<p>The Chatillon–DeMenil House, located at 3325 DeMenil Place in Benton Park, St. Louis, Missouri, was begun in 1848 for the pioneer Henry Chatillon, then enlarged to its present form by prominent St. Louis businessman Nicolas DeMenil from 1855 to 1863. The house serves as a house museum, and according to its nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, described "as being the finest example of Greek Revival architecture in the Midwest."</p><br>
<h2>Original home</h2><br>
<p>The property where the house was built was part of a five acre tract purchased by Odile Delor Lux, a granddaughter of Clement Delor de Treget, the founder of Carondelet, Missouri. The property originally was part of the St. Louis common fields. In 1848, Lux married Henry Chatillon, who had become somewhat famous as the leader of the expedition of Francis Parkman in The Oregon Trail.</p><br>
<p>By 1849, a house stood on the property owned by Chatillons. The early house was a simple, two-story brick farmhouse with four rooms and a one-slope roof.</p><br>
<p>Regardless of Chatillon&#39;s renown, parcels of the tract were sold in 1850, and the remainder of the property (including the farmhouse) was sold in 1855. The purchaser was Nicolas DeMenil, a French physician who in October 1836 married Emilie Sophie Chouteau, the descendent of both of the founders of St. Louis. DeMenil and his wife initially purchased the house in 1856 with another family. By the beginning of the Civil War they decided to reside in it year-round, and bought out the interest of the other family. The DeMenils hired Henry Pitcher, a carpenter and contractor, to remodel and expand it in the Greek Revival Style.</p><br>
<p>The house is surrounded by numerous historic buildings, including the former Lemp and still-operating Anheuser-Busch Breweries; there are other nearby buildings of historic interest, The Lemp Mansion at 3322 Demenil Pl. is located just to the north of the house. It is also located in the Cherokee Antique Row.</p><br>
<h2>Renovations and expansion</h2><br>
<p>The house&#39;s western side was expanded 12 ft. This addition consisted of three stories, two porches, and possibly the carriage house. Renovations were complete by 1863. However, due to development in the surrounding area (partly financed by DeMenil himself), the view of the river was obstructed from the house, and the front entrance was moved to face 13th Street; balustrades and a porch were added to improve the appearance of the new entrance in 1879. Nicolas DeMenil died shortly after completing the new entrance; his son, Alexander DeMenil, inherited the home and lived in it until his death in 1928. A third generation of DeMenils moved into the home only to find the once bucolic surrounding of the house had become a bustling urban neighborhood, and moved in 1940.</p><br>
<h2>Paleontology, decline and renovation</h2><br>
<p>In 1940, local pharmaceutical manufacturer Lee Hess converted the home into apartments, reserving one for himself and his wife. Hess had purchased the property in part for the extensive system of caves under the property, which he opened as a tourist attraction. Newly christened by Hess as "Cherokee Cave" the caves were open to visitors until the demolition of its entrance underneath present-day Interstate 55. Due to the discovery of the remains of a peccary of the genus Platygonus, the noted paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson proceeded to move into the home, using it as a staging area for investigating the remains of prehistoric animals in the caves. The cave system had once served as the lagering cellars for the nearby Lemp Brewery in the Nineteenth Century.</p><br>
<p>By the 1950s, the home was becoming derelict, and plans for Interstate 55 called for the demolition of the home. However, a route change in 1961 permitted the home to be saved by the Landmarks Association of St. Louis. The Union Electric Company contributed to the purchase of the home and sponsored its renovation in concert with the Landmarks Association, and the Missouri Department of Transportation agreed to the plan. In summer 1964, renovations began under the authority of architect Gerhardt Kramer, and the home was dedicated the next year. The Landmarks Association created the Chatillon–DeMenil House Foundation as owner of the house, and it continues to operate the home as a museum.</p><br>
<p>The Middlebush Village Historic District is a historic district located in the Village of Middlebush, an unincorporated community within Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 24, 2007. It includes 37 contributing buildings and three contributing sites.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural styles</h2><br>
<p>The architectural styles of the district include Colonial Revival, Craftsman, Federal, Georgian, Gothic Revival, Greek Revival, and Italianate.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1701, a group of eight people bought a tract of 10,000 acres from John Harrison in what is now Franklin Township. They divided this Harrison Tract into eight plots and then into sixteen by drawing a north-south dividing line. This line eventually became a road, the Middle Line, now called South Middlebush Road. The other main road in the district is the east-west Amwell Road, which historically connected New Brunswick to Millstone, which was then the county seat of Somerset County. By 1704, two of the sons, John and Peter, of Cornelius Wyckoff, one of the original eight buyers, had settled in the Middlebush area.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The Middlebush Reformed Church, located at the intersection of South Middlebush Road and Amwell Road, was built in 1919 to replace the original 1834 church. It is a mix of Gothic Revival and Craftsman styles.</p><br>
<p>The Voorhees House, located at 1719 Amwell Road, was built in 1793 by P. Metz in a Georgian style. It is now the Stage House Tavern. The oldest building in the district, it was used in 1834 to organized the Middlebush Reformed Church. The location also includes a contributing large, red shingle, 19th-century Dutch barn.</p><br>
<p>The Middlebush School, located at 1755 Amwell Road, was built in 1926 as an elementary school. It is now known as the Franklin Township Board of Education Building.</p><br>
<p>The house at 17 South Middlebush Road was built by John Wyckoff in a style between Greek Revival and Italianate.</p><br>
<p>The house at 53 South Middlebush Road was built and was owned by Peter Brokaw.</p><br>
<p>The railroad station site on Railroad Avenue for the former Millstone and New Brunswick Railroad. The station was built in 1860 and torn down in 1948.</p><br>
<p>116 Sullivan Street is on Sullivan Street in SoHo, Manhattan, New York. The red brick Federal townhouse was built in 1832 as an investment by Charles Starr  and includes some Greek Revival details. It was heightened two stories in 1872. The structure is noteworthy for its elaborated round-arched brownstone doorcase, or "enframement of the front door," which has an exceptional treatment of painted timber Ionic half-column sidelights, unique and highly significant in New York City architecture. Due to the sidelights, "instead of leaded glass, typical of the time, each sidelight is divided into three superimposed oval sections. The ovals are formed by a richly carved wood enframement that simulates a cloth sash curtain drawn through a series of rings."</p><br>
<p>The house stands on land previously belonging to the farm of Nicholas Bayard, Peter Stuyvesants brother-in-law, and is one of seven houses that was built as an investment by Charles Starr, a bookbinder, whose business was on Nassau Street. Starrs own house at 110 Sullivan Street was 32 feet wide, unusually large for the time. It has been restored.</p><br>
<p>Fontéchevade is a cave in Charente, France which contains Palaeolithic remains from 200,000 and 120,000 years ago. The fossils consist of two skull fragments. Unlike Neanderthals and Homo sapiens of the time, the frontal skull fragment lacks any development of a browridge. This feature led French paleoanthropologists of the time to propose the “pre-sapiens” theory, in which the line to modern humans was said to have branched off before the appearance of the Neanderthals. Subsequent research has cast doubt on the importance of the Fontéchevade evidence. One of the fossils may be from an immature individual or from a period of time later than its surrounding deposits. The other does not preserve the browridge area, but other aspects of its morphology are similar to those seen in Neanderthals.</p><br>
<p>The IOOF Hall in Toronto is a historic building erected for the Independent Order of Odd Fellows society. The building was designed for mix-use accommodating over 34 offices, a store selling imported and domestic cigars, and most importantly a 20’ wide by 46’ long grand hall for private meetings held by Toronto’s Independent Order of Odd Fellows. It was the first society hall in Toronto to be built with an electrically run elevator running up from the ground floor to the 3rd floor society rooms.</p><br>
<p>Oddfellows’ Hall is located on the northwest corner of Yonge Street and College Street, in Toronto, ON. The building was designed as an adaptation of the Gothic Revival style by Norman Dick and Frank Wickson in 1891 and was completed in 1893.</p><br>
<p>The Ira C. Allen Mansion is an historic property on the Green in Fair Haven, Vermont, United States. It is a contributing property to the Fair Haven Green Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1866 the Hon. Ira C. Allen, a former Rutland County state senator, state representative, and prominent Fair Haven businessman, purchased the property on the west side of the town Green. Allen, who had interests in real estate, banking, the railroad, marble, and slate, was a distant relative of American Revolutionary War patriot and Vermont Founding Father Ethan Allen. Allen was married to Mary E. Richardson, the niece of one of his business partners.</p><br>
<p>By 1867 Allen finished construction on the twenty-two room, 6,400 ft&sup2; French Second Empire/Italianate mansion. On January 1, 1868 Allen and his family moved into the home. The home was the first in Fair Haven to have electricity.</p><br>
<p>After he died, Allen left the mansion to his four children: Charles R., Ira R., Jessie A., and Francis. Charles R. Allen and his wife Jessie Dailey Allen lived on the property before he and his brothers sold their shares in 1889 to their sister, Jessie, for $15,000.00. In 1903 the home moved from Jessie A. Allen to George Vail, whose wife Elizabeth was a distant relative of the Allen family. The Vails then in turn sold the property to Aaron Vail Allen, Sr. and his wife Rebecca. The last Allen to live in the mansion Sherman Vail Allen, who died in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Ira C. Allen Mansion is an example of the French Second Empire and Italianate architectural style. The exterior is made from numbered white marble blocks. An Italianate porch and porte cochere encircles the main house. The wood trim is painted white. The mansion has a mansard roof and a belvedere. Also on the property is a pump house. The mansion was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 24, 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Louisville Free Public Library, Western Colored Branch is a Carnegie library, the first public library built for African-Americans.</p><br>
<p>Also known as Louisville Free Public Library, Western Branch, it is a branch of the Louisville Free Public Library system.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Western Colored Branch library first opened in September 1905 and was originally located at 1125 West Chestnut Street. At the time it was common for black libraries to be housed in rented or converted private facilities; when the Western Colored Branch first opened it was operated in three rented rooms in a private home.</p><br>
<p>Albert Ernest Meyzeek, principal of Central High School at the time, was concerned about the lack of adequate reading and reference materials at the school. He challenged the 1902 legislation that created the Louisville Free Public Library system, on the basis that it did not adequately serve African Americans, and persuaded the city council to open a branch to fill this need. Meyzeek later pushed for a second black library, the Eastern Colored Branch (which opened in 1914).</p><br>
<h3>Carnegie's involvement</h3><br>
<p>In 1908, industrialist Andrew Carnegie donated funds to build a new library building. As a result, the Western Colored Branch became the first public library for African Americans in the American South that was housed in a Carnegie-funded facility. The new library building was designed by McDonald & Dodd.</p><br>
<p>The library was well received by the community. It marked a new level of civic engagement by "the emerging, turn-of-the-century, southern black middle class" which was determined to "build positive community infrastuctures for purposes of racial uplift."</p><br>
<h3>Early success (1910s-1930s)</h3><br>
<p>Several prominent African-American librarians worked in the Western Branch and assisted in education and outreach programs for the local black community. Of particular note are Reverend Thomas Fountain Blue, who served as the administrative head of the Western and Eastern Colored Branches as well as Rachel Davis Harris, who served as the childrens library specialist and chief assistant. Blue and Harris were influential in providing services to Louisvilles African American community during the Jim Crow era. In 1917, about 12,000 people attended 498 meetings at both branches. The two branches (Western and Eastern) became community social centers and regional models for other libraries like it.</p><br>
<p>The library also helped set up forty classroom collections at eleven African American city and county schools. By 1935 this had expanded to eighty classroom collections as well as library services administered at two junior high schools and the development of 15 deposit stations. From 1912 to 1931, Blue also organized and held an apprenticeship librarian class, which was the "only opportunity for formal training for prospective black librarians" until the Hampton Library School was opened in 1925 in Virginia.</p><br>
