<p>Mt Matavanu is an active volcano on the island of Savai&#39;i in Samoa.</p><br>
<p>The most recent eruptions from Matavanu occurred between 1905 and 1911 with lava flows on its northern side flowing towards the islands coastline and into the sea in the district of Gagaemauga.</p><br>
<p>The eruptions began 4 August 1905 and stopped in November 1911. The lava flowed over 40 square miles of countryside to the lagoon and reef, destroying villages in its path between Samalae&#39;ulu to the east and Saleaula to the west. The depth of the lava flow in some parts was 400 feet.</p><br>
<p>Due to the destruction of their homes by the seaside, some of the villages relocated further inland by the main island road.</p><br>
<p>The lava fields can still be seen today, especially in Saleaula as well as the village of Mauga where the houses or fale are situated around a small volcanic crater.</p><br>
<p>There are church ruins as well a Virgins Grave&#39;, the burial place of a girl where the molten lava flowed around rather than over it.</p><br>
<p>Other volcanoes on Savai&#39;i include Mata o le Afi and Mauga Afi.</p><br>
<p>The island of Savai&#39;i is an active shield volcano. Its highest peak is Mt Silisili.</p><br>
<h2>Mythology</h2><br>
<p>In Samoan mythology the god of earthquakes is Mafuie. Another mythical figure Tiiti&#39;i tricked the earthquake god so that Samoans could have fire to cook their food.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Turkey is a historic hotel located in Turkey, Texas, United States that originally opened in 1927. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 24, 1991.</p><br>
<p>The two-story reddish-brown brick prairie school designed structure was built by H. B. Jordan to take advantage of the extension of the Fort Worth and Denver South Plains Railway to the town of Turkey. On June 12, 1927 the building was partially complete when a tornado leveled it. Construction resumed shortly thereafter, and Hotel Turkey opened for business in November 1927.</p><br>
<p>The hotel was located just three blocks from the train depot and provided a meeting room to the traveling salesmen of the day to display their wares to the townspeople. The hotel also became a social center for the community as dances, banquets, and meetings of social and civic organizations took place in the dining room and lobby.</p><br>
<p>The building has had several owners through the years but has operated continuously since it opened. In September 1988, Scott and Jane Johnson purchased and renovated Hotel Turkey. The hotel then had 14 patriotic, western or movie themed rooms such as the Gone With the Wind suite.</p><br>
<p>In July 2015, the Hotel Turkey was purchased and re-established by Pat and Tina Carson of Turkey. They have made numerous renovations and continue to do so.</p><br>
<p>The hotel traditionally hosts the musicians who come to Turkey for the annual Bob Wills Day celebration on the last Saturday in April. George W. Bush, while still governor of Texas, once stayed at the hotel.</p><br>
<p>Panoche Pass is a mountain pass within the Diablo Range in San Benito County, California connecting the southern extremity of the Santa Clara Valley in the west to the Panoche Valley and San Joaquin Valley in the east. The name Panoche Pass is used for the United States Geological Survey quadrangle map for the local area. County Route J1, also known as the Panoche Road, traverses the pass.</p><br>
<p>Curiously, the elevation of 2,250 ft posted on the official highway sign is at least 130 ft higher than that indicated on the official USGS topographic map of the area.</p><br>
<h2>Natural history</h2><br>
<p>The headwaters of Panoche Creek are located at Panoche Pass.</p><br>
<p>The locale has numerous flora and fauna species. There are also a number of wildflower species including the iconic yellow mariposa lily, Calochortus luteus, which has been specifically noted in the Panoche Pass.</p><br>
<p>Storekalsøy or Stora Kalsøy is an island in Austevoll municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. The 6 km&sup2; island lies northwest of the larger island of Hundvåko and just east of the Marstein Lighthouse. The northern part of the island is very rocky and mountainous. The highest point is the 57 m tall mountain Mjuken. The smaller islands of Nautøya and Spissøya lies just east of Stora Kalsøy. The smaller islands of Horgo, Møkster, and Litla Kalsøya lie to the south of Stora Kalsøy.</p><br>
<p>Virtually all the residents live along the southern and eastern coastline of the island. The main population centre of Stora Kalsøy is the village of Bakkasund where the Store-Kalsøy Chapel is located. The island had 167 inhabitants in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Oak Hill in Annandale, Virginia is a Georgian style home built in 1790. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>It was extensively renovated in the 1930s and is significant for its architecture after that renovation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From The Washington Post:</p><br>
<p>The house was one of three mansions built during the 18th century on Fitzhugh&#39;s enormous Ravensworth estate, named for a family estate in England. The tract was the largest single landholding in the history of what would become Fairfax County in 1792. It stretched from Fairfax City to Springfield and Falls Church, and south to Pohick Church....</p><br>
<p>Oak Hill was likely the oldest of the mansions, built by Major Henry Fitzhugh, another of William&#39;s sons, for Lund Washington, his land agent, according to records. Lund was a cousin of George Washington. Washington met the Fitzhugh family when, as a young surveyor, he made a map of the Ravensworth estate.</p><br>
<p>On the night of November 5, 1861, a shootout occurred at Oak Hill between members of the units later involved in the Bog Wallow Ambush, in an area of much probing and patrolling between Union and Confederate forces. All three of the Fitzhugh estates were protected by orders from both sides throughout the war.</p><br>
<p>David and Amanda Scheetz purchased the home in 2008, after a foreclosure, for $1.15 million.</p><br>
<p>The home is open to tours periodically.</p><br>
<p>Steamer Company Number 5 is a former Richmond fire station located at 200 West Marshall Street in Richmond, Virginia.</p><br>
<p>Designed by Richmond City Engineer Wilfred Emory Cutshaw, the building has a triangular plan to conform to the shape of its lot at the intersection of Brook Road and Marshall Street. Constructed of brick on a foundation of granite ashlar and covered with stucco which was scored to simulate stone, Steamer Company Number 5 is a late example of the Italianate style. This is a decorative fashion the building shares with many houses in the surrounding Jackson Ward area it served as firehouse from 1883 to 1968.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1883 to continue the function of fire fighting and police station for the Jackson Ward neighborhood begun in 1849 by a previous building on the site, Steamer Company Number 5 combines the unique local form of two-bow-front houses with municipal functionality. The late use of the Italianate style is typical of municipal schools and other buildings constructed by the city during the period. The style can be observed as late as 1896, in Richmond&#39;s Randolph Street School.</p><br>
<p>The building is now home to Gallery 5, an arts center, and was the former home of the Virginia Fire & Police Museum, which covered Virginia fire and police history with collections include antique fire apparatus, historic photos, and artifacts dating from 1790 to the present.</p><br>
<p>Oak Hill is a historic plantation house located near Cumberland, Cumberland County, Virginia. It was built about 1810, and is a two-story, frame dwelling with a center-passage, single-pile floor plan, in the Federal style. It has a one-story rear ell added about 1940. Also on the property are a contributing bank barn , tobacco barn/hay barn , tenant dwelling/granary , and family cemetery. In 1936, the property was acquired by the Resettlement Administration and conveyed by deed to the Department of Conservation and Economic Development in 1954. Since then, it has been rented to employees who are either working at the Cumberland State Forest or for other state agencies.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Shipman family leased 6,324 acre of land near the Kīlauea volcano in 1937 from the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate, which they called the Ainahou Ranch. The name aina hou means "new land".</p><br>
<p>An older ranch called Keauhou (not to be confused with the Keauhou, Hawaii, on the western side of the island) had been established here in 1921, so a primitive trail existed, and the Chain of Craters Road had recently been built within a few miles.</p><br>
<p>Herbert C. Shipman built a house on the remote ranch in 1941 for the family as a refuge for the anticipated Japanese invasion of Hawaii. It was used as a working cattle ranch, raising beef for the military during World War II.</p><br>
<p>After the 1946 tsunami devastated the Puna Shipman property, killing half the endangered Hawaiian geese (nēnē) he was raising there, he built pens at Ainahou to continue raising the nēnē. After the war, it was estimated only about 30 birds existed in the wild. Herbert Shipman reintroduced two pairs to the Pohakuloa Training Area, and worked with British ornithologist Peter Scott to expand the breeding program to England, possibly saving the species from extinction. The shipman family also kept many exotic plants at the ranch, including some of the first orchids raised on the island. Herbert (president of the Hawaii Orchid Society) was awarded a gold medal in 1957 by the American Orchid Society for contributions to the industry.</p><br>
<p>After being threatened by a lava flow in 1969 the house was evacuated. The family reached an agreement for the National Park Service to purchase the land and house in 1971 to become part of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, under the authority of the Endangered Species Act. Ainahou ranch was listed on the state register of historic places on December 5, 1973, as site 10-62-19429, and the National Register of Historic Places listings on the island of Hawaii on June 23, 1978, as site 78001013. and the National Register of Historic Places listings on the island of Hawaii on February 8, 1995, as site 94001619.</p><br>
<p>The Point Douglas–St. Louis River Road Bridge is the oldest known stone arch bridge in the state of Minnesota, built in 1863. It was constructed in Stillwater Township to carry the Point Douglas to Superior Military Road over Browns Creek. The bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 for having local significance in the themes of engineering and transportation. It was nominated as an example of stone engineering and as a remnant of Minnesotas early government roads.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The road that was carried by the bridge was built as one of Minnesotas earliest road construction projects. When Minnesota became a territory in 1849, there were few land transportation routes other than the Red River Trails, although water transportation was possible along the rivers. Henry Hastings Sibley, who later became Minnesotas first governor, appealed to the United States Congress in 1850 for funds to build a network of military roads in Minnesota Territory. The presumed purpose of these military roads was to provide a way for army troops to move quickly to an area where they were needed, but in practice these roads were more often used by civilians traveling between existing settlements or settling new areas.</p><br>
<p>There are no records of any previous bridges at this location, so it is unclear why the bridge was built in 1863, well after the military roads were authorized. Brown&#39;s Creek had been diverted south to power one of the first sawmills in Stillwater, and the remaining trickle was easy to ford. The Point Douglas to St. Louis River Road was never fully completed as a military road because Congress only allocated $10,000, $15,000, or $20,000 at a time, so Sibley and other representatives had to keep appealing to Congress for more funds to complete the roads. By 1858, the year Minnesota became a state, two-thirds of the Point Douglas to St. Louis River Road was substantially complete.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is built of locally quarried limestone by local builders Frederick Curtis and Michael Hanly. The Washington County Board of Commissioners may not have been satisfied with the work, though, because the board refused to accept the work and refused to pay the men, even though the bridge was put into use. In 1974 Frederick Curtis&#39; grandson Tom Curtis discovered that the bridge builders probably had been owed about $500 at the time, and after a century of compounded interest, the bridge builders would have been owed about $200,000 in 1974 dollars. The stone bridge was used until about 1891, when a wider wood bridge was built about 200 ft east of the stone bridge, and the road was shifted onto a new alignment. In 1905 a local miller incorporated the bridge into a three-story mill on the site. The mill did not succeed, and it was torn down in 1927, leaving only the bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Dominion Building is a historic structure on the corner of Mercer Street and Victoria Street in Wellington, New Zealand. Originally designed as the headquarters of The Dominion Post newspaper, it is now home to a mix of apartments, offices and retail areas.</p><br>
<p>A distinctive seven-storey building of some elegance, The Dominion has a frontage of stone imported from Caen in France and interiors of Queensland marble. The building follows the bend in the road. Its most striking feature is topped by a copper-covered tower with a lantern turret.</p><br>
<p>In the mid-1970s, The Dominion Post moved out of the building and the complex was redesigned by Ian Athfield in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The building is classified as a "Category 2" by Heritage New Zealand.</p><br>
<p>The Stewart Dawsons building is a historic building on the corner of Lambton Quay and Willis Street in Wellington, New Zealand. Built in 1901 for the London jeweller David Stewart Dawson, it is located on a prominent corner in two of Wellingtons major streets, a site particularly important to history of Wellington.</p><br>
