<p>The Jintotolo Channel  is the body of water that connects the Sibuyan Sea with the Visayan Sea. It is located between the Philippine islands of Panay and Masbate, and is an important shipping route to and from the Central Visayas.</p><br>
<p>Jintotolo Island (2010 population of 1,454) and the 3 small islets of the Zapatos Islands (2010 population of 585) lie in the middle of the channel. These islands fall under the jurisdiction of the Municipality of Balud, Masbate.</p><br>
<p>The channel is marked by a lighthouse on Jintotolo Island. The 15.5 m lighthouse was built in 1890s and has a focal plane of 57 m with 3 white flashes every 10 seconds.</p><br>
<p>The wrecks of the Japanese cruiser Kinu and destroyer Uranami lie on the bottom of the channel.</p><br>
<p>San Pedro Springs Park is located in the Bexar County city of San Antonio in the USA state of Texas. Surrounding the source of the springs, the 46-acre park is the oldest in the state of Texas. It is the location of a Payaya Indian village known as Yanaguana,</p><br>
<p>It is the second oldest city park in the United States after Boston Common.</p><br>
<h2>History, first European contact, founding of San Antonio</h2><br>
<p>Archaeological findings have uncovered evidence that human presence in the area dates back 12,000 years. Martín de Alarcón founded the city of San Antonio by establishing San Antonio de Valero and Presidio San Antonio de Bexar at the Springs in 1718. When the Canary Islanders began arriving in 1731, they first camped in this area.</p><br>
<h2>The park</h2><br>
<p>Based on the original Spanish land grant, the city of San Antonios first surveyor Francois P. Giraud defined the parks boundaries in 1851. The city officially declared it a public park in 1852, making it the oldest park in the state of Texas. In 1860, Sam Houston stopped here to deliver a two-hour speech opposing the proposed Texas secession from the United States. During the Civil War the park was used as a prisoner of war camp. After the Civil War, Buffalo Soldiers used the park as a training camp.</p><br>
<p>Swiss landscape designer John J. Duerler leased land adjacent to the park, and reached an 1864 agreement with the city to redesign the park. Duerler developed the park with landscaping, a garden, picnic areas, a zoo and aviary, a music pavilion, and even a racetrack. Naturalist Gustave Jermy opened the Museum of Natural History in the park in 1885. The park suffered in 1891 when wells dug into the Edwards Aquifer dwindled the parks water supply. Between 1897 and 1899, the park was renovated under the direction of Mayor Bryan Callaghan. Beginning just before World War II, the water needs of a burgeoning population once again decreased water levels, drying up the springs for the next 35 years. When excessive rainfalls during the 1990s replenished the parks water supply, the public once again became interested in the park.</p><br>
<p>Park facilities include a gazebo, swimming pool, restrooms, softball and tennis areas, a playground, a skate plaza, the San Pedro Library, and the San Pedro Playhouse</p><br>
<p>Castle House is a house in Bridgwater, Somerset, England. Built in 1851 to resemble a Tudor gatehouse, the construction uses panels of prefabricated concrete, with significant further usage of concrete throughout the building.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1851 for William Ackerman. Much of the building is made of brick but it was one of the first buildings to make extensive use of Portland cement for pre-cast concrete. The house is two storeys high and designed to look like an ornate Tudor gatehouse. Bays to the sides of the building form stairwells. The building includes many ornamental, and some structural uses of concrete demonstrating "an innovative interpretation of traditional masonry features in concrete".</p><br>
<p>It was designated as a Grade II* listed building on 16 December 1974. Inside, the building includes more concrete features, such as the staircase, the handrails and the window frames.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation</h2><br>
<p>Castle House was a finalist in the 2nd BBC television series Restoration in 2004 and was supported by friends of Joe Strummer.</p><br>
<p>It is included in the Heritage at Risk Register produced by English Heritage, and English Heritage provided funding for the restoration project.</p><br>
<p>In 2012 a grant of £300,000 was made by NNB Generation Company (part of Électricité de France) as part of monies paid to the local community for the development of Hinkley Point C nuclear power station to the SAVE Trust for the restoration of Castle House. It is planned to transfer the building to the Bridgwater carnival once restoration is complete.</p><br>
<p>The Shan Hills , also known as Shan Highland, is a vast mountainous zone that extends through Yunnan to Myanmar and Thailand. The whole region is made up of numerous mountain ranges separated mostly by narrow valleys as well as a few broader intermontane basins. The ranges in the area are aligned in such a way that they link to the foothills of the Himalayas further to the northwest.</p><br>
<p>The highest point is Loi Leng, at 2,673 m high. Other peaks are 2,565 m Mong Ling Shan, 2,565 m Doi Inthanon and 2,563 m Loi Pangnao. All are ultra prominent peaks of Southeast Asia.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The name of the massif or system of ranges, is derived from the Shan State and its peoples, said in its turn to be derived from the word "Siam", that occupies most of the Shan Highland area.</p><br>
<p>Since it was relatively unexplored until recent times, the Shan mountainous region was referred to as the "Shan Plateau" in geographic works of the British colonial period, a name that is still sometimes used. However, since the whole area lacks the expanses of relatively flat high terrain which are the main characteristic of a plateau, this label is rather incongruous.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Geologically in the Shan Hills and their southern subranges, layers of alluvium are superimposed on hard rock. Karstic ranges are common, for large tracts of the hills are limestone. The Shan Hills are an important silver and ruby mining area.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The area of the Shan Highland is a combination of hill ranges, steep river valleys and a few elevated plains, also known as the Shan Plateau. The area is the primary source of Myanmar&#39;s sapphires, rubies and other gems, for which the country is famous; it is also a principal source of lead, silver and zinc. The high plain averages about 1,000 m in elevation, and is sparsely populated.</p><br>
<p>The Shan Hills straddle central eastern Myanmar and northwestern Thailand. They rise steeply from Myanmars central plain and stretch for hundreds of kilometres eastwards into Thailands northwest. The average elevation is around 1,000 m. The surface of the system is cut across by steep river gorges, part of the drainage basins of the Chao Phraya, the Irrawaddy, the Sittaung and the Salween or Thanlwin River which cuts across the plateau in a north/south direction.</p><br>
<h3>Subranges</h3><br>
<p>Daen Lao Range. The Daen Lao Range (ทิวเขาแดนลาว) or Loi La Range range is located in the southern and southeastern area of the Shan Hills. It separates the Salween watershed from the Mekong watershed. The Daen Lao Mountain Range begins at Chiang Saen in the east and Doi Chiang Dao (2,175 m) is one of its highest points. The Daen Lao subrange includes Doi Nang Non (The Sleeping Lady), a karstic formation at its southern end with waterfalls and caves.</p><br>
<p>Karen Hills. The western end of the Shan Hills system is not clearly defined, with the Karen Hills in the southwestern area of the system beyond the Salween. Geographically the Karen Hills are the southwestern projection of the Shan Hills. They are also referred to as "Kayah-Karen Mountains".</p><br>
<p>Thanon Thong Chai Range. The Thanon Thong Chai Range (เทือกเขาถนนธงชัย) is the southernmost prolongation of the Shan Highland system. Southwards from the Daen Lao Range a series of mountain ranges extend in near-parallel fashion above the Shan Plateau rising up to heights of 2,500 m, with the Dawna Range in the west reaching the beginning of the Tenasserim Hills further south. Doi Inthanon, the highest point in Thailand, reaching 2,565 m (8,415 ft), is part of the Inthanon Range (ทิวเขาอินทนนท์), a high ridge of the Thanon Thong Chai subrange located in Chiang Mai Province. The tallest point of the Thanon Thong Chai Range in neighboring Mae Hong Son Province is Doi Mae Ya (ยอดเขาแม่ยะ) (2,005 m), located on the western side of these mountains in Pai District. Other high peaks of this range are Doi Pui (1,685 m) and Doi Suthep (1,676 m). Some geographers include the Thanon Thong Chai Range subsystem as part of the Daen Lao Range.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In British colonial times, the main hill station in Burma, Pyin Oo Lwin known in English as Maymyo, was built in the western region of the Shan Hills. At 1,000 m above sea level and about one-and a half hour drive from Mandalay, it was one of the retreats for colonial officials escaping the heat of the Burmese summer. Pyin Oo Lwin is still known for its botanical gardens and, like all British hill stations, has samples of colonial architecture. Presently Inle Lake near Yawnghwe is one of the tourist attractions of the Shan highlands.</p><br>
<p>The Taunggyi Bird Sanctuary, established in 1906 as the Taunggyi Wildlife Reserve was redesignated as a bird sanctuary in</p><br>
<p>1989.</p><br>
<p>Owing to the insurgency and the activity of the Tatmadaw in the area many local people living in the mountainous areas of the Shan Hills moved across the border to Thailand where they live in refugee camps.</p><br>
<p>Despite the ongoing insurgency, the Shan Hills is the area of Burma which accounts for most of the national potato production.</p><br>
<p>On 24 March 2011 a magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck in Tarlay, Tachileik Township, in the Daen Lao range area on the eastern part of the hill system. It killed more than 70 and injured more than 100 people. Three hundred-ninety houses, 14 Buddhist monasteries and nine government buildings were damaged.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the early 19th century, when European ships first began visiting the area, the Ngāpuhi chief Te Pahi had a pā at Rangihoua. After his death in 1810 he was succeeded as chief by Ruatara. It was the friendship of Te Pahi and Ruatara with Samuel Marsden that led Marsden to decide that Rangihoua would be the site of the first Christian mission in New Zealand. Prior to the establishment of the mission Ruatara had been the first to grow wheat in New Zealand, at Rangihoua in 1812.</p><br>
<p>The missionaries, John King, Thomas Kendall, and William Hall, together with free settler Thomas Hansen, arrived in Rangihoua Bay on board the brig Active on 22 December 1814.The first Christian sermon on New Zealand was preached by Marsden at Oihi Bay (a small cove in the north-east of Rangihoua Bay) on Christmas Day, 1814. On 24 February 1815 Marsden purchased land at Rangihoua for the first New Zealand mission.</p><br>
<p>The death of Ruatara on 15 March 1815 and the loss of his protection for the mission may have contributed to a lack of growth of European settlement in the area and its subsequent displacement, in the 1820s, by the mission at Kerikeri as the senior mission in New Zealand. By the 1830s the houses of the mission at Oihi had deteriorated considerably and the mission was moved to Te Puna, further to the west in Rangihoua Bay. The mission finally closed in the 1850s.</p><br>
<p>On 21 December 2014 the Rangihoua Heritage Park was opened to commemorate the bicentennial of the establishment of the mission.</p><br>
<p>Tenasserim Hills or Tenasserim Range  is the geographical name of a roughly 1,700 km long mountain chain, part of the Indo-Malayan mountain system in Southeast Asia.</p><br>
<p>Despite their relatively scant altitude these mountains form an effective barrier between Thailand and Burma in their northern and central region. There are only two main transnational roads and cross-border points between Chumphon and Tak, at the Three Pagodas Pass and at Mae Sot. The latter is located beyond the northern end of the range, where the Tenasserim Hills meet the Dawna Range. Minor cross-border points are Sing Khon, near Prachuap Khiri Khan, as well as Bong Ti and Phu Nam Ron west of Kanchanaburi. The latter is expected to gain in importance if the planned Dawei deepwater port project goes ahead, along with a highway and a railway line between Bangkok and that harbor.</p><br>
<p>The southern section of this extensive chain of mountains runs along the Kra Isthmus into the Malay peninsula almost reaching Singapore. Many rivers have their source in these mountains, but none of them are very long.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>This mountain chain is named after the Tenasserim Region (Tanintharyi) in Burma and its name in Thai is Thio Khao Tanaosi, also spelt as Tanawsri, Tanao Sri, Tanaw Sri or in Malay as Tanah Seri.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Tenasserim Hills are part of a long granite mountain ridge that is older than the Himalayas.</p><br>
<p>Further south from the 16th parallel, the Shan Hills break up into narrow steep-sided ranges, the Dawna Range in the west and, parallel to it at the southern end, the peninsular Tenasserim Mountains that extend southwards along the Kra Isthmus.</p><br>
<p>Eastwards, in Kanchanaburi Province on the Thai side, the mountain range is crossed by the Khwae Yai River and the Khwae Noi River. In this area small hill ridges alternate with narrow valleys that are often only about 2 km wide and further east there are only isolated hills, where the range ends in the Central Plain of Thailand. Further south the Phachi, the Pranburi and the Phetchaburi River flow eastwards from the range towards the Gulf of Siam.</p><br>
<p>The westernmost range is separated from the Tenasserim coast by the Three Pagodas Fault. West of it lie the Dawna Range, the Karen Hills and the valleys of the Salween and the Gyaing. Southwards on the western side, the Ye, Heinze, Dawei (Tavoy), Great Tenasserim (Tanintharyi) and the Lenya rivers are relatively short and flow into the Andaman Sea. Further south the Kraburi River forms the southern border between Thailand and Burma.</p><br>
<h3>Sections</h3><br>
<p>Northern: The northern end of the range overlaps with the Dawna Range and is not clearly defined. Some geographic works set the Three Pagodas Pass as the northern limit. The Tenghyo Range is a small northern prolongation following the Andaman Sea coast. The highest points in the northern section of the range are in the Bilauktaung subrange in Myanmar, where 2,072 m high Myinmoletkat Taung is the highest point of the northern section of the Tenasserim range, and with a prominence of 1,857 m one of the ultra prominent peaks of Southeast Asia as well. Other noteworthy peaks are Ngayannik Yuak Taung 1,531 m and Palan Taung 1,455 m. The average elevations of the Tenasserim Hills are higher on the Burmese side, with many mountain peaks reaching 1,000 m, while on the Thai side the highest summits remain around 600 m save few exceptions.</p><br>
