<p>Five Star Island is an island of Bermuda.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Five Star Island, also known as Wilson Island is situated in the Little Sound on the North Coast of Bermuda in the Parish of Southampton.</p><br>
<h2>Owners</h2><br>
<p>Until 2012, Five Star Island was owned by one of Bermuda&#39;s wealthiest residents, Curt Engelhorn who, according to Forbes had a net worth as of March 2012 of $6.6 billion. Originally from Germany, Engelhorn is a resident of Gstaad, Switzerland who owned a major share holding in the Bermuda-registered German pharmaceutical multinational company, Corange Ltd. Corange Ltd., in turn, owned Boehringer Mannheim and DePuy Inc. Engelhorn netted $5 billion when he sold his 40% share of Corange to Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche in 1997 for US$11 billion. During his time in Bermuda, he made large donations to the Bermuda College and the Bermuda Biological Station.</p><br>
<p>Morgan&#39;s Island was an island of the British Overseas Territory of Bermuda. It was part of the land leased to the United States Government in 1941 for ninety-nine years for the construction of the Naval Operating Base Bermuda, a joint shipping base and naval air station. Morgan&#39;s Island was joined by infilling to nearby Tucker&#39;s Island, and the two were connected to the Main Island by a narrow infilling, creating a peninsula. The base, by then designated the Naval Air Station Bermuda Annex, was closed in 1995 along with other US bases in Bermuda. After a delay while the issue of toxic waste deposits was argued between the British/Bermudian and US Governments, the land was handed back to the Government of Bermuda and allowed to return to nature pending the clean-up of toxins and a decision on its future. The only user of the area was the Royal Bermuda Regiment, which had begun training there when it was still a US base. Following public outrage at plans to develop a Jumeirah resort hotel at Southlands, then a wooded private estate on the South Shore, the government traded the former US naval base to the developers in exchange for Southlands, most of which was designated as parkland. Morgan&#39;s Point, as the former naval base is now called, is currently being cleared to make way for the new resort.</p><br>
<p>Edward Kelley School  in Sacramento County, California is a building first constructed sometime in the 1850s. The school has been in a district since 1858. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The school was originally constructed as a single classroom facility, with a small library, and two foyers. The classroom was later partitioned into three separate rooms to accommodate the growing needs of the developing community. An additional out-building was constructed in the rear of the property, which itself also dates to the 1850s. The school building was almost completely destroyed at least twice during separate fires, once in 1874 and again in 1878. It then caught fire again in 1891, damaging a portion of the structure, and the current facade is a result of the 1891 reconstruction. There is some confusion regarding if the reconstructed work truly represents the original design of the building. A sign above the entryway indicates that the structure was built in 1869.</p><br>
<p>The building was originally located several miles to the west of its current location, in a part of Sacramento, California once known as Brighton, but is now generally known as East Sacramento, near the location of California State University, Sacramento. In 1924 the school was moved to its current location in what today is known as the unincorporated community of Rosemont, California. A year later the school&#39;s name was changed from Brighton School to Edward Kelley School, in honor of the person who had donated the land on which the school now stands. Edward Kelley School is still in use today, primarily as a pre-school. It is the oldest continuously-operating schoolhouse in Sacramento County.</p><br>
<p>St. John’s Episcopal Church is a parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa. It is located in Keokuk, Iowa, United States, at Fourth and Concert Streets, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. John’s Church was begun by the Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, Missionary Bishop of the Northwest, on April 20, 1850. The Rev Otis Hackett served as the first rector of the church from 1850-1853. The first church for the parish was built under his direction in 1851. Services were held in the parishioners’ homes until it was completed.</p><br>
<h2>Church</h2><br>
<p>The present church building was designed by Boston architects Daniel Appleton and H.M. Stephenson. It was built when the Rev. Robert C. McIlwain was rector. Work was begun on the structure on June 5, 1884 and the first services were held in the church on February 12, 1888. The church was consecrated on January 4, 1891. The parish hall was constructed in 1895. Both buildings are built of limestone and have a slate roof. The rectory, located next to the church, was completed in 1913. It was completed by the Rev. John C. Sage, who would become the bishop of the Diocese of Western Kansas.</p><br>
<p>The church is a combination of Gothic Revival in its style and Richardsonian Romanesque in its form and massing. The building measures 118 feet long and 48 feet high. The nave is 54 feet wide with a transept that measure 82 feet in total width. The corner bell tower is 75 feet high and contains the bell from the original church.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the church contains hand carved furnishings by William Bartels of Carthage, Illinois. He carved the reredos, altar, altar rail, chancel screen and the ends of the pews. The three panels on the front of the altar depict grapes and wheat to represent the Eucharist and a bas relief of Christ carrying the cross. The baptismal font, carved by William Bawden in limestone, is the only item in the interior from the original church.</p><br>
<p>The church has more than forty stained glass windows. Most of the windows were installed at the time of construction while others have been added over the years. The most recent window was installed in the 1970s. Seven different company’s provided windows for the church, including Franz Mayer & Co. of Munich, Germany, Tiffany Studios of New York City, and the J. Wippell & Company of Exeter, England.</p><br>
<p>The pipe organ was built in 1965 by the Temple Organ Company of Lamoni, Iowa. It contains 22 registers, 27 ranks and 1,520 pipes. There is a processional organ in the rear of the nave.</p><br>
<p>The Coolot Company Building was a historic commercial building located at 812 J Street in Sacramento, California.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The building was originally built in 1861 by Leland Stanford and he used one of the rooms as his office. It was also a part of the underground tunnel system as a part of the raised level of buildings in Sacramento. Replete with 25 office suites in the early 1990s, the edifice was still in use while neighboring buildings had all been demolished. While plans were considered to incorporate the facade of the old building with new construction planned at its site, one last fire seriously damaged it in 2003 and it was subsequently demolished.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Eastern Star Hall in Sacramento, California is a building from 1928. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Sacramento’s Eastern Star Hall was built in 1928 as a meeting hall for the Order of the Eastern Star, a Masonic women’s organization. It is one of only four buildings constructed for the Eastern Star organization, and the only one still surviving and in active use. The building was listed in the National Register of Historic Places as a fine example of Romanesque Revival architecture, and a rare example of local buildings devoted to a women’s organization.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed by the architectural firm of Coffman, Salsbury & Stafford in the Romanesque Revival style. An architect’s drawing of the building includes five people in front of the building, all women. The women in the sketch were dressed in contemporary 1920s fashions, with bobbed hair and knee-length skirts, and one behind the wheel of an automobile. This sketch provides insight into the changing role of women in the 1920s, and reflects the intended purpose of the building as the home of a women&#39;s organization. The building was completed in 1928, and used for both public and private functions. Many local schools used the hall’s grand ballroom for dances and social functions. A fire in December 1936 temporarily closed the hall, but it was quickly repaired and reopened. Located directly across from the reconstructed Sutter’s Fort, the hall became one of many social institutions around the Fort’s perimeter on the eastern end of K Street.</p><br>
<p>St. Barnabas Episcopal Church is a former parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa. It is located in Montrose, Iowa, United States, on Chestnut Street, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The building is now called St. Barnabas Wedding Chapel.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Barnabas Church was built in the Gothic Revival style in 1869 and was called Grace Church until 1881 when the name was changed. Local craftsmen built the church in blue-gray limestone. It served as a parish church until 1960 when it was closed. The Montrose Township Historical Society was formed in 1981 and began to restore the building. In addition to serving as a wedding chapel, the facility hosts annual Memorial Day and Christmas programs.</p><br>
<p>Gondolin Cave is a fossiliferous dolomitic paleocave system in the Northwest Province, South Africa. The paleocave formed in the Eccles Formation dolomites . Gondolin is currently the only described hominin-bearing fossil site in the Northwest Province-portion of the designated Cradle of Humankind UNESCO World Heritage Site. The cave is located on privately owned land and is not accessible to the public. As is the case with other South African Paleo-cave systems with Pliocene and/or Pleistocene fossil deposits, the system was mined for lime during the early 20th century. As a result, the system has been heavily disturbed and consists of only a small active cave, a series of in situ remnant cave deposits, and extensive dumpsites of ex situ calcified sediments produced during mining activities.</p><br>
<h2>Site history and excavations</h2><br>
<p>No records of the date of lime mining activities at Gondolin, maps or photographs of the cave prior to minining are known to exist. Long-term residents near Gondolin report that the system was mined prior to the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The cave was named after J.R.R. Tolkien&#39;s Gondolin by the early 1970s.</p><br>
<p>Transvaal Museum Bulletin, Issues 10-22 (1971).</p><br>
<p>The story of the Fall of Gondolin was published only in 1977, in The Silmarillion, but the name Gondolin had been published already in The Lord of the Rings as part of Song of Durin&#39;s Awakening in The Fellowship of the Ring in the context of the underground city of Moria.</p><br>
<p>Exposed fossils in the cave system were noted at least as early as the 1970s and brought to the attention of Elisabeth Vrba and David Panagos at the (then) Transvaal Museum (now the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History), who initiated excavations in early 1979. The first phase of excavation addressed the extremely fossiliferous in situ remnant deposits adhering to the northern wall of the cave system (the GD 2 deposits sensu). The three-week 1979 excavation removed approximately 2 m&sup3; of calcified sediments from the northern cave wall. While two distinct sediment phases were recognized during the original excavation, later work with the fossil fauna and geology of the GD 2 deposits did not find any basis for multiple depositional phases within the sampled sequence. The removed sediment blocks were organised into 43 blocks/trays and processed using acetic acid at the Transvaal Museum. A significant gap in research at Gondolin occurred in the 1980s, during which time all of the excavated blocks were processed (but no further in situ or ex situ sampling is known to have occurred). The first description of the result fossil assemblage in 1993 only partially described 4,344 individual specimens that could be assigned to a specific taxonomic levels (out of the 90,663 total specimens recovered from acetic acid processing of the 43 trays/blocks).</p><br>
<p>In 1997 a survey of the sediments at Gondolin included the first sampling of the extensive ex situ dumpsite deposits at the locality via a test trench (Trench A). Materials removed from Trench A included fossiliferous breccia blocks from most, if not all, of the stratigraphic units present at the site (as well as loose fossil specimens sifted from decalcified sediments). From this sampled material (the GD A faunal assemblage), two isolated hominin teeth (representing two different individuals) were recovered. The first, GA 1, is a worn and fractured left molar that has not been confidently attributed to either genus or species (but resembles Homo in some features. In contrast, GA 2 is a complete left m2 that has been recently analysed and attributed to Paranthropus robustus (if from a large individual).</p><br>
<p>The most recent excavations at Gondolin were undertaken in 2003 and 2004 to explore the largely decalcified GD 1 deposits along the northwestern rim of the Gondolin locality. A four-week excavation season produced a sample of 4,863 fossil specimens from approximately 50 m&sup3; of soil overburden and naturally decalcified sediments that were screened with 1mm mesh. Critically, integration of taphonomic and geologic data from the GD 1 excavations indicated that fundamentally different processes of fossil record formation were occurring at Gondolin during the formation of the GD 1 and GD 2 fossil assemblages. This result highlighted the complex, heterogenous geologic processes that can influence fossil deposition and assemblage composition in South African cave systems during the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene.</p><br>
<h2>Fossil fauna</h2><br>
<p>The original description of fossil specimens from the GD 2 deposits only addressed a small portion of the assemblage. A single hominin tooth that was originally thought to have been derived from the GD 2 sampling was later determined to be an intrusive modern Homo tooth.</p><br>
<p>The assemblage composition described from this reanalysis differs in key respects from that of the initial 1993 description, including significant shifts in the specimen counts attributed to individual taxonomic categories (both numbers of individual specimens and minimum numbers of individuals) and the removal of several species (Hippopotamus sp., Antidorcas australis/marsupialis, Procavia transvaalensis). The revised description of the GD 2 assemblage also reinforced several unique features of the collection compared to other South African late Pliocene and Pleistocene:</p><br>
<p>The numerical dominance of two rarely encountered antelope species - klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus) and a species of reduncin (Redunca sp.) similar to the extant mountain reedbuck (Redunca fulvorufula).</p><br>
<p>The first described occurrence of the extinct porcupine (Hystrix makapanensis) from an assemblage other than the Makapansgat Member 3 deposits (including the first postcrania attributed to the species).</p><br>
<p>The first comprehensive taphonomic analysis of a South African early Pleistocene assemblage solely derived from in situ deposits.</p><br>
<p>A robust sample of directly associated cranial and postcranial remains for many fossil species, including several groupings of articulated fossils.</p><br>
<p>The recovery of fragile elements including hyoids and fetal/neonatal remains.</p><br>
<p>The absence of any identificable primate remains within the assemblage.</p><br>
<h2>Age of the deposits</h2><br>
<p>The Gondolin Palaeo-cave deposits have been dated using a combination of biostratigraphy and palaeomagnetism which indicate an age of around 1.8 million years.</p><br>
