<p>The Blaine County Courthouse in Watonga, Oklahoma was built in 1906, the year before Oklahoma received statehood. It has been asserted to be "one of the most imposing structures in Watonga" and it "serves as a landmark for both the town and the county," Blaine County. It has a large central dome, a pedimented entrance, and a pediment above its cornice whose tympanum is painted with spirals and the date "1906". Its front facade also features an arcade of three arched windows on the third and fourth story levels.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. It is a four-story tan brick building on a concrete foundation. It was deemed significant for its architecture and for its association with county history. The architect and builder(s) were unknown at the date of National Register listing.</p><br>
<p>A breezeway connects the historic building to a two-story addition on the south side.</p><br>
<p>It was one of a group of Oklahoma courthouses studied together and listed on the National Register in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Shiloh House in Benton Harbor, Michigan was built in Queen Anne style by the House of David Colony. It was built in 1910 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The House of David was founded in 1903 by Benjamin Purnell. Believers came to this site in Benton Harbor to join the commune. To accommodate the growing number of converts, a number of buildings were erected around this site. One of the members of the commune built a machine to construct cement blocks, which were then used to construct the buildings. Shiloh House, constructed in 1910, was the first building to use blocks from the commune itself.</p><br>
<p>Reportedly, Purnell&#39;s favorite girls were kept in this building, until the details were revealed in the 1920s. Afterward, it has been used for office and dormitory space.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Shiloh House is a two-and-a-half story Queen Anne building constructed of cement blocks. It is composed of a main section in the front and two equally sized sections to the rear, connected to the main section with covered archways. It has a hip roof, round turrets, and a center porch able topped with a dome and finial. Balconies on the second and third floor have curved archways between the</p><br>
<p>columns and decorative wooden railings.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican Church of St Peter in Catcott, Somerset, England dates predominantly from the 15th century, but still includes some minor 13th century work, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church was formerly one of the Polden Chapels held under Moorlinch, it was adjudged in 1548 to have been a chantry chapel and thus liable to closure and sale by Edward VI&#39;s commissioners. It was bought by William Coke, who already held the tithes. He armed himself to keep out the parishioners until 1552 when he demolished it. Following a series of court cases he was forced to rebuild it.</p><br>
<p>The church includes a nave, chancel and a north chapel which has been converted into a vestry. The two-stage west tower is supported by diagonal buttresses. One of the church bells was cast in 1716 by Edward Bilbie of the Bilbie family. The octagonal font dates from the 13th century.</p><br>
<p>The church has been placed on the Heritage at Risk register due to structural problems with the walls and roof. Work has been carried out to improve the fabric of the building at a cost of over £100,000.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the Polden Wheel benefice within the Diocese of Bath and Wells.</p><br>
<p>The Onega Canal  is a canal that runs along the southern banks of Lake Onega in Vytegorsky District of Vologda Oblast and Podporozhsky District of Leningrad Oblasts in Russia. It was built 1818 - 1820 and 1845 - 1852 as a part of Mariinsk Canal System, to allow small riverboats to avoid Lake Onega, where storms are frequent and where many boats had perished through the centuries. The canal is 69 km long and runs between the Vytegra River in the east and Svir River in the west. It is around 50 m wide, and lies between 10 m and 2 km from the shores of the lake. At the mouth of the canal, in the selo of Voznesenye, a memorial obelisk has been erected.</p><br>
<p>The canal lost its significance after Mariinsk Canal System was reconstructed and became Volga-Baltic Waterway. Onezhsky Canal was not reconstructed and became too shallow for larger boats. It is still navigable, but not used for regular navigation.</p><br>
<p>Two rivers, Vozheroksa and Oshta, tributaries of Lake Onega, cross the canal. 38 km from the Vytegra, the canal crosses Lake Megrskoye, a large freshwater lake. There is weak current in the canal in the direction of the Svir.</p><br>
<p>The Vassar Institute building is located at Main and Vassar streets in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States, across from the architecturally similar Vassar Home for Aged Men. It is a late-19th century building combining the Italianate, Victorian Gothic and Second Empire architectural styles.</p><br>
<p>It was established by Matthew Vassar&#39;s nephews on the site of the brewery which established the family fortune. It has served as a museum and art studio in the past, and has a 300-seat auditorium in the rear. In 1972 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Later it also became a contributing property to the Mill Street-North Clover Street Historic District. Both it and the Home for Aged Men are now used by the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The building is a two-story, three-bay building in running bond with granite trim. The masonry walls with balloon framing inside are faced in brick in running bond. It is topped with a mansard roof, with four round-arched dormer windows and projecting Italianate tower. At the roofline is a carved wooden cornice with alternating large and small brackets, above a frieze with applied moldings in geometric patterns.</p><br>
<p>A large portico projects from the middle of the east (front) facade. It is supported by two pairs of columns with granite capitals on an iron plinth base. Atop them is a broken arch pediment.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s heavy and ornate exterior is a direct contrast to its spacious, open interior. The main entrance opens onto a hall which leads to the auditorium at the rear. The approximately 200 original cast-iron seats are arranged on four descending, curving levels, with leatherette upholstery. On either side is a balcony with circular box, supported by wooden columns with brackets and ball drops, and two tall, round-arched stained glass windows. The proscenium has vestiges of the original valances.</p><br>
<h2>Aesthetics</h2><br>
<p>An eclectic combination of Victorian styles can be seen in the Vassar Institute building: the decorative cornices of Italianate buildings, the heaviness of Victorian Gothic and the mansard roof common on Second Empire buildings. Many features are similar to designs by James Renwick, Jr., for the early buildings of Vassar College in the 1860s. The colorful exterior recalls the polychrome brick buildings of the preceding decades as well.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Vassars spent $30,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) to put up the Institute on the site of their uncles brewery, furthering the familys interest in education and culture. J.A. Wood, whose work included major hotel such as the Tampa Bay Hotel, had his design completed in 1882.</p><br>
<p>Its first floor was a natural history museum and the second story a library, also providing home offices to the Poughkeepsie Literary Society and Poughkeepsie Society of Natural Sciences. The third floor was, and still is, an art studio. The auditorium hosted a lecture series on winter Tuesdays.</p><br>
<p>Later, the Eastman Business College used some of the rooms. During the 1930s, the Community Theater put on its plays in the auditorium. By the late 1960s the building was little-used and neglected, in need of new heating and plumbing. Many community groups showed interest in renovating it, and eventually the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center was able to do so. It has since renovated the theater and turned some of the space into a 1,200 ft&sup2; dance studio, artists&#39; lofts and a music-instruction studio in addition to art galleries.</p><br>
<p>The Lassise–Schettini House, also known as La Quinta, is a historic house in Sabana Grande, Puerto Rico. It was designed by architect Luis Perocier and built in 1924 for Dr. Enrique Lassise, a physician and "remembered good-samaritan" of the town of Sabana Grande and his wife</p><br>
<p>Matilde Schettini, a school teacher.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story building with a mix of architectural styles, showing influence of the style of the traditional plantation house of the United States Gulf Coast and the Caribbean, of the Chicago Prairie style, and of the Moorish-Spanish Revival.</p><br>
<p>Perocier learned from more renowned Czech architect Antonin Nechodoma, who himself settled in Puerto Rico eventually after studying with Frank Lloyd Wright under Louis Sullivan. While most of Nechodoma&#39;s works in Puerto Rico are gone; La Quinta survives as "one of the few major examples of prairie-influenced</p><br>
<p>structures in Puerto Rico and the only intact manor house of its kind in Sabana Grande."</p><br>
<p>The Iglesia de San Carlos Borromeo  is a historic church built in 1783, located on the plaza of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It is one of five churches with architecture designed by State Architect Don Pedro Cobreros.</p><br>
<p>The original church was built in 1783. An octagonal tower at the north was added in 1862, and another to the south in 1874. The facade was revised in 1887 according to plans designed by Cobreros. After the 1918 San Fermín earthquake the south tower was rebuilt, lower than before, and the facade was somewhat changed.</p><br>
<p>The church includes two aisles and a nave covered with a flat roof. It is reportedly the only church in Puerto Rico with an apse covered by a groin vault rather than a dome or a barrel vault.</p><br>