<h3>Recent developments</h3><br>
<p>The library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Kenton Public Library is a historic building in downtown Kenton, Ohio, United States. One of 109 Carnegie libraries in Ohio, it was designed in 1905 by the architectural firm of Richards, McCarty and Bulford; Carnegie donated $20,000 to aid in its construction. An attempt to start a library in Kenton began in 1853, but over thirty years passed before one was actually begun. From 1886 to the opening of the Carnegie library, the library was housed in a business block on the city&#39;s central square. The library building is a one-and-one-half-story brick structure. An elevated foundation supports the rectangular structure, which is accessed from the street by a staircase.</p><br>
<p>With the opening of the library to all Hardin County residents in 1936 and the expansion of the city in general, the old facility had become too small for its patrons by the 1960s. After successful fundraising efforts and negotiations with the city school board, the old high school (previously superseded by the present high school building) was purchased and demolished, and the new library opened at the site. Today, the Carnegie library is occupied by a dentistry practice, Kenton Dental Care, and local residents are served by the Mary Lou Johnson Library.</p><br>
<p>In 1983, the Kenton Public Library was listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its place as an example of library building in Ohio, its connection to Andrew Carnegie, and its well-preserved architecture.</p><br>
<p>Tell Shemshara is an archaeological site located along the Little Zab in Sulaymaniyah Governorate, northeastern Iraq. The site was excavated between 1957 and 1959 by Danish and Iraqi archaeologists and was inundated by Lake Dukan until recently. The excavations showed that the site was occupied, although not continuously, from the Hassuna period  until the 14th century CE. A small archive recovered from the Middle Bronze Age layers  revealed that, at least in that period, the site was called Shusharra and was the capital of a small, semi-independent polity called māt Utêm or "land of the gatekeeper" ruled by a man called Kuwari.</p><br>
<h2>History of research</h2><br>
<p>The site was first recorded in 1955 during an archaeological survey of the Ranya Plain, which was to be flooded by the reservoir of the planned Dukan Dam. In 1957, a Danish team of archaeologists started a rescue excavation because the site would be flooded by Lake Dukan once the Dukan Dam would be finished. The Danish excavation was directed by Professors Harold Ingholt, who also excavated the citadel mound of Hama, and Jørgen Læssøe. It was funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and the Danish Government Foundation for the Promotion of Research. The excavations were continued in 1958 and 1959 by Iraqi archaeologists of the State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH) under the direction of Abd al-Qadir at-Tekrîti. So far, the prehistoric material of the Hassuna layers and the majority of the archives from the second millennium BCE have been published.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, teams of the Netherlands Institute for the Near East and the Central Zagros Archaeological Project (CZAP) conducted new investigations at the site, as part of a larger archaeological project focussing on the entire Ranya Plain.</p><br>
<h2>The site and its environment</h2><br>
<p>Tell Shemshara sits along the Little Zab, a tributary of the Tigris. Its strategic location in the northeastern corner of the Ranya Plain in the Zagros Mountains gave Shemshara control over travelling routes in all directions, particularly toward the north and east. Shemshara is a tell, or settlement mound, that can be divided in two parts; a high main mound and an elongated lower mound. The main mound is 60 m in diameter and 19 m high, whereas the lower town is 270 m long and 6 m high. Shemshara is now partially submerged under Lake Dukan.</p><br>
<h2>Occupation history</h2><br>
<p>The excavations at the main mound revealed 16 occupation layers, ranging in date from the Hassuna period (early sixth millennium BCE) to the 14th century CE. Layers 16–9 dated to the Hassuna period. This occupation was characterized by rows of stones that are interpreted by the excavators as foundations for mudbrick walls, a pebble floor and a clay basin in the final occupation layer. Pottery, which has only been found in abundance in layers 13–9, shows stylistic links with that of Hassuna and Tell es-Sawwan. Obsidian was the preferred material for stone tools, with flint making up only 15 percent of the total assemblage. Whereas the flint was procured locally, the obsidian was obtained from two sources in eastern Turkey – one as yet unidentified, the other one being the volcanic Nemrut Dağ more than 300 km away from Shemshara. A unique piece in this assemblage is a dagger of over 35.5 cm in length, broken in four pieces due to a fire. Other arti</p><br>
<p>facts that have been found at the site include stone bowls, bracelets and quern-stones and small objects made of bone. Whereas the main mound seems to have been abandoned after the Hassuna occupation, scarce archaeological material from the Uruk (fourth millennium BCE) and Jemdet Nasr periods (early third millennium BCE) has been found on the lower town.</p><br>
<p>Both the main mound and the lower extension were re-occupied during the Middle Bronze Age (early second millennium BCE). Layers 8–4 on the main mound can be assigned to this period. The excavations found a number of graves with bronze weapons on the main mound, as well as a mudbrick platform. In the lower town, a small part of a palace was excavated, and in three of its rooms a small archive of clay tablets was found. The palace was destroyed by fire, and through analysis of the archive it has been proposed that this happened in year 30 of the reign of Shamshi-Adad I of Assyria in the first quarter of the 18th century BCE.</p><br>
<p>The archive consisted of 146 clay tablets or fragments thereof, of which a small part dealt with the administration of the town, whereas the majority consisted of letters written to a certain Kuwari. Some fragments were part of the clay envelopes in which these letters were sent. The texts were written in Akkadian. These texts revealed that during this period the site was called Shusharra, that it was the capital of a polity called māt Utêm or "land of the gatekeeper" and that it was ruled by a man named Kuwari. Chronologically, the archive can be divided in two parts, one covering the period during which Shemshara was the capital of a small semi-independent kingdom, and one covering the period after Kuwari became a vassal of Shamshi-Adad, who at that time had already conquered Mari and Shubat-Enlil and was now campaigning in the Zagros Mountains. Together, these two periods do not last longer than 3 years. The letters in the Shemshara archive show that during this period, Kuwari had to deal with Turukkean refugees coming from the east and fleeing a war with Guteans; events which are also mentioned in the much larger archives found in Mari on the Syrian Euphrates.</p><br>
<p>Halsey Estate-Tallwood is a historic home located at West Hills in Suffolk County, New York, known locally as "Tallwood" but more formally known as the "Halsey Estate". It was built in 1925 and is a symmetrically arranged, 22-bay shingled residence with a central block and a series of either gable or gambrel roofs and varies in height from stories to stories. The central -story block is five bays wide and has a gambrel roof. It is representative of the Colonial Revival style. Its builder, Richard Townley Haines Hawley, was a partner in Teff, Halsey and Company, brokers, and W. J. Sloane Company. It has been used since the 1970s as a children&#39;s day camp.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>La Digue and Inner Islands is one of the 26 districts of Seychelles. It consists of the island of La Digue and assorted smaller islands of the Inner Islands.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>La Digue and Inner Islands district has an area of 41.6 km&sup2; and a population of 3506 as of 2012.</p><br>
<p>The population density is 83.8 inhabitants / km².</p><br>
<p>It is located in the Inner Islands. Most of the islands of the district belong to the Granitic Seychelles.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The district was created in 1994 when the government united former La Digue District and Silhouette District.</p><br>
<p>It is managed by a district administrator, which is seated in the main village of La Passe.</p><br>
<p>Since 1994 the district has a "Local Government" which is a unit from the Ministry of Local Government, Youth and Sports. The unit&#39;s role is to promote the availability of public services at the local level.</p><br>
<p>The district&#39;s motto is: "Avancons lentement mais surement" (Advance slowly but surely).</p><br>
<h2>Table of Islands</h2><br>
<p>The Memphis Parkway System, locally known as the Parkway System, The Parkways, or simply by their individual names is a system of parkways that formed the original outer beltway around Memphis, Tennessee. They consist of South Parkway, East Parkway, and North Parkway. Designed by George Kessler, the Parkway System connects Martin Luther King Jr. Riverside Park with Overton Park. The system was put on the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In response to the yellow fever epidemic and in an attempt to revitalize Memphis, the citys leaders decided to improve the citys infrastructure, including improving sewer systems, creating public utilities, and creating a system of parks connected by a system of boulevards. Starting in 1897, several areas of land were annexed into the city, along with the areas that now comprise the parks mentioned above. These lands were purchased in 1901. In that same year, the city selected George Kessler to lay out this new plan. Planning and construction of the Lea&#39;s Woods tract of land (now known as Overton Park) was started in 1902 and completed in the same year. The development and construction of Wilderberger Farm (now known as Martin Luther King Jr. Riverside Park) started in the same year, but finished a year later in 1903.</p><br>
<p>The development and construction of what is now known as the Parkway System started in 1904. The project had been delayed due to a lawsuit stating the government was using its power of eminent domain incorrectly, but the Tennessee Supreme Court found in favor of the city. Instead of a winding system of meandering parkways, Kessler decided to create a rectangular border around the city of Memphis using some existing streets. South Parkway and East Parkway (originally Trezevant Street) were constructed first. North Parkway was originally known as Summer Avenue (the name still carried by the route as it continues east from the intersection of North and East Parkways). North Parkway was also known as Speedway. Kessler originally designed parts of the Parkway System to be straight portions of tree-lined avenues where car and carriage owners could race against each other. However, the city of Memphis ended this practice in 1910 and imposed a speed limit on the entire system. Today, the road&#39;s racing past can still be seen in the name of the Speedway Terrace Historical District along North Parkway near Watkins Street.</p><br>
<p>The entire parkway system was completed in 1906. After its completion, residential development along its route increased. Many cities in Tennessee used Memphis park and parkway system as a model for their own urban planning. The Parkway System roughly marked the citys boundaries for many years to come and is still an important corridor in the city of Memphis.</p><br>
<h2>Route Description</h2><br>
<p>Moving in a counter-clockwise direction from the southwest corner, the Parkway System starts at Martin Luther King Jr. Riverside Park. It crosses Interstate 55 next to the park and continues east. This portion, known as South Parkway West, is a four-lane undivided road through an industrial area with no boulevard median or landscaping. After crossing Interstate 240/Interstate 69, the section known as South Parkway East becomes divided with a wooded boulevard median, like the majority of the parkways.</p><br>
<p>South Parkway, after passing USA Highway 78 (Lamar Avenue), turns into East Parkway South. Temporarily, the route&#39;s name reverts to South Parkway East, as it turns eastbound and intersects with South Cooper St. and East McLemore Avenue. South Parkway East becomes East Parkway South once again at its intersection with Airways Boulevard and Spottswood Avenue. It also picks up the designation of State Route 277. East Parkway South continues north until it crosses under Union Avenue and (two blocks later) becomes East Parkway North. At this point, it picks up USA Highway 64, USA Highway 70, USA Highway 79, and USA Highway 72, in addition to keeping the SR 277 designation. When it passes Poplar Avenue, Hwy 72 goes to the east, but it picks up the State Route 57 designation. At this point, it passes to the east of Overton Park and intersects with Sam Cooper Boulevard.</p><br>
<p>When East Parkway meets North Parkway, it loses all of the above-mentioned USA highways to the east (Summer Avenue) and the state highways to the north (Trezevant Street). However North Parkway picks up the State Route 1 designation and is one of the only sections in the state to have this route signed. North Parkway continues west, crosses Interstate 40, and ends at USA Highway 51/State Route 3/State Route 14 (Danny Thomas Boulevard). The road continues west as A.W. Willis Avenue, crossing the Wolf River Harbor, and ending on Mud Island.</p><br>