<p>The Concord School House is a historic one-room schoolhouse in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is operated today as a museum. It is part of the Colonial Germantown Historic District which was named a National Historic Landmark District in 1965.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1775 by Jacob Knorr (or Knor), Concord was the first English-language school in Germantown, which was then a separate town about six miles northwest of Philadelphia. It is built on the corner of the Upper Burial Ground at Washington Lane and Germantown Avenue. It opened to students in October 1775, and served as a school room until at least 1889.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The school is 25 by, two bays by three bays, and was originally one story with a cellar. In 1818 a second floor was added as a town meeting room which was long used as a library. A square open belfry with a spire tops the roof. The walls are made of rough random rubble which was once stuccoed. Both entrance doors are on the south side of the building. The cellar is accessed from two stairways, one from the outside in front of the school, and the other from the back of the classroom.</p><br>
<p>The teacher stood on a raised platform on the west side of the classroom. The building retains its original bell and belfry, schoolmaster&#39;s desk, books, and even a stool and dunce cap.</p><br>
<p>The schoolhouse sits on a raised lot about 5 ft above and about 20 ft east of Germantown Avenue. Seven stairs ascend from the street leading to the school which is on the same level as the Upper Burial Ground. A short retaining wall on Germantown Avenue, may have been built in 1777, when the much taller wall around the Upper Burial Ground was built.</p><br>
<p>Knorr, a master builder, is buried in the burial ground. He also constructed the John Johnson House across the street, Cliveden, and the original Germantown Academy.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>At a meeting on March 24, 1775, the residents of the upper part of Germantown decided that the Union School was too far for their children to travel, and they needed a schoolhouse of their own. The Union School was perhaps the largest non-religious building in Germantown at the time. German was its main language of instruction. It was later known as the Germantown Academy and is located one mile south of the Concord School House. Other nearby schools were single rooms, including the Harmony School in Chestnut Hill and the Lutheran School, both founded in 1745.</p><br>
<p>Instruction in Germantown schools at this period was not based on religion but concentrated more on reading, writing, spelling, and arithmetic. Students generally attended the closest school. Schools were not seen as competitors, for example 14 trustees of the Union School donated to the Concord School, and the two schools shared two building managers. About 17% of the Concord Schools students were Dunkards, who are believed to have enrolled only because so many Dunkards lived in the immediate area.</p><br>
<p>The school&#39;s record book covers the founding through the early twentieth century and is held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. It lists 122 original subscribers.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Fitch Hochkin quotes the record of the first meeting extensively. Jacob Engle, Peter Keyser, Peter Leibert, and Jacob Knorr were chosen to be the managers of the building. Knorr "nearly completed" the building in October 1775. The total money subscribed was 245 pounds, 1 shilling, and 2 pence, but the record notes "the Continental that came to nothing 2 pounds. Real amount 243 pounds 1 shilling 2 pence."</p><br>
<p>The site beside the Upper Burial Ground was chosen, construction began, and in October 1775, the Concord School was nearly completed and opened. John Grimes was the first schoolmaster and instruction was entirely in English.</p><br>
<p>On October 4, 1777 the Battle of Germantown was fought outside the school, with a key action fought at Cliveden, just a block north. During the period of the Revolutionary War it is not clear whether the school was open, as no records were kept from 1776-1783. The Union School, located further south, was closed during this period.</p><br>
<p>On April 15, 1783 six trustees were appointed including the four original managers Jacob Engle, Peter Keyser, Peter Leibert, and Jacob Knorr, as well as John Johnson, Jr. and Winard Nice.</p><br>
<p>The school was supported by subscription and neighbors contributed to the fund, allowing any family that could afford the fee to enroll its children (around $2 per quarter, plus.25 for spelling books), including families of African descent who rented the school house in the 1850s.</p><br>
<p>When Pennsylvanias public school system was established in 1840, the local township school board rented the building through 1842, marking the end of Concord Schools use as an independent school. The building was however, rented out to other schools and social groups after this date.</p><br>
<p>The Hiram Lodge of the Masonic Order rented the upper floor from 1821 to 1823. The Senior</p><br>
<p>Order of United American Mechanics rented the upper floor from 1847 until at least 1853, when the Junior Order was established at the schoolhouse. The Charter Oak Library was established in the upper floor in 1855. The predecessor of the Germantown Historical Society, then known as the Site and Relic Society, used the lower floor as a museum from 1903 to 1908.</p><br>
<p>In 1889 the first floor housed a private school run by Miss Annie McMurtrie and the room of Mrs. Diilon, the janitor. The Charter Oak Library still occupied the second floor, and did so until at least 1902.</p><br>
<p>The origin of the school&#39;s name is uncertain. It was perhaps named after the ship Concord which brought the first Dutch and German immigrants to America. An alternate theory is that its foundations were built at the time of the first shot of the American Revolution fired in Concord, Massachusetts.</p><br>
<p>Concord School House is a contributing property of the Colonial Germantown Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and a National Historic Landmark. Several buildings within the district are also separately listed. These include the John Johnson House, across the street, and Cliveden, a block north of the school house, both National Historic Landmarks. The Germantown Mennonite Meetinghouse, Upsala, Michael Billmeyer House and Daniel Billmeyer House, all within three blocks of the school house, are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Central or Qurna Marshes were a large complex of wetlands in Iraq that were part of the Tigris-Euphrates river system, along with the Hawizeh and Hammar Marshes. Formerly covering an area of around 3000 square kilometres, they were almost completely drained following the 1991 uprisings in Iraq and have in recent years been reflooded.</p><br>
<h2>Characteristics</h2><br>
<p>The Central Marshes stretched between Nasiriyah, Al-Uzair (Ezras Tomb) and Al-Qurnah and were mainly fed by the Tigris and its distributaries (the Shatt al-Muminah and Majar al-Kabir). They were drained by the (partially artificial) Prosperity Canal, and by the Glory River. The Central Marshes were characterised by tall qasab reeds but included a number of freshwater lakes, of which the largest were the Haur az-Zikri and Umm al-Binni (literally "mother of binni", the latter being a species of barbel.) The marshes support breeding populations of the Basra reed-warbler and marbled teal, along with several other species of non-breeding birds. It was feared that the Levant darter (Anhinga rufa chantrei), a subspecies of the African darter, and the maxwelli subspecies of the smooth-coated otter had disappeared entirely, but small and threatened populations remain of both. It is feared that the Bunn&#39;s short-tailed bandicoot rat (Nesokia bunnii, syn. Erythronesokia bunnii), which had only been described from specimens obtained in the Central Marshes, is extinct.</p><br>
<p>The area was formerly populated by the Marsh Arabs or Ma&#39;dan, who grazed buffalo on the natural vegetation and carried out cultivation of rice.</p><br>
<h2>Draining</h2><br>
<p>By the early 1980s, it was evident that irrigation projects were already affecting water levels in the marshes. In the early 1990s, the government of Iraq undertook a series of major drainage projects, at least partly in retribution for the events of the 1991 uprisings, and to prevent the area being used as a refuge by militias. The flow southwards from the distributary streams of the Tigris was blocked by large embankments and discharged into the Al-Amarah or Glory Canal, resulting in the loss of two-thirds of the Central Marshes by as early as 1993. By the late 1990s, the Central Marsh had become completely desiccated, suffering the most severe damage of the three main areas of wetland. By 2000, United Nations Environment Programme estimated that 90% of the marshlands had disappeared.</p><br>
<h2>Reflooding</h2><br>
<p>Following the 2003 USA invasion of Iraq, embankments and drainage works were broken open, and the marshes began to reflood. The Central Marshes showed little recovery through 2003, but by early 2004 a patchwork of lakes had appeared in northern areas; there was flooding in southern areas which had previously been dry since the early 1990s. There has been some corresponding recolonisation by the natural marsh vegetation since that time, and return of some species of fish and birds, although recovery of the Central Marshes has been much slower compared to the Huwaizah and Hammar Marshes; the most severely damaged sections of the wetlands have yet to show any signs of regeneration. Bunn&#39;s short-tailed bandicoot rat is suspected to have become extinct.</p><br>
<p>The former Lincoln Park Post Office is a building located at 1335 Southfield Road in Lincoln Park, Michigan. It now houses the Lincoln Park Historical Museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the late 1930s, the city of Lincoln Park had a need for a new post office building. Congressional approval was obtained in 1938, and the land where this building stands was obtained for $15,000. The design of this building, created by supervising architect of the treasury Louis A. Simon, was used for a number of other post offices in the state of Michigan. The building was constructed by the Henry Dattner Co., who began construction in December 1938. The final cost of construction was $80,000. Lincoln Park Post Office began operating as an independent post office in 1954.</p><br>
<p>However, the Postal Service&#39;s Lincoln Park operations eventually outgrew the size of the building. The Post Office left the building in 1991. The Lincoln Park Historical Society purchased the building, renovated it, and opened it to the public. The building is now the home of the Lincoln Park Historical Museum.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The former Lincoln Park Post Office is a one-story, flat-roofed building built of concrete and steel and faced with tan brick. St sits on a raised basement faced with limestone; limestone is also used for the parapet cap and a stringcourse below. he main facade is symmetrical, with a center entrance and two windows on each side. The outer windows are atop limestone panels. The inner window openings are broader and higher, rising to the stringcourse beneath the parapet, with the windows vertically centered between limestone panels. The front entrance is reached by a flight of stairs, and stone carvings on a panel over the entryway represent three modes of mail transportation: air, rail, and ship.</p><br>
<p>The simpler side elevations have six windows apiece. One side has a basement access stairs. The rear loading dock area has been renovated with vinyl siding.</p><br>
<p>The interior one-and-one-half-story main floor contains a lobby, Postmaters office, and mail workroom. The public lobby measures approximately 45 feet by 13 feet, and has a terrazzo floor with marble wainscoting. The lobby originally housed a mural, Hauling in the Nets, by Zoltan Sepeshy. The mural is now located in the Marine Museum on Beaver Island. THe postmasters office measures approximately 12 feet by 14 feet, and the mail workroom approximately 40 feet by 59 feet. The basement contains three storage rooms.</p><br>
<p>Goodrich Court, Goodrich, Herefordshire, England was a 19th-century, neo-gothic castle built by the antiquarian Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick in 1828. Designed by the architect Edward Blore, the Court is described by Pevsner as a "fantastic and enormous tower-bedecked house." The Courts situation, on a hilltop facing Goodrich Castle, so offended the poet William Wordsworth that he wished "to blow away Sir Samuel Meyricks impertinent structure and all the possessions it contained."</p><br>
<p>Meyrick built the Court to house his very significant collection of armour and antiquities, much of which subsequently passed to the British Museum and to the Wallace Collection. In the years following its construction, Meyrick&#39;s house and its collections became a notable element of the Wye Tour.</p><br>
<p>Meyricks son predeceased him and after Meyricks death, the Court passed through a number of hands, housing pupils from Felsted School during the Second World War. When the school left, the building was stripped of its contents, furnishings and fixtures, and completely demolished in 1949–50. Today, apart from a small lodge and the stables, the only significant remainder is the Monmouth Gatehouse, which stands on the Monmouth to Ross-on-Wye Road.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Samuel Meyrick was an antiquarian with an interest in Welsh history who claimed, incorrectly, to be related to the Welsh prince Owain Gwynedd. Meyrick originally intended to buy and restore a genuine Marches castle as his ancestral home, but was unable to acquire one. He explored the possibility of buying Goodrich Castle after a visit in 1823; "the very thing to suit us, so exactly that it seems to have been made on purpose&quot but was unable to complete negotiations. Instead he decided to build his own new castle alongside the ruined castle which he named Goodrich Court. Architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner called it a "fantastic and enormous castellated tower-bedecked house", whilst its siting, directly opposite the genuine Norman castle, a positioning which foreshadowed that of Peckforton Castle and Beeston Castle, caused William Wordsworth to condemn it as "impertinent".</p><br>
<p>After Meyrick&#39;s death in 1848, Goodrich Court was bought by George Moffatt, a Liberal party Member of Parliament. The Moffatts extended the castle, including building new stables in the same style as the original property. During the Second World War the castle was used by Felsted School, which was evacuated from Essex to the area. The broadcaster Kenneth Kendall recalled life at the Court during the evacuation; "The house was furnished with amazing furniture and paintings (with) armour everywhere. I remember one boy got struck inside a Jacobean helmet and had to be rescued by the headmaster." When the school relocated at the end of the war the court was stripped of its fittings in 1946 and demolished in 1949. The Monmouth Gate, on the road to Ross-on-Wye, is the only significant surviving remnant of the Court.</p><br>
<p>The site of the building is now a nature reserve.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Designed by the Gothic Revival architect Edward Blore to Meyricks instructions, Goodrich Court was built of local red sandstone in the neo-gothic style, and although based on the Edwardian architecture seen at Goodrich Castle, to some it more resembled a French chateau. Enjoying a gatehouse, portcullis, battlements, a moat and towers, it was also noted for the Armoury, a large hall which contained Meyricks famous collection of armour. Many of the details of the castle utilised the heraldic symbols of Alymer de Valence, a medieval lord at Goodrich Castle in the early 14th century.</p><br>