<p>It is one of 31 churches reviewed for listing on the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Arctic Building is a nine-story building in Seattle, Washington located at the Northeast corner of Third Avenue and Cherry Street. The building was built for the Arctic Club in 1916 and was occupied by them from construction until the club&#39;s dissolution in 1971. It is entirely faced with cream white terra cotta with submarine blue and orange-brown accents. It is particularly noted for the terra cotta walrus-heads lining the third floor of the building. Recently restored, the building has been adapted for use as a luxury hotel, Arctic Club Seattle .The Historic Arctic Building in Seattle Being</p><br>
<p>Transformed into a 120-room Hotel It was listed in 1978 on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site of the Arctic building was originally owned by Joseph R. Lewis, the Chief Justice of Washington Territory and a direct descendant of George Washington&#39;s sister Betty. The home he built on the site in 1875 was considered one of the finest in Seattle at the time. The house was replaced in 1892 by the three-story, brick Seattle Theatre, designed by the firm of Saunders and Lawton. The newly formed Rainier Club occupied the office portion of the building until it and the theater were replaced by the Arctic Club Building in 1916.</p><br>
<p>The Arctic Club was formed in 1908 by successful veterans of the Klondike Gold Rush. The existing Alaska Club was merged that year into the Arctic Club. In Seattle, it was a fraternal men&#39;s club for businessmen with Gold Rush or Alaska connections.</p><br>
<p>Another Arctic Club was established in New York City, with membership based on exploration of wilderness areas in the Arctic. The Arctic Club in Seattle was initially located in 1909 on 3rd Avenue and Jefferson Street in the Morrison Hotel, also known as the Arctic Club Building.</p><br>
<p>In 1914, after a dispute with the owner of that building, the Arctic Construction Company, the club board decided to relocate. In 1916, the members commissioned noted Seattle architect A. Warren Gould to design the Arctic Building in downtown Seattle at Third and Cherry as the groups headquarters. James Moses was the builder. During the move, members surreptitiously removed the bar from the original location by hoisting it out one of the windows. The 128 ft. Arctic Club building is in the Beaux-Arts style; it is known for its terra cotta walrus heads, indicative of the clubs name, which adorn the third floor facade.</p><br>
<p>USA Congressman Marion Zioncheck committed suicide on August 7, 1936, by jumping from the window of his campaign office on the Arctic Building&#39;s fifth floor. His body struck the pavement directly in front of a car occupied by his wife.</p><br>
<p>As office needs changed, the building was owned for a time by the City of Seattle. It was sold to a Spokane company, which redeveloped the property as a hotel, opening in 2008.</p><br>
<p>It operates as the Arctic Club Hotel, a DoubleTree by Hilton.</p><br>
<p>The Puente Blanco  is a historic railway bridge that spans hundred and fifty feet deep and thirty six metres wide gorge across the Quebrada Mala Canyon, near Quebradillas, Puerto Rico. The bridge is the only reinforced concrete bridge in the area and the highest of its kind in Puerto Rico. It was built in 1922 by the American Railroad Company to replace an 1907 steel bridge as part of the construction of the national railway system that connected the island during the first half of the twentieth century. It was built on a concrete platform that held the existing steel bridge without interrupting the passage of the railway. The new bridge could hold two locomotives of 84 tons each. It was designed by Etienne Totti from Yauco who was the head engineer for the company. The bridge was restored by the municipality of Quebradillas, unfortunately as part of the repair the base was widened altering the character of the structure and hindering the view of the bridge. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The 1872 California-Nevada State Boundary Marker marks the initial point for the 1872 survey delineation of the state line between California and Nevada. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>When California attained statehood in 1850, it adopted 120 degrees west longitude as its eastern border. Between 1855 and 1900 there were six surveys to locate 120 degrees, with each locating 120 degrees of longitude differently. In 1872, Alexey Von Schmidt undertook the survey of the state line. He marked his survey line with stones, wood, and iron markers; the only one who placed such markers A new survey in 1893 showed that the Von Schmidt line was 1,600 to 1,800 feet west of the actual 120 degrees. However, California and Nevada both recognize the 1872 Von Schmidt survey and the 1893 survey as the state line.</p><br>
<p>The 1872 marker near Verdi, Nevada is a four-sided cast iron pylon eight feet tall. It includes the words "CALIFORNIA" on the west face of the pylon, "NEVADA" on the east face, "1872, LONGITUDE 120 WEST OF GREENWICH, A.W. VON SCHMIDT, USA" on the south face, and "170 MILES 47 CHAINS TO OREGON" on the north face. The marker is surrounded by a wrought iron fence.</p><br>
<p>The marker was listed in the National Register of Historic Places because it represents the initial point of survey for the California-Nevada border, and is a remnant of this survey.</p><br>
<p>NGS gives current for another 1872 marker that may still exist at the northeast corner of California.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican Church of St Mary in Chedzoy, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>There is evidence of a Church in Chedzoy in 1166 when it was given along with the parent church in North Petherton to Buckland Priory. The tower dates from the early 16th century when the porch, clerestory, the arch into the north transept, and the windows in the north aisle were added.</p><br>
<p>Much of the current building is from the 17th century, although the Norman chancel, chancel arch and doorway remain. It was extensively remodelled by William Butterfield in 1861. A late medieval screen and rood loft were removed around 1841. The font has survived since the 13th century. The pulpit is from the 16th century. Amongst the memorials is a brass believed to commemorate Richard Sydenham who died in 1499.</p><br>
<p>Local tradition says that the church still bears marks form the forces of the Duke of Monmouth during the Monmouth Rebellion who sharpened their swords before battle, however this is unlikely to be the true source of the marks.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Westonzoyland with Chedzoy within the Sedgemoor deanery.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Andrew in Compton Bishop, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century, being consecrated by Bishop Jocelin in 1236, with more recent restoration. It is a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church has a 14th- or 15th-century pulpit with tracery panels, carved friezes and cresting, described as "one of the best in Somerset". Above the pulpit is a large pedimented wall monument to John Prowse who died in 1688, as well as several of his children.</p><br>
<p>The two-stage tower with pinnacles and a stair turret has been dated to around 1380, although Harvey believes it is from the 15th century. The south porch was added and the roof renewed in 1852 by the Bath architectural practice of George Phillips Manners and John Elkington Gill.</p><br>
<p>The churchyard cross is grade II listed, as are two chest tombs in the churchyard.</p><br>
<p>The church is part of Crook Peak United Parish, which also includes the churches at Badgworth, Biddisham, Christon, Loxton and Weare.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Michael & All Angels in Greinton, Somerset, England has parts which date to the 12th century, with evidence that it may have been built on a pre-Christian site. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church was refurbished in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, the church seems to have been led by a cast of colorful clergy, dating at least to 1259 when Boniface de Foliano was rector.</p><br>
<p>In 1397 the rector was accused of attacking the vicar of Pawlett during mass and extorting money and livestock from him... John Hyne, rector 1584–1624, was in prison in 1590, leaving the church unserved... In the 1600s Hyne was presented for minor infringements such as allowing a girl of 12 to be a godmother. He also refused a couple communion and accused the wardens of buying watered wine.</p><br>
<p>The tower, which dates from the 15th century, has a ring of six bells, including a medieval Bristol bell, bells dated 1586,1707, 1788, and two dated 1899. Major repairs and renovations were carried out in the Victorian era, including the addition of stained glass and a north porch, and the conversion of the south porch to a vestry. Incomplete records in the church register go back to 1655, with complete records from 1777.</p><br>
<p>The uninhabited Payne Islands are an archipelago, members of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago and the Ungava Bay Archipelago, in the Qikiqtaaluk Region of Nunavut, Canada. They are located in Payne Bay, a waterway in western Ungava Bay, just east of the Arnaud River  and the community of Kangirsuk on Quebec&#39;s Ungava Peninsula.</p><br>
<p>Note: The Atlas of Canada does not recognise this appellation; presumably the Payne Islands are the islets of Nanuk, Agvik, and Akunok.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The islands have a hard granitic gneiss and a thin layer of soil. Their perimeter measures approximately 3 km.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>Their habitat includes lichen, moss, sedges, and low woody shrubs.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Combined with the Plover Islands, the Payne Islands are a Canadian Important Bird Area (#NU027). Notable bird species include the common eider and colonial waterbirds/seabirds.</p><br>
<p>The Payne Islands are a part of the Ungava Bay Archipelagoes, a Key Migratory Terrestrial Bird Site (NU Site 51).</p><br>
<p>Hatterrall Hill is a rounded peak in the Black Mountains which sits on the Wales-England border, partly in Monmouthshire, Wales and partly in Herefordshire, England. Its summit at 531m is the high point of a peaty plateau which falls away steeply on all sides. Broad ridges run to the north, the southeast and southwest. To the north the ridge  dips to a col at around 485m elevation before rising gradually over several kilometres towards Crib y Garth / Black Hill and Hay Bluff. The ridge to the southwest ends abruptly at the sheer cliff known as the Darren below which is a considerable landslipped area extending south to the hamlet of Cwmyoy with its mis-shapen church.</p><br>