<p>Except for the South Parkway West section, the entire system is divided by a large median containing several trees, most of them very large and mature, and sections of flowered landscaping. South Parkway has two lanes in each direction and bike/parking lanes along portions of it. East Parkways has three lanes in each direction (except for when the routes pass under other roadways, in which case each direction narrows to two lanes, and the four northbound lanes of East Parkway between Poplar and Sam Cooper). North Parkway had 3 lanes in each direction until the mid 2010&#39;s when bike/parking lanes were added between Manassas and West Drive. The entire system has a forty-mile-per-hour speed limit.</p><br>
<h2>Landmarks</h2><br>
<p>Below is a list of landmarks within close proximity of the parkways.</p><br>
<p>South Parkway Section</p><br>
<p>President&#39;s Island / McKellar Lake</p><br>
<p>M.L.K. Riverside Park</p><br>
<p>East Parkway Section</p><br>
<p>Cooper-Young, Memphis</p><br>
<p>Christian Brothers University</p><br>
<p>Children&#39;s Museum of Memphis</p><br>
<p>Mid-South Coliseum</p><br>
<p>Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium</p><br>
<p>Memphis Theological Seminary</p><br>
<p>Memphis Brooks Museum of Art</p><br>
<p>Overton Park</p><br>
<p>North Parkway Section</p><br>
<p>Memphis Zoo</p><br>
<p>Rhodes College</p><br>
<p>St. Jude Children&#39;s Research Hospital</p><br>
<p>Pyramid Arena</p><br>
<p>Molteno Pass is a mountain pass in the Western Cape province of South Africa.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is considered to be South Africa&#39;s first mountain pass. It was built to cross the great Nuweveld Mountain Range, thus connecting the central Karoo and its oldest town Beaufort West, to the vast expanse of the Northern Cape.</p><br>
<p>It was completed in May 1881, and named after a local entrepreneur and farmer John Molteno who was instrumental in the areas upliftment and development in the 1800s. He also represented the region in parliament and went on to become the Capes first Prime Minister.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The pass forms part of the R381, between Beaufort West in the Western Cape and Loxton in the Northern Cape. On its route it passes the Karoo National Park and Victoria West.</p><br>
<p>Suydam House  is a historic home located at Centerport in Suffolk County, New York. It was built about 1730 and is a rectangular, five-bay, -story saltbox type building with a 1-story wing. It features a steeply pitched, asymmetrical gable roof, pierced by a brick chimney.</p><br>
<p>The house is located on Suffolk County Parkland on the southeast corner of Suffolk County Road 86 and New York State Route 25A, across from the southern terminus of Little Neck Road. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Greenlawn-Centerport Historical Association has restored the house and operates it as a historic house museum. Of particular note are the unusual windows, both six panes over three, and four panes over two.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination from 1988 asserts:The Suydam house is architecturally and historically significant as a distinguished, largely extant example of settlement period domestic architecture on Long Island that recalls the early growth of the town of Huntington. Built circa 1730, this New England style saltbox (with eighteenth century wing) is one of the oldest remaining houses in the village of Centerport. It is similar in plan, construction and design to many settlement period dwellings in Huntingdon (Town) such as the John Wood House (circa 1704) and the Ireland-Gardiner Farm (circa 1750). Like these and other seventeenth and eighteenth century dwellings in the Huntingdon (Town) Multiple Resource area, the building exhibits characteristic architectural features of early construction practices on Long Island, including heavy hewn timber framing, original wrought-iron hardware, and an overall lack of decorative ornamentation.</p><br>
<p>Marion Carll Farm is a historic home and property located in Commack in Suffolk County, New York. It consists of the 1860 farmhouse, privy, garage, smoke house, milk house, horse barn and carriage house, sheep barn, and four smaller barns. Marion Carll left the home and property to the Commack UFSD.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>In 2010 the Commack School District attempted to sell the historic Farm to Holiday Corp/Hamlet. The district residents voted down a referendum to authorize the sale. The district however continues to try to find alternative means to support the property as it has become a financial burden.</p><br>
<p>During an informational meeting the Peconic Land Trust and Suffolk County both expressed interest in acquiring the property and/or finding alternatives to building town homes on the 9 acre of land. Given this purported interest, the District continues to welcome any and all proposals related to alternatives. As stated at numerous public meetings, given the cap on property taxes recently passed in New York and fully enacted in May 2012,it will be impossible for the District to continue to pay any costs associated with the property simultaneously funding the myriad of State mandated programs, educational and otherwise.</p><br>
<p>The voter turn-out was actually almost 1,100 people and 700 voted no. The district did give only two weeks prior notice as far as the vote. Additionally, The mailer with the sale proposal was not received by the majority of district residents back in 2010 in a timely manner. The current RFP was unusual in that it required a non-refundable down payment without any indication of the amount. Hence no one responded. The district has never allowed public access to the Farm as deeded by the will. The costs associated with the Farm include not direct maintenance costs, which seem to inflate actual expenses.</p><br>
<p>Wallace K. Harrison Estate is a historic estate located at West Hills in Suffolk County, New York, the home of architect Wallace K. Harrison of the New York firm Harrison & Abramovitz. The estate home is a rambling, one story flat roofed concrete main house with a two story circular living room near the center. It was built in 1929 in the International style. Also on the estate are a garage, two guest cottages, a studio, and a circular swimming pool. The property was purchased by Harrison and his wife in the early 1930s. Harrison bought a prefabricated house for $1000, the Aluminaire House, designed by A. Lawrence Kocher and Albert Frey for the Architectural League Show of 1931 in New York. He also embarked on the main house, which was initially built as a wing to what was called the "Tin House." As the complex grew the Tin House was relocated and became a guest cottage.</p><br>
<p>The estate was sold by the Harrisons in 1974 to Hester Diamond, who placed the estate on the National Register of Historic Places. Subsequent owners placed the house for sale amid concerns about potential demolition, but the house was restored by the buyers, with guidance from architects SchappacherWhite. The Aluminaire House was disassembled and acquired by the New York Institute of Technology campus at Central Islip, which reassembled it. The property is to be transferred to a trust dedicated to its maintenance.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Cold Spring Harbor Library & Environmental Center is located at Cold Spring Harbor in Suffolk County, New York. It was founded as the Cold Spring Harbor Village Improvement Society in 1899. However, the library, consisting of a small collection of books, was first organized in 1886 and was housed at the Cutting House, 241 Harbor Road, Cold Spring Harbor. This building was located across the street from the local gristmill and the first librarian was the miller’s wife, Mrs. Peter Waters. This building is now owned by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 1890s, the library was run by the operator of the local telegraph office, Annie Wright. It is not clear exactly where the library was located during this time period, but it is thought to have been housed at the Jones & Hewlett store, next to the mill. This building, 222 Harbor Road, is now also owned by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.</p><br>
<p>In the late 1890s, the library was moved to Thespian Hall, a local venue for theatrical performances, lectures, and political meetings, located at the northeast corner of Harbor Road and Terrace Place. In 1896, this building became the Phoenix Fire Engine Company.</p><br>
<p>In 1896, the library moved to a more populated area near the intersection of Main Street and Shore Road. This was a small building which also served as the post office and telegraph office. It is now home to the Cold Spring Harbor Barbershop. Several years later, the library’s collection of books were moved to what is now 117 Main Street.</p><br>
<p>In 1899, the Cold Spring Harbor Village Improvement Society was formed and in May 1899, adopted the Library as one of its activities. By this point in time, the library needed a larger and permanent building. Community donations made possible the construction of a building in 1913 which overlooked the harbor from the corner of Shore Road and Main Street in Cold Spring Harbor. It is a handsome, one story five bay brick building with a hipped roof in the Classical Revival style. It featured a decorative octagonal cupola atop the roof and the entrance had a pedimented portico supported by Doric order columns.</p><br>
<p>The library outgrew this space after about 70 years. The trustees of the library sold the building to the Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities after which they rented a 7,000 ft&sup2; space from the Cold Spring Harbor School District in the East Side School building on Goose Hill Road. In 1999, the school district decided not to renew the lease.</p><br>
<p>In 2000, the library entered into an agreement with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation for a long-term lease of five-acres of the newly created Cold Spring Harbor State Park. On August 9, 2006, the library moved into its current home at 95 Harbor Road, Cold Spring Harbor.</p><br>
<p>Defer Elementary School is a school building located at 15425 Kercheval in Grosse Pointe Park, Michigan in Metro Detroit. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1996</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the first two decades of the 20th century, the once predominantly rural Grosse Pointe area transformed into a residential suburb of Detroit. In 1921, in response to the influx of families, five school districts in what is now the Grosse Pointe area were consolidated into Rural Agricultural District No. 1 (later renamed the Grosse Pointe Public School District). The first building constructed after consolidation was Defer Elementary School, built on the site of a rhubarb patch owned by Ludwig Meininger. Defer was designed by architect George J. Haas and completed in 1924. The school was named for George Defer, who was at the time the president of Grosse Pointe Park. At the time of construction, the surrounding neighborhoods were quickly growing, and by 1927 the school was overcrowded. An addition to the school was constructed in 1928.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Defer Elementary School is a three-story rectangular building built in the Tudor Revival style. This revival style was popular in Detroit and across the country in the years following World War I, and is symbolic of the prosperity of the era. The exterior is of brick with limestone detailing surrounding doors and windows. The doors are wood panelled with Gothic arches. The interior is decorated with Pewabic tile; in particular the kindergarten room contains a Pewabic fireplace and drinking fountain. The 1928 addition contains additional classrooms and a leaded glass conservatory.</p><br>
<h2>Modern use and feeder pattern</h2><br>
<p>Defer Elementary School is still used by the Grosse Pointe Public School District as an elementary school, and is the oldest building in the district. Typical enrollment was 465 students, but as of 2010 that number had dropped to approximately 420.</p><br>
<p>Residents zoned to Defer are also zoned to Pierce Middle School in Grosse Pointe Park and Grosse Pointe South High School in Grosse Pointe Farms.</p><br>
<p>Northport Public Library is a historic library building located at Northport in Suffolk County, New York. It was designed and built in 1914, with funds provided by the philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. It is one of 3,000 such libraries constructed between 1885 and 1919, and one of 107 in New York State. Carnegie provided $10,000 toward the construction of the Northport library. It is a small masonry structure in the Jacobethan Revival style. It consists of a primary gable front section housing the stacks and reading room, and a secondary side gable wing containing the entrance vestibule and staircase. It features a slate roof and barrel vaulted reading room. It was expanded in 1958.</p><br>
<p>The building functioned as a library until 1967; in 1974 it became home to the Northport Historical Society Museum. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Chandos Lake is a lake in North Kawartha, Ontario, Canada.</p><br>
<p>The lake is in the shape of a reversed L, with three main bays: West Bay, connected to the main body of the lake by a long Narrows; South Bay, extending southwest and separated by a curved peninsula; and Gilmours Bay, a smaller, two-lobed bay on the southern tip of the lake, connected by Gilmours Bay Narrows.</p><br>
<p>Chandos Lake is in the Atlantic watershed; fed by springs, it drains from its north end into Flat Creek, which flows into Paudash Lake, thence to the Crowe River, the Trent River, and Lake Ontario. Chandos is the largest lake in the Crowe River watershed. Chandos Lake measures 1,387 hectares and has a maximum depth of 48 metres.</p><br>
<p>Chandos Lake was originally called Mongosogan by the Mississauga Anishinabe, on whose traditional territory it lies. Although not one of the Kawartha Lakes proper, Chandos Lake is part of the Kawartha cottage country; the lake is lined with some 1,200 cottages. The lake features three marinas and a public beach. The towns of Apsley, Glen Alda, and Lasswade are located on or near the lake. County Roads 620 and 504 encircle the lake.</p><br>
