<p>The Church of St Saviour in Puxton, Somerset, England, dates from the 13th century. It 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 August 2002.</p><br>
<p>It is a small, mostly unaltered medieval church, which was originally a chapel of ease to the Church of St Andrew in Banwell. It was consecrated in 1539.</p><br>
<p>The leaning tower, which started to settle towards the southwest while being built, due to the peaty foundations which the church was built upon. The church is externally Perpendicular in style, with an earlier Saxo-Norman nave.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the church is very light with a floor of irregular stone flags into which several ledger stones are set. The oak box pews on the north side of the nave are probably early 18th century, and the oak reading desk and pulpit are Jacobean, while the font is Norman. The royal arms of 1751 are over the south door. The 1557 labelled shield of Sir John St Lo&#39;s achievement can be seen above the entrance door. The Seyntloo (aka St Loe) family are past owners of Over Langford Manor.</p><br>
<p>In June 2000 structural problems were found with the roof timbers, the building was closed for some time, and on 2 July 2002, the church was declared redundant by Order in Council.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican Church of SS Peter & Paul, Weston in Gordano, Somerset, England, has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The tower and porch were built around 1300, while the rest of the building is from the 15th century, with the work being funded by Sir Richard Percivale who died in 1483 and whose tomb is in the north isle of the nave.</p><br>
<p>It has a four-bay nave, chancel and south chapel. The four stage tower is at the southern end of the church.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the church includes the original Norman font and a stone pulpit from the 13th century, there is also a Jacobean pulpit on the north side. The misericords have been dated as coming from the 14th century, although some suggest they may be 12th and transferred from Portbury Priory.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of East Clevedon with Clapton in Gordano, Walton Clevedon, Walton in Gordano and Weston in Gordano within the Portishead deanery.</p><br>
<p>Camp Arcadia is a Lutheran camp, owned and operated by the Lutheran Camp Association. Located on the shores of Lake Michigan in the small town of Arcadia, Michigan, Camp Arcadia has been in continuous operation since its opening in 1922.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Camp Arcadia is located in Arcadia Township in Manistee County, Michigan. The main access road is M-22.</p><br>
<h2>History of the Camp</h2><br>
<p>Camp Arcadia opened in 1922 under the direction of the Walther League, the young adult group of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. From its opening until his death in 1963, William "Chief" Wieherman ran the camp along with his wife Hildegard, affectionately known as "Mom." When the Walther League ceased operations in 1968. the future of the camp was uncertain, until a group of dedicated campers formed the Lutheran Camp Association and bought all 110 acre of the camp. The LCA, a non-profit corporation, has been running the camp ever since. The camp was entered onto the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.</p><br>
<h2>The Camp Today</h2><br>
<p>Camp Arcadia continues to run under the direction of the LCA. The current president is Stan Scheumann. Each summer, 39 college-age adults live and work at the camp. These employees cook, clean, and run the programs for the campers. In addition to the summer staff, Camp Arcadia employs the following year-round management team: executive director (Chip May), foodservice director (Kurt Harvey), office manager (Rachel Catanese), program director (Jess McCallum), caretakers (Franco Marano and Joe Frederick), and operations director (Leah Sallach). The archives manager is Ryan McKenna.</p><br>
<p>The camp opens on Memorial Day weekend. During this event, campers are invited to stay for free, provided they help in getting the property ready for the summer. After a week to train the summer staff, the camp begins its summer retreats, most of which are family weeks. After Labor Day weekend, the camp generally runs retreats through October, when it is then closed for winter.</p><br>
<p>Charleston City Hall is a historic city hall located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was constructed in 1921 in the Neoclassical style. It is located opposite the Kanawha County Courthouse, at the center of downtown</p><br>
<p>Charleston. The major, or entrance, elevation faces Virginia Street with monumental design features and walls clad in smooth gray limestone. The equally impressive limestone-faced Court Street facade presents a grand prospect which runs southward for nearly a block between Virginia Street and Kanawha Boulevard. These two elevations are entirely formal in design because they were intended to face the courthouse and principal city thoroughfare. The four-story building is centered with a colossal engaged colonnade of six fluted Doric columns, which rises three-stories in support of a massive cornice. The interior features a grand entrance lobby, and classically designed stairhall and council chambers.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Charleston Municipal Auditorium is a historic public auditorium, located at Charleston, West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>It was constructed in 1939 and is a monolithic concrete and steel structure of massive proportions, situated in the southwestern section of Charleston&#39;s central business district.</p><br>
<p>It is an excellent representation of the Art Deco architectural style in a public building.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>With a capacity of 3,483 (2,377 on the orchestra level and 1,106 on the balcony), the Municipal Auditorium is the largest theater in West Virginia. Concerts, graduations, Broadway stage shows and other special events, including the annual presentation of The Nutcracker, are held on the auditorium&#39;s 65-by-85.5-foot stage.</p><br>
<p>Notable moments</p><br>
<p>Country music singer Hank Williams (1923-1953) was scheduled to perform a New Year&#39;s Eve show at the auditorium on December 31, 1952. Due to bad weather in Nashville TN, he was not able to fly to the venue. While en route to the New Years Day show in Canton OH, Williams died of heart failure in the back seat of his Cadillac near Oak Hill, WV.</p><br>
<p>All Saints Church is the parish church in Wraxall, Somerset, England. It has been dedicated "to all the Saints". The building is surrounded by an extensive cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The present building was raised in the 14th century, with tower, clock and bells being added in later centuries. The church has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>Parish registers survive from 1562, and include examples of the baptism of black slaves. There are painted stone figures of Sir Edmond Gorges and his wife in the chancel. The nearby rectory was built in the 17th century.</p><br>
<p>The West Tower, is 85 ft high, and contains eight bells, three of which date from 1705. The clock face was added in 1730.</p><br>
<p>The large churchyard contains several monuments to the Gibbs family which owned the nearby Tyntesfield Estate, which has recently been purchased by the National Trust following the death of Baron Wraxall.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The southern doorway of the present building was part of a previous building of Norman date. It appears that portions of the chancel, north aisle and south porch were rebuilt at that time. The tower, roofs and windows were apparently rebuilt and enlarged in the fifteenth century. Members of the Gorges family, who were lords of this manor for some 400 years, are buried under the building&#39;s floors, although most of their headstones have been moved or destroyed.</p><br>
<p>In 2006 parish leaders began a project to convert an abandoned school building on the grounds (the Old Georgian School, which opened in 1809) into a new meeting room and parish office, with restrooms, handicapped facilities and a kitchen. The project was estimated to cost £200,000 and was slated to begin in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Walnut Hill Historic District in Carnesville, Georgia consists of several small farm complexes along Old Federal Road  making a historic rural linear community. The oldest dates from 1850. It includes farmhouses of types that are common for rural Georgia from c.1850 to c. 1910 and various outbuildings. Most of the farms were small subsistence farms which grew corn, vegetables, oats, and wheat, plus some cotton as a cash crop.</p><br>
<p>The district includes the graveyard of Indian Creek Baptist Church, which was founded in 1850. Many of the community members were of the Hamilton or Payne families. It includes a historic store and a doctor&#39;s office.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Mary in central Yatton, Somerset, England, is often called the Cathedral of the Moors due to its size and grandeur in relation to the village. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>While the current church was constructed in the 14th century, it is likely that a previous Christian church was located on the same site. The chapel which was added in 1496, and various other alterations and expansions of the church can be seen in the account which have survived since 1445.</p><br>
<p>The central tower, which was built around 1400, has three stages with diagonal weathered buttresses with crocketed pinnacles. There is a south-east hexagonal stair turret rising above the parapet with panelled sides to the top, and an open cusped parapet. resulting in the fourth bell having to be recast.</p><br>
<p>The 15th century Old Rectory is also a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>Plaza Theatre, also known as the Capitol Theater or West Virginia State University Capitol Center, is a historic theatre building located at Charleston, West Virginia. It was constructed about 1912 and is a turn-of-the-century theater/commercial/office building located in a transitional business district of downtown Charleston. The three-story brick structure is characterized by eclectic Classical Revival style architecture incorporating a number of elements from classical Greek forms.</p><br>
<p>The theater&#39;s streetfront entrance is flanked by two commercial storefronts. The dimensions of the Capitol Theater building are 53 feet wide by 163 feet deep (16 by 50 m).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>United Carbon Building, also known as Boulevard Tower, Stanley Building, and Nelson Building, is a historic office building located at Charleston, West Virginia. It is a 12-story, steel-framed building sheathed in a smooth, unornamented shell of gold-colored brick, black steel and glass. Its slender volume rises 157 feet from the sidewalk to the twelfth-floor penthouse, which once served as the office of the building&#39;s prominent patron, Oscar Nelson . Mr. Nelson, president</p><br>
<p>of the United Carbon Company, commissioned architect Walter F. Martens to design the structure. The building was commissioned in 1939 as the national headquarters for the United Carbon Company, which occupied</p><br>
<p>the ninth through the twelfth floors until 1950.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Nailsea Court in Nailsea, Somerset, England, is an English manor house dating from the 15th century. Pevsner describes the house as "historically highly instructive and interesting" and it is a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>In 1574 the house was owned by George Perceval, the father of Richard Percivale who was born in the house and later deciphered Spanish documents for Queen Elizabeth about the Spanish Armada. Later owners in the 16th and 17th centuries included the local member of parliament Richard Cole and Nathaniel Wade who was condemned to death for his part in the Monmouth Rebellion. After 1795 a series of owners, who never lived in the house, leased it for use as a farmhouse and it fell into disrepair. In 1906 it was bought by Charles Edward Evans who undertook a major restoration project including bringing in materials from surrounding Tudor manors. After World War II it was converted into flats and in the 1990s into five private dwellings.</p><br>
<p>The building has been changed and expanded over the centuries. It now consists of a main 3 storey block with two wings. The interior includes fine wooden panelling and plaster ceilings. Some of the original fireplaces survive and many of the rooms include decorative stained glass. It is surrounded by landscaped grounds including a sunken garden and a knot garden. There is a 17th century barn adjacent to the house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The exact date of construction is not known, but is believed to have started in the 15th century and was definitely before 1574, when the initials of the owner George Perceval, the father of Richard Percivale, were added to the chimney piece in the library. One of his descendants Richard Percivale (or Perceval) contributed to the English response to the plans for invasion by the Spanish Armada by deciphering Spanish documents for Queen Elizabeth. Perceval sold the estate to the Bristol merchant and member of parliament Richard Cole in 1582 and it was passed down to his descendants.</p><br>