<p>The Welsh part of the hill falls within the Brecon Beacons National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The upper parts of Hatterrall Hill are all designated as open country and so are freely accessible to walkers. Several public footpaths and other public rights of way give access onto the open land from the Vale of Ewyas (Llanthony Valley) to the west and from the Monnow valley to the east. The Offa&#39;s Dyke Path long distance trail runs from north to south over the hill as does the Beacons Way.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The hill is composed from sandstones and mudstones of the Senni Beds Formation of the Old Red Sandstone which is of Devonian age. Numerous small quarries adorn its slopes though all are now abandoned. The Vale of Ewyas was occupied by glaciers during the ice ages though the plateau was probably ice-free.British Geological Survey 1:50,000 map sheet 214 Talgarth & accompanying sheet explanation</p><br>
<p>The Casa Roig Museum is a historic house museum and gallery in Humacao, Puerto Rico. It was designed as a residence for the wealthy sugar planter Antonio Roig by the prominent Czech architect and Puerto Rico resident Antonin Nechodoma , and built in 1920. Casa Roig was built in the Prairie School style in 1920. The house has a cruciform plant, has two floors and a basement. It is made of concrete and wood, decorated lavishly with stained glass and mosaics. The design follows the Prairie House School style of the architect Louis Sullivan, but especially the unique style of the renowned American architect Frank Lloyd Wright .</p><br>
<p>The house was inhabited until 1956. From then on it remained closed until August 13, 1977 when the heirs of Antonio Roig donated the residence to the University of Puerto Rico who adopted the mission to restore and preserve the structure. The work of restoration was carried out by the architects Otto Reyes and Tom Marvel over a period of 10 years. Casa Roig opened its doors to the public in 1989 and since then has served as a physical footprint and testimony of the Prairie School style adapted to the Caribbean, and as a center for cultural diffusion. Casa Roig is considered among the best works of Nechodoma, and is the only residential structure built by Nechodoma which still remains complete.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Front Street Historic District in Exeter, New Hampshire, encompasses a portion of the towns historic center. The district extends from Swasey Pavilion, at the junction of Front and Water streets, southwesterly along Front Street to Gale Park, about five blocks. Front Street is one of Exeters oldest roads, and is lined with a series of 18th and 19th-century civic, religious, and residential structures, many of which are well preserved. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Exeter was founded in 1638 by Rev. John Wheelwright and his followers, who had been banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony to the south over religious differences. Its location on the Squamscott River soon developed as a shipbuilding and lumber shipment center, with the community center on the south bank. Front Street, now designated New Hampshire Route 111, developed as a major westbound road. It was where the campus of Phillips Exeter Academy was established in 1783, and the lower portion of Front Street near its junction with the commercial Water Street area is where its civic center developed. Between the academy and the civic center is where The Congregational Church in Exeter was built in 1798, along with a cluster of mainly early 19th-century residences. West of the academy campus residential development continued with slightly wider spacing, becoming more rural after passing Gale Park, a triangular park at the junction of Front and Linden streets.</p><br>
<p>The historic district covers about 45 acre of central Exeter to the southwest of its commercial waterfront district. It extends for about five blocks along Front Street, from the pavilion near the junction of Front and Water streets, to Gale Park. It also includes a few densely-built blocks between the Phillips Exeter campus and Water Street, an area that includes the Ladd-Gilman House, a National Historic Landmark that is now a history museum. Architecturally prominent buildings include the Dudley House on the south side of Front Street, which is a fine Federal style house, and the Moses-Kent House at its far western end, which is a good example of Second Empire architecture.</p><br>
<p>The USA Department of Agriculture Administration Building, also known as the Jamie L. Whitten Building, houses the administrative offices of the USA Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. The Administration Building projects into the National Mall from the larger USA Department of Agriculture South Building, and is the only building on the Mall that is not intended for use by the general public. It was the first large Beaux-Arts style building in Washington and set the prototype for the later buildings of the Federal Triangle. The east and west wings were the first Federal office buildings to be built of reinforced concrete. The Whitten Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The placement of the new building on the Mall was at odds with the proposed McMillan Plan, which envisioned a Mall free of intrusive buildings. The Agriculture Department&#39;s proposed placement was opposed by Commission members Daniel Burnham and Charles McKim. After a series of intercessions by President Theodore Roosevelt the building was moved to be in accordance with the Plan, but only after foundations were in place for a building 106 feet to the east of the final location.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>As the public face of the Agriculture Department, the Beaux-Arts style Administration Building was designed by architects Rankin, Kellogg and Crane to a higher standard than the South Building. However, a limited budget enforced a comparative plainness when set against other buildings on the Mall. The L-shaped wings were completed between 1904 and 1908, but the central block was not finished until 1930. The prototype for the design was Ange-Jacques Gabriel&#39;s 1774 Hôtel de la Marine on the Place de la Concorde in Paris. The pediment features sculpture by Adolph Alexander Weinman, while interior murals are by Gilbert White. While the earlier east and west wings featured reinforced concrete construction, the central portion was built in steel.</p><br>
<h3>Linking bridges</h3><br>
<p>In 1936 bridges were built across Independence Avenue to link the wings to the South Building. The single-span stone arches form a dramatic accent on Independence Avenue. The soffits of the bridges are faced with Guastavino tile. The east bridge is dedicated to Seaman A. Knapp, while the west bridge commemorates Agriculture Secretary James Wilson.</p><br>
<h2>Naming</h2><br>
<p>The Administration Building was named the "Jamie L. Whitten" building in 1995 in honor of Mississippi Congressman Jamie L. Whitten, former chairman of the United States House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies.</p><br>
<p>Pandu Rajar Dhibi  is an archaeological site in Ausgram II block in the Sadar North subdivision of Purba Bardhaman district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It was the first Chalcolithic site discovered in West Bengal. The common man believes that the main mound at Pandu Rajar Dhibi is associated with King Pandu mentioned in the epic Mahabharata, hence the name came into being from the folklore.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>It is located near the southern bank of Ajay River and excavations have been made near Rajpotdanga and Panduk villages.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>The site was first excavated by B.B. Lal in 1954-57. While Pandu Rajar Dhibi was the first Chalcolithic or Copper Age site to be discovered, a number of other sites have been discovered in an area spread over the districts of Birbhum, Bardhaman, Bankura and Midnapore, and interspersed by rivers Brahmani, Mayurakshi, Kopai, Ajay, Kunur, Damodar, Dwarakesvar, Shilabati, and Rupnarayan.</p><br>
<p>There were two main periods – the Chalcolithic period around 1600 BC – 750 BC, and the Iron Age.</p><br>
<h2>The People and Their Culture</h2><br>
<p>As to the artists of the Chalcolithic culture of Bengal, we are in the dark. They might have been proto-Australoids or Veddoids. From an examination of skeletal remains (14-male, female & children) it appears that they were long-headed and medium to tall in height, resembling the Santals or the Sabaras.</p><br>
<p>There was parhaps a brisk maritime trade in Chalcolithic Bengal, but unfortunately sufficient evidence is not available. Certainly, the Ajay and her tributaries meeting the Bhagirathi were navigable at that time. The excavation at Pandu Rajar Dhibi has provided evidence for the gradual growth of a Chalcolithic culture and its displacement by iron-using people. There is evidence of a great conflagration in period III, which may be considered as the transitional period. The transition perhaps led to the exit of the Chalcolithic culture and entrance of the Iron Age.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The excavations at Pandu Rajar Dhibi reveal the non-Aryan origin of the majority of Bengalis. The Copper Age civilisation in eastern Indiia but also distant lands such as Crete and the Mediterranean lands. They were predominantly a seafaring people.</p><br>
<h2>Limitations</h2><br>
<p>The archaeological discoveries at Pandu Rajar Dhibi and the surrounding areas have not yet been properly studied by experts and as such the historical value must be regarded as uncertain.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Mark  in Mark, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century, but is mainly a 14th and 15th century building with further restoration in 1864. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>There may have been a chapel in the village from the 12th century however the current church was dedicated by William, Bishop of Bath and Wells in April 1268 as The Church of the Holy Cross. The title changed with a new dedication to St Mark in 1853 but reverted to the earlier dedication in 1939. The building was expanded over the subsequent centuries. The nave has a Barrel roof decorated with the heads of religious figures. In the Choir is a wooden sculpture of the Four Evangelists made by a Belgian sculptor named André in 1524 for St. Salvator&#39;s Cathedral in Bruges, which was moved in 1794.</p><br>
