<p>The Migeon Avenue Historic District encompasses a group of elegant residential properties on a one-block stretch of Migeon Avenue in Torrington, Connecticut. Consisting of five properties and four contributing primary buildings, this area was home to some of Torrington&#39;s leading businessmen at the turn of the 20th century. The houses are of high architectural quality, and original landscaping was done by the Olmsted Brothers landscape design firm. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Migeon Avenue Historic District is located northwest of downtown Torrington. It consists of two properties on the east side of Migeon Avenue between Gleason and Forest Streets, one just north of Forest Street, and another two on the west side opposite Forest Road. The three properties on the east side are characterized by their landscaping and setback of the main building, except for the northernmost, where the original main house has been torn down and replaced by a modern assisted living facility. The two properties on the west side are on smaller lots and set closer to the road.</p><br>
<p>The largest of the properties, Laurelhurst, was first acquired and developed as his residence by Henry Migeon, an textile manufacturer. Migeon&#39;s son Achille had the present large Shingle-style house built in the late 1890s, and retained the Olmsted Brothers to landscape the property. Achille sold the parcel just north of Laurelhurst to Thomas Bryant, who built a Colonial Revival house and also hired the Olmsted Brothers to do landscaping. The Bryant house was demolished in 1966 to make way for the nursing home. The parcel south of Laurelhurst was sold by Achille to Luther Turner, who also built a large Shingle-style house. The two houses on the west side of Migeon Avenue are elegant Colonial Revival houses, built by Harlow Pease, a local builder, and Frank Travis, president of the local water and electric companies.</p><br>
<p>The Griffith Breese Farm is a historic farmstead in southern Allen County, Ohio, United States. Established in 1840, the farm is one of the oldest white settlements in a formerly Native American area of northwestern Ohio, and it has been designated a historic site because of its unusually good degree of preservation.</p><br>
<h2>Griffith Breese</h2><br>
<p>The son of John Breese, Griffith was a native of Wales who immigrated to the United States in 1798. He married a Pennsylvania native, Mary Mowen, who bore him a son George in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, before they moved to Ohio. Breese bought six sections of land in present-day Shawnee Township, on lands that had once been part of the Hog Creek Indian Reservation. Moving his family to Section 10 of the township in 1834, they found that their new home was a former apple orchard: eighty apple trees and seven cabins of the Shawnee former residents occupied the site. During their first winter, they lived in the reservations former council house, and Breese was elected to the first group of trustees of the Shawnee Township. By 1840, Breese had grown sufficiently prosperous that he was able to establish the present homestead. The first of the four Federal buildings on the property were erected in that year, and he bought additional land in northwestern Allen Countys Marion Township five years later. Breese continued to live on the farm until his death in 1848.</p><br>
<h2>Recent history</h2><br>
<p>Today, the Griffith Breese Farm is a major historic site in Shawnee Township. With the decline in Lima&#39;s economy, Shawnee Township has become a suburban area; small shopping malls and modern housing developments surround the farm, and no other pioneer homestead in the township has been so well preserved.</p><br>
<p>In recognition of its historic architecture, the Griffith Breese Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Four buildings, spread out over an area of 65 acre, qualified as contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>Mount Abantos  is a mountain in the Sierra de Guadarrama range in the Sistema Central of Spain, a chain that runs from east to west. For the most part, the mountain is located in the municipality of San Lorenzo de El Escorial in the Community of Madrid, with part of its west side in the province of Ávila.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is one of the most prominent mountains in the Sierra de Guadarrama. It has an altitude of 1,753 m. The northern slope of Abantos lies in the Cuelgamuros valley.</p><br>
<p>A small part of the wast side of the mountain lies in the province of Ávila (Castilla y León).</p><br>
<p>The mountain has a smooth contour, and almost all of its slope is covered by pine trees, some of them repopulated. On the wast side of Abantos is the port of Malagon, one of the toughest mountain stages of the Vuelta a España (Tour of Spain).</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>Mount Abantos takes its name from abanto, a name for various species of vultures such as the black vulture, the red buzzard, the griffon vulture or African vulture, which can sometimes be seen flying on the mountain. During the reign of King Philip II, the mountain was also known as Buen Monte del Oso (lit. Good Bear Mountain) because of the abundance of big game species. At the top of Abantos is a weather station and an yellow electromagnetic signal reflector panel.</p><br>
<h2>Natural Protection</h2><br>
<p>Abantos is protected by the Community of Madrid, through its inclusion in Paraje Pintoresco del Pinar de Abantos y Zona de La Herrería, a natural reserve.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the 16th century, King Philip II of Spain chose a site on the southern side of Abantos as the site of the Monastery of El Escorial. In the 18th century, the municipality of San Lorenzo de El Escorial was founded. San Lorenzo de El Escorial is now an urban community with a population of over 17,000. On the mountain&#39;s northern side is another monument of historical and artistic interest, Valle de los Caídos ("Valley of the Fallen"). This monument was erected at Cuelgamuros Valley in the 20th century. The monument was conceived by then-dictator Francisco Franco as a memorial to those who died during the Spanish Civil War.</p><br>
<p>On 21 August 1999, a forest fire began on the east side of Abantos, charring over 450 hectares of pine forest. The burned area has since been repopulated with pine trees.</p><br>
<p>The routes for many Vueltas a España have passed through Abantos, and the mountain has been the final stage for the race on numerous occasions</p><br>
<p>The Little Burro Mountains are a short 15 mi  long, mountain range located in Grant County, New Mexico. The range lies adjacent to the southeast border of the larger Big Burro Mountains. The Little Burro Mountains are located 8 mi southwest of Silver City. State Road 90 from Silver City skirts the southern perimeter of the range on its route to Lordsburg.</p><br>
<p>The Continental Divide of the Americas traverses the southern ridgeline of the Little Burro&#39;s and continues on its southwest flank.</p><br>
<h2>Description and region</h2><br>