<p>Old Town Green Historic District is a national historic district located at Huntington in Suffolk County, New York. The district which has 14 contributing buildings, is officially located on Park Avenue, but expands west along West Main Street. It is a small residential enclave that includes the town green. This green contains an oak tree named "Constitution Oak," that was planted on the 200th Anniversary of New York State&#39;s ratification of the Constitution of the United States. Seven of the eight dwellings date to the settlement period in 1653. Located in the district are structures such as the Charles Woodhull House, the Dr. Daniel Kissam House Museum, and the Fort Golgotha and the Old Burial Hill Cemetery.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Firemen’s Monument is a tall monument in Hoboken, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, that was designed by American sculptor Caspar Buberl and completed in 1891. The monument was built to commemorate the Volunteer Fire Department in Church Square Park on May 30, 1891.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Starting in the 19th Century, statues of firemen who died in the line of duty were placed in municipal burial plots, which eventually led to placement of monuments in more accessible public places and often to commemorate various departments or events. The monument in Hoboken was built to commemorate the end of the Volunteer firefighters in the city, as earlier that year, firefighting became a paid profession. The first statues were made using marble, but many, including the Firemen&#39;s monument in Hoboken, were sculpted using zinc and cast in bronze by Caspar Buberl and sold by J.W. Fiske.</p><br>
<h2>Monument</h2><br>
<p>Standing in the west end of Church Square Park at Garden Street and 5th Street, the Firemen&#39;s Monument sits atop a 20-foot granite pedestal that features emblems of a ladder, pike poles and a fire hose on its face. The statue itself is approximately 8 feet tall and features a mustached firemen in uniform, holding a small child in nightdress in his left arm and a lantern in his right hand. Similar statues have been noted as being modeled after statues of the Virgin Mary cradling the baby Jesus. The monument reads:</p><br>
<h2>Legacy</h2><br>
<p>With Hobokens&#39; rich history and multiple National Register of Historic Places sites, a tour is run yearly and begins with the statue. Because of Hobokens vicinity and viewpoint to New Jerseyians during the September 11th attacks which resulted in the lives of many firefighters being lost, appreciation of these zinc statues has been renewed.</p><br>
<p>East Lake is a large freshwater lake within the city limits of Wuhan, China, and the second largest urban lake in China. Wuhan&#39;s East Lake covers an area of 88 square kilometers . It is one of the 5A tourist zones of China, and admits over a million people yearly. It is one of the largest sites in Huazhong District. It is also the largest "City Lake" in China. East Lake is made of four areas, Ting Tao, Mo Shan, Luo Yan Island and Museum of Hubei Province.</p><br>
<p>One end of Mo Shan features a Daoist temple built over the putative site of where one of the characters in Romance of the Three Kingdoms performed special Qi Men Dun Jia rites before the famous battle of Red Cliffs. No one knows precisely the actual location, but the Mo Shan site was an archeological dig in the early part of the twentieth century.</p><br>
<h2>Environmental issues</h2><br>
<p>The lake was cut off from the Yangtze River in 1957. Water quality has deteriorated since because of 180,000 tons discharge of wastewater (domestic sewage and industrial) into the lake per day. Each year, about 441 tons of nitrogen and 40 tons of phosphorus are flow into the lake. Most parts of the lake have been assessed as eutrophicated, unsuitable for drinking and many recreational purposes.</p><br>
<h2>Notable sites around the lake</h2><br>
<p>In clockwise order, starting from the southwest corner:</p><br>
<p>Liyuan Park - a large urban park on the west side of the lake, with a popular free swimming area</p><br>
<p>Hubei Provincial Museum</p><br>
<p>Hubei Art Museum; the two museums are across the street from each other, just a block from the main entrance to Liyuan Park</p><br>
<p>Wuhan Donghu Ocean Aquarium, proud of its flock of penguins</p><br>
<p>Wuhan Railway Station - a few km northeast of the lake</p><br>
<p>Moshan ("Millstone Mountain") Scenic Area, including East Lake Cherry Blossom Park</p><br>
<p>The "Chu Castle" (楚城)</p><br>
<p>Wuhan Botanical Garden</p><br>
<p>East Lake Cherry Blossom Park</p><br>
<p>China University of Geosciences, Wuhan Campus</p><br>
<p>"Ba Yi" ("First of August") open-air swimming pool</p><br>
<p>Houshan (Monkey Mountain) but no monkeys. One must travel to nearby Forest Park to see live monkeys, some un-caged.</p><br>
<p>Wuhan University main campus</p><br>
<p>Several causeways cross the eastern part of the lake, providing access to recreational fishing sites and beaches. In 2012, the construction of a major 6-lane road under the lake (Donghu Tongdao) was started. The Donghu Lake tunnel, China&#39;s longest tunnel under a lake, was open to traffic at the end of 2015. A car could run through the 10.6-kilometer-long tunnel in around 15 minutes.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, plans for extensive new development on the lake shores caused widespread criticism among the citizenry.</p><br>
<h2>Image gallery</h2><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>The East Lake has long been used by local fishermen. According to the 1977 statistics, the annual fish yield of the 1500-hectare fishing area of the lake ("The East lake Fish Farm") was 450 kg/ha. The introduction of better fish management techniques have allowed the yields to increase in the following decade, with</p><br>
<p>1840 tons by 1995.</p><br>
<p>The main species with which the lake is stocked are the silver carp and the bighead carp.</p><br>
<p>The Val Chisone is one of the Occitan valleys of western Piedmont, situated in the Cottian Alps in the Metropolitan City of Turin in north-west Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Traditionally, the valley&#39;s entrances are considered the towns of Pinerolo and Sestriere. It is bounded by the Val di Susa (to which it is connected by the Sestriere Pass, at 2,035 m) to the north and east, the Val Sangone to the north, the Val Pellice to the south, while eastwards is the plain of the Po Valley.</p><br>
<p>The valley is crossed by the torrent from which it takes its name, the Chisone. The valley has a main branch, the Valle Germanasca, and a smaller branch in the area of Pragelato, Parco naturale Val Troncea, a nature park, an ideal destination for hikers, snowshoe hikers and cross-country skiers.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>For centuries the Val Chisone was an object of contention between the Duchy of Savoy and the Kingdom of France. The upper valley (Val Pragelato) was part of the French Dauphiné, while the lower valley (Val Perosa) was under Savoyard control. In 1631, the right shore of the Val Perosa was ceded to Louis XIII of France, returning under Savoy by the Peace of Turin (1696).</p><br>
<p>The upper Val Chisone was part of the semi-independent French state of the Escartons Republic from 1343–1713. Pragelato was one of the five cantons. The Republic was annexed to Savoy in 1713.</p><br>
<p>The valley, together with Val Pellice, is home to a large Waldensian community.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<h3>Hiking</h3><br>
<p>The valley has a lot of hiking destinations. Some of the most important mountains are:</p><br>
<p>Punta Rognosa di Sestriere – 3,280 m</p><br>
<p>Monte Albergian – 3,041 m</p><br>
<p>Bric Ghinivert – 3,037 m</p><br>
<p>Monte Barifreddo – 3,028 m</p><br>
<p>Monte Politri – 3,026 m</p><br>
<p>Monte Fraiteve – 2,701 m</p><br>
<p>Monte Genevris – 2,356 m</p><br>
<p>Monte Orsiera – 2,878 m</p><br>
<p>Punta Cristalliera – 2,801 m</p><br>
<p>Cima Ciantiplagna – 2,849 m</p><br>
<p>Becco dell&#39;Aquila – 2,809 m</p><br>
<p>Punta Vallette – 2,743 m</p><br>
<p>Monte Français Pelouxe – 2,736 m</p><br>
<p>Testa dell&#39;Assietta – 2,566 m</p><br>
<p>Grand Truc – 2,366 m</p><br>
<p>Punta dell&#39;Aquila – 2,119 m</p><br>
<h3>Winter Sports</h3><br>
<p>Val Chisone is renowned for winter sports: in 2006 several competitions within the XX Olympic Winter Games took place in Pinerolo, Pragelato and Sestriere.</p><br>
<p>Sestriere&#39;s huge skiing area hosted the alpine skiing. The area is part of the Via Lattea, a ski resort that comprises more than 163 skiing connected courses (41 blue, 92 red and 30 black slopes) and whose altitude ranges from 1,380 m in Cesana to 2,800 m on top of the Motta course.</p><br>
<p>The slopes in Sestriere also regularly host FIS Alpine Ski World Cup events.</p><br>
<p>Pragelato hosted cross-country skiing, nordic combined (cross-country skiing) and ski jumping.</p><br>
<p>The ski jumping area was used in the later years for other competitions.</p><br>
<p>Pragelato offers 15 km of touristic cross-country pistes from approximately 1530 to 1750 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>Besides the link with Via Lattea through cableway, the municipality has its own alpine ski courses (one chairlift and three platter lifts).</p><br>
<p>Pinerolo hosted curling.</p><br>
<p>Some huts are open in winter and are a destination for snowshoe hikers:</p><br>
<p>Rifugio Selleries – 2,030 m</p><br>
<p>Torrente Chisone.jpgRiver Chisone in Pragelato.</p><br>
<p>Forte Fenestrelle 0002.JPGThe fort of Fenestrelle.</p><br>
<p>The Pellice  is a 53 km Italian torrent, which runs through the Metropolitan City of Turin. It is a tributary of the Po River, into which it flows near Villafranca Piemonte.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The stream is formed at the western slope of Monte Granero in the Cottian Alps and initially runs northwards, before turning east and reaching the comune of Bobbio Pellice. After receiving the waters of several torrents, such as the Ghiacciard, it forms the Val Pellice. Other streams flowing into the Pellice in its later course include the Angrogna and the Chiamogna, near the town of Bricherasio.</p><br>
<p>After the end of its mountain course, the torrent, 12 km after Bricherasio, receives the waters of the Chisone between Cavour and Vigone, doubling its average discharge. It reaches the Po River at Villafranca.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Torino, Istituto geografico centrale, Map n. 6 - Monviso</p><br>
<p>Monte Granero is a peak in the Cottian Alps, in western Piedmont, northern Italy. It has an elevation of 3,170 m. It is located between the Val Pellice and the Valle Po, not far from the boundary with France.</p><br>
<p>Administratively it&#39;s divided between the Metropolitan City of Turin and the province of Cuneo, both in the Piedmont region.</p><br>
<p>The Pellice torrent starts from the Monte Granero&#39;s western slopes. The Monte Meidassa is located nearby.</p><br>
<h2>SOIUSA classification</h2><br>
<p>According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=South Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Cottian Alps</p><br>
<p>subsection=southern Cottian Alps</p><br>
<p>supergroup=catena Aiguillette-Monviso-Granero</p><br>
<p>group=gruppo Granero-Frioland</p><br>
<p>subgroup=gruppo del Monte Granero</p><br>
<p>code=I/A-4.I-C.9.a</p><br>
<p>Monte Meidassa is a peak in the Cottian Alps, in western Piedmont, northern Italy. The slightly higher Monte Granero is located nearby.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Administratively it is divided between the Metropolitan City of Turin and the province of Cuneo, both in the Piedmont region.</p><br>
<p>Included in the comuni of Crissolo and Bobbio Pellice, not far from the boundary with France, it has an elevation of 3,105 m. It separates the Val Chisone and the Valle Po.</p><br>
<h2>SOIUSA classification</h2><br>
<p>According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=South Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Cottian Alps</p><br>
<p>subsection=southern Cottian Alps</p><br>
<p>supergroup=catena Aiguillette-Monviso-Granero</p><br>
<p>group=gruppo Granero-Frioland</p><br>
<p>subgroup=gruppo del Monte Granero</p><br>
<p>code=I/A-4.I-C.9.a</p><br>
<p>The Parrett Iron Works was a series of industrial buildings next to the River Parrett, near Martock, Somerset, England.</p><br>
<p>The site was originally named Careys Mill, which had been used in the production of snuff, and the adjoining bridge is called Careys Mill Bridge which was built of Ham stone in the 18th century. The sluice which powered the waterwheel and sluice keepers cottage still exist.</p><br>
<p>Careys mill was unoccupied in 1853 but by 1857 had been bought by the West of England Engineering and Coker Canvas Company, who built the mill which included a foundry, with a prominent chimney, a large workshop, and several smaller workshops and cottages. They produced horizontal, high pressure and condensing engines for mining companies traction engines, threshing machines, water wheels, corn mills, flax and spinning machinery, power looms and iron and wooden wheels. In 1866 a new power loom shed was opened, but by 1869 the company had gone into liquidation. It was taken over by William Sibleys West of England Engineering Company, who lasted until the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>Some buildings were taken over by G H Smith, makers of rope and twine in a ropewalk, workshops and chimneywere still operating in 1941.</p><br>
<p>In 1974 the premises were held by the West of England Warehouses and also used by the Somervale Foods and Somerset Joinery.</p><br>