<p>The tower was built around 1407. It contains a peel of eight bells. The clock celebrates the jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887.</p><br>
<p>The former market cross in the churchyard dates from the 15th century.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Mark with Allerton within the Axbridge deanery.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Mary in Moorlinch, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building. The church sits on the southern flank of the Polden Hills.</p><br>
<p>The earliest mention of a church at Moorlinch is a charter of King Ine in 725 and then in one of King Edgar in 971, although the authenticity of these documents has been challenged. In 1262 it was acquired by Glastonbury Abbey in 1262. The church includes a 14th-century chancel, and a 12th-century nave with a south porch. The font dates from the 12th century, while the pulpit is Jacobean, but made from wood taken from earlier perpendicular panels. The organ dates from 1800 and was made by James Davis.</p><br>
<p>The west tower contains six bells the oldest being the tenor which was cast in 1651 by Thomas Purdue of Closworth.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the benefice of Middlezoy and Othery and Moorlinch with Stawell and Sutton Mallet, within the Glastonbury deanery.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St John the Baptist in Pawlett, Somerset, England dates from the 12th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The Norman church of St John the Baptist replaced an earlier Saxon structure and the church is thought to have been a popular station on medieval pilgrimages from Watchet to Glastonbury. The south doorway arch features three bands of decoration: lozenges, zigzags, and a biting beasts motif on the outer ring. The baptismal font appears to be made from two separate fonts, the bottom part an inverted Saxon font topped with an upright plain Norman font.</p><br>
<p>The rood screen is 15th-century. The 20th-century north window shows Christ blessing children who are in modern dress and holding a teddy bear and toy boat. Other unusual features include pew boxes that still retain hat pegs, reflecting a time when congregants wore hats to church. The chancel includes wide communion rails on three sides, thought to have been used for seated communion. Unusual and ancient features of the church in part owe their preservation to major renovations made in 1779. That "modernization" seems to have slaked the zeal for Victorian-era updates which eliminated such features in many other churches in the area. The crumbling of the church&#39;s blue lias stone led to its exterior being coated with cement.</p><br>
<p>The Lakeview Historic District is a residential historic district in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The neighborhood was one of Cheyennes original neighborhoods when the city was platted in 1870; most of the homes in the district were built between 1880 and 1930. Most of the neighborhoods residents were working-class, and many of them worked for the Union Pacific Railroad. Before 1900, most homes built in the district had simple Italianate, Queen Anne, or vernacular designs. American Foursquare and bungalow houses became popular in the 20th century as those styles gained prominence nationally.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on August 5, 1996. It includes the Moreton Frewen House, which is separately listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Strawberry Chapel is a parochial chapel of ease in the lower part of St. John&#39;s, Berkeley Parish in Berkeley County, South Carolina that was built in 1725. It is on Strawberry Chapel Road between South Carolina State Highway 8-44 and the West Branch of the Cooper River. The Town of Childsbury was a planned community that was settled in 1707. The town no longer exists. They were named to the National Register of Historic Places on April 26, 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>James Child, an English settler, was granted a tract of 1,200 acre on Strawberry Bluff overlooking the Cooper River. This location was the furthest upstream that ships could travel. He established a ferry across the river.</p><br>
<p>The town of Childsbury was planned for the bluff. Due to the growth of nearby plantations, the town withered. By 1750, the chapel and tavern continued to be used. Fairs were held until the mid-1750s.</p><br>
<p>The chapel was a parochial chapel of ease of the Parish of St. John&#39;s, Berkeley. The parish church at the time was Biggin Church, which is about 10 mi away. The designation of "parochial" meant that it had the authority to baptize and bury the dead.</p><br>
<p>By 1825, Strawberry Chapel replaced Biggins Church as the parish church.</p><br>
<p>The town is now a South Carolina Heritage Preserve.</p><br>
<h2>Town plan</h2><br>
<p>The town was planned to have twenty-four blocks on Strawberry Bluff. At its center was a market square. Two other squares were named Childs Square and Dixes Square. The streets were 66 ft wide.</p><br>
<p>Property was assigned for a college, a free school, a church, and a minister&#39;s house. Child designated 600 acre for farms and pastures and 100 acre on the bluff for a future citadel. A sketch of the plan for the town has been published.</p><br>
<h2>Chapel architecture</h2><br>
<p>The chapel is a simple, rectangular brick building covered in stucco. It has a jerkin-head roof. The south-facing facade has a double three-paneled door with a flush fanlight. There are shuttered windows on either side of this door. The west end has a single door flanked by a pair of windows. There is decorative rosette window above. The east end has two windows with the rosette window above. Extending from the north wall behind the altar is a small anteroom for the vestry.</p><br>
<p>A mural tablet in memory of an early rector of the parish was moved from Biggin Church to Strawberry Chapel. The silver Communion service from Biggin Church, which had been hidden at the end of the Civil War, was found buried in a barn at the Comingtee Plantation in 1947. It is now used at services at Strawberry Chapel.</p><br>
<p>In 1882, a new chapel was built at nearby Cordesville. Strawberry Chapel underwent repairs in 1913.</p><br>
<p>A graveyard is around the church. Additional pictures of the chapel are available.</p><br>
<p>Griva  is a small village located in the Kilkis regional unit in Central Macedonia, Greece. The village hovers on the southeastern portion of Mount Paiko at 470 meters  above sea level.</p><br>
<p>Griva, with a population of 770 people, is the largest village in the municipal unit of Goumenissa besides Goumenissa proper.</p><br>
<p>Because of the complete destruction of the village by the Ottomans in 1912 during the First Balkan War, there are no structures still existing that were built prior to this period. The village&#39;s architecture is the basic standard architecture for nearly all of the towns of the region, with narrow streets, small passageways between the buildings, and cottages fit perfectly into the natural environment of the mountainside. According to a Yugoslav study, in 1961 of a population of 1,280, an estimated 1,180 Macedonia speakers lived in the village alongside 100 Pontic Greeks.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>According to the National Statistical Center of Greece, in 1981, 1991 and 2001, the population of Griva is as follows:</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Griva is located 72 km northwest of Thessaloniki, 542 km north of Athens and is located within the Municipality of Goumenissa.</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>Local agriculture produces chestnuts, sheep, and timber.</p><br>
<h2>Education</h2><br>
<p>Griva has one Primary school and one Elementary school.</p><br>
<h2>Culture</h2><br>
<p>Filmography: In 1981, director Tasos Psaras filmed The Factory (Greek: Το Εργοστάσιο)(French: L &#39;Ucine) in various places within Griva.</p><br>
<h2>Churches</h2><br>
<p>Church of St. Athanasius the Great</p><br>
<p>Monastery of St. Raphael, Nicholas & Irene at Griva (established 1992).</p><br>
<p>The Biggin Church Ruins are the ruins of a church in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Biggins Church is its name in the USGS Geographic Names Information System. The ruins are about 2 mi from Moncks Corner, South Carolina, near the intersection of South Carolina Highway 402 and State Highway 8-376. The church has been burned three times since it was first constructed in about 1711. It was the church of the parish of St. John&#39;s, Berkeley. The ruins are from the church built in 1761 and its reconstruction in 1781. It was included in the National Register of Historic Places on December 13, 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site for the church, Biggin Hill, is probably named for Biggin Hill in the London Borough of Bromley. The Parish of St. Johns, Berkeley was created in the South Carolina Assembly Act of 1704 and the Church Act of 1706. St. Johns, Berkeley had the largest area of the original ten parishes of the Province. These parishes served both religious and civil functions in the colony. The land for the church was donated by the Landgrave John Colleton.</p><br>
<p>The first church was built around 1711 to replace a wooden building that had been used for religious services. This church burned in a forest fire around 1755.</p><br>
<p>The church was replaced with a new building in 1761. In this period, parishioners included Henry Laurens and William Moultrie. During the Revolutionary War, British troops used the church as a depot. As they retreated, the church and stores were burned in 1781.</p><br>
