulevard, could not get mortgages or home improvement loans, and in the 1960s and 1970s the area began to show the signs of early urban decay, as buildings began to be abandoned and crumbled.</p><br>
<p>The district was never targeted for wholesale urban renewal, and after some demolitions in the east end it became eligible for Community Development Block Grants (CDBGs) in the late 1970s. The city, which had bought the Palace in 1969, designated the Clinton-North Pearl area a historic district in 1981. Several years later it targeted 82 rowhouses between North Pearl and Northern Boulevard for a neighborhood stabilization program, work which culminated in the Register listing for the district three years later.</p><br>
<h2>Clinton Avenue today</h2><br>
<p>New construction or expansion within the district is reviewed by the citys Historic Resources Commission (HRC), a group of nine citizens with an interest in architecture, history or historic preservation appointed by the mayor. The HRC also considers new city landmark designations. The area also comes under the purview of several of Albanys neighborhood associations.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood stabilization efforts have not yet affected the entire district. In some blocks, particularly west of Northern, houses continue to deteriorate and storefronts remain vacant. The city&#39;s Community Development Agency continues to seek CDBG monies to rehabilitate abandoned rowhouses along Clinton Avenue and continue to keep them affordable.</p><br>
<p>Clinton Ave at Ontario Street is also the location of the oldest firehouse in the city of Albany, built in 1874, refurbished in the 1930s and in 1998.</p><br>
<p>In 2011 the Preservation League of New York State loaned $100,000 to a local developer, Orion Enterprises, to restabilize the former police station at 222 North Pearl. The work would allow planning and architectural work to proceed so Orion could convert the building into apartments.</p><br>
<p>Historic First Bryan Baptist Church is an African-American church that was organized in Savannah, Georgia by Andrew Bryan in 1788. Considered to be the Mother Church of Black Baptist, the site was purchased in 1793 by Bryan, a former slave who had also purchased his freedom. The first structure was erected there in 1794. By 1800 the congregation was large enough to split: those at Bryan Street took the name of First African Baptist Church, and Second and Third African Baptist churches were also established. The current sanctuary of First Bryan Baptist Church was constructed in 1873.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>George Liele was a slave whose unusual talent and leadership ability was recognized by both races. As a result, he became converted about 1774, was baptized, and received into the membership of the Baptist church (white) in Burke County, of which Rev. Matthew Moore was pastor. His master, Mr. Henry Sharpe, who was a deacon in this church, permitted George Liele to visit the neighboring plantations along the Savannah River and preach to the slaves. On one of his visit to Brampton, a plantation owned by Mr. Jonathan Bryan, four slaves became converted, were baptized and became the nucleus of the first black missionary Baptist church. These slaves were Andrew Bryan, his wife Hannah, Kate Hogg and Hagar Simpson. This was George Liele&#39;s last recorded visit. Andrew Bryan was also talented, and with permission of Mr. Bryan, began to visit the plantations along the river as far as Yamacraw, preaching to black and white person who gathered to hear him. Mr. Edward Davis (white) permitted the worshipers to erect a rough wooden building on his land in Yamacraw.</p><br>
<p>Rev. Thomas Burton and Rev. Abraham Marshall (white) became interested in the growing group of worshipers and on January 20, 1788, visited the services. Rev. Marshall baptized 45 converts and ordained Andrew Bryan to the ministry will full authority to preach the gospel and administer the ordinances of the Baptist church. On this same date, he organized the group into what one day would be named the First Bryan Baptist Church, and installed Andrew Bryan as the first pastor. The church continued to hold services, often under adverse and painful conditions, at Brampton and in the temporary building in Yamacraw. Meanwhile, Rev. Bryan was able to secure his freedom from Mr. Bryan for a minimal sum and thereby devoted his time exclusively to his ministry. A third meeting place was provided by Mr. Thomas Gibbons who gave a lot to Andrew Bryan for this purpose. The lot was situated on Mill Street, running to Indian Street Lane. A temporary building was erected there. This lot was conveyed June 1, 1790, to "Free Andrew." The main United States Post Office is now located on this site. With the help of the members and white friends who were sympathetic to the efforts of the church, Rev. Bryan was able to purchase the lot upon which the church now stands for "thirty pounds sterling" (approximately $150.00, and erected a church, making this site the oldest parcel of real estate owned continuously by black people in the United States. This site is described as lot No. 7, Middle Oglethorpe Ward, 95 feet front, and 132 and a half feet deep. The deeds are dated September 4, 1793.</p><br>