<p>The Monmouth Gate, which remains intact, is described by Pevsner as of "red stone with round towers and machicoulis." It is a Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<p>The Staples Inn, now the Old Orchard Beach Inn, is an historic travelers&#39; accommodation at 8 Portland Avenue in Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Located in a building dating to the late 18th century, it is the oldest known property to have regularly had summer boarders, with a documented history of doing so dating to 1840. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Old Orchard Beach Inn is prominently located in the center of Old Orchard Beach, on the west side of Portland Avenue (Maine State Route 8), opposite the town hall. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, with two large blocks, that on the left offset to the rear. Both have side gable roofs and are finished in clapboard siding. The right block has a hip-roofed porch extending across its width, and both sections have gabled dormers projecting from the roof. The right block&#39;s interior includes 18th-century features such as a narrow winding staircase, low ceiling, and fireplace mantel.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s oldest portion was built sometime in the 18th century, possibly as early as 1730. Initially a one-story farmhouse, it was bought by Elisha Staples in 1790 and enlarged by raising the roof. About 1840 his grandson Ebenezer began taking on summer visitors, who began arriving in the area in larger numbers after railroad access to the area increased in the 1840s and 1850s. By the 1870s, the establishment was one of the largest in Old Orchard Beach, with 300 beds. Much of the complex, remarkably sparing the original farmhouse, was destroyed by fire in 1875. A new, larger hotel was built adjacent, that was demolished in the 20th century. The exterior of the surviving house, now the Old Orchard Beach Inn, is much as it might have appeared late in the 19th century, and its upstairs rooms appear as they might have been in the mid-19th century.</p><br>
<p>High Rid Reservoir is a small, stone-sided reservoir close to Lostock Junction. It lies three miles to the west of Bolton town centre, Greater Manchester.</p><br>
<h2>Public uses</h2><br>
<p>High Rid Reservoir is used by Bolton Council, under licence from United Utilities, to stage activities for young people aged 13 to 19, and up to the age of 25 for those who have learning difficulties and/or disabilities. These activities include canoeing, kayaking, raft-building and sailing. The reservoir is also used by Bolton Canoe Club for various activities.</p><br>
<h2>Ornithology</h2><br>
<p>Despite its size, High Rid Reservoir is, and has been, home to many different kinds of bird. During the winter many different bird species, including little grebe, tufted duck and goldeneye can be found. Sightings, and short term residencies, of greater scaup, grey phalarope, ring-necked duck and long-tailed duck have also been documented.</p><br>
<h2>Tragedy</h2><br>
<p>In December 2009, a man was found dead in the frozen High Rid Reservoir after it is thought he jumped in to rescue his dog.</p><br>
<p>The Old Nassau County Courthouse, also known as the Nassau County Courthouse and the Historic Nassau County Courthouse, is an historic 2-story courthouse building located at 1550 Franklin Avenue in Garden City, Nassau County, New York. Designed by noted New York City architect William B. Tubby in the Classical Revival style of architecture with a grand rotunda capped by a white dome, it was built of poured-in-place reinforced concrete. Then governor Theodore Roosevelt laid its cornerstone in 1900 and it was finished in 1901. Wings designed by Tubby were added in 1916. Later additions and renovations were 1924-1928 under the supervision of architect William J. Beardsley, who had designed the Dutchess County Court House in Poughkeepsie.</p><br>
<p>In the 1930s a new courthouse and other county buildings were built in Mineola. Some interior alterations to the old building were done in the 1940s and 1950s, but by the time it was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978, it was in a state of neglect.</p><br>
<p>In 2002 the firm of John G. Waite Associates restored the dome to its former glory. Renovations continued until 2008, when county executive Thomas Suozzi presided over a ceremony to celebrate the building which now will be known as the Theodore Roosevelt Executive and Legislative Building.</p><br>
<p>The North Hill Historic District is a residential neighborhood in the city of New Castle, Pennsylvania, that was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. The 91-block district consists of roughly 450 acre of land that sit slightly north of New Castle&#39;s business district.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The district includes a variety of architectural styles. Its 1,888 Also located in the district is the Scottish Rite Cathedral.</p><br>
<p>Most of the homes in the district are built of either masonry or wood and contain multiple floors. Though the district consists primarily of single and multiple dwellings, there exists a very small percentage of commercial and health care properties. Four schools and four religious buildings also reside within the district. The sidewalk patterns have remained unchanged since at least 1904. Queen Anne, Folk Victorian, Neoclassical, and Colonial Revival are the most common design styles of homes overlooking the downtown area.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>With urban residential growth in the historic district beginning in 1870 and ending in 1949, the National Register&#39;s 50-year guideline for significance is met. The district is significant under National Register Criterion C for architecture, and Criterion A for industry; the neighborhood is where executives of local industries (steel, tin, and iron) lived.</p><br>
<p>American Lake is located in Lakewood, Washington and Joint Base Lewis-McChord. There are two public parks on the large lake: American Lake North Park & Marina, and Harry Todd Park. Both have lakeside beaches for swimming, fishing, or picnicking. The first also features a boat launching area; the latter has tennis courts. Fishing is a popular activity at American Lake, with cutthroat trout, largemouth bass, rainbow trout, rock bass, smallmouth bass, Sockeye salmon  and yellow perch the most sought-after game fish. The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife regularly monitors the health of the fishery and stocks favored species regularly.</p><br>
<p>&#39;Areas of Interest:&#39; (JBLM Side)</p><br>
<p>Summer&#39;s Cove: A small and mostly quiet area of American Lake on the JBLM side that is often swum in by Soldier&#39;s Families on off duty days during the Summer. It is located away from the fishing areas and near other areas of Interest, including a nearby park and shore.</p><br>
<p>&#39;Marina and Launching Dock:&#39; (JBLM Side)</p><br>
<p>A area</p><br>
<p>The Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses are historic residences at 352-4 and 358-60 Main Street in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The simple, clapboard-covered dwellings were built in 1848 in what became known as Little Liberia, a neighborhood settled by free blacks starting in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. The houses are the oldest remaining houses in Connecticut built by free blacks, before the state completed its gradual abolition of slavery in 1848. The homes and nearby Walter&#39;s Memorial A.M.E. Zion Church are also listed sites on the Connecticut Freedom Trail.</p><br>
<h2>The Houses</h2><br>
<p>The Mary and Eliza Freeman Houses are transitional late-Greek Revival/early-Victorian houses typical of their time and place. They are wood-frame structures built atop high masonry basements, necessitated by their location in a low-elevation shorefront environment. Marys house, the northernmost, was erected first, begun in April 1848 and completed by the following September. It is of Italianate vernacular design. It is a double house, four bays in width, with opposite side entrances, and two stories in height over a full English basement. It is surmounted by a pair of low-pitched hip roofs, and there is a veranda across the facade. The interior has undergone very little remodeling from its time of construction, and retains original doors, mantels, and window and door casings. There are indications that it was originally constructed as a single-family house, and that that portion to the south was a subsequent addition. Elizas house was built beginning in September 1848, and completed over the fall and winter months. It is a Greek Revival half-house, three bays wide with a side entrance and side-gable roof. An attic dormer in the Victorian Gothic style was added circa 1862. A storefront was extended out from the facade in 1903 that was removed in the summer of 2013. The interior was scorched by fire in the late 1980s; however, enough original fabric survives so that a complete restoration is feasible.</p><br>
<h2>The Owners</h2><br>
<p>The original owners, Mary (1815-1883) and Eliza (1805–1862) Freeman, were free women of color born in Derby, Connecticut, then a center in the state for the free African American population. In 1848, the year rail transportation was inaugurated between Bridgeport and New York, they purchased two adjoining building lots in the South End of Bridgeport. The sisters had houses built and initially leased them out as rental properties while they continued to live and work in New York City. Eliza Freeman returned to Bridgeport around 1855 to work as a domestic in the home of a well-to-do sea captain, and Mary (who is known to have been a hotel chef in the city) followed her around 1861. They both died quite well off for their times and situations (Marys 1883 obituary in the Bridgeport Standard reads, Miss Mary Freeman, an old and well known colored lady, died at her residence at 114 Main Street yesterday... The deceased...had during her life accumulated considerable property, which is variously estimated from $30,000 to $50,000. She owned several houses on Main and Gregory Streets&#39;), and as well-respected members of the community.</p><br>
<h2>The Little Liberia Community</h2><br>
<p>Little Liberia was first settled by African Americans in 1821, the year Bridgeport became a municipality independent of Stratford. This was one of several similar neighborhoods in urban centers in the Northeast where free blacks gathered to make progress socially and economically. Other African-American communities developed in cities with growing job markets in the same time period include Trowbridge Square in New Haven, Jail Hill in Norwich, the northern slope of Boston’s Beacon Hill, Sandy Ground on New York’s Staten Island, and Hard Scrabble in Providence, Rhode Island. According to oral tradition, the name "Little Liberia" came from the community&#39;s inhabitants identifying with the new African colony of Liberia, established for American free blacks and freed slaves in the early 19th century by the American Colonization Society.</p><br>
<p>In 1831, Joel Freeman (1795-1865), brother of Mary and Eliza, purchased land where Whiting Street ended at Bridgeport Harbor; he moved a vacant shop building to the site and apparently converted it to his residence. In 1828—the year he moved to Bridgeport from Derby—he had been instrumental in establishing Zion Church, Fairfield County&#39;s first African-American congregation. The new organization erected a permanent home, officially the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, in 1835 at the southwest corner of Broad and Gregory streets. The church split into two societies in 1843, with a second edifice constructed at the northwest corner of Broad and Gregory. The smaller congregation retained the original building and became known as Ebeneezer (later Bethel) Church. The Stratfield Special School for Colored Children was built soon after (1845), following a petition for State funds by Joel Freeman, at the southeast intersection of Main and Whiting streets. Zion Church, later renamed Walters Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church, reputedly served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. The AME Zion churches were part of an independent black denomination founded in 1787 in Philadelphia. By 1850, the Collins & Clark map showed the two churches on Broad Street, designated (improperly) North African Church and South African Church.</p><br>
<p>In 1998, a 104-year-old resident, who had arrived in Bridgeport nearly a century earlier when her family moved north from Virginia, described her neighborhood:</p><br>
<p>"Little Liberia was a close-knit, safe African-American community where family life was highly respected and the spirit of the community was evident and prevailed, even during hard times."</p><br>
<p>First called "Ethiope," the community developed as a village of free blacks, Native Americans, and Haitians. In addition to the churches and school, the village had its own commercial businesses, free lending library, and social organizations. addressed the "Young Colored Men&#39;s Republican Club" of Bridgeport on the topic of not being misled by "Negro Democrats." He spoke out against African Americans in New York and other mid-Atlantic states who were encouraging their fellows to vote for Democratic candidates. Hodges noted that the Democrats in the South had worked against African Americans to deprive them of suffrage and other rights. At the time, southern legislatures dominated by white Democrats were passing new constitutions and laws to disfranchise blacks throughout the South and prevent them from voting. Blacks were essentially shut out of the official political system in the South from the turn of the century until after passage of federal civil rights legislation in the 1960s.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>By early 2010, the two Freeman houses had long been vacant, and in initial reports were said to be near collapse. For one, rebuilding, as opposed to restoration, was reported as possibly required (demolition of non-historic additions to the properties in the Summer of 2013 proved that both structures were, in fact, quite sound). At that time, Mayor Bill Finch announced $47,000 in Community Development Block Grant funds for the houses. A newly formed Mary & Eliza Freeman Center for History and Community set about fundraising, including appeals to organizations such as the 1772 Foundation and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The Freeman Center&#39;s goal is to operate these as a Little Liberia joint house museum, available to school groups and historical tours and researchers. The city sold the houses to the Freeman Center, clearing up a dispute over back taxes and fees with an earlier organization seeking to preserve the homes.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel W. Temple House is a vacant residential structure located 115 West Shawnee Street in the city of Tecumseh in Lenawee County, Michigan in the United States. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site and added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 13, 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is a two-story gable roofed structure that also has a one-story wing that contains an entrance and porch. The house is an upright and wing structure that is a mix between Italianate and Late Victorian architecture.</p><br>
<p>The upright has a front porch that spans the section, which contains a front door surrounded by side and transom lights, along with two four-over-four window. On the second floor are four-over-four-light, double-hung sash windows. Above these, at the top of the gable, is a rectangular window with a decorative grille. The one-story wing has a gable roof, and the front facade contains a second, recessed porch, within which are a door with two windows. A third porch is located on one side of the house. All three porches are supported by turned posts on square bases. A bay window formerly located in the wing section has been removed some time in the 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built around 1866 by local lumber merchant Samuel W. Temple, who was a leading businessman in Tecumseh. Temple arrived in Tecumseh in 1859 from Vermont, and established a series of wood-product factories.</p><br>