<p>The church was used up to the Civil War. During the war, the furniture was removed and the church building was damaged. 1890, or the 1890s. the church was burned in a forest fire. After the fire, its bricks were scavenged for other construction projects.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The church was a rectangular brick building about 30 ft by 60 ft. It was originally done in English bond. Currently, only two walls remain. One wall was probably the main entrance. It has a large portal with Gibbs surround that is flanked by two windows on the left and on the right. The windows are arched with brick voussoirs. The other wall is the end of the church with a door flanked by windows on the left and right. There are quoins at the corner and a water table, which is horizontal projecting band, made with rounded bricks near the base of the wall.</p><br>
<p>A mural tablet in memory of an early rector of the parish was moved from Biggin Church to its former chapel of ease, Strawberry Chapel, which is about 10 mi away. The silver Communion service from Biggin Church, which had been hidden at the end of the Civil War, was found buried in a barn at the Combahee Plantation in 1947. It is now at Strawberry Chapel.</p><br>
<p>There is a cemetery nearby that is still used. It includes the grave of Sir John Colleton III, the great grandson of the Lord Proprietor.</p><br>
<p>Additional photographs of the ruins are available.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Andrew in Clevedon, Somerset, England. Parts of the original 12th-century church remains with 14th- and 15th-century additions. It is on a hill overlooking the Bristol Channel, and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church was built on Anglo-Saxon foundations.</p><br>
<p>It is the burial place of Arthur Hallam, subject of the poem In Memoriam A.H.H. by his friend Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The exterior of the church includes a carving which may be a Sheela na gig. The Anglican parish of Clevedon is part of the Portishead deanery.</p><br>
<p>St Andrew&#39;s was used in 2014 to depict the Broadchurch Parish Church and burying ground in the second series of the popular police drama Broadchurch.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Mary at Charlynch in the parish of Spaxton, Somerset, England was an Anglican Parish Church, but has now been deconsecrated. It dates from the 11th century with a tower probably of 1867. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The building included a nave with a south porch and a transeptal south chapel. The chancel had the vestry and organ chamber attached. The three-stage west tower was added in the 19th century. The is some 15th century stained glass in the transept. The Norman church included a doorway and chancel arch considered Romanesque. The font is from a similar period.</p><br>
<p>The church contains monuments and tablets to the family of Admiral Robert Blake. After deconsecration in 1981 the altar was moved to the Church of St Margaret, Spaxton. Since 1986 the church has been converted into a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Gregory in Weare, Somerset, England dates from the 11th century, although most of the building is from the 15th, and has been designated as a grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The tower was built around 1407. It is in four stages with pinnacles and pierced parapet.</p><br>
<p>In the churchyard is a 15th-century cross, and a 19th-century church room.</p><br>
<p>In 1257 the church was granted to St Augustine&#39;s Abbey in Bristol and after the dissolution of the monasteries given to the dean and chapter of Bristol Cathedral.</p><br>
<p>The font is older than the building dating from about 1150, while the pulpit is Jacobean.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the Crook Peak benefice within the Axbridge deanery.</p><br>
<p>British Comedian Frankie Howerd is buried in the church grounds.</p><br>
<p>The former Vassar Home for Aged Men is located at Main and Vassar streets in Poughkeepsie, New York, United States. It is just across the street from the architecturally similar Vassar Institute, and both buildings are credited to architect J.A. Wood. In the 1970s it became the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center.</p><br>
<p>It was established in the 1880s by the nephews of Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College, as a home for elderly men but was not fully occupied until the early 20th century. It continued in that use for most of the century, and was among the first buildings in the city listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. Later that year it also became a contributing property to the Mill Street-North Clover Street Historic District. Today it, like the Institute building, is owned by a local arts group, which rents some of the space in the building to other local non-profit organizations.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The Home is a three-story building nine bays wide on its western (front) facade, where the basement is also exposed. It is faced in brick laid in running bond with granite trim, over masonry walls on a balloon frame. The sheet metal roof has a wide cornice with large, vertically elongated brackets at the corners and smaller ones in between.</p><br>
<p>A five-bay pavilion projects from the east, with a veranda running its full length. It is enclosed by a baluster railing, which continues down the steps, and supported by freestanding columns at the front and engaged ones at the rear. Similar, smaller verandas can be found on the other sides.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the rear stairway has a large carved newel post. Both parlors have Neoclassical black marble mantels that were preserved from an earlier building. Two later black marble mantels are in the reception room, which has a carved Louis XVI-style wooden screen supported by four Corinthian columns.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Home was built by Vassar&#39;s nephews on the site of his old house, incorporating some of the original interior trim, such as the black marble mantels. It cost $45,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) to build and was completed in 1880. The following year it was officially opened.</p><br>
<p>Designed for 50 men, it was initially home to six who met the criteria of being at least 65 years old, Protestant and residents of New York State. It continued to operate below capacity until 1903, when the death of Matthew Vassar&#39;s widow made enough money available.</p><br>
<p>It remained a senior citizen&#39;s home throughout much of the 20th century. In the 1970s, it became the property of the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center, which has used the lower floor for galleries, public and private events, and rented out the upper floors as office space for other local non-profit organizations.</p><br>
<p>The Iglesia de San Juan Bautista  in Maricao, Puerto Rico is a church built during 1890-c.1898. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Its facade, facing onto the plaza of Maricao, is dominated by a three-level square bell tower, whose first level is a portico and which is capped by a pyramidal concrete roof. Its exterior has Gothic-style pointed arches; its interior has more traditional rounded arches. It has a nave and two aisles. The church&#39;s original roof was replaced in 1965 by a metal joist structure supporting corrugated asbestos sheets.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by engineer Jeronimo Jiminez Coranado.</p><br>
<p>It is one of 31 churches reviewed for listing on the National Register in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Corregimiento Plaza Theater in Arecibo, Puerto Rico was built in 1876 as a three-story brick Classical Revival theater building known as the Oliver Theater. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>It was built with a mechanism that could raise the orchestra floor so that the space could be used for different purposes. It was remodelled in 1919 after a series of earthquakes (presumably including the 1918 San Fermin earthquake) damaged it, and it was remodelled again in the 1930s. The floor moving mechanism was then removed, the stage was shortened, and balconies were replaced by a new mezzanine. In 1955 it became exclusively a movie house, with a cinemascope screen. It operated as a movie house until 1984 when it was closed.</p><br>
<p>The Confederate Monument in Bracken County, Kentucky, in Augusta, Kentucky, honors eight unknown Confederate soldiers who were killed attacking Augusta in September 1862. Confederate Colonel Basil W. Duke led a force of Confederate soldiers to raid the town, on September 27, 1862, only to be driven back by a home guard force numbering 100 and backed up by gunboats. Eight Confederate soldiers of the 21 who died were buried in Payne Cemetery. In 1903 the present monument was placed at their burial spot.</p><br>
<p>The monument is a granite tombstone four feet high with a base three feet wide. At the top of the tombstone is the Confederate battle flag. The stone was placed where the unknown soldiers were buried, forty-one years after the skirmish in which they were killed. The John B. Hood Camp of the United Confederate Veterans was responsible for the funding for the monument, which totaled $550.</p><br>
<p>On July 17, 1997, the Confederate Monument in Augusta was one of sixty-one different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. It is the most northerly of the monuments on the list that honor only Confederates; the Veteran&#39;s Monument in Covington to the north honors both sides.</p><br>
<p>The monument is best reached from the parking area by the flagpole on the river side of Kentucky State Road 8 west of town by descending the nearby stairs. The only other route involves walking across private yards and then up a steep 100 foot hill through Payne Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>File:Confederate Monument in Augusta 2.JPGAlternative view</p><br>
<p>File:Confederate Monument in Augusta back.JPGBack of monument</p><br>
<p>File:Confederate Monument in Augusta roadside.JPGRoadside parking for the monument</p><br>
<p>The Union Monument in Vanceburg in Lewis County, Kentucky, in Vanceburg, Kentucky, commemorates the Union soldiers of the American Civil War. It is the only monument anywhere south of the Mason–Dixon line that so honors Union soldiers that is not in a cemetery done by public subscription.</p><br>