<p>The site of the building had been known since the 1840s as Clay or Windy Point. Located on Wellington&#39;s original beach front, the site was marked as the 88th most desirable acre in Wellington by New Zealand Company selectors.</p><br>
<p>In 1901, Dawson commissioned Wellington architect William Charles Chatfield to design a building to fit the triangular site in 1900. Chatfield designed a three-storey building with a front that mimicked the angle created by the junction between Lambton Quay and Willis Street.</p><br>
<p>The Stewart Dawson&#39;s building is a fine example of Victorian commercial architecture. Italianate in style, it has a well proportioned facade with its pilasters heavily decorated with fine floral ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>The building is classified as a "Category II" by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.</p><br>
<p>Mauna Afi is a volcanic mountain on the island of Savai&#39;i in Samoa. Its name means Burning Mountain or Mountain of Fire, from the Samoan language mauga  and afi .</p><br>
<p>The most recent eruption of Mauga Afi was around 1725.</p><br>
<p>The island of Savai&#39;i consists of a massive shield volcano and is still volcanically active. Other volcanoes on Savai&#39;i include Mt Silisili, the highest mountain in Samoa and Mt Matavanu. The eruption of Mt Matavanu (1905–1911) destroyed villages on the central north coast of Savai&#39;i which can be seen by the lava fields in Saleaula village.</p><br>
<p>In Samoan mythology the god of earthquakes is Mafui&#39;e. Another mythical figure Ti&#39;iti&#39;i tricked the earthquake god so that Samoans could have fire to cook their food. Samoans well understood the connection between volcanic eruptions/earthquakes and tsunamis, as shown by the ancient term for tsunami - galuafi, or "wave of fire/volcano".</p><br>
<p>Cesse Aqueduct  is one of several aqueducts, or water bridge, created for the Canal du Midi. Originally, the canal crossed the Cesse on the level. Pierre-Paul Riquet, the original architect of the canal, had placed a curved dam 205 m long and 9.10 m high across the Cesse in order to collect water to make the crossing possible; the aqueduct replaced this dam.</p><br>
<p>The Cesse Aqueduct was designed in 1686 by Marshal Sebastien Vauban and completed in 1690 by Antoine Niquet. Master mason was John Gaudot. It has three spans, the middle being 18.3 m and the side being 14.6 m each. It is located in Mirepeisset, Aude (11), Languedoc-Roussillon, France, about one mile from the port town of Le Somail.</p><br>
<h2>Cesse Aqueduct dans le cinéma</h2><br>
<p>In 1967, a scene from "Le Petit Baigneur" directed by Robert Dhéry, with Louis de Funès, was filmed a Cesse Aqueduct.</p><br>
<p>Walters House, also as known as the Walters Residence, is a historic home located in Morgantown, Monongalia County, West Virginia. It was built about 1900-1901, and is a brick Queen Anne style brick dwelling. It features a three-story tower in the southeast corner topped with a wrought-iron balustrade. The architect is unknown. It was a single family home until 1931, after which it was a boarding house, fraternity house, home of the University Christian Council, and law offices. It is currently the location of the Morgantown Chabad Jewish Center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is located in the Downtown Morgantown Historic District, listed in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The Walters Residence is located just outside of the original Morgantown city limits. However, Morgantown expanded its city limits to accommodate its growing population at the same time as when the house was built. At this time, upper-class residents had yet to move out to the high-end suburbs that were developed later in the twentieth century and still lived in large houses in the downtown area.</p><br>
<p>In 1899, William E. Glasscock, future governor of West Virginia, and his wife, Mary, sold the land to Mary S. Walters. The house was constructed during Mary’s ownership some time before 1902. When Mary S. Walters died in 1913, the property was conveyed to her heirs who later sold the property to Ona Fling in 1920. During the intervening years, city directories show Rev. William H. Berry, the rector of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, and his wife, Venetia, living at the address. The 1920/1921 city directory lists the Sigma Nu fraternity at the address.</p><br>
<p>Ona Fling lived at the property from around 1920 until she died in 1931. In the later years of her residence, she rented out rooms in the house. Ona Fling’s heirs rented the property to tenants who may have operated a boarding house and later, to the Sigma Phi Epsilon and Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternities. By 1945, Elsie Fling Price, one of Ona’s heirs, was living in the house and renting out rooms. In 1951, Elsie and the other heirs sold the property to Ivan M. and Ades Shahan Bowers. Ivan Bowers operated Bowers’ Rooming House at 447 High Street in downtown Morgantown.</p><br>
<p>In 1965, the Bowers conveyed the property to the trustees of the Trinity Episcopal Church of Morgantown who rented the house to students. Around 1971, the Trinity Episcopal Church leased the building to the University Christian Council (UCC), a relatively new ecumenical campus ministry. The campus ministry occupied the first floor and students continued to live in the upper stories.</p><br>
<p>The University Christian Council emerged from the ecumenical movement within the field of campus ministry, which was active at West Virginia University in the late 1960s. In 1969, the ecumenical campus ministry center was named the Bennett House in honor of Thomas Bennett. Thomas Bennett was a conscientious objector who was killed in Vietnam while serving in the Army Medical Corps. He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. When he was a student at West Virginia University, Thomas Bennett served as the president of the Campus Ecumenical Council and was very involved in the campus ecumenical movement and social causes. At the peak of the campus ecumenical movement, West Virginia University’s campus ministry center included United Methodists, Roman Catholics, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Lutherans, and Disciples of Christ ministers.</p><br>
<p>In late twentieth-century Morgantown, many campus ministers, particularly those of liberal Protestant denominations, worked closely with student activists and were involved in social activism. In the 1970s, campus ministers in the Bennett House were involved in a number of student and community projects, including draft, drug, and abortion counseling. The Women’s Information Center, which was founded in 1971, operated within the campus ministry until the early 1990s under the direction of Reba Thurmond, United Methodist campus minister. The Center offered anonymous pregnancy testing and pro-choice counseling as well as programs on women’s issues. The organization’s philosophy was to empower women with information to make their own decisions regarding their sexuality and reproductive lives. In 1973, the Rape Information Service, which became the Rape and Domestic Violence Information Center, opened in the Bennett House. It was a collaborative project of the Women’s Information Center, the local National Organization for Women chapter, and the Women’s Affairs Committee of WVU. The organization provided services to victims of sexual assault, hosted public programming on sexual assault, and lobbied for legislative changes. Eventually, it outgrew the Bennett House and moved into its own building. Grassroots feminist organizations, like the Women’s Information Center and Rape and Domestic Violence Information Center, were established all over the country during the late-twentieth century revival of the women’s movement.</p><br>
<p>The Trinity Episcopal Church disagreed with some of the activities of the University Christian Council, specifically the Women’s Information Center. Eventually, the disagreement caused the UCC to move out of the Walters Residence in 1979. The UCC moved to a building of the old downtown hospital which no longer exists, and then to the Rogers House, where it has been located since 1984.</p><br>
<p>In 1981, the Walters Residence was conveyed to SGB, Inc. The office of Stone, Gallagher, and Byrne, attorneys and CPAS opened at the location in 1982. SGB, Inc. rented the upper stories and basement to students. In 2004, the property was sold to Benton Financiers Inc. who sold the property to Chabad of Morgantown Inc. in 2014.The Chabad Jewish Center of Morgantown was established in 2007 and uses the Walters Residence as a Chabad House. It is one of over 110 on-site campus Chabads across America.</p><br>
<p>The Hiram Charles Todd House, also known as the Marvin-Sackett-Todd House, is located on Franklin Square in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States. It is a Greek Revival house built in the 1830s by a local hotelier. Later it was home to Hiram Charles Todd, a descendant of one of the original owners who was active in New York state politics.</p><br>
<p>It remains intact today with almost no alterations. In 1972 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the very first listing in Saratoga Springs. Later that year it became a contributing property to the Franklin Square Historic District. Two decades later that district became part of the new West Side Historic District. It is currently used as office space for several local businesses.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on the corner of Franklin Street just south of the square. The neighborhood is residential, with large trees lining the streets. The other houses are similar in size to the Todd House, either in Greek Revival as well or other Victorian styles. An iron fence runs along the north and east edges of the property; there is a parking lot in the rear.</p><br>
<p>It is two stories high, with a square three-by-three-bay central block and seven-bay T-shaped rear wing. The siding is clapboard over wood frame with diagonal brick braces. A wide entablature goes down to the middle of the second story windows; fretwork flanks the three on the east (front) facade. The main entrance is flanked by projecting bay windows. The mostly flat roof is pierced by six chimneys.</p><br>
<p>On that elevation, a full-height pedimented portico with four Doric fluted columns shelters the main entrance. It is one of five porches on the building. Two on the north side, facing Division Street, have colonnades echoing that on the front. On the west (rear), the only portion of the building with a gabled roof, there is a small upstairs porch and larger enclosed one downstairs.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the central hall has a double staircase that converges into a curved single one. The drawing room runs the length of the south side of the house on the first story. It is divided with a semi-elliptical arch. On the west end of the living room two French doors lead into the music room.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built by Thomas Marvin, a nephew of the founder of the United States Hotel, one of Saratoga Springs&#39; early resorts. The exact date is unknown, but it was likely built in 1837, around the time of his marriage. Marvin at the time was co-owner of the hotel along with his brother, and the house faced the rear of the hotel across the square, originally called Marvin Square after the family. The front bay windows were added shortly after it was built.</p><br>
<p>During the house&#39;s construction, in 1833, Marvin heard of the proposed rail link that would connect the village with existing tracks at Ballston Spa. He sold a piece of land to the railroad so that the trains could run past the house and the hotel. The house thus became a landmark of Saratoga Springs to visitors.</p><br>
<p>It remained with the Marvins and their descendants for a century. Two of them were active in politics. William A. Sackett, Marvin&#39;s son-in-law served as a congressman around 1850, and later spent his last years in the house. Hiram Charles Todd, a lawyer and friend of the Sackett family who had served as USA Attorney for the Northern District of New York, inherited the house in 1927. It has since been reused as private office space.</p><br>
<p>Oswego Public Library  is a Carnegie Library located in Oswego, Kansas, United States. It is a member of the Southeast Kansas Library System, a consortium of over 100 independent libraries in Southeast Kansas that provides services to member libraries such as inter-library loan.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The local library association that would later become Oswego Public Library was formed in 1867.</p><br>
<p>In the early 20th Century they petitioned Andrew Carnegie, and in 1912 the original library building was constructed at 704 Fourth Street in Oswego, Kansas at the cost of $5,000. The library building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987, and when the building was expanded with a grant in 1995, great care was taken to preserve the historic architecture stylings of the building. In 2006 the Southeast Kansas Library System announced Oswego Public Library had won its "Library Makeover," a grant project worth over US$15,000 for interior re-design. Under the direction of OPL Librarian/Director Elizabeth Turner, the project was completed on-time and under budget by the summer of 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Funding</h2><br>
<p>OPL receives funding from memorials, the city of Oswego, Kansas, the Southeast Kansas Library System, as well as the State of Kansas.</p><br>
<h2>Services</h2><br>
<p>Oswego Public Library provides library cards free of charge to local residents, provided they can provide proof-of-residency.</p><br>
<p>The Library has a collection of over 16,000 fiction and non-fiction books, with specialized areas for young children&#39;s, teen, and adult fiction, as well as research areas for non-fiction. OPL also boasts an impressive five-year catalog of back issues of all of its nearly fifty magazine subscriptions, providing patrons with a wealth of periodical literature for research and pleasure. Hundreds of current CDs, DVDs, Books on Tape, and Books on CD are also available for checkout.</p><br>
<p>OPL works with the State Library of Kansas and provides related services, such as Kansas State Library Cards.</p><br>