<p>Central: The southernmost extension of the Bilauktaung reaches the northern end of the Kra Isthmus. Further south the 1,835 m high Khao Luang (เขาหลวง), located in Nakhon Si Thammarat Province, is the tallest mountain in Southern Thailand. In this area the wider range is divided into separate ridges with gaps between them. Some recent geographical works refer to the sections of the Tenasserim Hills in the isthmus as the "Phuket Range" and the "Nakhon Si Thammarat Range". These names are not found, however, in classical geographic sources.</p><br>
<p>Southern: The Titiwangsa Mountains form the southern section of the mountain system. The northern part is known as the Sankalakhiri Range, formed by the smaller Pattani, Songkhla and Taluban subranges. The main range runs approximately from northwest to southeast across the border into the Malay peninsula and forms the backbone of the Malay highlands in the state of Kelantan of Malaysia. Foothills extend further southeastwards into Johor, where 1,276 m high Mount Ophir is located. The 2,187 m high Mount Tahan (Gunung Tahan) and the 2,183 m high Mount Korbu (Gunung Korbu) are the highest summits of this stretch and of the whole Tenasserim Range.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>Great extensions of these hills are covered with dense tropical evergreen forest. Usually the western slopes are more densely forested than the eastern for they receive more abundant monsoon rains. These forests form the Tenasserim-South Thailand semi-evergreen rain forests, which together with the Kayah-Karen montane rain forests are part of the Kayah-Karen/Tenasserim moist forests ecoregion which is included in the Global 200 list of ecoregions identified by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as priorities for conservation. The western slopes reach down to sea level, where there are wide areas covered with mangroves.</p><br>
<p>The Tenasserim Hills form the habitat for a number of endangered species, including the Gurney&#39;s pitta, endemic to Thailand and Burma, as well as the Asian elephant and tiger. The Sumatran rhinoceros has been reported in the northern section of the wider range. There are records from the north of Tenasserim proper, where there were numerous reports in 1962, to Kota Tinggi in the south where a rhino was captured in 1994 The Endau-Rompin National Park in Malaysia has the largest remaining Sumatran rhinoceros population in the range.</p><br>
<p>Other species include the sambar deer, barking deer, serow, red goral, leopard, Kitti&#39;s hog-nosed bat, the Tenasserim white-bellied rat and the Tenasserim lutung, as well as a number of bird species. Among the fishes in the streams and rivulets of the range the emperor loach and the Tenasserim garra deserve mention.</p><br>
<p>The Tanintharyi National Park and the Tanintharyi Nature Reserve were established in 2005, and the Lenya National Park was proposed in 2002 and 2004, on the Burmese side in order to implement habitat conservation, but illegal logging driven by greed and corruption is an ongoing problem on both sides of the border. On the Thai side the Kaeng Krachan National Park was demarcated already in 1981, covering parts of the districts of Nong Ya Plong, Kaeng Krachan and Tha Yang of Phetchaburi Province, and of Hua Hin of Prachuap Khiri Khan Province. The Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park is located in the Khao Sam Roi Yot limestone mountains, a coastal offshoot of the main Tenasserim range and Nam Tok Huay Yang National Park is another park in Prachuap Khiri Khan Province that is located on the Thai side by the border area between 100 and 1200 metres above sea level. In Malaysia the main protected areas in the range area are Endau-Rompin National Park, Gunung Ledang National Park, Taman Negara and Selangor State Park.</p><br>
<p>The killing of wild elephants is a big problem at Kaeng Krachan National Park, with the authorities being unable to control the poachers.</p><br>
<p>Some park officials are allegedly involved in the trade of elephant parts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>This range forms a natural border between Burma and Thailand, but it was crossed in 1759 by Burmese troops led by Alaungpaya and his son Hsinbyushin during the Burmese–Siamese War (1759–1760). The Burmese battle plan was to go around the heavily defended Siamese positions along shorter, more direct invasion routes. The invasion force overran relatively thin Siamese defenses in the coast, crossed the Tenasserim Hills to the shore of the Gulf of Siam, and turned north towards Ayutthaya.</p><br>
<p>In January 1942, at the beginning of the Japanese conquest of Burma, the main body of the Japanese 33d Division began the main attack towards Rangoon westward from Thailand across the Kawkareik Pass in the Tenasserim Range. A road was cut across the mountains by Japanese military engineers, but many infantry units crossed the range on foot in an arduous march through the forests and cliffs. This road was impracticable during the rainy season, when mud and rivulets made advance difficult for the Japanese Infantry and leeches abounded.</p><br>
<p>Between 1942 and 1943, during the construction of the Burma Railway between Bangkok and Yangon, Hellfire Pass in the Tenasserim Range was a particularly difficult section of the line to build. It was the largest rock cutting on the railway, also known as the "Death Railway", coupled with its general remoteness and the lack of proper construction tools during building. The Australian, British, Dutch, other allied prisoners of war, along with Chinese, Malay and Tamil labourers, were required by the Japanese to complete the cutting of the stretch. 69 men were beaten to death by Japanese and Korean guards in the six weeks it took to build the railway pass, and many more died from cholera, dysentery, starvation, and exhaustion (Wigmore 568).</p><br>
<p>On 19 July 2011, a Royal Thai Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in these mountains, killing 9. The chopper had been sent out to recover five bodies of victims of another helicopter crash involving a Bell UH-1 Iroquois, that had occurred two days earlier while looking for illegal loggers in Kaeng Krachan National Park near the Burmese border west of Phetchaburi. The Black Hawk helicopter crashed near 978 m high Yage Taung mountain in the Tanintharyi National Park zone in Burma, close to the border with Thailand.</p><br>
<p>A third helicopter, a Bell 212, also crashed in the same area on Sunday, 25 July a few miles further east close to the Kaeng Krachan Reservoir. Superstitious people blamed the three consecutive crashes on the fact that, according to Thai folklore, the densely forested mountains of the Tenasserim Range have strong guardian spirits.</p><br>
<p>Bilauktaung is a subrange of the Tenasserim Hills. It is located in Burma on the border with Thailand. It extends from the Dawna Range for about 400 km along the frontier area to the Kra Isthmus.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Bilauktaung includes Myinmoletkat Taung 2,072 m, the highest point of the northern section of the Tenasserim range, and, with a prominence of 1,857 m, one of the ultra prominent peaks of Southeast Asia. Other peaks are 1,531 m high Ngayanni Kyauk Taung, 1,455 m high Palan Taung and 992 m high Baulu Taung, among other similarly high summits.</p><br>
<p>The whole Bilauktaung is sparsely inhabited and covered with thick tropical rain forest. Usually the western mountainsides are more heavily forested than the eastern for they receive heavier monsoon rains.</p><br>
<p>Cow Corner is the north-western end of Worbarrow Bay, a small secluded bay on the south coast of the Isle of Purbeck, in Dorset England.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Worbarrow Bay and Cow Corner are located about six kilometres south of Wareham und about 16 kilometres west of Swanage. The bay lies directly south of the ghost village of Tyneham. Access to Cow Corner is only possible on foot when the Lulworth army firing ranges are open to the public, either from Tyneham, or alternatively via the South West Coast Path.</p><br>
<h2>Jurassic Coast</h2><br>
<p>The Jurassic Coast is a World Heritage Site. The coastal exposures along the Jurassic coastline provide a continuous sequence of Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous rock formations spanning approximately 185 million years of the Earths history. The rocks along the Jurassic Coast dip gently to the east. Due to this tilting and due to erosion the oldest exposed rocks are found in the west. The younger Cretaceous rocks form the cliffs here in the east. Cow Corner and Worbarrow Bay are part of the Jurassic Coast.</p><br>
<p>For further Jurassic sites see: List of places on the Jurassic Coast</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The geology of the Isle of Purbeck is very complex and this is shown very clearly along this stretch of coast. The northern side of Worbarrow Bay is mainly Upper and Middle Chalk. This is subject to frequent landslides because of the unstable underlying Gault Clay. At the top of the cliffs is the Iron Age hill fort on Flowers Barrow, which is threatened by erosion on its seaward side. The Flowers Barrow ridge forms the western end of the ridge which runs all the way to Ballard Point north of Swanage. The Chalk cliffs become lower to the west of Cow Corner and just beyond they form a knife-edge ridge that drops down to the little Bay of Arish Mell, where a stream has cut a gap in the Cretaceous hills.</p><br>
<p>The steep angular layers of rock are clearly visible in the cliffs of the bay. They reveal complex sedimentary folding, that deranged the geology of this neighbourhood about 30 million years ago, caused by the tectonic pressures as the African and European continents collided. The rock sediments were twisted horizontally and this is why the Chalks that are between 85 and 145 million years old are found at the rear of the bay.</p><br>
<p>The sediments that form Mupe Ledges and Worbarrow Tout are the 150-million-year-old Portland Limestones and the 147-million-year-old Purbeck Beds.</p><br>
<p>Mavranaioi  is a village and a community of the Grevena municipality. The 2011 census recorded 159 residents in the village and 289 residents in the community.</p><br>
<h2>Administrative division</h2><br>
<p>The community of Mavranaioi consists of three separate settlements:</p><br>
<p>Mavranaioi (population 159)</p><br>
<p>Mavronoros (population 78)</p><br>
<p>Stavros (population 52)</p><br>
<p>The aforementioned population figures are as of 2011.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From Mavranaious came the Abbot of the Monis Spilaion. Said to have named the Turkish occupation, when the Turks took the children of the village and made janissaries and residents commiserating these, named them "black youth" (i.e. the hapless youth).</p><br>
<p>Much interest is the central church, which is dedicated to St. Dimitrios. The temple bears the date of incorporation (1818), and save icons, icons and relics. Few images are preserved in the chapel of St. Athanasius and St. Kitts. According to oral tradition, the chapel of the Virgin was built in memory of his mother a janissary, who financed the construction. Burned by the Germans and rebuilt in 1960. Paliomonastiro in position, close to Notre Mavranaioi, were columns, mosaics and fragments of clay pots. Mavronoros found in the church of St. Theodore (1806) with frescoes from the 19th century. and the church of Agia Kyriaki (1704), the oldest church of Grevena, now on maintenance and restoration is well maintained, even in Mavronoros and 3 km south east, is the chapel of Trinity, formerly monastery.</p><br>
<p>Important churches Cross of the Assumption (1890) 500 MD of the village of Agios Nikolaos, Monemvasia with the stone fountain. Other such taps is "Tsekliza" and "Ekklisias Pigadi" in Mavranaioi and "Kara Pigadi" in Mavronoros. The Community Cultural Associations organized by the revival of the traditions of the Light of Rogkatsarion carnival and events with dancing and celebrations center on Christmas and Carnival.</p><br>
<p>The Easter dance of the chapels in Easter songs, while Sunday after Easter is repeated in Agia Triada and the Mavronoros Ag.Pnefmatos in the village. The biggest festival of Mafranaion takes place the night of August, with high jinks in the courtyard of the Community Office, accompanied by traditional musical instruments and the participation of many visitors.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Mavranaioi is the first village on the road to the ski resort Vassilitsa at an altitude of 770 m, located about 13 km from Grevena and 19 km from Avdella. Remarkable natural monument area is the river Venetikos, which is accessible by paved road south-south east. Mavranaioi of which leads to Pigaditsa. Also south east of Mavranaioi constructed geofragma where formed beautiful lake, about 15 m deep. Suitable for hiking and recreation are the peaks of the region "Tabouri-Glykomeli (920 m) between Mavranaioi-Stauros," Emorfi-Rahi (850 m) 3.5 km south and "Antan" (850 m) 2.5 km south of Mavronoros. Forest oak and black pine covers portions of Mavranaioi. The location "Perdika" between Mavranaioi and Mavronoros, rumored that took its name from the namesake of general Philip.</p><br>
<p>Juniper Island is a 13 acre island in Lake Champlain, approximately 3.15 miles southwest of Burlington, Vermont&#39;s King Street Ferry Dock. The island is home to the Juniper Island Lighthouse.</p><br>
<p>The State of Vermont purchased the island for $200 in 1825 and ceded it to the federal government. A 30 ft brick tower and keeper&#39;s house were constructed. Up to that point, lanterns hung on trees by landowners up and down the lake had served navigation; this would be the first true lighthouse on the lake.</p><br>
<p>Apparently due to poor workmanship or materials or both, the original lighthouse had to be replaced less than twenty years later. That second lighthouse (a 25 ft tower consisting of four cast iron rings) is still there, though retired, and is the oldest cast iron lighthouse remaining in the US.</p><br>
<p>A 60 ft skeleton tower light took over in 1954. Two years later, Juniper Island was sold at auction to state senator Fred Fayette. The keeper&#39;s house was severely damaged by fire in 1962 and not repaired, though the tower and a separate shed for a fog bell were undamaged.</p><br>
<p>Fayette&#39;s family inherited the property, and in 2001 they constructed a new dwelling using nearly 18,000 bricks salvaged from the ruins of the original house. Two years later a new, taller tower replaced that of 1954. The family plans to restore the old tower, but it is unlikely to be relit (as has been done with other lights on the lake) since trees on the island obscure it from the water.</p><br>