<p>The monument was built in 1884 by the citizens of Lewis County, which was a Union stronghold during the war and one of the few places in Kentucky that was still more sympathetic to the Union cause by the 1880s. It stands thirty-four feet tall, and both the pedestal and base are made of limestone. The base is five feet high and seven feet wide. The pedestal was made from eight separate pieces. The statue depicts a Union soldier in winter gear and kepi hat.</p><br>
<p>The inscription reads:</p><br>
<p>The war for the Union was right, everlastingly right, and the war against the Union was wrong, forever wrong</p><br>
<p>In total, 107 men from Lewis County died as Union soldiers during the war; their names are inscribed on the monument.</p><br>
<p>On July 17, 1997, the Union Monument in Vanceburg was one of sixty-one different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. The vast majority of the monuments were built to honor Confederates. The only other monument to state any strong sentiment towards the Union is the Captain Andrew Offutt Monument in Lebanon, Kentucky. Other monuments built for the Union side include the 32nd Indiana Monument, GAR Monument in Covington, Union Monument in Louisville, and the Union Monument in Perryville.</p><br>
<p>File:Union Monument in Vanceburg courthouse.JPGView of monument with courthouse</p><br>
<p>File:Union Monument in Vanceburg markers.JPGVarious signs by the monument</p><br>
<p>File:Union Monument in Vanceburg inscriptions.JPGInscription closeup of the monument</p><br>
<p>File:Union Monument in Vanceburg 2.JPG</p><br>
<p>The Confederate Monument in Crab Orchard in Lincoln County, Kentucky, near Crab Orchard, Kentucky, commemorates the fallen Confederate soldiers of nearby states. Many of those buried here died at the Battle of Wildcat Mountain.</p><br>
<p>The soldiers buried around the monument were from Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, and Texas. Twenty-one in total, they were reinterred atop the Crab Orchard Hill in 1871.</p><br>
<p>The monument itself is a 10 ft tall obelisk made of white marble. The inscriptions mention the home states of the soldiers buried around the obelisk, with the motto Constantes Esque Ad Mortem Animas Perjecere on the north side, and a lengthier passage on the south side reading "Here off duty til the last reveille, rest the Southern soldiers, few in number, who were slain in this and in adjoining counties during the War of Secession. They fell among strangers, unknown, unfriended, yet not unhonored for strangers&#39; hands have gathered their ashes here and placed this shaft above them. That constancy, valor, sacrifice of self, though displaced in fruitless enterprise, may not be unremembered". The monument was deliberately carved to appear draped as by a curtain.</p><br>
<p>On July 17, 1997, the Confederate Monument in Crab Orchard was one of sixty-one different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. Only the Confederate Monument in Cynthiana in Cynthiana, Kentucky has been at the same place longer, with the 32nd Indiana Monument the only other monument in Kentucky older than the two.</p><br>
<p>In June 2007 the monument was again dedicated in a ceremony that included then Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher, the USA Army, Shriners, and a parade.</p><br>
<p>The Battle of Duttons Hill Monument in Pulaski County, Kentucky, near Somerset, Kentucky, commemorates the Confederate soldiers who died at the battle of Duttons Hill.</p><br>
<p>Today the battlefield of Duttons Hill is on private property. It is located about a mile from the intersection of highways 39 and 80. A historical marker is at the entrance to four homes, which are at the forefront of the hill. On July 17, 1997, the Battle of Duttons Hill Monument was one of sixty-one different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. The 6&#39; 2" marble obelisk marks a mass grave of Confederate casualties from the campaign, their names lost to history for 143 years. The inscription on the memorial has been damaged by acid rain and farming. Much of it is illegible today. The inscription reads "Here off duty until the last reveille, lie the southern soldiers, in numbers who were slain in this country during the war of the succession. They fell among strangers, unknown and unfriended. Yet not unhonored; for strangers hands have gathered their ashes here, and placed the shaft above them, that constancy and valor, though displayed in a fruitless enterprise, may not be unremembered."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Battle of Duttons Hill took place on March 30, 1863. It was the culmination of Confederate General John Pegrams expedition into Kentucky. The 9-day foray into the Commonwealth was for the purpose of gathering beef- cattle to feed the Army of Tennessee. Pegram led approximately 1,550 cavalry supported by a three - piece battery of artillery across the Cumberland River at Stigalls Ferry on March 22. Rumors flew as to the actual strength of Pegrams command. While foraging for cattle, Pegram’s cavalry encountered Yankees on March 28 at Hickmans Bridge. Then, narrowly evading the closely following 44th and 45th Regiments Ohio Infantry, they continued to rustle cattle until they had rounded up about 750. Bragg was relying on beef to keep the Army of Tennessee supplied with nourishing food. Pegrams cavalry had herded 537 of the cattle across the Cumberland River when their luck ran out.</p><br>
<p>On March 30, 1863, about 1 miles from Somerset in Pulaski County, Kentucky, Pegrams cavalry was overtaken by a Union force of 1,250 men under the command of Brigadier General Quincy A. Gillmore. Pegram was defeated. Confederate casualty reports of the Battle of Duttons Hill vary wildly, as to killed, wounded, or missing. General Pegram reported a rumor of 80 dead. One Union regiment reported 57 Confederates killed; another only 10.</p><br>
<p>The Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset in Pulaski County, Kentucky, near Nancy, Kentucky, honors the Confederate soldiers who are buried here who died at the Battle of Mill Springs. These soldiers were from Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee, and number over one hundred in total.</p><br>
<p>The monument was built in 1910 by Bennett H. Young, who during the war rode with Confederate general John Hunt Morgan. Young was drawn to the area due to hearing about the nearby Zollie Tree, which was decorated by a local woman each Memorial Day in honor of general Felix K. Zollicoffer, who died at the Battle of Mill Springs. The monument uses the name "Battle of Fishing Creek", as the battle was known by Southerners in 1910. The rectangular slab of limestone is 4 ft by 3 ft, and rest on a 1 ft high slab of concrete.</p><br>
<p>The Zollie Tree, for which both the Confederate Mass Grave Monument and the nearby General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument was constructed, was destroyed by lightning in 1995, although a sapling from it was later planted at the same spot. Both are now in what is called Zollicoffer Park, part of the larger Mill Springs Battlefield.</p><br>
<p>On July 17, 1997, the Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset was one of sixty-one different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. The aforementioned General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument only a few feet away is another of the so-honored monuments. The other monument on the list in Pulaski County is the Battle of Dutton&#39;s Hill Monument north of Somerset, Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>File:Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset 2.jpgCloseup of the monument</p><br>
<p>File:Zollicoffer Park Cemetery.jpgThe burial mounds</p><br>
<p>The General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument in Pulaski County, Kentucky, near Nancy, Kentucky, commemorates the death of Confederate Gen. Felix K. Zollicoffer, who died here at the Battle of Mill Springs. A native of nearby Tennessee, like Robert E. Lee he fought for the Confederacy out of loyalty for his state rather than having interest in the Southern cause. Zollicoffer was killed due to not realizing he was approaching Union lines instead of the Confederate line.</p><br>
<p>The monument was placed in 1910 by Bennett H. Young, who rode with Confederate general John Hunt Morgan. Each Memorial Day a young girl from Nancy named Dorotha Burton decorated a white oak tree in Zollicoffer&#39;s honor. This was the inspiration for placing the monument only a few feet away from the tree. In the 1990s the tree was destroyed by lightning, but a sapling from that tree was put in its place, and is also called the Zollicoffer tree.</p><br>
<p>The monument is an 8 ft tall obelisk made of roughly hewed limestone. The description mentions not only Zollicoffer, but the other Confederates who died during the Battle of Mill Springs.</p><br>
<p>On July 17, 1997, the General Felix K. Zollicoffer Monument was one of sixty-one different monuments related to the Civil War in Kentucky placed on the National Register of Historic Places, as part of the Civil War Monuments of Kentucky Multiple Property Submission. Only a few feet away is another of the so-honored monuments: the Confederate Mass Grave Monument in Somerset. The other monument on the list in Pulaski County is the Battle of Dutton&#39;s Hill Monument north of Somerset, Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Mary in Wedmore, Somerset, England is predominantly from the 15th century, although some 12th- and 13th-century work survives. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The tower, which was built around 1400, with its set-back buttresses, includes triple two-light bell chamber windows; those to the centre are louvred, those to each side blank.</p><br>
<p>There is a wall painting of St Christopher, that dates from the late 15th century or possibly early 16th. This is unusual as few late paintings survived the ravages of the two Cromwells, Thomas and Oliver. The painting also features ships and a mermaid at the feet of the saint, odd additions redolent of the sea rather than a river, which are unique to this otherwise common subject of church painting.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Peter in Huntspill, Somerset, England was established by 1208, rebuilt around 1400, and extended in the early to mid 15th century. It was gutted by fire in 1878 and restored over the next two years. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>Before the Norman Conquest the Christian community at Huntspill was given by Offa of Mercia to Glastonbury Abbey. In the 13th century it was given to Tickford Priory at Newport Pagnell until it was taken under the control of the Bishop of Wells. The church&#39;s original dedication was to All Saints which changed to St Peter around 1872 and then in the 1950s the dedication to St Peter and All Hallows was adopted.</p><br>