<p>The Little Burro Mountains are only a 15 mi long range. It has a northwest by southeast ridgeline, and is attached to the Big Burro Mountains that trend in the same direction. The small valley between contains Mangas Valley Road which connects Oak Grove on State Road 90 with Mangas Springs which lies on the northeast perimeter of the Big Burro Mountains. Mangas Creek and its confluence with the lengthy Gila River that completely crosses Arizona is adjacent just northwest.</p><br>
<h3>Peaks</h3><br>
<p>The highest peak in the Little Burro Mountains is Eagle Peak, at 6,500 ft. It is located at 32.705632&deg;N latitude, 112.933236&deg;W longitude. Two other peaks are noted, in the north Wind Mountain, at 6,247 ft, and Bald Mountain in the mountains southeast, and on the continental divide, at 6,396 ft.</p><br>
<h3>Access</h3><br>
<p>The small range is surrounded by routes. Mangas Valley Road is on the southwest travelling to the northwest. The southeast has the entire length of State Road 90. The northeast and north has USA Route 180 the major route from Deming, north and northwest to Alpine, AZ; it connects to Mangas Springs north of the range.</p><br>
<h2>Continental Divide</h2><br>
<p>The Continental Divide starts to leave the forested mountain regions as it goes southwest from Silver City. It passes from the southern Little Burro Mountains, crosses the Big Burro&#39;s, then on a circuitous route after skirting the northeast of the Cedar Mountain Range, it passes across the water divide of the north Playas Valley, west of Hachita. It finally enters a series of north-south ranges, including the Animas Mountains, and travels south into northwest Chihuahua, Mexico.</p><br>
<p>The Playas Valley is a lengthy and narrow 60-mi  long, valley located in Hidalgo County, New Mexico in the Bootheel Region; the extreme south of the valley lies in Chihuahua. Playas, NM is located in the northeast. The valley is noteworthy for the Playas Lake,  in the north.</p><br>
<p>The Continental Divide of the Americas forms its western border in a series of three linear mountain ranges, and the divide forms the water divide as the northern border of the Playas Valley. The valley disappears southward into regions of the northwest Chihuahuan Desert of Chihuahua, Mexico. Regions of the desert extend northward to foothills of various mountain ranges, canyons, washes, or other landforms.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Playas Valley is linear, and north-south trending and surrounded by mountain ranges, except on the south, where the flatlands merge into the Chihuahuan Desert.</p><br>
<p>West</p><br>
<p>Pyramid Mountains</p><br>
<p>New Mexico State Road 9-Cont. Div.</p><br>
<p>Animas Mountains</p><br>
<p>San Luis Mountains (New Mexico)</p><br>
<p>&ndash</p><br>
<p>Southwest</p><br>
<p>East</p><br>
<p>New Mexico State Road 9-Cont. Div.</p><br>
<p>Little Hatchet Mountains</p><br>
<p>New Mexico State Road 81</p><br>
<p>Big Hatchet Mountains</p><br>
<p>Alamo Hueco Mountains</p><br>
<p>Dog Mountains</p><br>
<h3>Playas Lake and the valley</h3><br>
<p>Much of the drainage into Playas Valley does not end in a playa or dry lake. In the southern half to two thirds of the valley, the valley has mostly dry washes that do not reach the valley flatlands.</p><br>
<p>Playas Lake is a linear dry lake, about 10 mi long, and only 4 mi west of Playas, NM. An even smaller dry lake, about a tenth the size is just adjacent southwards. Both dry lakes are in the north, with the drainage coming from the continental divide as the perimeter of the valley, going north, then due west, then south as the southern ridgeline of the Pyramid Mountains. The divide makes up the southern region of the mountains, before it skirts lower peaks before reaching the north of the Animas Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Playas Lake as the lowest elevation of the north valley region is 4,281 ft in elevation. It is located at 31.8418&deg;N latitude, 108.5773&deg;W longitude.</p><br>
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<p>St. Roses Catholic Church  is a historic Catholic church in St. Rose, an unincorporated community in Marion Township, Mercer County, Ohio, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Parish history</h2><br>
<p>Catholics near the community of St. Rose began meeting for worship in 1837; they built a log church building in the following year, In 1844, these individuals were erected into a separate parish, which was dedicated to St. Rose. At that time, the parish encompassed a significantly larger area than it does today; five other parishes — Nativity in Cassella, St. Sebastian in Sebastian, Precious Blood in Chickasaw, St. Aloysius in Carthagena, and Our Lady of Guadalupe in Montezuma — were partially or entirely formed from territory originally included in St. Rose parish.</p><br>
<p>Mass was celebrated at the church sporadically for its first eight years; only in 1845, after several priests from the Congregation of the Precious Blood began serving St. Rose and several surrounding parishes, were the parishioners able to have regular services. By the 1850s, the log church building had become too small, so a replacement brick structure was constructed at a cost of $6,000 and consecrated in mid-1854. Measuring 42 ft by 75 ft, it was periodically modernized; by 1907, it featured such improvements as acetylene lighting. However, this structure in turn was becoming too small by this time; four years later, a third church building was begun, and it was consecrated in September 1912.</p><br>
<p>Today, St. Rose&#39;s remains an active parish of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. It is part of the Marion Catholic Community cluster, along with Precious Blood parish in Chickasaw, Nativity of the Blessed Virgin parish in Cassella, St. Sebastian parish in Sebastian, and St. John the Baptist parish in Maria Stein. The entire cluster is a part of the St. Marys Deanery.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The parish owns three buildings located adjacent to each other: the church, a rectory, and a former one-room school.</p><br>
<h3>Church</h3><br>
<p>St. Rose&#39;s Church is a High Gothic Revival structure, three bays wide on the front and five bays long on the sides. Built in the shape of a Latin cross, the church is a single-story brick building; it rests on a foundation of blue Bedford limestone with a basement and is covered with a gabled roof of asphalt. Among its leading architectural elements is its octagonal steeple, topped with a louvered belfry. The two corners of the facade feature tall, thin windows and are topped with miniature square towers. Inside, the sanctuary is decorated with multiple white reredos and many statues; the interior is illuminated by light from lancet windows, one of each which is found in each of the side bays. Throughout the building, the architectural elements include high pointed arches. A small cemetery sits behind the church.</p><br>
<p>Architectural historians have divided the Precious Blood-related churches of western Ohio into four generations. Constructed in 1912, St. Rose&#39;s is a member of the fourth generation, although it resembles many third-generation churches because of its Gothic Revival architecture that features a single central tower. It is one of three extant churches from the fourth generation that were designed by the DeCurtins family. Although the construction date of the previous church building places it in the middle of the first generation, it more closely resembled second-generation churches such as Holy Family in Frenchtown.</p><br>