<p>In 1693, the house was purchased by Nathaniel Wade and around this time the roof was raised and a floor added into the original hall house. In 1685, during the Monmouth Rebellion Wade supported James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. After the defeat of the rebels at the Battle of Sedgemoor Wade was captured. Judge Jefferys condemned him to death at Taunton King James, interviewed him and granted a pardon after which Wade returned home to Nailsea. On Wade&#39;s death in 1718 the house was bought by a London Barrister Christopher Appleby for £2,000. It was then sold to the Dowager Lady Coleraine and passed to her son-in-law a Dr Rogers. On the death of his wife the house became the property of her son in law Sir Robert Knight. From 1795 it had various owners including: Henry Cam Seymour, John Hugh Smyth Pigott in 1834, Reginald Rodbard in 1846, Thomas Todd Walters in 1865 and Henry John Mirehouse in 1874. However none of them lived in the house and the building was used as a farmhouse and fell into disrepair.</p><br>
<p>Charles Edward Evans purchased Nailsea Court in 1906. He then started a restoration programme which took seven years. He employed Arthur James Stratton, an expert on Tudor architecture to reconstruct the west wing. The restoration included the use of materials from Over Langford Manor. The panelling was installed in his new withdrawing room. Consequently this room was called the Langford Parlour but is now known as the Langford Room. The Latch porch from Langford was at Nailsea Court for nearly twenty years, before being returned by Charles Evans to Upper Langford in 1923. The rebuilding included the erection of a tower. The first version looked similar to a lighthouse and was changed to one of Tudor appearance which was incorporated into the south wing. During World War I, in an effort to conserve coal, brick insets were built into the fireplaces to reduce their size.</p><br>
<p>The Whitefield family bought the house after Evans death in 1944. They converted part of it into flats. The next sale was to a Mr McGrath in the 1970s. A private development company purchased the house and grounds in the 1990s, after which it was converted into five private homes.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building consists of a main three storey block with two wings with gabled roofs in a Z-plan. The porch has a 4-centred arched door opening and a frieze with Greek fret carving. The construction of the building encompasses four phases; the fifteenth century, the Elizabethan era, the seventeenth century and a restoration by Arthur Stratton in the early twentieth century.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building has been changed many times since its construction. The decorative features include several brought in from other buildings. Panelling was brought from Judge Jeffreys house at No 18, Fore Street, Taunton. An over-mantel was imported from Field Marshal Sir Lintorn Simmons house Over Langford Manor. In addition sections of wooden panelling were brought from Over Langford Manor. The result of these additions lead to the room being called The Langford Room. a fine plaster ceiling and carved frieze were brought to Nailsea Court from Ashley Manor in Bristol. The dining room door, which dates from around 1590, is also known as the "Nailsea door". It is decorated with a large arcaded and elaborately carved upper panel. In the hall there is a framed ceiling, this is formed into six bays each of which has chamfered and stopped beams. There is also a stone fireplace in the hall.</p><br>
<p>There is a variety of stained glass within the building including coats of arms, a sundial and depictions of various birds. A window to the west of main range has medieval stained glass including a picture of a swan ringing a bell, as at the Bishop&#39;s Palace, Wells, with others including a peacock, a heron, an owl, a crane and a bird with a bell attached to one leg.</p><br>
<h2>Gardens</h2><br>
<p>The House is surrounded by 5 acre of gardens and approached by a tree-lined drive of mature sweet chestnut, walnut and cherry trees. There is a walled sunken garden and kitchen garden has raised vegetable beds, a glass-house and box knot garden. Many of the walls, gatepiers and the balustrade are from the 16th century but have been revised in the subsequent centuries. The old tennis court has been converted to a formal lawn with herbaceous borders. There is also a stone summerhouse which is early Jacobean.</p><br>
<p>A remodelled 17th century barn stands about 20 m east of the house.</p><br>
<p>The Guibourd House, also known as La Maison de Guibourd, is an example of poteaux-sur-solle  sealed with bouzillage  construction. The structure was built around 1806 and was the home of Jacques Jean Rene Guibourd and his family.</p><br>
<p>The basic architecture of the Guibourd House is very similar to other Creole-French structures around the town and throughout the French inhabited regions of the Illinois Country/territory, eastern Canada and the Louisiana territory.</p><br>
<p>The structures design has been changed only slightly over the years to accommodate the needs of the various residents, but overall retains much of the original character and style of the early 19th century French Creole architecture. The house had originally been built with galleries&#39; (or wide porches) surrounding the house to keep the interior cool in the summer and the snow off in the winter.</p><br>
<p>The slave quarters or kitchen was added a few years later. The kitchen building was made of brick and detached from the main house due to the dangers of fire in the food preparation areas. It too was common for these structures to have been built a few steps away from the main house to keep any fire isolated to only one building. The Guibourd kitchen, however, was built in a semi-attached fashion, under one corner of the porch. This proved invaluable for the family and slaves when serving meals to be able to keep them hot, dry and timely. The Guibourd House has one of the few original kitchen structures and slave quarters of this time period in Ste. Genevieve.</p><br>
<p>The Guibourd House is a contributing property in the Ste. Genevieve Historic District, which is a National Historic Landmark. The house is operated as a historic house museum by the Foundation for Restoration of Ste. Genevieve, Inc.</p><br>
<h2>Jacques Jean-René Guibourd de Luzinais</h2><br>
<p>Born: 29 July 1755</p><br>
<p>Where: Candé, France</p><br>
<p>Father: Christopher Ambroise Guibourd</p><br>
<p>Mother: Renée Maguerite Gibault</p><br>
<p>Spouse: Ursule (Ursula) Barbeau</p><br>
<p>(Sister-in-Law to Jean-Baptiste Valle)</p><br>
<p>Married: 24 June 1800</p><br>
<p>Family: (all born in Ste. Genevieve)</p><br>
<p>Eugene Jacques Pierre Guibourd (3 May 1801 – 16 June 1879)</p><br>
<p>Infant Guibourd (died: 21 Nov 1803 )</p><br>
<p>Jean Edward Guibourd (born: unknown)</p><br>
<p>Omer François Guibourd (born: 23 Oct 1807 - died: October 12, 1874 in La-Corbiere, France)</p><br>
<p>Jules Joseph Marie Guibourd (born: 9 Nov 1811 - died: unknown in France)</p><br>
<p>Died: 29 May 1812</p><br>
<p>Where: Ste. Genevieve, Missouri</p><br>
<p>Buried: Ste. Genevieve Memorial Cemetery</p><br>
<h2>From Candé to Sainte Genevieve</h2><br>
<p>Jacques came to Ste. Genevieve from France by way of Saint Domingue where he had been a secretary to a wealthy plantation owner. During a slave rebellion, he was smuggled out of the country in a cargo barrel by his slave, Moros.</p><br>
<p>He and Moros made their way back to France whereupon seeing the chaos and destruction there caused by the Reign of Terror (1793–94, just after the French Revolution of 14 July 1789) had decided to leave their homeland. After hearing of a population of French speaking settlers (possibly Royalist (Chouannerie) or those loyal to King Louis XVI) in America from someone headed to Philadelphia, he and Moros decided to sail to America. There is some evidence that Jacques and Moros were shipwrecked during that voyage and that resulted in the two losing all their belongings. It has been noted that when Jacques arrived in Ste. Genevieve, Missouri sometime in the late 1790s, he was penniless.</p><br>
<p>There is documentation noting that Ursula’s father, Jean-Baptiste Barbeau, took in Jacques (and presumably Moros) until he could get settled. This resulted in his meeting his future wife, Ursula in addition to becoming acquainted with Jean-Baptiste Valle, the Commandant of Ste. Genevieve (in the Illinois Territory, Upper Louisiana).</p><br>
<p>In 1799, he obtained a Spanish land grant for the entire block (2 arpents X 2 arpents, 1 arpent=192 feet) on which his house currently stands. While the house was being built, Jacques opened a mercantile and sold goods to villagers from his residence just across the street from La Maison de Guibourd. Copies of his merchant’s ledger shows what he sold, to whom, how much the items cost and how the items were paid for.</p><br>
<p>In addition to being a merchant, Jacques owned a tan-yard (or tannery) just a few miles South of town on the River aux Vases, and owned a lead mine located west of town in what is now Washington County, MO.</p><br>
<p>Jacques’ son, Eugene, married Marie Therese St. Gemme Beauvais and had 12 children most of whom were born in Old Mines, Washington County, MO.</p><br>
<p>Jacques died 29 May 1812. After Ursula died on October 20, 1843, the south half of the property and the house was inherited by sons Jules and Omer. The northern half was inherited by their son, Eugene who had moved back to Ste. Genevieve just four years earlier in 1839.</p><br>
<p>At age 11, Eugene’s son, Felix, traveled with his uncles, Jules and Omer Guibourd back to Angers, France. There, he obtained his degree in science and art, and attended medical school in Paris. Felix returned to Ste. Genevieve in 1865 where he practiced medicine until his death in 1885.</p><br>
<p>In 1859 according to the HABS survey, Jules and Omer sold their part of the lot to Eugene and it subsequently became the property of his son, Felix. In 1907, the property was sold to Clovis G. Boyer who in turn sold the house to Jules Felix and Anne Marie Vallé. In January, 1973, Anne Marie’s will left the house to the Foundation for Restoration of Ste. Genevieve.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Naeger, Bill, Patti Naeger, and Mark Evans. Ste. Genevieve: A Leisurely Stroll through History. Ste. Genevieve: Merchant Street, 1998.</p><br>
<p>The Vicarage  in Congresbury, Somerset, England, includes an early 19th-century vicarage and former Priests House from around 1446. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The eastern range comprising the Refectory was built by executors of Bishop Thomas Beckington of Wells whose heraldic devices and those of the Poulteney family are on the porch. There are also carved faces on the window surrounds. The specific year of construction is not known but thought to be between 1440 and 1470, although the porch which may be slightly later than other parts of the building has been dated to 1465.</p><br>
<p>In 1823 the refectory was found to be in a bad state of repair and moneys allocated for the construction of the new vicarage. Major repairs were carried out to the refectory in the 1950s following the discovery of deathwatch beetle.</p><br>
<p>The two-storey limewashed stone of the vicarage has a tiled hipped roof and Greek Doric distyle porch. The refectory is supported by buttresses and pantile roofs. The hall and rooms above have original fireplaces and ceilings.</p><br>
<p>The building is now used for church and community functions. In 2016 plans were published for the development of 26 homes on the land belonging to the church. As part of the proposal the vicarage would become a common house providing a communal kitchen and dining room and office space.</p><br>
<p>The Dominguez Rancho Adobe is California Historical Landmark Number 152, and in 1976 was placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior.</p><br>
<p>The adobe of Manuel Dominguez, on the Mexican land grant of Rancho San Pedro, was completed in 1826. The home features 2 ft walls, heavy timbers and a flat, tarred roof. Much of the furniture is original to the Dominguez family.</p><br>
<p>The Friends of Rancho San Pedro operate the adobe ranch home as the Dominguez Rancho Adobe Museum. The Friends provide guided tours of the house, as well as host many educational programs about ranch life and early California history. The museum&#39;s address is 18127 South Alameda Street, Rancho Dominguez, California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Rancho San Pedro is the site of the First Spanish land grant in California. The land was granted in 1784 by King Carlos III to Juan Jose Dominguez, a retired Spanish soldier who came to California with the Portola expedition and later with Father Juniperro Serra. This grant encompassed 75,000 acres and included the entire Los Angeles harbor. Due to a lack of heirs, the land was then passed to Cristobal Dominguez, a nephew of Juan Jose. Cristobal’s son, Manuel Dominguez, would succeed him in taking control of the land upon his father’s death. It was under Manuel’s guidance that the Rancho as it is seen today was constructed in 1826.</p><br>
<p>During this time Manuel was also focused on acquiring a United States land patent, which would solidify ownership of the Rancho under United States’ law. The patent was granted and signed by President James Buchanan on December 18, 1858, more than 7 years after it was first requested and nearly 75 years after the original land grant. This was the first USA land patent granted in California. However, throughout the years of political turmoil in California, prolonged court battles over ownership of the Rancho, numerous surveys of the land, and the sale of some parcels, the United States land patent stated that the Rancho now encompassed 25,000 acres, far fewer than the 75,000 acres included in the original land grant.</p><br>
<p>Manuel Dominguez was a business-savvy young man who could speak both Spanish and English as a result of successful trade. He was also the only one of his siblings who could read and write. At the age of 29, he was elected as Mayor of Los Angeles. Manuel later became one of 47 delegates in California to sign the State Constitution. Not long thereafter, President James Buchanan signed the very first land patent granted in California to Manuel Dominguez, solidifying the grounds in use by the museum today.</p><br>