<p>In the late 2000s, OPL received its first two Gates Foundation computers for Patron Access. Since then, those machines have been supplemented by other library technology purchases and at least two more Gates machines. In total, the library provides seven computers for patron access, including a laptop for use inside the library. OPL also offers free 802.11b/g Wi-Fi and low-cost printing.</p><br>
<p>The Library has used an automated cataloging system since 1990, one of the first in the area to do so.</p><br>
<h2>Library makeover project</h2><br>
<p>In 2006 the Southeast Kansas Library System announced that Oswego Public Library had won a US$15,000 grant for an interior redesign. Along with a US$7,000 pledge from the Oswego Public Library library board, this idea became known as "Project OSWEGO" and yielded great results, including a new young adult section, an entirely redesigned children&#39;s area, complete with a life-size tree sculpture. A coffee house style reading area, complete with daily national and regional newspapers and weekly newspapers, pub seating, and an adequate selection of coffees and teas, was also added.</p><br>
<h2>KOHA Transition</h2><br>
<p>In 2009 the Library announced it would be moving in October to the Koha library automation system, thus providing patrons with off-site online access to library services, including inter-library loan and book reservation. When the transition is complete, a patron receiving a library card at one participating Southeast Kansas Library System Library will be able to check out materials at any other participating SEKLS Library.</p><br>
<p>As of the summer of 2010, OPL staff had completed the transition. Oswego Public Library patrons may use their library cards at any other participating Southeast Kansas Library System library.</p><br>
<p>The Berwick Hotel is located on the northeast corner of Wheeling Avenue and Sixth Street in Cambridge, Ohio and was built in 1887 for Colonel Joseph D. Taylor in the Second Empire style.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The plot of land where the Berwick Hotel was built was bought by Joseph Taylor in 1866. He built his house on the site and lived there until the 1880s when he moved into his Queen Anne style house on the other side of town. The old house was torn down to make room for the larger structure covering the entire lot. Taylor chose the name Berwick from his bride&#39;s hometown of North Berwick, Maine. The hotel opened to much celebration on August 16, 1887; it was a Romanesque Revival building.</p><br>
<p>In November 1891, the hotel was destroyed by fire, but Taylor quickly arranged for the erection of a replacement. At the time, Cambridge was in the middle of a period of prosperity that had continued with little interruption since the first railroad came in the 1850s. Because the hotel sits on a sloped lot, it is irregular in its plan: parts of the building are four stories tall, while others are only three.</p><br>
<p>In 1983, the hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its place in local history. It is located within a National Register-listed historic district: the Wheeling Avenue Historic District, designated in 1987, which extends along Wheeling Avenue from Fourth Street to Tenth Street.</p><br>
<p>The Willard Carpenter House, located at 405 Carpenter Street in downtown Evansville, Indiana, is one of two landmarks recognized as memorials to one of the city&#39;s most influential pioneers, philanthropist Willard Carpenter. The other is Willard Library which he built, endowed and gave to the people of the area. Willard Carpenter, born on March 15, 1803 at Strafford, Orange County, Vermont, was a son of Willard, Sr., and Polly  Carpenter, and a descendant of the noted Rehoboth Carpenter family.</p><br>
<p>Construction on Willard Carpenter&#39;s house, an early Evansville mansion, began in 1848 and was completed in 1849. It is a two-story, Greek Revival style dwelling constructed by local "mechanics" including carpenter Gottlieb Bippus and masons Knoll and Tenford. The brick for the 21" thick walls was made close by while other materials were brought down the Ohio River from Lawrenceburg, Indiana. Furniture was purchased by the Carpenters in New York and shipped to Evansville via New Orleans.</p><br>
<p>When built the Carpenter house was one of three conspicuous Evansville landmarks (the Robert Barnes residence and the State Bank were the other two, both now demolished) and people came from many miles to view it. Its format of block massing, low hip roof with a deck and Greek Revival motifs (Doric-ordered portico, entablature with frieze board pierced by rectangular window, eaves dentil molding and roof cornice) are very similar to examples found in other Ohio River towns, notably Vevay and Madison, and are suggestive of New England heritage.</p><br>
<p>The home passed from Carpenter ownership in the Depression years when the property was purchased by Funkhouser American Legion Post. In 1956, they sold the property to WTVW. Medco purchased the mansion in 1974 and restored the home to as close to original condition as possible. Medco stayed in the home until 1985, when it was purchased by WNIN (TV). It now also houses the offices of WNIN-FM.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Trondhjem Norwegian Lutheran Church is a historic church in Webster Township, Rice County, Minnesota. It was original built in 1878 and rebuilt in 1899. It is situated about 1 mi south of Minnesota State Highway 19 at 8501 Garfield Avenue S, southeast of Lonsdale, Minnesota.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to the congregation minutes, on May 15, 1876, Norwegian immigrants established the Throndhjem&#39;s (sic) Church. The name was inspired by the historic city of Trondheim and the province of Trondelag. The original church was erected on the same site during 1878. The chancel in the current building dates to that original church. Trondhjem is an architectural mix of Greek Revival and Gothic Revival styles, which also incorporates elements of the stave churches of Norway. The original church built in 1878 used a cruciform architectural plan. All but the chancel was taken down in 1899 to allow a larger building to be erected on site, with the original chancel incorporated into the new building and many elements in this building showing signs of prior use most likely re-used from the prior structure.</p><br>
<h2>Present status</h2><br>
<p>In 1988 the Trondhjem Lutheran Congregation moved out of this historic building into a new church located a half mile away. The old church building has been restored by the Trondhjem Community Preservation Society, Inc. Annually the society hosts a winter concert, an ice cream social in July and the Syttende Mai celebration, all part of fundraising efforts.</p><br>
<p>The restoration project of the old church building was completed during 2002. The interior of the 1899 church had originally been decorated with hand painted and stenciled Casein paint on a decorative motif. The original murals were uncovered under layers of embossed tin, paint and wallpaper. The murals were restored in the restoration and where necessary were replicated in areas where the original art work was missing.</p><br>
<p>In 2001 Trondhjem Norwegian Lutheran Church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of Interior, United States Park Service, because of its historical significance. Also listed on the National Register of Historic Places and located across the road from the Old Trondhjem Church, is the cemetery which was established before the church building.</p><br>
<p>Cuatro Islas  is a group of islands belonging to the municipalities of Inopacan and Hindang, in the province of Leyte, Philippines. This group of islands is composed of Apid, Digyo and Mahaba, which belong to the administrative jurisdiction of the municipality of Inopacan, while Himokilan belongs to the administrative jurisdiction of the municipality of Hindang.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The islands are drawing a good number of local and foreign tourists to its pristine beaches and coral reefs. While the islands are protected the combination of overfishing, poorly enforced fishing regulations, unmanaged solid waste (especially plastics) have put the islands and their associated marine ecosystems under pressure. With improved protection (especially expansion of the sanctuary areas) and infrastructure the islands ecosystems health can recover.</p><br>
<p>The islands hold great potential to become a recreational diving destination, as the marine ecosystems&#39; health improves and proper infrastructure is established.</p><br>
<p>Kepaluškalins  is a mound located in Šilalė district, Lithuania, close to Kaltinėnai town, in Pilės village. It is thought to be founded in the beginning of 2nd millennium AD. The size of the mound and the dimensions of its defence fortifications show that during the wars with Crusaders there was one of the strongest castles in Žemaitija and the centre of Kaltinėnai land defence as well as administration on Kepaluškalnis.</p><br>
<h2>Remains of fortifications</h2><br>
<p>The mound was founded on the edge of a highland, on a point formed by two hollows. Its hillsides are precipitous, to 20m in height. A 45 x 50m size upper ground was surrounded by bulwarks which are flattened now. Spurs, stone projectiles and other finds have been found in this ground. The north side of the mound was fortified with even 5 bulwarks and moats, first 3 of which also encircled the eastern and western hillsides. There was also a moat in the southern hillside, and the bulwark behind it had a 2-metre-high outer side. Nowadays, these fortifications can be seen only in the south-western part of the mound, others are destroyed.</p><br>
<p>The mound was badly damaged by ploughing: most of the bulwarks and moats were flattened gradually. A homestead (now pulled down), located on the west side of the mound, also damaged the bulwarks. Cleaning works which took place in 2002-2004 were especially harmful for the mound historically: a path of stones leading to the upper ground was paved through the northern fortifications, and a parking lot was built where the 5th moat had once been.</p><br>
<p>In 1990, J. Genys researched an area of 8,5m on the upper ground, but didn’t find any cultural layer.</p><br>
<h2>Monument</h2><br>
<p>In 1990, a wooden monument for Vytautas the Great and the remembrance of Žalgiris battle was built at the foot of the mound. The place for this monument was chosen not accidentally. While fighting for power and after becoming the Grand Duke of Lithuania, Vytautas visited Žemaitija a lot of times. It is also very likeable that he has been to Kaltinėnai, which was one of the most important centres of Žemaitija in those times.</p><br>
<h2>Use of the mound nowadays</h2><br>
<p>On the top of Kepaluškalnis, an altar of stones was built for the remembrance of castle protectors. Flags of Lithuania, Šilalė and Tauragė often wave beside this altar.</p><br>
<p>St John’s Day and other festivals are celebrated on this mound. Crowds of people gather there on these days, performances are given and bonfires are burnt.</p><br>
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<p>The Markha River is a river in Ladakh, India. It is a tributary of the Zanskar River and starts at the junction of the Langtang Chu and Nimaling Chu. Villages along the river valley include Skiu , Markha, Umlung and Hangkar .</p><br>
<p>The Markha River lies within Hemis National Park.</p><br>
<p>The Markha Valley is one of the most popular trekking routes in Ladakh, accessible from Ganda La pass near Spituk in the west, which is usually the beginning point of the trek, and Gongmaru La pass near Hemis, where the trek usually ends.</p><br>
<p>Towards the head of the valley you can find the Kang Yatze, a 6,400 m mountain. The Markha River also passes to the south of the Stok range which includes the 6,153 m Stok Kangri mountain.</p><br>
<p>Nomadic families herd their yaks in this valley. Many small monasteries exist, of which Tache gompa is the most important Buddhist monastery in the Markha valley.</p><br>
<p>Slide Mountain is a 9,702 ft peak in the Carson Range near Reno, in Washoe County, Nevada. The Mount Rose Ski Tahoe resort is located on this mountain, leading some to believe that the mountain is named Mount Rose, when Mount Rose itself is approximately 1,000 ft higher and several miles to the northwest. From the summit of Slide Mountain, Lake Tahoe, Washoe Lake, Carson Valley, and the city of Reno can be viewed.</p><br>
<p>Slide Mountain dominates the Reno skyline, standing 5,000 ft above the city just to the south of its larger neighbor Mount Rose. Several ski trails and a maintenance road lead to the summit, making the hike to the top an easy one, especially from the Mount Rose Summit Campground located on State Route 431 at the Northwest base.</p><br>
<p>Many communications towers adorn the summit, providing television, radio, emergency responder and amateur communications service to the Reno, Carson City and Lake Tahoe areas.</p><br>
<p>Mt. Shiomi is a mountain located in the centre of the Akaishi Mountains−Southern Alps, within Minami Alps National Park, Japan. It is on the border of Shizuoka and Nagano Prefectures. It is one of the 100 Famous Japanese Mountains.</p><br>
<p>At 3,047 m tall, it is the 16th tallest mountains and hills of Japan. There is the mountaineering route on from a ridge in Akaishi Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>1902 - Toranosuke Ienaka climbed the top for the Surveying investigation. Afterwards, the Triangulation station was set up in the peak on the west side.</p><br>
<p>1964 - The Mount Shiomi region was specified for the new Minami Alps National Park.</p><br>
<p>1977 - Shiomi mountain hut was built on the west of the summit.</p><br>
<p>The University of Arkansas Campus Historic District is a historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 2009. The district covers the historic core of the University of Arkansas campus, including 25 buildings.</p><br>
<p>The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) on September 23, 2009 and the listing was announced as the featured listing in the National Park Service&#39;s weekly list of October 2, 2009. The Inn at Carnall Hall is a member of Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.</p><br>