<h3>Rectory</h3><br>
<p>Located adjacent to the church on the west is a three-story rectory. Built in 1905 at a cost of $6,000, it is a rectangular brick building that rests on an ashlar foundation; it is covered with a slate roof. Three bays wide on the front and four long on the sides, it features gables on the front and sides, a large verandah-style front porch, and two bay windows. Individuals enter the house through an ornate recessed front door, which is ornamented with details such as an elliptical fanlight with a keystone, a bevelled window, and recessed sidelights. Before the rectory&#39;s construction, St. Rose parish was served by priests who lived at the nearby Gruenwald and Maria Stein Convents.</p><br>
<h3>School</h3><br>
<p>Located adjacent to the church on the east is a single-story former parish school. Erected in 1892, it was the second school in St. Rose; it replaced a previous building that was destroyed circa 1900. Built as a one-room school, the building was modified in 1941 and converted into a two-room school. It operated until closure in 1957, due to the enactment of a law by the Ohio General Assembly requiring all school districts to provide a four-year high school education. Since that time, local students have attended the schools of the Marion Local School District.</p><br>
<p>After its closure, the old school was modified to be a parish hall and a recreation center.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 1977, St. Rose&#39;s Church, its rectory, and its school were studied by the Ohio Historic Inventory, a historic preservation program of the Ohio Historical Society. All three buildings were found to be in good condition without any threats to their continued survival. At that time, the church was deemed eligible for addition to the National Register of Historic Places, and all three buildings were added to the Register together in 1979. They were part of a group of more than thirty different Precious Blood-related churches and other religious properties listed on the Register at the same time, including at least one building owned by each of the Marion Catholic Community parishes. The tall Gothic Revival architecture of many churches in this part of far western Ohio has become the namesake of this region, which is nicknamed the "Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches."</p><br>
<p>Ghodaghodi Tal is a Ramsar site in western Nepal. Established in August 2003 it covers an area of 2,563 hectare in Kailali District at an altitude of 205 m on the</p><br>
<p>lower slopes of the Siwalik Hills. This Ramsar site consists of a system of around 13 large and shallow oxbow lakes and ponds with associated marshes and meadows. It is surrounded by tropical deciduous forest and some streams along the periphery, which are separated by hillocks.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<p>The lake has record of 388 vascular plants: five ptredophytes, 253 dicots, and 130 monocots.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>The forest and wetlands serve as a wildlife corridor between the Terai lowland and the Siwalik Hills. They support critically endangered and vulnerable species including Bengal tiger, smooth-coated otter, Eurasian otter, swamp deer, lesser adjutant stork, marsh crocodile, red-crowned roofed turtle and three-striped roofed turtle.</p><br>
<p>The Matthias Gast House is a historic building in Maria Stein, Ohio, United States. Built in the middle of the nineteenth century, it was the home of one of Mercer County&#39;s most prominent early citizens, and it has been designated a historic site because of its importance in local history.</p><br>
<h2>Gast</h2><br>
<p>A native of France, Matthias Gast was born in 1813 and immigrated to the United States in 1828. One of Marion Townships earliest settlers, he opened the communitys first shoe store in 1833 and soon began to expand his business into other nearby communities. As the years passed, Gast became prominent throughout Marion County, serving as one of its earliest county commissioners.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Gast House is a rectangular structure, five bays wide on the front and two bays wide on the sides. Both the foundation and the two-story walls are built of brick. Gast erected two structures around his house: a frame store to the west and a frame summer kitchen; before the store was built, he operated a store and hotel out of his house. In later years, younger members of the Gast family built a substantial addition to the rear of the house to accommodate increasing numbers of relatives. Among the later owners of the property was Martha Gast, who used the store as a room for storing hardware.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>In 1978, the Gast property — parts of which had been sold to other families — was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It qualified for inclusion on the Register for three different reasons: as the home of a leading member of local society, as a leading element of local history, and as a well-preserved example of historic architecture. The complex is one of three groups of buildings in Maria Stein that are listed on the Register, along with the Maria Stein Convent and St. John the Baptist Catholic Church.</p><br>
<p>The Bishazari Tal, also spelled Beeshazar Tal, is an extensive oxbow lake system in the buffer zone of the Chitwan National Park, a protected area in the Inner Terai of central Nepal. This wetland covers an area of 3,200 hectare at an altitude of 286 m, and is situated between the Mahabharat mountain range  to the north and the Siwalik range to the south. In August 2003, it has been designated as a Ramsar site.</p><br>
<p>The Nepali words bis बिस् (twenty), hajār हजार् (thousand) and tāl ताल् (lake) mean 20,000 lakes.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>The forested wetland provides excellent habitat as a waterhole and wildlife corridor for critically endangered and vulnerable species including Bengal tiger, sloth bear, smooth-coated otter, one-horned rhinoceros, white-rumped vulture, Pallas&#39;s fish-eagle, lesser adjutant stork, ferruginous duck, gharial and marsh crocodile.</p><br>
<p>The Jagdishpur Reservoir is a reservoir in Jahadi Village Development Committee, Kapilvastu District, Nepal. With a surface area of 225 hectare, it is the largest reservoir in the country and an important wetland site. It is situated at an altitude of 197 m. The maximum water depth varies between 2 m in the dry season and 7 m in the monsoon season.</p><br>
<p>The Jagdishpur Reservoir is listed on the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance, as defined by the Ramsar Convention.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Jagdishpur Reservoir was constructed in the early 1970s for irrigation purposes. It is fed by a canal from the nearby Banganga River, which drains the Chure Hills. The reservoir is surrounded by cultivated land and a few smaller lakes which serve as a buffer zone for bird movement. In 2003, the reservoir was declared a Ramsar site. Despite this, its birds and other fauna have not yet been studied in great detail.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>The silt and nutrients deposited in the reservoir favour the growth of reed beds, which provide shelter for several endangered species. The habitat of the reservoir and its surroundings is important for resident, wintering and migrating wetland birds, comprising 45 different bird species. The surrounding cultivated land also provides habitat for a large numbers of birds. Some of the notable species documented in the area include:</p><br>
