<p>Beinn Luibhean is one of the Arrochar Alps in the Argyll Highlands of Scotland, located to the northern side of Glen Croe between Loch Long in Dunbartonshire to the East and Loch Fyne in the Remote Highlands of Argyll to the West. The landscape to the West of Loch Long changes as the shoreline provides the gateway to Argyll, the district in the Western Highlands of Scotland that form the first ingredients to a wilderness and has a real sense of remoteness and isolation from the Lowlands and Populated parts of the Central Belt. The Arrochar Alps are a Mountain Range which Run from the Loch Goil in the South and West towards Tyndrum in the North. Beinn Luibhean stands at a height of 2816 ft, 857m. The Nearest Mountains to Beinn Luibhean include The Cobbler, Beinn Ime and Beinn Narnain. Glen Croe is a large passage going through mountainous Argyll landscape and links up to the rest of the Highlands.</p><br>
<p>Stob an Eas is a 2401 ft  Graham in the Arrochar Alps, Argyll and Bute, Scotland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Lying above Glen Kinglass, 4 miles north of Lochgoilhead, Stob an Eas forms part of the Arrochar Alps and is the essence of remote Argyll scenery. It forms the western edge of a ridge running between the shore of Loch Fyne, south of Cairndow and Beinn an Lochain, at the head of the Rest & Be Thankful and Butterbridge at Glen Croe.</p><br>
<p>Stob an Eas is usually seen from the road north of Lochgoilhead and provides an iconic view from the village. Lochgoilhead is at the heart of remote Argyll landscape. To the south of Stob an Eas lies Glen Goil, a flat area of marshland leading to Loch Goil. Glen Goil, believed to have once been the head of the loch, is surrounded by more of the Arrochar Alps, including Ben Donich. To the south-east of Stob an Eas lies Gleann Mor, leading west to the Rest & Be Thankful. Ardgartan, on the western shore of Loch Long, forms a gateway into the Arrochar Alps through Glen Croe to the picturesque landscapes of Argyll.</p><br>
<p>To the east of Stob an Eas is the mountains parent peak, Beinn an Lochain. Once classified as a Munro, it is now regarded as a 2956 ft Corbett. The Rest and Be Thankful and Butterbridge are 3 miles further east. To the south west is Hells Glen, a passage to Loch Fyne. Loch Fyne, at over 40 miles, is Scotland&#39;s longest sea loch.</p><br>
<h2>Footnotes</h2><br>
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<p>Cedar Rock Falls  is a waterfall in Transylvania County, North Carolina, USA.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Cedar Rock Falls is a 20&#39; waterfall located on Cedar Rock Creek, near the Pisgah Center for Wildlife Education and Fish Hatchery in Pisgah National Forest, North Carolina. It is located downstream of the junction of Cedar Rock and Grogan Creeks. The junction lies in a small, flat valley plateau known as Picklesimer Fields. The combined stream, called Cedar Rock Creek, flows from this plateau over a series of falls and cascades.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>The falls is located in an area rich with mosses, eastern hemlock, and Rosebay Rhododendron. A rich spray-cliff plant community exists behind the falls, in the microclimate which is moderated by the falling water and spray mist.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting the Falls</h2><br>
<p>From the intersection of USA Highway 276, USA Highway 64, and NC Highway 280 in Brevard, North Carolina, travel north for 5.2 miles and head west of Forest Road 475, traveling 1.5 miles to the trailhead at the fish hatchery. The 0.81 mile moderate-difficulty trail follows the Cat Gap Loop trail.</p><br>
<h2>Nearby falls</h2><br>
<p>Grogan Creek Falls</p><br>
<p>Looking Glass Falls</p><br>
<p>Slick Rock Falls</p><br>
<p>Moore Cove Falls</p><br>
<p>Sliding Rock</p><br>
<p>Log Hollow Falls</p><br>
<p>Falls on Log Hollow Branch</p><br>
<p>Waterfall on West Prong Hickey Fork is a waterfall located in the Bald Mountains of the Pisgah National Forest in Madison County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The falls flows on West Prong Hickey Fork Creek. It begins as a slide and ends in a near-vertical 30-foot drop into a flat pool at the bottom. The falls hosts a spray-cliff community on mossy rocks. Further downstream, West Prong Hickey Fork continues on a long, sliding cascade as the creek descends over 500&#39; to join with Shelton Laurel Creel, eventually flowing into the French Broad River.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting the Falls</h2><br>
<p>From the junction of US 25/70 and NC 208, head north on 208 for 3.4 miles. Turn right on NC 212 and drive 6.8 miles. Turn left on SR 1310, which will eventually become Forest Road 465 for 1.1 miles to the parking area. Follow the 1¼ mile difficult trail to the falls. Beyond the falls, after 2 more connections, this trail will connect to the Appalachian Trail.</p><br>
<p>Toms Creek Falls is a waterfall in the Pisgah National Forest in McDowell County, North Carolina, near the town of Marion.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The 60-foot falls are located on Toms Creek. The creek flows over several cascading upper sections of bedrock into a near-vertical lower cascade, ending in a small scoop in the rocks. A wide, flat pool area is at the base, located in a gully that has large amounts of mica embedded in the rock.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting the Falls</h2><br>
<p>From the junction of US 221 and US 70 in Marion, go north on US 221 for 5.6 miles. Turn left on Huskins Branch Rd. and go 1.2 miles to a small parking area located before the bridge that crosses Toms Creek. From the Parking lot, follow the moderate-difficulty 0.4 mile trail to a short, moderately steep climb and scramble down to the base of the falls. A small creek crossing used to be required, but a bridge has been built over the creek. An old mine is located just downstream of the plunge pool.</p><br>
<h2>Nearby Falls</h2><br>
<p>Catawba Falls</p><br>
<p>Linville Falls</p><br>
<p>Crabtree Falls</p><br>
<p>Stuckey&#39;s Bridge is a bridge spanning the Chunky River just outside Meridian, Mississippi. The bridge was listed as a Mississippi Landmark on August 4, 1984, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 16, 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The bridge was originally built as the main route across the Chunky River southwest of Meridian. Documents in the Lauderdale County Archives reveal the contract to construct a bridge in this location was written in 1847, and estimates place the bridge&#39;s construction date around 1850. A new bridge replaced the old one in 1901, built by the Virginia Bridge and Iron Company.</p><br>
<h2>Legends</h2><br>
<p>According to legend, a member of the Dalton Gang named "Stuckey" owned a nearby inn where he would rob and murder his guests and bury his victims bodies on the riverbank. The legend says that after murdering twenty people, Stuckey was finally caught and hanged from the newly constructed bridge located on the site of his murders. Rumours of Stuckey haunting the bridge arose as well as claimed sightings of an old man carrying a lantern along the rivers edge, loud splashes that supposedly represent Stuckeys body hitting the water after his noose was cut, and visions of his lifeless corpse hanging from the bridge.</p><br>
<p>Tzippori Synagogue  is an ancient synagogue discovered in Tzippori, a Roman-era Jewish city in the Galilee, now an archaeological site and a national park in Israel.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Based on numismatic evidence, the synagogue appears to have been built in the first half of the fifth century. It was located on the northern side of the city, not far from the city center. Measuring 20.7 meters long and 8 meters wide, it is the narrowest ancient synagogue uncovered in the Land of Israel. The bimah was located in the western wall, not oriented towards Jerusalem as in other synagogues of that era.</p><br>
<p>The Mishna describes Tzippori as having had 18 synagogues at the time of the funeral of Rabbi Judah haNasi in the late second century CE.</p><br>
<h2>Discovery</h2><br>
<p>The mosaic floor of the ancient synagogue was discovered in 1993 by a crew building a parking lot at the edge of the national archaeological park of Tzippori. It is one of a handful of illustrated synagogue mosaics uncovered in Israel. Archaeologist Zeev Weiss, then a graduate student at the Hebrew University, and his teacher, archaeologist Ehud Netzer were called to the scene, and Weiss uncovered the floor and its environs.</p><br>
<h2>Mosaics</h2><br>
<p>The mosaic floor is divided into seven parts. Near the entrance is a scene showing the angels visiting Sarah. The next section shows the binding of Isaac. There is a large Zodiac with the names of the months written in Hebrew. Helios sits in the middle, in his sun chariot. Next, there is a row of three panels depicting the offerings in the Temple at Jerusalem, including the "tamid" sacrifice, the showbread and the basket of first fruits. Above this is a depiction of Aaron offering sacrifices in the Tabernacle. Above that is another row of three panels, a Torah Ark, depicted as a pedimented building, and an incense shovel representing the incense shovels used in the Temple, flanked by two panels each displaying the seven-branched Menorah from the Temple at Jerusalem surrounded by symbols of the Jewish holidays including the Lulav and Shofar. The top, or front of the building section of the floor, another row of three panels, shows two lions flanking a wreath, their paws resting on the head of an ox.</p><br>
<p>The largest panel or central sections of the mosaic is laid out as a large square containing a circle within a circle. This shows the Zodiac with Helios driving his chariot. As with the Hammat Tiberias Synagogue and the Beit Alfa Synagogue, the Zodiac panel at Tzippori features Spandrels depicting the four seasons.</p><br>
<p>An Aramaic mosaic inscription in honor of the donors reads: "May he be remembered for good Yudan son of Isaac the Priest and Paragri his daughter, Amen, Amen."</p><br>
<p>The Edificio José de Diego  in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, also known as the Rectoría, is a historic building on the grounds of the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez. It was built in 1913. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Its construction began in 1913 and concluded in 1916 as the Science Building. It was slightly affected by the 1918 San Fermín earthquake, it housed the administrative offices, the library and nine class rooms. As a result of a 1921 remodeling its new tower was added where later the clock was placed. Since then the rectory building is named the José de Diego building in honor of the campus&#39;s founder.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Although its constructive aesthetics presents a great eclecticism, is important to indicate the entrance of the great facade. Follow the steps of the central staircase regular service, stand two columns - "dístilo" smooth shaft and reduced éntasis, with its pedestal, “basa”, toscano-romano capital marked “astragalo”. This is the most estimable attention to aesthetic impact section. On the two abacus terminals holds a short frieze with the inscription in English the name of the school. Below is the date with the year 1916.</p><br>
<p>The construction is of two floors and irregular masonry. It consists of two large horizontal lateral "masses" and a central rectangular. In the middle section rises the Tower surrounded by balustrades and four campaniformes floreados pinnacles below of the cantilever roof supported by plates; inside lies the "Carillon" service, with external exits to their respective clocks. The turret is covered with a coverage to four aspects; its Center highlights a "chapitelillo" tip. The structure has many openings in administrative functionalism and be made at a time in which there was no air conditioning. The structure began to be constructed in 1913 as Sciences building.</p><br>
<p>Crabtree Falls is a waterfall located near the boundary of McDowell County and Yancey County, North Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>Geology and Natural History</h2><br>
<p>Crabtree Falls is a 70 ft. cascade on Big Crabtree Creek. The creek spreads over a rock face with many small ledges, giving it a delicate appearance, before trickling into a clear pool at the base. Though there are hardly any crabtrees here now, in the spring, an impressive array of wildflowers abound on the trail, including four species of trillium. By July, ferns fill the forest and soak in the spray of the falls, with rosebay rhododendron in bloom.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Celo USGS topographic quadrangle map labels this falls "Upper Falls", and shows another waterfall some distance away and on another creek being called Crabtree Falls. Originally, the falls was known as Murphy&#39;s Falls and a small community was located nearby, including a church and blacksmith shop. When the Blue Ridge Parkway was constructed in the 1930s, the falls was renamed Crabtree Falls by the National Park Service.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting the falls</h2><br>
<p>The trailhead is located outside Crabtree Falls Campground at mile marker 339.5 on the Blue Ridge Parkway. A trail leads to a footbridge over the creek at the base of the falls. The trailhead loop starts at the parking area just before the entrance to the campground, and is a medium to strenuous hike at just under 2.5 miles in length. The path to the falls is a rugged, downhill 0.9-mile, with a gentler 1.5-mile uphill return following Crabtree creek upstream before looping back to the parking area.</p><br>
<h2>Nearby Falls</h2><br>
<p>Murphy Falls</p><br>
<p>Big Crabtree Falls</p><br>
<p>Grassy Creek Falls</p><br>
<p>Falls of Gouges Creek</p><br>
<p>Bull Cove Falls is a waterfall located in the southwestern Appalachian Mountains in North Carolina.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Bull Cove Creek rises just north of the border of North Carolina and Georgia. The creek flows west over the falls, eventually merging into Beech Creek, a tributary of the Tallulah River. Bull Cove Falls itself is a two-part cascade that flows over bedrock.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting the Falls</h2><br>
<p>To access the falls, travel on US 76 about 8 miles south from the state line. Turn right onto Persimmon Road and go 4.1 miles to Tallulah River Road. The trailhead for Bull Cove Falls is 7.6 miles up this road. The trail to the falls is a strenuous 1 mile one-way trek, and due to the wilderness nature of the area, hikers must be prepared for backcountry travel.</p><br>