<p>The historical core of campus was built in many phases, coincident with when funding was available to build. Beginning with the construction of Old Main in 1879, buildings were built haphazardly around campus. This was changed when the architecture firm Jamieson & Spearl designed the 1925 master plan, which includes many of the Collegiate Gothic style buildings (such as the Agriculture Building). The plan allowed for more structure and a better layout. However, funding ran dry and the master plan came to a halt. Building resumed following many Public Works Administration grants after World War II.</p><br>
<p>Another interesting feature of the campus is Campus Walk. Formerly a through street, Campus Drive was converted to a footpath that runs from Maple Street on the north, through the Pi Beta Phi Memorial Gate, and follows the streets path across the campus core and through the Bell Engineering Center to the streets former intersection with Dickson Street.</p><br>
<h2>Listings</h2><br>
<h3>Old Main</h3><br>
<p>Old Main, originally University Hall, is the University’s signature building and appears on its seal. The building was constructed between 1873 and 1875 as part of a land grant for the state of Arkansas. The building was designed in Second Empire architectural style. The exterior walls are made of local red brick, and the foundation uses local sandstone. John Mills Van Osdel&#39;s original plan called for a clock, but one was not installed until 2005. Old Main currently houses the offices of the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences, its honors program and five academic departments, as well as classrooms and meeting spaces.</p><br>
<p>Old Main was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970</p><br>
<h3>Old Main Lawn</h3><br>
<p>Old Main Lawn is an area surrounding Old Main on the University of Arkansas campus. Prior to 1872, the land was known as the McIlroy Farm. It was purchased for use as a university campus because of its prominence (the campus is still referred to as "The Hill"). In the late 1890s, part of the lawn was used as the universitys first football field. Sheep were grazed on part of it. Agricultural students planted an oatfield on part of it. The Lawn contains the earliest segments of Senior Walk, a concrete walking path that runs throughout the entire campus and contains the name of university graduates from every class since 1875. The lawn also contains the Spoofers Stone, a piece of limestone that the builders of Old Main left in place after it fell out of an oxcart and broke. The stone was used as a meeting place for males and females during the 1880s when students of opposite sexes weren&#39;t allowed to mix. The campus arboretum contains every tree found in the state of Arkansas. The Old Main Lawn area was enclosed by sandstone blocks in early 1900.</p><br>
<h3>Senior Walk</h3><br>
<p>Senior Walk is a concrete footpath of over 3.5 mi started in 1905 that contains the name of University of Arkansas graduates. The idea is unique to the University of Arkansas. Initially, sections of the walk were created by a representative of the graduating class who simply wrote the students names in the wet concrete; the university began using brass letter stamps to imprint the names in wet concrete in the 1920s and continued that process until the late 1970s. The graduating classes prior to 1905 were added retroactively. Larger graduating classes led the universitys staff to create the "Senior Sand Hog", which sandblasts the names into the concrete walks after the concrete has cured. For many years, according to university lore, freshmen at the university were counseled by upperclass students to not step on the sidewalk bearing the class of 1900, because the members of the 1900 class had all met untimely and tragic deaths. In truth, the members of the class of 1900 lived long, productive lives.</p><br>
<p>The university has designated future sidewalks to continue Senior Walk through at least 2030.</p><br>
<h3>Agriculture Annex</h3><br>
<p>Agriculture Hall was built in 1906 using funding from the Arkansas Legislature. It was one of six other buildings built at the same time. The new Agriculture Building was built in 1927, and the old Agriculture Annex became the university infirmary in 1940. The infirmary moved upon construction of the Pat Walker Health Center. Today, the Agriculture Annex building contains a computer lab for agriculture students in addition to an agriculture statistics lab and offices for graduate students.</p><br>
<h3>Ella Carnall Hall</h3><br>
<p>The Inn at Carnall Hall and Ella’s Restaurant are the University’s own on-campus 50-room historic inn and five-star restaurant. This facility also serves the Hospitality and Restaurant Management academic program. Carnall Hall was built in 1905 as the University’s first women’s residence hall. The building was named after Ella Carnall, a noted teacher and role model for young women, and one of the campus’ first female faculty members. It was designed by Charles L. Thompson. The structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. In the 1990s it was renovated into an inn and restaurant, with lead architect James Lambeth.</p><br>
<h4>Construction</h4><br>
<p>The Arkansas Legislature funded six buildings for the University in 1905, one of which was designated to be the first womens dormitory in the state. It was completed by 1906 and named for Miss Ella Howison Carnall, who was a prominent Professor of English and Modern Languages from 1881-94 at the University. The Hall was built on the far northeast corner of campus in keeping with the Universitys strict rules against fraternization between the sexes.</p><br>
<h4>Uses</h4><br>
<p>The building was used as a women&#39;s dormitory until 1967, and then housed the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity until 1977. Subsequently, the Hall was used for academics until the renovation of Old Main. Despite being listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982, the building fell into disrepair, and closed in 1991. However, due to the hard work of preservationists, the building has been refurbished and today operates as a hotel. It contains 49 rooms and is very popular during Arkansas Razorbacks sporting events.</p><br>
<h3>Original Chemistry Building</h3><br>
<p>The Chemistry Building was built in 1906 as the original chemistry building on campus. A small, three-story brick building in the Spanish architecture style, it was outgrown and replaced by the new Chemistry Building in 1935. Today this building serves as the School of Social Work.</p><br>
<h4>Construction</h4><br>
<p>The Arkansas Legislature funded six buildings for the University in 1905, one of which was designated to be the university&#39;s first chemistry building. It was completed by 1906. Like many of the brick buildings, it was painted white in the 1930s to blend with the newer limestone-clad collegiate gothic-style buildings.</p><br>
<h4>Uses</h4><br>
<p>The building served as a chemistry building until 1935, when the new Chemistry Building was erected. The building then became home to the School of Law and was the site at which Silas Herbert Hunt enrolled at the University in 1948, becoming the first African American to integrate a southern university without threat of litigation. It later was home to the departments of Psychology and Geography, and is now used by the School of Social Work.</p><br>
<h3>Peabody Hall</h3><br>
<p>Peabody Hall was built in 1913 using a $40,000 donation from the George Peabody Fund. It was the first on-campus building built using private funds. It was built for use by the teacher education department and has been used by that department continuously since completion. Peabody Hall was completely renovated, inside and out, in 2011, garnering an award from the Historic Preservation Alliance of Arkansas.</p><br>
<h3>Women's Gymnasium</h3><br>
<p>The Women&#39;s Gymnasium was completed in 1925 by the campus Department of Buildings and Grounds with help from the engineering students. The floor was 60 ft by 90 ft, and could hold two basketball counts or four volleyball courts. It also has a full basement. Today, the building is used by the Army ROTC.</p><br>
<h3>Engineering Hall</h3><br>
<p>John A. White, Jr. Engineering Hall was completed in the collegiate gothic style in 1927. The building was built similar to the Agriculture Building, and was completed at around the same time. Using limestone from Batesville, Arkansas, the building holds an auditorium, library, classrooms, labs, studios, a blueprint room, and a tool room. Following the construction of Bell Engineering Center in 1987, the original Engineering Hall is now used primarily for small classes. The building was renamed "John A. White Jr. Engineering Hall" in 2012 in honor of former chancellor John A. White.</p><br>
<h3>Agriculture Building</h3><br>
<p>The Agriculture Building at the University of Arkansas was completed in 1927 in the collegiate gothic style. The building at first hosted six departments, a library, and offices. The Agriculture Building and Engineering Hall were built at the same time in the same style, as part of the 1925 master plan. Upon completion of the new Plant Sciences building, the original Agriculture Building currently houses the agribusiness and economics, agricultural and extension education, agricultural communications, and entomology departments.</p><br>
<h3>Chi Omega Greek Theatre</h3><br>
<p>The Chi Omega Greek Theatre is a multipurpose semi-circular amphitheatre, designed with the Theatre of Dionysus as an inspiration. Chi Omega donated the theatre to the University, and president John C. Futrall accepted the gift on June 28, 1930, in accordance with the 1925 Jamieson and Spearl master plan. Chi Omega was founded at Arkansas in 1895. It has served host for concerts, pep rallies, commencements, and classes.</p><br>
<h4>Chi Omega Greek Theatre Landscape</h4><br>
<p>The landscape around the Chi Omega Greek Theatre includes shade trees, hedges, and scenic lawns. From the lawn, downtown Fayetteville is visible. The Theatre and Landscape augment each other, together making a historic landscape.</p><br>
<h3>Vol Walker Hall</h3><br>
<p>Vol Walker Hall, originally Vol Walker Library, was the library on the University of Arkansas campus. Modeled after Rush Rhees Library at the University of Rochester, the University of Arkansas obtained Public Works Administration funding to build the building in the Classic Revival form. The building has also housed the School of Architecture since the construction of Mullins Library in 1968. The building was renovated from 2011 to 2013, and a 30,000-square-foot addition, the Steven L. Anderson Design Center, allowed all three of the school&#39;s departments — architecture, landscape architecture and interior design — to share a single building.</p><br>
<h3>Chemistry Building</h3><br>
<p>The Chemistry Building was built in 1935 to replace a smaller chemistry building. The university also outgrew this Chemistry Building, and a new building was added by skywalk in 1992.</p><br>
<h3>Gibson Hall</h3><br>
<p>Gibson Hall, originally Razorback Hall, is a womens residence hall on the University of Arkansas campus. Gibson Hall was originally a mens residence hall, and the three-story brick building was named Razorback Hall. Following a 1963 remodeling, the building became an upper-tier women&#39;s dormitory. In 1981, it was renamed posthumously for James L. Gibson, the late University housing director.</p><br>
<h3>Gibson Annex</h3><br>
<p>The Gibson Annex is the accompanying dining hall for Gibson Hall. Originally named Razorback Dining Hall, it was renamed Gibson Annex when the hall was renamed. The dining hall was constructed in the Collegiate Gothic style by Wittenberg & Deloney of Little Rock, completed in 1937.</p><br>
<h3>Former Men's Gymnasium</h3><br>
<p>The Men&#39;s Gymnasium was built in 1937 using PWA funds by Haralson & Nelson. Using light brick and limestone, the building was built in the Collegiate Gothic style. It could hold 3,500 patrons as a stadium and 7,500 as an auditorium. It housed Arkansas Razorbacks basketball until the construction of Barnhill Arena in 1954, the physical education department until 1982, and the university museum until 2003. It now contains the Arkansas Center for Space and Planetary Sciences.</p><br>
<h3>Memorial Hall</h3><br>
<p>Futrall Memorial Hall, usually just Memorial Hall, originally Student Union at the University of Arkansas is a building on the University&#39;s campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in September 1992 as Student Union Building-University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.</p><br>
<h4>History</h4><br>
<p>President John C. Futrall identified a need for a student union on campus and began charging students a $2 "student union fee" on their bill. That fee, coupled with Public Works Administration funding, resulted in the construction of Memorial Hall, which at the time was named Student Union. On September 12, 1939, Futrall was killed in an automobile accident, and the Board of Trustees passed a resolution to change the name to Futrall Memorial Hall. The building was still referred to as the Student Union, despite the motion.</p><br>
<p>The grand building was opened in March 1940, and featured a bookstore, restaurant, post office, confectionery, and a large ballroom with bandshell. The second floor had offices for The Arkansas Traveler (the student publication). The building remained as it was for ten years, until a large three story addition was finished to provide better food services. Upon completion of the Arkansas Union in 1973, Memorial Hall became home to the psychology department, and many of the rooms were converted to classrooms. It also gained the Landscape Architecture and Air Force ROTC departments.</p><br>
<p>The Board of Trustees again changed the name to Memorial Hall in 1973, which is how it is known today. The building still houses the three listed departments to this day.</p><br>
<h4>Features</h4><br>
<p>Memorial Halls interior contains many art deco features from the period of construction, including large lights near the steps of the north entrance and lots of sleek lines. The floors feature repeating patterns typical of art deco construction and the staircases appear streamlined and modern. At the west entrance to the building stand two large, mature trees. One is a Bald Cypress and the other a Southern Magnolia. Both trees date to the time of Memorial Halls construction.</p><br>
<h3>Gearhart Hall</h3><br>