<p>The Latady Mountains are a group of mountains rising west of Gardner Inlet, Orville Coast, between Wetmore Glacier and Ketchum Glacier, in southeastern Palmer Land, Antarctica. They rise to about 1,700 m and include from north to south Mount Aaron, McLaughlin Peak, Mount Robertson, Crain Ridge, Mount Wood, Mount Hyatt, Mount Terrazas and Schmitt Mesa.</p><br>
<p>The Latady Mountains were seen from the air by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) on 21 November 1947, and partially surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and RARE from Stonington Island in December 1947. They were photographed from the air by the USA Navy, 1965–67, and mapped from air photographs by the United States Geological Survey. They were named by RARE for William R. Latady, an aerial photographer with the expedition.</p><br>
<p>Kadavu Province is one of fourteen provinces of Fiji, and forms part of the Eastern Division, which also includes the provinces of Lau, Lomaiviti and Rotuma. Kadavu also belongs to the Burebasaga Confederacy, a hierarchy of chiefs from southern and western Fiji with Roko Tui Dreketi of Rewa as the paramount chief.</p><br>
<p>It consists of Kadavu Island, Ono Island, Galoa Island, Dravuni Island, Matanuku Island, Buliya Island, Nagigia Island, and a few other islands.</p><br>
<p>The province is divided into nine tikina (districts), each with its own paramount chief and chiefly villages. The tikinas are Tavuki (Tavuki), Naceva (Soso), Nabukelevu (Daviqele), Nakasaleka (Lomanikoro), Sanima (Drue), Yale (Rakiraki), Yawe (Nalotu), Ono (Vabea) and Ravitaki (Ravitaki). Each high chief is a member of the Kadavu Provincial Council. There are 75 villages in the province of Kadavu.</p><br>
<p>The Kadavu dialects are almost as numerous as the tikinas but with tiny variations between dialects. The Kadavu dialects are closer to the Rewa dialect in Ono and then closer to the Beqa, Serua and Vatulele dialect in the main island with more similarities with the Nadroga and Ba dialects as one moves towards the south of the island. This could all indicate the origin of the inhabitants to an extent.</p><br>
<p>Kadavu is also the home of the second-largest living organism on Earth, the Great Astrolabe Reef, which lies along the southern side of the island and stretches from the northern part of the island, Ono island, to the southern tip of Kadavu Island, Muanasika Point near Nasau village. The edges of this reef are indicated by two lighthouses: the Solo Light House near Ono Island, and the Washington Lighthouse close to Nagigia Island.</p><br>
<p>There is no town on the island but Vunisea is where all the government headquarters are, with one high school (boarding school), a primary school, police station, hospital, airstrip and at least five supermarkets. However, there are also two main other stations apart from Vunisea: Kavala and Daviqele.</p><br>
<h2>Noteworthy Kadavuans</h2><br>
<p>Akalaini Baravilala - First Fijian woman to play for IRB USA Women&#39;s Sevens team and also represented USA at Rio,2016.</p><br>
<p>Bulou Akanisi Koroitamana â€“ Former politician, wife of Ratu Jone Koroitamana</p><br>
<p>Akuila Yabaki - Fijian human rights activist and Methodist clergyman</p><br>
<p>Alexander O&#39; Connor - Politician, Current MP</p><br>
<p>Alexander Sauvolitanakadavu Soqosoqo - Former sprint king, Actor, Soldier</p><br>
<p>Apaitia Seru - former Attorney General, Minister for Justice and Chief Magistrate</p><br>
<p>Apakuki CokanaKadavu - Songwriter, Musician</p><br>
<p>Ana Naisoro - Fiji Police Force spokesperson</p><br>
<p>Dee Uluirewa â€“ singer â€“ Hillsong Australia, (Sister of Dr. Tim Uluirewa)</p><br>
<p>Edward Soro - VOU Performance Manager/Coordinator</p><br>
<p>Elenoa Sailosi - Former sprint queen, one of the most endearing athletes of Fiji</p><br>
<p>Dr Epeli Nailatikau - Medical Doctor, father of Merewalesi Nailatikau</p><br>
<p>Epeli Vakatawa - TV personality and host</p><br>
<p>Emosi Mulevoro - IRB Sevens Rugby player</p><br>
<p>Fenton Lutunatabua -Former TV host, Environmentalist, Pacific Climate Warrior Coordinator</p><br>
<p>Rev. Inoke Nabulivou - Past President of the Methodist Church of Fiji and Rotuma</p><br>
<p>Sir James Ah-Koy - KBE, Fijian businessman, politician, and diplomat</p><br>
<p>James Bolabiu - First Fijan and First Pacific Islander to officiate international rugby sevens matches and Fiji&#39;s most experienced referee.</p><br>
<p>Jesoni Vitusagavulu - Former CEO, Former Ambassador to the United States, Cuba, Mexico and High commissioner to China</p><br>
<p>Jerry Yanuyanutawa - 15&#39;s rugby player, plays in the UK</p><br>
<p>John O&#39; Connor - CEO Fiji Rugby Union, Former CEO National Fire Authority</p><br>
<p>John Seru - Actor and former Australian professional wrestler. He is best known as "Vulcan" in the Australian version of TV series Gladiators</p><br>
<p>Ratu Jone Koroitamana â€“ long serving Former CEO â€“ CAAFI, AFL</p><br>
<p>Josefa Lilidamu â€“ Rugby player â€“ Japan.</p><br>
<p>Ratu Josateki Nawalowalo â€“ was a Fijian chief, businessman, and former chairman of the Kadavu Provincial Council.</p><br>
<p>Kaliopate Tavola - Former Minister for Foreign Affairs - Fijian Agricultural economist, diplomat, and politician, who was his country&#39;s Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2000 to 2006</p><br>
<p>Konisi Yabaki - Former Fijian politician</p><br>
<p>Lenora Qereqeretabua - First daughter and mother to be crowned Miss Hibiscus. Longest serving TV personality in Fiji(20yrs), former Hibiscus queen and one of the Pacific&#39;s most recognisable face. Fijiâ€™s favourite MC</p><br>
<p>Leone Lesianawai â€“ First Fijian to act in a TV series, "Adventures of the Seaspray." Fiji&#39;s most famous policeman with the Fijian "bui ni ga"</p><br>
<p>Leone Nakarawa â€“ Part of First ever Gold Medal Olympic team â€“ rugby sevens at Rio 2016, Europes offloader King in 15s rugby.</p><br>
<p>Lingo Reece - Castaway Islandâ€™s Duty Manager for more than 26 years.</p><br>
<p>Litia Daveta AKA Esther King - One of Fiji&#39;s most famous gospel singer.</p><br>
<p>Lynda Tabuya - Politician, Former Miss Hiscus, Former Lecturer</p><br>
<p>Dr Manoa Masi - First Fijian Dentist, (One of the core influences behind the prominence of the Kadavu Choir)</p><br>
<p>Manu Korovulavula - First father and son in Fiji and the Pacific to fight together in a war.Fijian political leader and civil servant. War veteran of the Malayan Campaign. Also a Writer, Composer, and Singer.</p><br>
<p>Merewalesi Nailatikau - First Fijian and first Melanesian woman to win the South Pacific Pageant.was a recipient of a Sylff fellowship, was appointed UNICEFâ€™s regional ambassador for the Pacific Island countries. Former TV personality. Former Miss Hibscus queen.</p><br>
<p>Mosese Tikoitoga - Ambassador, Former RFMF Commander</p><br>
<p>Mosese Sorovi - Fiji&#39;s Former Heavyweight Boxing Champion</p><br>
<p>Niko Verekauta - Pacific Games Former 400 meters specialist & champion</p><br>
<p>Nina Nawalowalo - First female Melanesian theatre director in the world. Daughter of Ratu Noa Nawalowalo.</p><br>
<p>Ratu Noa Nawalowalo - First Fijian-born barrister to graduate from Victoria University and First Fijian to set up a law firm in NZ.</p><br>
<p>Rachel Ah Koy - Former Swimming National record holder & champion, grand daughter of Sir James Ah Koy</p><br>
<p>Radike Qereqeretabua - Long time Hotelier/Manager, father of Lenora Qereqeretabua</p><br>
<p>Ratu Josateki Nawalowalo - was a Fijian chief, businessman, and chairman- Kadavu Provincial Council.</p><br>
<p>Richard Tanumi â€“ Australian born - Musician, Actor, Singer, Model, Dancer</p><br>
<p>Robert Valetini - First-Youngest Fijian schoolboy to be drafted into a Rugby club (Brumbies) at age 16.</p><br>
<p>Roy Ravana - Sports personality, was one of Fiji&#39;s star athlete</p><br>
<p>Ratu Seci Nawalowalo- former Member of Parliament</p><br>
<p>Ratu Sela Nanovo - Former Fijian Senator, named by the Great Council of Chiefs</p><br>
<p>Dr. Sitiveni Ratuva - Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and director of the MacMillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand.</p><br>
<p>Dr Tim. Uluirewa â€“ First Fijian to attain a PHD in Music. Former Pastor, songwriter, and worship leader.</p><br>
<p>Sera Tikotikovatu - First Fijian actress to act in an international TV series. Former Miss Hibiscus queen. She starred as Kirra in Pirate Islands: The Lost Treasure of Fiji.</p><br>
<p>Sireli Naqelevuki - First Fijian and First South Pacific Islander to play for a South African Franchise Team in Rugby.</p><br>
<p>Solomoni Mara - Current Ambassador to the USA, previously to the UK</p><br>
<p>Vilisoni Rarasea - Sports personality,one of Fiji&#39;s star athlete, brother of Elenoa Sailosi.</p><br>
<p>Viliame Leqa - TV personality</p><br>
<p>Inoke Niubalavu - Fiji Baseball player and current development officer</p><br>
<p>Vilimoni Vaganalau Labailagi - Butler to many of Fijis Governor Generals, PMs and Presidents. Fiji&#39;s longest serving civil servant of more than 50 years.</p><br>
<p>Waisea Vatuwaqa - One of Fiji&#39;s famous musician and song writer</p><br>
<p>William Tabuya - Television personality and sports commentator extraordinaire and Master Grog Swiper</p><br>
<p>The New York Evening Post Building, also known as the New York Post Building or the Post Towers, is a historic commercial building located in Lower Manhattan, New York City, New York. The building was designed by noted architect Horace Trumbauer and built in 1926.</p><br>
<p>The Post Building is a 17-story, Art Deco style steel frame and masonry building with abundant terra cotta and Guastavino tile embellishments. The building has setbacks beginning at the seventh floor and a "U" shaped light well. The New York Evening Post previously occupied the Old New York Evening Post Building from 1906 to 1926. It occupied this building, which is now an apartment building, until 1970. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 22, 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Bank of the Metropolis building is located at 31 Union Square West in Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Bruce Price, an architect particularly attached to designing skyscrapers in three parts, mirroring the structure of classical columns, and the building reflects this base-shaft-capital concept. The facade of the Renaissance revival building, which was built from 1902-1903, is limestone. It was constructed as the headquarters for the Bank of the Metropolis, which was founded in 1871 and was bought up by the Bank of Manhattan, in 1918. The building was converted for residential use in 1975.</p><br>
<p>The Bank of the Metropolis building was designated a New York City landmark in 1988, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The former bank offices are now a restaurant, the Blue Water Grill.</p><br>
<p>The Asser Levy Public Baths, now part of the Asser Levy Recreation Center, is a historic building located at the corner of Asser Levy Place and East 23rd Street in Kips Bay, Manhattan, New York City. It was named after Asser Levy, one of the first Jewish citizens of New York City, and a strong and influential advocate for civil liberties; it was built in 1904–06 and designed by Arnold W. Brunner and Martin Aiken of the firm Brunner & Aiken.</p><br>
<p>The baths were an important part of the drive to alleviate sanitary problems in the city. Many New Yorkers, especially immigrants living in overcrowded tenements, had no place to bathe &ndash; an 1896 survey found that there was one bathtub in the Lower East Side for every 79 families &ndash; and progressive social reformers pushed for the construction of public bathhouses modeled on those of ancient Rome. In 1895, the state passed a law requiring that localities build public baths, but New York City did not build its first bathhouse, on Rivington Street until 1901. In 1903, the city&#39;s Department of Docks and Ferries released land for a new bathhouse on 23rd Street, which was originally called the East 23rd Street Bathhouse. The design by Brunner & Aiken in Roman Revival style was inspired by Roman baths and the "City Beautiful" movement as well. The building now houses two swimming pools, one outdoors for use in the summer, and one indoors for the rest of the year, and a public health club. It is part of the Asser Levy Recreation Center, which also includes the Asser Levy Playground next door.</p><br>
<p>The Asser Levy Public Baths building, which was restored by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation in 1988-90, was designated a New York City landmark in 1974, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The contemporaneous East 54th Street Bath and Gymnasium, at 348 East 54th Street, is also a designated Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Fort William Point is the conspicuous flat-topped rocky headland forming the northwest extremity of Coppermine Peninsula and Robert Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point is a northwest entrance point of English Strait and forms the west side of the entrance to Carlota Cove.</p><br>
<p>The feature was named by the early 19th century sealers who used it as a landmark for entering English Strait from the north.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The point is located at 62&deg;22&prime;13&Prime;S latitude, 59&deg;43&prime;33&Prime;W longitude which is 7.2 km southwest of Catharina Point, 8.18 km north of Spark Point, 3.67 km north-northeast of Barrientos Island, 1.82 km east of Okol Rocks and 4.74 km southeast of Table Island (British mapping in 1821, 1962 and 1968, Argentine in 1949, Soviet Union in 1961, Chilean in 1974, and Bulgarian in 2009).</p><br>
<p>The Harlem Courthouse at 170 East 121st Street on the corner of Sylvan Place &ndash; a remnant of the former Boston Post Road &ndash; in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, was built in 1891-93 and was designed by Thom & Wilson in the Romanesque Revival style. The brick, brownstone, bluestone, granite and terra cotta building features gables, archways, an octagonal corner tower and a four-faced clock. It was built for the Police and District Courts, but is now used by other city agencies.</p><br>
<p>In 1936, during the New Deal, Federal Art Project artist David Karfunkle painted a mural, "Exploitation of Labor and Hoarding of Wealth" on its third floor.</p><br>
<p>The city government used the building as a laboratory to measure air pollution. At the time of the 1966 New York City smog, it was the city&#39;s only station to measure the air.</p><br>
<p>The building was designated a New York City landmark in 1967, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site, is a national historic district and open-air museum located in Camden, Kershaw County, South Carolina. Roughly 40 minutes away from Columbia, South Carolina the state capitol it is one of the states largest tourist attractions. The 107-acre site is also known as Historic Camden Revolutionary War Restoration and as the British Revolutionary War Fortifications. Camden contains preserved structures and grounds that are representative of the Southern theater of the American Revolutionary War. The site is managed by a consortium of private donors and local governments, the area is also an affiliated unit of the National Park Service.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Following the loss of Charleston, Camden was captured and served as the main British supply post from spring 1780 to spring 1781 during the American Revolutionary War, and served as their garrison for two major engagements, the Battle of Camden and Battle of Hobkirks Hill. Camden was also strategic in maintaining Britains control of South Carolina&#39;s back country. At the time, Camden consisted of two city blocks of period homes and military barracks surrounded by a palisade log fence and further protected by five redoubt and three other fortified features (a house, a jail, and a powder magazine) which were placed strategically from 100 to 1000 feet outside the town itself.</p><br>