<h2>Nearby Falls</h2><br>
<p>High Falls of Beech Creek</p><br>
<p>Big Laurel Falls</p><br>
<p>Mooney Falls</p><br>
<p>The Pigford Building, also known as Pythian Castle Hall, is a three-story red brick building in downtown Meridian, Mississippi. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on December 18, 1979.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building, constructed in 1914 by the Knights of Pythias Mount Barton Lodge No. 13, was originally known as the Pythian Castle Hall. It served as a home for the organization&#39;s weekly meetings. In the 1920s, the building was bought by Pigford Realty, who rented the building out to small businesses. Offices were located on the second floor while a ballroom occupied the third. Between 1933 and 1976, a post office and drug store owned by R.M. Hamil operated out of the first floor of the building. Other businesses have located inside the building since its construction including restaurants, beauty salons, and dress shops.</p><br>
<p>A graphic design business and tanning salon were located in the building in the 1990s, and after the business closed the entire building was gutted and renovated. A dress shop named Alexander&#39;s, owned by Debbie Moorehead, was opened in 1999, and the two upper floors of the building were closed to the public in 2000. A new dress shop named Dream It is now located on the first floor of the building and owned by Theresa Long.</p><br>
<h2>Reports of hauntings</h2><br>
<p>The owner of the graphic design business in the building during the 1990s often worked late into the night, so she put together a small sleeping area. While she was there late at night, she reportedly heard footsteps from the second floor. Other occurrences included voices from the buildings intercom system as well as a full-bodied apparition of a lady in a long white dress, which the owners three-year-old cousin saw. The owner later saw the apparition as well and claimed that it did not like men. Objects would reportedly move across the room and doors would slam if male employees were in the building.</p><br>
<p>Employees and customers of Alexanders, the dress shop which opened in 1999, reportedly heard "a womans ghostly laughter." Jewelry and clothes were often found lying on the floor in the mornings after having been hung or pinned up the previous night. On October 15, 1999, J.T. Mohammed, an employee of Alexanders, saw the apparition of the lady in white on the balcony. One employee, who was the only person in the store at the time, later received a phone call from an inside line, and another employee heard voices coming from an empty dressing room. Alan Brown, author of Haunted Places in the American South conducted an investigation into the hauntings in the early 2000s, during which several paranormal experiences were recorded. A door to the roof was nailed shut, clothes moved while they were untouched, and earrings appeared beside Browns assistant&#39;s bed the next morning.</p><br>
<p>Theresa Long, owner of Dream It, and her daughter have both reported vacuum cleaners being turned on while unplugged, and many electronic devices work incorrectly while in the building. Alan Brown visited the building again in 2008 to do a study, after which he labelled the building as haunted.</p><br>
<p>The Virgin Valley is a valley in northwest Arizona and southeast Nevada on the Virgin River. The Virgin River drains southwest Utah and southeast Nevada; parts of Arizona, especially the Arizona Strip region drain southwards into the Virgin River and Valley.</p><br>
<p>The Virgin Valley begins as the Virgin River exits the Virgin River Gorge between the Beaver Dam Mountains and Wilderness north, and the northeast of the Virgin Mountains on the south of the Gorge.</p><br>
<p>Lake Mead on the Virgin River extends slightly upstream into the Virgin Valley.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The valley has mines that are rich in opals. The opals were discovered in about 1913. She became known as the "Opal Queen" owning the Rainbow, Stonetree and Bonanza mines and the "Giant Tree" Opal Claim. She sold the latter in about 1918 and concentrated on the Rainbow and Bonanza mines.wrong area....virgin river is here.virgin valley is in n Nevada...</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Virgin Valley is about 25 mi long. Upstream in the valley&#39;s northeast, Littlefield, AZ is located at the exit of the Virgin River Gorge, as well as two outfalls from two washes that flow south from the Beaver Dam Mountains. Mesquite, NV is downstream, and on Interstate 15 in Nevada, about 10 mi. Mesquite is the approximate center of the valley.</p><br>
<p>The South Virgin Mountains are southeast of the Virgin Valley and Mountains, and separate the northern Overton Arm of Lake Mead from the Colorado River arm. The area north of the South Virgin Mountains is the Mormon Mesa, the southwest border of Virgin Valley. Mormon Mesa is an extension south from the Mormon Mountains which are separated east from the Meadow Valley Wash tributary to north Lake Mead.</p><br>
<p>The Virgin Valley is vertically bisected, north-south by the Nevada-Arizona border. The downstream Nevada half of the valley has the very beginnings of Lake Mead, about 20 mi upstream, where the Virgin River used to flow.</p><br>
<p>Littlefield, AZ in the valley&#39;s northeast is located at 36&deg;54&prime;0&Prime;N latitude, 113&deg;56&prime;0&Prime;W longitude.</p><br>
<p>Mesquite, NV in the valley&#39;s center is located at 36&deg;48&prime;9&Prime;N latitude, 114&deg;4&prime;56&Prime;W longitude.</p><br>
<p>The Bombardment of Ancona was a naval engagement of the Adriatic Campaign of World War I between the navies of Italy and Austria-Hungary. Forces of the Imperial and Royal Navy attacked and bombarded military and civilian targets all across Ancona in central Italy and several other nearby islands and communities in response to Italy&#39;s declaration of war on Austria-Hungary.</p><br>
<p>When Italy declared war against Austria-Hungary on 23 May 1915, the Austrian fleet was quick to react; the navy launched several attacks on the Marche region of Italy. That day, the destroyer and torpedo boat Tb 53T bombarded the port of Ancona. The destroyer, on a reconnaissance mission between Palagruža and Cape Gargano, shelled the semaphore and radio station at Vieste. Defending those waters at the time was the Italian destroyer. A small duel commenced with Lika coming out as the victor, damaging the enemy destroyer.</p><br>
<p>The next day on May 24, the majority of the Austrian fleet at Pula steamed for the Adriatic coast of Italy. This included the dreadnoughts, and eight pre-dreadnoughts. Other Austro-Hungarian ships were already in enemy waters or proceeding to the Ancona coast themselves. The fleet bombarded several of the Italian coastal cities and other targets in and around the Province of Ancona, especially damaging the city of Ancona.</p><br>
<p>SMS Tegetthoff and the destroyer shelled the Italian airship Città di Ferrara off Ancona. The pre-dreadnought and two torpedo boats bombarded Potenza Picena, then returned to Pula naval base. The pre-dreadnought —along with two more torpedo boats—bombarded Senigallia, destroying a train and damaging a railway station and a bridge, before returning to Pula. The torpedo boat was unsuccessfully bombed by an Italian flying boat.</p><br>
<p>Austrian light cruiser bombarded the Italian signal station at Cretaccio Island, while —with two torpedo boats—shelled Rimini, damaging a freight train. The destroyer attacked the signal station near Torre di Mileto. The light cruiser, a destroyer and two torpedo boats entered Corsini Channel and shelled an Italian torpedo boat station, another semaphore station, and few batteries of coastal artillery.</p><br>
<p>The light cruiser —supported by four destroyers—ran into the Italian destroyer Turbine, in a pitched battle south of Pelagosa. The destroyer shelled the railway embankment near Manfredonia while the destroyer shelled the Manfredonia railway station. Finally Austro-Hungarian flying boats dropped ordnance on Venice and seaplane hangars at Chiaravalle.</p><br>
<p>Heavy damage was inflicted by the Austrian navy, and 63 people, both Italian military and civilian personnel, died in Ancona alone. Austrian casualties were minimal if any. The war in the Adriatic Sea continued, culminating in a large British blockade to try to stop the attacking Austro-Hungarian fleet. The "Otranto Barrage" would be raided by the Austro-Hungarians, several times throughout the war.</p><br>
<p>Okanj  is a saline oxbow lake situated near the village of Elemir in the Zrenjanin commune, western Banat, Vojvodina Province, Serbia. It was formed from a meander of the Tisa River  and is now about 4.5 km from the river&#39;s left bank.</p><br>
<p>The whole depression occupies 200 hectares and contains brackish water. In some parts the edges are surrounded by reeds, and there are also extreme saline edges, with short halophylous vegetation.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Herons traditionally breed here and a mixed colony with spoonbills was formed in 1998. In that year there were 47 pairs of great egret (Egretta alba), 33 pairs of grey heron (Ardea cinerea), 27 pairs of purple heron (Ardea purpurea) and 60 pairs of Eurasian spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia).</p><br>
<p>Joulter Cays are small uninhabited islands to the north of Andros Island in the Bahamas. Oolitic sand dominates the intertidal zone around the small islands that are covered with vegetation.</p><br>
<p>The Joulter Cays were designated as an Important Bird Area for the endangered piping plover and short-billed dowitcher in 2012. The National Audubon Society&#39;s International Alliances Program and the Bahamas National Trust was working together to establish, in 2015, the Joulter Cays as a national park. The islands are known as a flyfishing destination for bonefish and permit (fish).</p><br>
<p>Matt Jeffery, Deputy Director of Audubon’s International Alliances Program, called Joulter Cays a true paradise and treasure of the Bahamas, rich in birds, fisheries, and other wildlife. However, some local residents are concerned that a national park status would prohibit their bonefish guiding service to tourists.</p><br>
<p>Brook Farm is a historic country estate farm at 4203 Twenty Mile Stream Road in Cavendish, Vermont. It includes one of the state&#39;s grandest Colonial Revival mansion houses , and surviving outbuildings of a model farm of the turn of the 20th century. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. The property is now home to the Brook Farm Vineyard.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Brook Farm is located on 45 acre in rural northwestern Cavendish, with its complex of buildings set on the west side of Twenty Mile Stream Road. The property includes rolling fields separated by rows of trees and stone walls, and overlooks Twenty Mile Stream to the east. Most of the farm buildings are arrayed along a basically semicircular drive, with the house, horse stable, and cow barn dominating the collection of about ten buildings. The main house is a rectangular 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, set on a stone foundation, with extensions in the shape of a backwards L on the west side. The main block has a gambrel roof with dormers on both sides, and a small gable above the main entrance at the center of the south side. A single-story porch, in parts with an open roof, wraps around the south, east and north sides, with projecting pavilions at the two corners. The porch projects in front of the entrance, with an open balcony area above. Both the main entrance and the balcony entrance have a Palladian arrangement of sash windows on either side of the door. The interior of house is richly decorated with woodwork and vaulted plaster ceilings in the public rooms.</p><br>
<p>Farming began on this property in 1788, and it grew over the 19th century to become one of Cavendishs largest and most successful dairy farms. In 1881 it was purchased by James H. Bates, a cousin of the previous owner, who had found success as a businessman in Brooklyn, New York and Kalamazoo, Michigan. Bates transformed the property into a model farm, and moved the original farmstead to another location in order to build the mansion house that stands today. Documentation suggests that Middlebury architect Clinton Smith was involved in its design, on which construction was completed in 1894. Most of the remaining farm buildings date to the late 19th century, although the original 1790 barn was part of the Batess original plan. That barn collapsed in 1988. The property is now a vineyard.</p><br>
<p>The historical importance of this property and others were evaluated in a study, "Agricultural Resources of Vermont MPS".</p><br>
<p>Universal Laboratories Building is a building in Dassel, Minnesota, United States, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was listed on the National Register for its role in the production of ergot from the mid-1930s through the late 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The business was established in 1935 as Rice Laboratories, as a manufacturer of yeast for livestock feed. Yeast was used as a feed supplement because the enzymes fermenting in the digestive tracts of hogs and poultry would break down food and help in nutrient absorption. In 1937, the company built a new building on the north edge of town. In that same year, the manager of the company, Lester R. Peel, started production of ergot. Local farmers were discarding rye that was infected with sclerotia growths, because the ergot could cause deadly poisoning. Peel, a former school teacher, understood that the ergot also had medical applications, such as controlling postpartum bleeding and treating vasoconstriction, hypertension, vascular headaches, and migraines.</p><br>
<p>Peel gave the ergot business the name Universal Laboratories. Production initially began with ergotic rye bought from local farmers. Universal Laboratories staff would then bring the rye through small mills that would break up the rye kernels. They would then pick the grain from the conveyor belt and let the ergot fall into a receptacle for bagging. The company also hired people to work from their homes in Dassel picking and bagging ergot. Later, the process was improved by new machines that automated the process of separating the ergot from the rye. The grain was passed through mills that would flow into gravity separators, which had spiraling chutes that would separate the light ergot kernels from the heavier rye kernels.</p><br>