<p>Wereholme, also known as the Harold H. Weekes Estate, and the Scully Estate, is a historic estate located at Islip in Suffolk County, New York. The mansion was built in 1917 in the French Provincial style and designed by noted architect Grosvenor Atterbury . It is a "L" shaped structure built of concrete block. It is three stories high with a hipped roof and the servants&#39; wing is two stories with a clipped cross-gable roof. Also on the property are two garages, greenhouse, barrel vaulted dovecote, and entrance pillars from South Bay Avenue.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The property was originally part of Windholme which was eventually split between the children of the owners. Louise Peters received 70 acres and had Wereholme built. She passed the house to her daughter, Hathaway. "Happy" eventually donated it to the Audubon Society who sold it to Suffolk County in 2004.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>Suffolk County Nature Center</h2><br>
<p>The Suffolk County Nature Center opened on the property on Earth Day, 2010. The Center is operated by the Seatuck Environmental Center through a long-term custodial agreement with the Suffolk County Department of Parks, Recreation and Conservation.</p><br>
<p>Wereholme has been restored, and features natural history exhibits, a nature library and space for programs.</p><br>
<p>The 70-acre property is adjacent to the Seatuck National Wildlife Refuge and the Islip Town Beach. Trails and boardwalks allow visitors to view different ecosystems, including salt marsh, freshwater wetlands and mature upland forest.</p><br>
<p>John Ellis Roosevelt Estate, also known as Meadow Croft, is a historic estate located at Sayville in Suffolk County, New York. The main house, roughly L-shaped, is composed of two distinct parts: the original farmhouse, built about 1850, and now the rear of the house; and the larger, more formal Colonial Revival mansion built 1891-1892 and set perpendicular to it. The original section is a two-story, rectangular farmhouse, sheathed in clapboard and surmounted by a gable roof. The 1891–92 section is a clapboarded, two-story structure with an elaborate facade with generous porch and surmounted by a steeply pitched, truncated hipped roof. Also on the property are contributing carriage house, equipment barn, garage, caretaker&#39;s cottage, swimming pool, storage hut, and archaeological sites. The property was purchased by Robert Barnwell Roosevelt  in 1873; his son John Ellis Roosevelt  commissioned the estate.</p><br>
<p>The estate is located on the grounds of Sans Soucci Lakes County Park, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Bayport Heritage Association has restored the mansion and offers seasonal tours and exhibits of local history.</p><br>
<p>Sagtikos Manor is a historic home located at West Bay Shore in Suffolk County, New York. It is a long, eclectic structure which has been extensively enlarged by additions and alterations during its long active life as a residence. The original section was built about 1697 and is a -story, timber-framed structure with a gable roof. Additions occurred through the early 20th century. Also on the property is a carriage house and caretaker&#39;s cottage, buttery, potting shed, formal gardens, and Thompson-Gardiner family cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The property was first patented to Stephanus Van Cortlandt (1643–1700), who built the original house. During the 18th through 20th centuries, it was owned by the prominent Thompson and Gardiner families. The manor functioned for a time during the American Revolution as local headquarters for British forces under General Sir Henry Clinton. In 1790, George Washington recorded in his diary an overnight stop at "Squire Thompson&#39;s" during his tour of Long Island. It is operated by The Sagtikos Manor Historical Society and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Menhir de Champ-Dolent is a menhir, or upright standing stone, located in a field outside the town of Dol-de-Bretagne. It is the largest standing stone in Brittany and is over 9 meters high.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Menhir du Champ-Dolent is 2 kilometres south of Dol-de-Bretagne in the department of Ille-et-Vilaine. It is in a small picnic area fenced off among the fields near the D795 road.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The menhir is the tallest of Brittany&#39;s standing stones. It is made of pinkish granite, and has an estimated weight of around</p><br>
<p>100 tonnes.</p><br>
<p>It has been registered as a monument historique by the French Ministry of Culture since 1889.</p><br>
<h2>In folklore</h2><br>
<p>According to legend, the menhir fell from the skies to separate two feuding brothers who were on the point of killing each other. This legend is said to account for the name "Champ Dolent" which means "Field of Sorrow".</p><br>
<p>Another legend states that the menhir is slowly sinking into the ground, and the world will end when it disappears altogether.</p><br>
<p>According to tradition, in the year 560 Chlothar I, King of the Franks, is said to have met his rebel son, Chram, here.</p><br>
<p>The Flying Horse Inn is a former public house in Nottingham. It was established around 1483. It is a Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<p>It stands upon the site of the house which the Plumptre family erected for themselves when they first came to Nottingham in the 13th century.</p><br>
<p>The first information of "The Flying Horse," is from 1400 when John de Plumtre founded Plumptre Hospital. The property forming the endowment included the oldest portion of The Flying Horse in The Poultry.</p><br>
<p>In the 18th century it was called the "Travellers Inn".An</p><br>
<p>The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade met itinerary of Nottingham. J. Holland Walker. 1935</p><br>
<p>in 1791 at the Flying Horse Inn.</p><br>
<p>In 1799 "The Flying Horse " was in the possession of one William Rowbotham. The house was described as being at the Hen Cross.</p><br>
<p>In 1813, a great dinner was held to celebrate victory over Napoleon I. A figure of Napoleon had been brought from London by coach, and this was burned in the Market Place amidst scenes of excitement and rejoicing.</p><br>
<p>By 1818, the owner was Robert Mackley. In 1826 the rent was £63 a year. The building was in bad condition and scarcely habitable. After repair the rent increased to £100 a year. In 1832 Jane Clark occupied The Inn.</p><br>
<p>It was heavily restored in 1935.</p><br>
<p>It survived as a public house until 1989, when it was converted into a shop. It is now at the entrance to the Flying Horse Walk shopping mall.</p><br>
<p>By-the-Harbor, also known as the Prescott Hall Butler and Cornelia Smith Butler Estate, is a historic home located at Nissequogue in Suffolk County, New York. It was built about 1878 as the first of a group of country homes built on Stony Brook Harbor and one of Charles F. McKim&#39;s earliest projects. It is a long and narrow, two story, Shingle Style structure with a low attic level at each end. The south facade features a massive asymmetrical gable that rises from the first floor to the ridge of the roof. Also on the property are the original flanking stone entrance piers and rusted iron gates and casino building. The casino is a sprawing two story Colonial Revival style building with shingled facades and a hipped roof. The original section, holding a squash court and plunge baths, was designed in the 1890s by McKim, Mead, and White. In 1905, a wing containing a ballroom and designed by Stanford White, was added.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Rassapeague, also known as the Francis C. Huntington and Susan Butler Huntington Estate, is a historic home located at Nissequogue in Suffolk County, New York. The estate house was built about 1865 and is a large Italianate house with additions completed in 1915. It is a two story, wood frame, clapboarded dwelling with a large back service wing and porch. Also on the property are a "wine cellar," barn, and cottage.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>On December 30, 2011 at approximately 5am, A fire broke out between the second floor and the attic. Firefighters battled the flames for almost ten hours, but were hampered with water supply issues stemming from the nearest fire hydrant being over 3000 ft away. Fire eventually engulfed the entire attic and most of the second floor causing major structural collapses. Due to the insatiability of the structure the building had to be razed.</p><br>
<p>The Leitha Mountains  are a range of low mountains in Austria lying on the boundary between Lower Austria and Burgenland.</p><br>
<p>The range is an offshoot of the Alps and forms a connection to the Carpathians to the north. It is a ridge about 35 km long and 5–7 km wide along the southeastern edge of the Vienna Basin from Brucker Pforte in the northeast to Wiener Neustädter Pforte (Ödenburger Pforte) in the southwest. The range lies to the southeast of the Leitha River and is considered part of the Randgebirge östlich der Mur division of the Eastern Alps. The highest peak, Sonnenberg (Hungarian: Nap-hegy), is 484 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>The ridge is heavily forested with deciduous trees such as oak, hornbeam, and beech predominating.</p><br>
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<p>The Domvs Romana is a ruined Roman-era house located on the boundary between Mdina and Rabat, Malta. It was built in the 1st century BC as an aristocratic town house  within the Roman city of Melite. In the 11th century, a Muslim cemetery was established on the remains of the domus. The site was discovered in 1881, and archaeological excavations revealed several well preserved Roman mosaics, statues and other artifacts, as well as a number of tombstones and other remains from the cemetery. Since 1882, the site has been open to the public as a museum, which is currently run by Heritage Malta</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<h3>Roman house</h3><br>
<p>The Domvs Romana is believed to have been built in the beginning of the 1st century BC, and it remained in use until the 2nd century AD. The house had a colonnaded peristyle inspired by ancient Greek architecture, and its best features are the well-made polychrome Hellenistic style mosaics found in the peristyle and the surrounding rooms, which show decorative motifs or mythological scenes. Two types of tesserae were employed: opus vermiculatum, in the centre of the pavement; opus tessellatum, larger tesserae to create three-dimensional designs all around the main image. The picture sought to imitate a highly popular motif which may be first painted by an artist from Sophos. The domus also shows fine painted wall plaster imitating coloured marbles and showing partly stylized architectural elements which would place them somewhere between the 1st and 2nd Pompeian Styles.</p><br>
<p>Although the house was mostly destroyed over time, its mosaics have survived largely intact, and they are comparable with those found at Pompeii or Sicily. A number of 1st century AD statues of the imperial Roman family, along with coins, glassware, tableware, bath accessories, amphorae and other fine artifacts have also been found in the domus.</p><br>
<h3>Muslim cemetery</h3><br>
<p>In the 11th century, while Malta was part of the Fatimid Caliphate, the site of the domus was converted into a cemetery. At least 245 burials were discovered during the excavations, which also unearthed a number of limestone (and one marble) tombstones with Naskh or Kufic inscriptions. Some ceramics and a silver ring were also found during the excavations.</p><br>
<h2>Discovery and excavations</h2><br>
<p>The Domvs Romana was discovered accidentally in 1881 by workers during a landscaping project. It was subsequently excavated by the leading archaeologists of the time, including Antonio Annetto Caruana, Sir Themistocles Zammit, Robert V. Galea, Harris Dunscombe Colt and Louis Upton Way.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>After the domus was first excavated, a museum was built on the site of the peristyle of the house in order to preserve its mosaics. The museum opened in February 1882, and it was the first building in Malta that was constructed specifically to house a museum of a particular archaeological site. The museum was originally known as the Museum of Roman Antiquities, and apart from the mosaics and other Roman or Muslim artifacts uncovered from the domus, it also exhibited some other Roman marble pieces which were found in the streets of Mdina. Eventually, many Roman artifacts found elsewhere in Malta were transferred to this museum.</p><br>
<p>In 1922, the museum was enlarged to designs by the architect Galizia, and a neoclassical façade and a large display room were added. The remains of the domus were included on the Antiquities List of 1925. The museum closed during World War II, and it housed a restoration centre before reopening to the public in 1945.</p><br>
<p>The mosaic of the peristyle was restored in the second half of the 20th century, but was unintentionally damaged in the process. Currently, Heritage Malta is carrying out a report on how to conserve the mosaic and repair it with as little damage as possible. The displays of the museum were renovated between 2002 and 2005, and again in 2011.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church is a former parish of the Diocese of Davenport. The church is located in rural Solon, Iowa, United States, at 1165 NE Taft Avenue. The property is east of Iowa Highway 1 between Solon and Mount Vernon in Johnson County. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Saints Peter & Paul Catholic Church was founded around 1861 to serve Czech Bohemian immigrants who began settling near Solon in 1854. It was the first Bohemian Catholic congregation in Iowa. They initially met in area schoolhouses with or without a priest. The first church building used by the parish was built of stone and located across the road from the present building. The stone was quarried locally and the building was built by hand for $1,300. A monument to the first church is located in the cemetery where its altar was located. In time the building started to deteriorate and it was closed in 1916 and was torn down in 1938.</p><br>