<h2>Battle of the Old Woman’s Gun</h2><br>
<p>During the Mexican–American War in 1846, the Battle of Dominguez Rancho or Battle of the Old Woman’s Gun occurred on the eastern side of Dominguez Hill, its location being a factor in the temporary defeat of American troops by a band of Spanish Californians. This one-hour altercation took place on October 8 near the home of Manuel Dominguez, with the Rancho buildings being occupied from the previous night by Captain Mervine and his marines.</p><br>
<h2>Daughters Inherit the Rancho</h2><br>
<p>Upon Manuel’s death in 1882, and the passing of his wife one year later, the Rancho lands were partitioned among his six surviving children, all daughters. Three of the married daughters continued the Dominguez legacy through the Carson, Del Amo and Watson families</p><br>
<h2>Pacific Electric Railway</h2><br>
<p>By the time the railroad came into the lives of the Dominguez family, in 1869, the family already had a lucrative cattle business. In fact, the cattle were slaughtered in the fields on the spot. When the railroad was built running through Rancho lands that practice came to a halt. Manuel donated 100 feet, about 77 acres, to the railroad.</p><br>
<p>In 1902, the Pacific Electric Railway was set to cut through Dominguez and Watson land. In the agreement, the Dominguez family requested there be a Dominguez Junction at Alameda Street. This is where Union Pacific freight trains still run to this day. Teams of men, horses, and mules built the railway at a rapid pace. On July 4, 1902 the railway officially opened. The Pacific Electric Railway would pass by the Dominguez Junction every hour, and thereby increased the value of the rancho lands.</p><br>
<p>As a passenger train, people were able to frequent the rancho more easily and more often. The Dominguez family became known for their large family barbecues, which were made possible by the advent of the locomotive. However, the trains definitely had their downsides. Raising livestock and agriculture was made more difficult, and people throughout the area complained through Robert Watson to reach the Pacific Electric Railway Company. Ultimately, however, the railroad was beneficial to the Dominguez heritage, as Carson was able to ship over 70,000 pounds of wool at a time</p><br>
<p>The Rancho has a collection of antique large-scale model trains located in their carriage house as well.</p><br>
<h2>1910 Air Meet at Dominguez Field</h2><br>
<p>In 1910, Dominguez Hill served as the site of the first national aviation meet in the United States. It is estimated that over a half-million passengers traveled by train to see this historic event. An open grandstand was erected that was more than six hundred feet in length. Use of the field was provided without rental charge by the Dominguez family, though the family asked to have front row seats for the entire event. Many of the early aviation pioneers were present, including the Wright brothers, Curtiss, Martin, Paulhan, and Willard. Roy Knabenshue flew in one of the very first blimps. The aviation meet lasted for 10 days, establishing the first speed and endurance records.</p><br>
<h2>The Claretians</h2><br>
<p>Manuel and his family were also very devout Catholics. All of the daughters made major donations to the construction of St. Vibiana’s, the former Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles. In 1922, the two remaining daughters, Susana Del Amo and Reyes Dominguez, deeded seventeen acres adjacent to the family home to the Claretian Missionaries. In 1924, the Claretian Missionaries began using the adobe home as a graduate school for Claretians and later as a seminary. In recognition of this contribution to the Claretians, special arrangements were made to allow Susana and Gregorio Del Amo to be buried in a crypt beneath the altar of the chapel located in the modern day Claretian retirement home.</p><br>
<h2>The Modern Dominguez Rancho</h2><br>
<p>In 1967 the stockholders of the Dominguez Estate Company voted to sell off a large portion of the land. The sale was the largest in southern Californian history. The state of California purchased a portion of the land, and in 1965 the Board of Trustees of the California State Colleges voted to build a new campus on the west side of Dominguez Hill, which became California State University Dominguez Hills.</p><br>
<p>Without the foresight and leadership of Juan Jose, Cristobal and Manuel Dominguez, the Rancho San Pedro may not have survived to the modern day. Many of the Spanish land grants in California were sold to settlers, abandoned, or lost entirely due to costly court battles to defend ownership of the property. Recently, the Dominguez family has been host to the King and Queen of Spain, the Governors of California, and other dignitaries at events held throughout the Rancho lands.</p><br>
<p>The land has passed through successive generations and remains in the Dominguez family. Today, the descendants operate the Watson Land Company and the Carson Estates Company on the original Rancho land. Throughout his life, Manuel resisted selling the land, preferring instead to lease parcels and retain ownership. This strategy was followed by his children, which allowed for a substantial portion of the land grant to be held by family members today. This includes the museum which showcases the adobe home of Manuel Dominguez.</p><br>
<p>Stonehenge Avenue is an ancient avenue on Salisbury plain, Wiltshire, England. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site. Discovered in the 18th century, it measures nearly 3 kilometers, connecting Stonehenge with the River Avon. It was built during the Stonehenge 3 period of 2600 to 1700 BCE.</p><br>
<p>Along some of its length The Avenue is aligned with the sunrise of the summer solstice, suggesting a time of most frequent use. In 2013 a section of A344 road was closed, which had cut through the Avenue close to Stonehenge. After the road surface was removed, it was shown that although the Avenue&#39;s banks had been sliced off, the filled in ditches were still in evidence, demonstrating that the Avenue had indeed connected right through to the stone circle.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the Avenue, a ring of pits, referred to as Bluestonehenge, was discovered in 2009. No monoliths were found, and stone chips which were assumed to be of bluestone were later found to bear no relation to the bluestones at Stonehenge.</p><br>
<p>Mike Parker Pearson of the Stonehenge Riverside Project believes that the Avenue was inspired by, and built over top of a natural formation of rills with an existing astronomical alignment.</p><br>
<p>The Avenue, along with Stonehenge itself, is a Scheduled Monument, first designated in the 1882 act which was the earliest legislation to protect British archaeological sites.</p><br>
<p>Waldschmidt Hall  is an academic building at the University of Portland in Portland, Oregon, United States. Constructed in 1891 as West Hall, the building was originally part of the now defunct Portland University located in North Portland overlooking the Willamette River. The Romanesque style structure built of brick and stone stands five stories tall. The hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977 and renovated in 1992, the same year it took the current name. Waldschmidt, the oldest building on campus, now houses the school’s administration offices and some classrooms.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Members of the Methodist Episcopal church founded Portland University in 1891 in Portland and began raising funds to open the school. That year the university built a five story tall brick building at a cost of $32,500. Named West Hall when it opened, it first was used as a residence hall, the school’s chapel, and for classrooms, as it was the only building on campus. Portland University suffered financial problems and had to abandon the campus after defaulting on loans in 1896. The campus and West Hall then became the property of the prior owners.</p><br>
<p>In 1901, Archbishop Alexander Christie purchased the campus and building in a trade of two properties the church owned plus $1 in an effort to start a Catholic affiliated school. A student at the school apparently drowned in the Willamette in 1911 and is believed to haunt the building. The school changed its name to the University of Portland in 1935.</p><br>
<p>West Hall was designated a historic landmark by Portland in 1970, In 1990, the school embarked on a three renovation project of the structure to bring it up to code and prevent it from falling apart. Repairs included fixing sagging walls and floors, as well a retrofitting the building to meet modern seismic standards. The $5.5 million project utilized the original blueprints and old pictures to maintain the original look and feel of the building. Other work included making it accessible to the handicapped, replacing windows, and restoring the hardwood floors. Paid for in part by private donations, the project was completed in October 1993.</p><br>
<p>In October 1992, the University of Portland renamed the building as Waldschmidt Hall in honor of former school president and Roman Catholic bishop Paul E. Waldschmidt. After renovations were completed in 1993, the hall housed the administrative offices of the university, including student services, and some classrooms. Part of the Postal Services Historic Preservation series, the computer generated image of the building was created by John Pirman.</p><br>
<h2>Details</h2><br>
<p>Frederick Manson White, Richard H. Martin, Jr., and William F. McCaw served as the three original architects for the building. Romanesque in architectural style, he five story structure has stone, brick, and cast iron on the exterior. The hall was patterned after Harvard University’s Sever Hall and includes a wide, domed entrance. Measuring 30,000 ft2, Waldschmidt is the oldest building the University of Portland campus.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building features walls paneled with cherry wood, oak flooring, a carpeted stairway, large windows, modern furnishings, and old photographs of the hall hung on some walls. As of 2009, Waldschmidt Hall houses the university’s administrative offices including admissions and the registrar, as well as some classrooms. Some of the red bricks outside of the top floor have initials carved into them by former students.</p><br>
<p>Risovača Cave,  is situated at the very entrance of the town of Aranđelovac in central Serbia around 17 m above the Kubršnica river valley. It is one of the most important archaeological sites of the Palaeolithic in Serbia besides the Gradac Cave near Kragujevac. Its discovery confirmed the assumed existence of the Paleolithic culture south of the Sava-Danube line and provided new information on the life of prehistoric humans in Europe.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The cave was created by the warm, mineral waters, which are abundant in the region surrounding Aranđelovac. The cave contains some natural rarities, like the marble onyx, which deposited from the water on the floor of the cave. It also contains aragonite, which groups its crystals on the ceiling of the cave (branching stalactite forms called flos-ferri ("flowers of iron"), seemingly defying the gravity.</p><br>
<h2>Discovery</h2><br>
<p>The site has been discovered around 1938 when the quarry on the location became operational, but the size and importance were not recognized until 1950 when the old quarry was reopened. Unfortunately, at the same time the incorrigible damage was done to the site even before the scientific excavations began as the entry section of 20 m collapsed, destroying the richest cultural layer.</p><br>
<h2>Exploration</h2><br>
<p>Archaeological and speleological excavations started in 1953, headed by the archaeologist and speleologist Radenko Lazarević. Fossils of 20 different mammals were discovered in the cave, that include cave hyena, wolf, fox, wild horse, cave bear, mammoth, wooly rhinoceros, cave lion, leopard, wild boar, badger, mole rat, beaver, hare and steppe bison. The cave depth is approximately 187 m and its caverns, or "halls" are covered with minerals of various shapes and colors. Worked flint tools and bone artifacts of prehistoric human origin were discovered in sediments in a depth of 1 to 1.75 m. These artifact assemblages are attributed to Neanderthal occupants during the end of the Middle Paleolithic period. Neanderthal fossil remains have so far not been found during excavations because any layers that might have held remains were already destroyed and removed during earlier stone quarrying.</p><br>
<h2>Risovača man</h2><br>
<p>It is estimated that Neanderthals populated the cave in the period of 35,000 to 50,000 years and is one of, so far five caves in the Balkans, where the Neanderthals lived. Gavela immediately estimated, based on the remains of the material culture, that the inhabitants were contemporaneous with the Krapina man. The inhabitants were estimated to be of short but sturdy stature, hunched a bit and capable of making tools from stones and animal bones: daggers, stone bradawls and stone-layered knife. Some of those tools, they used to fight with the animals which roamed the steppes around the cave in the finals stage of an ice age.</p><br>
<h2>Protection</h2><br>
<p>Risovača Cave has been declared a national archaeological site of great importance in 1983 and put under legal protection by the Republic of Serbia. The cave remains a refuge for several endangered and protected species of bats.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The cave was open for tourists in 1987. A sculptural complex, representing a Neanderthal family around the fireplace was exhibited in the cave. With 24,000 visitors in 2016 it was the third most visited cave in Serbia.</p><br>