<p>Peel had good timing getting into the ergot business, because supplies in the United States had been subject to disruption. Russia was the worlds principal exporter of ergot until the Russian Revolution in 1917. Spain then became the top producer of ergot, but supplies were then disrupted with the Spanish Civil War in 1936. In an effort to ensure his supply of raw materials, Peel began a campaign to educate farmers on the importance of ergot. Eli Lilly and Company, one of Peels major customers, also assisted in this effort by providing publicity. Universal Laboratories began receiving considerable amounts of ergotic rye, which was stored in a grain elevator in downtown Dassel. The company supplied the vast majority of domestically produced ergot in the United States during World War II. In 1940, they produced 60,000 lb, while in 1941, production was 100,000 lb.</p><br>
<p>Eli Lilly continued to do business with Universal Laboratories, even after World War II ended and foreign supplies became more stable. Peel died in 1959, and the company ceased producing yeast somewhere around that time. In the late 1960s, Eli Lilly dropped Universal Laboratories in favor of European suppliers of ergot. The company continued business for a while longer, providing ergot to Burroughs Wellcome, but it went out of business in 1975. The building sat empty until the late 1990s, when local citizens rehabilitated the structure. It now houses the Dassel Area Historical Society and its museum.</p><br>
<h2>Dassel History Center & Ergot Museum</h2><br>
<p>The Dassel History Center & Ergot Museum, operated by the Dassel Area Historical Society, features permanent exhibits relating to area agriculture, medicine and local history. Themes include the medical and social history of ergot, a fungus that grows on rye and related plants; a seed corn hybrid developed in the area; a historic pharmacy display; and local politician Magnus Johnson. There are also changing exhibits of local history.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Pump Room is a historic building in the Abbey Church Yard, Bath, Somerset, England. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building since 1950. Along with the Lower Assembly Rooms, it formed a complex where social activity was centred, and where visitors to the city gathered.</p><br>
<p>The present building replaced an earlier one on the same site, designed by John Harvey at the request of Beau Nash, Bath&#39;s master of ceremonies, in 1706, before the discovery of Roman remains nearby. The main block, built of Bath stone, was begun by Thomas Baldwin, and the foundations of a Roman temple precinct were discovered during preparatory excavations. The North Colonnade of nine bays, with unfluted Ionic columns, was built by Baldwin in 1786&ndash;90.</p><br>
<p>Baldwin was dismissed, as a result of financial mismanagement in his handling of the large sums of money allocated to the purchase of raw materials such as timber and stone. Archaeological evidence reveals that he laid the foundations for a portico at the north front of the Pump Room, but this was never completed, and Baldwin was declared bankrupt in September 1793. Another Bath-based architect and Baldwins long-time rival, John Palmer, took his place as city architect and continued the scheme from 1793, altering Baldwins design of the northern elevation, moving the location of the capitals that had been intended for the portico. and was finally finished in 1799.</p><br>
<p>The South Colonnade (completed 1789) is similar to the North Colonnade but had an upper floor added in the late 19th century. The colonnades and side wall of the Pump Room have a facade on Stall Street, with Corinthian half columns thought to have been influenced by the design of the Temple at Bassae. Willey Reveley, a contemporary expert on Greek architecture, was consulted about Palmer&#39;s revised plans. However, the aspect of the building was altered by the construction in 1897 of a concert hall designed by J M Brydon.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the Pump Room was described in Feltham’s Guide to all the Watering and Sea-Bathing Places etc. (1813) as follows:</p><br>
<p>This noble room was built in 1797 under the direction of Mr. Baldwin, architect. It is 60 feet long by 46 wide, and 31 feet high. The inside is set round with three quarter columns of the Corinthian order, crowned with an entablature, and a covering of five feet. In a recess at the West-end is the music gallery, and in another at the East an excellent time-piece, over which is a marble statue of king Nash, executed by Hoare, at the expense of the corporation. In the Centre of the South-side is a marble vase from which issue the waters, with a fire-place on each side.</p><br>
<p>The marble vase from which visitors could drink the waters for medicinal purposes is also mentioned in Tunstalls 1860 guide to taking the waters, which also gives admission prices for the Pump Room and the adjoining Kings and Queen&#39;s Baths. Works by local artists William Hoare (died 1792) and Thomas Gainsborough (died 1788) were also displayed there.</p><br>
<p>Original drawings by Palmer were discovered during the 1990s, which revealed how he and his predecessor Baldwin had planned the Cross Bath, which has since been restored in keeping with their intentions. The Cross Bath is now open to the public as a bathing spa, as part of the Thermae Bath Spa project.</p><br>
<p>Next to the main street entrance to the Roman Baths, visitors can drink the waters from the warm spring which is the source of the baths. The building now also houses a restaurant, where afternoon tea can be taken. Music in the restaurant is provided by the Pump Room Trio — the longest established resident ensemble in Europe — or by a pianist. There has been music in the Pump Room since the opening of the original building in 1706, when Beau Nash put together his own band to perform there. A "Pump Room Orchestra" later came into being, with Gustav Holst being one of its guest conductors during the early 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>Jane Austen</h2><br>
<p>The novelist Jane Austen was familiar with the Pump Room, which is used as a setting in her novels Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. It was a meeting place for fashionable people, where "Every creature in Bath was to be seen in the room at different periods of the fashionable hours". It is here that Catherine Morland, the heroine of Northanger Abbey first meets her future husband, Henry Tilney. In Persuasion, Admiral Croft retires to Bath to take the waters, because of his gout. The Pump Room was used as a filming location in screen adaptations of both novels.</p><br>
<h2>Film location</h2><br>
<p>In addition to adaptations of Austens novels, the Pump Room has been used in films such as The Music Lovers (1969) and television series such as Bonekickers. The neighbouring Abbey Churchyard was used in the filming of Other Peoples Children (2000) and Bertie & Elizabeth.</p><br>
<p>The River Glyme is a river in Oxfordshire, England. It is a tributary of the River Evenlode. It rises about 1 mi east of Chipping Norton, and flows southeast past Old Chalford, Enstone, Kiddington, Glympton and Wootton, Woodstock and through Blenheim Park. At Wootton the Glyme is joined by a tributary, the River Dorn. The Glyme joins the Evenlode just south of the park near Bladon.</p><br>
<p>The Glyme is dammed at Cleveley, Kiddington, Glympton and Blenheim. At Blenheim, "Capability" Brown used the river to form the lake in front of Blenheim Palace.</p><br>
<p>The upper part of the Glyme Valley around the river&#39;s headwaters is a Site of Special Scientific Interest.</p><br>
<p>The Glyme Valley Way is a footpath that follows almost the entire course of the river.</p><br>
<p>The river&#39;s name is derived from the Brittonic for "bright stream".</p><br>
<p>The Vail-Leavitt Music Hall is a late nineteenth century theater presently in use on the east end of Long island in Riverhead, New York. The building was built by David F. Vail, with the help of his son George M. Vail in 1881. David was a local lumber dealer in the Riverhead and Eastern Suffolk County Long Island area.</p><br>
<p>The theater/music hall opened on October 11, 1881. The main theater and its balcony are a miniature opera house designed by J. W. Flack. The ground floor of the building housed commercial business storefronts, while the upstairs contained the opera house. The music hall began its operations with candle lighting, however the Vail&#39;s began operating a gas plant behind the theater. As a result, gas fixtures were placed all along the horseshoe balcony, and gaslight continued at the music hall until the advent of electricity to the area in July 1888, when the venue added electric lights.</p><br>
<p>In 1908, George M. Vail, now sole owner of Music Hall, sold the building to Simon Leavitt, a tailor and clothier, who leased out the upstairs as a theatrical venue. In 1914, the Music Hall was used by Thomas Edison as a demonstration site for kinetophone, an early attempt at the synchronization of sound and film.</p><br>
<p>As more modern theaters were built in the area, the Music Hall was converted for use over the years as a restaurant, a roller skating rink and even a betting parlor. However, the balcony and stage proscenium remained intact throughout the conversions. Eventually Theodore Leavitt (Simon&#39;s son) took over the clothier business and closed the upstairs, using it only as a storage area until his retirement in the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>After his death, Theodore Leavitts widow Mollie Leavitt owned the music hall until its acquisition by the Council for the Vail-Leavitt Music Hall in 1982 through a grant from the USA Department of Housing and Urban Development arranged by the Town of Riverheads Community Development officer, Robert Schemer. The Council is a not-for-profit 501(c)3 charitable corporation which now oversees and operates the venue.</p><br>
<p>From the early eighties to the late nineties, old movies were shown on a small screen in its downstairs space, dubbed the "Mini-Cine". These movie showings helped the theater raise monies for the music hall&#39;s restoration. The theater has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since August 25, 1983.</p><br>
<p>The music hall held its grand re-opening on June 28, 2003. It continues to host numerous cultural, civic and charitable events throughout the year for the local community.</p><br>
<p>The Pioneer School stands in an isolated location in Park County, Wyoming, about 8 mi north of Clark, in the Clark Fork Valley near the Montana border. The frame structure is an example of a country school built to serve students in rural areas prior to the introduction of school bus routes to more centrally located facilities. Built in 1914, it operated until 1967.</p><br>
<p>The Pioneer School is sited in an open area with a commanding view of the Absaroka Range. The 1-1/2 story building is set on a concrete daylight basement. The hipped roof covers the original single room and the northern music room addition. A gabled roof covers the teacherage addition. A bell tower marks the entrance on the south side between the main block and the teacherage. The original building was designed by architect Curtis Oehme and built by H.P. Anderson. Central heating with a coal furnace was added in 1930. The teacher age, consisting of a living room-kitchen and a bedroom, was added in 1953, along with indoor plumbing. Vernon Drake designed a music room addition in 1956, while the school was further modernized and converted to fuel oil heat.</p><br>
<p>The student population varied between five and 28 students in grades 1 through 8 through 1957, after which grades 7 and 8 attended school in Belfrey, Montana. The school was deeded by the Powell School District in 1970 to the Pioneer Service Group as a community Center in 1970.</p><br>
<p>Pedraforca is a mountain in the Pre-Pyrenees, located in the comarca of Berguedà. The mountain&#39;s rare form, along with the fact that it is not visibly connected to any other adjacent mountains or ridges, has made it one of the most famous and emblematic mountains in Catalonia, Spain.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The mountain has a peculiar shape, composed of two parallel ridges (the pollegons) joined by a neck (the Enforcadura). The upper ridge, named Pollegó Superior, has an elevation of 2,506.4 m while the secondary peak, el Calderer is 2,496.4 m high. The ridge below, Pollegó Inferior is 2,444.8 m tall, while Enforcadura&#39;s highest point lies at 2,356.2 m.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Located within the Cadí-Moixeró Natural Park, Pedraforca has been declared a Natural Site of National Interest by the Generalitat de Catalunya.</p><br>
<p>The closest villages to Pedraforca are Gósol to the west and Saldes to the east. Pedraforca marks the boundary between the two municipalities, as well as between the provinces of Barcelona and Lleida.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>Zigzag Mountain is a volcanic mountain in Clackamas County in the USA state of Oregon.</p><br>
<p>It is located 7.1 mi west-southwest of Mount Hood, 5.2 mi northwest of Government Camp, 5.3 mi east of Zigzag, and north of the Zigzag River. Because of its proximity to Mount Hood, it is considered a foothill.</p><br>
<p>The highest peak has an elevation of over 5,007 ft. Another peak, East Zigzag, is 4,973 ft and was the site of a United States Forest Service fire lookout station which was destroyed prior to 1970. The mountain is capped by Pliocene andesite and basalt.</p><br>
<p>The "Zigzag" name used was apparently derived from Oregon pioneer Joel Palmers description of the zigzagging route he used to descend from Mount Hoods Zigzag Canyon (in which Zigzag Glacier is located) and on down what is now Zigzag Mountain.</p><br>
<p>Ainsley House is a 1925 California Arts and Crafts house in Campbell, California, built in the style of an English Tudor Cotswold cottage. The house and accompanying carriage house  were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. It is now a museum and is open to the public.</p><br>
<p>The house was the third home of Campbell canning pioneer John Colpitts Ainsley (1860–1937) and his wife, Alcinda (1875-1939), and was originally located on the southwest corner of their 83 acre orchard at the northeast corner of Hamilton and Johnson (now Bascom) Avenues. After J.C. Ainsley&#39;s death in 1937, Alcinda left the house, living with friends until her death in 1939. The house remained in the family, but with the exception of occasional Christmas seasons and social events over the years, was vacant, though well-tended, for decades. The Ainsley family donated the house, its furnishings and the carriage house to the City of Campbell in 1989 and they were moved to their present location at 300 Grant Street in Downtown Campbell in 1990. The house museum, Morgan Gallery and nearby Campbell Historical Museum are supported by the Campbell Historical Museum and Ainsley House Foundation.</p><br>