<p>Asian openbill (Anastomus oscitans)</p><br>
<p>Black-shouldered kite (Elanus axillaris)</p><br>
<p>Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus), a globally threatened species</p><br>
<p>Greater spotted eagle (Clanga clanga), a globally threatened species</p><br>
<p>Indian spotted eagle (Clanga hastata), a globally threatened species</p><br>
<p>Lesser adjutant (Leptoptilos javanicus), a globally threatened species</p><br>
<p>Long-tailed shrike (Lanius schach tricolor)</p><br>
<p>Oriental darter (Anhinga melanogaster)</p><br>
<p>Pied kingfisher (Ceryle rudis)</p><br>
<p>Red-wattled lapwing (Vanellus indicus)</p><br>
<p>Ruddy kingfisher (Halcyon coromanda)</p><br>
<p>Sarus crane (Grus antigone), a globally threatened species</p><br>
<p>Slender-billed vulture (Gyps tenuirostris), a globally threatened species</p><br>
<p>Smooth-coated otter (Lutrogale perspicillata), a globally threatened species</p><br>
<p>White-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis), a globally threatened species</p><br>
<p>Woolly-necked stork (Ciconia episcopus), a globally threatened species</p><br>
<p>Also 18 species of fish, nine of herpetofauna and six mammalian species have been documented in and around the reservoir.</p><br>
<p>The Aiguille Noire de Peuterey  is a mountain of the Mont Blanc massif in Italy, forming part of the Peuterey ridge to the summit of Mont Blanc with its higher neighbour, the Aiguille Blanche de Peuterey.</p><br>
<p>The best-known route on the mountain is the south ridge (TD), first climbed by Karl Brendelet and Hermann Schaller, on 26 and 27 August 1930; it remains one of the great classic rock routes in the massif.</p><br>
<p>The first ascent of the complete Peuterey ridge including the Aiguille Noire de Peuterey (the Intégrale) was on 28–31 July 1934 by Adolf Göttner, Ludwig Schmaderer and Ferdinand Krobath. On 21 August 2010 23-year-old Chloé Graftiaux, a leading Belgian sport climber, fell to her death on the mountain.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>Concklin-Sneden House is located in Rockleigh, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built in 1796 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 10, 1983.</p><br>
<p>Built about 1796 by Jacob Concklin, Jr., a "wheelwright", the house is an example of Dutch Colonial architecture. Erected on the site of an earlier Conklin homestead, it stands on a 166 ½ acre farm purchased in 1748 by Jacob Conklin, Sr. Later owners, all descendants of Conklin&#39;s, were the Samuel Sneden and Samuel Beasley families who lived here until 1902. The house since has been enlarged and remodeled.</p><br>
<p>The dwelling is a spacious, rectangular, five-bay, 1½ story gambrel-roof sandstone structure. The architectural style is "Dutch Colonial" with a gambrel roof. The side and rear walls are the original. The exterior sandstone front wall was refaced circa 1961. A small one-story sandstone wing on the south side of the main structure houses the present-day kitchen. A similar sandstone wing on the north side has been converted into a garage.</p><br>
<p>The front door opens into a center hall which traverses the dwelling to a rear door. There were one or two rooms on each side of the center hall. The main floor includes living room, dining room and small rear chamber. The garret above is finished into four bedrooms and two baths. The house has its original floorboards. Above the eaves the gable ends are clapboard. The large open garret was divided into rooms. Later alterations include front dormers, additional windows on the front facade, exterior chimney, and a full-length rear shed dormer.</p><br>
<p>The cellar, fully excavated, was another large, open space and at each end were stone arches to support the weight of the fireplaces and chimneys above. Access to the cellar, for storage of crops, was by way of two outside hatchways (since removed) built into the front foundation.</p><br>
<p>The present south wing is a modern addition that partially stands over a previous smaller wing (possibly dating to circa 1750) of which only he cellar excavation remains. The original small wing may have served as the kitchen for the main house. This small wing also may have been the older original structure before the main house was built circa 1796.</p><br>
<p>Sited in an easterly direction on two acres of land on the west side of lower Rockleigh Road, the dwelling is in good condition.</p><br>
<p>In recent times, the facade was altered by placing three windows at each side of the entrance. In addition, the sandstone wall was refaced, probably "in situ", from the usual smooth dressed stone to what is now "rock-faced". Roof dormers were added as well as a rear addition which widened the original structure.</p><br>
<p>Stone House by the Stone House Brook, also known as Old Stone House, is located in South Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, United States. The house was built in 1773 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 22, 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built by Nathaniel Wheeler in 1773 on his 100 acre farm. The house was purchased by William Augustus Brewer Jr. in 1866. The farm was subdivided and transformed into housing developments. Brewer enlarged the house and turned it into a Queen Ann shingle-style mansion. Brewer named the house Aldworth. In 1915, the house was sold to Dr. George C. Albee. The house was sold to the village of South Orange in 1953 and was briefly used as offices for the school district.</p><br>
<p>The Angelo River is a river in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>The river rises in the hills to the western side of the Ophthalmia Range and flows in a southerly direction before veering east near Kundering Range and past the Angelo River Mine and Angelo River prospect, a Uranium deposit then finally discharging into the Ashburton River of which it is a tributary.</p><br>
<p>The river has six tributaries including; Indabiddy Creek, Bukardi Creek and Kennedy Creek.</p><br>
<p>The river was named in 1887 by Robert McPhee, who was prospecting the area at the time. He named the river after Colonel Fox Angelo who was the government resident in Roebourne and later became the Superintendent of Rottnest Island.</p><br>
<p>Indigenous Australians, the Ngarlawongga and Banjima peoples, have dreamtime songs involving the origin of the black river goanna which is believed to have been created in the river. Likewise the black-headed python is believed to have been created in Indabiddy creek.</p><br>
<p>Bobs Lake is a lake in the James Bay and Abitibi River drainage basins in the city of Timmins, Cochrane District in northeastern Ontario, Canada.</p><br>
<p>The lake is about 1,500 m long and 370 m wide, lies at an elevation of 281 m, and is located in the community of Porcupine on Ontario Highway 101. The primary inflow is an unnamed creek at the northeast, and the primary outflow is Bob&#39;s Creek at the southwest, which flows to Porcupine Lake and via the Porcupine River and the Frederick House River to the Abitibi River.</p><br>