<p>Noyes Mountain is a mountain located in Maine near the town of South Paris. It is named after George Lorenzo Noyes, who built and operated Harvard Quarry located nearby.</p><br>
<p>Noyes Mountain stands within the watershed of the Little Androscoggin River, which drains into the Androscoggin River, and thence into Merrymeeting Bay in the Kennebec River estuary.</p><br>
<p>The east and south sides of Noyes Mtn. drain into Pennesseewassee Lake, and thence into Pennesseewassee Stream and the Little Androscoggin River.</p><br>
<p>The northeast side of Noyes Mtn. drains into Niles Brook, and the Little Androscoggin.</p><br>
<p>The west side of Noyes Mtn. drains into Mud Pond, thence into Hicks Pond and Niles Brook.</p><br>
<h2>Tourist attractions</h2><br>
<p>Noyes Mountain has many tourist attractions, including a canoe trip, the Snow Falls Gorge, the Paris Hill Village, a rock store, a museum, and simply the panoramic views that come after climbing it.</p><br>
<p>Anshei Israel Synagogue is a historic synagogue located in Lisbon, Connecticut, United States. The Orthodox congregation was founded with 15 families and constructed the synagogue in 1936. It was built by George Allen & Sons. The interior is a single room that is lined with five benches before an altar which held the sacred ark. The congregation&#39;s membership dwindled throughout the 1940s and 1950s, limiting the services to holidays before finally closing in the early 1980s. Rules in the congregation were not as strictly enforced as in the Old World, as there was no curtain to separate the sexes and distant members were allowed to drive part of the way to its services. The Town of Lisbon took ownership of the property in the 1980s. The synagogue is currently maintained by the Lisbon Historical Society. The synagogue was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>In the early 1800s of Connecticut, people of the Jewish faith were few, with just twelve persons in the whole of Connecticut. In 1843, Jewish public worship was first permitted after a petition to the Connecticut General Assembly. Early Jewish services were held in private homes or in rented halls and later in the first synagogues, which were usually adapted from churches. Rural synagogues like the Anshei Israel Synagogue were modest structures and "reflect the need of Jewish farming and summer congregations for buildings suitable for worship that were within their limited financial and geographic boundaries."</p><br>
<p>The land upon which the synagogue was built was donated by Harry Rothenberg around 1936. The congregation, pooled their money to construct the synagogue.</p><br>
<p>After passing through the tower, the single room has a platform with an ark at the front. The original altar and sacred ark remains, with the interior concealed by a gold curtain; and a menorah rests on the podium. Chairs and five wooden, backless benches were provided for seating, which was described as "an unusual arrangement in historic Connecticut synagogues". Though the building had electricity, it had no heat or plumbing; though a wood stove was used to provide heat and an outhouse was previously behind the synagogue.</p><br>
<h2>Use</h2><br>
<p>The founding congregation of 15 families came from Poland and Russia and lived in the surrounding towns of Plainfield, Lisbon, Griswold, and Jewett City. The town of Lisbon acquired the synagogue in the 1980s from the synagogue&#39;s last six members. In 2004, the synagogue was open during "Walking Weekend" events.</p><br>
<p>Caroline Read-Burns, president of the Lisbon Historical Society and Jerome Zuckerbraun, a member of the synagogue, discussed the Orthodox congregations rules and noted that some rules were not as strictly enforced as in the Old World. As an Orthodox congregation, members were to walk to the synagogue, but some distant members would drive and "walk the last mile or so." The synagogue did not use curtains to separate men and women, as was the norm for Orthodox services in Poland and Russia. The womens seating was at a table on the right side of the sanctuary, near the door. The structure is well-preserved, but not currently in use.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>The Anshei Israel Synagogue was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>In 2005, the building was in need of some repairs due to neglect and damage from squirrels. Repairs would be done to repair the structure and the electrical wiring would be replaced for free by the students at the Norwich Regional Vocational Technical School.</p><br>
<p>Shokalsky Strait  is a strait in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Shokalsky Strait is an up to a 50 km-wide strait that separates Bolshevik Island from October Revolution Island, connecting the Laptev Sea in the west with the Laptev Sea in the east. It is named after Russian oceanographer Yuly Shokalsky</p><br>
<p>Some fjords of Severnaya Zemlya have their mouths in the strait, such as Marat Fjord in October Revolution Island&#39;s eastern shore, as well as Partizan Fjord, Spartak Fjord and Thaelmann Fjord in Bolshevik Island northwestern coast.</p><br>
<p>Cape Baranov and its adjacent Prima Polar Station are located in the northern part of Bolshevik Island facing the Shokalsky Strait.</p><br>
<p>The Krasnoflotskiye Islands are located at the western end of the strait.</p><br>
<p>Red Army Strait  is a strait in Severnaya Zemlya, Russia. It is named after the Red Army .</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Red Army Strait is 18 km wide. It separates Komsomolets Island in the north from October Revolution Island in the south and connects the Kara Sea in the west with the Laptev Sea in the east. The Yuny Strait, separating Pioneer Island from Komsomolets Island, branches to the northwest in the eastern part of the strait.</p><br>
<p>The huge Academy of Sciences Glacier reaches the shore all along the northern side of the strait, while the smaller Rusanov Glacier flanks the eastern part of its southern shore. Cape October is located in the northern shore of October Revolution Island, facing the Red Army Strait. Visoky Island lies about 18 km east and Bolshoy Izvestnikovky Island lies about 13 km to the southwest of the cape.</p><br>
<p>West High Street Historic District is a national historic district located at High Point, Guilford County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 10 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site. The resources were built between 1879 and 1922 and include six houses, three outbuildings, the Kirkman House garden, and the Kirkman Manufacturing Company . Located in the district are the separately listed Blair School and O. Arthur Kirkman House and Outbuildings. Other buildings are the Queen Anne style Annettie Brown House ; the Colonial Revival style Fraser-Wilson House  and W. T. Kirkman House ; and the brick Colonial Revival / American Craftsman-style O. Arthur Kirkman House .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Prince Regent River is a river in the Kimberley of Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>The headwaters of the river rise in the Caroline Range near Mount Agnes then flow in a north westerly direction. The river enters and flows through the Prince Regent National Park and past King Cascade and finally discharging into Saint George Basin and Hanover Bay to the Indian Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The river runs a uniquely straight course following a fault line for the majority of its length.</p><br>
<p>The river has six tributaries including; Quail Creek, Youwanjela Creek, Womarama Creek and Pitta Creek.</p><br>
<p>The river was named in 1820 by the first European to discover the river, Philip Parker King and the crew of the Mermaid. The river is named after the Hanoverian prince, King George IV, who was shortly to succeed his father to the throne.</p><br>
<p>The first European to settle in the area was Joseph Bradshaw who established Marigui homestead along the river with his cousin Aeneas Gunn in 1890. In 1891 he discovered the Bradshaw rock paintings on his land. The pastoral venture was unsuccessful but Gunn later documented his memoirs of the time in the book Pioneering in Northern Australia.</p><br>
<p>The River was visited in 1901 by the surveyor Frederick Brockman while on expedition in the area.</p><br>
<p>On March 29, 1987, an American 24-year-old model named Ginger Meadows was killed by a crocodile while standing under a waterfall near Broome.</p><br>
<p>The traditional owners of the area are the Worora peoples.</p><br>
<p>Eighteen freshwater fish species are known to inhabit the waters of the Prince Regent River.</p><br>
<p>Daksa is a small uninhabited island in the Croatian part of the Adriatic Sea. It is situated near Dubrovnik in front of Rijeka Dubrovačka ria. The area of the island is about 0.07 km,</p><br>
<p>the highest point is 24 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>The Daksa&#39;s Franciscan monastery was built in 1281. The island was the site of the Daksa massacre by Yugoslav partisans entrance of Dubrovnik in late October 1944. The mayor of Dubrovnik Niko Koprivica was among those executed. In September 2009, authorities discovered the remains of six victims in the area. Soon after, the Daksa 1944/45 Association announced that 48 bodies had been discovered on the island.</p><br>
<p>The president of the Croatian Helsinki Committee Ivo Banac called for an investigation into what exactly occurred during the massacre. Members of the Croatian Bishops&#39; Conference visited the site in October, 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Webster County Courthouse is a historic building in Fort Dodge, Iowa, United States. Built in 1902, it primarily houses local government offices for Webster County. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981, and as a contributing property in the Fort Dodge Downtown Historic District in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The current courthouse is Webster Countys third courthouse. After the county was organized in 1852, the community of Homer was designated the county seat, and a courthouse was built there. When a controversial election resulted in the county seat being moved from Homer to Fort Dodge in 1856, local officials decided to construct a courthouse in the new county seat. Construction began in 1859 with the laying of the cornerstone, and the two-story courthouse was finished two years later; however, this courthouse soon became insufficient for the countys needs. Accordingly, the old building was destroyed and a new four-story courthouse built on the same site. This stone building represented a significant expansion of its predecessor, and it included elements such as a clock tower and more ornate. This final version of the courthouse was not completed until 1902, at which point approximately $39,450 had been expended in constructing the building. By 1980, the courthouse required extensive renovations, including a new roof, exterior repairs, restorations to the clock tower, and a refurbished interior; the entire process took several million dollars and over twenty years to complete.</p><br>
<h2>Present status</h2><br>
<p>Today, the courthouse is the site of much local and regional government business, including the office of the county assessor, the meeting area for the Webster County Board of Health, service offices for the hearing impaired, and offices for the state courts of the Second Judicial District. Its architectural status led to it being listed, along with several other Iowa courthouses, on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St James in Ashwick, Somerset, England, has a tower dating from around 1450 and the rest of the church from 1881. It is a Grade I listed building, adjacent to Ashwick Court.</p><br>
<p>The Victorian gothic building was erected between 1876 and 1881 by Browne and Gill of Bath. However, the church tower dates back to 1463.</p><br>
<p>The earliest record of a church on the site is 1413, when Bishop Bubwith dedicated a churchyard at Ashwick and authorised burials to take place there, but it is not known when the church was first built. The church was originally a chapel of ease connected to the vicarage at Kilmersdon, near Radstock. It remained so until the formation of Ashwick parish. The benefice of Oakhill was added in 1923 and Binegar was added in 1969, since when one rector has overseen all three villages.</p><br>
<p>At the west end of the aisles in the Church of St James two memorial tablets can be seen. These are dedicated to John Billingsley, his wife Mary, and their family. The writer of the 1794 Survey of Somerset, Billingsley was a leading agriculturalist who was one of the founders of the Bath and West Society, known today as the Royal Bath and West of England Society.</p><br>
<p>The churchyard extension contains a war grave of a World War II Home Guard officer.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Margaret is a Grade I listed building, adjacent to Babington House in Babington, Somerset, England. The church is owned and operated by the St Margaret&#39;s, Babington, Charitable Trust, which is completely independent of the management of Babington House.</p><br>
<p>There may have been a Norman building on the site before the current church, which is thought to date from 1748 and was probably built by John Strahan or William Halfpenny, and is considered to be very similar in conception to Redland Chapel in Bristol, probably by John Strahan but completed by William Halfpenny. The building was commissioned by the Knatchbull family.</p><br>
<p>The building includes an Apsidal sanctuary and a small west tower with an octagonal cupola. The interior includes an unusual Royal Arms of the Hanoverians on the Rood.</p><br>
<p>Within the churchyard there are a set of three chest tombs. The monument to John Shute is dated 1688 and that to Thomas Branch 1779.</p><br>