<p>Building 170 is a former electrical substation located by the Anacostia River in the Navy Yard neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is situated on the northwest corner of 3rd and Tingey Streets, Southeast, three blocks from the historic Washington Navy Yard. The industrial, two-story building was recently renovated and currently owned by the United States Department of Transportation. It is a contributing property to the Washington Navy Yard Annex Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Constructed in 1919, Building 170 was part of a 60 acre (24.2 ha) industrial complex used by the United States Navy until 1962. During World War I and World War II, the Navy Yard Annex was the center of USA naval weapon production and ordnance technology. In 1963, ownership of Building 170 and 55 acres of the Washington Navy Yard Annex was transferred to the General Services Administration.</p><br>
<p>The GSA completed a master plan to redevelop the site for office and mixed use to accommodate federal agencies, and to renovate and adapt some of the historic buildings. It conducted a design charrette in cooperation with the National Endowment for the Arts and nationally known designers, to generate more ideas for the site. It was a model for interagency charrettes, later used by the departments of Treasury and Agriculture, among others.</p><br>
<p>In 2006, Building 170 was renovated when the USA Department of Transportation built its new headquarters on the same street. Upgrades to the surrounding property included the installation of fountains, landscaping, and a plaza. Future plans for the renovated building include leasing 8,000 ft&sup2; of retail space on the first floor, with the second floor&#39;s remaining 10,500 ft&sup2; being leased if demand rises.</p><br>
<p>On January 3, 2008, Building 170 was one of 14 structures designated as contributing properties to the Washington Navy Yard Annex Historic District. The boundaries of the historic district include M Street, the Anacostia River, Isaac Hull Avenue, and 2nd Street, SE.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Building 170 is an example of industrial Colonial Revival architecture. The 18,500 ft&sup2; steel-framed building is faced in red brick, and features an open interior and metal shed roof. A pronounced ridge monitor runs along the entire length of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Harlow C. Curtiss Building, is a historic building located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. The building was named for Harlow Clarke Curtiss, a prominent Buffalo attorney and real estate investor. The building bears resemblance to the works of renowned Chicago architects such as Daniel Burnham and Louis Sullivan, both of whom designed buildings in Buffalo. The Curtiss Building was designed by Buffalo-based architect Paul F. Mann, who was also the brother-in-law of Curtiss. The building is one of the largest terra cotta structures of its type and period in downtown Buffalo.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction on the building began in 1912 and was finished in 1913. The buildings earliest tenants included the Kittinger Furniture Company. Other occupants included lawyers, stationers, and paramedical companies, but oddly enough not Curtiss&#39; office. The building went through a series of successive owners and tenants over the ensuing decades, but was vacant by the early 1990s.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, the building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Developer Mark Croce bought the Curtiss in 2002, and then added the adjacent former Continental nightclub and a parking lot in April 2009. Croce also owns the Hotel Statler in downtown Buffalo.</p><br>
<p>As of August 2015, the building is currently in the middle of an $18+ million renovation by developer Mark Croce into the "Curtiss Hotel." The hotel will be a 5 star, 68 room boutique hotel and is currently scheduled to open December 15, 2015. Amenities include a first floor corner 3-meal restaurant, featuring a revolving bar reminiscent of Buffalo’s historic Chez Ami Supper Club, which will lead to patio seating along W. Huron Street. On the opposite corner of the building, adjacent to a planned porte cochère and main entranceway, there will be Buffalo’s first all-weather urban hot springs/Roman Bath experience.</p><br>
<p>As of December 2015, project costs were estimated at $20 million because of upgrades. The bar will be called "Chez Ami" and will rotate twice an hour, including its patrons, “at a non-discernible speed” to give patrons a 270-degree panoramic view of the city through giant picture windows.</p><br>
<h2>357-363 Delaware Avenue</h2><br>
<p>In 1924, Harlow C. Curtiss commissioned a second commercial and office building to be built at 357-363 Delaware Avenue bearing the same name. The Buffalo architectural firm of Esenwein & Johnson was the architect selected for that building.</p><br>
<p>Nea Koroni  is a village in Messenia, part of the municipal unit of Aipeia. Its population is 298 .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Originally there was one village named Kastellia on the nearby hill of Goula (less than 1 km away of Nea Koroni).</p><br>
<p>At this location in the ancient times existed the city of Kolonides.The Greek Pausanias (geographer) in his book "Messiniaka" reports that the people of Kolonides stated that they were not Messenians</p><br>
<p>but Athenians brought from Attica by Kolainos(Greek:Κόλαινος). Kolainos is said that he followed a prophecy and was brought to the location where he founded Kolonides by</p><br>
<p>following a korydon (bird).</p><br>
<p>Kastellia were named after the watch towers (Italian:Castello) the Venetians built at the top of the hill of Goula at 1200 AC. Kastellia played a part in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire. An earthquake at the day of Friday 15 August 1886 struck the village and brought it to the ground. A matter of relocating the village occurred at that point.</p><br>
<p>The village was divided then and half of the people of Kastellia founded Nea Koroni at the location of Kadianika nearby the hill of Goula. Nea Koroni was built according to a unique design. The whole village, its roads and blocks, shape the United Kingdom&#39;s Union Flag.</p><br>
<p>The Ralston Community Clubhouse was built in 1914 as a community school in Ralston, Wyoming. It was abandoned as a school in 1922 when Ralston consolidated its school with the neighboring Powell school district. The Powell district offered the school to the Ralston Community Club in 1930. The clubhouse became the social center of Ralston, serving as a community meeting hall and polling place. It was particularly important to local women&#39;s organizations.</p><br>
<p>The clubhouse is a wood frame building covered with asbestos shingles, on a concrete foundation. The one story building has a hip roof with a gable roof addition. The central entry vestibule extends beyond the eave level and is covered by a projecting hipped dormer-like roof to mark the main entrance, replacing the original belfry. The addition, built in 1951, contains the kitchen. An outhouse, divided into mens and womens sections, stands near the northeast corner of the clubhouse. Coal heat in the clubhouse was replaced with natural gas in 1968. The original wood clapoard siding was covered with asbestos shingles in 1951. At the same time the belfry and bell were removed and donated to the Presbyterian church in Powell.</p><br>
<p>The Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse is a Classical Revival courthouse located at 40 Centre Street on Foley Square in the Civic Center neighborhood of lower Manhattan in New York City. The building, designed by Cass Gilbert and his son, Cass Gilbert, Jr., is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as USA Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York hear cases in the courthouse, which is across the street from the Metropolitan Correctional Center, New York City.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and design</h2><br>
<p>The building has two major parts, the base and the tower. Including both, the building is 179.83 m tall and 37 stories.</p><br>
<p>The six-story courthouse base is marked by a pilastered facade and a colonnade. Built around three interior courtyards, it is rusticated and irregularly shaped, following the outline of the site. Massive granite steps flanked by large pedestals lead up to the main entrance on Foley Square. Gilbert intended the pedestals to bear two monumental sculptural groups, but they were never executed. Ten four-story Corinthian columns form the imposing portico that shelters the entrance, and the frieze is carved with a detailed floral design. The ends of the entablature above are embellished with roundels, designed to resemble ancient coins, on which are carved the heads of four ancient lawgivers: Plato, Aristotle, Demosthenes, and Moses. The Corinthian capitals crowning the columns of the portico return to top pilasters along the building&#39;s other primary facades. Minnesota granite, off-white in color and mottled with peach and gray, was used to finish the exterior elevations of the courthouse.</p><br>
<p>A 30-story square tower is 590 feet in height and is set back from the base parallel to the front of the building. The tower is set back slightly on the 27th floor, marked by urns at the corners. The roof of the tower is pyramidal, pitched steeply, and made of terra cotta, with a gold leaf, with a small open lantern, also gold-glazed terra cotta, at the top.</p><br>
<p>The main hall spans the width of the building along its principal elevation. It is very similar in design and ornamentation to the main hall of the United States Supreme Court building, which Gilbert designed at the same time. Variations on the decorative motifs employed within the main hall appear throughout the rest of the interior. Twenty-nine feet in height, it has green- and black-veined white marble floors; the white marble that lines its walls has gold- and cream-colored veining, providing a subtle but attractive contrast of warm and cool tones. Elaborate molding, featuring a meander (Greek key) design, divides the ceiling into rectangular, coffered sections. The coffers are decorated with large plaster rosettes tipped with 22k gold leaf on alternating backgrounds of crimson and peacock blue, with smaller rosettes at the junctions of the coffers.</p><br>
<p>Richly ornamental bronzework surrounds many of the interior doors, including those of the elevators. This bronze detailing features an unusual combination of metaphorical images related to law and government, including dolphins, an erudite if somewhat obscure symbol of birth and democratic ideals. Among the other motifs are grasshoppers apparently feeding on stalks of wheat, accompanied by the Greek word meta, meaning "to transform", which conveys the idea that change, even conflict, is essential to growth; there are also owls, representing wisdom, and acorns and oak leaves, signifying strength and endurance.</p><br>
<p>The building contains 35 courtrooms. Sixteen are original to the courthouse: five in the base and eleven in the tower, including the historic United States Court of Appeals courtroom. All have wood-paneled walls with colossal round arches and fluted Ionic pilasters; the Greek key molding seen in the main hall also enframes the ceilings of the tower courtrooms. The Court of Appeals courtroom ceiling also depicts nautical symbols.</p><br>
<p>Within the tower, at the twenty-fifth floor, a double-height library features large ceiling beams supported by brackets painted with stenciled foliate designs. The library&#39;s high, arched windows offer stunning views of the Manhattan skyline.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was not unanimously well-received when it was completed. Noted architecture critic Lewis Mumford called it "the supreme example of pretentiousness, mediocrity, bad design and fake grandeur."</p><br>
<p>The courthouse has three particularly striking neighbors. Flanking it are two high-rise structures: the Manhattan Municipal Building (1914) by McKim, Mead, and White; and the Daniel Patrick Moynihan United States Courthouse (1994) by Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. Adjacent to the Thurgood Marshall USA Courthouse, and also facing Foley Square, is the New York County Courthouse (1926) by Guy Lowell.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Architect Cass Gilbert was commissioned to design a new federal courthouse at Foley Square in 1931. Design work began in 1933. Construction began in July 1932 and lasted three and a half years. It was among the first federal skyscrapers constructed. After Gilbert&#39;s death, construction was supervised by his son Cass Gilbert Jr. until its completion in 1936. The courthouse was originally known as the Foley Square Courthouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as USA Courthouse) on September 2, 1987.</p><br>
<p>Notable events over the years that have occurred in the courthouse include the espionage conspiracy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; the guilty plea of Ivan Boesky, who inspired the Gordon Gekko character, to conspiracy charges; and the trial of Martha Stewart.</p><br>
<p>In 1992, three large historic courtrooms were restored. The courthouse was substantially renovated in 1999. In 2001, the United States Congress passed a bill renaming the building in honor of Thurgood Marshall, who had worked at the courthouse from 1961 to 1965 as a judge of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals before later being elevated to the Supreme Court of the United States. The legislation was signed into law on August 20, 2001, and the building was rededicated on April 15, 2003.</p><br>
<p>From November 2006 to January 2013, the Second Circuit left the Marshall Courthouse while the building underwent extensive renovations. During this period, the Daniel Patrick Moynihan USA Courthouse (located across the street) temporarily housed the Second Circuit. The Second Circuit returned to the Marshall Courthouse after renovations were completed.</p><br>