<p>The First Bryan Baptist Church was incorporated by the State of Georgia in 1866, and appears for the first time in the Records of Deeds of Chatham County, September 4, 1793. Rev. Bryan pastored the church until his death in 1812. Andrew C. Marshall became the pastor in 1815.</p><br>
<p>In 1832, a controversy over doctrine caused the First African Baptist congregation at Bryan Street to split. Some members left, taking with them the name of First African Baptist Church. In 1859, the members of this new congregation (most of whom were slaves) built their current church building on Franklin Square. The congregation became confused and finally hopelessly divided on doctrinal matters and as a result, Rev. Marshall and a large group of members left the mother church in 1832 and moved to Franklin Square where they occupied a building secured from a white congregation, and organized the First African Baptist Church. The remainder of the members stayed on the original site and continued to worship under the leadership of the deacons until 1833.</p><br>
<p>From 1833 until 1861 First Bryan had six (6) pastors and existed under trying conditions. In 1861, Rev. Ulysses L. Houston became pastor and First Bryan began to prosper and has continued to make phenomenal progress.</p><br>
<h2>Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation</h2><br>
<p>Before the Civil War, and its aftermath, First Bryan’s pastor and several church members played integral roles in the emancipation of blacks in Savannah. James Merilus Simms, a trustee and ordained minister of First Bryan, went to Richmond, Virginia in 1862 and returned to Savannah with the preliminary draft of the Emancipation Proclamation to share with Savannah’s black leadership and population. As a result of his efforts, black Savannah held a celebration dinner with Rev. Ulysses L. Houston giving the invocation and James Porter, the main address on January 1, 1863. Edward Wicks, church clerk for fifty years (1870-1920), was a Union soldier during the Civil War (24th Regiment-USA Colored Troops). Ulysses L. Houston and James Merilus Simms, the pastor and trustee respectively, of First Bryan served in the Reconstruction legislature of Georgia from 1869-1871 (they were initially expelled in 1868).</p><br>
<p>By January 12, 1865, in the Green-Meldrim Mansion, Ulysses L. Houston, pastor, Third African Baptist; Alexander Harris, Deacon and ordained minister, Third African Baptist, and eighteen (18) black ministers from First African Baptist, Second Baptist, Andrew Methodist Chapel, Bishop W. J. Gaines, James Lynch, founder of the Georgia AME Church, and James Porter met with General William T. Wherman, Edwin Staton, Secretary of War, General Oliver Otis Howard, Director Freedmen’s Bureau, to discuss the future of former slaves in Savannah. Today, Field Order No. 15 is known in American History as “Forty Acres And A Mule”. As a result of this Order, Rev. U. L. Houston led 1,000 blacks to Skidaway Island where they farmed and raised crops until 1866 when white citizens regained the land.</p><br>
<p>During the period between 1788 and 1832, the first Sunday School for blacks was organized at this church in 1826 by Mr. Lowell Mason, who also organized the first Sunday School in Savannah, at the Independent Presbyterian Church. He was the first superintendent and was assisted by Messrs. George Coe, John Lewis and James Barr, all members of the Independent Presbyterian Church. This Sunday School was very successful and remained under supervision until December, 1835 when the Presbyterian Church turned it over to First Bryan. It is still in operation.</p><br>
<h2>Current building</h2><br>
<p>August 18, 1873, the congregation, in conference, decided to tear down the building built by Rev. Andrew Bryan and erect a new and modernized edifice for worship. The draft of the plan made by John B. Hogg (white), a civil engineer and city surveyor, free of charge, was shown to the congregation. The plan was accepted on September 29, 1873 at the last communion in the old building. Pictures were made, copies of which were sold for one dollar to help with the building fund.</p><br>
<p>The cornerstone for the building (present edifice) was laid on October 13, 1873, by the Grand Lodge of Colored Masons in the State of Georgia, attended by two subordinate Lodges. The cornerstone contains a cooper box presented by the Sunday School at a cost of twenty-two dollars. In the box are artifacts given by the members (jewelry, coins, etc.) and receipts, newspaper clippings and other church records.</p><br>
<p>The labor on the building was done exclusively by black mechanics under the supervision of the architect. The style of architecture is almost pure Corinthian and is similar in design to that of Wesley Chapel in London, England, and the Trinity Methodist Church in Savannah, the plans for which were also made by Mr. Hogg and completed in 1850.</p><br>