<p>The church no longer hosts regular services but is licensed for public worship and has a licence allowing the undertaking of Church of England weddings. Certain other ceremonies such as baptisms, funerals etc. can also be performed in the church. The building may also be used for community and cultural purposes. Bookings can be made by contacting the Secretary to the St. Margaret&#39;s, Babington, Charitable Trust.</p><br>
<p>Cerro Ñielol Natural Monument is a hill belonging to the Intermediate Depression and is located in the urban area of the city of Temuco, Province of Cautín, Araucanía Region, Chile.</p><br>
<p>With a height of 115 and 335 m, the latter is the highest point of the city. On 89 acres a large variety of flora and fauna of the Valdivian temperate forest ecoregion can be seen, as well as important historical and cultural landmarks of Temuco. Its main entrance is along Avenida Arturo Prat (one of the main Temuco streets) and is seven blocks away from the main square Plaza de Armas. Because of its natural landscape and several viewpoints, the monument is one of the main tourist areas of the city. Cultural events are usually held at the top of the monument.</p><br>
<p>The Southern Andean Volcano Observatory is located at the hill, due to its good outlook on several volcanoes including Llaima volcano.</p><br>
<h2>Natural Monument</h2><br>
<p>The hill was originally named "National Tourism Park Cerro Ñielol". The Society of the Friends of the tree (founded by Luis Picasso Vallebuona) purchased the lands of the hill to reforest and protect it. Later it was reclassified as the National Park Natural Monument by Supreme Decree No. 617 of the Ministry of National Assets on December 3, 1987. Nowadays it is a protected area administrated by the Chilean state. It can be visited by car or foot all year round.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St George in Bicknoller, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church is dominated by a 1000-year-old elm tree in its grounds.</p><br>
<p>The church, which is decorated with a collection of carved angels and nightmarish animal heads, was largely rebuilt in the 15th and 16th centuries.</p><br>
<p>The interior includes a 12th-century pillar piscina. There is a memorial to William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, who spent his holidays in the village from 1933 to 1944.</p><br>
<p>The organ dates from 1922 and has a carved oak case. It was built by the Positive Organ Company. The bells in the tower include one which was previously at St Saviour&#39;s in Larkhall, Bath. In 2012 plans were underway to install and sixth bell.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the Quantock Towers benefice within the Taunton archdeaconry.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican parish Church of St Nicholas in Brushford, Somerset, England was built in the 15th century, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church has a medieval screen, 13th century font and possibly the oldest parish chest in the country, hollowed from a tree trunk.</p><br>
<p>The roof was at one time covered with pegged oak planks. Some of these were discovered during repairs in 2001 and 2002 and suggest that it once had Roof shingles.</p><br>
<p>The Herbert memorial chapel includes a chest tomb with effigy of Aubrey Herbert of Pixton Park, the Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for the Southern division of Somerset from 1911 to 1918, and for Yeovil from 1918 until his death in 1923, by Cecil de Banquiere Howard of Paris under a wooden canopy designed by Edwin Lutyens.</p><br>
<p>The parish is within the benefice of Dulverton with Brushford, Brompton Regis, Upton and Skilgate which is part of the Exmoor deanery.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Peter in Huish Champflower, Somerset, England dates from the 15th century, with the north aisle being built in 1534. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>It was built on the site of an earlier Norman church although nothing of the previous structure remains.</p><br>
<p>The tower arch dates from 1703, and the building was restored in 1875–80 when the chancel arch was rebuilt. It includes a tower with five bells, one of which was made in 1790 by Thomas Bilbie of the Bilbie family in Cullompton.</p><br>
<p>The church includes stained glass claimed to be from the remains of a Jesse window from Barlynch Priory near Dulverton, and a 15th-century lectern.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the Wiveliscombe and the Hills mbenefice within the Tone deanery. A service is held at the church once a month.</p><br>
<p>The parish Church of St Mary in Luccombe, Somerset, England has a chancel dating from about 1300, with the nave and tower being added around 1450. It has been designated as a grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>It was built by John Maris of Stogursey. The chancel is the earliest part of the church dating from around 1300. In 1530 the aisle was added, and in 1752-1756 a gallery added which was removed in 1840 when the church was further restored and the vestry added.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The parish church of St Mary had its origins in around 1300 when the chancel was built. The nave and tower date from around 1450, and the aisle was added in about l530. A gallery was installed between 1752 and 1756, but this was removed when the church was restored in 1840, at which time the vestry was added. The building is constructed of roughcast stone, except for the vestry which is squared red sandstone, and the tower which is random rubble red sandstone.The roofs are slated. The plan consists of a four-bay nave and a four-bay south aisle, a chancel, a northeast vestry, a north porch and a west tower. The tower is built in three stages and topped with crenellations. It has gargoyles and string courses, but no buttresses.</p><br>
<p>The interior includes a Jacobean pulpit and chair and a medieval rood screen.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican parish is part of the benefice of Porlock and Porlock Weir with Stoke Pero, Selworthy and Luccombe within the archdeaconry of Taunton.</p><br>
<p>The Church of All Saints in Monksilver, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building. The church has a square west tower, built in the 14th century,</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church shows fragments of 12th-century masonry and the tower at the west end is 14th-century. It is built of red sandstone with a slate roof with decorative ridge tiles. The plan consists of a four bay nave, south aisle, chancel, south chapel and south porch. The tower has three stages with crenelations on top which were added during restoration between 1843 and 1863, at which time the south chapel was also added. There is a ring of five bells including one by Roger Semson of Ash Priors which was cast between 1530 and 1570. The interior is whitewashed, the nave having a wagon roof which is thought to be 13th-century and an alms box by the door is from 1634. There is a 12th-century window on the north side of the chancel. The pulpit is sixteenth-century, the screen is Jacobean and the lectern is possibly older. The south aisle has "some of the most entertaining gargoyles in the county".</p><br>
<p>The yew tree in the churchyard is believed to date from 1770. There is a historic cross dated 1863 in the churchyard, just south of the chancel, which is a Grade II listed structure.</p><br>
<p>In 1583 the church was the venue for the marriage of Sir Francis Drake and his second wife Elizabeth Sydenham of nearby Combe Sydenham in the parish of Stogumber.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the Quantock Towers benefice within the Quantock deanery.</p><br>
<p>The Allison Ranger Station is a Forest Service compound consisting of eight rustic buildings located in the Malheur National Forest in the Ochoco Mountains of eastern Oregon. It was originally built as a district ranger station for the Snow Mountain Ranger District. It was later converted to a summer guard station. Today, it is an active Forest Service guard station with a crew of twelve fire fighters on station during the summer fire season. The ranger station’s oldest building, the Donnelly Cabin, is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Most of the other buildings at the Allison Ranger Station are eligible for historic designation, but are not yet listed on the national register.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the early 20th century, the forest road networks were not well developed. To facilitate work in National Forests, the Forest Service built district ranger stations at strategic locations within the forest to house full-time employees and provide logistics support to fire patrols and project crews working at remote forest sites. After World War II, the Forest Service greatly expanded its road network, allowing employees to get to most forest areas within a few hours. As a result, many of the more isolated ranger stations were closed or converted to summer guard station.</p><br>
<p>The Snow Mountain Ranger District was established as an administrative sub-division on the Ochoco National Forest which was separated from the Deschutes National Forest in 1911. The original Forest Service ranger’s cabin at Allison Creek was built in 1911 by E.W. “Cy” Donnelly, the first ranger of the Snow Mountain District. A second residence cabin and several outbuildings were added to the compound around 1925. There is no written record of when these additional buildings were constructed; however, the 1925-era buildings are shown in a few historic photographs. The 1925-era buildings were removed sometime before the mid-1930s. In 1935, the Civilian Conservation Corps constructed seven additional building at the ranger station.</p><br>
<p>The ranger station served as the administrative headquarters for the Snow Mountain Ranger District from 1911 until the 1950s when the district headquarters was moved to Hines, Oregon. At that time, the Allison compound was converted to a guard station for fire crews and work parties. The site is one of the few ranger stations that have been in continuous use for almost a century. In 1993, volunteers renovated the Donnelly Cabin. The project replaced the roof. Decayed sill logs and floor joists were also replaced. The project stabilized the foundation on a gravel pad and reset the cabin’s porch posts.</p><br>
<p>The Snow Mountain Ranger District was transferred from the Ochoco National Forest to the Malheur National Forest and incorporated the Emigrant Creek Ranger District around 2003. In 2005, the Malheur Nation Forest supervisor approved a project to renovate several of the Civilian Conservation Corps buildings. The project replaced deteriorating foundations, converted the warehouse into a fire crew bunkhouse, and improved the ranger station’s water system which included drilling a new well. During the project, the Forest Service was careful to preserve the historic character of the buildings. As a result, the Civilian Conservation Corps era structures remain eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places sometime in the future. A modern vehicle shed was also constructed as part of the 2005 project; however, the structure was designed to match the historic buildings at the site. Today, the bunkhouse and ranger residences are used during the summer to house a twelve-person fire fighting crew, and the Forest Service rents the Civilian Conservation Corps era cookhouse to recreational visitors.</p><br>
<p>The Donnelly Cabin and six of the seven Civilian Conservation Corps era buildings still exist at the Allison site. Because of its unique historic value as an early Forest Service ranger station, the Donnelly Cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Place on 12 September 1980. While the Donnelly Cabin is only one of the ranger station’s buildings, the historic site covers 10 acre and is officially listed as the "Allison Ranger Station". A Forest Service study in the early 1980s determined that the Civilian Conservation Corps era building at the site are also eligible for historic designation; however, they are not yet listed on the national register.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>The Donnelly Cabin was built in 1911. It is a one-room log cabin. The logs that make up the cabin’s main structure are peeled pine. The cabin has a wood-frame floor, and the roof is covered by hand-cut larch shingles. It has an overhanging front porch held up by two log posts. The cabin is located approximately 200 yards north of the other ranger station buildings.</p><br>
<p>In 1935, the Civilian Conservation Corps built two ranger residences, a fire warehouse, a gas house, a garage, a generator shed, and a cookhouse at the Allison Ranger Station. All of the buildings are wood-frame structures. One residence is an 884 ft&sup2; structure; the other is only 499 ft&sup2;. The 2,450 ft&sup2; warehouse was converted into a bunkhouse in 2005. The 608 ft&sup2; gas house and the 216 ft&sup2; garage are used for storage. The small, 60 ft&sup2; generator house was demolished in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The 954 ft&sup2; cookhouse was renovated in 2005. It is now available to the public from late May until early October as a recreation rental unit. The cookhouse has a living room, two bedrooms, a kitchen, and an indoor bathroom with a shower. The living room and bedrooms are furnished. The kitchen is equipped with a refrigerator, a propane cooking stove, and basic cooking and serving utensils. Cleaning supplies are also provided. There is drinking water available from the taps as well as hot water in the kitchen and bathroom. The building has electric lights. The facility sleeps up to eight people. Visitors need to bring food, sleeping bags, personal gear, and trash bags.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Allison Guard Station is located in a remote area of the Ochoco Mountains in the Malheur National Forest. It is approximately sixty miles northwest of Burns, Oregon. The elevation at the site is 5,310 ft. The forest around the guard station is dominated by ponderosa pine.</p><br>