<p>Askøy is an island in Hordaland county, Norway. The 90 km&sup2; island is located entirely inside the municipality of Askøy, and the island makes up about 88% of the municipal area and is home to about 96% of the municipal residents. In 2014, there were 26,230 people living on the island. Since the opening of the Askøy Bridge leading to the mainland in the city of Bergen in 1992, the population has increased rapidly. The island is named after the old Ask farm along the eastern coast of the island. The village is the site of the old Ask Church.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Askøy is surrounded by fjords: the Hjeltefjorden lies to the west and north, the Byfjorden lies to the east, and the Herdlefjorden lies to the northeast. The Bergen Peninsula (mainland) lies to the south and east of the island, the island of Holsnøy lies to the northeast, the small island of Herdla lies immediately to the north, the islands of Øygarden (Ona, Blomøyna, Rongøyna, Toftøyna) lie to the west, and the islands of Sotra and Litlesotra lie to the southwest. The area around the bridge (where the villages of Kleppestø and Strusshamn are located) and along the east coast (around the village of Florvåg and Erdal) are densely populated due to their proximity to the city of Bergen across the fjord. Historically there were regular ferry connections, and now there is the Askøy Bridge. The northern and western parts of the island are very sparsely populated. The large lake Askevatnet lies along the eastern shore of the island.</p><br>
<p>The Cookeville Railroad Depot is a railroad depot in Cookeville, in the USA state of Tennessee. Built by the Tennessee Central Railway in 1909, the depot served Cookeville until the 1950s when passenger train service to the city was phased out. The depot was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and is currently home to the Cookeville Depot Museum.</p><br>
<p>Although it was often wrought with financial difficulties and struggled in the face of competition from the larger L&N and Southern railroads, the construction of the Tennessee Central line was an important political and economic milestone for late-19th century Middle Tennessee. The railroad connected the residents of the Upper Cumberland region to the outside world, and gave the region&#39;s farmers access to major markets in Nashville and Knoxville. The railroad also brought urbanization and modern development to Cookeville and other cities in the Upper Cumberland and Cumberland Plateau regions.</p><br>
<h2>Construction of the Tennessee Central</h2><br>
<p>After the Civil War, large-scale railroad construction occurred in East Tennessee and the Nashville and Memphis areas, but the difficult terrain of the Highland Rim and the Cumberland Plateau stalled the railroad&#39;s advance into the Upper Cumberland region. In the 1870s, the Tennessee and Pacific Railroad built a line connecting Nashville and Lebanon (this line was purchased by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway in 1877). Politicians and newspaper reporters across the Upper Cumberland region initiated a massive publicity campaign in the early 1880s calling for the railroad to be extended across Middle Tennessee.</p><br>
<p>In 1884, mining entrepreneur Alexander Crawford, believing the Upper Cumberland region to be endowed with vast deposits of high-quality coal, chartered the Nashville & Knoxville Railroad with plans to extend the railroad across the Cumberland Plateau and allow shipment of coal to markets in Nashville and Knoxville. Although a particularly difficult stretch between Watertown and Silver Point&mdash; requiring the building of several trestles across the Caney Fork&mdash; slowed the railroads construction, the Nashville & Knoxvilles tracks nevertheless reached Cookeville in July 1890. Although Crawford died shortly thereafter, his sons continued his work, and managed to extend the tracks to Monterey, at the edge of the Cumberland Plateau.</p><br>
<p>In 1893, Middle Tennessee businessman Jere Baxter (1852&ndash;1904) chartered the Tennessee Central Railroad with plans to continue what Crawford had started. Like Crawford, Baxter faced major economic obstacles. He raised funds by selling bonds to Cumberland and Roane counties, and saved money by using convict labor. He also had to overcome legal maneuvering by the L&N and Southern railroads, who feared the Tennessee Central&#39;s competition. In 1898, the Tennessee Central completed its eastern section, connecting Monterey with the Southern tracks at Harriman. Baxter purchased the Nashville & Knoxville Railroad in 1902, and two years later the Tennessee Central completed a line from Nashville to the Illinois Central tracks at Hopkinsville, Kentucky, thus connecting Middle Tennessee to the rest of the country. Cookeville residents could now travel all the way to Minnesota via 10-hour train ride.</p><br>
<p>After Baxter&#39;s death in 1904, the Tennessee Central continued to struggle with financing. It attempted lease arrangements with both the Illinois Central and Southern Railroad, but by 1908 these arrangements had been abandoned. In 1912, the Tennessee Central was placed in receivership, and in subsequent years was reorganized with more of a focus on freight traffic. By the mid-20th century, the rise of automobile and bus travel brought about the decline of passenger trains. The last passenger train left Cookeville on July 31, 1955.</p><br>
<h2>Cookeville Depot</h2><br>
<p>The Nashville & Knoxville Railroad constructed the first railroad depot at Cookeville in the 1890s. The mere announcement of the company&#39;s plans for the depot "one half-mile west of the courthouse" caused property values in the western section of town to skyrocket. Along with the depot, N&K built a two-story office building, a reservoir, and several repair shops. The Tennessee Central replaced the N&K depot with the present pagoda-like structure in 1909, although it moved the service facilities to Monterey.</p><br>
<p>The presence of the railroad depot led to a boom in housing construction in Cookeville. Residences were built along or near the tracks, and a shanty town known as "Boxtown" developed in the vicinity of what is now Cookeville Regional Medical Center. Shops lined the road between the depot and the courthouse square, culminating in a large shopping mall known as "The Arcade," which was located across the street from the Putnam County Courthouse. The railroad also made possible the establishment of Dixie College and Tennessee Polytechnic Institute&mdash; the forerunners of Tennessee Technological University.</p><br>
<h2>Cookeville Depot Museum</h2><br>
<p>The City of Cookeville, with help from the nonprofit group Friends of the Depot, currently maintains the Cookeville Depot as a museum. Along with the depot, the museum maintains a collection of train cars and railroad memorabilia. Engine #509, a 4-6-0 ten-wheeler built by Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1913, originally used by the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, was acquired by the museum in 2002 from the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum and its appearance modified to match contemporary Tennessee Central engines. The museum acquired an L&N bay window caboose (with a newer gray-and-yellow paint scheme, as opposed to the traditional red) in 1985, and in 2005 restored a red cupola-style caboose to its original appearance.</p><br>
<p>Metinic Island is a 330 acre island in Knox County, Maine, southeast of Port Clyde on the mainland and west of Matinicus Island. The island is part of the Plantation of Matinicus Isle.</p><br>
<p>Metinic Island is approximately 2 mi long and is less than half a mile wide at its widest point. There are three very small islets just south and southeast of Metinic, called The Nubble, Hog Island, and Metinic Green Island.</p><br>
<p>Lobster fishermen operated off the coast of Metinic for generations; the island has also played host to sheep for many years. In 1994–95, the Fish and Wildlife Service acquired 149 acre of the island to establish a haven for seabirds, hundreds of which nest on the island. While gulls are the primary nesters, a restoration project was initiated in 1998 to increase tern and Arctic tern nesting populations. The acquisition of the land was not without controversy, as a landowning family was removed from the island to establish the preserve.</p><br>
<p>The N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is a historic commercial building in Bend, Oregon, United States. The structure was built in 1909 by Nichols P. Smith, a Bend businessman. The two-story building originally housed a hardware business on the ground floor with family quarters on the second floor. The building is located on the Northwest Wall Street in downtown Bend. It has been in continuous use as a commercial building since it first opened. Today, the Smith Hardware Store is the only wood-frame structure that remains in downtown Bend. Because of its importance to the history of Bend, the Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Nichols Smith</h2><br>
<p>At the age of 34, Nichols Paul Smith came to Central Oregon to help survey the Bend town site for Alexander M. Drake, owner of the Pilot Butte Development Company. Smith worked as a surveyor and carpenter, helping to establish the Bend community. He built a house near the Deschutes River in the area that is now the Drake Park Neighborhood Historic District. In 1903, Smith and his wife, Cora Bell, opened a hardware store on the east side of Wall Street near the center of downtown Bend.</p><br>
<p>In 1909, Smith built a new store across the street from his original location with an apartment upstairs so he could be close to his business. Smith&#39;s new store sold a wide range of household good including stoves and butter churns. He also sold building materials, farm equipment, and hunting and fish supplies. When automobiles began to appear in Bend, Smith was the first businessman to sell gasoline to motorists. When the Great Northern and Union Pacific railroads opened routes into central Oregon in 1911, a building boom began in Bend, and Smith’s business prospered.</p><br>
<p>In addition to being a successful businessman, Smith was also active in civic affairs and politics. He was a member of Bend’s volunteer fire department. He also supervised the construction of the city’s downtown sidewalks. Smith was the local chairman to the Democratic Party and served on the election board for many years as well a bailiff for the Deschutes County Court.</p><br>
<h2>Building history</h2><br>
<p>The N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store and adjoining warehouse were built by Nichols P. Smith in June 1909, just four years after the city of Bend was founded. The building originally housed a hardware store on the ground floor with second floor apartment where Smith and his family lived. The structure was typical of the commercial building being constructed in Bend in the early 20th century, simple and functional. The hardware store remained in business until 1930. Since then several other businesses have occupied the building. Smith’s daughter, Marjorie Smith, was still living in the upstairs apartment in the 1980s.</p><br>
<p>In 1983, the building’s street front exterior was renovated and restored. The aluminum and plywood siding that had been installed over the years was removed, revealing the original façade still in excellent condition. Window sills, corner boards, and the cornice molding were replaced. Then the original horizontal lap siding and restored board trim were repainted in their original colors.</p><br>
<p>The N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is an excellent example of a commercial building from Bend’s earliest period of development. It was among the city’s first retail stores. Today, it is the oldest wood-frame structure that still exists in downtown Bend. Because of its importance to Bend history, the N. P. Smith Pioneer Hardware Store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on 5 April 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Smith Pioneer Hardware Store is located on the west side of Wall Street between Oregon Avenue and Minnesota Avenue in downtown Bend. It is a two story wood-frame building with a footprint of 20 feet by 75 feet with an adjoining 20 foot by 70 foot warehouse in the back. The combined structure occupies a 25 by 150 foot city lot. There is a newer brick structure abutting the store’s external wall on the north side. On the south side of the building, there is a narrow walkway between the store and the neighboring brick structure. It provides access to an open stairway that leads to the second floor apartment. The back of the warehouse opens on to an alleyway called Brooks Street.</p><br>
<p>The Smith store is a good example of the western false front type commercial structure. These simple commercial buildings were typically two stories with a vertical facade and square top. A gabled-roof structure was often hidden behind the false front. Like Smith, many owners ran a store or other business on the ground floor and live upstairs. There were many false front buildings constructed in the Bend area between 1900 and 1910. However, the Smith hardware store is the only surviving example in downtown Bend.</p><br>
<p>Originally, the store front was faced with six inch horizontal lap siding, trimmed at the corners with 1-by-6 vertical wooden molding. The entrance to the store is through recessed double doors in the center of the building. However, the double doors have been replaced by a single glass door with full-length windows on either side. The entrance is flanked by two large display windows, each with four window panes. On the second floor, there are two separate double-hung casement windows overlooking the street. The façade was originally capped with a wooden cornice that extends 20 inches out from the building’s face, but it was eventually replaced by a molded stucco cornice. The building has a flat roof that slope gently toward the rear of the structure.</p><br>
<h2>Interior</h2><br>
<p>In the Smith building, the ground floor is commercial space, originally housing a hardware store. Inside, the walls are finished with two-inch tongue-and-groove paneling. The flooring is 1-by-4 tongue-and-groove planking. Originally, there were built-in shelves along the full length of one wall. The original light fixtures had glass shades and were suspended from the ceiling by drop-cords. The door knobs, locks, and other hardware were brass. Over the years, the original tongue-and-groove ceiling was covered by a suspended acoustic tile ceiling and fluorescent lights have been installed using the original drop-cords. The original shelves have been replaced by new shelving that now runs along both sidewalls, and the floor is now carpeted.</p><br>