<p>The outer dimensions of the building are: length, 75 feet; breadth, 56 feet; height from the foundation to the peak of the roof, 45 feet; with a belfry above containing a bell. A spacious gallery occupies three sides, with the lower audience room provides a seating capacity of 1,500 persons. On the inside, the distance from the floor to the ceiling is 26 feet. The cost of this building was about $30,000, not including furnishings. A pipe organ was purchased from the Independent Presbyterian Church at a cost of $1,350. This organ was built by H. Knauff Company of Philadelphia in 1856 and was bought by the Presbyterian Church. It was damaged by fire in 1889, and was sold to First Bryan in the early 1890s. It is not in use now but remains as a beautiful showpiece in the sanctuary. Plans are now underway to restore this instrument. The building was completed, and on the evening of January 20, 1888, one hundred years after the organization of this first black Baptist congregation, special services marking this occasion was held for the first time. In this same year the first history of this congregation was written by Rev. James Merilus Simms, an office and member of the church. The history was published by J. B. Lippencott and Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>In October 1940, the Yamacraw community became Yamacraw Village when the cornerstone was laid for this well known Federal Housing Project. Over the hears, First Bryan Baptist Church continues to provide spiritual and financial resources to uplift the families in the Yamacraw Village community. In 1956, the Education Building was dedicated. This building contains classrooms, offices and an assembly hall named for Dr. M. P. Sessoms, who served as superintendent for many years, and under whose leadership the Church School was highly organized and functioned effectively as a Christian education center.</p><br>
<p>The present edifices, built in 1873, still exists at 575 W. Bryan St. Savannah, GA. Both the edifice and educational center are testaments of the faithfulness of God. The site, buildings and furnishings are estimated to be approximately one and a half million dollars. This church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. Tours of the church are available upon request.</p><br>
<h2>Pastors</h2><br>
<p>Andrew Bryan – 1788–1812</p><br>
<p>Andrew Cox Marshall – 1815–1832</p><br>
<p>Thomas Anderson – 1833–1835</p><br>
<p>Stephen McQueen – 1835–1841</p><br>
<p>John Benjamin DeVeaux – 1842–1845</p><br>
<p>Isaac Roberts – 1846–1849</p><br>
<p>Brister Lawton – 1849–1850</p><br>
<p>Garrison Frazier – 1852–1860</p><br>
<p>Ulysses L. Houston – 1861–1889</p><br>
<p>George Griffin – 1889–1907</p><br>
<p>Daniel Wright – 1908–1923</p><br>
<p>Lawrence M. Glenn – 1924–1934</p><br>
<p>Levi M. Terrill – 1935–1943</p><br>
<p>Nathaniel E. Holsey – 1943–1949</p><br>
<p>Richard M. Williams – 1949–1965</p><br>
<p>Ervin J. Jennings, Jr. – 1965–1973</p><br>
<p>Arthur D. Sims – 1974–1982</p><br>
<p>Edward L. Ellis, Jr. – 1985–2011</p><br>
<p>Aaron M. James, Sr. – 2011–2016</p><br>
<h2>Historical highlights</h2><br>
<p>1700s</p><br>
<p>1784 – Andrew Bryan, Hannah Bryan, and Kate Hogg baptized by George Leile.</p><br>
<p>1784 – Andrew Bryan given permission to preach January 20, 1788 – First Bryan Baptist Church organized, Andrew Bryan ordained and installed as the First Pastor.</p><br>
<p>1793 – Andrew Bryan obtained his freedom and purchased the present site of this church for $150.00.</p><br>
<p>1795 – First church building completed.</p><br>
<p>1800s</p><br>
<p>1812 – Andrew Bryan&#39;s Death.</p><br>
<p>1815 – Andrew Marshall became the second pastor.</p><br>
<p>1826 – First Sunday School for Blacks, organized by Lowell Mason, Superintendent of the Independent Presbyterian Church.</p><br>
<p>1832 – Church split over doctrinal matters with pastor and a portion of the membership moved to a building on Franklin Square.</p><br>
<p>1833 – Church remained in continuous operation under the deacons led by Deacon Adam Johnson.</p><br>
<p>1835 – Administration of Sunday School relinquished by the Independent Presbyterian Church and assumed by the Black Church.</p><br>
<p>1836–1916 – Period of struggle, decline in membership and a series of six ministers but still in continuous operation.</p><br>
<p>1853 – March 19, Death of Deacon Adam Johnson after 40 years of service.</p><br>
<p>1861 – Ulysses Houston installed as pastor.</p><br>
<p>1866 – First Bryan Baptist Church Chartered by the State of Georgia.</p><br>
<p>1873 – Congregation decided to build a new and modern church – Plan drafted by John B. Hogg (or Howard), a Civil Engineer. Building raised – Cornerstone laid October 13, 1873.</p><br>
<p>January 20, 1888 – Present edifice completed at a cost of $30,000.00 and occupied for the first time.</p><br>
<p>1888 – Covenant, Constitution and By-Laws written, printed and distributed to the membership.</p><br>
<p>1888 – Pipe Organ built by H. Knauff and Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1856, installed at a cost of $1,250.00.</p><br>
<p>1888 – Death of Ulysses L. Houston.</p><br>
<p>1888–1915 – Growth of congregation, monumental program broadened, physical plant modernized.</p><br>
<p>1900s</p><br>
<p>1916 – Monument to George Leile erected on this site by authorization of the National Baptist Convention, Inc.</p><br>
<p>1938 – 1st Sesqui-Centennial Celebration held.</p><br>