<p>The desire to control this territory was great for the British, as Camden was located on a crossroads of the routes to the largest Southern cities of Charleston, South Carolina and Savannah, Georgia. The location of the principal Battle of Camden is nine miles (14 km) north of the site, while several other skirmishes occurred within 20 mi of the town. Between the summers of 1780 and 1781, the British were able to claim victory in many of these assaults, but at the expense of high casualty rates. These costly struggles both weakened the Redcoats as a unit and spurred the momentum of an anti-war movement in the British Isles.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969. Here is a link to the official form requesting to be placed on the National Register. http://www.nationalregister.sc.gov/kershaw/S10817728002/S10817728002.pdf</p><br>
<p>Camden is significant due to the role it played during the war. It was a direct result of England&#39;s attempt during late 1779 to attempt to gain control of all the southern colonies.</p><br>
<h2>Museum</h2><br>
<p>Included within the park are a variety of reconstructed and refurbished structures from the colonial era town site. Many of the restored buildings contain Revolutionary War artifacts recovered from the site. Video of historic structures located on the site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk6eqO5RuXc.</p><br>
<p>The museum also has a Facebook page that provides visitors with updates, announcements, historical facts about the site, and photos and video of reenactments.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Kershaw Mansion, a reconstructed and furnished house built in 1977, also known as the Kershaw-Cornwallis House. The original mansion was used as the British headquarters in the Carolinas by General Charles Cornwallis, during an eleven-month Redcoat occupation of the town.</p><br>
<p>1785 John Craven House, restored and furnished. Video about Craven House: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8KeuUu7g8k</p><br>
<p>1830 Cunningham House, which houses the tour office and gift shop</p><br>
<p>Two log houses built around 1800 now house exhibits about the war and the Colonial era. Bradley house and Craven House.</p><br>
<p>A moat that had existed during the Revolution was also rebuilt on the grounds</p><br>
<p>Throughout the park they have reconstructed multiple military fortifications to represent what they would have looked like during the time of the Revolution.</p><br>
<p>A blacksmith exhibit which provides live action tutorials on classic colonial forms of blacksmithing</p><br>
<h2>Activities, Events and Reenactments</h2><br>
<p>Each year during the first weekend in November, Camden hosts its most popular event. The event is called “Revolutionary War Field Days". The reenactments held throughout the weekend depict military operations of both British and American forces. They are widely popular and hundreds of re-enactors gather from more than 20 states every year. The Camden reenactments are some of the oldest Revolutionary War reenactments in the United States. The events are historically accurate and accompanied by live commentary.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the weekend the re-enactors remain in character and visitors are encouraged to walk through the camps. The guests are greeted with a historically accurate depiction of the 18th century battleground. Guests are also welcome to experience blacksmithing, campfire cooking, and live dance demonstrations.</p><br>
<p>The Museum also offers various types of guided and unguided tours along with a.7 mile nature trail and picnic area.</p><br>
<p>Historic Camden also allows the opportunity for people to volunteer at the site. Camden is mainly funded by charitable donations and small local government funding so volunteers are key to maintaining Camden and its facilities.</p><br>
<p>Citibase Brighton  is a complex of serviced offices on a prominent elevated position in the Round Hill area of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. The large Gothic Revival building, by two architect brothers from London, has had three greatly different uses since its construction at the edge of Brighton parish in 1854: for its first 85 years, it trained Anglican schoolmistresses; then it became a military base and records office; and in 1988 it opened as a multipurpose business centre and office complex. The elaborate flint exterior is finely detailed in the Gothic style, especially around the windows. English Heritage has listed it at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The ancient Sussex fishing village of Brighthelmston, which in the 18th and 19th centuries developed into the fashionable seaside resort of Brighton, lay within the Anglican Diocese of Chichester. In the 19th century, before the Elementary Education Act 1870 centralised the provision of primary-level education and established school boards, most 5- to 12-year-olds were taught (if at all) at schools founded and sponsored by charities, private benefactors or churches. There were many such church schools in Brighton: Anglican churches with their own schools included Christ Church, St Bartholomews, St John the Evangelists, St Marks, St Martins, St Pauls and St Stephens.</p><br>
<p>The Diocese established an institute to train female schoolteachers for the Anglican schools in Brighton and the rest of Sussex in Black Lion Street in The Lanes (the ancient heart of the town) in April 1842. This was done in association with the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church. More space was soon needed, so in 1854 it found a site on the west side of Ditchling Road on which to build a larger college. Ditchling Road, which ran across Ditchling Beacon to Ditchling village and then on to Cuckfield and eventually London, became a turnpike in 1770 and was thereafter one of the main north–south routes into and out of Brighton. The chosen site was on the north side of Viaduct Road, which was built to link Ditchling and London Roads and which formed the northern edge of Brighton&#39;s ecclesiastical parish and municipal borough until 1873.</p><br>
<p>The architects William and Edward Habershon were commissioned to design the new building. They were based in London but worked extensively in Sussex; buildings they designed separately or together in the county include St Leonards-on-Sea Congregational Church, St John the Baptists Church in Hove, St Helens Church in Ore and St Augustine&#39;s Church at Scaynes Hill. They started work at the large corner site in 1854, and the building was ready later that year. The local firm of Edmund Scott and F.T. Cawthorn extended the building to the rear (north side) in 1886.</p><br>
<p>Teachers continued to be trained at the college (officially called the Chichester Diocesan Training College for Schoolmistresses) until 1939. As World War II approached, the institution closed and the building was auctioned; but before it could be sold, the Royal Engineers requisitioned it for their use during wartime. They used it as a base for their operations, then after the war it became their archives and records office. In 1987, they moved out, and the vacant building was threatened with demolition. A local campaign helped it receive listed status, offering a degree of protection, and the building&#39;s future was secured when it was bought and converted into a complex of serviced offices. It opened in November 1988 as the Brighton Business Centre, and was later renamed the Brighton Forum.</p><br>
<p>The Brighton Forum was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 22 March 1988. This status is given to "nationally important buildings of special interest". As of February 2001, it was one of 1,124 Grade II-listed buildings and structures, and 1,218 listed buildings of all grades, in the city of Brighton and Hove.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Brighton Forum is built on a high, prominent corner position, giving it good visibility from the west and south and long southward views. Knapped flint is the main building material, augmented by stone dressings and some yellow brickwork to the quoins. The roof is laid with tiles.</p><br>
<p>The two-storey façade to Viaduct Road is E-shaped and regular, with a symmetrical seven-bay plan. The first and seventh bays project further forward than the centre (fourth) bay, which is formed by an elevated entrance porch. This has lancet windows on the sides, grouped under single hood moulds and with a string course. The doorway is under a segmental arch which is topped by a gable. The rest of the ground floor has larger lancets arranged in pairs and with a small trefoil above. The south-facing walls have two pairs together, while on the inward-facing walls of the first and seventh bays there are two sets of paired windows placed some distance apart. At first-floor level, similar paired lancets and trefoils rise as gabled dormers above the roofline. The south walls of the first and seventh bays have prominent five-light oriel windows, canted to form a 1–3–1 pattern of trefoil-headed panes. These oriel windows are supported on ornate corbels. Above these at first-floor level, and also above the entrance porch, there are three-light trefoil-headed windows set under a segmental arch-shaped hood mould. Many of the windows on the south side have plate tracery.</p><br>
<p>The eastern face (to Ditchling Road) has eight bays and a carriage arch at the north end. The first four bays have trefoil-headed lancet windows, while the next four have simpler straight-headed windows. The carriage arch is segmental-headed. The first floor has eight dormers. On the west side, the roof is cross-gabled: the gables are parallel to, rather than perpendicular to, the ridge.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church is a parish church in the Diocese of Iowa. The church is located in Muscatine, Iowa, United States, at 411 East 2nd Street. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It was included as a contributing property in the Downtown Commercial Historic District in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Development of the Episcopal Church in Muscatine</h3><br>
<p>The Episcopal Church in Muscatine can trace it roots to the arrival of Matthew Matthews, his son Dorrance, and his brothers Hiram and Joseph, and their families in 1839 when the town was named Bloomington. They were visited by the Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, Missionary Bishop of the Northwest, the same year and the congregation was organized. It is the first Episcopal parish organized in Iowa. The next year when Bishop Kemper visited he reports the church had seven communicants and timber for the construction of a church building. The bishop contributed $100 towards its construction.</p><br>
<p>The church was a frame building that measured 22x50 feet, and was one and three-fourths stories high. It had eight windows, fifteen lights, and a small vestry room. When Trinity was not using the building the Presbyterian Congregation held services in the building. A bell was mounted on the vestry room and it was utilized by both congregations. The Freemasons completed a second story on the building and occupied that part of the building. Bishop Kemper was opposed to the Masons presence in the building and refused to consecrate the church. This was the first church of any denomination built in Muscatine County, and the first Episcopal Church in Iowa.</p><br>
<p>The church had no rector initially and was visited by the Rev. Zachariah Goldsmith from Trinity Church in Davenport. On June 28, 1842 the church was reorganized at a meeting with fourteen people present. The Rev. Samuel Sherwell, a deacon from New York, was placed in charge of the church on May 12, 1843.</p><br>
<h3>Present church</h3><br>
<p>The Rev. John B. Calhoun, who came to Trinity in 1850, asked parishioners to subscribe towards a new church building. In the spring of 1851 sixteen members subscribed $1,250. He was sent east to collect more subscriptions and he collected a further $1,298.50 from one hundred and sixty-eight people. Frank Will, an architect from New York City, was chosen to design the new church. The new church was built on the same lot as the old church. The basement and foundations were built in the fall of 1851 and the cornerstone was laid on November 11. Construction on the church took three years. It is built of sandstone in the Gothic Revival style.</p><br>
<p>Bishop Kemper came to Muscatine to consecrate the new church on May 25, 1854. He was assisted by the Rev. John Ufford. The building was enlarged in 1855, and it was given its cruciform plan at that time. A bell was placed in the bell-cote in 1856. The present interior oak furnishings, including an altar, pulpit, lectern, choir stalls and pews, were installed in 1887 when the Reverend E.C. Paget was the rector. The stained glass windows in the transepts were added at the same time. The Ascension window at the end of the nave was installed in 1896.</p><br>
<h3>Diocese of Iowa</h3><br>
<p>The Diocese of Iowa was organized by Bishop Kemper in 1853. He invited the clergy and representatives of the various congregations of the state to a meeting at Trinity Church in Muscatine on August 17. In the absence of the bishop the Rev. Alfred Louderbeck of Trinity Church in Davenport was elected the chairman. At this gathering the constitutions and canons for the new diocese were adopted, and plans were made for the election of a bishop. On October 18, 1854 Rev. Henry Washington Lee, rector of St. Luke’s Church in Rochester, New York was elected bishop at Trinity Church in Davenport.</p><br>
<p>The Diocese of Iowa began participating in Education in Ministry in 1989. It is a theological extension program of the School of Theology of the University of the South. Trinity and St. Paul&#39;s Indian Mission in Sioux City were the original centers for the people of Iowa to gather for the program.</p><br>
<h3>Storm damage</h3><br>
<p>Lightning struck the church during an early morning thunderstorm on August 9, 2010. Significant damage was done to the bell-cote on the front of the church and an iron cross on top.</p><br>
<p>St. Philip&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic Episcopal church located at 204 West 134th Street, between Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard and Frederick Douglass Boulevard in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. Its congregation was founded in 1809 in the notorious Five Points neighborhood Historically, it was an extremely influential institution in Harlem.</p><br>
<p>The first church foundation stone was laid in 1819, and the first rector from 1826 to 1840 was the Rev. Peter Williams, Jr., a leading abolitionist. The "first two sites were on Centre Street. In 1822, a brick building replaced the original wood frame church damaged by fire. This same building would undergo two more reconstructions. In 1834, irate whites vandalized the church and in 1863, New York City police used the church as a barracks for militia and police handling draft riots. By 1886 the church was located on 25th Street." It sold this property c.1909 for $600,000, and with this money was able to buy the site of the current church, as well as 10 apartment buildings on West 135th Street which has previously been restricted to whites only. The reredos of the current church came from the church on 25th Street.</p><br>
<p>Rev. Hutchens C. Bishop was rector for 47 years from 1886 until 1933. Bishop&#39;s son, Shelton Hale Bishop went on to serve as rector from 1933-1957.</p><br>
<p>The present church building was designed by architects Vertner Woodson Tandy and George Washington Foster of the firm Tandy & Foster. Both were prominent African-American architects: Tandy being the first African-American architect licensed to practice in New York State and Foster being among the first licensed by the State of New Jersey. It was built in 1910-1911 in the Neo-Gothic style.</p><br>
<p>Notable parishioners of St. Philip&#39;s include W. E. B. Du Bois, Thurgood Marshall, and Langston Hughes.</p><br>