<p>Gearhart Hall (formerly known as Ozark Hall) is one of the older buildings on campus. It is home to several of the physical science departments. The building was formerly attached to the Commerce Building, and together the structure was known as the Business Administration Building. The Business Administration department moved out in 1978, and the Commerce Building was razed in 1987. The building is located directly to the south of Old Main.</p><br>
<h3>Home Economics Building</h3><br>
<p>The Home Economics Building is a two story Collegiate Gothic classroom building, built in 1939. Its walls are cut stone, and are topped by a crenellated parapet, which obscures the tar roof. A tall entrance tower rises at the center, with a multipane lancet window at the second level and a recessed entrance at the first.</p><br>
<h3>Delta Gamma House</h3><br>
<h3>Davis Hall</h3><br>
<h3>Geology Building/Ordark Building</h3><br>
<h3>Gregson Hall</h3><br>
<h3>Holcombe Hall</h3><br>
<h3>Pi Kappa Alpha</h3><br>
<h3>Fine Arts Center</h3><br>
<h4>Fine Arts Center Landscape</h4><br>
<h3>Phoenix House</h3><br>
<h4>Phoenix House Landscape</h4><br>
<p>The Lake Ridge Island Mounds  are a group of small hills in Logan County, Ohio, United States that have been thought to be Native American mounds. Located in an area of about 5 acre at the northern end on Lake Ridge Island in Indian Lake, the mounds are near the village of Russells Point in the southeastern corner of Stokes Township. State Route 368 passes a short distance to the east of the mounds, even weaving at one point to avoid them. The four mounds on the island are small, not reaching a height greater than 3 ft or a diameter greater than 40 ft; they are small enough that they appear to be natural knolls. A report produced in the 1970s observed that the mounds were in "excellent" condition at the time, never having been disturbed by artifact seekers.</p><br>
<p>An archeological survey of Logan County, published in 1914, revealed a cluster of mounds on the southeastern shore of Indian Lake, but no mounds on Lake Ridge Island were observed by the survey. Typical of the mounds studied in the survey is the Dunns Pond Mound, located in the community of Moundwood a short distance south of Lake Ridge Island; it is significantly larger than the Lake Ridge Island Mounds. The 1970s report highlighted the mounds as possible archeological sites, stating that they resembled small Hopewell mounds known elsewhere in Ohio and proposing that they were constructed by small groups of Hopewell who were isolated by time or distance from centers of Hopewell influence. As small mounds, they were assessed as being potentially significant for revealing the origins and demise of the Hopewell in the midwestern United States. For this reason, the mounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 1974, along with the Dunns Pond Mound; they are the only historic district in Logan County. In nominating the mounds for listing, the Ohio Historical Society noted the mounds&#39; location within Indian Lake State Park as being significant for archeological education: it was hoped that visitors to the park would become aware of the significance of the mounds and consequently seek to preserve archeological sites on their own properties.</p><br>
<p>Otjikoto Lake is the smaller of only two permanent natural lakes in Namibia. It is a sinkhole lake that was created by a collapsing karst cave. It is located 20 km north-west of Tsumeb and only 100 meters from the main road B1. The diameter of the lake is 102 m; its depth is undetermined. According to a Namibian tourism information organisation, "the depth varies from sixty two meters at the side to seven meters in the centre, and in some places leading off from the side depths of one hundred meters have been recorded", while an article in the Allgemeine Zeitung explains the depth problem: "the lake tapers into a lateral cave system making it impossible to determine its exact depth, estimated to be in access  of 142 meters."</p><br>
<p>The lake was known to the San under the name Gaisis ("ugly"). When the Herero moved into the area, they named it Otjikoto (Otjiherero: "deep hole"). Namibia&#39;s Oshikoto Region, in which the lake is situated, is an alternative spelling of Otjikoto and derives its name from that of the lake. The first Europeans to discover the lake were Francis Galton and Carl Johan Andersson, who during their search for Lake Ngami came upon Otjikoto Lake in 1851.</p><br>
<p>The lake was a dumping ground for German Schutztruppe during World War I; in June 1915 German troops dumped war materials in the lake before surrendering to stop the South African and British troops from using them. Most of the larger pieces have been recovered and are displayed in Tsumeb Museum, but at least two cannons, along with quantities of ammunition, are still in the lake and can be viewed with a special diving permit. According to legend, the Germans also dumped a sealed safe into the lake. The search for it and the 6 million gold marks it is said to contain has as yet not been successful.</p><br>
<p>Tilapia guinasana, a species of cichlid fish which naturally was only found in Otjikoto&#39;s sister lake, Lake Guinas, was introduced to Otjikoto Lake. The claim that Lake Guinas is connected to Lake Otjikoto by underground caves is frequently made but not proven as yet.</p><br>
<p>Lake Leśnia  is a small artificial lake, located on the Kwisa river, between towns of Leśna and Gryfow Slaski in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, southwestern Poland. It was opened on July 15, 1905, after a dam had been completed near the village of Czocha. The dam was constructed between 1901 - 1905, by the government of Kingdom of Prussia’s Province of Silesia. Most workers employed during construction came from Austria and Italy, and total cost was estimated at 1,270,00 reichsmarks. The dam is 45 m high, its length is 130 m, and its thickness - 8 m on top.</p><br>
<p>Total area of the lake is 140 hectares, and volume - 15 million cubic metres. The length of the lake is around 7 km, and it is up to 1 km wide. Between 1905 and 1907, a hydroelectric power plant was built there, for 800,000 marks, funded by the government of Silesia. Currently, it is the oldest plant of this kind in Poland, with six J.M.Voith 1906 turbines still working. On the high, left bank of the lake, Czocha Castle is located, and on the right bank, there is the complex of Rajsko Castle. The lake is a popular summer vacation centre, with several campsites and watersports facilities.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>The Kleine Aller is a tributary of the Aller and Aller Canal in the German state of Lower Saxony. It is about 15 km long and up to 5 m wide, and flows from north to south through the district of Gifhorn and the city of Wolfsburg.</p><br>
<h2>Course</h2><br>
<p>The Kleine Aller rises in the Brome village of Wiswedel at 78 m above sea level. It drains the Kiebitzmoor west of Tülau, through a system of ditches that has been continually expanded over the years, and also drains the Vogelmoor north of Barwedel. In this region it is joined by the tributary of the Rhodische Aller. Finally the Kleine Aller flows southwards, past Bergfeld, Barwedel, Tiddische, Hoitlingen and Jembke. From Jembke it forms the border between the district of Gifhorn and the city of Wolfsburg. The river also passes Wolfsburg-Brackstedt and Wolfsburg-Warmenau to enter the Aller Canal south of Weyhausen at a height of 55.5 m above sea level and at a point a few hundred metres after it branches away from the River Aller itself.</p><br>
<p>The sections near Tülau, Bergefeld and Tiddische have been renaturalised and, in places, a new river channel has been dug out. The near-natural areas thus created have been planted with alder. This provides important areas of shade because much of the river is directly illuminated by the sun, something which leads to rapid weed growth and choking of the river bed.</p><br>
<h2>Formation and history</h2><br>
<p>The river channel was formed, like the surrounding landscape, in the penultimate ice age, the Saale glaciation. The ice sheets shaped the terrain over 100,000 years ago with their ground moraines. The streams acted as drainage channels for the higher lying areas of geest in the Aller glacial valley.</p><br>
<p>In the Middle Ages the valley of the Kleine Aller created a natural, north-south oriented border between two regions. These were the Boldecker Land in the west and the historic landscape of the Vorsfelder Werder in the east.</p><br>
<p>The Kleine Aller has been able to carve out a valley during the course of its existence which, in its middle reaches, is about 10 m deep and about 1,000 m wide in which a eutrophic peat fen has become established. In earlier times the valley was only used as grassland due to frequent flooding; today the river meadows are mainly used for arable farming. The old meandering Kleine Aller was straightened and canalised in 1865 along almosts its entire length. The river bed was also raised. The changes to the river and the lack of flooding has enabled the land in the valley depression of the Kleine Aller to be used as farmland.</p><br>
<h2>Water quality</h2><br>
<p>Near Warmenau there has been a water quality station since 1967, where water quality has been regularly tested since 1976. The 2004 Lower Saxon water quality report assesses the chemical water pollution of the Kleine Aller as variable. The values for organic pollution, nitrate, ammonium and phosphate contamination vary from lightly polluted to very heavily polluted. Ammonium levels in particular suffer from wide variations and sometimes high values. This is due to the fact that the waterway receives the discharge from five sewage works and that the nitrogen content in these installations has not been reduced sufficiently.</p><br>
<p>The Silver City Historic District is a historically significant section of downtown Silver City, New Mexico, United States. Within its boundaries of Black, College, Hudson, and Spring Streets are located thirty-eight contributing properties, spread out over an area of 88 acre. The properties include some of Silver City&#39;s most significant commercial, government, religious, and residential buildings. The commercial area is mainly located along Broadway and Bullard Street; most of the commercial buildings are two-story brick structures, and many feature cast iron storefronts. The Grant County Courthouse, which was designed and built in 1930, is located at the end of Broadway. The houses in the district are also mainly brick, a locally abundant building material; they represent a variety of architectural styles, including a number of Second Empire works. Five churches are included in the district; these include Gothic Revival and Mission Revival designs.</p><br>
<p>The historic district was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Grant County Courthouse, built in 1930, includes a mural by Santa Fe artist Theodore Van Soelen.</p><br>
<p>White Plains is an antebellum plantation house near the USA city of Algood, Tennessee. In the 19th century, the plantation provided a key stopover along the Walton Road, an early stagecoach road connecting Knoxville and Nashville, and in 1854 served as a temporary county seat for the newly formed Putnam County. In 2009, the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The White Plains plantation was established in 1809 by William Quarles (1752&ndash;1814), a Revolutionary War veteran who had migrated to the area from Virginia. Quarles grandson, Stephan Decatur Burton (1813&ndash;1892), built the White Plains house sometime around 1848, and in the late 1950s Harvey Draper bought the house and made numerous renovations. Drapers granddaughter is the house&#39;s current owner.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>White Plains is located on the eastern Highland Rim, a plateau-like upland between the higher Cumberland Plateau to the east and the lower Nashville Basin to the west. The western escarpments of the Cumberland Plateau, known locally as "Algood Mountain" and "Buck Mountain," rise about a mile to the east. The house stands along Old Walton Road just outside the municipal boundary of Algood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>What is now White Plains was part of Cherokee lands ceded to the United States with the signing of the Third Treaty of Tellico in 1805. The Walton Road, a stagecoach road completed in 1801 connecting Knoxville and Nashville, brought the earliest permanent legal settlers to the Upper Cumberland region. Around 1804, an early pioneer named Daniel Alexander established an inn along the Walton Road at what is now White Plains. In 1808, Alexander sold the inn and land to William Quarles, a lawyer and Revolutionary War veteran from Bedford County, Virginia. Quarles moved his family, belongings, and thirty slaves to the new land in December 1809.</p><br>
<p>Shortly after his arrival, Quarles built a two-story log house with a detached kitchen and office, and several slave cabins. Within a few years, Quarles had established a general store, blacksmith shop, and post office at White Plains. The Kentucky Stock Road, a cattle drovers path connecting Huntsville, Alabama and Danville, Kentucky, was developed in subsequent years and intersected the Walton Road at White Plains. The Quarles inn was a popular stopover for travellers along these two roads, and three USA presidents&mdash; Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, and Andrew Johnson&mdash; are known to have lodged at White Plains. Quarless youngest son, John Adams Quarles (1802&ndash;1876), may have inspired author Mark Twains story, "The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" (John Quarles was married to Twains aunt, Martha Lampton). Quarless daughter, Sallie, was married to USA Congressman Adam Huntsman, famous in Tennessee history for defeating Davy Crockett in the 1834 election and prompting Crockett&#39;s angry departure to Texas.</p><br>
<p>On April 2, 1814, William P. Quarles was murdered by a man named William Phillips. His wife, Ann Hawes Quarles, continued to manage White Plains until her death in 1844, when the land passed to Stephen Decatur Burton (1813&ndash;1892), a grandson of William and Ann. Burton built the present house at White Plains in 1848, and built a two-story schoolhouse for the small communitys children. Largely through inheritance, Burton was one of the Upper Cumberlands largest slaveholders, owning around 100 slaves at the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861. During the war, Burton lost the bulk of his fortune when Union forces burned several warehouses in Chattanooga, where Burton had amassed $125,000 worth of cotton.</p><br>