<p>1945 – Dedication of addition to the main edifice to provide a choir stand at the rear of the pulpit.</p><br>
<p>1956 – Dedication of the Educational Annex ($25,000.00)</p><br>
<p>1974 – Participation in planning for Bicentennial Celebration of the United States with the “Downtown Nine” historic churches.</p><br>
<p>1975 – Completed a brief historical sketch up to 1975.</p><br>
<p>1976 – Cultural Bicentennial Contribution Morehouse Male Glee Club, March 14</p><br>
<p>Bicentennial Recognition Banquet honoring 3 outstanding church historians, April contributed historical material to “Savannah’s Time-Capsule”, issued Memorial Plate, 1788–1976</p><br>
<p>Musical Contribution to "Night in Old Savannah", began permanent historical exhibit of church, evaluated church and furnishings($500,000.00)</p><br>
<p>Applied for Historic Landmark Status; opened the church to the public on a restricted basis</p><br>
<p>Reissued and promoted sales of original history.</p><br>
<p>1977 – Hosted the 107th Session of the General Missionary Baptist Convention of Georgia, Inc.</p><br>
<p>1979 – January 20, unveiled plaque indicating Historic Landmark Status. This is placed on the exterior of the main sanctuary.</p><br>
<p>1979 – February 11, recording of First Live TV. Ministry telecast for Coastal Georgia on WJCL-ABC Channel 22. Televised from the walls of the sanctuary of the Mother Church of Black Baptists.</p><br>
<p>1979 – April 15, the first live TV. Broadcast appearance Easter Sunday Morning having received one of the highest TV ratings for religious broadcast programs in 1979 on WJCL-ABC Channel 22.</p><br>
<p>1979 – May 20, unveiled the first historical marker, granted to blacks in Georgia. This marker is situated on the land area in front of the church and may be read from either direction. Dr. Elizabeth Lyon, Chief of Georgia&#39;s Historical Preservation Section, was the main speaker.</p><br>
<p>1985 – Reverend Edward Lamar Ellis Jr., is the 18th pastor of First Bryan Baptist Church. He is a native of Monroe, GA, and the eldest of four children born to the late Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lamar Ellis, Sr.</p><br>
<p>1987 – During a massive renovation, stain glass windows were installed. The altar windows were redesigned to include a picture of Rev. Andrew Bryan, the founding pastor of the church.</p><br>
<p>1988 – January 10–20, Celebrated Bicentennial. Theme – "Weve Come This Far By Faith". The theme "Moving Forward in Love, the More Excellent Way, as We Continue in the New Millennium" was implemented during Pastor Ellis tenure.</p><br>
<p>1988 – Celebrated its Bicentennial on January 20, 1988, the birthday of the church; the cornerstone laid in October 1873 was opened. It contained some 400 artifacts, coins, jewelry, etc.</p><br>
<p>1988, July 10, Pastor Ellis presided over the laying of another cornerstone that contained a bible, church records and other articles donated by members.</p><br>
<p>1994 – Dr. Charles J. Elmore, Professor of Humanities at Savannah State University, historian and author, was authorized by the church to write a history of First Bryan Baptist Church. The title of the book is First Bryan 1788–2001 The Oldest Continuous Black Baptist Church in America. It has been well received and is now in circulation locally and throughout the United States.</p><br>
<p>Hill Hall at Savannah State College, also known as Walter Bernard Hill Hall and built between 1900 and 1901 by students studying manual arts and blacksmithing, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981. The building was named for Dr. Walter Barnard Hill.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Located on the campus of Savannah State University, the facility had a variety of uses since its initial construction including a bookstore, student center, male dormitory, and library. USA President William Howard Taft visited the building in 1912. Between 1914 and 1918, during World War I, the building served as a barracks facility for Black soldiers as they trained in Savannah.</p><br>
<p>Hill Hall was closed in 1996 following protests by students when the building, a dorm at the time, fell into disrepair. For nearly 20 years campus officials and community groups worked to raise money for restoration. The building was damaged by fire on May 8, 2000 as work crews were completing renovations. The building was reopened in 2008.</p><br>
<p>Today, Hill Hall houses the university&#39;s Enrollment Management Center, a presidential suite, administrative offices, a lecture hall, a banquet room, and a mini-museum.</p><br>
<h2>Historical recognition</h2><br>
<p>The Georgia Historical Commission and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources have recognized both the Savannah State campus and Hill Hall as a part of the Georgia Historical Marker Program.</p><br>
<p>On April 26, 2001, a historic marker was erected by the Georgia Historical Society and the Savannah State University National Alumni Association. The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation honored the Hill Hall Restoration project with its Excellence in Rehabilitation Award for 2009.</p><br>