<p>The church was designated a New York City Landmark in 1993, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Ministers Building  was the home and administrative seat of British Burma, in downtown Yangon, Burma and is the spot where Aung San and six cabinet ministers were assassinated.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The building is situated on 6.5 hectares and takes up an entire city block with Anawrahta Road to the north, Theinbyu Road to the east, Maha Bandoola Road to the south and Bo Aung Kyaw Street to the west. It is about one kilometer South East of Yangon Central Railway Station and 600 meters East of the Sule Pagoda.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The Victorian-style building is made from red and yellow brick and constructed in a U-shape. Construction began in the late 1800s. The central building was completed in 1902, while the complex&#39;s eastern and western wings were finished in 1905, at the cost of 2.5 million kyats. Until 1972, the complex was called the Government Secretariat.</p><br>
<h2>The assassination of Bogyoke Aung San</h2><br>
<p>This building is where General Aung San, the father of modern Myanmar, spent his working days. On 19 July 1947, during a meeting of the Executive Council at the Ministers Building, Aung San and six cabinet ministers were assassinated by a gang of armed paramilitaries. They had been sent by the former Prime Minister U Saw. This day is now commemorated as Burmese Martyrs&#39; Day. The building is currently on the Yangon City Heritage List and completely abandoned.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>Two of the four towers on the corner buildings as well as the central dome collapsed during an earthquake in the 1930s. The building has been vacant since the government was moved to the new capital Naypyidaw. The government debated whether to restore it and turn it into a hotel or museum. In 2011, amid national discussions on converting Yangons colonial-era buildings to attract tourism, plans were made to convert the Ministers Building into a museum, not a hotel.</p><br>
<p>In February 2012, seven local companies and three foreign companies submitted a proposal to the Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) to convert the Ministers Building into a Martyrs Museum, culture aspect and theme park. Anawmar Art Group will operate the museum under the guidance of historians, curators and the Yangon Heritage Trust. The room where the assassination had taken place had been used as a Buddhist shrine until 2016.</p><br>
<h2>Availability to public</h2><br>
<p>Currently, the building is closed to the public. However, each year on the anniversary of his death, General Aung San’s former office and the room where he and his cabinet were gunned down are open to the public. On July 19, 2017, the country celebrated the 70th anniversary of Martyrs&#39; Day. For the first time since the building closed, the Yangon Parliament House, located within the Secretariat compound and the Cabinet Meeting Room, was opened to the public. The building saw 42,101 Myanmar citizens and 205 foreigners come to honor their fallen heroes. The national museum brought in original furniture and artifacts from the time of assassination that had been in the room. Articles included were labeled chairs that seated the fallen martyrs, fountain pens, pencils, keys, wristwatches, blankets, lighters, cigarette boxes, money and signed notes that they used daily. Ko Htwe, a bodyguard who was also assassinated, was also remembered with a marker of where his body fell after being shot.</p><br>
<h3>Visit by USA President Obama</h3><br>
<p>In November, 2014, the United States President Barack Obama visited the building to honor the fallen. While on his tour of the building, Obama offered assistance with urban development and heritage protection. The president was accompanied Dr. Thant Myint-U, the Chairman of the Yangon Heritage Trust.</p><br>
<p>Malolo Lailai , also known as Plantation Island, is the second largest and most developed of the Mamanuca Islands, lying 20 kilometres west of Nadi on Fiji&#39;s main island Viti Levu. Malolo Lailai is the centre of tourism in the Mamanuca Islands, and consists of four resorts, a number of residential houses, a marina and a golf course. The island can be reached in 50 minutes from Port Denarau by the Malolo Cat, a catamaran, or by Malolo Lailai Airport, a 10-minute flight from Nadi International Airport. Separated by a small isthmus which can be walked at low tide, the larger island of Malolo Levu lies north-west of Malolo Lailai.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Nadroga chief Ratu Kini sold the uninhabited island in 1872 to John Thomson for cotton planting. Thomson died in 1876 and the island was sold to the American Louis Armstrong; he died bankrupt and the island fell to the Mortgage Agency of Australasia. In November 1891, they sold it James Borron who owned several plantations throughout Fiji and who leased Malolo Lailai to the Chinese family Wong Ket for 70 years to plant coconut palms and harvest copra. In the early 1960s, the island was sold to Richard "Dick" Smith, Reginald Raffe and Sir Ian MacFarlane. They parted their ways in the early 1970s to develop their own part of the island. At about this time, the airstrip was built. In 1969, Reg Raffe opened Plantation Village Resort, now Plantation Island Resort, with six rooms. In 2004 his children (Reardon Raffe, Barron Raffe, Jayson Raffe & Hannah Kirsch) opened Lomani Island Resort.</p><br>
<p>Smith started to build Musket Cove and it opened on 3 October 1975 with twelve bures. The resorts restaurant is called Dicks Place in honour of Smith who died, aged 81, in July 2012 on the island. In 2000, MacFarlane sold his parcel of the island to the other two partners and those 400 acres are now used for organic farming and the continuation of the coconut plantation for the supply of the resorts.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The island is home to four resorts: Musket Cove Island Resort, Plantation Island Resort, Lomani Island Resort, and the timeshare facility Malolo Lailai Lagoon Resort. Restaurants on the island are provided at Musket Cove (2), Plantation Island (3) and Lomani; Musket Cove and Plantation Island provide a convenience store, some tourist shops, excursions, water activities including diving, fishing, surfing trips to the reef, and others. The marina is operated by Musket Cove.</p><br>
<p>Argidava  was a Dacian fortress town close to the Danube, inhabited and governed by the Albocense. Located in today&#39;s Vărădia, Caraş-Severin County, Romania.</p><br>
<p>After the Roman conquest of Dacia, it became a military and a civilian center, with a castrum (Roman fort) (see Castra Arcidava) built in the area. The fort was used to monitor the shores of the Danube.</p><br>
<h2>Ancient sources</h2><br>
<h3>Decree of Dionysopolis</h3><br>
<p>The oldest found potential reference to Argidava is in the form Argedauon or Argedabon (Αργεδαυον, Αργεδαβον), written in stone, in the Decree of Dionysopolis (48 BC). This decree was written by the citizens of Dionysopolis to Akornion, who traveled far away in a diplomatic mission to meet somebody&#39;s farther in Argedauon/Argedabon. The decree, a fragmentary marble inscription, is located in the National Museum in Sofia.</p><br>
<p>The inscription also refers to the Dacian king Burebista, and one interpretation is that Akornion was his chief adviser (πρῶτοσφίλος, literally "first friend") in Dionysopolis. Other sources indicate that Akornion was sent as an ambassador of Burebista to Pompey, to discuss an alliance against Julius Caesar.</p><br>
<p>This leads to the assumption that the mentioned Argedava was Burebistas capital of the Dacian kingdom. This source unfortunately doesnt mention the location of Argedava and historians opinions are split in two groups.</p><br>
<p>One school of taught, led by historians Constantin Daicoviciu and Hadrian Daicoviciu, assume the inscription talks about Argidava and place the potential capital of Burebista at Vărădia. The forms Argidava and Arcidava found in the other sources mentioned below, clearly place a Dacian town with those names at this geographical location. The site is also close to Sarmizegetusa, a later Dacian capital.</p><br>
<p>Others, led by historian Vasile Pârvan and professor Radu Vulpe place Argedava at Popeşti, a district in the town of Mihăilești, Giurgiu County, Romania. Arguments include the name connection with the Argeş River, geographical position on a potential road to Dionysopolis which Akornion followed, and most importantly the size of the archaeological discovery at Popești that hints to a royal palace. However no other sources seem to name the dava discovered at Popești, so no exact assumptions can be made about its Dacian name.</p><br>
<p>It is possible that the two different davae are homonyms.</p><br>
<p>The marble inscription is damaged in many areas, including right before the word Argedauon, and it is possible the original word could have been Sargedauon (Σαργεδαυον ) or Zargedauon. This form could be linked to Zargidaua mentioned by Ptolemy at a different geographical location. Or, they could be homonyms.</p><br>
<h3>Ptolemy's Geographia</h3><br>
<p>Argidava is mentioned in Ptolemys Geographia (c. 150 AD) in the form Argidaua (Ἀργίδαυα) as an important Dacian town, at latitude 46° 30 N and longitude 45° 15&#39; E (note that he used a different meridian and some of his calculations were off).</p><br>
<h3>Tabula Peutingeriana</h3><br>
<p>Argidava is also depicted in the Tabula Peutingeriana (2nd century AD) in the form Arcidaua, on a Roman road network, between Apo Fl. and Centum Putea. The location corresponds to the one mentioned by Ptolemy and the different form is most likely caused by the G/C graphical confusion commonly found in Latin documents.</p><br>
<p>Spark Point, also Canto Point, is a rocky point forming the northwest side of the entrance to both Discovery Bay and Galápagos Cove, and the east side of the entrance to Jambelí Cove in the northeast of Greenwich Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. The point ends up in a conspicuous monolithic formation and has an adjacent ice-free area of 164 hectare. The area was visited by early 19th century sealers.</p><br>
<p>The feature is named after the American sealing schooner Spark which operated out of the nearby Clothier Harbour in 1820-21.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The point is located at 62&deg;26&prime;36.7&Prime;S latitude, 59&deg;43&prime;35&Prime;W longitude which is 4.57 km northwest of Ash Point, 3.02 km southeast of Dee Island, 4 km south-southeast of Barrientos Island, 8.06 km south of Fort William Point, Robert Island and 6.43 km southwest of Negra Point, Robert Island. British mapping in 1935 and 1968, Argentine in 1949, Chilean in 1965, and Bulgarian in 2005 and 2009.</p><br>
<p>The Perkins-Rockwell House is a historic house at 42 Rockwell Street in Norwich, Connecticut. Built in 1818, it is a large Federal style house, built of random-cut ashlar granite, with a hip roof. A single-story porch extends across the building&#39;s front and wraps around the left side. There is a single-story wood frame addition east of the front facade, set before a recessed original kitchen section. The house is locally distinctive as a well-preserved stone house of the Federal period, and for its association with the locally prominent Perkins and Rockwell families; this house was home to John A. Rockwell, a prominent local lawyer who married into the Perkins family, and also served as a member of Congress.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 17, 1985.</p><br>
<p>The house is owned by the Faith Trumbull Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, along with the adjacent Nathaniel Backus House.</p><br>
<p>Crystal Lake is a natural pond near Bodwell Road and Corning Road in south Manchester, New Hampshire, United States. Crystal Lake is a popular place for residents to enjoy swimming, boating and fishing.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The lake lies near the southeastern corner of Manchester at an elevation somewhat over 200 ft above sea level. The lake&#39;s outlet stream flows west to Cohas Brook, a tributary of the Merrimack River, which flows south and east to the Gulf of Maine and the Atlantic Ocean.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Crystal Lake was historically known as Skenkers Pond and later as Mosquito Pond. In 1919, the city of Manchester built a public bathing area at the north end of the pond. The main entrance area consisted of a bathhouse and picnic grounds near the beach. The lake was the site of city-sponsored swim meets for children in the 1920s. Eventually, due to the lakes growing popularity, the facilities at Crystal Lake had to be expanded. In 1942 a new bathhouse was constructed and the beach was extended by the Works Progress Administration. In 1987, the fieldstone-constructed bathhouse underwent a renovation sponsored by the City Parks and Recreation Department and still stands at the site today.</p><br>
<h3>Hermit of Mosquito Pond</h3><br>
<p>The story of the Hermit of Mosquito Pond is about a man who lived secluded on Crystal Lake for 60 years. Charles Alan Lambert came to Manchester in the 1840s. After a slew of heartbreaks he retreated to the woods to live a life of solitude. He purchased over 40 acre of land, on which he built a house out of logs he found on the property. He also grew his own food and herbs. He used the herbs to barter with local apothecaries. Over the years his hermit lifestyle made him into a kind of local celebrity, and he became the object of great curiosity. Despite his secluded lifestyle he would be visited by hundreds of people every summer. Mr. Lambert lived at his hermit homestead for over 60 years, spending the last two years of his life with the Sisters of Mercy at the House of St. John for aged men. He died in 1914, and his body now lies in St. Joseph Cemetery marked by a plain white tombstone, inscribed "The Hermit".</p><br>
<h2>Fishing</h2><br>
<p>The lake is classified as a warmwater fishery, with observed species including smallmouth bass, largemouth bass, chain pickerel, brown bullhead, and black crappie.</p><br>
<p>The Ashbel Woodward House is a historic house museum at 387 Connecticut Route 32 in Franklin, Connecticut. The house is now operated by the Town of Franklin as the Dr. Ashbel Woodward House Museum. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, clapboard siding, a granite foundation, and a pair of brick chimneys. The museum features exhibits on local history and an art gallery. The main entrance is centered on the front, slightly recessed under a Greek Revival surround with pilasters and entablature. The building corners are also pilastered, and the side gable ends have semi-elliptical windows. An ell, apparently original as it shares the foundation with the house, extends to the rear. The property also includes two barns and a third outbuilding that probably functioned as a corn crib. The house was built c. 1835, and is a fine local example of a Greek Revival house in a rural setting. It was home for many years to Ashbel Woodward, a local doctor. His descendants gave the property to the state in 1947. The house is now owned by the town, whose historical society operates it as a local history museum.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 8, 1992.</p><br>
<p>Avery House, in Griswold, Connecticut, also known as Hopeville Pond Park House, was built around 1770. The house is a 20 ft by 40 ft, the two-story central-chimney Colonial that was originally sheathed in clapboard and topped with a gable roof. The central chimney is on a stone base and has a built-in root cellar. Alterations in the house changed the traditional five-room first floor plan by eliminating the keeping rooms and the removal of the kitchen fireplace. It retains much of its original door frames and wrought-iron latch hardware. After the rehabilitation of the property, the Avery House became the Hopeville Park manager&#39;s residence and is a part of the Hopeville Pond State Park. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The architect and the date of construction is unknown. The National Register of Historic Places nomination dates it to circa 1770 is substantiated by the construction and interior woodwork of the house. Measuring approximately 20 ft by 40 ft, the two-story house is a central-chimney Colonial that was originally sheathed in clapboard and topped with a gable roof. The central chimney is on a stone base and has a built-in root cellar. At the time of its nomination, the house was using asphalt shingles on its roof. The house is historically significant for its bolection molding and around fireplaces and shallow molded shelves above the fireplaces in the front chambers. Fireplace in the east room has a large single over-mantel panel and the west fireplace has two panels. Mary McMahon, who prepared the inventory form for the National Register of Historic Places, writes "A handsome corner cabinet with butterfly shelves is also located in the east room". The second floor retains its original flooring and mantels, and the post and beam construction is visible throughout the interior of the house.</p><br>