<p>The owner’s apartment upstairs includes a living room, dining room, kitchen, and two bedrooms. The walls and floor were finished with the same tongue-and-groove paneling and planking as downstairs. However, the walls have been covered by wallpaper in the bedrooms and plasterboard in the other rooms and the floors have been carpeted. The woodwork includes eight-inch baseboard molding and four-inch framing around the doors and windows. The kitchen has built-in cabinets. There are ventilation transoms above some interior doors. Like the ground floor, the light fixtures have glass shades and are suspended from the ceiling by drop-cords and the door hardware is brass.</p><br>
<p>There was originally a large open porch on the second floor adjacent to the living area. Around 1915, the porch was enclosed and turned into additional living space. That alteration added a third bedroom, a family room, a bathroom, and some interior storage space to the apartment.</p><br>
<p>The Cave of Niaux  is located in the Niaux commune, Ariège département in south-western France as part of a wider geological system that includes the Sabart Cave and Lombrives Cave in the hill of Cap de la Lesse de Bialac. The Niaux cave&#39;s system is complex and has a combined length of more than 14 km of underground passages and chambers. An archaeological site with a documented history of Paleo-human presence, Niaux contains numerous distinct areas and galleries of carefully drawn and vivid wall paintings, executed in a black-outlined style typical of the classic Magdalenian period, between 17,000 and 11,000 years ago.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>According to graffiti and numerous inscriptions on its walls, Niaux Cave was frequented by tourists since at least 1602 unaware of the origin and age. Félix Garrigou, prehistorian and hydrologist, known for his investigations of caves of southern France visited the site in 1864. He is the first person attributed to a documented suspicion - notes in his diary - about the true identity of the site.</p><br>
<h3>Research</h3><br>
<p>Only after a Commander Molard and his sons had discovered the gallery of Salon Noir and published a plan of the cave did Niaux attract specialists&#39; attention in 1906. It was investigated by Henri Breuil and Emile Cartailhac a year later and received full-scale recognition. In 1925 J. Mandeman found another gallery with black paintings and called it Cartailhac Gallery. In 1971, a major scientific examination was undertaken by Jean Clottes and Robert Simonnet and in 1980 and 1981 a team of scientists made in inventory of all the pictures in the cave.</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>Niaux Cave, situated in a steep-sided valley in the commune of Vicdessos in the Tarascon basin is one of the few cave systems left where exceptional prehistoric paintings can still be viewed by the public. The previously unrecorded separate Reseau Clastres network has been found only as recently as 1970. It holds a series of prehistoric footprints and a rare charcoal sketch of a weasel.</p><br>
<h3>Black Hall panel</h3><br>
<p>"The base of the stone is not colored and the range is restricted for the figures: black and some red for a few of the signs.</p><br>
<p>The predominating animal is the bison, represented in the upper part of the panel. The bison standing out in the left central part is usually catalogued as a female, due to the shapes presented, such as the scarcely prominent hump. By contrast and in opposition to this is the male, found on the right-hand side and showing a more prominent hump.</p><br>
<p>The lower part of the wall represents several horses which, with painted hair, represent a member of the equine family with a great amount of hair, the Przewalski. The bestiary is finished off with two goats, one represented in a very natural manner and the other in a totally schematic manner. The panel is dated as being 13,000 years old. The walk to the paintings leads through both big caves and narrow passages. The cave floor has been left in its natural state: wet, very uneven and slippery in places so sturdy walking shoes are essential."</p><br>
<p>A facsimile of Niaux’s Salon Noir (in its pristine form), as well as of other figures in the cave and the Réseau Clastres, is displayed in the nearby Park of Prehistoric Art, near Tarascon-sur-Ariège.</p><br>
<p>The Stock Center in Cody, Wyoming was built in 1927 as the original home of the Buffalo Bill Museum, serving in that purpose until the museum was relocated to a new complex across the street. The log structure is intended to suggest a stockman&#39;s log cabin, rendered on a large scale.</p><br>
<p>The irregularly shaped one-story building was arranged with a small lobby leading to exhibit rooms intended to represent a living room, trophy room-library, dining room, kitchen and bedrooms in a ranchers house. These rooms housed the Buffalo Bill Museums collections. The museum was built as a community project, using Buffalo Bill Cody&#39;s T E Ranch Headquarters as the basis for the design.</p><br>
<p>After museum&#39;s move, the former museum was purchased by Paul Stock, a Cody-area oilman, rancher, and three-term mayor of Cody, who then passed the property on to the town of Cody for community use. The Stock Center was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Paul Stock House was the residence of three-time Cody, Wyoming mayor, oilman, rancher and philanthropist Paul Stock. Built in 1945-46, the house is on a secluded site on a bluff overlooking the Shoshone River, with a view of Heart and Cedar Mountains on the edge of Cody. The house was designed by Leon Goodrich, who was fired after two months because Stock didnt want to be told what to do by the architect. Stock took over the management of the project from then on, building the rambling house in the Spanish Eclectic style. While Stock oversaw the project himself, he kept nearly all of Goodrichs design intact.</p><br>
<p>The house is laid out in an irregular H plan of about 6,700 ft&sup2, with a one story facade to the front and a two-story elevation where it steps down the bluff to the rear. The exterior is finished in stucco over hollow clay tile with tile roof accents.</p><br>
<p>Stock employed oilfield technology in his house, using deep pilings for support and employing oilfield piping for water, sewer and gas pipes. Two fireplaces are built of polished well cores from the nearby Oregon Basin. Two guest houses in similar style are nearby on the site.</p><br>
<p>The Stock House is owned by the Buffalo Bill Historical Center and is used as a guest residence. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Marshal Wade&#39;s House at 14 Abbey Church Yard, Bath, Somerset, England was built around 1700 and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally attributed to Lord Burlington and thought to have been built in 1730, however it is now thought to have been an earlier construction, for George Wade who was a Field Marshal and served as a British military commander and Commander-in-Chief of the Forces, as well as Member of Parliament for Bath from 1722 to 1747.</p><br>
<p>The Palladian nature of the architecture is emphasised by the 5 fluted Ionic pilasters on the 1st and 2nd floors.</p><br>
<p>The shop on the ground floor was an early 19th-century development which is now occupied by the National Trust.</p><br>
<p>The house was acquired by the Landmark Trust in 1975 who have carried out various renovation work and now let out the property.</p><br>
<p>Nusa Lembongan is an island located southeast of Bali, Indonesia at {{coord|8|40.906|S|115|27.067|E|region:ID-BA_type:isle_scale:3000000|display=inline,title}}. It is part of a group of three islands that make up the Nusa Penida district, of which it is the most famous. This island group in turn is part of the Lesser Sunda Islands.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Administratively, the island is part of a subdistrict of Klungkung regency. Nusa Lembongan is one of three small offshore islands which make up a sub-regency of Klungkung, the others being: Nusa Penida and Nusa Ceningan. Nusa Lembongan has the vast majority of the tourist infrastructure within the sub-regency and is a popular side destination for visitors to mainland Bali.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and transport</h2><br>
<p>Nusa Lembongan is approximately 8 square kilometres in area with a permanent population estimated at 5,000. Twelve kilometres of the Badung Strait separates Nusa Lembongan from Bali Island. The island is surrounded by coral reefs with white sand beaches and low limestone cliffs. Nusa Lembongan is separated from Nusa Ceningan by a shallow estuarine channel which is difficult to navigate at low tide. There are no permanent waterways on Nusa Lembongan. There is a suspension bridge linking Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Ceningan which takes foot and motorbike traffic only.</p><br>
<p>There are three main villages on the island. Jungut Batu and Mushroom Bay are the centres of the tourist-based industry and activities on the island whilst much of the permanent local population resides in Lembongan Village.</p><br>
<p>To the east, the Lombok Strait separates the three islands from Lombok, and marks the biogeographical division between the fauna of the Indomalayan ecozone and the distinctly different fauna of Australasia. The transition is known as the Wallace Line, named after Alfred Russel Wallace, who first proposed a transition zone between these two major biomes.</p><br>
<p>The north-eastern side of the island is flanked by a relatively large area of mangroves totalling some 212 hectares.</p><br>
<p>Nusa Lembongan is served by regular direct speed-boat services, mostly from the east-coast Bali resort town of Sanur. Crossing time is approximately 30 minutes and services run at regular intervals during daylight hours. Larger cargo boats also run daily from the Bali port town of Padang Bai.</p><br>
<p>The island is populated by very few cars. For its main source of transportation is by scooters and foot, due to the small size of the island.</p><br>
<h2>Local economy</h2><br>
<p>The economy is largely based on tourism and Nusa Lembongan is the only one of the three neighbouring islands to have any significant tourism-based infrastructure. There is also subsistence agriculture and fishing on the island and used to be a seaweed farming micro-industry, until as recently as 2015, when due to tourism and pollution it became unviable.</p><br>
<p>The island also contains a number of guesthouses and even a small gym.</p><br>
<h2>Conservation issues</h2><br>
<p>Marine conservation is considered extremely important to sustaining future levels of tourism on the island and in February 2009, a local NGO from Nusa Lembongan, facilitated by The Nature Conservancy Coral Triangle Center, opened a community centre on Nusa Lembongan. The waters around Nusa Lembongan and Nusa Penida have at least 247 species of coral and 562 species of reef fish.</p><br>
<p>Other conservation initiatives include a release programme of critically endangered Olive Ridley Turtles from Sunset Beach on the south western coast.</p><br>
<p>Mirror Lakes are a set of lakes lying north of Lake Te Anau and immediately to the west of the road from Te Anau to Milford Sound in New Zealand.</p><br>
<p>At 56 km north of Te Anau, the lakes are about halfway to Milford Sound and the car park right next to State Highway 94 is a popular stop for tour buses on route to Milford Sound.</p><br>
<p>The lakes are only a 5-minute walk away from the car park along a wheelchair-friendly boardwalk. A wooden viewing platform and short walking track run along the lakes, one of which has a deliberately mirrored sign mounted just above the water&#39;s surface, so that the name "Mirror Lakes" is shown correctly in its reflection. On a calm day, the Earl Mountains can be seen reflected in the water.</p><br>
<p>The Guildhall in Bath, Somerset, England was built between 1775 and 1778 by Thomas Baldwin to designs by Thomas Warr Attwood. It has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The current Bath stone building replaced a Stuart Guildhall, built in 1625, which itself replaced an earlier Tudor structure.</p><br>
<p>The facade has 4 Ionic columns and the building is surmounted by the figure of Justice. The central dome was added in 1893. It forms a continuous building with the Victoria Art Gallery and the covered market.</p><br>
<p>The interior includes a banqueting hall with engaged Corinthian columns. It contains 18th century chandeliers and original royal portraits. The room is used on royal visits to the city including Queen Elizabeth II who had lunch in the banqueting room in May 2002.</p><br>
<p>It now houses the Bath and North East Somerset Council chamber, the Register office for Bath and North East Somerset, and is used as a wedding venue. The Guildhall also serves as one of the venues for the Bath International Music Festival and other cultural events. It has been used for filming period dramas.</p><br>
<p>The Guildhall was originally built as a town hall: it has never served as the meeting place of any specific guild. A suggested etymology is from the Anglo Saxon "gild", or "payment&quot the guildhall being where citizens came to pay their rates.</p><br>
<h2>Bath Guildhall Market</h2><br>
<p>Bath Guildhall Market is located behind the Guildhall, and can be accessed by its own entrance tunnel through the Guildhall. It has traded on its site for the last 800 years. About 20 stall holders trade there nowadays.</p><br>
<p>Sleeping Beauty Mountain  is a mountain ridge in Kalinga province of the Philippines. The mountain is called as such because the silhouette of the northern ridge resembles a sleeping woman. It is usually best viewed from the west near the municipality Tinglayan in the Chico River valley, but it can also be viewed from the east near Tanudan.</p><br>
<p>Mount Patukan (in the Lubo dialect of Tanudan) is the forehead and highest point of Sleeping Beauty. The ridge is located between the municipalities of Tanudan and Tinglayan. The mountain is known as Mount Mating-oy Dinayao in the Tinglayan dialect.</p><br>
<h2>The Legend of Sleeping Beauty</h2><br>
<p>There is a folkloric legend regarding the mountain, passed on for several generations. The tale is one of Kalinga’s most loved bedtime stories popularly sang in the native ballad called Ullalim. The tale of two lovers ended by a tribal war has different versions, depending on the tribe where the story originated, the name of the protagonists are different, but with only slight variation in the story. One version of the story is about Lubting and Mawanga; one, about Dinayao and Binsay; and the other, Edonsan and Banna - all ending with the female protagonist resting on Patukan, in despair, after the loss of her loved one.</p><br>