<p>A second Bobs Lake in Cochrane District, with a similarly named primary outflow Bobs Creek, and which is also in the Abitibi River drainage basin, is Bobs Lake (Shallow River) (without the apostrophe) and is located 63 km to the northeast.</p><br>
<p>Tupižnica  is a mountain in eastern Serbia, between towns of Boljevac, Zaječar and Knjaževac. Its highest peaks, Bučanski kamen and Glogovački vrh have an elevation of 1,160 m and 1,162 m.</p><br>
<p>Tupižnica is prominent, surrounded by valleys. It mostly consists of a large karst plateau. It is remote and uninhabited, especially its vast forested northern parts, towards villages of Gornja Bela Reka and Lenovac in Zaječar municipality. Even the traditional activities of nomadic sheep-breeding and hunting have died out in the last decades.</p><br>
<p>There is a communication tower at the ridge of the southern peak of Bučanski kamen, overlooking the village of Bučje.</p><br>
<p>Like nearby Rtanj, Tupižnica is noted for its numerous Lilac trees.</p><br>
<p>Balla Balla River is a river in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>The river rises on the southern side of Yirrakulanna Hills and flows in a north-easterly direction crossing the North West Coastal Highway near the Stranger mine at Whim Creek then finally discharging into Balla Balla harbour, near Depuch Island in the Indian Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The river is ephemeral and can be completely dry in the summer months, but during periodic flood events the water level can rise over 5.5 m. The riparian vegetation is dominated by River Red Gums.</p><br>
<p>The river has three tributaries including; Whim Creek, Louden Creek and Caporn Creek.</p><br>
<p>The river name was recorded in 1878 by John Forrest, who was surveying the area at the time. The name is believed to be aboriginal in origin and is thought to come from the Kanyarra word Parla which means mud.</p><br>
<p>The traditional owners of the area are the Ngarluma peoples, who inhabited the region around the Balla Balla, the Maitland and the Sherlock Rivers.</p><br>
<p>The area to the west of the river contains potentially economic deposits of magnetite.</p><br>
<p>The town of Balla Balla, gazetted in 1898, was once located near the river mouth. It acted as a port for the Whim Creek Copper Mine.</p><br>
<p>The Indira Col  is a col  on the Indira Ridge in the Siachen Muztagh in the Karakoram Range. It is within 3 km of Sia Kangri to the west, the summit of which is the tripoint where territories controlled by India, Pakistan and China meet.</p><br>
<p>The col is a saddle between the Siachen Glacier to the south and the Urdok Glacier to the north, on the watershed between the Indus River basin and the Tarim Basin. It is too steep to easily descend north from the col to the Urdok Glacier.</p><br>
<p>The term Indira Col has also been applied to another, higher col 2.4 km further east on the Indira Ridge at (altitude 5,988 m), from which it is possible to descend to the north. This eastern col was named Indira Col in 1912 by Bullock Workman, after one of the names of the goddess Lakshmi.</p><br>
<p>Colonel Narendra "Bull" Kumar reached Indira Col (the western col) in 1981. In 1998 Harish Kapadia reached the same col; on his map and text he refers to it as the "main Indira Col" and "Indira Col West", whereas he refers to the col 2.4 km to the east as "Indira Col East (Workman)."</p><br>
<p>The Indira Col is 2 km east of the point (about a km southeast of the peak of Sia Kangri) where the Actual Ground Position Line between Indian and Pakistani forces meets the border with China. Territories on all sides are disputed. The land immediately to the south of the col is claimed by both Pakistan and India and is controlled by India. The land to the north of Indira Col is part of the Trans Karakoram Tract, controlled by China under a 1963 border agreement with Pakistan but claimed by India.</p><br>
<p>The Wyandotte Odd Fellows Temple is a community building located at 81 Chestnut Street in Wyandotte, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Wyandotte&#39;s Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Lodge 172 was established in 1871 by men employed at the Eureka Iron and Steel Works. In 1893, IOOF Lodge 172 purchased the "Old Brown School," an 1856 school building that was once located at this site, to hold meetings. However, by 1910, the IOOF membership had outgrown the school building and the school was moved. Construction on the current building began in 1911. Financing issues caused the construction to be done in phases; the basement and first floor were built in 1911-1912 and the building opened for use. Over the next eight years, membership in the Wyandotte IOOF grew steadily (from 240 in 1912 to 780 in 1920), and in 1921 the upper stories of the building, containing an auditorium, were constructed.</p><br>
<p>The Wyandotte Odd Fellows used the building until 1938, when financial difficulties caused foreclosure on the building. It was leased by the state of Michigan for a few years, but in 1942 the Wyandotte Masons purchased the building. The Masons moved in in 1943, and in 1948 extensively renovated the building. The Masons used the building until 2005, when the local Masons merged with another chapter. In 2008 the city of Wyandotte purchased the building to preserve the structure.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Wyandotte Odd Fellows Temple is a rectangular three-story Commercial Style brick building with Neoclassical and Renaissance stylistic elements, measurinf approximately 50 feet by 120 feet. The main facade is built of dark red brick, with a limestone stringcourse, cornice, and parapet. The raised front entrance, reached by a split staircase, is surrounded by decorative detailing. On the first floor, two groups of three windows flank the entrance. On the second and third floors, there are single groups of three windows in the center above the entryway, and groups of two windows to each side. A low gable tops the facade.</p><br>
<p>On the interior, the entryway leads to a foyer with grand staircase. In addition to the foyer, the first floor contains administrative office, ticket office space, ladies and men&#39;s restrooms, anteroom, check room and lodge rooms, in the same configuration as originally constructed. The foyer and administrative office contain original, unpainted wood trim and doors. The second floor houses a large auditorium with balconies along three sides and a stage on the fourth. The stage opening was walled up in 1948. The auditorium features extensive ornate plastering, and stairs leading up to the balcony level. Behind the stage are a number of dressing and storage rooms. The basement was originally a fellowship space, and contains a cafeteria, a kitchen, billiard room, and other recreational spaces, as well as bathrooms and spaces for mechanicals.</p><br>
<p>Fort Bonneville was a fortified winter camp and fur trading post near present-day Pinedale, Wyoming established in 1832 by Captain Benjamin Bonneville. Bonnevilles party was engaged in the exploration of Wyoming, crossing the South Pass with 110 men and about 20 wagons. Bonneville completed the stockade on the Green River on August 9, 1832. Heavy fall snows caused Bonneville to reconsider the site, and the party abandoned it, leading the place to become known as Bonnevilles Folly or Fort Nonsense. Bonneville moved on to the Salmon River in Idaho for the winter. The Green River site functioned as a rendezvous until the party returned east in 1835.</p><br>