<p>The buildings at 744–750 Broadway in Albany, New York, United States, sometimes known as Broadway Row, are four brick row houses on the northwest corner of the intersection with Wilson Street. They were built over a period of 40 years in the 19th century, using a variety of architectural styles reflecting the times they were built in. At that time the neighborhood, known as the Fifth Ward, was undergoing rapid expansion due to the Erie Canal and the city&#39;s subsequent industrialization.</p><br>
<p>Many rowhouses lined that section of Broadway during that time. Today only these four remain, following years of demolition and urban renewal. In 1987 they were listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Property</h2><br>
<p>The Broadway-Wilson intersection is just north of downtown Albany. The four houses are opposite the Edward O&#39;Neill Federal Building to the south. The Broadway-Livingston Avenue Historic District is one block to the north. The lots along Broadway north of this row are vacant.</p><br>
<p>All four buildings share the same basic form. They are three stories tall, three bays wide with a raised basement. Their main entrances open to main hallways on the side.</p><br>
<p>The buildings differ in their ornamentation. The two southern rowhouses, 744 and 746, are an identical pair with sandstone facing on their foundations. Stone stoops with wrought iron railings lead to entrances framed by sandstone architraves and molded pilasters topped by a molded entablature. Sandstone is also used for the window trim. Along the roofline they have denticulated cornices and a plain frieze. Both are topped by paired chimneys on the southern side.</p><br>
<p>The house at 748 Broadway has rusticated sandstone on its basement. Doric columns frame its entrance, and there is much marble molding. Its windows are done in flat molded wood. It is the only one of the four to not have a flat roof, instead rising to a shallow-pitched gable.</p><br>
<p>Rusticated sandstone also finishes the basement of 750 Broadway, which has the most elaborate decoration of the four. Sandstone is also used for its balustraded steps, leading to a double-doored paneled entrance topped by a transom. Its windowsills are bracketed, with finials on the lintels. An oriel above the entrance is heavily decorated, and its roof comes to a bracketed cornice with an ornate frieze.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At the time of Albanys incorporation in 1686, Clinton Avenue was the citys northern boundary. Eighty years later, Stephen Van Rensselaer II, patroon of the surrounding lands, had the area just north of the city surveyed and laid out a grid plan covering the area from Clinton to North Ferry and west from the Hudson River to Northern Boulevard. This became, in 1795, the Town of Colonie.</p><br>
<p>The area grew, and by 1815 had a thousand residents. They petitioned to be annexed to Albany that year, and became the citys Fifth Ward. Ten years later, the completion of the Erie Canal, which reached the Hudson a few blocks north of Broadway and Wilson, spurred the citys economy, and development of the Fifth Ward increased as nearby harbor and rail facilities were expanded and built over time, along with the industries that took advantage of the canals presence. The citys population nearly doubled in a decade.</p><br>
<p>Broadway north of Clinton became a residential area for the citys affluent families, and George Talcott, a retired Army colonel, built 748 Broadway in 1833 in a late vernacular application of the Federal style with some more current Greek Revival decorative touches. His family lived there for many years. It remains one of the citys most sophisticated examples of the combination of those two styles.</p><br>
<p>Eight years later, in 1841, Sanford Cobb, the city chamberlain, built the two houses at 744 and 746 Broadway. Their Greek Revival touches went beyond the doorway to the buildings cornice as well. Members of the Van Schaick family, one of Albanys oldest, later lived in 744.</p><br>
<p>The lot at 750 remained undeveloped until 1875, when Jacob Sager, a manufacturer of window trim, built his house there. Its decoration reflects the Italianate style common for late 19th-century urban American townhouses, with a sweeping balustrade and bracketed cornice. His family lived there for the rest of the century.</p><br>
<p>Most of Broadway&#39;s rowhouses were demolished over the course of the mid- and late 20th century, many for urban renewal. The construction of the federal office building to the south in 1969 eliminated the only other large section. These four long remained intact private residences. Recently, a local developer has renovated them with the intent of leasing 14,000 ft&sup2; as office space.</p><br>
<p>Lowertown Historic District is a national historic district located at Lockport in Niagara County, New York. The district is predominantly residential in nature, with some commercial structures and warehouses. The mose elegant homes are along Market Street, east of Chapel Street, facing the Erie Canal. Notable structures in this district include the Western Block Company Warehouse, a -story stone structure built before 1855; Lockport Bank Building built in 1829, and located at 315-319 Market Street; Washington Hunt House, built in 1831 and home to New York Governor Washington Hunt, and located at 363 Market Street; the former Christ Episcopal Church at 425 Market Street; and the Vine Street School, an Italianate style one-room school built in 1864.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Federal Office Building in New York City, also known as USA Appraisers&#39; Warehouse, was built between 1892-99. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>It is a ten story Romanesque style building bounded by Christopher, Greenwich, Barrow, and Washington Streets, about four blocks west of Sheridan Square. Architect Willoughby J. Edbrooke left his successful Chicago practice on being named supervising architect of the Treasury Department in 1891. He died before the completion of the building, but his influence and the influence of the Chicago School of Architecture is evident. The building now houses apartments and is called The Archive, after a former tenant of the building the National Archives.</p><br>
<p>Bjelkarøyna or Bjelkarøy is an island in Sund municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. The 1.1 km&sup2; island lies in the southern part of the Raunefjorden between the mainland Bergen Peninsula and the large island of Sotra. The small island of Lerøyna lies just east of Bjelkarøyna and the city of Bergen is located just to the east on the mainland.</p><br>
<p>The island has a small number of permanent residents and many vacation cabins. There is no road connection off the island, but there is a regular ferry route from Klokkarvik on Sotra, to Lerøyna, to Bjelkarøyna, and then to Hjellestad in Bergen on the mainland. Sund and Bergen municipalities have been making plans to build a road bridge connecting Lerøyna and Bjelkarøyna with a possible connection to the mainland.</p><br>
<p>Stolmen is an island in Austevoll municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. The 7.9 km&sup2; island lies in a large archipelago just north of the Selbjørnsfjorden. The island of Selbjørn lies to the east, the islands of Huftarøy and Hundvåko lie to the northeast, and the islands of Stora Kalsøy, Litla Kalsøya, and Møkster lie to the north.</p><br>
<p>The island had 206 inhabitants in 2007. The commercial centre of Stolmen is the village of Våge on the southern part of the island. Other villages on the island include Årland in the central part and Kvalvåg on the northern part. Møkster Church is located in the village of Kvalvåg. The Stolma Bridge connects the island of Stolmen to the neighboring island of Selbjørn.</p><br>
<p>The highest point is the 60 m tall mountain Såta. The word "Såta" is the finite form of "såte" (meaning "haystack") since the shape of the mountain looks like the shape of a small cone-shaped haystack.</p><br>
<p>Timothy Knapp House and Milton Cemetery is a historic district at 265 Rye Beach Avenue and Milton Road in Rye, New York.</p><br>
<p>The earliest part of the Timothy Knapp House was built around 1670, and the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Timothy Knapp House is considered the oldest residential property in Westchester County, New York, having been built in the 1660s. The property has been owned by only 5 families between 1663 and 1992, when it was acquired by the Rye Historical Society. The Milton Cemetery, across the Street from the Knapp House, is Rye&#39;s first public burying ground. The house, surrounding gardens and adjacent Milton Cemetery are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Thomas Studwell, one of the original settlers of the village of Rye, New York built a house on the Rye Beach Ave. property in 1663. At the time, the town of Rye was part of Connecticut. He traded houses with Timothy Knapp of Stamford, CT, who then built the foundations of the current structure as a two-room residence between 1667 and 1670. Knapp was the deputy to the General Court in Hartford, Connecticut, as a Town Constable and Tax Collector. He was also a vestryman of the Grace Episcopalian Church.</p><br>
<p>Ezekiel Halsted, a wealthy landowner originally from Long Island, purchased the property from Timothy Knapp’s sons in 1746. He expanded the house, adding a second floor using "post-and-beam" construction with a sloping roof in the back containing a dining room and kitchen, which gave the house the distinctive saltbox architecture. The Halsted family lived in the house for the next 157 years.</p><br>
<p>In 1906, Simeon Ford, co-owner of the Grand Union Hotel in Manhattan and a real estate developer, purchased the Knapp House. Julia Lauren Ford, his daughter, was an internationally known religious artist whose work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. Miss Ford was responsible for all three 20th-century additions to the house, including a studio, a greenhouse and an aviary. Lauren was also helped in the founding of the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Connecticut, which became the basis for the film Come to the Stable, written by Clare Boothe Luce.</p><br>
<p>Before moving to Connecticut in 1940, Ms. Ford rented the house to the Matthew Taylors, whose descendants purchased it in 1969 and owned the property until it was sold to the Rye Historical Society in 1992 for $320,000.</p><br>
<h2>Milton Cemetery</h2><br>
<p>The Milton Cemetery is a one acre public burying ground originally part of the Knapp estate, located on the west side of Milton Street across from the Knapp House. The oldest tombstone is that of Nehemiah Webb who was buried in 1722. It is now owned and maintained by the City of Rye and no longer in use.</p><br>
<h2>Archives and Gardens</h2><br>
<p>The Timothy Knapp House contains the Rye Historical Society Archives, including about 15,000 documents, maps, pictures, books and pamphlets.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation and Landmark status</h2><br>
<p>The House and Cemetery were granted National Historic Landmark status in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Rye Historical Society purchased the Knapp House in 1992, while the Cemetery was deeded to the City of Rye.</p><br>
<p>Rancho Santa Rosa was a 47,815 acre Mexican land grant in present day Riverside County, California given in 1846 by Governor Pio Pico to Juan Moreno. At the time of the US patent, Rancho Santa Rosa was a part of San Diego County. Riverside County was created by the California Legislature in 1893 by taking land from both San Bernardino and San Diego Counties. The site is now registered as a California Historical Landmark.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Santa Rosa Plateau became Rancho Santa Rosa under an 1846 Mexican land grant to cattle and sheep rancher Juan Moreno.</p><br>
<p>With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim for Rancho Santa Rosa was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, and the grant was patented to Juan Moreno in 1872.</p><br>
<p>Moreno sold the rancho to Augustin Machado in 1855. Machado subsequently purchased neighboring Rancho La Laguna in 1858. In 1876, Rancho Santa Rosa was sold to Englishman John Dear, who had sent his son, Parker, from England to inspect the rancho lands. He stayed to run it for the next 18 years, trying to make it a profitable venture. Flood events that twice destroyed the railroad connection of the California Southern Railroad with San Diego, cutting economical transportation to and from his ranch and development projects at Linda Rosa. Parker Dear was forced to put the ranch into receivership in 1894. Walter Vail, already a successful ranch owner in Arizona and owner of Santa Rosa Island, bought Rancho Santa Rosa in 1904. The Vails continued to operate their cattle ranch for the next sixty years. In 1964, the Vails sold the ranch to the Kaiser Steel Company, which master-planned Rancho California - the communities that today comprise the cities of Temecula and Murrieta.</p><br>
<p>A large portion of Rancho Santa Rosa lands were purchased to create the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Reserve. It was assembled in several stages by The Nature Conservancy in 1984. Subsequently parcels were purchased in the 1990s by the State of California, the, and the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California.</p><br>
<h2>Historic sites of the Rancho</h2><br>
<p>Moreno and Machado Adobes. Two unrestored mid-19th-century rancho adobes that are Riverside County’s oldest standing structures. Also nearby are the Vail Ranch Barn, the ranch foreman&#39;s house, the ruins of the Dear - Vail Ranch-house and a Luiseno village site.</p><br>
<p>The 8,300 acre reserve now has four owners: the California Department of Fish and Game, Riverside County, the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and The Nature Conservancy.</p><br>
<p>Doi Tung  is a mountain in the Thai highlands of Chiang Rai Province, Thailand.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>While not the highest elevation of the province, the 1,389 m high Doi Tung rises steeply, standing isolated close to the Thailand-Myanmar border. It is in the area known as "Golden Triangle".</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Most of the bedrock of the mountain is limestone and granite. The vegetation below 1,000 m is mostly deciduous forest, and the vegetation above this height is evergreen.</p><br>
<p>There are views of both Burma and Thailand from the top of this mountain. Shan, Akha and Lahu tribal villages are perched on the mountain sides.</p><br>
<p>Wat Phra That Doi Tung is on top of the hill. According to the chronicles, this Buddhist place of worship dates back to the year 911. It is an important pilgrimage spot for the devout.</p><br>
<h2>Doi Tung Royal Villa</h2><br>
<p>The Doi Tung royal villa, former residence of the princess mother Srinagarindra is also high up on the hill.</p><br>
<p>Thanks to the princess mother&#39;s interest and encouragement, the hills were reforested. She was also instrumental in fighting against the opium trade, as a result the local hilltribes stopped growing poppies and began to grow other crops.</p><br>
<p>The royal villa was originally built as a summer residence for the princess mother and now houses a museum and displaying her work to improve the life quality of local tribal people.</p><br>