<p>Ground was broken for the present church building on April 18, 1916. It was dedicated on July 15, 1917. The Rev. Florian Svrdlik from St. Wenceslaus Church in Cedar Rapids, Iowa preached the sermon at the ceremony. The bid for constructing the building was $13,800.</p><br>
<p>The parish, like many in rural Iowa, was a victim of declining numbers of clergy and people who opted to live and work on farms. Saints Peter and Paul parish was merged with St. Mary’s in Solon on June 30, 1996, and the church building was officially closed. That same year members from the former parish organized to preserve the church building. They bought the church from the diocese for a dollar and raised funds to renovate the building. By 1998 the renovation project was complete and the facility is used for weddings and other events.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Saints Peter and Paul Church is a 79 by structure that is composed of a steel frame covered with red brick and tile. The church is six bays wide. The first bay on the east end of the building is the towers and main entrance, it is followed by a four bay nave that is divided by stepped buttresses, and the sixth bay on the west end contains the chancel, which is flanked by two sacristies. The main facade features two uneven towers that flank the man entrance. Above the entrance is an inscription in Czech: Sv. Petře a Pavle Orodujte zanas! (Saints Peter and Paul pray for us!). The two towers are identical until the cornice level when the bell chamber on the south tower rises higher than that of the north tower. Brick corbels are located in the gables, and a circular window is located over the main entrance. Crosses are placed on the pyramid-shaped spires of both towers and on the peak of the gable. The church is built on a raised basement that was used for a parish hall.</p><br>
<p>The interior is a single nave that is capped with a barrel vaulted ceiling. The Roman (round) arch predominates in the interior decor. It is found prominently in the chancel arch, the blind arches where the side altars are located, the reredos of the high altar, the stained glass windows and the Stations of the Cross. The altars are carved wood with marbleized painted surfaces. Statues of St. Peter and St. Paul flank a central crucifix in the reredos. A bas-relief of the Last Supper is located on the altar frontal. One of the side altars contains a statue of the Infant of Prague. The primary altar used to celebrate the Mass in later years was from the first parish church. The windows in the nave depict images of saints, including those of Bohemian heritage, St. Wenceslaus, and those associated with agriculture, St. Barbara (patron saint of lightning) and St. Swithun (patron saint of drought). In the church’s vestibule is a 19th-century painting portraying St. Peter and St. Paul, which was from Europe. Above the vestibule is a gallery that extends 5 ft into the nave.</p><br>
<p>The Niels Petersen House is a local historic landmark in Tempe, Arizona, that is listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places. It is an example of Queen Anne Style brick architecture in the Salt River Valley.</p><br>
<h2>Biography of Niels Petersen</h2><br>
<p>Niels Petersen was born on October 21, 1845, to Peder Mikkelsen and Gunder Marie Nisdatter in Vilslev, Denmark, a small farming village in the southwestern portion of that country. Petersen spent several years in the English Merchant Marines, beginning in 1863, allowing him to travel the world. He continued in this stead until 1870, when he immigrated to the United States.</p><br>
<p>In 1871, Petersen arrived in the Salt River Valley of central Arizona, where he decided to stake a homestead claim and begin farming. He filed a declaratory statement on July 1, 1874, claiming 160 acre in section 29, southwest of Tempe (the original homestead is currently bordered by Priest, southern, Alameda and 52nd Streets). After submitting his claim, Petersen began work on the construction of a two-room adobe house. Four years later, in 1878, Petersen became a United States citizen and subsequently filed a homestead entry, the next step in permanently establishing himself in the valley. The final action in this process was the filing of a homestead proof, providing evidence that improvements to the land had been made by the claimant, which Petersen filed on May 12, 1883. By the time of his final homestead filing, Petersen had built two small adobe houses on the property and maintained 140 acre in cultivation.</p><br>
<p>Among his various undertakings was the operation of Tempe founder Charles Hayden’s general store when he was away on business. Additionally, he worked for the Tempe Irrigating Canal Company, eventually earning shares in the company. In 1884, Peterson married Isabel Dumphy, a teacher at Tempe Grammar School; Isabel subsequently resigned from her teaching position and moved into the Petersen house. She dies during child birth one year later, in 1885, and their infant son, John Petersen, is believed to have likewise died within months of his birth.</p><br>
<p>Within a few years, Petersen began acquiring properties surrounding his homestead claim, thus expanding his interest in the area. His ranch grew to more than 1,000 acre and Petersen emerged as one of the area’s leading producers of cattle and grain.</p><br>
<p>As his financial interests grew, so too did his involvement in the Tempe community. Petersen served as a trustee for the Tempe School District and was a member of the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, thus asserting his interest in local education. He played a role in the development of the Tempe Methodist Episcopal Church, the Bank of Tempe, and the Tempe Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, which was chartered on March 5, 1888. Other positions held by Petersen included treasurer of the Tempe Irrigating Canal Company, president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank, and a term on the Arizona’s Eighteenth Territorial Legislature from 1895-1896.</p><br>
<p>By the 1890s, Petersen had emerged as one of the Salt River Valley’s wealthiest and most revered citizens. In 1892, he made the decision to construct a new home, in the Queen Anne Victorian style. Architect James Creighton was commissioned by Petersen to design the new two-story home to be constructed at Petersen’s ranch south of town. While the new home was being built, Petersen traveled back east, where he met his future bride Susanna Decker of South Montrose, Pennsylvania. They were married on September 1, 1892, and when he returned to his new house in Tempe his new wife accompanied him. Upon completion, Petersen’s house was widely considered one of the most elegant homes in the region.</p><br>
<p>Niels Petersen died in Tempe on April 27, 1923, at the age of 78. As a testament to his status in the community, flags were flown at half-mast and all schools and businesses were closed during his funeral. Originally buried in Tempe’s Double Buttes Cemetery, he was exhumed and reburied on the grounds of his home next to the grave of his wife Susanna.</p><br>
<h2>History of the house</h2><br>
<p>The house is significant as the oldest Queen Anne Style brick residence in the Salt River Valley. When Rev. Edward Decker inherited the house in 1927, he made modifications.</p><br>
<p>The house is associated with Niels Petersen, a Danish immigrant and prominent local farmer and entrepreneur. It is further important for its design by James Creighton, a well-known Arizona architect. The house was built for Petersen who came to Tempe in 1871 and developed substantial land holdings, was president of a local bank, co-founder of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and representative at the 18th Territorial Legislature. Creighton, the architect, worked for many years in Arizona, and among his extant works are the Pinal County Courthouse, Old Main (Arizona State University), and the Tempe Hardware Building on Mill Ave. in Tempe. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Predigtstuhl is a 2,116 m high mountain in the Wilder Kaiser range in the Northern Limestone Alps in Austria, east of Kufstein in the Tyrol.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is one of the well-known climbing mountains in the Northern Limestone Alps. Among its most famous climbing routes are the Angermann Gully (Angermannrinne) (normal route at UIAA grade III via the Predigtstuhl wind gap), the striking North Rim (Nordkante) and the Botzong Chimney (Botzong-Kamin). The start point for these routes is the Stripsenjochhaus mountain hut belonging to the Austrian Alpine Club (ÖAV).</p><br>
<p>Together with the Hinterer Goinger Halt, Karlspitzen, Fleischbank and Christaturm the peak forms the rim of the Steinerne Rinne, a huge couloir and old glacial cirque, that runs southwards up to the crossing of the Ellmauer Tor.</p><br>
<p>The Ellmauer Halt  is the highest peak in the mountain massif of the Wilder Kaiser in the Kaiser range  in the Austrian state of Tyrol. To the east is the summit of the Kapuzenturm, a striking and isolated rock pinnacle. In 1883 the first summit cross was erected on the mountain top.</p><br>
<p>The base camp for climbing tours on this mountain is the Grutten Hut mountain hut on its southern flank, at a height of 1,620 m. There is also the unoccupied, tiny Babenstuber Hut, immediately below the summit. This shelter and emergency refuge has stood on the Ellmauer Halt since 1891, but is not weatherproof. In any case the peak should only be climbed in good weather with dry conditions by experienced climbers with secure footwear, no fear of heights and climbing agility. Due to the popularity of the Ellmauer Halt there is a high risk of falling rocks, especially on the normal path, the Gamsängersteig. A helmet and even a Klettersteig set are therefore recommended.</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>Two well-known Klettersteigs (climbing paths) lead to the summit:</p><br>
<p>The Gamsängersteig from the Grutten Hut is the normal route and is of medium difficulty. It is generally well secured, but is used on good summer&#39;s days by countless climbers, so there is a high risk of falling rocks. It takes 2.5 hours to climb.</p><br>
<p>The Kaiserschützensteig is a demanding alternative to the normal route. It is much longer, harder and technically more difficult than the Gamsängersteig. In addition, in starting from the Kaisertal, a substantial approach march and greater height difference have to be overcome. The starting points are the Anton Karg Haus or Hans Berger Haus. The Kaiserschützensteig is very scenic and crosses all three summits of the massif: the Kleine Halt, the Gamshalt and the Ellmauer Halt and offers some impressive views. Climbing time: 4 hours.</p><br>
<p>Also:</p><br>
<p>Rote-Rinn-Scharte (Rote Rinn wind gap) which is the marked climb running from the Hans-Berger-Haus via the Scharlinger Boden up to the Rote-Rinn-Scharte. This saddle is also used by the Gamsängersteig, enabling the Grutten Hut to be reached. This route acts as a link between the Kaisertal in the north and the Grutten Hut in the south.</p><br>
<p>The so-called Kopftörlgrat is the eastern arête of the Ellmauer Halt over which a very popular climbing route runs (UIAA grade III-IV).</p><br>
<p>Kelly House is a Grade I listed country house and estate located in the village of Kelly, in Devon, England.</p><br>
<p>The estate has been the property of the Kelly family since approximately 1100. Parts of the original Medieval house and great hall are still standing, though they are obscured from view, as this part of the house was significantly remodelled in the Tudor architectural style. In 1742 the west wing of the building was constructed in the Georgian architectural style and surrounded by parkland.</p><br>
<p>The most recent north wing of Kelly House was built in 1877. During the twentieth century parts of the estate were sold off, and the house fell into disrepair.</p><br>
<p>A description of life in the house and village during the first world war was written as a diary by Margaret Kelly, the lady of the house at the time. It includes details of the running of the house. Kelly House continues to be inhabited by members of the Kelly family while opening some rooms for bed and breakfast basis.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the Heritage at Risk Register due to concerns particularly about the leaking roof.</p><br>
<p>Parts of the house have been restored, with students from Kelly College assisting with the works. These parts of the house are open to the public through guided tours, and since 2013 the house has offered three bedrooms as Bed & Breakfast accommodation.</p><br>
<p>In April 2010, Kelly House was the subject of a Channel 4 television programme presented by hotelier Ruth Watson as part of her Country House Rescue series.</p><br>
<p>The Ned Ashton House in Iowa City, Iowa, also known as the Edward L. Ashton House or as Ashton House, was built in 1947-1948 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1947 by Edward L. "Ned" Ashton as a private residence. Ashton, who has been called "the most distinguished bridge engineer in the history of Iowa," was a professor of civil engineering at the University of Iowa from 1943 to 1957. He designed several bridges over the Mississippi River, as well as smaller bridges such as the Benton Street Bridge, and was a pioneer in the design of welded plate girder bridges.</p><br>
<p>The single-story ranch house, built from stone and concrete, shows Prairie School influence in the way it was incorporated into its location alongside the Iowa River. Both the main and lower levels of the house provided excellent views of the river.</p><br>
<h2>Flooding and Acquisition by Iowa City</h2><br>
<p>The basement level of the Ashton House was flooded in both</p><br>
<p>the Great Flood of 1993 and the Iowa flood of 2008.</p><br>
<p>The latter flood caused an estimated $177,247 in damages</p><br>
<p>to the property, valued at $487,388 prior to the flood.</p><br>
<p>Following the 2008 flood, Iowa City began</p><br>
<p>buying up flooded properties. As of Oct. 25, 2011, the</p><br>