<p>No structure remains at the site, which is marked by an inscribed boulder placed by the Daughters of the American Revolution. The stockade was described as 100 ft square palisade of 12 in cottonwood logs, 15 ft high with blockhouses on opposite diagonal corners.</p><br>
<p>The site was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<p>The Behn River or Behm River is a river in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>The river rises on the Northern Territory and Western Australia border. The river then flows in a north-easterly direction through Behn Gorge and discharges into Lake Argyle. The tributary with the Ord River was the site of the original Argyle Downs homestead. Both the original tributary and the Argyle homestead site are now under the waters of Lake Argyle.</p><br>
<p>The river has one major tributary; Bell Creek.</p><br>
<p>The river was named on 7 August 1879 by the first European to discover it, Alexander Forrest, who was exploring the area at the time. Forrest&#39;s journal on 7 August 1879 records.</p><br>
<p>This river I called the Behn after Dr. Behn of Gotha,-successor to Petermann, and who co-operated with that gentleman for many years in his researches towards the advancement of Australian scientific geography.</p><br>
<p>It was later determined that the river was really named after Dr Ernst Behm, the renowned German geographer. The name on maps produced after 1996 have been corrected.</p><br>
<p>Although maps have been corrected it is still known locally in the Kimberley region as the Behn River.</p><br>
<p>The headwaters of what has become known as the Behn River are close to the NT/WA border in what Alexander Forrest named the Sonder Pass in his journal.</p><br>
<p>The Sonder Pass was the headwaters of two rivers, one to the west and one to the east. The river Forrest had named the Behn River was in fact the river flowing to the east on the NT side of the Sonder Pass, which had already been named as the West Baines River by the 1855 Augustus Charles Gregory – North Australian Expedition. Early settlers misinterpreted what Forrest had written and so the unnamed river to the west has become known as the Behn River by name. To fully understand this read Forrest&#39;s journals.</p><br>
<p>The San Augustin Mountains are a small mountain subrange at the southern terminus of the San Andres Mountains east of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Organ lies at the southwest foothills; the townsite, White Sands, NM lies to the southeast at the southwest of the Tularosa Valley.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The San Augustin Mountains are only about an 8 mi (13 km) long range, trending slightly northeast. The southern border is San Augustin Pass, where USA Route 70 goes from Las Cruces and Organ and turns northeast through White Sands to meet Alamogordo.</p><br>
<p>The north of the range is delimited by Bear Canyon, an east-west canyon with its outlet to the northeast. Also north is the San Andres National Wildlife Refuge which takes up about a 30 mi stretch of the San Andres Mountains ridgeline.</p><br>
<p>The high Black Mountain section is on the southeast of Bear Canyon, and is separated northeast from the ridgeline of the San Augustins.</p><br>
<h3>Peaks</h3><br>
<p>The ridgeline of the San Augustin Mountains has the range&#39;s highpoint, Bear Peak, 7,087 ft at the north, and the south is terminated by San Augustin Peak, at 7,030 ft. Black Mountain at 7,008 ft, is in the northeast, and an outlier peak at the northwest is Quartzite Mountain, at 6,763 ft. Another outlier mountain is on the southeast, Mineral Hill at 6,154 ft. The highpoint, Bear Peak is located at 32.512311&deg;N latitude, 106.538608&deg;W longitude.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel School was built in Daniel, Wyoming by contractor A.F. Atwood in 1920. The rural school served Daniel and its surrounding area, replacing improvised school facilities. In 1939 the Daniel district was consolidated and students were bused to Pinedale for classes. Following consolidation the Daniel School stood empty until the Daniel Homemaker Club acquired and renovated the building. It is a representative of a typical one-room school house from the early 20th century, and has been the object of field trips by classes seeking to experience the historical learning environment.</p><br>
<p>The school was built to a design from an architectural plan book with a single main room that could be divided by a movable partition. The one story building features a hipped roof and is entered from a closed porch that is topped by a bell tower. The original bell remains in place. The school housed about twenty students. The original privies remain, one each for boys and girls, about 15 ft from the main building.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel School was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.</p><br>
<p>Crosby Hall is situated in the ancient manor of Little Crosby, formerly in Lancashire. Close to the city of Liverpool in the modern county of Merseyside, it is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>The existing hall was constructed circa 1785 in place of the previous Elizabethan manor house, some of which still remains. Almost square in layout it is a three-storey structure built of sandstone ashlar with a 3-span hipped roof of green slate.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Crosby Hall was the manorial home of the Blundell family, lords of the manor of Crosby since the Middle Ages. Devoutly Catholic, Richard Blundell died in Lancaster Gaol in 1590 for his beliefs, where his son and daughter-in-law were also imprisoned for several years likewise for espousing Catholicism.</p><br>
<p>The family were Royalists during the Civil War, when the then squire, William Blundell, being severely injured at the Siege of Lancaster Castle was jailed with his family estates confiscated for ten years.</p><br>
<p>In 1838-39 William Blundell was High Sheriff of Lancashire and various members of this gentry family have been Knights of Malta. The present head of the family is Mark Blundell.</p><br>
<p>A cadet branch are the Weld-Blundells, also staunch Catholics from which came Cardinal Weld.</p><br>
<h2>Modern Use</h2><br>
<p>Crosby Hall houses the Crosby Hall Education Trust (CHET), a registered charity, which was founded in 1988. CHET was opened by HRH The Princess Margaret on 8 May 1991. Its current role is to offer outdoor activity to various youth groups, besides corporate sidelines such as weddings and conferences.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse, also known as the "Northwoods Lighthouse", is a historic lighthouse on Grand Lake St. Marys, a reservoir in the far western part of the USA state of Ohio. Located east of the city of Celina in Mercer County, the lighthouse was built in 1923,</p><br>
<p>A predominately concrete structure, the lighthouse rests on a stone foundation. Measuring 50 ft from foundation to pinnacle, it is covered with a dome of bronze and glass that surrounds the beacon; the dome is crowned with a decorative weathervane.</p><br>