<p>The S. D. Newton House is an historic house at 8 Sycamore Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. Built about 1849, it is an excellent local instance of Greek Revival styling, and one of the few houses surviving from that period in the neighborhood, which once had many more such houses. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 5, 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Newton House is located just south of Worcester&#39;s downtown area, on the northeast side of Sycamore Street in a mixed residential and commercial area. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame house, with a front-facing gable roof and clapboard siding. It is set on a lot fronted by a low granite curb and a picket fence. The building corners have paneled pilasters, which rise to an entablature below the fully pedimented gable and extending along the building sides. A single-story porch extends across the building width, with fluted Doric columns rising to an entablature beneath a shallow hip roof. The front facade is three bays wide, with the entrance in the right bay, flanked by sidelight windows and narrow pilasters, and topped by an entablature.</p><br>
<p>The house was built about 1849, and typifies the houses that were built in the immediate area in the 1840s, although it is now one of the few houses left from that period. Most of the houses from that period have been replaced either by later residential construction or commercial buildings. The house&#39;s first known occupant was S. D. Newton, a painter; later residents include a victualler and telegrapher.</p><br>
<p>Maricao State Forest is located on the island of Puerto Rico, spread through the towns of San Germán, Sabana Grande and Maricao. It is commonly known as only the Monte del Estado, which refers to the mountain of that name located in the forest.</p><br>
<p>The forest is located on the western region of the Cordillera Central of Puerto Rico, and encompasses 10,264 acre of land in a high rainfall area. Guanajibo River and the Río Grande de Añasco flow through the forest.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Maricao State Forest was created after a proclaim on December 22, 1919.</p><br>
<h2>Biology and ecology</h2><br>
<h3>Flora</h3><br>
<p>There are 1,141 species of plants in the forest. Of the 128 species of endemic plants of Puerto Rico, 23 are in the Maricao State Forest. There are plantations of mahogany, eucalyptus, Honduras pine, and others.</p><br>
<h3>Fauna</h3><br>
<p>There are 60 species registered, 29 of which are endemic. Some examples are the Puerto Rican sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter striatus venator), which is an endangered species, and the Puerto Rican emerald (Chlorostilbon maugaeus).</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>In summer the climate is warm and humid. Thunderstorms are common, along with temperature around 85 °F with heat index in the upper 90s during the daytime. In summer, nighttime is usually cool with low temperature in the mid- to lower 60s. In winter, it is very dry, the forest with mild temperature in daytime and cold in nighttime. Occasional days drop to 40 °F with mid-30s wind chill.</p><br>
<p>Sunrise, also known as MacCorkle Mansion, is a historic home located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was</p><br>
<p>built in 1905 by West Virginia&#39;s ninth governor, William A. MacCorkle (1857-1930). It is a long, three-story stone mansion. Its gabled roof is dotted with dormers and chimneys and surmounts an intricate, but wide, cornice</p><br>
<p>which gives the illusion that the house is smaller than it actually is. The Georgian structure rests on a bluff overlooking the Kanawha River, and from the northern portico one can see nearly the entire city of Charleston. The north side features four magnificent Doric, or neo-classic, columns</p><br>
<p>which support the cornice and ashlar-finished pediment. In 1961 Sunrise Foundation, Inc., was formed for the purpose of purchasing the mansion and grounds.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was the former home of the Sunrise Museum, a science and art museum that became the Avampato Discovery Museum when it moved into the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences - West Virginia when in opened in 2003. Currently the house is privately owned and is not open to the public.</p><br>
<p>The Bishop House in Casper, Wyoming was built in 1907. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Bishop House is a 2 1/2 story foursquare house in Casper, Wyoming. It was built in 1907 in the Colonial Revival style and features a widows walk. The homes red exterior bricks were shipped from Denver. A full porch, supported by four Tuscan columns, extends across the front of the house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bishop House was the first multi-storied brick home in Casper, Wyoming. Built in the city&#39;s Capitol Hill addition, the home was constructed for Marvin Lord Bishop, Sr., and was based on his childhood home in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Its architect was Elias N. Miller of Denver, and its builder was William T. Evans, for whom Evansville, Wyoming is named.</p><br>