<p>To get to the Allison Ranger Station from Burns, travel south on Highway 20 four miles (6 km) though the neighboring town of Hines. Approximately one mile south of Hines, turn onto Forest Road 47, and follow the road northwest 18 mi to the junction with Forest Road 41. Turn left onto Forest Road 41 and follow that road for approximately 40 mi past Delintment Lake to the Allison Guard Station.</p><br>
<p>Devi river is one of the principal distributaries of Mahanadhi. It flows through Jagatsinghpur district and Puri district across Odisha state in India and joins Bay of Bengal.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The river forms the final part of a great network of Mahanadi river. Katjuri (Kathajodi) river is the main southern distributary of Mahanadi river branching off at Cuttack, Odisha. Katjuri river later acquires the name Devi as it flows further east. The river flows through Alipingal, Macchagaon and Naugaon blocks in Jagatsinghpur district and Astaranga and Kanas blocks in Puri district. It reaches Bay of Bengal 70 km south of the mouth of Mahanadhi river, a short distance from the border of Cuttack and Puri districts. The mouth of the river is surrounded by dense forests absent of inhabitants.</p><br>
<h2>Navigation</h2><br>
<p>The river is navigable till Machgaon by small sloops. It is one of the best tidal channels in Orissa, but, yet big vessels can not enter the river upstream due to a large sediment of sand in the mouth of the river. Two fishermen were killed and two injured when a boat capsized near Astarang in the Devi River on 13 May 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Turtle rookery</h2><br>
<p>The mouth of the Devi river serves as a nesting ground for olive ridley sea turtles during their breeding season. The first rookery in this area north of Puri was discovered in 1981. Nesting occurs on mainland India and dynamic sand bars which appear and change forms from year to year. About 800,000 turtles come to this region every winter for breeding. However, the turtle nesting has declined in recent years due to mass death believed to be brought about by increased mechanised fishing. Over 6,000 olive ridleys were killed in year 2003 alone. According to a 2007 estimate, over 130,000 turtles have been found dead on these beaches over the previous 13 years. The effort to set aside the mouth of Devi River and Rushikulya River as sanctuaries for olive ridley turtles were opposed by local fishing communities.</p><br>
<p>Water Pollution</p><br>
<p>Devi_Kandal island people are suffering a lot due to the river water pollution of Devi & Kandal rivers caused due to the surge of huge amount of untreated drain water from Cuttack municipality region. On the other hand both the rivers are being distributaries of Kathajodi river get very less water supply due to the obstruction of a concrete wall made on the mouth or initial points of both the rivers at Naraj. It is done for keeping more water reserved for industrial houses.</p><br>
<p>In such a situation lesser water flow largely polluted by nasty drain water of Cuttack city makes the water of both the rivers very poisonous. As a result one can observe drastic reduction in many species of fishes and other water animals in these rivers. The fisherman community are worst suffering for the reason. Common man, who use the water for bathing, cleaning clothes and agriculture purposes are getting too little water for it and also getting affected by various water borne skin diseases & jaundice etc. The ground water level in the region drastically goes down in summers as it depends upon the level and quantity of water in these rivers.</p><br>
<p>Nundah Cemetery is a heritage-listed cemetery at 88 Hedley Avenue, Nundah, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1840s to 1963. It is also known as German Station Cemetery. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cemetery was established in 1846 by a small group of German Lutheran missionaries who, in 1838, had founded Queenslands first free settlement, at Zions Hill above Kedron Brook. At that time, the district was known as "German Station", as the earliest settlers were Lutheran missionaries, and hence the cemetery was originally known as "German Station Cemetery". The district was originally outside of the town of Brisbane and was a farming community. At that time, the road beside the cemetery was known as "Cemetery Road". Only one death had been recorded at the German Station by 1845, but several children died the following year, and the cemetery is indicated on an 1846 sketch by missionary Carl Gerler.</p><br>
<p>As the German station settlement was established in 1838, it is unclear where the earliest burials in the settlement would have occurred. Certainly the site had been established as a graveyard before James Warner first surveyed it as a cemetery reserve in 1862. None of the wooden crosses marking the earliest graves has survived, but the oldest headstone dates to March 1855.</p><br>
<p>One of the duties of cemetery trustees was to maintain a record of the burials.</p><br>
<p>The development of the Sandgate railway line (now the Shorncliffe railway line) through the district in 1882 opened it up for residential area housing for the growing town of Brisbane. As "Cemetery Road" was regarded as an unattractive name for a residential street, it was renamed "Hedley Avenue" about 1934 after local doctor Hedley Brown.</p><br>
<p>In 1914 a small shelter pavilion was erected at the cemetery. It was designed by architect John Henry Burley, who practised in Brisbane from 1886 until 1936. The builder was J MacDonald, and the structure cost &pound;175.</p><br>
<p>In the 1930s, Brisbane City Council took over the management of the cemetery from the local trustees (by this time Nundah was within the boundaries of the City of Brisbane). In 1963 the cemetery was closed as no new grave sites were available.</p><br>
<p>A sexton resided in the cemetery grounds from at least the 1890s, but since 1975 one sexton based at Lutwyche has cared for the Bald Hills, Lutwyche and Nundah cemeteries. The Nundah sexton&#39;s house has been demolished.</p><br>
<p>In 1982 the Nundah Historic Cemetery Preservation Association was formed to help tend and restore the site.</p><br>
<h3>War Graves</h3><br>
<p>There are 7 service personnel buried in this cemetery whose graves are registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, 6 from World War I and one from World War II.</p><br>
<h3>Current use</h3><br>
<p>Although the cemetery has no space for new gravesites, it is possible to place cremated ashes in existing family graves or in the columbarium walls. It is also possible for family members to be buried in existing graves which are not yet full. In 2011, the Brisbane City Council raised concerns about its ability to continue to provide new gravesites after another 10 or 15 years given that burial rights are perpetual in Queensland (in some other states of Australia, there is a fixed tenure). As a consequence, Brisbane City Council will now allow reuse of even full family graves in Nundah Cemetery where the last burial was over 30 years ago.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The cemetery reserve is located on a small, elliptical ridge above Kedron Brook at Nundah, adjacent to Albert Bishop Park. The entrance has a westerly aspect to Hedley Avenue.</p><br>
<p>Native trees have been planted recently around the perimeter, but the cemetery itself is exposed and the land subject to erosion. Many of the pathways have been concreted to prevent further deterioration.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery is crowded, with little order to the layout of graves, and no denominational segregation.</p><br>
<p>It contains a variety of headstone and decorative memorial monument types, from high Victorian to modern stela. An ongoing restoration programme has resulted in many of these being refurbished or replaced, and a number of plaques have been erected on graves of particular historical note.</p><br>
<p>Toward the front of the reserve, and amidst the gravesites, is an hexagonal rotunda. Constructed of timber posts with arched batten infilling to each facet, the structure is capped by a steeply pitched asbestos tile roof, with terracotta ridging and centre finial. The rotunda was renovated in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery furnishes a unique record of the families who developed Nundah and surrounding districts from 1838. Included amongst the graves are those of many of the early German missionaries and their families, and that of Sir James Robert Dickson (Queensland Premier from 1898 1899).</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>Nundah Cemetery was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>Queensland&#39;s oldest surviving cemetery and the first to be associated with free settlement in the colony.</p><br>
<p>The place demonstrates rare, uncommon or endangered aspects of Queensland&apos;s cultural heritage.</p><br>
<p>A unique source of historical information.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>Its aesthetic quality and contribution to the Nundah townscape</p><br>
<p>The place has a strong or special association with a particular community or cultural group for social, cultural or spiritual reasons.</p><br>
<p>An expression of aspects of the social, religious, economic and artistic life of the local community, and of its attitudes, values and tastes.</p><br>
<h2>Notable people buried in Nundah Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>George Bridges and wife Mary (née Brightman), pioneers who developed the Nundah township</p><br>
<p>Thomas Bridges, Member of the Legislative Assembly for the electorate of Nundah</p><br>
<p>James Dickson, Premier of Queensland and Commonwealth Minister for Defence</p><br>
<p>John McMaster, the "Father of Brisbane", 4 times mayor of Brisbane, Member of both the Queensland Legislative Assembly and Queensland Legislative Council</p><br>
<p>See also :Category:Burials at Nundah Cemetery</p><br>
<p>Eberhardt Hall, originally the Newark Orphan Asylum, is the oldest building at the New Jersey Institute of Technology . It is located at 323 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. , in the University Heights section of Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. Built in 1856-57 its original purpose was to serve as a home for Newark&#39;s orphans. Eberhardt Hall is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is a beautiful example of 19th-century Gothic Victorian architecture, in conjunction with 15th- and 16th-century castle design.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The castle-like building was designed by John Welch, an experienced church architect and one of the founders of American Institute of Architects. It is said to be that the building had the most advanced construction of the time. It included some modern day amenities such as hot and cold water, gaslight, and even an early fire extinguishing system. By 1947 the building was no longer used for its original purpose. Thereafter, Newark College of Engineering - subsequently New Jersey Institute of Technology - acquired the building for $58,000. In 1948, the board closed the deal with another $40,000 which included the closing and renovation.</p><br>
<h3>Frederick Eberhardt</h3><br>
<p>The Board of Trustees that served during 1947 named the building in honor of Frederick Eberhardt, who served on the Newark College of Engineering Board of Trustees from 1910 until his death in 1946.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>The building has served many purposes through the years. Recently in the early 2000s, NJIT embarked on a quest to bring the 21st century edge to the campus. This included the restoration of Eberhardt Hall in 2005 to serve as the NJIT Alumni Center, and to provide space for the NJIT Club for dining and receptions and for some administrative offices. The restoration cost 13 million dollars, of which NJIT settled $7 million and the State of New Jersey contributed the remaining $6 million. The architect firm, Cody Eckert & Associates spearheaded the project.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>Eberhardt Hall currently stands three stories high with a footprint of 35,000 ft&sup2;. Precise original construction has left the exterior of the building almost unaltered. It was recreated to replicate the original building from the 19th century.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>Much of the interior had been modified throughout the early years. The only major piece of structure that is still intact is the grand staircase. The interior has been restored to what it might have looked like in the Victorian era, with electrified gaslight fixtures, Victorian patterned wallpaper, carpeting, and wood trim. The building houses a central lobby, board room, dining room and meeting rooms. Outside, there is a beautiful gated green and bluestone forecourt.</p><br>
<h2>Award</h2><br>
<p>The restoration of Eberhardt Hall received the 2006 Donald T. Dust Recognition Award, from the Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee on February 28, 2006. It is the highest annual honor from the Newark Preservation and Landmarks Committee.</p><br>
<p>Bigge Island is an island off the coast of the Kimberley region in Western Australia, within the Shire of Wyndham-East Kimberley.</p><br>
<p>The island lies approximately 6 km from the mainland, from which it is separated by Scott Strait. It is located between York Sound and Montague Sound and approximately 10 nmi north of Cape Pond.</p><br>