<p>The Mae Fah Luang Gardens are a botanical park on the slopes below the royal villa. Flowers and plants grow among rock formations.</p><br>
<p>Thompson Pass is a 2,805 foot-high  gap in the Chugach Mountains northeast of Valdez, Alaska. It is the snowiest place in Alaska, recording 551.5 in of snow per year on average. In the winter of 1952&ndash;1953, 974.1 in of snow fell—the most ever recorded in one season at one location in Alaska. It is also the most snow ever recorded in one season at one location anywhere in the fifty states. The pass also holds the Alaska record for the most snow in a single day: 62 in fell on December 29, 1955.</p><br>
<p>The pass was named in 1899 by USA Army captain William Abercrombie "in compliment to Hon. Frank Thomson, of Pennsylvania", but he spelled the name "Thompson" on his sketched map, and that spelling stuck. The pass had been used by Alaska Native Ahtna people for generations prior to Abercrombie&#39;s arrival, but he marked and defined a trail through the pass for use by Klondike Gold Rush miners. His route, which became the Valdez-Eagle Trail, later was used by the Washington-Alaska Military Cable and Telegraph System, which strung cables through Thompson Pass. The path through the pass continued to be improved, and automobiles first drove the entire length of the trail in 1913. By that point, it had become the Valdez-Fairbanks Trail, and it was renamed the Richardson Road in 1919.</p><br>
<p>Because of heavy snowfall in Thompson Pass, the Richardson Highway was used only in summer. Not until 1950, when a freight company foreman demonstrated that the pass could be kept open with snowplows, was the road drivable year-round. The trail through the pass remained gravel until 1955, when the Alaska Road Commission (part of the US Department of the Interior) paved it. In the early 1970s, Thompson Pass was the scene of frantic activity as thousands of workers built a portion of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System from a camp located nearby. Heavy snowfall in the pass slowed work in the winter, but the pipeline was completed by 1977, and oil today flows through the pass on an almost constant basis.</p><br>
<p>Because Valdez is the southern terminus of the pipeline and Thompson Pass provides the only overland transportation link to Valdez, the state of Alaska maintains a road service station in the pass to keep it plowed and ice-free year-round. This facility includes Thompson Pass Airport,a short landing strip used by state aircraft which also serves as home to the annual Tailgate Alaska event. The work of keeping the highway through the pass clear is extremely challenging due to weather conditions and was highlighted in the Discovery Channel television special Alaska: Most Extreme.</p><br>
<p>The pass is a popular destination for tourists and adventurers. Heliskiing and snowboarding are popular recreational activities, but the heavy snowfall in the pass causes frequent avalanches. Tailgate Alaska, one of the world&#39;s popular ski and snowboarding events has given rise to the popularity of Thompson Pass as a destination for recreational skiers and snowboarders. The Valdez Avalanche Center provides regular snow avalanche danger reports.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>awn sleds crossing Thompson Pass in the early years of the 20th Century</p><br>
<p>Thompson Pass has a polar climate with one of the highest snow totals in the world.</p><br>
<p>The Arlington Reservoir is a large water storage tank located on Park Circle in Arlington, Massachusetts. It was constructed by the Metropolitan Water Works  between 1921 and 1924 in the Classical Revival style, to provide water storage for Northern Extra-High Service area, consisting of Lexington and the higher elevations of Belmont and Arlington. The design is said to have been inspired by the rotunda from the Samothrace temple complex in Greece.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1895, the Town of Arlington constructed a 550,000 gallon standpipe at this location. However, after Arlington joined the Metropolitan Water District in 1899, the tank soon proved to be inadequate to supply other nearby towns, and was only used to regulate water pressure in the area. The current 2,000,000 gallon tank, contained within a stone rotunda, was built between 1921 and 1924 by Crane Construction Company, with William E. Foss as chief engineer.</p><br>
<h2>In the Community</h2><br>
<p>On September 7, 2014, Luminarium Dance Company created a community arts event celebrating 90 years since the Arlington Reservoir&#39;s completion. Roughly 300 locals attended the event entitled "Night at the Tower," showcasing a live dance performance on the lawn combined with colossal video projections on the tower. This was the first event of its kind to be held at the Arlington Reservoir, and included 75 Arlington-inspired images created by local youth and adults over the past decade by the Arlington Center for the Arts. "Night at the Tower" was created and led by Luminarium Artistic Director and Arlington local Merli V. Guerra and was supported in part by a grant from the Arlington Cultural Council, a local agency, which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.</p><br>
<p>The Weathersfield Center Historic District encompasses a small cluster of buildings and a historic site at the geographic center of the town of Weathersfield, Windsor County, Vermont, United States. It includes the town&#39;s second church building , the home of its first settled minister, and an early stone animal pound. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Weathersfield is located in southeastern Windsor County, bordering the Connecticut River and New Hampshire to the east. The town was chartered in 1761 and saw modest settlement in the following decade. By the 1790s its population had risen to more than 1,000. Its early residents where Christians, who at first went to religious services at Claremont, New Hampshire, or were visited by traveling ministers. In 1785, the town voted to settle a minister, and built a simple 1-1/2 story Cape style house for him near its geographic center, now near the junction of Weathersfield Center Road and Goulden Ridge Road. Dan Foster was hired, receiving cash and staple goods as compensation. By 1825, when the town reached the height of its 19th-century population (more than 2,000), a Federal-style two-story house was built for the minister, to which the previous house was attached as an ell. This building, standing on the west side of Weathersfield Center Road, is now a historic house museum operated by the local historical society.</p><br>
<p>The towns first church was built near the ministers house in 1787, and was destroyed by fire in 1821. The town responded by building the brick Federal style meeting house, located southeast of the Foster House across Weathersfield Center Road. This building was built to serve both as a religious sanctuary and to house town meetings. It is a restrained example of late Federal architecture, with round-headed door openings on the ground floor, a Palladian window above the central entrance, and a fully pedimented gable above with an arched eyebrow window at its center. Rising from its roof is a multi-stage tower, starting with a square stage featuring a multilight oculus window, an open octagonal belfry above that, and a louvered cupola at the top. The building&#39;s gallery was converted to a full second floor in 1861 to formalize the separation of church and state, with the sanctuary on one level and town facilities on the other.</p><br>
<p>Located near the southern end of the church property is a square stone animal pound. It was probably built in the 1780s, after the introduction of a state law requiring towns to have such structures.</p><br>
<p>The Elephant Packing House was built in 1924, in Fullerton, Orange County, Southern California. Valencia oranges were packed here, from the abundant orchards that then dominated the county and gave it its name. William Wolfskill had developed and extensively planted the Valencia orange here in the 19th century. It is one of the last remaining examples of a citrus packing house in Fullerton.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The packing house was built in 1924 by the Union Pacific Railway to complement its neighboring train station. The 23,000 ft&sup2; packing house first shipped oranges under the Elephant label, and was later leased by grower C.C. Chapman to pack his Old Mission brand oranges.</p><br>
<p>After it fell out of use for orange shipping, the warehouse was used by a lawn furniture distributor. In 1960 the Union Pacific Railway sold the structure, which has been used by a variety of tenants. It was expanded in 1971. The railway station has since been relocated.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The packing house design is predominantly in the Mission Revival Style, with Spanish Colonial Revival Style architectural elements. The main building measures 165 ft by 70 ft, with one story above grade and a full basement. The interior is lighted by two sawtooth roof monitors. The north side faces onto railroad tracks that run immediately adjacent to the packing house.</p><br>
<h2>Railroad shipping</h2><br>
<p>The Elephant Packing House was located on the Union Pacific Railroad line for shipping to the East Coast and elsewhere. The line is no longer in service.</p><br>
<p>A Mission Revival style Union Pacific Railroad railway station (built 1923) was already adjacent. It has been preserved and been moved to the Fullerton Transportation Center, next to the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway station there (built 1930).</p><br>
<p>All three buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Zigzag Ranger Station is a Forest Service compound consisting of twenty rustic buildings located in Oregon’s Mount Hood National Forest. It was built as the administrative headquarters for the Zigzag Ranger District. It is located in the small unincorporated community of Zigzag, Oregon. Many of the historic buildings were constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps between 1933 and 1942. Today, the Forest Service still uses the ranger station as the Zigzag Ranger District headquarters. The ranger station is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</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. However, the Zigzag Ranger Station has served as a district headquarters since it was built.</p><br>
<p>In 1908, the Forest Service established the Oregon National Forest around Mount Hood in north central Oregon. The first Forest Service building at the Zigzag site was constructed in 1917. Several other buildings were added to the compound in the 1920s. In 1924, a large part of the Oregon National Forest was redesignated as the Mount Hood National Forest; this included the Zigzag Ranger District. In 1933, the Civilian Conservation Corps began doing construction work at the ranger station. Between 1933 and 1942, Civilian Conservation Corps crews built nine ranger station buildings. The Civilian Conservation Corps workers came from nearby Camp Zigzag, and worked under the supervision of Forest Service rangers. All of the buildings constructed during that period were designed by the Forest Service&#39;s Pacific Northwest Regional Architecture Group, and were built in the Cascadian rustic style.</p><br>
<p>Today, the ranger station still serves as the administrative headquarters for the Zigzag Ranger District. There are twenty buildings that make up the ranger station complex. Nineteen of those buildings plus one additional structure (a stone masonry wall built by the Civilian Conservation Corps) are historically important. All of the historic buildings are still in use and are in excellent condition. Because the Zigzag Ranger Station is of unique historic value as an early Forest Service ranger station, the compound and surrounding area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 8 April 1986. The historic site covers a total of 125 acre.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>The Ranger’s Office is a two-story, rectangular building, 53 ft across the front and 41 ft along the sides. It has a gabled roof with a stone chimney and no eaves. There are dormers on each side of the roof. The lower half of the office is board-and-batten construction; the upper half is built with horizontal clapboard. The front and back porches have 10-inch-square support posts with curved braces and stone floors.</p><br>
<p>The Ranger&#39;s Residence is a rectangular frame building with stone foundation and a gabled roof. The gables are filled with vertical boards with open pine tree logo cutouts. The front porch is supported by square posts. Next to the residence is a matching Garage with the same siding and tree logo cutouts. In 2007, the Forest Service replaced the old wood shake roofs on both the residence and garage with new heavy wood shakes.</p><br>
<p>The large two-story Bunkhouse also served as a residence for the assistant rangers. Like the office, the bunkhouse has board-and-batten siding on its lower level with horizontal clapboard above. There is an above-ground concrete foundation in the front to make the house level against slightly sloping ground. The front porch is placed off-center. There is also a side porch with an overhanging roof. Both porches are supported by 10-inch-square posts with curved wooden braces.</p><br>
<p>Like the office and bunkhouse, the Fire Warehouse is a two-story frame building with board-and-batten siding on its lower half and horizontal clapboard on the upper half. It has a gable roof with four dormers and no eaves. The front porch has 10 in square posts. There is a garage door entry on the right side of the building. There is also a second-floor side entrance accessed from an outside stairway.</p><br>
<p>There are two Road and Trail Warehouse buildings. The first warehouse is a large rectangular frame building with clapboard siding and sliding garage doors. The second warehouse is a frame building with a saltbox roof. Both buildings are original, but have been altered over time.</p><br>
<p>The Carpenter Shop is a long rectangular building, approximately 80 ft by 45 ft. The shop has a gabled roof with four dormer windows. The two gabled ends project out, creating slight overhangs. There is vertical siding below the overhang with Forest Service pine tree logo cutouts. The rest of the building has clapboard siding. There are large garage doors lining the front of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Gas House is a frame building with shiplap siding and a gable roof. The roof framework is open at the gable ends, and a large projecting overhang shelters the gas pumps and vehicle service area.</p><br>
<h2>Wy’East Rhododendron Gardens</h2><br>
<p>The Wy’East Rhododendron Gardens are located on the grounds of the Zigzag Ranger Station. The gardens were conceived in 1952 as a roadside beautification project. Local nurseries and individual horticulturists donated 100 plants to start the garden. When it was officially dedicated on 24 May 1953, the garden had grown to 235 rhododendron plants. James P. Langdon, the Zigzag District Ranger at the time, donated additional trees and shrubs from his private nursery to complement the rhododendrons, including the rare Dawn Redwood.</p><br>