<p>St Johns Foundation was founded as St Johns Hospital in Bath, Somerset, England, in 1174, by Bishop Reginald Fitz Jocelin and is among the oldest almshouses in England. The current building was erected in 1716 and has been designated as a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The hospital of the baths was built beside the hot springs of the Cross Bath, for their health giving properties and to provide shelter for the poor infirm. It was placed under the control of Bath Cathedral Priory which became Bath Abbey. One of the key benefactors was Canon William of Wheathampstead, who gave substantial areas of land to support the hospital.</p><br>
<p>Funds were needed for the upkeep of the hospital and, in 1400, the Pope encouraged visitors on certain days to make donations in exchange for being granted remission of their sins. It was suggested in 1527 that the hospital be amalgamated with the Priory to provide greater access to its wealth, however this did not happen. In 1535 it was valued at £22 16s. 9d. During the Dissolution of the monasteries it managed to remain independent and attempts by William Crouch to take it into private property were defeated after the city fathers petitioned Queen Elizabeth I. During the rest of the Elizabethan era when wealthy visitors came to the spa the almshouse provided lodgings.</p><br>
<p>In 1716 the architect William Killigrew was commissioned to rebuild the hospital. Construction continued after 1727 with John Wood, the Elder undertaking the building, as his first work in Bath, when he was aged 23. He went on to design many of the buildings which created the Georgian city.</p><br>
<p>Horace Walpole stayed here in 1765.</p><br>
<p>The site now includes Chapel Court, and still operates to provide a home for over 100 of the local elderly poor and make grants to individuals and organisations in and around Bath. The charity is now known as The Hospital of St John the Baptist with the Chapel of St Michael annexed with St Catherine&#39;s Hospital.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The architecture is palladian, which is common in Bath.</p><br>
<p>The two-storey Bath stone building has a heavy ground floor arcade of round-headed arches on pillars, and retains its original window mouldings and sashes.</p><br>
<p>Asperity Mountain is a mountain located in British Columbia, Canada, rising to 3,716 m. It is located between Tellot and Tiedemann Glaciers on the north and south respectively, in the Waddington Range, a subrange of the Pacific Ranges. The gorge of the Homathko River runs north to south on the east side of the mountain, carrying runoff from the mountain and glaciers to the Pacific Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The term "Asperity", which the mountain takes its name from, refers to "unevenness of surface, roughness, ruggedness". The name was made official on February 23, 1978, although it was labeled as early as 1929 by Don Munday.</p><br>
<p>Asperity Mountain is described as being a "fine, high, sharp summit", with Mount Tiedemann to the west and the Serra Peaks bordering it on the east. Its south side is described as being rocky. There is an icefall to its north from the Radiant Glacier, a branch of the Tellot Glacier.</p><br>
<p>The Cross Bath in Bath Street, Bath, Somerset, England is a historic pool for bathing. It was rebuilt, in the style of Robert Adam by Thomas Baldwin around 1789. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and was restored during the 1990s by Donald Insall Associates.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The water which bubbles up from the ground at Bath, fell as rain on the nearby Mendip Hills. It percolates down through limestone aquifers to a depth of between 2,700 m and 4,300 m where geothermal energy raises the water temperature to between 64 &deg;C and 96 &deg;C. Under pressure, the heated water rises to the surface along fissures and faults in the limestone. This process is similar to an artificial one known as Enhanced Geothermal System which also makes use of the high pressures and temperatures below the Earth&#39;s crust. Hot water at a temperature of 46 &deg;C rises here at the rate of 1,170,000 l every day, from a geological fault (the Pennyquick fault).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The warm water spring was possibly used before the nearby Roman Baths were developed.</p><br>
<p>The name is believed to commemorate the body of St Aldhelm resting there on its journey from Doulting to Malmesbury Abbey in 709.</p><br>
<p>The healing powers of the bath were one of the reasons for the foundation of St John&#39;s Hospital, Bath around 1180, by Bishop Reginald Fitz Jocelin and is among the oldest almshouses in England.</p><br>
<p>In the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries the baths were frequently visited by royalty, increasing their popularity. In June 1688, Mary of Modena, James II&#39;s wife, gave birth to a son, Prince James nine months after bathing in the Cross Bath. The Melfort Cross, was erected in 1688 to celebrate the birth.</p><br>
<p>The bath was refurbished in the 1990s, by Donald Insall Associates. Access is now administered in conjunction with the adjacent Thermae Bath Spa.</p><br>
<p>The Clark County Historical Museum, Vancouver, Washington, is located in a 1909 Carnegie library and is operated by the Clark County Historical Society, established in 1917. The museum features rotating exhibits of local interest including a semi-permanent Native American craft exhibit. The Society is dedicated to the collection, preservation, and interpretation of the cultural history of Clark County and the Pacific Northwest, and to sponsoring educational programs and exhibits for the enrichment of all members of the public.</p><br>
<p>The Clark County Historical Museum is a 501(C)3 non-profit organization. The Clark County Historical Society operates the Museum in partnership with Clark County and the City of Vancouver. Additional funding helps sustain the operation of the museum and comes in many forms including: Clark County Historical Society membership dues, private and foundation grants, corporate sponsorships, in-kind gifts, and donations.</p><br>
<h2>Programs and Annual Events</h2><br>
<p>The museum was responsible for the establishment of the Carnegie Library Consortium of Washington and in 2009 launched "Mr. Carnegie&#39;s Grand Tour of Washington," a free, annual automobile-based travel program exploring Washington’s historic Carnegie libraries and nearby heritage sites.</p><br>
<p>Since 2004, the museum has hosted Harvest Fun Day, an annual community event featuring scarecrow making, pumpkin painting, pie-eating, and corn-shucking contests, as well as antique farm equipment demonstrations and live music. The event is held on the fourth Saturday of September and since 2010 has been held at the 78th Street Heritage Farm in Hazel Dell (also Clark County&#39;s former Poor Farm).</p><br>
<p>Holiday Open House is a free-admission, annual holiday event when local artisans showcase their wares on the first Saturday of December.</p><br>
<p>The museum is open from 5 to 9 p.m. every first Thursday of the month from February through November for First Thursday Museum After Hours. Rotating guest lecturers speak at 7 p.m. on a variety of pertinent topics.</p><br>
<p>The museum also partners with local schools on educational projects, such as the kits used from 2009 to 2012 in several Clark County schools.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, the museum became the home of The Brautigan Library, a permanent collection of unpublished manuscripts inspired by author and poet Richard Brautigan&#39;s 1971 book The Abortion: An Historical Romance 1966 and submitted by people from around the world in the early 1990s.</p><br>
<p>County and City Hall, also known as Erie County Hall, is a historic city hall and courthouse building located at Buffalo in Erie County, New York. It is a monumental granite structure designed by Rochester architect Andrew Jackson Warner and constructed between 1871 and 1875. The building has four floors and features a 270-foot high clock tower.</p><br>
<p>The County and City Hall building originally held offices for the City of Buffalo and Erie County. City offices moved to the Buffalo City Hall as it was being constructed starting in 1929, and the building now houses Erie County court offices and records. Note: This includes</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, maintained by the National Park Service of the USA Department of the Interior in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Three Old Arches is a building located at 48 Bridge Street, Chester, Cheshire, England. Together with the adjacent building at No. 50, it is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The buildings incorporate part of the Chester Rows. The stone frontage at the street and row levels of No. 48 is considered to be the earliest shop front still surviving in England. It was once the largest known medieval town house in the Chester Rows, and the stone-walled hall at the row level extending to No. 50 was the largest hall set parallel to the rows in Chester.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed in the 13th century. During the 14th century it was extended to the south (into what is now No. 50), when the hall, set parallel to the rows, was built. During the 20th century part of the building was used by William Jones, a grocer. In the 1960s the business was taken over by the department store of Owen Owen, but this closed in 1999. The ground floor continues to be used as a shop.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>At the level of the row are three round-headed chamfered arches, the piers of which pass down to the ground level, at the sides of the windows and entrance of the shop at this level. Above the arches, in Gothic script, is the inscription "Three Old Arches". Duplicated at the tops of the piers, between the arches, is the date "1274 AD". Above the arches are three sash windows, each with 12 panes and, in the top storey is another sash window, this one being tripartate, with 4:12:4 panes.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>In the undercroft of No. 48, the original stone pillars have been replaced by cast iron columns. The undercroft of No. 50 retains its original stone arch. Much of the medieval stone hall remains at the level of the row, which extends between Nos. 48 and 50. It is the largest stone-walled hall set parallel with the row in Chester, measuring over 12m by over 8m, and it contains four medieval doorways. The hall also contains a 16th century open fireplace with a 19th century cast iron range.</p><br>
<p>Gay Street in Bath, Somerset, England, links Queen Square to The Circus. It was designed by John Wood, the Elder in 1735 and completed by his son John Wood, the Younger. The land was leased to the elder Wood by Robert Gay, MP for Bath, and the street is named after him. Much of the road has been designated as Grade I listed buildings.</p><br>
<p>The houses are of 3 storeys with Mansard roofs, with many also having Ionic columns. There are slight variations in window design but they work together to provide a consistent streetscape. Many of the houses are now used as offices.</p><br>
<p>Numbers 2 to 17 are on the west side. Hester Thrale, who was also known as Mrs Piozzi, lived at number 8, with its 4 Corinthian pilasters on the ground and 1st floors in 1781. Number 18 to 30 are on the east side of the road. It was built before the west side.</p><br>
<p>Number 41 is on the corner between Gay Street and Queen Square. It was the home of John Wood, the Younger.</p><br>
<p>Numbers 31 to 40 have been designated as Grade II. The Jane Austen Centre is at number 40, although Jane Austen actually lived at number 25.</p><br>
<p>List of Grade I listed buildings in Bath and North East Somerset</p><br>
<p>Williams Peak, at 10,636 ft high is the 6th highest peak in the Sawtooth Mountains of Idaho and is located within the Sawtooth Wilderness portion of the Sawtooth National Recreation Area. The peak lies 0.75 mi north-northwest of Thompson Peak, the highest peak in the range.</p><br>
<p>The town of Stanley, Idaho is 5.5 mi northeast of the peak. Views of the peak may be accessed from the scenic Idaho State Highway 75, and on hiking trails from Redfish Lake and throughout the Sawtooth and White Cloud Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Williams Peak is named for pioneer Dave Williams, who was a part of the first ascent team in 1934 along with Robert and Miriam Underhill. Williams also owned the property of what is now the Idaho Rocky Mountain Ranch, which looks toward the peak.</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>Various routes are available for hikers and climbers as the mountains southern slopes and ridgelines offer challenging and exciting scrambling, while the steep North Face offers the peaks classic alpine climb with over 1,100 ft or 9 pitches of steep climbing.</p><br>
<p>1) The June/ North Couloir (III 5.7) - This prominent steep couloir cuts up the northeast face to a notch just below the summit. It&#39;s fairly easy access from the Alpine Way Trail near Marshall Lake. The couloir often has ice, rock, and snow and is blocked by a large cornice in the winter near the top. The first ascent came in 1986 by Kirk Bachman and B. Franklin.</p><br>
<p>Rope up at the base of the couloir and expect highly variable conditions on snow and ice. The route is straightforward. At the top of the couloir, follow the ridge to the west and then the south to the summit. It&#39;s only 400 ft from the top of the couloir to the summit proper. The easiest descent is to utilize the south facing routes to get back to the trail.</p><br>
<p>2) Southeast Slopes (Class 3) - Easy access from the Alpine Way Trail make this method probably the easiest and quickest route on the mountain. Winter time offers great snow climbing and ski descents here.</p><br>
<p>3) East Ridge (Class 4) - A more challenging route involves up and down scrambling on the prominent southeast ridge above the Southeast Slopes route. There are sections of extreme exposure and steep, loose gullies to cross over. Mountain Goats were encountered on this route.</p><br>
<p>4) Southwest Couloir (Class 3) - This route is readily accessible from the Thompson / Williams Saddle (Thompson and Williams can be done together) or the Lake 8865 area.</p><br>
<p>Friends of Seagate Inc. was founded in the late 1980s by Kafi Benz as a 501 nonprofit charity that is based in Sarasota, Florida in the United States. The organization was founded to champion the preservation of the remaining portions of the large platted subdivision, Seagate, that became the estate of Gwendolyn and Powel Crosley in 1929, was sold to the Horton family in 1947, and was purchased in the late 1970s for development into a club-based condominium project by the Campeau Corporation. Unfortunately the condominium market in Florida collapsed shortly afterward and the ambitious plans to use the 1929 home and auxiliary buildings as the clubhouse and headquarters of the development were never realized. Work permits were kept alive by intermittent, but unrelated and minimal construction until the corporation began to collapse. That collapse led to the demise of many of the most prestigious department stores in America, such as Bonwit Teller, having been acquired by the failing Federated Department Stores division that had become part of Campeau.</p><br>