<p>Although the lighthouse was built partially for ornamental purposes, it has also served as an active lighthouse. In its earliest years, it operated in a standard lighthouse role between April and November under a license from the USA Coast Guard. Grand Lake St. Marys was built to provide water for the Miami and Erie Canal; although the canal had ceased operations by 1923, there was still sufficient lake traffic to warrant the use of a lighthouse on this peninsula, Today, it is one of three lighthouses on Grand Lake St. Marys: the Celina Rotary Club erected an operating lighthouse in 1986, at the lakes northwestern corner, and a third lighthouse was completed on the lakes southern shore in 2003. Unlike the other two lighthouses, the Northwoods Lighthouse is completely inaccessible by land, as surrounding property owners have completely blocked public access.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, the Grand Lake St. Marys Lighthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its historically significant architecture. Key to its inclusion was its unusual location — western Ohio is a flat, landlocked region far from major bodies of water. It is the only historic lighthouse in the region, and until the construction of the Rotary Club lighthouse in 1986, there were no other lighthouses in the region at all.</p><br>
<p>The Jensen Ranch, 16 mi southwest of Boulder, Wyoming,USA, was established by the Danish immigrant Metinus Jensen in 1905. It passed from the family as a working ranch after three generations. The ranch features a 1918 American Foursquare house as its central element, surrounded by accessory ranch buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Jensen Ranch was established in an unpromising section of Sublette County in sagebrush land. It typifies an early 20th-century ranching operation, that became a successful beef cattle and sheep operation.</p><br>
<p>Jensen was born on January 14, 1874, in Bramminge, Denmark. He migrated to the United States at the age of nineteen with two brothers. He lived and worked for a time in Nebraska. There he met his wife, a Nebraskan widow named Hannah Percilla Dodd, who already had two children of her own. The Jensens moved to Wyoming in 1900 and eventually had nine more children. he found a job with the Union Pacific Railroad, working at several locations in Wyoming. He obtained a homestead on Muddy Creek in 1905, which had grown to 630.72 acres by 1910. The ranch passed to his son Otto in 1945, when Metinus and Hannah moved to Rock Springs. The ranch by then extended to 2,700 acres with 350 to 400 cattle.</p><br>
<p>The ranch was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Maukspitze is a high peak in the Kaisergebirge in the Northern Limestone Alps.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Maukspitze represents the easternmost independent summit of the Kaisergebirge mountains. To the east is the crest of the Niederkaiser, to the west the Maukspitze borders on the Ackerlspitze. To the south, the Maukspitze falls steeply and abruptly (Niedersessel, Hochsessel), in places with vertical rock faces, into the Leukental towards St. Johann in Tirol. To the north the Maukspitze drops equally sharply into the Kaiserbach valley.</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<p>The Maukspitze is a popular viewing point due to its exposed situation, but is not easy to reach from any side. The simplest climb runs from the Wochenbrunneralm in the south via Niedersessel and Südostgrat (I). The Maukspitze is also accessible via a Klettersteig from the Ackerlspitze. The starting point in each case is the Ackerl Hut. In addition there are many climbing routes of various grades.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>The Dent d&#39;Oche is a mountain in the Haute-Savoie region of France, in the Chablais massif, near the Swiss-French border, that rises to 2,221 m in altitude. It towers above Évian, Thonon, and Lake Geneva. It offers a view of the French and Swiss Alps and the Swiss prealps.</p><br>
<p>It is the northernmost summit above 2,000 m in France.</p><br>
<p>About 100 m below the summit is a refuge of the French Alpine Club, the refuge de la Dent d&#39;Oche.</p><br>
<p>In summer, the refuge and the summit can be reached by a hike that is doable without special equipment, but significantly more difficult than the usual routes to nearby peaks such as Cornettes de Bise and Le Grammont. Reaching the refuge involves some short climbing sections for which chains are provided. The hike from the refuge up to the summit involves some unsecured sections along a cliff, where a misstep would be fatal.</p><br>
<p>There is an alternative hiking route to the summit, from the east, that is even more delicate.</p><br>
<p>Finally, the north face route, with a rise of 350 m, is one of the most difficult climbs of the Chablais Alps. Certain sections require extensive technical skill. The first ascent of the north face was achieved by Joseph Ravanel, his siblings Arthur and Camille and François Jacquier on 6 June 1925.</p><br>
<p>The Parke Lane Road–Thorofare Canal Bridge is a bridge located on Parke Lane Road over the Thorofare Canal in Grosse Ile, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Some time near the beginning of the twentieth century, Grosse Ile Township constructed a hand-operated swing bridge at the intersection of Park Road (now Parke Lane) with the Thorofare Canal. However, by 1929, the old bridge was deteriorating and the increasing volume of traffic and weight of vehicles had rendered the lightweight swing bridge obsolete. In 1929/1930, the Wayne County Road Commission replaced the old bridge with a concrete cantilevered-arch span.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Parke Lane Road–Thorofare Canal Bridge is 99 feet long, with span length of 51 feet and width of 36 feet. The traditional arch bridge design requires a complete arch; in contrast, the cantilevered arch design is divided into two structurally independent half-arches which are each cantilevered from one side. A slab is suspended between the two cantilevered sections; in the Parke Lane Road–Thorofare Canal Bridge, this section is 18 feet long. Close inspection of side walls of the bridge reveals two seams marking the end of the cantilevered arms.</p><br>
<p>A concrete balustrade with urn-shaped spindles runs along each side of the roadway, terminating at each end in an octagonal lamp stand. Orange pebble aggregate is included in the spindle concrete mix for color and texture.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>This bridge is significant as an outstanding product of the Wayne County Road Commission&#39;s bridge engineers because of its aesthetically pleasing design matched to the surroundings and as a representative of the unusual concrete cantilevered-arch construction.</p><br>
<p>The Canyon Creek Mountains are a short 10 mi  long, mountain range located in southeast Catron County, New Mexico near the source of the Gila River and north of the Gila Wilderness. The Elk Mountains are adjacent northwest, where the continental divide passes from north to east on the south of the Plains of San Agustin.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The range is short, only about 10 mi long, trends southwest to northeast, and merges into the eastern end of the Elk Mountains, which trend northwesterly to meet the Continental Divide.</p><br>