<p>In the latter half of the 19th century, the community around White Plains disintegrated, although the house and farm remained in the hands of the Quarles-Burton family. The family eventually sold the house to Harvey Draper, who remodeled the house in the late 1950s. Drapers granddaughter, Martha Willis, is the houses current owner.</p><br>
<h2>House and outbuildings</h2><br>
<p>The house at White Plains was originally constructed in 1848 by Stephen Decatur Burton after the loghouse built by his grandfather William Quarles burned. The house originally consisted of a hewn log frame with weatherboard siding, built around a central floor plan. Two 15 ft by 15 ft rooms flank both sides of the central hallway on the first floor, and the second floor consists of four 15 ft by 15 ft. A sitting room was added to the rear of the house in 1925. The 1958 renovations included the addition of a brick exterior, a front portico, and two single-story wings containing a kitchen and several bedrooms.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the house originally consisted of poplar floors, although the poplar floor on the first story was covered with hardwood in 1958. The original rooms all had a fireplace, each with a unique mantel. A "dog-leg" staircase accesses the second story. The first-story hallway has built-in gun cabinets and a 19th-century pier mirror (the latter added in 1958).</p><br>
<p>Outbuildings at White Plains include a smokehouse, corn crib, and horse barn. The smokehouse, built with dovetail-notched logs around 1860, was remodeled as a log cabin in 1990. The corn crib, a log structure built around 1860, was moved from its original location around 1950, and now stands next to the smokehouse. The horse barn is a modern structure built around 2000, with wooden walls and a metal roof. The Quarles and Burton family cemeteries are located opposite the junction of Old Walton Road and Deck Mountain Road, a few blocks from the house.</p><br>
<p>The Roosevelt School is a historic former school building on Maine State Route 161 in Saint John Plantation, Maine. Built in 1920 to a standard plan and used as a school until 1969, it is the only surviving historic school building in the small rural community. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Roosevelt School building is set on the south side of Maine Route 161, about 0.1 m east of the St. John Bible Church in the northwestern part of the small community. It is a single-story wood-frame structure, which is roughly rectangular in plan, with a projection extending across much of its front (north-facing) facade, and a small gable-roofed entry porch in front of that. The main block has a hip roof, which is continued over this projection, and there is a shed-roof dormer. The projecting section houses vestibules, closets, and bathroom facilities, and the main space is divided into two classrooms. The interior, despite alterations, retains significant elements of the original school function, including blackboards (now painted), and relatively unmodified closets and bathrooms. In some places original door and window trim is still in place, as is tongue-and-groove vertical wainscoting.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1920, to a plan that strongly resembles that of other rural Maine schools built around that time, and is the only school building known to survive from that period or earlier. It was designed with two classrooms, later modified to have a movable divider. It served as a school until 1969, and has most recently seen use as a private summer accommodation.</p><br>
<p>The Roosevelt School in Casper, Wyoming, originally named North Casper School, was designed by leading Wyoming architectural firm Garbutt, Weidner & Sweeney in 1921 and was built in 1922. Need for the school followed from a post-World War I boom in Casper&#39;s economy and population, connected to a boom in the petroleum industry there. The school served as a neighborhood center in an otherwise-neglected area of the town.</p><br>
<p>The North Casper area was across railroad tracks from the rest of Casper, and was fast-growing. In the words of Vivian Dwyer, principal of the school, it was "a district of small homes, meager means, and large families." Schooling was not available to all.</p><br>
<p>In 1921 an expansion of the existing school was planned, but instead a new building was designed and built. Only one wing of six classrooms was finished in a timely fashion, due perhaps to a union-related work stoppage.</p><br>
<p>The school was named for Theodore Roosevelt.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Greyhound Bus Depot is a former Greyhound Lines intercity bus station in Columbia, South Carolina. It is at 1200 Blanding Street in downtown Columbia. The depot was named to the National Register of Historic Places on December 28, 1989. After the bus terminal was closed, the building became a bank. Currently, it is a physician&#39;s office.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed in 1938 and 1939 for Atlantic Greyhound Lines. Since 2014, the building has been a contributing property in the Columbia Commercial Historic District,</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The depot is an island-type station designed by George D. Brown in the Art Moderne or Streamline Moderne style, which grew out of the industrial design work of Norman Bel Geddes, Henry Dreyfuss, and Raymond Loewy. These designs emphasized a streamlined shape with minimal ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>The building has a reinforced concrete foundation and a structural steel frame. The east, west, and north elevations have three horizontal bands and rounded corners. The lower band is blue stucco. The middle band is glass block. The top band is blue and ivory Vitrolite panels. The north elevation on Blanding Street has four ivory Vitrolite columns extending through the canopy over the five entrance doors.</p><br>
<p>The vertical sign above the entrance was constructed of aluminum with stainless-steel trim. The sign was capped with the iconic "running greyhound" logo of the bus company. The letters in the words "Greyhound Bus Depot" and the running greyhound were outlined with neon tubing.</p><br>
<p>The original interior had a terrazzo floors, plaster walls, and wainscoting. The waiting room had a skylight for additional, natural lighting.</p><br>
<p>In its current use as a plastic surgeon&#39;s office, the exterior remains the same with the exception of the sign, which no longer has the Greyhound name or logo. The interior was redone with a patient waiting room, consultation room, a surgery suite, recovery rooms, and offices.</p><br>
<p>The Kodavanar, is a river in the Palni Hills in Tamil Nadu.</p><br>
<p>At the northern side of Kamarajar Lake are the Kannivadi Hills up to approximately 800 m high. In the west is the so-called northern slope of the Palani Hills up to 1,500 m high. There is a river from Pandrimallai, named the Karuvalli Ar (up-stream) and Kūlal Ar (down-stream). The Kūlal Ar enters in the northwest side of Kamarajar Valley where Palani Hills and Kannivadi Hills meet each other. On his way down the Kūlal Ar passes two waterfalls, many small cascades and ponds. The other river is called the Kodavanār River. It is a run off from Thandikudi and passes Pannaikadu and enters the Kamarajar Lake in the southwest side of the valley.</p><br>
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<p>The USA Post Office in Saratoga Springs, New York, United States, is located at the junction of Broadway  and Church Street  in the center of the city. It is an early 20th-century brick structure in the Classical Revival architectural style, designed by James Knox Taylor, supervising architect for the Treasury Department. The post office serves the ZIP Code 12866, covering the city of Saratoga Springs.</p><br>
<p>At the time of its construction and opening it had one of the most elaborate lobbies of any post office in the state. Two murals depicting the citys race track were added to it in the 1930s. The lobby has since been altered somewhat, but enough of the buildings integrity and original design remains that it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. It had already been a contributing property to the Broadway Historic District since that was first designated in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The post office is set back somewhat from Broadway. There are mature trees and some landscaping between the sidewalk and street. It is one of four notable buildings at the busy intersection. Across the street is the city&#39;s Italianate city hall. On the far corner is the elaborate, massive Ainsworth Building, and the 1916 Beaux-Arts marble Adirondack Trust Company building faces the post office across Church Street.</p><br>
<p>It is rectangular, one story high, three bays by four with a flat roof and faced in yellow pressed Roman brick on a foundation of finished granite. Both marble and limestone are used as trim. Above the window level a limestone egg-and-dart course goes around the building. Above it is an entablature with a frieze decorated with a geometric pattern of red and yellow brick. The cornice is dentilled with plain modillions and shallow panels between. The short roof parapet has limestone coping and, at a higher section over the main entrance, foliated brackets.</p><br>
<p>The middle bay on the east (front) elevation projects. It is a semicircular arch with a plainly molded archivolt supported by freestanding Doric columns of veined and polished marble. A recessed bronze screen has windows in the top and the main doors below. Granite steps with a central bronze rail lead up to it. The original heavy bronze doors are still in place although they have been funcationally replaced by modern aluminum doors. A Greek key design is embellished around the doors, and "POST OFFICE" is written above.</p><br>
<p>The flanking windows, and the easternmost bays on the north and south facades, have a similar treatment except for the columns being pedestaled on a balustrade. The other window openings on the north and south facades are recessed, their plain limestone sills supported by brackets. Their arches have windows with radiating wooden muntins. A small vertical window is located between the easternmost, projecting bay and the next one. On the south facade a wheelchair ramp climbs up and offers access at this point. The north side has an open brick loading dock that covers part of the rear.</p><br>
<p>Inside, the lobby has a 14-foot–high (4.3 m) plaster coffered ceiling with a central leaded glass skylight, curved to match the angle of the rear wall. The walls themselves are lined with segmented recessed arches, topped by an egg-and-dart cornice. The entrance arch has a similar surround. On either side of the vestibule are murals by Guy Pène du Bois entitled Saratoga in the Racing Season.</p><br>
<p>The floor has modern carpeting; a white marble baseboard and green marble wainscoting surround part of the lobby. A 9-foot–high (3 m) screenline with post office boxes divides it in half. Teller windows are on the north side.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Saratoga Springs has had a post office since founder Gideon Putnam built its first resort hotel in 1802. The first two were run out of local merchants stores. Later in the 19th century it was moved to a local office building, like the first two located on Broadway, the citys main street. The present site was acquired for almost $125,000 ($ in contemporary dollars) in the early years of the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>It was one of the last buildings designed by James Knox Taylor, then Supervising Architect for the Treasury Department. He had already established the neoclassical style of the day as his preferred choice for public buildings, to reflect an embrace of the classically influenced ideals of the country&#39;s Founding Fathers. The Saratoga post office shares its arched openings with two others in New York (Johnstown and Ithaca), but its Renaissance Revival touches, the columns and decorative brickwork, are found only one other of his post offices in New York, in Olean, designed around the same time. Both aspects make it harmonize well with the other buildings on the intersection, the city hall and Ainsworth Block across Broadway with similarly Italian Renaissance-inspired features and the classically inspired decor on the bank building on the neighboring corner of Church Street.</p><br>
<p>At the time it was opened the building&#39;s lobby was one of the most elaborate in the state. This has been compromised by the removal of the screenline and the substitution of a modern partition wall in the center.</p><br>
<p>The murals were added in 1936–37 under the Treasury Relief Art Project. The loading dock was added in 1961, and in 1974 the lobby was altered. The original exterior light fixtures have also been replaced. There have been no other major changes to the building.</p><br>
<p>Flat Rock Historic District is a national historic district located at Flat Rock, Henderson County, North Carolina. The district encompasses 55 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site associated with estates centering on the ambitious summer houses of the prominent Charlestonians. The homes includes notable examples of Stick Style / Eastlake Movement, Second Empire, and Gothic Revival residential architecture. Located in the district is the separately listed Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site, also known as Connemara . Other notable estates include Mountain Lodge, Argyle, Beaumont, Tall Trees , Many Pines, Chanteloupe, Teneriffe, Rutledge Cottage, Dunroy, Treholm-Rhett House home of George Trenholm, Kenmure , Vincennes  home of William Elliott, Sallie Parker House, Enchantment, Bonclarken , Saluda Cottages , Tranquility, and the Rhue House. Also located in the district is St. John-in-the-Wilderness church and rectory, the Old Post Office, Woodfield Inn , The Lowndes Place .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973; its boundaries were adjusted in 2015.</p><br>
<p>First Church of Christ, Scientist, is an historic Christian Science church edifice located at 475 North Kingshighway Boulevard, corner of Westminster Place, in St. Louis, Missouri. Built in 1903-1904, it was designed as a stone building in the Classical Revival style of architecture by Edward Gordon Garden of Mauran, Russell and Garden and was the first institutional commission of that fledgling firm. Cost concerns, though, resulted in it being built of brick. It is a contributing property in the Holy Corners Historic District which was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 29, 1975.</p><br>