<p>While not all the original plants survived, Wy’East Rhododendron Gardens still have examples of 50 different types of rhododendron and over 150 other plants. The gardens offer an opportunity to enjoy many trees and shrubs native to the Mount Hood National Forest at one location as well as many non-native plant species. The grounds are open year round for self-guided tours. A garden map that show where to find all 50 rhododendron varieties is available at the Zigzag district office.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Zigzag Ranger Station is in eastern Clackamas County, Oregon surrounded by the Mount Hood National Forest. The elevation at the site is 1,460 ft above sea level. The forest around the ranger station is made up of Douglas fir, Western red cedar, big leaf maple, vine maple, red alder, cascara buckthorn, and Pacific dogwood.</p><br>
<p>The Zigzag Ranger Station is located 45 mi east of Portland, Oregon in the small unincorporated community of Zigzag. The ranger station is just off USA Highway 26. The ranger station has facilities on both sides of the highway; however, the office and most of the historic buildings are located on the south side of the highway along with the Wy’East Rhododendron Gardens.</p><br>
<p>The Lace House, also known as the Uriah Edwards House, is located on state highway NY 22 in Canaan, New York, United States. It is a frame house built in the early 19th century.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by the Fuller Brothers in a more formal version of the Federal style brought from New England by settlers from that region at the time of its construction. The original kitchen wing was replaced in the early 20th century. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house and a non-contributing garage are located on a 1.4 acre lot on the east side of Route 22, just across from Miller Road and a mile north of the New York State Thruway&#39;s Berkshire extension (Interstate 90). The cleared ground slopes up to the east, towards the Massachusetts state line 1.5 mi to the east, across the hill. A row of wooden fence posts runs along the roadside. The neighborhood, the small hamlet of Flatbrook, has some scattered commercial and residential buildings.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is a two-story, five-bay structure sided in pine clapboard on a drywall stone foundation. A wing of similar height projects to the south. Brick chimneys rise from either end; a large television antenna is just south of the northern chimney piercing the shingled roof.</p><br>
<p>A small set of steps on the west (front) facade rises to a single-bay portico sheltering the centrally located main entrance with a gabled roof supported by paired wooden fluted pillars. The pediment has a denticulated entablature. It is echoed by a less ornate portico over the rear entrance.</p><br>
<p>Fluted pilasters rise to the frieze between the last bays on either end and the rest of the windows. The frieze, decorated with medallions and dentils, runs around all sides of the main block except the east (rear). All the windows have at least one louvered shutter. Many still have the original shutter hooks. The corners have pilasters as well; on the southwest is a small satellite dish.</p><br>
<p>The south wing has a full-length porch across the front. Another chimney rises from its south end. Its roof is clad in metal.</p><br>
<p>Another pair of fluted pilasters flanks the main doorway, which is topped by a large fanlight. It opens onto a center hall running the length of the house. The interior has much original trim, including plaster, carved moldings and mantels. The dining room&#39;s ceiling has been redone in tile. Some of the original wide-plank flooring remains.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Uriah Edwards, a native of nearby Richmond, Massachusetts, moved across the state line in 1800 at the age of 31 to work as a clerk in Flatbrook. After a short return to Richmond, he returned in 1802 to open his own store. Two years later he wed a local woman, Betsy Olmsted, a descendant of one of the original settlers of Canaan who also owned vast tracts of land to the south and west of the current house.</p><br>
<p>The house was built two years after their marriage. Unlike other contemporary Federal-style houses in Columbia County, it is extensively ornamented. It follows a unique regional pattern found in vernacular rural early Federal houses in New York communities near Connecticut and Massachusetts, such as the Tabor-Wing House in Dover Plains, of having most of that decoration lavished on the porch. Its overall decoration gave it the nickname "Lace House" shortly after its construction, and it has been locally known by that name ever since.</p><br>
<p>Edwards would later sell some of his land to the new Albany and West Stockbridge Railroad, later the Hudson and Berkshire and then the Boston and Albany Railroad, the first to connect the two states. He opened a station known variously as Edwards park or Edwards Station until it was demolished in the mid-20th century. He was active in local politics, serving as town supervisor, town justice, and state assemblyman before he died in 1851. His wife survived him by 16 years.</p><br>
<p>Upon her death, her sister-in-law Lucinda Edwards Woodworth inherited the house. She soon left it to her own daughter, who had married into another prominent local family, the Curtises. One of her descendants, Harriet Curtis, conveyed it to Rufus Woodworth, a neighbor. When she died, her executor brought suit to have the conveyance voided. The house stood vacant for several years, with the kitchen wing on the south deteriorating, until the litigation was settled in 1921.</p><br>
<p>William Edwards sold the property soon after to a family named Rathbun, who demolished the original kitchen wing and replaced it with the current one. At this point they also moved the chimneys and replaced the original wood shingle roof with metal. They also dug a new well and had the house wired for electricity.</p><br>
<p>After 60 years, their descendants sold it to another family, the Brusches. They proceeded to renovate the house in 1983. Most of their work upgraded the house, bringing its electricity and water connections to late 20th century standards, and refinishing the interior and exterior. Their major addition was the rear portico. After the work was done and the property listed on the Register, they operated it as a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>St. Agnes Cemetery, established in 1867, is a 108 acre Roman Catholic cemetery operated for the religious and charitable purposes of the Roman Catholic Church through the burial and memorialization of the faithful departed. Located in Menands, New York, St. Agnes is one of the Capital Regions most active cemeteries and continues to serve hundreds of families today.</p><br>
<p>Consecrated in 1867, St. Agnes Cemetery displays the characteristics of the rural cemetery movement. Like other landscapes of this genre, St. Agnes Cemetery was designed to portray order, symmetry, and peace. The landscape combines intimate enclosed places for contemplation with panoramic vistas illustrating the sublime in nature. As a place to stroll and meditate in a tranquil setting, rural cemeteries were precursors to public parks.</p><br>
<p>The history of New York&#39;s Capital Region is written on the memorials which dot the hills and glens of St. Agnes Cemetery. Among the generations of Catholic faithful lie a governor, members of Congress, beloved clergy and religious brothers and sisters, captains of industry, and war heroes and veterans of every conflict since the War of 1812.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Notable interments</h2><br>
<p>Anthony N. Brady, businessman</p><br>
<p>Parker Dunn, Medal of Honor recipient</p><br>
<p>Matty Fitzgerald, baseball player</p><br>
<p>Martin Henry Glynn, Congressman</p><br>
<p>John C. Heenan, Prize fighter</p><br>
<p>Jack Joyce, wild west performer and horse trainer</p><br>
<p>Nicholas Thomas Kane, Congressman</p><br>
<p>Mary Nash, actress</p><br>
<p>Michael Nicholas Nolan, Congressman</p><br>
<p>Leo William O&#39;Brien, Congressman</p><br>
<p>Terence J. Quinn, Congressman</p><br>
<p>Charles Tracey, Congressman</p><br>
<p>Anthony Ulasewicz, Watergate scandal figure</p><br>
<p>Robert G. Vignola, actor and director</p><br>
<p>Patrick H. White, Medal of Honor recipient</p><br>
<p>Kamome Island is an island  in the Sea of Japan just off the coast of the town of Esashi, Hokkaidō, Japan. The island serves as a breakwater for the Esashi port. It has several historical sites and is protected as a part of the Hiyama Prefectural Natural Park. Every July, there is a two-day festival that attracts tourists to the island. People visit the island throughout the year for swimming, camping, fishing and other recreational activities.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Kamome Island is part of the coastal terrace, being mostly flat. It rises just 27.6 m above sea level. The island has a width of about 200 m, a length of about 1 km and a coastline of 2.6 km. It is connected with the mainland by a 500 m long sandbank and thus is accessible by road. As the island stretches roughly from north to south and the mainland lies to the east, the island naturally serves as a coastal protection from sea waves. An additional wave breaker line was built to extend this protection to the north. However, the western coast of the island is severely eroded by the waves.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island once served as a natural port for Edo period ships trading with Hokkaidō or for fishermen seeking to catch Pacific Herring.</p><br>
<p>The herring fishery is also reflected in the legend of the Heishi rock. This 500-year-old legend says that once when herring vanished, an old woman (a fortune teller) was given a bottle with magic liquid. She threw the bottle into the sea and the herring returned. The bottle stuck to the seabed and turned into a rock, which became a representation of the god of the Sea of Japan.</p><br>
<p>In 1615, a group of merchants raised a shrine on the island to honor the god of the Sea of Japan, and in 1868 it was renamed into Itsukushima Shrine. In 1814, a monument to Matsuo Bashō, the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan, was installed near the shrine.</p><br>
<p>For a long time, the island had problems with fresh water, which was important for passing ships to replenish their supplies. So, in 1876, a merchant from Esashi named Murakami spent a significant amount of money to build a water well on the island. Around that time, the island was also dragged into conflicts between different Japanese clans, and in 1852, two cannons were brought to the island for protecting it and the Esashi city.</p><br>
<h3>Name</h3><br>
<p>The elongated shape of the island resembles a seagull, which is the basis of its name, Kamome, which means "seagull". During the Edo period, it was called Bentenjima. Many Japanese islands formerly shared this name, after the Hindu goddess Saraswati, known as Benzaiten in Japanese Buddhism and Shinto, because she has traditionally been worshipped as a goddess of water and guardian of fishermen.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>A constant west wind keeps the island largely grass-covered, but it is also home to Painted Maple and Mongolian Oak. The waters around the island are rich in aquafauna, namely Arabesque greenling and righteye flounder in spring, Hexagrammos otakii (a Japanese species of greenling) in summer, mackerel and Japanese amberjack in autumn, and Arabesque greenling and octopus in winter.</p><br>
<h2>Human uses</h2><br>
<p>The island is a tourist destination with fishing and hiking all through the year. The beaches are used for swimming in summer.</p><br>
<h3>Religious uses</h3><br>
<p>The first weekend of July, the Kamome Island Matsuri, pays tribute to the legend of Heishi Rock. A group of young men receive a blessing at a local shrine. They then proceed to swim to the rock, dressed only in the traditional fundoshi, climb on top, and renew the 30-metre shimenawa that embraces the rock. The ritual rope weighs some 500 kg. The festival lasts two days it focuses on the changing of the rope, but also includes a rowing competition, a parade of people dressed in traditional costumes, Taiko and singing performances, and a karaoke contest.</p><br>
<p>Sexey&#39;s Hospital in Bruton, Somerset, England was built around 1630 as almshouses. The West Wing and chapel have been designated as a Grade I listed building. The East Wing and gateway are grade II listed.</p><br>
<p>Hugh Sexey (1556&ndash;1619), was a local landowner. By the age of 43 he had been appointed as Royal auditor of the Exchequer to King James I. After his death the trustees of his will established Sexey&#39;s Hospital in Bruton as an institution to care for the elderly.</p><br>
<p>A trust of 1638 set out the role of the hospital in caring for 12 poor men and women. This later rose to 18 people, and it provided a school for 12 boys, and staff comprised a governor, a schoolmaster, and a nurse. by 1812 this had risen to 20; 10 men and 10 women and in 1902 there were 15 residents. In 1997 there were 22 residents with vacancies for a further 2.</p><br>
<p>The First Hancock County Courthouse is a historic courthouse in Findlay, Ohio, United States. Built in 1833, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. it is a simple frame structure of no particular architectural style. With the exception of the main entrance, the building&#39;s elements are purely functional: its shape is simply rectangular with no ornamental details, except for a decorative transom and sidelights framing the main entrance.</p><br>
<p>It was originally erected in Findlay upon the southwest corner of Main and Putnam (Crawford) Streets. The contract to build the courthouse was awarded to Wilson Vance, Frederick Henderson, and Jonathion Parker in January 1832 for the sum of $700. Following construction, it was plastered by Parlee Carlin in the autumn of 1833. It was used until a second, more permanent courthouse was completed in 1842 on the southwest corner of Main and West Cross (the precursor to Findlays current courthouse). In addition to being an early courthouse, it also was utilized as both a schoolhouse and a church. After the building of a more permanent courthouse, the First Hancock County Courthouse was sold and moved to various locations throughout the city where it became a variety of hotels. It currently rests at 819 Park Street in Findlay. During Hancock Countys natural gas boom in the late nineteenth century, many property owners in the city modified their houses by the installation of natural gas central heating and lighting, but few buildings had previously experienced the benefits of natural gas. One of the few exceptions was the old courthouse — it was the first house in the city to have natural gas installed.</p><br>