<p>After M. L. Bishop died in 1939, his wife, Leona, continued to live in the residence until her death in 1948. Their youngest daughter, Lucile L. Bishop, lived in the Bishop House from 1908 to her death in 1997. In 2001, the structure was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The home is now owned by the Cadoma Foundation and used for community events.</p><br>
<p>Daniel Boone Hotel is a historic hotel located at Charleston, West Virginia. It is a Classical Revival Style ten story structure with blond brick exterior and tan, modular, stone-looking terra cotta. The building was originally constructed in 1927-29, expanded in 1936 and again in 1949 to provide a total of 465 rooms, a large ballroom and 3 parlor meeting rooms. The overall effect of the facade is to create the common early 20th Century "Skyscraper" look of "Base", two story mezzanine - "Shaft" five stories of 1/1 and 1 story of 6/6 windows - and "Capital" tenth story diamond brick and terra cotta balustrade. The building is "U"-shaped in plan. In the early-1980s the building was extensively renovated to become an office building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Angove Lake is a permanent freshwater lake in the Great Southern region of Western Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The lake is part of the Moates Lake System along with Moates Lake and Lake Gardner. All of these lakes were linked to form a large estuarine system during the last interglacial period approximately 120,000 years ago.</p><br>
<p>The main waterbody covers a maximum area of 40 hectare but the associated wetlands covers an area closer to 100 hectare. The area south of the lake was drained with a 3 km channel being constructed to connect it with Gardner Creek. The water in the lake is fresh and low in tannin, water from the river system that supplies the lake is also used pumped to Albany as part of the towns water supply.</p><br>
<h3>Environment</h3><br>
<p>Very little of the catchment is cleared so the stream system and the lake are in almost pristine condition. The lake itself is essentially a large sedge swamp with large stands of Baumea articulata with fringing forest of paperbark and Agonis. The lake forms part of the Two Peoples Bay and Mount Manypeaks Important Bird Area, identified as such by BirdLife International because of its significance in the conservation of several rare and threatened bird species.</p><br>
<p>The critically endangered Spotted Galaxias, Galaxias truttaceus hesperius, is only found in the Angove River, the lake and the Goodga River.</p><br>
<p>The Potter County Courthouse is the primary government building of Potter County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located in the Coudersport Historic District in the Potter county seat of Coudersport, it was added the National Register of Historic Places on February 24, 1975. The courthouse is a Greek Revival structure with some Victorian elements blended into it.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Potter County Courthouse was designed by William Bell of Warren County, with the construction beginning in 1851 and being completed in 1853. In 1888, the roof of the courthouse was altered, leading to controversary over the "squandering" of tax money on a relatively new courthouse. The courthouse was renovated by the Civil Works Administration in the winter of 1933&ndash;34.</p><br>
<p>Wielka Sowa  with a height of 1,014.8 m is the highest peak of the Owl Mountains, a range of the Central Sudetes. The mountain is located in Dzierżoniów County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, in south-western Poland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The peak made up of metamorphic rocks of the Precambrian rises above the village of Walim near Dzierżoniów in the north and the Nysa Kłodzka Valley in the west. It is surrounded by the Owl Mountains Landscape Park. Its slopes are a popular skiing area in winter.</p><br>
<p>In 1906 a Bismarck tower was erected at the summit at the behest of the German authorities. The granite and reinforced concrete construction replaced an older wooden viewing tower located about 30 m to the south. Renamed several times after World War II, it recently has been restored in the course of the EU Interreg incentive program and re-opened in 2008. It is today just called wieża widokowa (observation tower) and offers a panoramic view to the Krkonoše range, to Mount Ślęża, into the Kłodzko Valley and over the Oder Basin in the north up to Wrocław on a bright day.</p><br>
<p>The Modjeska Monteith Simkins House is a historic place of the civil rights movement. The house, which was owned by Modjeska Monteith Simkins, is located at 2025 Marion Street in Columbia, South Carolina. On March 25, 1994, it was named to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is on a 50 ft by 172 ft lot on the west side of Marion Street between Elmwood Avenue and Calhoun Street. It is located nearly one block north of the Columbia Historic District II.</p><br>
<p>The house is a modest, -story, wooden frame house with an L-shaped plan, side-gabled roof, and shed-roof front porch. The house has its original wooden weatherboard siding. The house was originally built on clay brick piers, but the open spaces were later filled with clay brick. The roof is covered with asphalt composition shingles. There are three interior brick chimneys with corbelling. The upper half-story is for storage.</p><br>