<p>First Church of Christ, Scientist, which had been founded in 1894, still holds services in this historic building.</p><br>
<p>The Canton Corner Historic District is a historic district encompassing the historic town center of Canton, Massachusetts. Centered on the junction of Pleasant and Washington Streets, it includes more than 25 properties and 170 acre, whose architectural history spans 250 years of occupation and include the town&#39;s major civic buildings. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 9, 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The town of Canton, located south of Boston, Massachusetts, was first settled in the 17th century by English colonial settlers involved in the Ponkapoag native "praying town", but its center of development moved to the southwest in the 18th century due to the higher quality of farmland there. Washington Street, the main east-west road through the district, was laid out in 1700 and Pleasant Street in 1723, running south from Washington Street across a dam that impounded Pequid Brook, the southern extent of the district, to form Reservoir Pond. The town&#39;s first colonial meetinghouse was built at Canton Corner in 1707, and its town hall was built there in 1824.</p><br>
<p>The district extends from east to west along Washington Street, from Dedham Street to the Canton Corner Cemetery, and south along Pleasant Street to Pequid Brook. The district includes housing spanning more than 250 years of architectural styles, from Georgian (e.g. the c. 1725 David Tilden House at 93 Pleasant Street) to the Craftsman/Bungalow style (e.g. the 1905 Bessie Estey House at 1452 Washington Street). Its oldest public building is the 1824 First Congregational Parish Church, built in 1824; it is a late Federal period building with both Greek and Gothic Revival features. A particularly fine example of Italianate architecture is the John Williams House at 18 Dedham Street.</p><br>
<p>Monte Aloia is a summit in the mountains of Galicia, Spain, which was declared a natural park on 4 December 1978. The park covers an area of 746 hectares and is located within the municipality of Tui, a town on the River Miño.</p><br>
<p>It is a Site of Community Importance. The vegetation consists of pine plantations and shrubland. It has remnants of the Castro culture, and elements of ethnographic interest.</p><br>
<h2>Topography and geology</h2><br>
<p>Mount Aloia presents a rough topography with an altitude ranging between 80 and 629 metres from the Alto de San Xiao, from which spreads an extensive stretch of the River Louro and the Miño until its mouth. The soils are acidic, of low to average depth, presenting granitic substrate that often emerges, resulting in rocks and stones, a characteristic element of the landscape of the region of the lower Minho (Baixo Miño).</p><br>
<p>31 and 33 Dee Banks is a pair of semi-detached houses in Chester, Cheshire, England. The houses are recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building. The historical importance of the houses, in addition to their listing, is that they were designed by the Chester architect John Douglas, who lived in No. 33 for 20 years.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The houses stand on the east side of Dee Banks</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land on which the houses were constructed was owned by John Douglas; one of the houses (No. 33) was built for his own use and the other was probably an investment. From the time he moved to Chester in either 1855 or 1860, Douglas and his family lived in Abbey Square in the centre of the city, initially above his office at No. 6 and later next door at No. 4. Although the houses are dated 1869, the family did not move there until about 1876. Douglas&#39; wife, Elizabeth, died in 1878, and Douglas continued to live with his family in 33 Dee Banks for a further 18 years until he built a large mansion, Walmoor Hill, for himself nearby in 1896. An oriel window was added to the upper storey of No. 31 in about 1945.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Other than the oriel window, the building is symmetrical and it has two storeys; each house is a mirror-image of the other. It is constructed in brown brick with diapering in blue brick and some stone dressings; the roof is of grey-green slate. The building has six bays, three to each house. The central two bays project forwards and each is gabled; there are smaller gables over the outer bays. In each angle outside the central bays is a timber-framed porch and a small conservatory with a hipped roof. The lower storey has sash windows in both central and outer bays. Between the storeys is diapered brickwork. In the upper storey, No. 31 has a five-faced oriel window in its outer bay, while the corresponding window of No. 33 has a double-arched window. Above each porch is a triple-sash window. In each central bay is a pair of arched sash windows and over each of these is an inscribed circular panel. The inscription in the panel on No. 31 reads "JD" (for John Douglas), and that on No. 33 "V&A" (for Victoria and Albert). Above the upper-storey windows in the outer bays is a small one-pane window and above the windows in the central bays is a pair of small arched windows. The roof is ridged. A pair of substantial brick chimneys rises from the centre of the building and another more slender chimney is at the lateral end of each ridge. The sandstone garden walls and gate piers are included in the listing.</p><br>
<p>Douglas&#39; biographer, Edward Hubbard, commented on the "quality of massiveness" of the houses in their "prominent site" above the river but notes that internally they were "quite modest in their scale and their fittings". He stated that originally on the garden walls were railings that consisted of widely spaced uprights with forked bases. Hubbard considered that the most characteristic features of Douglas on the houses are the timber-framed porches, the polychromic brickwork, and the ribbed brick chimneystacks.</p><br>
<p>The Calumet Fire Station is a firehouse located on 6th Street in Calumet, Michigan. It is also known as the Red Jacket Fire Station. The building was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At the turn of the twentieth century, the threat of fire was constant in what was then a prosperous mining town. The construction of the fire station was started in 1898 and completed in 1899, using plans made by architect C. K. Shand. Although the station was built by the village of Calumet (then "Red Jacket"), the lot on which it sits was leased from the Calumet and Hecla Mining Company until 1910, when the company deeded it to the village. The total cost of the building at the time was just over $20,000, including architectural work, stonework, and carpentry.</p><br>
<p>In 1964, the fire department moved to the town hall building. The building was used in various ways, including rooms for summer repertory performers at the nearby Calumet Theatre. It now houses the Upper Peninsula Fire Fighters Memorial Museum.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Calumet Fire Station is a two-story Richardsonian Romanesque building, rectangular in plan and measuring fifty-four feet by eighty-three feet. It is constructed of red sandstone. Three fire engine entrances with wooden doors are in the center of the front facade. The doors are topped by a stepped gable which is flanked by a smaller gable on one side and an open bell tower with a pyramidal roof sits the other. The roof of the structure is flat. Small doors are in each of the other three sides.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally constructed with the first floor housing fire engines and horses, with other equipment in the basement. The second floor primarily housed the fire fighters, but also held hay for the horses. The firemen&#39;s quarters included a bunk room, locker room, and a larger hall for social affairs.</p><br>
<p>The Moritz Bergstein Shoddy Mill and Warehouse are two historic industrial buildings in Stillwater, Minnesota, United States, in which Jewish German immigrant Moritz Bergstein conducted his recycling business circa 1890 to 1910. They were originally built in Oak Park Heights, Minnesota, around 1890 and were moved to neighboring Stillwater in 2012 to make way for construction of the St. Croix Crossing bridge. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008 for having local significance in the themes of industry and social history. They were nominated as a rare surviving embodiment of Minnesota&#39;s early Jewish immigrants and their frequent participation in the waste materials trade.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The owners, Moritz and Bertha Bergstein, settled in Oak Park Heights (then known as Oak Park) in 1890. They were in the business of recycling waste material. The shoddy mill, a rubble stone building, was used to recycle waste fabric into material to stuff mattresses.</p><br>
<p>Moritz Bergstein was known as the "junk man" in Stillwater, and in addition to making mattresses he also operated a salvage business. He recycled waste paper, rags, scrap metal, and wood shavings, and he built a machine that tore up the rags. He employed several women to fabricate the mattresses. Later Bergstein entered into a partnership with his brother, Ignatz, to form a mattress-making firm. Although Moritz eventually discontinued making mattresses in Oak Park Heights, he continued to buy and sell waste materials, mostly scrap metal. When he died in 1923 he left behind "about 500 tons of iron and old junk", valued at about $3000. The Stillwater Daily Gazette called him "one of the best known men in Stillwater" and noted that he was "always honest and straight forward in his dealings."</p><br>
<p>There were few Jewish settlers in Minnesota in its pioneer days, so the story of the Bergsteins provides insight into early Jewish life in Minnesota.</p><br>
<h2>Relocation</h2><br>
<p>At the end of the 20th century the Bergstein Mill complex stood near the intersection of Minnesota State Highway 36 and State Highway 95, a location being eyed for a new bridge across the St. Croix River. The Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) acquired and removed 66 houses in 1996, but the lone holdout was the owner of the Bergstein property, who operated an auto repair business out of them. A new site at the south end of Stillwater with similar qualities to the old setting was agreed to in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Bergstein Mill and Warehouse were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. By the following year the buildings owner had reached retirement age and accepted a new offer to vacate. Across the road the Bergsteins original house, barn, and two outbuildings were demolished, while the two preserved buildings were moved in November 2012. The new site is being developed as Bridgeview Park, and an adjacent railroad track is slated to become part of a bicycle trail that will loop between Stillwater and the Wisconsin shore utilizing a pedestrianized Stillwater Lift Bridge. The city is still studying potential uses for the mill and warehouse, such as a bicycle repair shop, café, kayak outfitter, or visitor center.</p><br>
<p>Mont Chaberton is a 3,131 m peak in the French Alps in the group known as the Massif des Cerces in the département of Hautes-Alpes.</p><br>
<p>Chaberton is in the municipality of Montgenèvre in the Briançonnais region. It is easily recognisable by its pyramidal shape and flat top.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Until 1947 Mont Chaberton was in Italy, located in the municipality of Cesana Torinese.</p><br>
<p>In 1883 Italy joined the Triple Alliance and started strengthening its defences against France. Between 1898 and 1910 Italian troops built an artillery battery on the summit that pointed towards France, in particular at the town of Briançon, and the pass to Italy over the Col de Montgenèvre. A road was built to the summit from the village of Fénils in the Susa Valley by soldiers and engineers led by Major Engineer Luigi Pollari Maglietta. They flattened the summit by about 6 metres to provide a surface for the eight towers. Their height of 12 metres was designed to overcome the highest snowfall recorded.</p><br>
<p>Each emplacement was manned by seven men, who were protected by a relatively lightly armoured dome because the battery was thought to be out of reach of conventional artillery. Eight 149mm guns were mounted in the individual masonry towers. The fort was dubbed the "Fort of the Clouds" because it was often hidden in the clouds.</p><br>
<p>During the First World War, when Italy entered the war alongside the Triple Entente, the guns were removed to be used on the front against the Austro-Hungarian Empire.</p><br>
<p>Under the Benito Mussolini&#39;s regime, Chaberton was rearmed again to threaten Briançon. In 1940, the garrison had about 340 men under the command of Captain Spartaco Bevilacqua.</p><br>
<p>The French army installed four 280mm mortars dating back to the battle of Verdun in the First World War, divided into two batteries and camouflaged: one on Eyrette, the other at Poët Morand below Fort de l. Both sites were outside the view of the Italians. These two sections manned by the 6th Battery of the 154th Régiment dArtillerie de Position (154th RAP). Because of the altitude of the mortars and their target, special artillery tables had to be calculated.</p><br>
<p>When Italy entered the Second World War, they bombarded the French positions around Briançon on 20 June, but Italian troops did not advance. Little damage was inflicted. Because of cloud on the peak, the French could not respond. On 21 June 1940 the 154th Artillery Regiment destroyed six of the eight turrets using their mortars. They were guided by observers on the nearby Mont Janus. Nine Italians were killed and 50 were wounded. Turrets 7 and 8 continued to fire over the next three days, until the cease-fire of 24 June 1940.</p><br>