<p>city had purchased the Ashton House. By the end of the buy-out program in mid-2012, the city had purchased all but one neighboring house, with demolition slated for completion before 2013. The city plans to preserve the Ned Ashton House, renting it out as a venue for such events as receptions and meetings.</p><br>
<p>Tas-Silġ is a rounded hilltop overlooking Marsaxlokk Bay, Malta, close to the city of Żejtun. Tas-Silġ is a multi-period sanctuary site covering all eras from Neolithic to the fourth century AD, and due to this it indicates to archaeologists several different layers of excavation. The site takes its name from the nearby Church of Our Lady of the Snows .</p><br>
<h2>Megalithic Temple and Bronze Age settlement</h2><br>
<p>The area was first inhabited when a temple was built in the Tarxien phase of Maltese prehistory, sometime around 3000 to 2500 BC. Few remains from the original temple can be seen, but the scatter of megaliths over the hill suggests that there was a large complex with at least 3 temples and possibly a village surrounding it. A D-shaped setting of large blocks that was part of the four-apsed temple still exists as it was later incorporated into the other buildings on the site. In the Bronze Age, the temple was probably converted into a settlement, as had been done in other sites such as Borġ in-Nadur.</p><br>
<p>In the deepest layer of deposits, archaeologists found various artifacts including pottery, lithics, and a standing fat lady. From the Bronze Age layer, some sherds, stone tools and pottery were found. Other evidence from the Bronze Age consists of the large amount of handiwork.</p><br>
<h2>Punic, Hellenistic and Roman temple</h2><br>
<p>After the Phoenicians took over Malta in around 700 BC, they built a Punic temple to Astarte incorporating upstanding remains of the earlier temple. A forward extension was added to the curved facade, and a monumental doorway flanked with two pilasters and topped by a huge stone slab was built. The sanctuary&#39;s importance eventually grew and a portico was added around 300 BC. Some parts of the temple, including a tower, might have been designed as a fortification to help defend it from possible invaders.</p><br>
<p>A threshold slab pierced by three libation holes that divided the eastern part of the temple and the western side, as well as a series of ashlar foundation walls for a platform built to the south of the main sanctuary still exist. Around this area, various remains were found including pottery, ash, animal bones, coins and shreds. Some of these shreds have votive inscriptions. It is claimed that the Cippi of Melqart might have originally been at the Tas-Silġ temple, but their origin is disputed.</p><br>
<p>In the Roman era, the Punic temple was converted into a sanctuary of Juno, which was the Roman equivalent to Astarte. In 70 BC, Cicero mentioned the temple in his In Verrem, in which he said that the temple was revered by everyone including pirates and Numidian princes, but the Roman Governor of Sicily had stolen some of its treasures. Some Roman material was discovered in various deposits around a well in the lower terrace of Tas-Silġ.</p><br>
<p>Large water storage areas under Tas-Silġ were recently found and mapped, and they probably date to the Punic or Roman eras.</p><br>
<h2>Byzantine monastery</h2><br>
<p>Later on, in the 4th or 5th centuries AD, a Byzantine monastery were built over the remains of the previous temples. The church had a central nave separated from the aisles by two rows of columns, and a small baptismal font was constructed in what was originally the megalithic temple. Some remains of sculpture were found, including a worn female marble head and an ivory capital with a hanging palmette. Pottery from this period was also found, including amphorae and locally made plates and other items.</p><br>
<p>During the Byzantine period, it may be that the fat lady was deliberately defaced and buried in a hollow.</p><br>
<p>In the 8th century, defensive walls were hastily built around the monastery at Tas-Silġ.</p><br>
<p>The monastery was abandoned soon after the Arabs occupied Malta in 870 AD. The site was turned into a quarry and stones from the original structure were removed. In the medieval period farms were built on the area, and rubble walls from this era still exist. The whole site was buried under a metre of soil before being excavated.</p><br>
<h2>Modern history</h2><br>
<p>In the 17th century writers began to speculate the location of Juno&#39;s temple that was referred to in ancient texts, however the site was only discovered in the 20th century. It was included on the Antiquities List of 1925.</p><br>
<p>A remain of a column from the temple at tas-Silg, built in the Phoenician period, is today found at the 17th-century Palazzo Marnisi in Marsaxlokk.</p><br>
<p>An Italian Mission led the first excavations in between 1963 and 1972 and identified the sanctuary. From 1996 to 2005 the University of Malta and an Italian team started another excavation project to clean other layers of sediments. The site is shielded by a cover to protect it from further erosion.</p><br>
<p>Heritage Malta runs the conservation of Tas-Silġ but has unfortunately been closed to public up to now, although it may be visited by appointment. Despite this, efforts to conserve the site so one day it will be open to the public began to be made as of September 2013.</p><br>
<p>Al-Sinnabra or Sinn en-Nabra, is the Arabic place name for a historic site on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee in modern-day Israel. The tell upon which al-Sinnabra was situated, Khirbet Kerak or Bet Yerah, is one of the largest in the Levant, spanning an area of over 50 acres. Bet Yerah was the Hellenistic era twin city of Sennabris , as al-Sinnabra was known in Classical antiquity, and its remains are located at the same tell.</p><br>
<p>The city or village was inhabited in the Hellenistic, Roman-Byzantine, and early Islamic periods. An Arab Islamic palatial complex or qasr located there was also known as al-Sinnabra and served as a winter resort to caliphs in Umayyad-era Palestine (c. 650-704 AD). By the Crusader period, the qasr of al-Sinnabra was in ruins. Though the date of destruction for the village itself is unknown, by the Ayyubid period descriptions of the area mention only the "Crusader Bridge of Sennabris", constructed over the Jordan river which at the time ran to the immediate north of the village.</p><br>
<p>For decades, part of the palatial complex of al-Sinnabra was misidentified as a Byzantine era (c. 330-620 CE) synagogue because of a column base engraved with a seven-branched candelabrum. This thesis was questioned by Ronny Reich in 1993. Donald Whitcomb suggested the complex was the qasr of al-Sinnabra in 2002, and excavations carried out in 2010 showed his analysis to be correct. Constructed in the 7th century by Mu&#39;awiya and one of his successors, Abdel Malik, who also commissioned the building of the Dome of the Rock in the Old City of Jerusalem, it likely represents the earliest Umayyad complex of this type yet to be discovered.</p><br>
<h2>Name and location</h2><br>
<p>The name al-Sinnabra or Sinn-en-Nabra is Arabic. and is described as sitting alongside Bet Yerah.</p><br>
<p>Though described in the writings of early Arab historians, the precise location of al-Sinnabra had long been unknown.</p><br>
<p>Josef Schwarz, a rabbi who came to reside in Jerusalem in the 19th century, transliterated its name as it appears in the Talmud as Senabrai, and citing Josephus for its location, he noted that "Even at the present day there are found in this vicinity traces of ruins called by the Arabs Sinabri." A map of the area produced by the Palestine Exploration Fund around this time depicted Khirbet Sinn en-Nabrah to the immediate northwest of Khirbet Kerak, in an area occupied in the present day by the settlement of Kinneret.</p><br>
<p>Al-Sinnabra&#39;s location is now confirmed to have been off the main Ramla-Beisan-Damascus highway about 6 km south of Tabariyya (the Arabic name for Tiberias), a city that served as the capital of the el-Urdunn province under the Umayyad dynasty. It is situated on the tell of Khirbet Kerak (Arabic: Khirbet al-Karak, "the ruins of the castle") or Beth Yerah (בית ירח, "House of the Moon (god)"), which lies where the Sea of Galilee empties into the Jordan river and rises 15 meters above sea level. The Jordan river runs to the south, although it previously (until the medieval period at the earliest) ran north and west of it.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Hellenistic period</h3><br>
<p>In Hellenistic times, the city was known as Sennabris. A portion of the town discovered in the southern part of the mound included a street along which houses were built, one of which had a paved court around which were eleven rooms. Some of the houses facing the lake have survived to the height of the window sills.</p><br>
<h3>Roman-Byzantine period</h3><br>
<p>According to Josephus, Vespasian encamped with three Roman legions in Sennabris. He describes it as a "village," but given the size of the Roman force stationed there, this seems to be an understatement. A fort was constructed at this time, probably by the builders of the Sixth Legion, as well as a road connecting Tiberias to Sennabris, via Bethsaida and Hippos.</p><br>
<p>A large Byzantine era church was constructed in the village in 450 CE and underwent several renovations, the last of these dated to 529 CE. The church shows signs of renewed habitation in the early Islamic period, when it possibly served as a dar, or manor house.</p><br>
<h3>Early Islamic period</h3><br>
<p>The village gained importance under the rule of the Umayyad empire, A qasr (Arab Islamic palatial complex) located in al-Sinnabra and known by the same name, served as a winter resort to Mu&#39;awiya, Marwan I, and other caliphs in Umayyad-era Palestine (c. 650-704 AD). Innovations he introduced to the palace structure at al-Sinnabra include the maqṣura, "a columned bay... enclosed by a railing or screen" against which the caliph would lean to hear petitions from his subjects, and a mihrab associated with the apsidal form.</p><br>
<p>According to Whitcomb, the qasr is likely the earliest Umayyad complex of this type yet to be discovered.</p><br>
<p>Later caliphs also came to al-Sinnabra.</p><br>
<p>In 744, an army headed by Suleiman ibn Hisham, a general of the Umayyad caliphate sent by the new caliph Yazid III to quell resistance to his rule, reached al-Sinnabra, where the tribes of Urdunn came to pledge their loyalty to the caliph before him.</p><br>
<p>The site was apparently still in use in the 10th century; in 979 a meeting between Abu Taghlib (Fadlallah b. al-Hasan) of the Hamdanid dynasty, and Fadl, son of Salih, a Jew who headed the Fatimid forces took place there.</p><br>
<h3>Crusader period</h3><br>
<p>During the Crusades, the army of Baldwin I, one of the leaders of the First Crusade, was defeated there in the Battle of Al-Sannabra in 1113 by the armies of Mawdud, the atabeg of Mosul who had formed an alliance with forces from Damascus. In the lead up to the Battle of Hittin in 1187, Saladin and his forces passed through and set up camp near the village, before moving on to command the roads around Kafr Sabt. The Umayyad qasr was in ruins by this time. In the dried out river bed where the river used to flow at this time, the remains of the "Crusader Bridge of Sennabris" were found.</p><br>
<h3>Ayyubid period</h3><br>
<p>The exact date of the village&#39;s destruction is unknown, but it is thought that it did not survive beyond the period of Ayyubid rule (c. late 12th-early 13th centuries) as references to al-Sinnabra from this time mention only the bridge of the same name, without recalling the village.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations and identification</h2><br>
<p>In 1946, in the northern quadrant of the tell, a fortified compound consisting of a series of large structures, including a bathhouse adjoined to large apsidal hall decorated with colorful mosaics, was discovered just above the granary (AKA the Circles Building), an Early Bronze Age structure uncovered in previous excavations.</p><br>
<p>Between 1950 and 1953,</p><br>
<p>P.L.O. Guy and Pesach Bar-Adon, two Israeli archaeologists excavated the compound, falsely identifying a building there as a 5th-6th century Palestinian synagogue, because of the presence of a column base engraved with a seven-branched candelabrum. The "synagogue" was incorporated into the Beth Yerah National Park which served as a popular tourist destination during the 1950s and 1960s, but has since been closed.</p><br>
<p>Excavations by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in 1960 uncovered the Byzantine church (to the north of the compound). Questions were repeatedly raised about the identification of the structure to the south as a synagogue within a Roman era fort with attached bathhouse. Ronny Reich, a prominent Israeli archaeologist, disproved that thesis in 1993, without offering an alternate explanation as to its identity.</p><br>
<p>The compound, until 2002 identified as "Roman-Byzantine", was hypothesized to be the palace of al-Sinnabra by Donald S. Whitcomb of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, after re-examining the plan and architectural features provided in the descriptions made by Israeli excavators.</p><br>
<p>Whitcombs thesis was confirmed following research conducted by Taufik Deadle of the Hebrew University and excavations undertaken by Israeli archaeologists headed by Raphael Greenberg from Tel Aviv University&#39;s Institute of Archaeology in 2010. Coins found at the site and its foundations indicate that the central building was built no earlier than 650 CE and that the bathhouse attached to the outer wall dates to the end of the 7th century. The foundations of the compound are made up of thick wall-stubs over two meters deep and provide an idea of the layout of the palace, the bathhouse and the wall and towers that surrounded them. The remains of water conduits and ceramic pipes from the bathhouse attest to the existence of a sophisticated water-distribution system, fed by an aqueduct.</p><br>