<p>The windows appear to be original. The front of the house has two double-hung, six-over-six, windows on each side of the door. The front wood-paneled door has a transom and sidelights. The porch extends over the door and two windows. The porch has chamfered posts and turned baluster railings. The steps have cast iron railings that have replaced the original wooden railing.</p><br>
<p>The interior has a center hall plan with a rear extension kitchen. The front of the house has a living room and a bedroom. There are two additional bedrooms at the back. Each of these four rooms has a fireplace. The original floor was replaced with wooden pine floorboards by Andrew Simkins.</p><br>
<p>Other modifications to the house include a shed-roof bathroom at the rear built in the mid-twentieth century. Iron bars have been placed over the windows in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>There is a one-story, three-room building of similar construction at the rear of the property that was probably built around the same time as the main house. This was probably used as a guest house for visiting civil rights workers.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Although an oral tradition indicates that the house was built before the Civil War, it is likely constructed c. 1900. The Simkins family moved into the house in 1932.</p><br>
<p>After Modejska Simkins death in 1992, the house was vacant for a period. In 1995, the Collaborative for Community Trust, which is a Columbia non-profit organization addressing social change, raised US$60,000 towards purchasing the house. They won a stabilization grant from the South Carolina State Historic Preservation Office. They also received funds from the City of Columbia for the conversion of the house into a museum about Simkins and her work and for a headquarters for their organization. Additional support came from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the Historic Charleston Foundation, the Historic Columbia Foundation, and the Columbia Housing Authority.</p><br>
<p>The house is currently managed by the Historic Columbia Foundation. The house is not routinely open for tours but group visits and meeting space may be arranged.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The house was the residence, private office of Modjeska Simkins, and guest accommodations for visiting civil rights workers. Her most important contribution was probably her work on Briggs v. Elliott, which became part of the ground-breaking Brown v. Board of Education decision that overturned previous court decisions allowing separate public schools for children of different races. Thurgood Marshall stayed here when the local hotels did not allow African-Americans to register.</p><br>
<p>A historic marker has been erected at the Modeska Monteith Simkins House as one of those honoring African American historic sites in Columbia.</p><br>
<p>The valley of the West Fork Foss River contains a fair amount of waterfalls. The river heads in a series of large lakes: Big Heart Lake, Angeline Lake, and Otter Lake- which form spectacular waterfalls as they plunge down to Delta Lake. On the valley walls downstream of Delta Lake, are found even more waterfalls.</p><br>
<p>There are a series of waterfalls occurring on the cliff where Malachite Lake and Copper Lake&#39;s outlet streams plunge down to meet the West Fork Foss River, in King County, Washington. This cliff drops thousands of feet into the basin of the West Fork, forming two sets of five waterfalls total. Two other waterfalls also drop down the cliff further downstream along the drainage. There are also some waterfalls on the West Fork itself.</p><br>
<h2>Copper/Malachite Lakes Headwall</h2><br>
<p>Waterfalls on the cliff separating the lakes and the West Fork below include Malachite Falls, Copper Lake Falls, and the Upper, Middle, and Lower Copper Falls. All these waterfalls are on a watercourse informally named Copper Creek. Falls are arranged proceeding downstream.</p><br>
<h3>Copper Lake Falls</h3><br>
<p>Copper Lake Falls is a waterfall about 0.25 mi upstream from Malachite Falls. Its three tiers total about 120 ft in height, and its tallest drop is 60 ft. The two lower drops probably disappear into the talus they cascade over during lower stream flows, but the upper tier flows over rock hard enough to sustain it all year. The falls flows best from April to July.</p><br>
<p>The falls is found about 1.75 mi further on the trail from the viewpoint of Malachite Falls. In total, from the trailhead, the distance to the falls is about 3.75 mi.</p><br>
<h3>Malachite Falls</h3><br>
<p>Malachite Falls is the waterfall formed where the outlet streams of Copper and Malachite lakes plunge parallel for about 600 ft, before joining together. It stands about 600 ft tall, though this measurement is approximate. Despite the grand size of the falls, only portions of it are visible from any given spot, though the falls is visible for about 1 mi along the West Fork Foss Trail (#1062). The segment of the falls that flows from Copper Lake is easiest to see, while the segment from Malachite Lake is more difficult to see. The falls&#39; best flows are from May to August.</p><br>