<p>Alterations in the house changed the traditional five-room first floor plan by eliminating the keeping rooms and the removal of the kitchen fireplace. The house was acquired by the State of Connecticut in 1938. The CCC shingled the exterior of the house, but it is uncertain if the "inappropriate porch" was an addition they made. The CCC is also believed to be the builders of the garage/workshop.</p><br>
<h2>Owners</h2><br>
<p>The owners of the house are also unknown, but two records do exist. The 1854 Baker map of New London, listed owner of the house was Captain J. Avery. An 1868 map lists a H. Bennett in residence. After the rehabilitation of the property, the Avery House became the Hopeville Park manager&#39;s residence.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>The Avery House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. According to the nomination form and the multiple property submission sheet, the house is historically significant as an example of a well-preserved house that does not have its historical integrity degraded by alterations. McMahon writes that "he interior paneling is the finest in any 18th-century house owned by DEP (Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection)." Originally, the house was set to have the surrounding 400 ft as part of its designation, but this was later changed to 300 ft because it would not impact the historic setting.</p><br>
<p>Mount Faloria is a mountain in the Alps of northern Italy, located in the Dolomites near Cortina dAmpezzo. It has an altitude of 2,123 m and lies in close proximity to Sorapiss. It hosted the mens giant slalom event of the 1956 Winter Olympics, won by Toni Sailer of Austria, the first of three wins in his gold medal sweep.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>A cable car, which runs from Cortina through thickly wooded territory and grass land, reaches a station at the mountain. The site is also approached by a four-seat chairlift from the Rio Gere on the Pian de ra Bigontina-Costa Faloria line. At this location there are ski slopes which run for a total length of 10 km, a snow park, a slow-ski piste, and two refuges and ski bars. From the terrace of the bar at Faloria station, there are views of the mountain and other peaks to the north.</p><br>
<p>A bar and restaurant existed on top of the mountain as early as 1939, and in 1941, plans for Rifugio Edda Ciano Mussolini were approved. It was built on the initiative of the Funivie Aeree Italiane Turistiche (FAIT) di Cortina d’Ampezzo. The building is situated close to the upper station of the cable car. After World War II, the structure was renamed Rifugio Faloria.</p><br>
<p>Trekkers can take easy trails along the slopes from the Mount to reach the valley. However, treks to Lake Sorapis need some effort. The lake, which is set in the midst of vertical rock cliffs, has white sand on its shores and the lake water is emerald in colour.</p><br>
<p>Michelangelo Antonioni directed a documentary film in 1950 titled La Funivia Del Faloria (The Funicular of Mount Faloria) on the cable car between Mount and the Cortina d&#39;Ampezzo, which has a run time of 10 minutes.</p><br>
<p>Trinity Episcopal Church is parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa. The church is located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States, at 320 E. College Street. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Trinity Church traces its roots to the missionary activities of the Rt. Rev. Jackson Kemper, Missionary Bishop of the Northwest, who first visited the area on July 10, 1841. He continued his visits until the parish was formed on August 7, 1853. The first rector of the church, the Rev. Willis H. Barris, came to Trinity on October 15, 1855. The parish had no regular meeting place until 1862 when it purchased the Athenaeum. That building was used for church purposes until the present church was completed on October 1, 1871. The Athenaeum building was later sold to St. Patrick’s Catholic Church when it was established in 1873.</p><br>
<p>The present church building was built on property purchased from Samuel and Sarah Ballard in 1868. The design for the church is attributed to Richard Upjohn, but there is some evidence that it resembles a drawing by Bishop Randall of Colorado that was published in The Spirit of Missions in May 1867. The church is a wood structure in the Gothic Revival style. While the sanctuary remains similar to the day it was built, additions for educational facilities and a parish hall have been added over the years.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church is a parish church in the Diocese of Iowa. The church is located in Durant, Iowa, United States. The parish was founded in 1856. The church building and parish hall have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1985.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Rt. Rev. Henry Washington Lee, the first bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa, led the first services in Durant in the Rock Island Railroad depot in 1856. Freight boxes containing champagne were used for the pulpit, altar, and pews. A meeting was held after the service to organize the parish. The name St. Paul was chosen because many of the members had belonged to St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church in New Haven, Connecticut before moving to Iowa. The church in Connecticut contributed $75 that began the building fund for the church.</p><br>
<p>Thomas C. Durant, the town&#39;s founder, donated land for the first church. It was located on the north side of town and was dedicated by Bishop Lee in October 1856. That same year a "seminary" for girls, or junior/senior high school, was established. In the early 1870s the</p><br>
<p>seminary curriculum was expanded to include boys and a library was built. The co-educational boarding and day school was renamed</p><br>
<p>the Boardman School, after its primary benefactor. The school continued into the 1890s when Durant&#39;s public high school was established.</p><br>
<p>By 1895 the congregation had outgrown its first building. On May 28 the original church was sold and the present building was purchased from the Congregationalists, who had built it in 1856. The bell, stained glass windows and the furniture from the old church were moved to the new church. The sanctuary was added in 1895 to accommodate Episcopal worship. The parish hall was constructed next to the church by members of the congregation in 1895. It has served as Sunday School building, vicar&#39;s office, town library, and town community center.</p><br>
<p>St. Pauls was unable to hold regular worship services from 1925 to 1944. In June 1944 the clergy and lay leaders from Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Davenport restarted services. The Rev. Vine Victor Deloria, first priest of Native American heritage to serve in the Diocese of Iowa, was vicar at St. Pauls from 1959-1960 after which he left the diocese. He had previously served as priest-in-charge at Trinity in Denison, Trinity Memorial in Mapleton and St. John&#39;s in Vail.</p><br>
<p>An undercroft was added to the church in 1950. The "gingerbread gothic" steeple and belfry were restored in 1979. In 1981, the pipe organ from Trinity Cathedral was rebuilt and moved to Saint Pauls. It was later replaced for $6,000 in 1985 by the Kilgen organ, which had been built about 1879. St. Pauls achieved parish status in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Lynx Prairie is a 52 acre nature preserve located in Adams County, Ohio, United States, near the community of Lynx. The preserve features a group of cedar glades which harbor rare prairie species, surrounded by forests on all sides.</p><br>
<p>The prairie species are a remnant of a rare ecosystem, which has found refuge on the dry, rocky openings in this part of the state. These grassland openings were probably created by the extinct Megafauna that were once found in the area, although Native American fires may have also played a role in maintaining this landscape. Today, controlled burns are used at Lynx Prairie to keep woody species at bay.</p><br>
<p>Many rare plants are found at Lynx Prairie such as American bluehearts (Buchnera americana), rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium), crested coralroot (Hexalectris spicata), gladecress (Leavenworthia uniflora), scaly blazing star (Liatris squarrosa), and Texas rock sandwort (Minuartia michauxii var. texana).</p><br>
<p>The southern shrub rusty blackhaw (Viburnum rufidulum) is found in the woods surrounding the prairie. It is approaching the northern limit of its range here and is considered rare in Ohio.</p><br>
<p>Lynx Prairie is owned by The Nature Conservancy and features 1.5 mi of trail loops. Parking for the preserve is at East Liberty Church and the trail head is marked at the southeast corner of the cemetery.</p><br>
<p>The Waits Mansion is an historic two-story Mediterranean Revival style house located at 209 West Kansas Avenue at the northeast corner of Tracy Street in Bonifay, Holmes County, Florida. It was built by lumber company owner George Orkney Waits in the 1920s for his own use. It features recessed porches on each of the front floors with fluted Doric columns on the first floor porch. White wrought iron fencing is used on both porches as well as along the two bordering streets. The interior features a grand staircase from the large entrance foyer to a windowed landing with smaller stairways on the left and right leading to the second floor. Until recently, it was used as a bed and breakfast, but it is currently being offered for sale.</p><br>
<p>In 1989, the mansion was listed by its street address in A Guide to Florida&#39;s Historic Architecture, published by the University of Florida Press.</p><br>
<p>Dianne Smith asked me to give what history of the Waits House that I know. My interest in the home stems from the fact that my husband’s father came to Bonifay after being discharged from the USA Army following World War I to work with his brother-in-law, Billy Whaley, who was the contractor for the Waits House. Here, Ed Tison met Pearl Meeker, the postmistress and former teacher who had grown up in Bonifay; they married and he made this his home as well. I understand that their first home was the little two-story house that sat on the corner just east and south of the Waits house which FBC had removed last year. In order to set the stage, you must already know that this area of the country is considered a pioneer area because of its late development. It wasn’t until the mid 1800s that this area was developed. The virgin pine forests brought the turpentine industry, followed by the coming of the railroad. The Industrial revolution brought about a need for lumber.</p><br>
<p>Mr. George Orkney Waits, the builder of the Waits Mansion, as it has come to be known, as a young boy began working in lumber operations around Macon Georgia. A hard worker and a quick learner, he soon rose to top management. After his marriage to Harriet Pamela McIntosh of Dadeville, Al, he managed a sawmill operation in Cordele, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>In 1905, he formed a partnership with James D Henderson of Sanford Ala. He and Harriet first built a beautiful home in Andalusia Al. The company purchased the mill in Caryville and in 1914, George Orkney began management of that mill calling it Henderson Waits Lumber Company.</p><br>
<p>Because of the mosquitos associated with its nearness to the river and its swamps, George chose to build his wife, whose health was delicate, a home in Bonifay. The land was purchased from M.E. and Meridien Johnson in 1919 which is the same year Mr. Tison came to Bonifay. The architect for the house was a Mr. Ausfeldt of Montgomery, Al and the contractor was William Whaley of Opp, Al.(Jack’s uncle Billy)</p><br>
<p>George and Harriet lived in the house for only a short time before moving to Bagdad, Florida where the company had a much larger operation than at Caryville. The Caryville mill was sold to Brown Florida company. She died there not long after their move and he also died in Bagdad, Fl</p><br>
<p>James C. Waits, the oldest son of George and Harriet owned and managed a mill in Warsaw, Ga, but due to a fire, most of that mill was destroyed. He and his wife bought the Waits House from the **Henderson Waits Lumber Company and moved to Bonifay about 1936.**</p><br>
<p>They had it completely restored and Maude brought many beautiful azaleas and camellias and other shrubs for landscaping. In 1931, Mrs. Waits sister died leaving a 2 year old child,Edward Shaver, Jr. Childless, Jim and Maude Waits couple took him into their home and raised him as their child.</p><br>
<p>Here in Bonifay, he was known as Sonny Waits. He finished public school here, went to FSU; after an illustrious military career he entered and graduated from Tulane University School of Medicine. Then he went to Harvard Medical School in Boston Ma. for Surgical training. He died last year in Charlotte N.C. after a successful Head and Neck Surgery specialty there.</p><br>
<p>Mr. and Mrs. Waits were very active in the community. He owned farmland and raised cattle. He along with Mr. J.C. McGee started McGee Oil Company, a successful oil distribution business. The Waits were active in community and school affairs, the Business Men’s Club, Boy Scout troops, and their special interest, First Baptist Church where he served as a deacon, SS. Director, and other places of leadership. Until recent years, FBC has had a Maude Waits Sunday School Class. She enjoyed entertaining in her gracious home.</p><br>
<p>The community was shocked in 1948 when Mr. James C. Waits died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.( point out the copy of the obituary from Blackburn Funeral Home and the Newspaper article.)</p><br>
<p>Prior to his death, the house had been converted into apartments and many young couples made their home there. Some that I can recall are my Aunt and Uncle Lela and Edward Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Barker, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Whitehead and many others. At the time of Mrs. Waits’ death in 1956, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hall, Deena and Robert lived there.</p><br>
<p>Because of Sonny’s choice of medical specialty, living in a metropolitan area was a necessity so he sold the house to the Halls and they lived there and managed the rentals for a number of years. After that time, several people have bought it. Jennifer Rich’s grandmother, Dorothy Garver, bought it about 1976 and restored it to a one-family residence. But she only lived there a short time.</p><br>
<p>The most recent owner was Frank Barone who along with Jill Hardy Eichman operated it as a place for lodging and party or wedding venues. Mr. Sidney Waits a grandson of the builder of the house, George Orkney & Harriet, lives in Andalusia, Al and has pleasant memories of visiting in the Waits home. He is very involved in historical preservation in Andalusia and has been very concerned about the rescue and restoration of the house here. He is in his 90’s now, but he sent a person here to inspect the house last year.</p><br>