<p>Greenberg said that al-Sinnabra and other sites that are in the process of being similarly re-dated indicate an architectural continuity between the Roman and early Arab empires.</p><br>
<p>The Canal de Roubaix is a canal in northern France. It joins the Canal de la Deûle near Marquette-lez-Lille to the Canal de l’Espierres in Belgium at Leers, just east of the former textile manufacturing town Roubaix. It is 20 km long with 12 locks. The Belgian canal continues 8.4 km and three locks beyond the border to the junction with the river Escaut .</p><br>
<p>The canal fell into disuse in 1985 and was going to be infilled for an urban expressway. Instead, the canal was repaired and reopened in September 2009. The first normal operating seasons, after dredging works on the Belgian canal, was 2011.</p><br>
<h2>Navigation</h2><br>
<p>The canal has been found by all boat owners who use it to be a surprisingly picturesque navigation, considering the industrial character of much of the route and the economic decline suffered by the population for decades. The summit level is part of the vast urban regeneration area of L&#39;Union, in Tourcoing and Roubaix. As forecast by the initiators of the restoration project, the reopened canal has injected new life and a sense of pride in this part of the local industrial heritage. Locks and lift-bridges are operated by staff of the Lille metropolitan authority MEL (Espaces Naturels Métropolitains).</p><br>
<p>At 2,002 m the Vordere Kesselschneid is the highest summit in the Zahmer Kaiser, the northern chain of the Kaiser Mountains in the Austrian state of Tyrol.</p><br>
<p>Its summit is located southeast of the oft-visited Pyramidenspitze and is separated from it by a ca. 50 m deep saddle. To the east of the mountain is a long, rocky arête, partly covered with mountain pines which runs over the Hintere Kesselschneid (1,995 m) to the Roßkaiser (1,970 m). To the north its steep rock faces drop into the Winkelkar cirque, to the west lies the long plateau of the Kaisergebirge and the Pyramidenspitze and to the south the mountain falls sharply into the Kaisertal.</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>The easiest and most-frequented route to the Vordere Kesselschneid is from the Pyramidenspitze to the northeast. From there you have to descend about 50 metres to a saddle and then make your way without the help of a path, but without any difficulties, across a grassy slope to the cairn on the summit. The walk from the Pyramidenspitze takes 20 minutes.</p><br>
<p>Upper Meeting House of the Baptist Church of Middletown  is a historic church at 40 Main Street in Holmdel Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. It was the first Baptist church congregation in New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>The Holmdel Community Church congregation was formed as a result of a twentieth century merger between the Middletown Baptist Church and the Dutch Reformed Congregation. The Baptist congregation was founded in 1688 by Baptists from Rhode Island and was known as Upper Meeting and it shared a minister with Lower Meeting, the other Baptist congregation in the area, which is now known as Old First Church in Middletown. The first church building on the current site of Holmdel Community Church was constructed by the Baptists in 1705. The current church building was constructed in 1809 (with later additions) and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The Dutch Reformed congregation was originally located nearby and was founded in 1699. It was previously known as the Middletown Church of the Navesink, and later as the Dutch Reformed Church of Freehold and Middletown.</p><br>
<p>Parsonage of the Montville Reformed Dutch Church is a historic church parsonage at 107 Changebridge Road in Montville, Morris County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>107 Changebridge Road is a Greek Revival style structure. While additions to the house have been added since the original structure was built, the main structure and its 1810 addition remain unchanged. The house contains almost all of its original hardware, molding and flooring. There are seven fireplaces in the home. The stone walls are nearly three feet thick. It is a two story structure with a brick facade and Greek Revival details. It has a gambrel roof with wooden shingles. It has an L-shaped floor plan with tall ceilings (nine feet on the first floor). There is a pond on the property as well. The structure served as the Parsonage of the Dutch Reformed Church of Montville.</p><br>
<p>Previously known as the Cornelius Doremus House, the Parsonage of the Montville Reformed Dutch Church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The town of Montville recognized its significance by adding the home to its list of Historic Properties under Ord. No. 2012-17. The home was eligible for the National Register under Criterion C for architectural merit.</p><br>
<p>It was part of a Multiple Property Documentation titled Dutch Stone Houses in Montville, N.J. submitted by Acroterion in September, 1990. Eight residences were included in the nomination, six of which were constructed between 1750 and 1790. Two had substantial additions/alterations —Effingham Low House, ca.1820 and Cornelius Doremus, 1840. Acroterion, on page 7 of their nominating documentation stated, “it is also noteworthy that the last true “Dutch” stone house was built in 1796.” By 1840, much of the original Doremus House had been subsumed by additions and alterations including the introduction of Greek Revival details on front facade. The 1840 renovations left the building a hybrid stylistically. It has a front (east) façade that is primarily Greek Revival, a side (south) facade that is a stone Dutch Colonial, and a rear (west) facade made of a mixture of stone, bricks and wood shingle siding.</p><br>
<p>The Doremus House was one of two houses, of the eight nominated, that was not included in the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS). HABS is administered by the National Park Service and is the nations first federal preservation program, begun in 1933 to document Americas architectural heritage. Buildings are typically selected for HABS documentation because of their historic and/or architectural importance. The fundamental intent of HABS documentation is to illustrate and explain this significance. To date, over 38,600 historical structures have been documented by the program. The house was deemed historically significant due to its visible progression and changes over time and the influence that the opening of Montville due to the Morris Canal had on the township.</p><br>
<p>On January 16, 2015 the property changed hands to "New Montville Realty LLC".</p><br>
<p>In October 2015, the existing house framing was evaluated. Through this process, it was determined that the house framing, which was constructed of mortared stone and brick masonry, is deteriorating and "in extremely poor condition." Also, according to the inspection report, the timber framing utilized throughout the house (roof, attic, second floor, and first floor) is "laid out insufficiently by today&#39;s standards."</p><br>
<p>Manahawkin Baptist Church, also known as Free Church of Manahawkin, is a historic church in Manahawkin section of Stafford Township in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.</p><br>
<p>The deed for the first church was dated August 24, 1758, but according to the early settlers of the region, there was a house of worship being used as early as 1745. A building was erected at this time and a tract of land given as a gift of the John Haywood family who had settled in the area in 1743, after leaving their ancestral home in Coventry England. At that time, it was the only church building in the area that is now known as Ocean County. The first missionary, Reverend Thomas Thompson served the area from 1745 - 1751. He was assigned to Stafford Township by the "English Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts". A spirit of tolerance was evident in the early church, as it ministered to people of several different Protestant faiths.</p><br>
<p>In 1770, Captain Thomas Webb is reported to have visited the village, preached at the church, and formed a Baptist Society with nine members. In 1774, when the church called its first pastor, the Reverend H. Crossley, the congregation numbered 19.</p><br>
<p>During the Revolutionary War, in the "Skirmish at Manahawken", between Captain Rueben Randolphss Manahawkin Militia and John Beacons "Band of Pine Pirates" or "Refugees", wounded members of the Manahawkin Militia were treated and cared for in the church. Several veterans of the Revolution are buried in the cemetery surrounding the church along with local citizens at the time and several shipwreck victims. As services had been discontinued during the War, the Baptist Society was not reorganized until 1801.</p><br>
<p>In 1805, the church baptized forty-four people and the membership increased to sixty-eight. On April 27, 1857 the church was incorporated under the laws of the state of New Jersey. There were five trustees at that time. By 1864, weakening of the walls prompted the appointment of a committee to start remodeling and rebuilding the structure. The rebuilt church with the original within it, was completed under the leadership of Reverend A. H. Folwell. A series of different pastors served in the pulpit of the new church building.</p><br>
<p>On July 10, 1867 during the pastorate of Reverend E.S. Browe, the dedication service was held. The cost of rebuilding and redecorating the church building cost $2776.00. The records show that all but $200.00 had come from church members and interested friends in the community. The centennial anniversary of the founding as a Baptist Society was held on August 25, 1870. It should be noted that the church building was the only school building in Stafford until after 1800 and the Bible was the only textbook. The Reverend E.L. Stager became pastor in February 1880, but died 2 years later at the age of 35. There followed various ministers who usually stayed for one year. The first parsonage was built in 1882 near the church on Route 9.</p><br>
<p>On January 12, 1884, Reverend W.W. Eldridge was unanimously called as pastor. The women of the church cleaned the parsonage each week, as Eldridge was a single man. In September 1885, the Reverend Warren N. Walden was called as pastor of the church and remained in the position until his death in December 1893. The pastoral call was then extended to the Reverend E.F. Partridge in February 1898. The congregation voted to pay him a yearly sum of $300.00. a new organ was purchased in 1898, and most likely was the one that remained in the church until the Hammond electric organ was purchased in 1948.</p><br>
<p>1900 saw the resignation of Pastor Partridge and in 1901, the pastoral call was offered to Herman Joorman, who eventually left the church to serve in the mission field.</p><br>
<p>From 1901 until 1948, many different pastors served the church, with several serving only part-time. In 1916, several small rooms and a baptistry were added to the original church structure. Sometime between 1920- 1925 the church spire was struck by lightning and the spire, roof, and bell were damaged. It was at that time the steeple was lowered to its present height. In 1938, church member Jim Shanklin and Jack Kilbert, a seminary student who had just moved to the area, led worship services at 3:00pm on Sunday afternoons. The practice continued until 1943 when Mr Kilbert was unfortunately killed by a mortar round that landed near his tent during the Battle of the Bulge.</p><br>
<p>Reverend Lauren D Rhine was extended the call to begin the charge here in April 1948. Prior to the call Pastor Rhine, the faithful of the church had entirely redecorated the church. A new roof was installed and the entire building was painted inside and out.On Mothers Day 1948 the bible school was started with 8 present. By 1952 the number had grown to 115. During the summer of 1949, the first daily vacation bible school was started with eight teachers and thirty nine pupils. By 1950, vacation bile school enrollment had increased to twelve teachers and sixty eight pupils. At the annual meeting in 1950, the church voted to become one of the charter churches in fellowship with the Association.</p><br>
<p>In the winter of 1952, a new parsonage was bought on the corner of Main and Beach Streets in Manahawkin. Reverend and Mrs Lauren Rhine were the first occupants. Beginner and primary school were held each week. The total church membership was fifty-eight and the church supported two foreign missionaries.</p><br>
<p>From 1952 - 1955, the congregation bought 100 feet of land on Route 9 across from the existing building and proposed to build a 32 foot by 60 foot Sunday school on the property. According to the plans, the building would have abasement and one floor. The building committee chose Bill Shinn, a church member and a local builder, to oversee the construction that was completed with volunteer labor. Mr John Erwin was called to the pulpit on July 6, 1953. Pastor Erwin was the first full-time pastor, as he did not need another job to supplement the income provided by the church. IN 1955, according to the records from church treasurer Althea Fredrickson, $3500.00 of the church budget, which totaled, $4984.00, went to the pastors salary.</p><br>
<p>The Reverend Earl Comfort was called to be pastor in January 1959. The parsonage was sold for $7500.00 and anew parsonage was built next to the Sunday School building and was dedicated in JUne 1961. Between 1962 and 1965 two pieces of property were acquired on the north side of the original church. Both were used for parking. The congregation decided to build a new sanctuary perpendicular to the Sunday Schiol building. The addition would have Sunday School rooms in the basement.</p><br>
<p>The church has been added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.xxxxa</p><br>
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