<p>Bigge Island is the second largest island of the Bonaparte Archipelago (after Augustus Island) and has a total area of 178 km&sup2;. It has an irregular shape with a length of 22 km and a width of 6 km. The island has many shallow reef-strewn bays around its heavily indented coastline on all four sides. Boomerang Bay is the largest bay and is found on the western coast of the island.</p><br>
<p>Geologically, the island is composed of weathered sandstones and dolerites forming a rugged terrain. The island is criss-crossed by many deep grooves and fissures in the rock, forming valleys and fissures which support the islands vegetation.</p><br>
<p>The highest point on the island is Savage Hill on the south coast opposite Scott Strait, at 143 m, the northernmost point is Cape Chateaurenaud. Islands surrounding Bigge Island include Prudhoe Island, Purrungku Island, Capstan Island and the Maret Islands.</p><br>
<p>The traditional owners of the area are the Uunguu peoples of the Wunambal language group whose name for the island is Wuyurru. Indigenous Australian rock art exists on the cliffs and cave walls around Wary Bay. The paintings include examples of first contact art and Wandjina figures. The rock art was created by the Wunambal people.</p><br>
<p>The lack of feral predators makes the island an ideal habitat for vulnerable mammal species such as the Monjon, the Ilangnalya and the Northern quoll</p><br>
<p>Windego Park Auditorium/Open Air Theater is an amphitheater in Anoka, Minnesota, located on the Rum River. The theater was built in 1914 and was spurred by the City Beautiful movement, as well as Anoka citizens&#39; interest in outdoor entertainment and recreation. Its main organizer, Thaddeus P. Giddings, was a promoter of music education and had been organizing community singalongs in the summer of 1913. The theater is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The amphitheater was designed by William Gray Purcell, from the notable Prairie School firm of Purcell & Elmslie. The stage is on the flat part of the river bank, while the seating is on a sloping hillside. It has room for an audience of 1600 people. Purcell was particularly interested in designing the awning system after having taken an interest in the awnings used in the Roman Colosseum.</p><br>
<p>In 1936, Giddings left for Michigan to organize Interlochen Music College (now known as Interlochen Center for the Arts) in Interlochen, Michigan. Community interest in the amphitheater waned, and the facility started decaying, with shrubs and trees starting to grow between the amphitheater&#39;s concrete risers. In 1979, an architecture student from the University of Minnesota drafted a plan to restore the amphitheater, and this restored interest in preserving it. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places that year, and community organizers did some cleanup work and patched the concrete steps. In 1997, the Windego Park Society was organized.</p><br>
<p>Russian Peak is part of a sub-range of the Klamath Mountains called the Salmon Mountains—a horseshoe-shaped range encompassing the headwaters of the Salmon River. The mountain itself is part of the granitic Russian Peak batholith.</p><br>
<p>This beautiful peak is also the highest peak in the Russian Wilderness—12,700 acre of subalpine lakes and botanical wonders.</p><br>
<p>The peak gained prominence amongst botanists in the 1970s when Dale Thornburgh and John Sawyer began conducting studies in its drainages. In addition to discovering the first stands of subalpine fir in California, the diversity of other conifers they found here was reason for pause and then return studies. In all, after several years of research, they discovered 17 species of conifers in one square mile—of varied terrain—below the peak. Those conifers are: foxtail pine, whitebark pine, western white pine, Jeffrey pine, ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine, sugar pine, white fir, Shasta fir, subalpine fir, Engelmann spruce, Brewer spruce, mountain hemlock, Douglas-fir, incense-cedar, common juniper, and Pacific yew.</p><br>
<p>An 18th conifer, the western juniper, was documented and reported by Richard Moore in 2013.</p><br>
<p>Sawyer and Thornburgh coined the term Enriched Stands of the Klamath Mountains to define the phenomenon here, and a few other place in the Klamath Mountains, where high diversity and rare associations of conifers exists. They went on to suggest that these complex vegetation associations are due to reduced biological interactions—or simply minimal competition between species. In addition to being part of the Western Pacific Cordillera, connecting it with the Cascade Range and Sierra Nevada (USA) and allowing for migrations over time, the area has varied climate, nutrient rich and poor soils, and sporadic disturbance, like fires. The interaction of these factors ultimately reduces competition between these species allowing such diversity in a small area. This is a formula for not only conifer diversity but other plant diversity as well. Eventually this duo, helped by their students from Humboldt State University, identified over 400 species of vascular plants around the peak.</p><br>
<p>The Ames Shovel Shops, also known as Ames Shovel Works or Ames Shovel Shop, is a historic 19th century industrial complex located in North Easton, Massachusetts. It is part of the North Easton Historic District, and consists of several granite buildings constructed between 1852 and 1885, along with several newer additions and outbuildings dating to about 1928.</p><br>
<p>The site is adjacent to the H. H. Richardson Historic District of North Easton, which includes several buildings designed by noted architect Henry Hobson Richardson, commissioned by the Ames family, owners of the shovel company.</p><br>
<p>In April 2009, the shops were named one of the 11 most endangered historic sites in the United States, by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, due to the pending proposal to redevelop the main portion of the site into residences.</p><br>
<p>However, in November 2009, an agreement was reached for a scaled-down development, endorsed by the National Trust. Construction began in April 2012, and is expected to take about 18 months.</p><br>
<h2>Historical background</h2><br>
<p>The Ames Shovel Company traces its origins to 1774 when Capt. John Ames began making iron shovels at West Bridgewater, Massachusetts. His son Oliver Ames, Sr. moved the company to North Easton in 1803. In 1844, the elder Ames would transfer the shovel business to two of his sons, Oakes and Oliver, Jr., and the company would become known as Oliver Ames & Sons. Within the next few years, gold would be discovered in California in 1848, and in Australia in 1851, creating a worldwide demand for the company&#39;s shovels, which were already known for their high quality.</p><br>
<p>In 1851, the original shovel shop was destroyed by fire. The company would soon rebuild, and by 1852 the first of the new shops had been completed. Strong demand for shovels would continue through this period with the great expansion of railroads and later the American Civil War. Abraham Lincoln personally asked Oakes Ames to supply shovels to the Union Army. This made the Ames brothers very wealthy men. The Ames brothers entered politics and became influential in financing the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad, as well as the development of the village of North Easton. Expansion of the shovel factory continued over the years until 1928.</p><br>
<p>Ames shovels became standard issue for troops in the USA Army for every conflict from the American Civil War to Korea.</p><br>
<p>The Ames Shovel Company ceased production in Easton in 1952.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>Since the 1950s the complex has been occupied by a variety of small businesses. The Ames brand is now part of the Ames True Temper Company, headquartered in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania</p><br>
<p>As of early 2009, the main shop complex was the subject of a redevelopment proposal that would significantly alter the site with the demolition of several historic structures and the construction of new residential buildings. In 2008, the site was designated as one of the most endangered historic places in the state by advocacy group.</p><br>
<p>The northernmost building, the 1870 handle shop is currently occupied by the local YMCA, and is not part of the redevelopment proposal. The abutting Richardson-designed Old Colony Railroad Station is currently occupied by the. The railroad station sits on a short remaining section of track that runs along the Shovel Shop property only. However, the abandoned rail corridor is currently under consideration for expansion of the MBTA commuter rail line from Stoughton to Fall River and New Bedford.</p><br>
<p>As of September 2014, the site has been redeveloped into apartment housing and is now renting apartments. It has undergone considerable redevelopment, while keeping the historic aspect of its buildings. Signs describing the various buildings and their history are in place. There are many walking paths in the area.</p><br>
<p>This area is under consideration to reopen the railroad station of South Coast Rail to bring commuters from New Bedford and Fall River through Taunton to the current Stoughton station, running through Back Bay Copley with the destination of the Boston Terminal at South Station, Boston.</p><br>
<p>Qal&#39;eh Hasan Ali is a maar-producing volcanic field located southeast of Kerman Province, Iran. The field is presumed of Quaternary age, though it has produced no historic eruptions. Consisting of 14 maars each of different size, its most significant crater is Great Crater, about 1.2 km in width and 200 - in depth.</p><br>
<p>This volcanic field was originally considered to be a field of impact craters. The volcanism both of Qal&#39;eh Hasan Ali and of several neighbouring volcanic centres is associated with a local fault zone. The general area of Iran has been affected by the collision of Arabia with Eurasia, resulting in volcanic activity.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and structure</h2><br>
<p>Qaleh Hasan Ali lies in the Kerman province of Iran, approximately 100 km southeast of Kerman. The village of the same name Qaleh Hasan Ali is close to the field. They were discovered during geological reconnaissance by geologists of the Yugoslav Institute for Geological and Mining exploration and originally considered to be impact craters.</p><br>
<p>Qaleh Hasan Ali is part of the Urmiah-Dokhtar volcanic arc, specifically its southeastern segment. This volcanic arc extends along the Zagros mountain range and has been interpreted as being caused by subduction of the Neotethys, starting during the Triassic. Volcanism reached a peak during the Eocene. The volcanic succession of the arc reaches thicknesses of 4 km in some places and is dominated by calc-alkaline rocks. Another volcanic arc in Iran is found in the Makran area and is formed by the Bazman, Taftan and Koh-i-Sultan volcanoes, the second of which lies in Pakistan. Other young volcanoes in Iran are the Bijar volcanic field, Damavand and Sarakhor. Activity in the arc diminished starting from 22 million years ago in its Armenian segment and ceased 6 million years ago. At the same time the continent collision between Arabia and Eurasia occurred, starting from the northwest.</p><br>
<p>Qal&#39;eh Hasan Ali consists of maars, and it covers a surface area of 150 km&sup2;. 14 craters are found within the field, two of which are separate from the rest of the group. The craters have diameters of 150 - and depths up to 80 m; the largest crater ("Great Crater" (29&deg;23&prime;39&Prime;N latitude, 57&deg;33&prime;29&Prime;E longitude) reaches a diameter of 1,200 m and depth of 200 -; it also contains a salt pan. This crater has an altitude of about 2,300 m above sea level. These craters are surrounded by rims of fragmentary rocks, which form beds with thicknesses of several 1 cm. These beds have steep outward and much more gentle inward dips and are mostly constructed from country rock; only on two craters including the Great Crater has juvenile material been found. Some craters may have been affected by fumarolic activity, which has left sodium sulfate minerals such as mirabilite.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Qal&#39;eh Hasan Ali is part of a large orogenic province that was formed by the closures of the Paleotethys, Neotethys and the Sistan oceans as well as by ongoing subduction off the Makran area. The resulting collision of terranes and continents has formed the Iranian high plateau.</p><br>
<p>Volcanic activity in the region of the Lut commenced during the Jurassic and reached a peak at the end of the Eocene. After the Eocene, calc-alkaline volcanism diminished and mafic volcanism became dominant.</p><br>
<h3>Local</h3><br>
<p>The craters of Qaleh Hasan Ali are constructed within a basement of Eocene volcanic rocks and granodiorite, with the exception of the two outlying craters which are found in desert alluvium. Qaleh Hasan Ali lies on the Lut block, over continental crust with a thickness exceeding 25 km.</p><br>
<p>Qaleh Hasan Ali and several volcanic centres 215 km and more farther north may be part of an alkaline volcanic province associated with the Nayband strike-slip fault, the projection of which crosses the Qaleh Hasan Ali field. Volcanism along this fault has been K-Ar dated at 15.6–14.3 mya in the north and 2.6–2.2 mya farther south. This older volcanism is -rich however. The formation of magma at Qal&#39;eh Hasan Ali ultimately might depend on either the ongoing subduction at the Makran arc or to pre-existent asthenospheric processes.</p><br>
<h3>Composition</h3><br>
<p>Tephrites have been found at Qal&#39;eh Hasan Ali, as well as basanite and an augite-phlogopite cumulate. The tephrites contain analcime, anorthoclase, clinopyroxene, hauyne, magnetite, olivine, phlogopite and pyroxene dominated by augite and lesser aegirine. Xenoliths have also been found at the Great Crater vent, including probably magmatic calcite. Apatite is present at the Great Crater as well.</p><br>