<p>The Seagate property changed hands several times with several inglorious plans submitted for redevelopment that met with opposition until Friends of Seagate was founded and a campaign for acquisition was begun that resulted finally, in public acquisition. In 1990 the property was acquired by the state of Florida with a division into two portions, the bay front residence and 16 acre being overseen by Manatee County and the much larger, eastern portion of the property along Tamiami Trail being overseen by New College and University of South Florida until their separation and the resulting development of this portion into a new campus only for the satellite, commuter campus of the university.</p><br>
<p>Following public acquisition of the Seagate property, the objectives of the organization were expanded to broader community development, conservation, and preservation issues involving other archaeological, artistic, cultural, built and natural environmental, and historical concerns. Lake Underwood, acting as a patron to Friends of Seagate, provided much of the funding and equipment for the expansion of the organization.</p><br>
<p>In 2002, Friends of "Seagate" Inc. partnered as the nonprofit environmental entity to hold the land with the Sarasota municipal government as the eligible local governmental entity, to apply for a state grant for funding through the Florida Forever Program, (Floridas premier conservation and recreation lands acquisition program) amounting to $1,505,625 for acquisition of Rus In Urbe, a large land parcel in the center of the Indian Beach Sapphire Shores neighborhood, as a neighborhood park. The parcel, over 11 acre and containing a great deal of wooded and undeveloped land, wetlands, a tennis court, and a Sarasota School of Architecture structure that served as a private clubhouse or recreational lounge for a bay front home opposite it on Bay Shore Road that was sold separately from the house and held for a long time by a developer. The clubhouse was roofed with glazed blue Japanese ceramic tiles, used pecky cypress timbers for framing, and had expansive glass partitions along the western elevation, facing the tennis courts. The project retained its status among those not able to be included for funding in that cycle, but was sold for private development before the next cycle began. The structure was demolished and the tennis courts destroyed, plats for development with single family homes were surveyed, and a private road paved through the parcel, but no structures were built prior to the downturn of the real estate market as the speculation boom of the 1990s and 2000s collapsed. Several development projects have been proposed for the parcel. The property remains undeveloped and often is identified as a likely location for a neighborhood park.</p><br>
<h2>Seagate since 1925 plat</h2><br>
<p>In 1929, Powel Crosley Jr. built a Florida winter retreat on Sarasota Bay for his wife, Gwendolyn. The retreat was built along the bay front of a 63 acre parcel that was platted in 1925 as a subdivision named Sea Gate. According to official county documents and grandson Lewis L. Crosley&#39;s birth certificate, the name was spelled on these early documents as two words, Sea Gate, but has become contracted in use over the years, including the name of the street (the original driveway) leading to the building, which was renamed as, Seagate Drive, by the county. Platted as part of Hillsborough County when Florida was surveyed following acquisition by the United States, this land always has been associated culturally with Sarasota because of it being south of the natural land transportation barrier, Bowlees Creek. Seagate bears a property address and a postal designation of Sarasota for this reason, however, when Hillsborough became subdivided the governmental oversight went to the new Manatee County, which later was subdivided as well to create other counties including the new Sarasota County in 1921. The arbitrary line chosen to delineate the new county line during the last change was drawn at the southern boundary of Seagate and everything to the north remained within Manatee County. Sarasota addresses remain from that line to the creek.</p><br>
<p>The two-and-a-half-story Mediterranean Revival style house, and the auxiliary garages and living quarters for staff, designed under the auspices of New York architect George Albree Freeman, Jr. by Ivo A. de Minicis, were built in the southwest corner of Manatee County by Paul W. Bergmann. The house contains ten bedrooms and the same number of bathrooms. It would serve as a "fish camp" that was used mostly in the winter, but staff would remain throughout the year.</p><br>
<p>Seagate was the first residence built in Florida using fireproof steel frame construction that provided protection against hurricanes, as well. The cross-axis design and a circular tower that contains a second story teak-lined study with metal oculi are significant elements of the house. Other important features included double louvered and screened pocket doors and transoms for all rooms that could provide privacy while allowing the natural flow of on-shore and off-shore sea breezes to cool the house through window and door grilles and rejas; a telephony system wired into the walls of the house and servant quarters; electrical wiring under the tiles in the floors to provide power for table and standing lamps; chamfered and polychrome stenciled pecky cypress beams; galleon carvings on the loggia; massive carved doors and woodwork designed and installed by the Zoller Lumber Company; terra cotta tile floors that were laid into unique designs for each room and the main staircase; detailed plaster ornamentation; and stained glass of ochre and lavender randomly placed in casement and French windows. External features included flagstone detailing of the patio, walkways, and entry porte-cochere, fountains, a swimming pool, a seaplane dock, and a yacht basin. Crosley had a deep path dredged from the center of the bay to a berth that accommodated his yachts and the seaplane in which the Crosleys regularly flew to Sarasota from Cincinnati, as well as to resorts. Tide level indicators were built into the walls of the berth. The berth remains as a current aspect of the property. A wind indicator to alert Crosley to changes in wind conditions, swept around the ceiling of his second-story study. It was driven by a distinctive weathervane atop a tower built into the house. The circular tower has a bank of windows along the entire curve, providing a broad vista overlooking the bay.</p><br>
<p>After the death of his wife, Gwendolyn, from tuberculosis at the retreat in 1939, Powel Crosley all but abandoned the house. During World War II, Crosley allowed the Army Air Corps use of the retreat to house men learning to fly fighter planes and the officers of the staff who trained them at the Sarasota Army Air Base. A nightclub was operated there for a brief period.</p><br>
<p>Following the war, the property was sold and the large portion west of Tamiami Trail was retained as a residence by the Mabel and Freeman Horton family for forty years. The Horton family members include early pioneers who held the first European homestead on the same property during the 1800s. Freeman Horton was an accomplished engineer who was best known for building the original Sunshine Skyway Bridge across Tampa Bay from Saint Petersburg in Pinellas County through the waters of Hillsborough County to Tiera Ceia in Manatee County that replaced a ferry service between the two land areas.</p><br>
<p>In an unusual listing that included all of the remaining 45 acre, the property was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 by a purchaser who intended to build an exclusive condominium project on the site using the historic house as a clubhouse. Most historic listings only include structures. The project failed when the economy faltered shortly thereafter. Seagate was saved from commercial development by the efforts of adjacent residents led by Kafi Benz, who opposed several ensuing proposals for development. She founded Friends of “Seagate” Inc., initiated a campaign for preservation, and began a fundraising effort for acquisition. The distinctive weathervane atop the tower of the building was chosen as the logo for the organization.</p><br>
<p>The property was assessed by Benz for its archaeological, architectural, biological, cultural, environmental, and historical aspects. Extensive photographic documentation of the structures was prepared and research on the historical records associated with the property and its residents was conducted. The eagle nest was registered through the state department of environmental protection. Documented with the assistance of a board member of Friends of Seagate, photographer Arthur E. "Mike" deLoach, it was designated as nest "Number Nine" for Manatee County after its assessment by the state.</p><br>
<p>An archaeological survey of the property was conducted and registered by Kafi Benz that was led by Dudley E. DeGroot, her companion and a director on the board of the Friends of Seagate organization. Jerris Foote, a fellow director with Benz of the Sarasota Alliance for Historic Preservation, Inc., also participated in the survey. The site is an area inhabited in the archaic period by the Calusa. Nearby fresh water access is documented in early plats that may have been constant, since adjacent middens attest to a long period of occupation. Several attempts were made to locate and identify a distinctive structure on the property described by the longtime resident at Seagate, Allan Horton, as a compacted, raised earthen platform that was elevated evenly at eighteen to twenty-four inches and perfectly circular, with a diameter of thirty-two feet that resembled the ancient dancing or ceremonial platform discovered elsewhere in the state by archaeologists. An entrance sign for a drive-in theater, the landmark which he always had used to locate the structure had been demolished on the adjacent parcel, making the location process difficult. Also, a path for electrical service poles had been created that traversed the area and disturbed an area with mounds nearby, perhaps destroying the structure in the process.</p><br>
<p>In co-operation with the Trust for Public Land, an acquisition contract was negotiated between Friends of Seagate and Campeau and, a few weeks short of the signing of the contract, in 1991 the property was purchased by the state of Florida. The smaller portion of the property, 16 acre of the original subdivision along the bay front, containing the structures built by Powel Crosley, was designated for renovation by Manatee County while the larger portion of the property was designated for the University of South Florida and New College of Florida for future expansion. The archaeological survey of the property prepared by Friends of Seagate was provided to the county property appraiser, Frank Perkins IV, for inclusion in the assessment and proposal for acquisition by the state.</p><br>
<p>Initially, the property was the subject of environmental studies by New College staff and students. The habitat supported two populations of gopher tortoise and the concomitant animals associated with that habitat such as indigo snakes, and also included the registered eagle nesting site. Other birds associated with the site are hawks, osprey, owls, woodpeckers, and waders such as the roseate spoonbill. A great rookery of herons and egrets took advantage of the isolated property. Horseshoe crabs used the secluded beach as a breeding location.</p><br>
<p>Today, the 1929 historic structure houses the Powel Crosley Estate, and is used as a meeting, conference, and event venue sometimes referred to as the Crosley mansion. The estate is aided by fundraising through the Crosley Estate Foundation. In a re-separation of New College from the University of South Florida, the satellite campus for the Tampa-based university was removed from the original New College campus on the nearby Edith Ringling estate and a solo campus was created on the eastern portion of the Seagate property for use by the university alone.</p><br>
<p>An extensive design process for the new campus entailed an around-the-clock design charrette lasting several days during which Kafi Benz participated, providing tours of the property and many details to the design team. The concentration of the facility into a single building and its location were derived from a plan proposed by her to use the open space on the parcel for the construction in order to preserve the uplands slash pine forest that dominated the eastern portion of the property.</p><br>
<p>Although the concentrated design plan suggested by Benz was selected and built, the forest was sacrificed by the university to reduce costs by creating surface parking rather than constructing the planned parking facility. Except for a small stand in which gopher tortoise habitat existed, almost every mature pine tree was lost to a clear-cut of the property that would become a parking lot for the new campus. That small stand was divided by a new entrance driveway as well. The driveway was elevated to accommodate tunnels designed for the animals to be able to avoid crossing the roadway. The former wetlands on the property was excavated to create a storm water retention area landscaped to resemble a lake and oak seedlings were planted in landscaped islands created among the rows of asphalt. The university has projected that it will have outgrown the facility within twenty years.</p><br>
<p>A small portion of the natural habitat of the massive parcel remains to the north of the Crosley home, beyond the yacht basin. A narrow beachfront extends into the bay from a steep bank that was enlarged by fill. The fill was dumped from dredges for access to the basin in 1929 and later. Beyond the fill are a few exotic trees introduced for flood control and landscape value, but native vegetation remains among only a few invasive species. Longleaf pine as well as second growth slash pine of great age remain in undisturbed areas. Threats of its development arise, however, as schemes for potential use of the remaining portion of the property are presented to the county government officials frequently.</p><br>