<p>In 1976, the First Hancock County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was the third building in Hancock County to be listed on the Register, following the Jasper G. Hull House and the current courthouse.</p><br>
<p>Earnshill House in Hambridge, near Curry Rivel, Somerset, England is a manor house, set in parkland. It was built in 1725 for Henry Combe, a Bristol merchant by John Strachan. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The manor of Earnshill was owned by Muchelney Abbey until the dissolution of the monasteries and then became the property of the Jennings family. In 1720 it was bought by the Bristol merchant Henry Combe who was a member of the Society of Merchant Venturers and later mayor of the city. It was then passed on through his family, via his son Richard Combe (MP).</p><br>
<p>During World War II the house was used for children evacuted from Durlston Court School in Hampshire.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The entrance is of five bays with projecting wings on either side. The house is built of brick with Hamstone dressings in a Palladian style.</p><br>
<p>The outside of the house includes a walled garden as part of a wider area of parkland, with substantial gatepiers at the entrance to the drive. There was also an attached farm with a brick barn. In the surrounding woodland was a four pipe Duck decoy with nine shooting positions.</p><br>
<p>The river Thielle , is a tributary to the Aare, in the Swiss Seeland.</p><br>
<p>The Thielle results from the merging of the Orbe and Talent, northeast of the little city of Orbe in the Swiss canton of Vaud. It flows as a channel northeastwards through an intensively cultivated plain called "Plaine de l&#39;Orbe" and flows after only 9 km into the Lake of Neuchâtel at Yverdon-les-Bains.</p><br>
<p>The natural course of the river was considerably modified during the Jura water correction. Between the Lakes of Neuchâtel and Biel/Bienne it was converted into a dug-out channel. However, the previous natural bed of La Thielle still exists in some parts.</p><br>
<p>The river flows out of the lake in Biel/Bienne and after 2 km merges directly into the Nidau-Büren channel, which was also dug out during the Jura water correction, ensuring the outflow of the Aare, just before the regulating dam in Port which was commissioned in 1939. Before, La Thielle used to flow into the Aare 7 km further downstream in the vicinity of Büren an der Aare.</p><br>
<p>In the seventeenth century, a grand project was formed to establish a waterway transport system connecting the rivers Rhône and Rhine via the Lake of Geneva - the Venoge - and the Canal d’Entreroches - La Thielle - Aare. It unfortunately remained unfinished.</p><br>
<p>A commercial waterway of this nature would have had a very significant impact on the European commercial transportation system.</p><br>
<p>Brighton Regency Synagogue is a Regency building in Devonshire Place, Brighton, that was built in 1824 as a synagogue and is now an apartment building. It is a Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The synagogue was built in 1824–25. It was enlarged in 1836–38 to designs by David Mocatta, England&#39;s first Jewish architect.</p><br>
<p>The building&#39;s chaste, pilastered facade, symmetry, and central doorway are typical of the Regency style. A faded inscription reading (1838) was faintly visible under the pediment in 2006. Inside, the original ceiling lantern, a typical Regency feature, is still in place.</p><br>
<p>The building was replaced by the Middle Street Synagogue in 1875, and sold. By 2007 it had been converted into apartments, with the facade sensitively restored and an historic plaque mentioning the architect on the façade.</p><br>
<p>The Captain William Vicary House is a historic mansion in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States. Located at 1235 3rd Ave. in the borough of Freedom, the house lies along the community&#39;s main street above the Ohio River.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>A United States Navy captain during the War of 1812, Vicary was rewarded by the government for his services with 500 acre of land in the Northwest Territory. After settling in Sewickley, Vicary met members of the Harmony Society, which had recently established Old Economy Village along the Ohio below Pittsburgh. Consequently, Vicary bought 604 acre of land near Economy, where he platted a community called "St. Clair" and began to build a stone mansion in 1826. Vicary employed local builders to use locally mined sandstone to construct his house; it was completed in 1829 at a cost of over $4,000. Disputes with one of his builders led to a lawsuit that reached the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and was not finally settled until after Vicarys death in 1842. Vicarys descendents lived in the house until 1912, but the house was not sold until 1924; after that date, it passed through a succession of owners before being condemned for the construction of Route 65 in the 1960s. A grassroots campaign resulted in its survival, and today the house is owned by Beaver County and occupied by the Beaver County Historical Research and Landmarks Foundation.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, the house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural integrity. Significant aspects of the structure include its exterior and double chimneys; however, major modifications during the twentieth century included the removal of a large fireplace and the division of the house into apartments. The exterior stonework has been seen as particularly significant — the large stone blocks are believed to be the work of skilled masons, and are of a quality rarely seen in Western Pennsylvania in the early nineteenth century. A twentieth-century porch sits on the front of the mansion, and a cast iron fence surrounds the property.</p><br>
<p>Today, the Vicary House is operated as a historic house museum.</p><br>
<p>Wayford Manor House is a country house with a garden in Britain, situated in Wayford, Somerset, England. It has been designated a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<h2>House</h2><br>
<p>The house includes a central range which was rebuilt about 1600 on the site of an earlier building by Charles Daubeney, probably with William Arnold as master mason.</p><br>
<p>The north wing was completed in 1900 by architect Sir Ernest George.</p><br>
<h2>Garden</h2><br>
<p>Work on the gardens, including terraces and archways was carried out by Harold Peto around 1902. Peto was the brother of the wife of Lawrence Ingham Baker when he bought the house. The current Arts and Crafts garden is partly built on the site of an earlier Elizabethan garden. It includes a Japanese garden and a collection of mature trees, along with a rock garden, orchard and shrubs. The garden is listed Grade II on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.</p><br>
<p>Wayford Woods, close to the house, has an ornamental lake and is known for its large number of fairy doors.</p><br>
<p>Barker Reservoir is a flood control structure in Houston, Texas which prevents downstream flooding of Buffalo Bayou, the city&#39;s principal river. The reservoir operates in conjunction with Addicks Reservoir to the northeast, which impounds Mayde and Bear Creeks, two tributaries of the Buffalo. Both reservoirs were authorized under the Rivers and Harbors Act of June 20, 1938, which were modified by the Flood Control Acts of August 11, 1938; September 3, 1954; and October 27, 1965.</p><br>
<p>George Bush Park, operated by Harris County, is located entirely within the reservoir.</p><br>
<p>Houston annexed the Addicks area in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Barker Reservoir is southwest of the intersection of Interstate 10 and State Highway 6, about one mile (1.6 km) south of Addicks in western Harris County.</p><br>
<p>The Barker Reservoir spillway is located at 29&deg;46&prime;10.86&Prime;N latitude, 95&deg;38&prime;47.09&Prime;W longitude.</p><br>
<p>The Barker Dam and Reservoir is named for Eldred Barker (1775–1842), an early pioneer from Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, whose 1839 Headright Grant comprises 320 acres of the site which was first surveyed on September 22, 1842.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>Barker Reservoir is formed by a rolled earthen dam 72,900 ft long. A 12 ft gravel road extends along the top of the dam. The top of the dam has a maximum elevation of 112.5 ft above the N.G.V.D. and is 36 feet high in places. The maximum storage capacity of the reservoir is 209,000 acre.ft, Combined with the adjacent Addicks Reservoir to the northeast, the total storage capacity is about 410,000 acre.ft.</p><br>
<p>From 2008 to 2014, the USA Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District implemented $4.4 million in interim risk reduction measures (at Addicks and Barker dams) to address deficiencies until long-term solutions could be identified and executed. In 2014, staff completed a Dam Safety Modification Study to evaluate long-term repairs and address issues associated with the dams. Staff presented this information during a public meeting October 29 at Bear Creek Community Center in Houston to discuss these plans and gather feedback. Construction is scheduled to begin May 2015 with an estimated completion date of 2019.</p><br>
<h2>Benefits</h2><br>
<p>It is estimated the Addicks and Barker Reservoirs, along with other federal construction projects on Buffalo Bayou and its tributaries, will prevent average annual flood damages of $16,372,000 to the city of Houston.</p><br>
<p>The current Graham County Courthouse is a courthouse located at 800 W. Main St. in Safford, Arizona that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is a two story red brick building above a concrete foundation that includes a raised basement. The main part of the east-facing building is 83 ft by 62 ft, and there is a one-story 17 ft by 49 ft north wing made of brick, and a small ell in the back.</p><br>
<p>It is the fifth courthouse of the county, following one in Safford during 1881-83, two in Solomonville, Arizona during 1883-1915, and the 1901 Riggs building at Main and Central in Safford during 1915-16. After Arizona achieved statehood in 1912, Safford was chosen as the location for Graham&#39;s county seat in a 1915 election, moving it four miles west from Solomonville, the county seat since 1883. A $50,000 bond was authorized to finance construction of a courthouse with courtrooms, offices, and jail. The Classic Revival/Neo-Classic style courthouse was built in 1916. Its construction cost $44,404.</p><br>
<p>J. A. McAllister, a justice in the Arizona Supreme Court, and Jesse A. Udall, a chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, began their careers here.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the interior public areas retained the original wooden moldings, interior doors, door trim, and wainscoting, and wooden balustrade and newel post of the main staircase. An ell at the back, 29 ft by 49 ft, that held a jail, was demolished in 1978, leaving markings from where it joined on the current small ell at the back.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Although the building is historic, it still serves as location of Graham County&#39;s Superior Court, in 2016.</p><br>
<p>McCook Lake is a natural oxbow lake found in Union County, South Dakota, United States, about one mile north of North Sioux City. It was formed from a "cutoff" of the Missouri River. The lake is named for General John Cook, who commanded a company of soldiers stationed there in 1862–63 following the Dakota War of 1862. When or why the "Mc" was added is unknown. Most residents are located on the north side of the lake, while land around the south side is used for farming. The Izaac Walton League, an environmental organization active in lake issues, has a clubhouse located on the lake and owns most of the southern shore.</p><br>
<p>The lakes level is supported by pumping water from the Missouri River through a 24-inch pipe at the southwest end, transported over 1½ miles, which costs about $1,000 a week. Locks were installed by the WPA at each end of the lake in the 1930s to allow for control of the lakes level during the Missouri&#39;s high-flow periods, but because they no longer occur, these are no longer in use. The lake level has been maintained via the pump and a well since the 1970s. In the 1950s, Missouri River flooding deposited large amounts of silt in the lake.</p><br>
<p>A restoration project began in 1991, when the lakes average depth was 2–4 feet, to remove accumulated sediment (mostly clay and fine sand) of about 1,700,000 cubic yards from the lakes bottom. Noting increased temperatures in the shallow lake and dense aquatic vegetation, the EPAs total maximum daily load analysis said: "The lake mimicked a prairie slough more than a lake." The dredging projects goal was to increase the average lake depth by 4.5 feet, with the aim of encouraging fish propagation in the lake and boosting its recreational use. As the project continued, more sediment was removed than originally anticipated. From 1991-1998, about 2,248,000 cubic yards was removed, or 132 percent of the original estimate. Dredging was to continue through the year 2000. In 1999, local reports said the average lake depth had increased to 11 feet with the maximum depth at 15 feet. A 2011 fishing survey put measurements of its average depth at 6 feet with a maximum depth of 14 feet.</p><br>
<p>The 2011 Missouri River Flood affected McCook Lake, with record-level flooding on the river increasing the lakes depth more than five feet over its normal level. Lake managers reversed the pipeline flow to pump water back into the Missouri in order to prevent flooding of nearby homes and damage to city sewers. A no-wake zone was also implemented to prevent shoreline erosion. McCook Lakes pumps were damaged in the flood, but pumping was back in service by 2012. All three pumps were functioning again by April 2014.</p><br>
<p>The primary fish species found in the lake are white crappie, black crappie, largemouth bass, channel catfish, and walleye. Other game there include white bass, bluegill, gizzard shad, shortnose gar, bigmouth buffalo, freshwater drum, smallmouth buffalo, common carp, Shorthead Redhorse, and northern pike. Channel catfish, white crappie, walleye, and saugeye were stocked into the lake in the 1990s and 2000.</p><br>
<p>Plant life common in the lake includes cattails, bulrush, pondweed, and brittle naiad.</p><br>
<p>The Richmond County Courthouse is a 1919 municipal courthouse in the civic center of St. George in the borough of Staten Island in New York City . The neoclassical style courthouse is on Richmond Terrace next to Staten Island&#39;s Borough Hall and across the street from the Staten Island Ferry terminal.</p><br>
<p>Richmond County Surrogates Court is located in the building. The building also houses the Matrimonial Parts of State Supreme Court for the states 13th Judicial District. It housed some other civil parts and the Criminal Parts of that court, as well as the office of its administrative judge, until they moved to a new courthouse at 26 Central Avenue, nearby, which opened on September 28, 2015.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction of the Richmond County Courthouse was begun on December 27, 1913, but was delayed by the advent of World War I. The building finally opened on November 3, 1919, to replace the 1837 Third County Courthouse several miles away.</p><br>