<p>The church has a five bay nave and chancel and four stage west tower. The tower holds six beels which date from 1879 when they replaced the previous five the oldest of which was cast in 1693.</p><br>
<p>The church underwent extensive Victorian restoration between 1878 and 1880, following a major fire, which gutted the interior and roof leaving only the stonework still standing.</p><br>
<p>Refurbishment work to glass the lady chapel and the north door during 2011 was delayed when the company carrying out the work went into receivership.</p><br>
<p>The parish is part of the Huntspill and East Huntspill benefice within the Axbridge deanery.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Mary the Virgin in Westonzoyland, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>St Mary’s Parish Church, with its 15th-century carved timber roof, has a link with two conflicts. It served as a prison for around 500 troops after the Battle of Sedgemoor.</p><br>
<p>From 1508 the vicar was Hugh Inge who went on to hold the offices of Bishop of Meath, Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.</p><br>
<p>The four-stage tower, which dates from around 1470, has an embattled parapet with quatrefoil arcading, and set-back buttresses which terminate in pinnacles on the bell-chamber stage. There are six bells in the tower. On the corners of the tower are hunky punks representing dragons.</p><br>
<p>Restoration during the 1930s of the roof was funded by public subscription and carried out by W. D. Caroe.</p><br>
<p>The church contains a corner dedicated to local airmen who lost their lives in 1918 and 1919 and post World War II in the early 1950s. The current clergyman is the Reverend Christopher Keys. The parish is part of the benefice of WestonZoyland with Chedzoy within the Diocese of Bath and Wells.</p><br>
<p>This Siva temple is located close to Tiruppur and is one of the seven Sivastalams in Kongu Nadu. This temple is commonly known as Thirumuruganpondi temple in that area.</p><br>
<h2>Mythology</h2><br>
<p>According to legend, Lord Murugan got Brahamahathi Dosham after killing the demon king Soorapadman in his heroic Surasamharam. To get rid of this dosham, Lord Murugan erected a Shivalingam at this place and worshipped Lord Shiva. Thus the temple is called by his name as Tirumurugapoondi. Durvasar is said to have brought the Mullai tree – the stala vriksham from Karpaka Lokam. It is believed that worshipping the deity at this shetram relieves those with mental ailments.</p><br>
<h2>Temple structure</h2><br>
<p>The temple has come up in about 1 acre with high compound walls on the four sides. This temple is facing west and there is no gopuram in front as in other temples. A large Nandi - visible from a distance substitutes the traditional gopuram in a mandapam situated in front of the shrine. The main Lingam inside the sanctum sanctorum is two and a half feet in height and is facing west. The presiding deity lord shiva is known as Muruga Natheswarar or Skanda Natheswarar and the Ambal mother parvathy is called as Muyangu Poon Mulaiyammai or Aavudainayagi. The shrine for the female deity is situated to the left side of the sanctum sanctorum. To the right side of the sanctum sanctorum, there is a statue for Lord Muruga which is 5 ft in height. The Natarajar&#39;s tandavam here is famous and is attributed as Brahma Tandavam. The stala vriksham is Mullai and the Theertham is called as Subramanya Koopam</p><br>
<h2>Poems on this temple</h2><br>
<p>The thevaram Pathigam about this temple is composed by Sundarar. When sundarar planned to visit this temple, the chera king cheraman perumal nayanar gave lot of goods to this temple for the daily puja. But on the way they lost their wealth to a group of bandits. Sundarar sang a song on the praise of lord shiva and by his grace he got the goods back in the temple compound. There are two images of Sundarar here depicting his state of mind prior to and after the incident.</p><br>
<h2>Festivals</h2><br>
<p>The annual Brahmotsavam falls in the Tamil month of Maasi. Brahma Tandavam is the feature of the 10th day of the festival. Other festivals observed here are Arudra Darisanam in January, Kartikai Deepam in December, Vinayaka Chaturthi in September and Skanda Sashti in November.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>This temple is situated 5 km from Avinasi on the Avinasi - Tiruppur road and it is also 8 km from the tirupur railway junction.</p><br>
<p>Both the Cypress Log Cabin and the Cypress Guest house were sponsored by Southern Cypress Manufacturer’s Association, Jacksonville, Florida. The Cypress Cabin was purchased by the Zimmernam Estate represented by Zimmerman, Saxe and MacBride, Chicago architects. It was planned to move the house to St. Joseph, Michigan, where it was to be a summer home near the Bolton exhibit building of the 1893 Columbian Exposition. The move included the Cabin, Guest House and other landscape elements. That move never happened and Robert Bartlett trucked the Cabin and Guest House to Beverly Shores. Bartlett owned the property until 1942, when sold it to Ida J. Osterburg. The house changed owners several times, until it was purchased by the National Park Service in October 1970, becoming part of Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore.</p><br>
<p>The Cypress Log Cabin was built for the 1933-34 exhibition house to demonstrate the many uses of cypress. The house was built using traditional materials rather than the experimental materials used elsewhere in the exhibition. During both seasons of the fair, Mr. and Mrs. B.R. Ellis from the Southern Cypress Association lived in the ell of the house.</p><br>
<h2>Century of Progress</h2><br>
<p>The Guest House was added to the Home and Industrial Arts Group for the 1934 exposition year. It was used as a display building showing historic uses of cypress, such as a 150-year-old Seminole Indian canoe, 200-year-old Spanish prison stock and a 120-year-old French water main from New Orleans. The Guest House was one of several changes in the Home and Industrial Arts Group landscape for the 1934 season.</p><br>
<h2>Move to Indiana</h2><br>
<p>In the winter and spring of 1934, sixteen buildings barged and trucked to Robert Bartlett&#39;s subdivision at Beverly Shores, Indiana. In an attempt to capitalize on the fairs success, Bartlett reestablished a small exhibition of model houses along Lake Front Drive in Beverly Shores. Depression-era America had responded the Chicago Century of Progress exhibition and Bartlett hoped to transfer that positive interest to his development.</p><br>
<p>The Cypress Log Cabin was moved to Lake Front Drive in Beverly Shores along with four other houses from the Home and Industrial Arts Group. The exhibition site had been landscaped by the James W. Owen Nurseries. Robert Bartlett planned "to reconstruct and landscape them for sale exactly as they were on the Fair grounds." Bartlett neither replicated the fair landscape nor did adapted individual themes for each house. The by grouping the house along Lake Front Drive, Bartlett managed to recreate a sense of an "exhibition group". Three of the exhibition homes were lined up on the south side of Lake Front atop a dune. A retaining wall was created to run the length of Lake Front from the Armco-Ferro House, past the House of Tomorrow to the Cypress Log Cabin. A flight of twenty-seven stairs in front of each house leads to the yard in front of each house with a walkway connecting all three.</p><br>
<h2>Log Cabin</h2><br>
<p>The house is an intentionally rustic mountain cabin set in a picturesque, asymmetrical landscape.</p><br>
<p>In contrast to many of the model houses that featured modern building materials, the Cypress House was intended to exhibit the diverse possibilities for building with a traditional material. The house was meant to be a display space rather than a model home arranged to look as if someone lived there. Ironically, the Cypress House was the only building in the Home and Industrial Arts group that actually served as a home; the ell was occupied for both seasons by the house&#39;s sponsor and his wife.</p><br>
<p>The Cypress House had a complex landscape scheme formed from an assemblage of fences, arbors, bridges and decorated cypress knees used to create a mountain lodge atmosphere. For the 1933 season of the fair, the only major outbuilding was a greenhouse built by Lord & Burnham. For the 1934 season, the Southern Cypress Association applied for additional land in the former Dahlia Garden to construct a second greenhouse by Lord & Burnham&#39;s main competitor, the American Moninger Company. This request was denied and the most of the Dahlia Garden land was given to the Kohler company. The Lord & Burnham greenhouse was removed for the 1934 season and a new building was built that extended slightly into the Dahlia Garden. This may have been the Guest House, then functioning as a cypress workshop.</p><br>
<h2>Guest House</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>Characterized as a rustic style mountain lodge, the house is 87 by on concrete footings. The walls are made of pecky cypress log siding. The building is of frame construction with log and ship-lap siding. Porches were added when the buildings were moved to Beverly Shores.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The house is a long narrow, single room width rectangle. The living spaces are arranged in a symmetrical pattern around of a central living space. Entering the central living space from the north, the kitchen is to the right or east with a bedroom beyond it. To the left or west are two bedrooms and a bathroom. At the far west end of the structure is a utility room accessible only from the outside</p><br>
<h2>Restoration efforts</h2><br>
<p>Restoration efforts on the Cyprus Log Cabin were started in 1997. The home is now fully restored and occupied by long-term renters who obtained a 30-year lease from the park service in exchange for restoration and maintenance of the home.</p><br>