<p>The composition of Qal&#39;eh Hasan Ali rocks has been compared to kamafugite and lamproite. Overall, rocks erupted in the field are considered to be alkaline rocks, with very high content as is found in volcanic rocks that were erupted along the Alpide belt after the continental collision. The magmas of the field probably formed in the lithosphere that had been affected by metasomatism. The existence of calcite within the rocks has indicated that carbonatites may be involved. The analyzed rocks are rich in sulfur. Based on the composition, the temperature of the magma was approximately 1,010 -.</p><br>
<h2>Eruptive history</h2><br>
<p>Qal&#39;eh Hasan Ali has been active during the Quaternary, the eruptions that formed the craters probably took place between 5,000 and 50,000 years ago. Potassium-argon dating on rocks from the Great Crater have indicated an age of 119,000–112,000 years ago. No has been detected in Pakistan that could be attributed to this field.</p><br>
<p>The eruptive activity that generated the craters was probably non-explosive, with fountaining. Maars are generally formed during phreatomagmatic activity from the interaction of water with magma. In the case of Qal&#39;eh Hasan Ali, the water may have been supplied by groundwater from the neighbouring Rud-e-Sang Zard river.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St John the Baptist in Carhampton, Somerset, England is a Grade I listed Anglican church.</p><br>
<p>The first church in the village stood to the east of the present church and was dedicated to St Carantoc a Welsh monk of the 6th century.</p><br>
<p>The present church was mainly built in the Perpendicular period of the fifteenth century, however it was largely rebuilt in 1862-1863 with further work in tower rebuilt 1868-70 to rebuild the tower and add a vestry.</p><br>
<p>The wooden pulpit and a painted wooden screen from the previous building and date from around 1500, along with some of the monuments and bells from the earlier church.</p><br>
<p>The church is within the benefice of Dunster, Carhampton, Withycombe w Roduish, Timberscombe and Wootton Courtenay, which is part of the Exmoor deanery and the Taunton archdeanery.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Holy Ghost in Crowcombe, Somerset, England has a tower dating from the 14th century with the rest of the building being dated at the 15th century. It has been designated by Historic England as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>There was a previous church on the site, possible dating from the Saxon era. The north chapel is known as the Carew Chapel and was used by the lords of the manor who lived in the nearby Crowcombe Court.</p><br>
<p>In 1724 the spire was damaged by a lightning strike. The top section of the spire was removed and is now planted in the churchyard and stone from the spire was used in the flooring of the church. Inside the church carved bench-ends, dating from 1534, depict such pagan subjects as the Green Man and the legend of the men of Crowcombe fighting a two-headed dragon.</p><br>
<p>In the churchyard is a medieval cross. The octagonal 2.8 m high shaft sits on a base of three steps. It has been scheduled as an ancient monument.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the Quantock Towers benefice within the Quantock deanery.</p><br>
<p>Opposite the church is the Church House and Pound which was built around 1515 for parish functions. It is a Grade II* listed building and was refurbished in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Nettlecombe, Somerset, England dates from the 13th and 14th centuries, and has been designated as a grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church which lies within the grounds of Nettlecombe Court, which was built as a large country manor house, becoming a girls&#39; boarding school in the early 1960s and since 1967 has been the Leonard Wills Field Centre run by the Field Studies Council. The house is surrounded by Nettlecombe Park, a 90.4 hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). The house and park are set in a secluded valley on the northern fringes of the Brendon Hills, within the Exmoor National Park.</p><br>
<p>Although there was a previous church in the village the current red sandstone building was dedicated in 1440.</p><br>
<p>The chancel includes a north chapel and south organ chamber. The nave has a clerestory with north and south aisles, north porch, and west tower. Restoration work was carried out around 1820 by Richard Carver, with further work undertaken between 1858 and 1870 by C. E. Giles.</p><br>
<p>Within the church is a seven sided font with the sacraments of the church and Christ in Glory carved into each of the faces.</p><br>
<p>The parish is within the Quantock Towers benefice which is part of the Quantock deanery.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Andrew in Old Cleeve, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>In the 12th century Robert FitzGerold gave the church to Bec Abbey in Le Bec Hellouin, Normandy, France, a Benedictine monastic foundation in Eure. Later in the same century William de Roumare gave it to Wells Cathedral and later it became the property of Cleeve Abbey until the dissolution of the monasteries.</p><br>
<p>The church was largely rebuilt in 1425 and the western tower was added around 1533.</p><br>
<p>The floor of the porch was cobbled with alabaster stones from the beach below the village and set in the shape of a heart during the 17th century.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Old Cleeve, Leighland and Treborough within the Exmoor deanery.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Dubricius in Porlock, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century. The church has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The dedication is to Dubricius (also known in Welsh as Dyfrig and in corrupt Norman-French as Devereux) (c. 465 – 550 or 612), a 6th-century Briton ecclesiastic venerated as a saint and may indicate he travelled to the area.</p><br>
<p>The church stands on the site of an earlier church which may date from around 1120. Restoration work was undertaken in the 15th century. The spire was damaged in a storm of 1703. Further restoration was undertaken between 1888 and 1891.</p><br>
<p>Within the church is the very fine late 15th century alabaster tomb of John Harington, 4th Baron Harington(1384–1418) who fought alongside Henry V in France in 1417, and his first wife Elizabeth Courtenay (died 1471), daughter of Edward de Courtenay, 3rd Earl of Devon (died 1419). Elizabeth survived her first husband and married secondly William Bonville, 1st Baron Bonville (died 1461). The style of armour worn by Baron Harington is of the period c.1470, as was worn in the time of his widows death, and is not therefore an accurate representation of the armour worn at the time of his death in 1418. The monument and effigies are believed to have been erected at the expense of Elizabeths step-daughter the great heiress Cicely Bonville, Baroness Harington and Marchioness of Dorset (1460-1529), and are considered from their very high quality "more befitting a cathedral than a retired country church". At the back of the nave is a clock dating from the early 15th century which struck the tenor bell hourly. It has no hands or clock face. The clock was used until 1897 when a new clock was installed to celebrate Queen Victoria&#39;s jubilee.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Porlock and Porlock Weir with Stoke Pero, Selworthy and Luccombe within the Exmoor deanery.</p><br>
<p>Changuu Island  is a small island 5.6 km north-west of Stone Town, Unguja, Zanzibar. The island is around 800m long and 230m wide at its broadest point. The island saw use as a prison for rebellious slaves in 1860s and also functioned as a coral mine. The British First Minister of Zanzibar, Lloyd Mathews, purchased the island in 1893 and constructed a prison complex there. No prisoners were ever housed on the island and instead it became a quarantine station for yellow fever cases. The station was only occupied for around half of the year and the rest of the time it was a popular holiday destination. More recently, the island has become a government-owned tourist resort and houses a collection of endangered Aldabra giant tortoises which were originally a gift from the British governor of the Seychelles.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Changuu is named after the Swahili name of a fish which is common in the seas around it, though it is shown as "Kibandiko Island" on some older maps, but this name is no longer used. Zanzibar became a British protectorate following the 1890 Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty with Germany, this resulted in the appointment of a British First Minister, Lloyd Mathews, in October 1891. Mathews purchased Changuu from its Arab owners on behalf of the Zanzibar government in 1893 with the intention of building a prison upon it. The prison was to have housed violent and recidivist criminals from the part of the African mainland which was then under the jurisdiction of Zanzibar. Despite the prison buildings being completed in 1894, causing the island to become known commonly as "Prison Island", the facility never housed prisoners.</p><br>
<p>The British authorities were concerned by the risk of disease epidemics affecting Stone Town, then East Africas main port. To combat this threat Changuu was turned into a quarantine island serving all of the British territories in East Africa. The old prison was converted into the facilitys hospital and in 1923 the island was officially renamed Quarantine Island. The main disease that was monitored was Yellow Fever. Ships typically only arrived in East Africa during the period running from December to March and so the island was usually empty of quarantine cases for a large part of the year. During the empty period the island became a popular leisure resort for European people and local residents of Zanzibar. A building, known as the European Bungalow, was built in the late 1890s to cater for the holiday makers although the number of visitors had to be limited as the only freshwater on the island was rainwater stored in underground tanks. Large pits on the island remained from earlier coral mining for use as a construction material and these pits were cleaned out and used as swimming pools. A new complex of quarantine buildings was erected in the south-west of the island in 1931 which gave an improved quarantine capacity of 904 persons.</p><br>
<h2>Giant tortoises</h2><br>
<p>In 1919 the British governor of Seychelles sent a gift of four Aldabra giant tortoises to Changuu from the island of Aldabra. These tortoises bred quickly and by 1955 they numbered around 200 animals. However people began to steal the tortoises for sale abroad as pets or for food and their numbers dropped rapidly. By 1988 there were around 100 tortoises, 50 in 1990 and just seven by 1996. A further 80 hatchlings were taken to the island in 1996 to increase the numbers but 40 of them vanished. The Zanzibar government, with assistance from the World Society for the Protection of Animals (Now known as World Animal Protection). built a large compound for the protection of the animals and by 2000 numbers had recovered to 17 adults, 50 juveniles and 90 hatchlings. The species is now considered vulnerable and has been placed on the IUCN Red List by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. More tortoises, mainly juveniles, continue to be brought to the island from other locations for conservation. There is a dedicated foundation on the island which looks after the tortoises&#39; welfare. Visitors are able to observe and feed the tortoises.</p><br>
<h2>Changuu today</h2><br>
<p>The island lost its use as a quarantine station, but remained in the ownership of the government who converted the newer quarantine buildings into a guesthouse.</p><br>
<p>The Church of All Saints which sits on a hillside above Selworthy, Somerset, England is a whitewashed 15th-century Church, with a 14th-century tower. It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The pulpit includes a 17th-century hourglass and the iron-bound parish chest dates from the same time. Within the church is a copy of the Chained Book of 1609 by Bishop John Jewel, entitled Defense of the Apologie of the Church of England.</p><br>
<p>In the churchyard is a medieval cross with three octagonal steps, a square socket, and an octagonal shaft. The head is missing. The churchyard provides views across the valley to Dunkery Beacon.</p><br>
<p>The WW2 cryptographer, William Clarke is buried there.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Mary in Stogumber, Somerset, England dates from the late 13th century. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church was founded as a Saxon minster with a chapelry at Bicknoller and other dues payable from property in Monksilver, Clatworthy and Elworthy.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portions of the church are the tower and south porch. The tower can be dated from a will bequeathing money for its construction in 1401. The north aisle is traditionally held to have been built by Cardinal Beaufort as a penance for his behaviour at his hunting lodge Halsway Manor. The red sandstone church was restored in the 1870s to designs by John Dando Sedding. The interior includes a chandelier built around 1770. The font is from the 15th century. The church has a stone pulpit.</p><br>
<p>The churchyard contains the war graves of two Gunners of World War I.</p><br>
<p>The Old Vicarage, which is now a private dwelling, was built in the 15th century. The old brewhouse behind the vicarage is medieval in origin.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the Quantock Towers benefice within the Quantock deanery.</p><br>