<p>The falls is reached by the West Fork Foss Trail #1062. The total hiking distance to the falls is about 2 mi, with several stream crossings by log bridges.</p><br>
<h3>Upper Copper Falls</h3><br>
<p>Upper Copper Falls is the first of the three Copper Falls along Copper Creek. Well downstream from the much larger Malachite Falls and Copper Lake Falls, the segmented falls is about 40 ft high, and quite photogenic. One segment of the falls probably dries up during lower stream flows, as it most probably cascades over talus. The falls&#39; best flows are perennial.</p><br>
<p>Below the main falls, there is another 4 ft drop over a bulbous rock ledge.</p><br>
<p>The falls is visible from the West Fork Foss Lakes trail. After about 2 mi from the trailhead, the falls is visible through trees. Several 200 ft long paths lead upstream to the base of the falls.</p><br>
<h3>Middle Copper Falls</h3><br>
<p>Middle Copper Falls is the second of the three Copper Falls. It drops about 50 ft over smooth, wide rock, and its highest drop is 30 ft. During normal flows, its two tiers are said to be extremely pretty. In flood, the falls becomes a single white sheet of water. The falls look very different from opposite banks of the stream.</p><br>
<p>Uniquely, the Foss River trail crosses the creek between Upper and Middle Copper Falls. Like Upper Copper Falls, several small paths lead down to Copper Creek, to places where one can view the falls.</p><br>
<h3>Lower Copper Falls</h3><br>
<p>Lower Copper Falls is a 45 ft drop through a narrow chute just downstream of the middle falls. However, it is not as easily viewed.</p><br>
<h2>West Fork Foss River and Upper Valley</h2><br>
<p>There are two major falls along the West Fork,</p><br>
<p>as well as one smaller tributary waterfall in the upper section of the valley.</p><br>
<h3>Upper Foss River Falls</h3><br>
<h3>Lower Foss River Falls</h3><br>
<h3>Stairstep Falls</h3><br>
<p>Stairstep Falls is a small, unspectacular waterfall on an unnamed stream flowing into the West Fork. About 40 ft tall, its highest drop is 25 ft tall. Its name comes from the rock steps it flows over.</p><br>
<h2>Lower Valley</h2><br>
<p>There are two tall but volume-lacking, glacially fed cascades in the lower part of the valley. One is over 1,000 ft tall.</p><br>
<h3>Shoestring Falls</h3><br>
<h3>Sunray Falls</h3><br>
<h2>Above Delta Lake</h2><br>
<p>Three large waterfalls flow from Big Heart, Angeline, and Otter lakes, and bear the same name.</p><br>
<h3>Big Heart Falls</h3><br>
<h3>Angeline Falls</h3><br>
<h3>Otter Lake Falls</h3><br>
<p>Otter Lake Falls is known to flow out of Otter Lake, which is adjacent to Angeline Lake.</p><br>
<p>St Mary&#39;s Church in Portbury, Somerset, England, is an Anglican parish church close to the M5 motorway. It is a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>It dates from the 12th century, with alteration and extension in the 13th and restoration between 1870 and 1875. It has a Norman doorway and grand fifteenth century porch. There is a Berkeley Chantry chapel with early Berkeley family burials dating from around 1190.</p><br>
<p>There are a number of elderly yew trees in the surrounding graveyard with one reputed to be 900 years old. The Church was extensively renovated in the 19th Century when a cast iron heating system was installed.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Pill, Portbury and Easton in Gordano within the Portishead deanery.</p><br>
<p>The tower houses six bells hung in the English style of change ringing, the heaviest being the tenor at 21cwt or in modern terms 1 ton, in 2012 work was carried out in the tower to reinstate the floor between the ringers and the bells. Like most bells in the area, they were locally cast by local founders. Many of the bells in this tower were made by the Bilbie family of Chew Stoke.</p><br>
<p>In 2013 the church was added to the Heritage at Risk register because of water damage causing damage to the plaster ceiling.</p><br>
<p>The Norman Church of St Peter in Portishead, Somerset, England, was built in 1320, on the site of a previous church, and rebuilt in the 14th and 15th centuries in the Perpendicular Gothic style. In 1952 it was made a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The vestry was added in 1828. The church was altered in 1978-1979. It also has a new garden developed at the Millennium.</p><br>
<p>The churchyard contains the war graves of three Royal Navy sailors and an airman of World War II.</p><br>
<p>The building is located between Church Road North and Church Road South in the centre of Portishead with the four-stage tower rising to 94 ft, making a prominent landmark, with its set back buttresses and a pierced parapet.</p><br>
<p>It has strong links with Christian primary schools such as St Peter&#39;s C of E.</p><br>
<h2>Current Clergy</h2><br>
<p>As of December 2011</p><br>
<p>Reverend Andy Bryant (Team Rector), Revd Christine Judson (Team Pilgrim), Revd Tina Hodgett (Team Pilgrim) and Revd Jeremy Putnam (Training Curate)</p><br>