<p>The USA Department of Agriculture South Building is an office building located at 14th Street and Independence Avenue, Southwest, Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was built beginning in 1930, to house the expanded offices of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Construction was completed on the USA Department of Agriculture Administration Building to the north of Independence Avenue in 1930, but Depression-era agriculture programs demanded far more office space than the main building could provide. The phased construction was completed in 1936. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Completed in 1936, the South Building was the largest office building in the world until the completion of the Pentagon, with dimensions of 458 ft by 944 ft in seven stories with 4500 rooms. The building&#39;s design is credited to Louis A. Simon of the Federal Office of the Supervising Architect. The South Building was joined to the Administration Building by two enclosed pedestrian bridges spanning Independence Avenue, thus consolidating USDA operations into one complex. The new building contained laboratory space as well as offices. It was originally referred to as the "Extensible Building", which could be expanded in a phased fashion.</p><br>
<p>The architecture of the South Building is a stripped-down example of Classicism, with plain detailing that borrows from Classical form and proportion without using a great deal of expensive and time-consuming detail. The style became popular for government buildings until the advent of the Modern style in government architecture, reaching its apex at the Pentagon. In the case of the South Building, the lesser level of detail indicated its subordinate position vis-à-vis the Administration Building. The interior is based on a rigidly-enforced network of corridors; only the departmental auditorium and library deviate from the corridor grid. Interiors are even more plain than the exterior.</p><br>
<p>The building is arranged in seven north-south wings, connected at the ends by the Headhouse (facing Independence Avenue) and Tailhouse (facing C Street).</p><br>
<p>Since the relocation of laboratory space to the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, the South Building has been occupied exclusively by offices.</p><br>
<p>Halifax County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse located at Halifax, Halifax County, North Carolina. It was designed by architects Wheeler & Stern and built in 1909-1910. It is a three-story, tan brick, Classical Revival style building. It has a tetrastyle Corinthian order portico flanked by two-story flat roofed wings and a two-stage cupola atop a shallow mansard roof.</p><br>
<p>The first Halifax county courthouse was built in 1759. In 1847, the first courthouse was replaced by a second, which itself was replaced in 1910 by a third courthouse erected on the site of the second courthouse. The 1910 courthouse was the present courthouse in 1938, the same year the famed 1938 photo of the drinking fountain on the county courthouse lawn was taken. A stone marker presently stands on the courthouse lawn where the photographed drinking fountain resided.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Hukou Waterfall , is the largest waterfall on the Yellow River, China, the second largest waterfall in China , and the world&#39;s largest yellow waterfall. It is located at the intersection of Shanxi Province and Shaanxi Province, 165 km to the west of Fenxi City, and 50 km to the east of Yichuan where the middle reaches of the Yellow River flow through Jinxia Grand Canyon. The width of the waterfall changes with the season, usually 30 m wide but increasing to 50 m during flood season. It has a height of over 20 m. When the Yellow River approaches the Hukou Mountain, blocked by mountains on both sides, its width is abruptly narrowed down to 20 m - 30 m. The water&#39;s velocity increases, and then plunges over a narrow opening on a cliff, forming a waterfall 15 m high and 20 m wide, as if water were pouring down from a huge teapot. Hence it gets the name Hukou  Waterfall.</p><br>
<p>Just below the waterfall, there is a shining stone called guishi (鬼石). What makes the stone mysterious is that it moves up and down according to the water level. No matter how large the water volume, it is still at least partly visible.</p><br>
<p>In the middle of the river, about 3,000 m from the Hukou Waterfall, an enormous rock catches the attention of visitors. When the Yellow River flows to this point, divides into two, rolling and roaring on and on from both sides of the rock before reconverging.</p><br>
<p>Beneath the waterfall is the Qilangwo Bridge which connects the two provinces of Shanxi and Shaanxi. In the sunshine, the mist is refracted by sunlight to create a rainbow spanning the water like a colorful bridge. In 1991, Hukou Waterfall was named one of the "40 Best" national scenic spots.</p><br>
<p>Due to its awkward location in the Loess Plateau hinterlands, Hukou was once very difficult to access. After the local government improved transport and tourist facilities, the number of tourists rose from 20,000 in 1994 to 47,000 in 1995. The figure for 1996 reached 100,000 tourists.</p><br>
<p>can be seen on the older fourth series of the renminbi 50 RMB banknote.</p><br>
<p>The Church of St Mary in Berrow, Somerset, England dates from the 13th century and was restored in the 19th. It has been designated as a grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The church is built of limestone from the Mendip Hills with Hamstone for the decoration. The south aisle is from the 15th century but was remodeled during the Victorian era.</p><br>
<p>The two-stage tower, which dates from the 15th century, contains a bell dating from 1801 and made by Thomas and James Bilbie of the Bilbie family, along with four other bells. It can be seen from the sea and was once painted white to act as a lighthouse.</p><br>
<p>The interior includes 14th and 15th century fonts.</p><br>
<p>The Anglican parish is part of the Berrow and Brean benefice within the archdeaconry of Wells.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Lee House is a historic house at the junction of Giant&#39;s Neck Road and Connecticut Route 156 in the Niantic section of East Lyme, Connecticut. It was constructed between 1660 and 1664 by Thomas Lee II. It is one of the oldest wood frame houses in Connecticut and still in its primitive state. The original dwelling consisted of a post-and-beam timber frame erected on six 2-story wall posts, with the Judgment Hall below and the Chamber above. A steeply pitched roof covered a spacious attic over the chamber. A small, stone-walled partial cellar pit under part of the hall was reached through a trap door. A massive fireplace with timber lintel spanned most of the west wall. Around 1700, the West Parlor and West Chamber were added as a free standing structure framed on its own four corner posts. About 1765, the lean-to with the Kitchen and its adjoining rooms were added. The West Parlor was plastered, the summer beam and chimney girt were sheathed, and the paneling formerly on the plastered walls was reused in the lean-to. New paneling, with four flute pilasters was added on the fireplace wall.</p><br>
<p>Today the house is a historic house museum operated by the East Lyme Historical Society, and furnished as it would have been in the 18th century.</p><br>
<p>The Trenta Valley  is a valley in the Julian Alps in the northern part of the traditional Gorizia region  of Slovenia.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The source of the Soča River and the settlements of Soča, Lepena, and Trenta are located in the Trenta Valley. The Vršič Pass connects the valley with Upper Carniola to the east. The Soča flows generally southwest through the valley and then onwards to Bovec.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The name Trenta is of Friulian origin and was borrowed into Slovene. The name developed from *Tridenta, meaning &#39;three-tooth&#39; or &#39;divided into three teeth&#39;. This reflects the geography because the valley splits into the Soča and Zadnjica valleys, and the latter is soon split again by White Creek (Beli Potok), creating three closely spaced summits.</p><br>
<p>The Smith Tobacco Barn is a flue-cured tobacco barn in Dillon County, South Carolina. It is on the east side of a dirt road, 0.25 mi south of South Carolina State Highway 17-34, 0.5 mi north of South Carolina State Highway 17-155, and about 1 mi east of the intersection of South Carolina State Highway 17-22 and South Carolina State Highway 155. It was named to the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bright tobacco was introduced in South Carolina in the 1880s and 1890s. This grows well in the sandy, loamy soils of the Pee Dee and is flue-cured. The traditional barns had one or two fireboxes using wood or coal. In the 1950s, many barns were changed to gas or oil heat for better temperature regulation.</p><br>
<p>Tobacco leaves were strung onto tobacco poles that were laid across horizontal tier poles in the barn. There were three drying stages. The first stage at 95 &deg;F to 110 &deg;F yellowed the leaves. In the second stage, the temperature was raised to 130 &deg;F to 135 &deg;F to dry the leaves. The final stage was at 160 &deg;F to 170 &deg;F to dry the stems.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The barn is rectangular with a metal gable roof and a brick foundation. The walls up to the eaves are sawn timber. The timbers are notched at the corners and have mortar chinking. The gable ends are covered with horizontal weatherboarding. There are small rectangular doors in the gables that can be opened for ventilation. On the south and east sides, there are metal shed roofs supported by posts. These sheds provided shade for stringing leaves. The east and west sides have small doors at ground level. The name "J. L. King" and the date "1942" are scratched into the chinking. The barn was divided into five "rooms" or "bents" by wooden tier poles.</p><br>
<p>On the south end, there is a brick, double-arched firebox that has been bricked in. the fuel was later changed to gas.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its nomination, it was said to be no longer used as a tobacco barn, but was considered the most intact tobacco barn in Dillon and Marion counties built between 1895 and the 1950s. It was also described as an "extremely fragile resource."</p><br>