<p>In 1919 the building housed one Supreme Court justice and one Surrogate who also acted as a justice of City Court, as well as the County Clerk and the District Attorney. County records were placed in the building and a law library was established the following year. The District Attorney moved out in 1979. The County Clerk, with the county records, moved across the street to 130 Stuyvesant Place in 1999, with the law library following in 2000. The Supreme Court, with the exception of the Matrimonial Parts, moved to the new fifth County Courthouse in late 2015.</p><br>
<p>Designed by the well-known architectural firm of Carrere and Hastings, who had earlier designed the neighboring 1906 Borough Hall, the building&#39;s architectural style has been variously described as Roman-inspired neoclassical, or Renaissance Revival with a Greek Revival portico. The L-shaped building is built on a hill sloping upwards from the harbor and shares the block with Borough Hall, from which it is separated on its front or harbor side by a formal French garden. A sweeping flight of stairs leads up from Richmond Terrace to a temple front pediment supported by six large Corinthian columns.</p><br>
<p>The building is a New York City Landmark and is on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Montgrí is a small mountain range in Catalonia, on the north bank of the Ter river. It is part of the Catalan Coastal Range and its highest point is 311 m.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The Montgrí Massif stretches from east to west north of the town of Torroella de Montgrí, sheltering it from the Tramontana northern wind. Local people call it simply "el Montgrí".</p><br>
<p>This long mountain formation looks like a sleeping bishop seen from afar.</p><br>
<p>The Montgrí Massif is topped by an ancient fortress in the middle, the Montgrí Castle. Local people say the castle is the ring on the sleeping bishop&#39;s hand.</p><br>
<p>It is a largely denuded karstic mountain, beaten by the persistent winds that blow in the region. It has some dunes at its feet, on its northern side, which formed by windblown sand coming from the shores of distant Roses. These dunes were fixed about a century ago by and lie now covered under low forest.</p><br>
<p>The Medes Islands further east, beyond the town of l&#39;Estartit, are a geological prolongation of this massif.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>The vegetation on this massif consists mostly of low mediterranean scrub among rocks. There are some clumps of Mediterranean fan palm (Chamaerops humilis), being one of the northernmost locations where this small palm grows wild.</p><br>
<p>The lower edges of the mountain have some mediterranean forest, made up mainly of pine (Pinus halepensis), as well as some cork oak (Quercus suber) and oak (Quercus sp.).</p><br>
<p>The owls (Bubo bubo) nest in some of the caves of the sides of the long hill system. There is a variety of endemic land snail inhabiting this mountain range.</p><br>
<p>Formerly there were vineyards on the side of the Montgrí. They were abandoned in the 19th century following severe phylloxera plagues. Remains of the ancient vineyards can still be seen.</p><br>
<p>The Montgrí Massif is often ravaged by wildfires, especially during long dry spells; the last serious fire was in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Taftsville Historic District encompasses a historic 19th-century industrial village that is mostly in Woodstock, Vermont. Flanking the Ottauquechee River and extending up Happy Valley Road, the area developed around a metal tool factory established by members of the Taft family in 1793. Important elements from its early history include the Taftsville Store, built by the Taft family in 1840, and the Taftsville Covered Bridge, built in 1836. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The village of Taftsville is centered around the junction of United States Route 4 and Happy Valley Road in far eastern Woodstock. It extends along secondary roads (mainly Happy Valley Road and Sugar Hill Road), and includes properties neighboring Hartland and Hartford, both just east of Woodstock. The majority of its buildings are residential in character, and were built in the 19th century. They are typically wood frame structures either 1-1/2 or 2-1/2 stories in height, although there are a few brick houses. The villages industrial past is primarily recalled by the dam across the Ottauquechee River, which now powers a hydroelectric plan on the rivers southern bank, adjacent to the covered bridge. The Taftsville Store, built in 1840, is a prominent landmark on US 4, a major transport artery in the area. A former school building, now serving as a Mennonite chapel, stands on Happy Valley Road; it was built in 1911, and has Colonial Revival features.</p><br>
<p>Settlement of the village began in 1793, when Stephen Taft, a native of Uxbridge, Massachusetts arrived. He and two of his brothers dammed the river, established a sawmill on the north bank, and a metalworking shop in the south bank, producing scythes, axes, and other tools in the latter. The business was a success, and flourished into the late 19th century despite its original main building&#39;s destruction by fire in 1811. The surviving covered bridge was built in 1836 to handle increasing traffic (across an earlier footbridge), and the store was built in 1840. It is unclear if the Tafts built the store as a place to sell their wares, or as a service to their growing number of employees. The village was originally more roughly divided between Woodstock and Hartland, but a town boundary adjustment in 1851 placed most of the village into Woodstock.</p><br>
<p>Hauz-i-Shamsi  is a water storage reservoir or tank built by Iltutmish of the Slave Dynasty in 1230 CE, at a location revealed to him in a dream by the Islamic prophet Muhammad. A palace called the Jahaz Mahal was built on the eastern edge of the same reservoir during the Lodi dynasty period in the 16th century as a retreat or Inn for use by pilgrims. Also at the edge of Hauz is the tomb of 17th century Persian writer in the Mughal court, Abdul-Haqq Dehlavi. The monuments are situated in Mehrauli, Delhi.</p><br>
<h2>Legend</h2><br>
<p>A popular legend narrated is of Iltumish’s dream in which Muhammad directed him to build a reservoir at a particular site. When Iltumish inspected the site the day after his dream, he reported to have found a hoof print of Muhammad&#39;s horse. He then erected a pavilion to mark the sacred location and excavated a large tank (reservoir) around the pavilion to harvest rain water.</p><br>
<p>According to Sharma: "A red stone domed pavilion resting on twelve pillars located near the south-western corner of the tank, but originally believed to have been situated in its centre, is identified with the pavilion built by Iltumish. The original stone with hoof print is believed to have been removed, the present stone being a later renewal. The waters of the tank are regarded as sacred, and several graves of Muslim saints lie around it."</p><br>
<p>Another version of the legend linked is that Muhammad appeared in a dream not only to Iltumish but also to the Muslim sufi saint KhawajaQutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki R.A. indicating the same particular location, where the hoof print of Muhammad’s horse was imprinted, for the construction of a water tank. Since drinking water supply was acute in the newly founded capital of Iltumish (the first medieval city of Qila Rai Pithora of Delhi) a tank was dug at the location indicated in the dream, which resulted in water jetting out from a spring source. It was, thereafter, named as Hauz-i-Shamsi, and Khawaja, the saint who divined it, came to be known as Hazrat Qutbuddin Bakhtiar Kaki or simply Kaki. The name Kaki was attributed to him by virtue of this keramat (miracle). The Khawaja died in 1235 AD. He is buried in Mehrauli (near the Qutab Minar) and it is inferred that Qutub Minar was also named after him. His dargah or tomb is considered one of India&#39;s oldest and revered shrines. His exalted divinity has also been extolled by Moinuddin Chishti who had said:Kaki was such an exalted divine person that even Moinuddin Chishti had decreed that those coming to seek his blessing should first pay homage to the former. The practice is still adhered to.</p><br>
<h2>Reservoir</h2><br>
<p>Hauz-i-Shamsi originally covered an area of 2 hectare. The domed pavilion (pictured) constructed by Iltumish to mark the foot print Muhammad’s horse located in the middle of the tank is a double storeyed structure made of red sandstone supported on twelve pillars. It could be approached only by boat (now a foot bridge exists). The original stone, on which the foot print of the horse of Muhammad was imprinted, was located at this pavilion. It has since been removed but replaced by a new one. In view of its religious significance, the water stored in the tank was considered sacred. Many famous emperors and saints have been buried on the periphery of the reservoir. Because of reduction in the size of the reservoir over the years, due to encroachments and siltation, pavilion&#39;s present location is seen in the eastern edge of the tank.</p><br>
<p>A Jharna or water fall emanating from the Hauz-i-Shamsi is located close to the Jahaz Mahal. It is identified as a significant water structure that had been developed by Nawab Ghaziuddin around 1700 AD as a pleasure garden during the Mughal rule. An underground pipe (still visible in ruins) supplied the runoff to the Jharna from Hauz-i–Shamshi. This was in addition to an open channel close by that carried the overflow of the tank to Tughlaqabad fort to enhance the drinking water supply.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>Hauz-i-Shamsi and the Jharna, which are in state of deterioration, has drawn the attention of the Delhi High Court. The High Court commented severely on the inaction of the concerned authorities on their upkeep of the monuments and observed:Since 2000, we have been hearing this case and only files are getting thicker. The concerned authorities should now start taking action, seriously.</p><br>
<p>A conservation architect has remarked:The Jharna is an extremely significant water structure and connected with protected monuments like Jahaz Mahal and Hauz-i-Shamsid. However, the multiplicity of ownership has led to neglect of the monument. The festival here is held by the MCD and the land otherwise belongs to the DDA. Ideally, the archaeological department or the ASI should take it over along with the MCD and the DDA ensuring that the environment around it is restored and the encroachments removed.</p><br>
<p>Hauz-i-Shamsi is also considered as one of the heritage components of the historic & traditional water management systems of the city of Delhi and is mandated to be conserved under a ruling of the High Court.</p><br>
<p>Ligovsky pond  is artificial lake existing in Ligovo, suburb of Saint Petersburg  in 1716-1941.</p><br>
<p>In 1703 Peter I had been based the city of Saint Petersburg and this area became capital suburb.</p><br>
<p>In 1710s emperor has taken part in destiny of settlement - it has enjoined to block the Dudergofka river in 1715.</p><br>
<p>On a dam the watermill which specialised on flour-grinding and felting works has been constructed.</p><br>
<p>Simultaneously with barrage of Dudergofka river has been dug the Ligovsky channel.</p><br>
<p>It has taken away an essential part of water from Dudergofka and the artificial lake became a source of water for Ligovo.</p><br>
<p>At that time surrounding district represented imperial grange for maintenance of a palace with the foodstuffs; there was a dairy farm, kitchen gardens.</p><br>
<p>When in 1765 owner of district became Grigory Orlov, for it on the bank of lake buildings have been built.</p><br>
<p>On the western coast of a pond were the house with landing stage and economic constructions.</p><br>
<p>On east coast the manour house where Orlov accepted Russian empress Catherine II has been constructed.</p><br>
<p>After 1783, when Grigory Orlov is dead, earths of Ligovo have been inherited by its pupil Natalia Alekseeva, she was married for aide-de-camp of Orlov Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden.</p><br>
<p>In 1840s the manor of Buxhoeveden has passed to count G. G. Kushelev-Bezbordko (younger), it has continued useful agricultural activity of count Orlov, and Ligovo became an exemplary agricultural manor.</p><br>
<p>Have spent a network of avenues and paths, have created specific hills, have dug out ponds.</p><br>
<p>The house has a connected covered transition to kitchen, to the north from it have organised separate zones — an orchard with greenhouses, stables, the bird&#39;s and cattle courtyard.</p><br>
<p>Lake coast too have improved - by the architect A. Stackenschneider have been constructed terrace, going down from the house to lake, a grotto on love island.</p><br>
<p>After Kushelev-Bezbordko&#39;s death the manor gradually fell into decay.</p><br>
<p>In 1857 in Ligovo has come Baltic railway, by the end 1870s vicinities Ligovsky pond became country area; on lake summer residents went for a drive on boats.</p><br>
<p>To October Revolution in 1917 the lake, a dam and a mill were supported as it should be.</p><br>
<p>After that the mill has stopped, contemporaries recollected that water falls fell from a dam.</p><br>
<p>The pond mirror was supported by a dam of a mill till 1941. On 5 December 1941 German armies destroyed the dam on the approach to Leningrad. After the Second World War hydraulic work was not restored. On a lake place the big ravine which has grown with a bush settles down. The territory of the former lake is not built up - it is a memorial zone: in fights on this place was lost more than 700 persons. Near to the former lake the memorial Orthodox church is under construction.</p><br>
<p>The Waterloo Historic District encompasses the site of one of the first mills on the Warner River, near the Waterloo Falls in Warner, New Hampshire. The 50 acre district includes most of the original 60 acre land grant for the mill site. It extends along Waterloo Street and Newmarket Street for a length of about 1 mi, from where Newmarket Street crosses the Warner River to where Waterloo Street crosses a brook. In addition to its industrial history, the district is notable for being home to two nationally known politicians: William E. Chandler , who served as United States Senator and as United States Secretary of the Navy, and Nehemiah G. Ordway , the seventh governor of the Dakota Territory.</p><br>