<p>The fort was abandoned 8 September 1943. It was briefly re-occupied in autumn 1944 by paratroopers of the Italian Social Republic.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the war France acquired the mountain, and the border was moved to the edge of the Italian village of Claviere. In 1957 all the remains of the guns and armour were removed. The masonry that supported the turrets is still visible. The remaining underground structures are in a dangerous condition.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The portion closest to the peak is composed of white and yellowish dolomite dating back to the upper Late Triassic; moving away from the summit there are formations of limestone and compact dolomite and grey limestone shale, limestone of the Jurassic in a structure syncline. On the ridge between the summit and the nearby are outcrops of mica schist with quartz, crystalline limestones and porphyritic rocks.</p><br>
<p>Center City Historic District is a grouping of 19 homes and one church along Summit Avenue in Center City, Minnesota, United States. It was listed as a historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Chisago Lake Evangelical Lutheran Church is the second-oldest Lutheran congregation in Minnesota. It was founded in 1854 by Eric Norelius, who founded several other Lutheran churches in Minnesota. Norelius was a divinity student and served for three months before returning to the seminary. A permanent pastor arrived in 1855, and a wood-frame church was built in 1856. A brick church was built in 1881–1883, but it was struck by lightning and burned in 1888. The congregation rebuilt the church immediately, using the masonry contractors as before. The bell was installed in the steeple in 1890, and a clock was installed in 1907.</p><br>
<p>Responsible body: Local government</p><br>
<p>The Renner Village Archeological Site (23PL1) is a prehistoric archaeological site located in the municipality of Riverside, Platte County, Missouri. It was a village site inhabited from approximately 1 CE to 500 CE by peoples of the Kansas City Hopewell culture and through the Woodland period to 1200 CE by peoples of the Middle Mississippian culture. It was added to the National Historic Register on April 16, 1969.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>Archaeologists have found artifacts relating to the Hopewell and Middle Mississippian at the site, which is one of several Kansas City Hopewell sites located near the junction of Line Creek and the Missouri River.</p><br>
<p>The site was first excavated by Waldo Wedel of the US National Museum in 1937. He discovered decorated pottery styles typical of Hopewell pottery. It was excavated for a second time in 1954 by the Kansas City Archaeological Society and a third time by Gary Brenner from 1980 to 1993.</p><br>
<p>During the summer of 2009 the site was the subject of local controversy over the building of a new playground at the location. The city council of Riverside listened to testimony from archaeologists and local residents and decided to pay for rescue excavations at the site. Cultural Resource Services Group at SCI Engineering was contracted to do the excavation work in the summer of 2009 and the area was opened to the public in the spring of 2010 as Renner-Brenner Park, named for two families who had owned the site.</p><br>
<p>The Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve encompasses a diversity of land and water areas around Great Bay, an estuary in southeastern New Hampshire. Protected lands cover 10,235 acre, including approximately 7,300 acre of open water and wetlands that include salt marshes, rocky shores, bluffs, woodlands, open fields, and riverine systems and tidal waters.</p><br>
<p>Great Bay has a rich cultural history and was the first major commercial waterway developed by the early settlers.</p><br>
<p>The National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) is a nationwide network of state-owned and -managed coastal protected areas. These are designated and supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) under the United States Department of Commerce.</p><br>
<p>The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department under the Marine Fisheries Division manages the Great Bay NERR. Designated in 1989, the reserve&#39;s primary purpose is to promote the wise use and management of the Great Bay estuary.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting</h2><br>
<p>The Great Bay Discovery Center, located in Greenland, New Hampshire, features interpretive exhibits about the estuary&#39;s natural history, salt marsh farming, salmon migration, plankton, tides and research.</p><br>
<p>Other facilities on the grounds include the Hugh Gregg Coastal Conservation Center, used for education programs and available for rental, a universally accessible trail and boardwalk, a 19th-century gundalow replica, a replica Native American camp and gardens.</p><br>
<p>The Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is a field laboratory and research facility This sub-estuary of Mobile Bay averages just 4.8 ft  deep and is fringed with marsh  and swamp . The reserve lands also include upland and bottomland hardwood forests, freshwater marsh , submerged aquatic vegetation  and unique bog habitats . Weeks Bay is a critical nursery for shrimp, bay anchovy, blue crab and multitudes of other fish, crustaceans and shellfish that support robust commercial fisheries providing $450 million/year for Alabama.</p><br>
<p>The Weeks Bay Reserve includes over 6,000 acre of coastal wetlands and water bottoms that provide rich and diverse habitats for a variety of fish, crustaceans and shellfish, as well as many unique and rare plants. The Weeks Bay estuary, "where rivers meet the sea," is an important site of scientific research on estuarine ecology. The Weeks Bay Interpretive Center offers the public opportunities to learn about coastal habitats through its exhibit, live animals displays and collections of animals and regional plants. Self-guiding nature trails wind through wetlands, marshes, bogs and forests.</p><br>
<p>In 2014, the Reserve joined with other conservancy groups to secure a tract of land which now protects the undeveloped marine forests near the bay. The Weeks Bay Foundation is a fully accredited member of The Land Trust Alliance.</p><br>
<p>Leonie Pray House, also known as "Dawson-Pray House," is a Long Beach Historic Landmark located in the Bixby Knolls section of Long Beach, California. It is a 6,500 ft&sup2; English Tudor Revival mansion designed by architect Clarence Aldrich. It has been used as a filming location for films and television series, including Donnie Darko, Not Another Teen Movie, Weird Science, and Beverly Hills, 90210.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1927 by William E. "Billy" Babb, who made a fortune when oil was discovered on nearby Signal Hill.</p><br>
<p>In 1929, the house was purchased by Russell Honore Pray (1892-1971) for his wife, Leonie Pray. Russell Pray was a lawyer who graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1913. He served in France during World War I and held the rank of captain at the time of his discharge. Following discharge, he remained in Paris, first attending Sorbonne University, then practicing law. While living in France, he met his wife, Leonie Pray.</p><br>
<p>The couple married in Paris after "a whirlwind courtship" and then moved to Long Beach. She attended a school in Pasadena to rid herself of her French accent, and as a graduation present, Russell Pray purchased the English Tudor house for her.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in 1932 and continuing through the 1970s, the Prays decorated the house with flowers and a two-story Christmas tree and held an annual New Years Eve party at the house. Following the 1973 open house, the Long Beach Press-Telegram wrote: "Everyone is still talking about Leonie Prays elegant New Years Eve party, so I will too. Her lovely Los Cerritos home bloomed with pink azaelas but the guests were most impressed by the 14-foot Christmas tree. By a trick of light selection when the 300 tree lights are on, the observer gets an image of four magnificent trees." In 1976, a Long Beach newspaper described the holiday tradition: "Champagne sparkled at the Los Cerritos home of Leonie Pray just as it has each New Years Eve for half a century. Except for the World War II years, Leonie and her late husband, Russell, invited friends and neighbors to open house."</p><br>
<p>The house was a center of social life for the upper class of Long Beach for many years. Leonie became an actress in community theater while her husband practiced law. A Long Beach newspaper later wrote that "it was in the Pray home that Leonie starred as a hostess."</p><br>
<p>Liberace, then a young concert pianist, made one of his first appearances in the Prays&#39; living room. Opera star Risë Stevens also sang for a select group at the home.</p><br>
<p>In 1966, the Prays were still living in the house when the Long Beach Independent ran a story on the house. The paper wrote: "When things get dull on the fishing and hunting fronts, one can always turn to the North Forties, out in Los Cerritos Heights, for wildlife notes. That applies especially to the Russell and Leonie Pray home, 4252 Country Club Drive, where there is never any end to wildlife. Perhaps it is because both Russell and Leonie love birds and animals of all kinds."</p><br>
<p>In 1968, a Molotov cocktail firebomb ignited a blaze at the home. At the time, Russell Pray, then 76 years old and the senior partner in the law firm of Pray, Price, Williams and Deatherage, told officers he heard an explosion in the alley behind his home and ran outside to see flames shooting up. He called the police and the fire department, but was able to extinguish the fire with a garden hose. Damage was confined to the rear gate which was scorched and blackened.</p><br>
<p>Russell Pray died in 1971, and Leonie Pray continued to live at the house.</p><br>
<p>The house was subsequently acquired by William F. Dawson and is sometimes referred to as the Dawson-Pray House.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and historic designation</h2><br>
<p>The English Tudor Revival structure was designed by Long Beach architect Clarence Aldrich. It combines red brick with artificial dark wood timbers and stucco, a gothic arched entry, a cathedral ceiling with wood trusses in the living room, leaded glass casement windows and gabled dormers. The house also has a huge two story living room paneled entirely in hand carved wood, was a natural setting for "salons."</p><br>
<p>It has been designated as a Long Beach Historic Landmark. A web site dedicated to the Long Beach Historic Landmarks notes that "this English Tudor mansion is one of the most architecturally significant residential structures in Long Beach. Its scale, size, and detail is unmatched in the city."</p><br>
<h2>Shooting location in films and television</h2><br>
<p>The house and neighborhood have been used in several feature films. The neighborhood has become known as the "American Pie" neighborhood, because the American Pie feature was shot there. The house that was the home of Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller&#39;s Day Off is on the same block at 4160 Country Club Drive. The Pray House has been used in the following films:</p><br>
<p>In 1983, the house was used in the American thriller film The Star Chamber, where this home was featured as the secret and exclusive location where the Star Chamber met, a group of judges who identify criminals who fell through the judicial system&#39;s cracks and then take actions against them outside the legal structure. The last scene revealing where the Star Chamber had been meeting secretly was filmed here.</p><br>
<p>In 1985, the house was used in the film Weird Science.</p><br>
<p>In 2001, the house was used as the home of Jim Cunningham (played by Patrick Swayze) in Donnie Darko. The title character (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) sets fire to the house, and police find evidence in the wreckage that Cunningham is involved in child pornography.</p><br>
<p>Also in 2001, the house was the home of leading man Jake "the Jock" (played by Chris Evans) in Not Another Teen Movie.</p><br>
<p>In the television series Beverly Hills, 90210, the house was the home of Ty Collins. It is featured in the episode "Help Me, Rhonda" in which Adrianna meets with Ty&#39;s parents.</p><br>
<p>Winter Quarters in Tensas Parish, Louisiana, United States, is a surviving example of an antebellum cotton plantation. It is located south of Newellton on Lake St. Joseph, an ox-bow lake, or former bend in the Mississippi River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The main plantation house began as a hunting lodge in 1805 but was soon enlarged and became a residence. Before the Vicksburg Campaign of 1863 during the American Civil War, there were fifteen plantations along Lake St. Joseph. However, Union troops destroyed all of them except Winter Quarters, where the soldiers were housed during the winter of 1862-1863. The plantation belonged to Haller Nutt, a planter who was pro-Union. As a result, General Ulysses S. Grant ensured the plantation would be not be damaged.</p><br>
<p>Wade A. Netterville (1876-1936), brother of the plantation manager J. H. Netterville of Newellton, managed the store at Winter Quarters in the early years of the 20th century, employed in that capacity by the then plantation owner Dr. J. M. Gillespie. Netterville then ran the store at Panola Plantation prior to becoming the manager for two years of the Wyoming Plantation. He subsequently assumed the management of the 1,000-acre Panda Plantation near the parish seat of government in St. Joseph.</p><br>
<p>During the 1950s, the James and Bea Doyle family lived at Winter Quarters. Their daughter, Barbara Sue Doyle Hage (1949-2016), was the 1962 March of Dimes poster child and at the time of her death at the age of sixty-six the oldest known survivor of spina bifida. Barbara Hage graduated in 1968 from Newellton High School and worked for a quarter century for the Louisiana State University Extension Service in St. Joseph. She was also a church pianist and vocalist, seamstress, and gardener. She and her husband, David C. Hage, had a daughter and two grandsons.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, Winter Quarters was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and was previously open for public tours.</p><br>
<p>The site was critically damaged in a tornado on April 4, 2011. As of February 2016, the site remains closed indefinitely and the State of Louisiana currently has no plans or a set date on reopening the site for public use.</p><br>