<p>Son Chance was a good friend of Sonny Waits and has recollections of their playing at the house. He also recalled how Mr. Waits took an interest in Sonny’s education and quizzed them at the table on school subjects. Son, not a serious scholar, was embarrassed because he hadn’t studied the lesson Mr. Waits was quizzing him on. I am pleased to tell you that Don Smith who grew up in The Bethlehem community and graduated from High school there, one of my husband’s former students, has purchased the home. Restoration work has already begun including replacement of the basement sump pump and three heating and cooling units. I didn’t learn what their plans for the house are. I invited his wife Rita to come with me tonight, but she is experiencing a bout with a bug and had to decline.</p><br>
<p>Much of the information in this is from the article that I was able to get from Sonny for the HERITAGE OF HOLMES COUNTY which we published in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Mr Sidney Waits indicated to me that Jim Waits came to Bonifay because Brown Florida Company had defaulted on their loan, and the younger Mr. Waits came to Bonifay to close out the mill in Caryville.</p><br>
<p>The Bridge School is a former educational facility in rural Raisinville Township in Monroe County, Michigan. The building is located at 96 Ida-Maybee Road just north of M-50 on the formerly designated M-130 near the River Raisin. The Bridge School is recognized as the first public school in Michigan when it was founded in 1828. It was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site on December 17, 1982. As of 2010, it serves as the township hall and seat of government for Raisinville Township.</p><br>
<p>In 1828, the earliest settlers in the area organized a public school district to provide a basic education for their children. The new district would receive funding from the government of the Michigan Territory and is recognized as the first district of its kind in the territory that later became the state of Michigan in 1837. In the same year as its founding, the district built a small log schoolhouse, and the districts name came from the nearby Bruckner Bridge that had just been constructed over the River Raisin. A larger school, constructed from walnut trees, replaced the log structure in 1832. The present brick building was constructed in its place in 1868 and received an addition in 1910. On June 23, 1928, the school dedicated an obelisk in front of the building to commemorate the districts centennial.</p><br>
<p>The Bridge School served as the area&#39;s only public school district from 1828–1950. The building ceased operation in 1950 when the district was consolidated with the newly established Dundee Community Schools in nearby Dundee Township. Shortly after in 1957, the board of education for Dundee Community Schools donated the unused building to the Monroe County Historical Society. Since 1982, the building has served as the township hall for Raisinville Township.</p><br>
<p>The Worland House was built in 1917 in Worland, Wyoming for local businessman Charlie Worland and his wife Sadie. Worland was the son of C.H. "Dad" Worland, the founder of the town of Worland, and was a noted local entrepreneur.</p><br>
<p>The house is a good example of the Bungalow style popular at the time. It was designed and built by local contractor H.C. Shirk. The house retains its architectural integrity and is the best example of its style in Worland. The house sits on a raised concrete block basement, fronted by a large porch, now enclosed. The entrance is offset from the center, under deep overhangs and a gable detailed with flat trim. The house extends deep into the lot, deeper than it is wide, with projecting small bays on either side and a rear enclosed porch addition. The interior retains its original detailing with stained oak trim and furnishings, including bookcases with leaded glass doors, flanked by Ionic columns as room dividers. Much of the kitchen is original.</p><br>
<p>The Worlands entertained extensively, holding dances in the basement for local young people. They sold the house in 1925 to G.C. Muirhead, the president of the Stockgrowers State Bank. The Muirhead family lived there until 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Worland House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Big Pasture Plateau  is a karstified mountain plateau in the Kamnik–Savinja Alps northeast of Kamnik, Slovenia. It measures 5.8 km&sup2; and has an average elevation of 1,500 m above sea level. Its highest point is Mount Gradišče, at 1,666 m. There are numerous herders&#39; dwellings that comprise several settlement areas: Velika Planina &#39;Big Pasture&#39;, Mala Planina &#39;Little Pasture&#39;, Gojška Planina &#39;Gozd Pasture&#39; , Tiha Dolina &#39;Quiet Valley&#39;, and others. The Big Pasture Plateau is a tourist destination both in winter as a ski resort and in summer as a place for relaxation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There is evidence that man has been present on Big Pasture Plateau since prehistoric times. In Medieval times the plateau was used for pasturing. The oldest huts, which date from the 16th century, are nearly identical to the present Preskar Hut (Preskarjeva bajta). The hut is oval, covered from roof to ground with shingles, without windows, doors, or a chimney.</p><br>
<p>In the winter of 1931–1932 a new form of tourism began, known as bajtarstvo, which involved renting the huts in the winter when there was no pasturing. During the Second World War, German forces and the Slovene Home Guard burned all of the huts to the ground. The chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Snows, built in 1938 by the Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik, was also burned, but it was rebuilt in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>Starting points</h2><br>
<p>With cable car from the Kamnik Bistrica Valley</p><br>
<p>From the Volovljek Pass (by car)</p><br>
<p>3h: from Stahovica via Saint Primus&#39; Church above Kamnik</p><br>
<p>5h: from the Kamnik Bistrica Valley and Kopišč via Dol</p><br>
<p>4h: from the Kocbek Lodge at Korošica</p><br>
<p>4½h: from Luče via the Volovljek Pass</p><br>
<h2>Ski resort</h2><br>
<p>There is a small ski resort with a cable car, one two-seat chairlift, and six surface lifts. The length of tracks is 6 km. For environmental reasons, artificial snow cannot be produced.</p><br>
<h2>Mountain lodges</h2><br>
<p>Črnuče Lodge at Little Pasture (Črnuški dom na Mali planini, 1526 m)</p><br>
<p>Domžale Lodge at Little Pasture (Domžalski dom na Mali planini, 1534 m)</p><br>
<p>Jarše Lodge at Little Pasture (Jarški dom na Mali Planini, 1520 m)</p><br>
<p>All Saints Catholic Church is a parish church building in the Diocese of Des Moines. The building is located in Stuart, Iowa, United States. The parish used the building as its church until a devastating fire severely damaged the structure. The church was rebuilt and it now serves as a cultural center called the Historic All Saints/Saints Center for Culture and the Arts. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a rare example of Neo-Byzantine architecture in the state of Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Development</h3><br>
<p>The Catholic Church in Stuart traces its beginnings to August 1871 when a Father Moniahan from Des Moines came to town for the first time to celebrate Mass. He would come at irregular intervals and Mass was celebrated in school rooms, Shield’s Hall, and in private homes. At this time the whole state of Iowa was part of the Diocese of Dubuque.</p><br>
<p>The first church was built in 1874 under the direction of the Rev. Edward Gaul. It was dedicated by the Very Rev. J.F. Brazil from St. Ambrose in Des Moines on the Feast of All Saints, November 1, 1877. The Rev. James Foley was pastor at the time and he built two additions onto the church as well as the rectory during his 24 years at All Saints. During that time he was also responsible for parishes in Casey, Adair, Guthrie Center and Greenfield. The parish became a part of the Diocese of Davenport when it was established in 1881.</p><br>
<h3>Historic Church</h3><br>
<p>On October 12, 1902 the Rev. M.S. McNamara became pastor. It was during his pastorate that plans for a new church were developed and executed. Maginnis and Walsh were responsible for designing the church. The cornerstone was laid in September 1908 and it was completed in 1910. It was built of blue Bedford limestone in a combination of Byzantine Revival and Romanesque Revival styles. The building measures 70 ft wide, 120 ft long and 110 ft high. It has a seating capacity of 600. The interior is under an 90 ft high dome that contains 16 windows. The dome was covered in copper. The church was decorated with Italian marble, rare woods, hand painted frescos, gold gilding, and statuary. The windows were from the Franz Mayer & Co. of Munich, Germany. The church was built for $65,000.</p><br>
<p>Bishop James Davis of Davenport dedicated the church at a Pontifical High Mass. Bishop James J. Keane of Cheyenne, Wyoming preached the sermon. The following year the parish became part of the Diocese of Des Moines when it was established in 1911 on the same day that Bishop Keane was named Archbishop of Dubuque.</p><br>
<h3>Destructive Fire and the Aftermath</h3><br>
<p>On August 22, 1995 Charles Willard of Des Moines drove to Stuart and poured gasoline in various places in the church and set it on fire. Fire departments from 20 area communities in a 50 mi radius of Stuart fought the fire. While the exterior walls remained standing the rest of the building lay in ruins. A small chapel in the back suffered minor damage. Willard had mailed letters to two bishops and a Des Moines television station before he set the fire taking responsibility based on his hatred of the Catholic Church. He even held a news conference before his arrest. He was convicted of arson and a hate crime.</p><br>
<p>The parish, under the leadership of the Rev. Dan Clarke, and the diocese decided that to rebuild the church would be too expensive. Instead they decided to build a new facility on 95 acre of land purchased from the Bill and Marlene Wilson family for $475,000. The new church, designed by the Renaissance Design Group of Omaha, has seating for 400 people and a parking lot for 175 cars. The cost for the new church was $2.5 million. Bishop Joseph Charron, C.Pp.S. laid the cornerstone for the new church on August 31, 1997.</p><br>
<p>In September 1997 the damaged historic church building and property were sold to a group named the Project Restore Foundation for $7,200. They had hoped to rehabilitate the building in three years for a community cultural center at an estimated cost of around $3.5 million. The architects for the restoration project were Kirk Blunck and Jeff Wagner of HLKB in Des Moines and construction was done by Koester in Grimes. Plans called for the exterior of the old church to look similar to the way it looked before the fire, The interior would have a modern appearance with exposed stone and brick on the walls. The dome would be rebuilt with the original stone, which had been numbered and saved. The original copper on the dome melted so it was replaced with new copper sheeting.</p><br>
<p>Several grants helped with the restoration effort. In 2000 the State Historical Society of Iowa Board of Trustees approved a grant for $60,000 towards the project. In 2007 Project Restore received a $545,000 grant from Vision Iowa, a state program that provides money for major tourism attractions. That same year 63% of the citizens of Stuart voted to accept a $1.7 million bond referendum to rebuild the church. Another $232,000 (as of 2007) in private donations was also raised,</p><br>
<p>A small chapel on the west side of the church and the former sacristy was the first part of the project that was finished in 2002-2003. A group of Serbian Orthodox Christians started using the chapel for a monthly liturgy in 2005. The new dome was lifted into place in October 2008. Work on the interior continued after that and was completed in 2010.</p><br>
<p>The Nicholas Eckis House is a historic house in East Fairfield, Ohio, United States. Located along the community&#39;s High Street,</p><br>
<p>Founded in 1803, East Fairfield is the oldest community in Fairfield Township. Most of the earliest buildings have been destroyed long ago; no more than four remain to the present time, and three of them have been heavily modified. Only the Nicholas Eckis House, built in 1833, remains with few changes. Its symmetrical floor plan is characteristic of early Ohio architecture, with features such as chimneys on each end, a curved water table, and detailed cornices. Also typical of the period is its simple facade, built of brick and covered with an asphalt roof.</p><br>
<p>Little is known about Nicholas Eckis himself; he is believed to have been a leading member of the mercantile community in northern Columbiana County during the 1820s and 1830s, but few other details of his life have survived, except for his house. As the oldest house in East Fairfield never to have been significantly modified, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Pennsylvania House is a historic inn and tavern in western Springfield, Ohio, United States. Built circa 1822,</p><br>
<p>In the early years of the nineteenth century, the National and Dayton-Springfield Roads were major transportation arteries for those bound for the West and for Cincinnati respectively. Inns such as the Pennsylvania House were instrumental in facilitating travel for the many would-be settlers and merchants headed for the western frontier and for all sorts of travellers proceeding southwest. Before the coming of the railroads, the Pennsylvania House provided beds and food for commoners and famous individuals alike. According to local lore, among the inns guests were such individuals as Henry Clay, Charles Dickens, Andrew Jackson, and James K. Polk. The inns owners typically lived on the premises; among the various owners were the family of Isaac Kaufmann Funk, founder of Funk and Wagnalls.</p><br>
<p>After more than twenty years of prosperity, the inns traffic shrank after railroads reached Springfield in 1846. By the end of the Civil War, travellers on the National Road were so rare that the Pennsylvania House saw very little traffic indeed, and it closed in 1869. Despite its closure, the building has remained in fine condition for well over one hundred years; architectural elements such as the double-hung windows and the ornate six-panel doors have survived with little damage. In recognition of the inns place in American history and of its well-preserved historic architecture, the Pennsylvania House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Today, the Pennsylvania House is operated as a history museum with a concentration on the National Road.</p><br>
<p>St. Thomas Episcopal Church is a parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of Iowa. The church is located in Sioux City, Iowa, United States, at 1200 Douglas Street. The church building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Episcopalian Church service in Sioux City was conducted by a missionary from Council Bluffs, Iowa in 1857. St. Thomas Church was established two years later. A small frame church was built for the congregation on the corner of Nebraska and 7th Streets in 1860 for $1,550. By 1881 it became necessary to add onto the church, and a rectory was built at the same time. A pipe organ was purchased for the same price that the original church was built.</p><br>
<p>The cornerstone for the present church was laid in 1891. The church was designed in the Romanesque Revival style by John M. Poorbaugh. The building was completed the following year and cost about $80,000 to build. A new pipe organ was purchased in 1909 and the Weare Chapel was added at the same time.</p><br>
<p>In 1922 a fire from an overheated furnace caused extensive damage to the church. The building had to be rebuilt and a new organ was purchased. The church was redecorated again in 1951.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1960s, the Parish House was built and the parish acquired a new rectory. Weare Chapel was restored in 1980 under the direction of Howard Tervillian, who was Architect in Residence for the Washington National Cathedral, in Washington, D.C. Another renovation of the church occurred in 1982.</p><br>