<p>This part of Warner was first sold off for development in the 1770s, and the first sawmill was operating by 1789. The oldest surviving house in the district, a 1.5 story Cape style house, was built in 1791, and a significant number of houses in the district were built before 1820. William Chandlers house, purchased by him in 1872, was built in 1805, and he purchased a nearby 1820s house for staff he needed for entertaining high-profile guests. Nehemiah Ordways house, at the corner of Newmarket and Waterloo, was built in 1828, but was restyled in the early 20th century to give it a Colonial Revival appearance.</p><br>
<p>Several non-residential buildings have survived, although most have been repurposed into residences. The Bean Tavern is a Georgian structure built in 1793. Two structures that served as train stations survive, one built in 1849, which was moved a short distance to make way for the second, built in 1910. The principal surviving industrial building is the 1836 Chandler Mill, whose surviving 2.5 story portion stands off Newmarket Street between the railroad tracks and the river. Remnants of earlier mill foundations lie nearby. The district also includes a cemetery (1815), and a c. 1810 one-room schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. It also includes the Waterloo Covered Bridge, a separately-listed bridge which carries Newmarket Street over the river.</p><br>
<p>Anchor Church is the name given to a series of caves in a Keuper Sandstone  outcrop, close to the village of Ingleby, Derbyshire, England. The caves have been extended by human intervention to form a crude dwelling place, complete with door and window holes.</p><br>
<p>The sandstone outcrop once formed part of the banks of the River Trent and the caves were formed by the action of the river on the rock. The course of the river has altered and left the caves opening onto a backwater pool. It has been designated as both a Regionally Important Geological Site, and as a Local Wildlife Site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The name Anchor Church is derived from the term anchorite (from the Greek ἀναχωρέω anachōreō, "to withdraw" or "to depart into the countryside") because it is thought to have been the cell of an Anchorite hermit, St Hardulph, who lived and prayed here in the 6th and 7th century. The nearby church at Breedon on the Hill is dedicated to this saint. In the Middle Ages, the caves were used by a monk named Bernard, who died here whilst doing penance for his involvement in some unknown crime. Records of the caves exist from 1658 when it is mentioned in Repton church records.</p><br>
<p>William Woolley, writing around 1715, said: “About half a mile eastward (from Foremark Hall), upon the side of the Trent, is a large cave dug out of a rock in the form of a chapel, called Anker church. It has been, as tradition informs us, an anchorite’s cell and it really is a most solitary, pleasant place”.</p><br>
<p>D P Davies, in 1811, described the caves: “Several excavations, or cells, which communicate with each other and give a probability to the tradition of its having been the residence of an anchorite; whence it has derived the name of Anchor Church.”</p><br>
<p>The cave featured in a painting by Thomas Smith of Derby in 1745.</p><br>
<p>The Burdett family of Foremarke Hall enlarged the caves to the present size in the 18th century, fitting a door in 1845 and some additional brickwork, including a set of steps to the main entrance. Sir Francis Burdett used the caves as a summerhouse and held picnics there. Forming part of the romantic landscape of Formarke Hall and its park in the 18th century, Anchor Church was an important destination for its owners and their guests, allowing them to walk and admire views out over the Trent valley.</p><br>
<p>The caves are nowadays on the route of several popular walks in the area. Anchor Church is a Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<p>In 2015, a large area of the valley over which Anchor Church has a commanding view was subject to a planning application for gravel extraction. It formed part of a 61 hectare extension to Swarkestone Quarry by Tarmac Aggregates Limited.</p><br>
<h2>Natural history</h2><br>
<p>Anchor Church is included on the list of Derbyshire Regionally Important Geological Sites (RIGS), and is also listed as a Local Wildlife Site.</p><br>
<p>Species of note found here include wall pennywort (Umbilicus rupestris) which grows on the rocks themselves, plus shining pondweed (Potamogeton lucens), a very rare "Red Data List" plant in Derbyshire, found in the backwater channel below the rocks and two other sites elsewhere in the county. Other species of note recorded near Anchor Church include Eurasian otter, and 1970s records of small water-pepper (Persicaria minor).</p><br>
<p>Paço de São Cristóvão  is a palace located in the Quinta da Boa Vista park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. It is the former residence of the Emperors of Brazil. It currently houses the National Museum of Brazil.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the early 19th century, the area known as Quinta da Boa Vista (Good View Estate) belonged to Elias Antun Lubos, Elias António Lopes in portuguese, a rich Lebanese merchant, who in 1803 built a manor house on top of a hill. When the Portuguese court was transferred to Brazil, in 1808, Elias António Lopes donated his farm to the Prince Regent John VI. John VI appreciated the gift and stayed for long periods in the manor house.</p><br>
<p>The Portuguese Royal Family had been living in the Paço Imperial since their arrival in Rio de Janeiro in 1808. To better accommodate the royal family, in 1819 John VI had the manor house of the Quinta da Boa Vista renovated, transforming it into a royal palace. The renovation was directed by English architect John Johnston and was completed in 1821. In front of the palace, Johnston installed a decorative portico, a gift sent from England to Brazil by Hugh Percy, 2nd Duke of Northumberland.</p><br>
<p>After the declaration of Independence of Brazil, in 1822, the palace became the residence of Emperor Pedro I. The remodelling and expansion of the palace continued under Portuguese architect Manuel da Costa (1822–1826), followed by French architect Pedro José Pezerát (1826–1831), credited as the author of the definitive Neoclassical project of the building. He added a new tower to the left of the main façade and added a third floor to the palace. The works were continued after 1847 by Brazilian artist Manuel de Araújo Porto-alegre, who harmonised the style of the façades, followed by the German Theodore Marx (1857–1868). Italian painter Mario Bragaldi decorated many of the rooms of the palace, including the Throne Room and the Ambassadors Room, with paintings in trompe-lœil.</p><br>
<p>After the marriage of Pedro I and Princess Maria Leopoldina of Austria, in 1817, the Imperial couple resided in the palace. Here were born the future Queen of Portugal, Maria II, as well as the future Emperor of Brazil Pedro II. Empress Maria Leopoldina died in the palace in 1826.</p><br>
<p>Pedro II, future Emperor, grew up and was educated in the palace, and in 1869 ordered the remodelling of the gardens. French garden designer Auguste François Marie Glaziou was put in charge of the project, which included artificial lakes, bridges, caves and fake ancient temples, all following the Romantic trend of the time. Pedro II&#39;s children were also born in the palace, including Princess Isabel, famous for having abolished slavery from Brazil in 1888.</p><br>
<p>After the Proclamation of the Republic in 1889, the Imperial family left the country and the palace and its surrounding gardens became empty.</p><br>
<p>In 1891, the building was used by Brazilian politicians writing the first Republican Constitution of the country.</p><br>
<p>In 1892, the director of the National Museum of Rio de Janeiro managed to transfer the institution from the Campo de Santana to the palace. The inner decoration of the palace was dispersed, but part of it can still be found in other museums, like the Imperial Museum of Petrópolis, in which the Throne Room was reassembled.</p><br>
<h3>Historical</h3><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<h3>Grounds</h3><br>
<p>Quinta da Boa Vista - Templo de Apolo 01.jpg"Temple of Apollo"</p><br>
<p>The Thomas L. Kane Memorial Chapel is a historic church located in Kane, Pennsylvania, in McKean County. The small, stone Gothic Revival chapel was constructed from 1876 to 1878 and was dedicated to the American Civil War General Thomas L. Kane, a founder of Kane. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 29, 1978.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church was designed by Henry J. Taylor of Philadelphia and was the first Presbyterian church in McKean County. The church was dedicated to General Kane, who had donated the land for the church, and was situated such that the congregation would be facing in the direction of Jerusalem. Kane died in 1883 and, at his request, was interred outside the church, between the two front entrances.</p><br>
<p>The church was purchased by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in 1970, to function as a memorial to Kane, who was a supporter of the Mormons and had acted as a mediator between the Mormons and the federal government. The church also functions as a branch of the Family History Library. A replica of the statue of Kane in the Utah State Capitol was placed outside the church.</p><br>
<p>On Aug 1, 2014, the LDS Church donated the church to the Kane Historic Preservation Society as part of the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the founding of Kane.</p><br>
<p>Anoatok , now Kane Manor, was built by the widow of American Civil War General Thomas L. Kane. The mansions name alludes to the exploits of the late Generals brother, Elisha Kane, the Arctic explorer. Anoatok is located in Kane, Pennsylvania, in McKean County. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Anoatok was designed by the Philadelphia architectural firm Cope & Stewardson and was constructed in 1896 for Dr. Elizabeth Dennistoun Wood Kane. The Georgian Colonial Revival-style mansion was built after the original Kane "homestead" burned to the ground in 1896. Elizabeth died in 1909, leaving the house to her sons Dr. Evan ONeill Kane and Dr. Thomas L. Kane. Thomas moved out in 1910 when his house was built, also designed by Cope & Stewardson. The house was converted in the mid-1930s into an inn by Evans son, Elisha Kent Kane III. The house was sold out of the family in 1983 and is now operated as a bed and breakfast.</p><br>
<p>Marlowe Elementary School was built in 1922 as an eight-room school to serve grades 1 through 8 in Marlowe, West Virginia. The new school allowed a number of one-room schools in the area to be closed.</p><br>
<p>The Marlowe School is a two story brick building on a concrete base. As originally built there were four rooms on each of the two main levels, with a cafeteria and mechanical rooms in the basement. Each classroom was provided with a coatroom. Windows were concentrated on the front and rear of the building with sparsely fenestrated ends. A central stairway serves all levels. The classrooms retain their original wood wainscoting and much of their original character. One story additions have been added to the rear from the 1970s on. The building presently serves grades K through 3 as a primary school.</p><br>
<p>The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006 as the Marlowe Consolidated School.</p><br>
<p>The Cedar Point Light is a restored lighthouse on the grounds of the Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, United States. The original lighthouse at the site was built in 1839, and a front range light was added to the station in 1853. A new lighthouse, the structure which stands today, was completed in 1867. This light served as a navigational aid until 1904, in which year the light tower was removed from atop the dwelling. In the ensuing years it was kept in use by the federal government as a buoy depot, a radio beacon station and a search and rescue boat station. These last duties were transferred to Marblehead Coast Guard Station in 1975, and the Cedar Point station was discontinued. Cedar Point Amusement Park acquired the structure around 1990, and spent the decade refurbishing the dwelling and reconstructing the light tower. The lighthouse opened as part of a vacation cottage development in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Cedar Point Light was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Hartford Library is the public library serving the village of Hartford, Vermont. It is located at 1587 Maple Street, in an architecturally distinguished Queen Anne/Colonial Revival building constructed in 1893. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and history</h2><br>
<p>The Hartford Library is located in the village of Hartford, on the north side of Maple Street (Vermont Route 14), a short way west of the White River bridge. It is a domestically scaled 2-1/2 story wood frame building, with a hip roof and an exterior clad in wooden clapboards on the upper levels and in red brick veneer on the ground floor. The roof faces have low and wide shed-roof dormers, and a pyramidal square tower rises at the southwest corner. A flared series of wooden shingle courses separated the two floors. The front entrance is sheltered by a gabled portico with a round-arched front.</p><br>
<p>The library was built in 1893 to a design by Lyman Whipple, and was the first of the towns five libraries. It is also one of the oldest dedicated library buildings in the state. It is one of the least-altered Late Victorian buildings in Hartford village, and has long been an anchor of community activities. The towns first library association was founded in 1883, and the present building was funded by a group of the town&#39;s leading businessmen, including Edward W. Morris, president of the Hartford Woolen Mill, and Ephraim Morris, who gave $5000 for its construction.</p><br>
<p>The Venoge  is a Swiss river located in the canton of Vaud, a tributary of the Rhône, via Lake Geneva. The Swiss poet Jean Villard Gilles has written a poem about it, La Venoge, in 1954.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Venoge has its source at L&#39;Isle in the canton of Vaud and flows 44 km down to Lake Geneva, by Saint-Sulpice.</p><br>
<h3>Course</h3><br>
<p>Between its source in L&#39;Isle and Lake Geneva, la Venoge runs through Cuarnens, La Chaux, Moiry, Chevilly, Ferreyres, La Sarraz, Éclépens, Lussery-Villars, Daillens, Cossonay, Penthalaz, Penthaz, Gollion, Vufflens-la-Ville, Aclens, Bussigny-près-Lausanne, Bremblens, Échandens, Écublens, Denges, Préverenges to finally reach Saint-Sulpice.</p><br>
<h3>Tributaries</h3><br>
<p>Le Veyron</p><br>
<p>La Molombe</p><br>
<p>La Senoge</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Venoge was called Venobia in 814, Venubia in 937, Vinogia in 7th century, Venopia in 1313 and Venogy in 1316. Its name is probably of Celtic origin.</p><br>
<p>In 1913 it was described as splitting at La Sarraz, with the smaller part joining to the Mozon, which flows into Lake Neuchâtel at Yverdon-les-Bains, and the main part turning to the south and flowing into Lake Geneva east of Morges.</p><br>
<p>The river has been subject to heavy pollution during the 20th century. The building of more and better sewage plants along its course has led to an improvement since 1990.</p><br>