<p>There are only two prominent peaks; in the southeast, and away from the main ridgeline, lies Cooney Point, at 8,580 ft. The highest point of the range is in the northeast at East Elk Peak, 9,058 ft. The peak is located at 33.497008&deg;N latitude, 108.264776&deg;W longitude.</p><br>
<h2>Continental Divide</h2><br>
<p>The Continental Divide undergoes an east-west stretch northwest of the mountains, and northwest of the adjacent Elk Mountains. Forest Road 30 lies north of East Elk Peak, crosses the divide twice north of the Elk Mountains, then parallels the divide as it traverses through the Tularosa Mountains. Forest Road 30 terminates at Apache Creek, NM and intersects with State Roads 12 and 32.</p><br>
<p>Cuarenta Casas is an archaeological site in the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua. Construction of the site is attributed to the Mogollon culture.</p><br>
<p>Located in Vallecito in the municipality of Casas Grandes, Chihuahua, Forty Houses is believed to be the southernmost site related to the period of Mogollon influence. The site consists of a series of cliff dwellings built in natural caves in the cliffs of Huapoca Canyon. The best known is the Cueva de las Ventanas(Cave of the Windows). Early Spanish explorers named the site Cuarenta Casas (forty houses) based on their speculation of the total number of structures. The area consists of five main cave communities: Cueva del Puente, Cueva de la Serpiente, Nido del Aguila and Cueva Grande.</p><br>
<h2>The Zone</h2><br>
<p>The zone is located 45 kilometers north of the Maderas Municipality, in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico, and some 250 kilometers northwest of Chihuahua City.</p><br>
<p>There are five Paquimé Culture archaeological sites in this area, accessible from the Madera municipality, are:</p><br>
<h3>Huápoca</h3><br>
<p>Located 36 kilometers west of Madera, by a dirt road. The Ancestral Pueblo caves consist of the Serpent and the Eagle Nest caves. They are considered the most impressive built on cliffs. Have complete structures.</p><br>
<p>There are wonderful views of the Huapoca canyon.</p><br>
<h4>Cueva de la Serpiente</h4><br>
<p>It has 14 adobe houses, over 1,000 years old.</p><br>
<h4>Nido del águila</h4><br>
<p>It only has one house, built on the edge of a sheer cliff under a rocky overhang, provides a meaning to its name.</p><br>
<h3>Cueva Grande</h3><br>
<p>Located 66 kilometers west of Madera, on a dirt road. Cueva Grande hides within convoluted land and behind branches of trees. The mouth of the cave is obscured by a waterfall from the top of the cave to a stream.</p><br>
<p>There are two, double-story houses (800 years old) that are good examples of the native construction techniques. There is also a round grain storage area behind the structure.</p><br>
<h3>La Ranchería</h3><br>
<p>Cave complex, 50 kilometers south of Madera. Has an extended archaeological remain area at the base of the Sirupa canyon.</p><br>
<h3>Cueva del Puente</h3><br>
<p>45 kilometers north of Madera</p><br>
<h3>Cueva de Las Ventanas</h3><br>
<p>During the early 16th century, explorer Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca wrote, "And here by the side of the mountain, we forged our way inland more than 50 leagues and there found forty houses (cuarenta casas)."</p><br>
<h2>Site History</h2><br>
<p>The current inhabitation of Chihuahua probably initiated throughout the Western Mountain Range (Sierra Madre Occidental), when native hunter-gatherer groups moved from the north looking for areas with abundant edible plants. One of those groups produced the first known evidences in the "Cueva de las Ventanas", when they still lacked the constructions we now see. As these settlers dominated agricultural techniques, gradually began occupying the margins of the rivers and originated the Paquimé culture, neighboring what today is known as Casas Grandes, Chihuahua.</p><br>
<p>Cuarentas Casas construction occurred during the height of Paquimé (Casas Grandes) (1205-1260 CE), a period corresponding to the late Mogollon culture period. Cuarentas Casas was a refuge site, similar to others at the Mesa Verde and Bandelier sites. The buildings share the typical T-shaped doorways of their northern neighbors and are constructed from adobe and rock with pine logs beams.</p><br>
<p>It is possible that Cuarenta Casas was a garrison that protected allied groups in the region, in addition to safekeeping commercial routes. It settlers farmed maize and pumpkin, their nourishment was supplemented with hunting of small species (rabbits) and harvesting of eatable wild plants like acorns, yucca seeds and maguey leaves. This was confirmed by remains found in archaeological excavations. The Paquimé regional center must have had frequent problems with hostile neighboring groups, which explains the presence of many surveillance points in extensive areas. Besieged by those groups or perhaps by internal problems, the settlement decayed, was abandoned and some of its inhabitants emigrated.</p><br>
<p>Constructions date back to that period; at that time the zone was a meeting point for native traders of the Paquimé group communicating with the Pacific Ocean and Gulf of California coasts, and to other cultural centers to the north such as Mesa Verde in Colorado and Chaco Canyon in New Mexico. The routes to the Pacific followed the Piedras Verdes River to the south and connected with the rivers that flow to the Pacific by way of smaller arroyos and canyons. Among these is the Huapoca Canyon to the west of the town of Madera. The Huapoca Canyon is not among the deepest of the Sierra Tarahumara but it possesses the most archaeological interest.</p><br>
<p>The reasons why the settlement decayed, at 1340 CE are not known. At the Paquimé fall as social and cultural center, the commercial routes disappeared, the guardians left their posts and many settlements throughout the route were abandoned. Occasionally “Cueva de las Ventanas” was briefly occupied mainly with ceremonial purposes.</p><br>
<p>As of 1520, the caves still were inhabited by native groups, hence it was possible to obtain information about their way of life, the natives named themselves “Jovas” or Cáhitas, and with that name they also referred to a group or larger family. This ethnic group is now considered extinct.</p><br>
<p>The latest occupation of Cuarenta Casas occurred during the Paquimé apogee (1205 to 1260 CE); this period corresponds to the late period of Paquimé culture.</p><br>
<h2>The Site</h2><br>
<p>Of the cave complex, the only area partially restored is the “Cueva de las Ventanas”. It is a small archaeological site constructed with strong walls of poured adobe, with small “T” doors, characterizing the region pre-Hispanic architecture. It’s a two story structure of which only the ground floor rooms can be visited, these are distributed such that space was maximized within the space available in the cave.</p><br>
<h2>Cueva de las Ventanas</h2><br>
<p>Almost all rooms had stuccoed floors and furnaces.</p><br>
<h3>Room 1</h3><br>
<p>It is almost totally destroyed and was placed towards the cave slope.</p><br>
<h3>Room 2</h3><br>
<p>On its higher section, a watchtower was constructed; it has a large number of small windows. It was equipped with a small drain channel and a urinal, the only ones found at the site. It is suspected it was used particularly during the crude winters of the region.</p><br>
<h3>Room 3</h3><br>
<p>It is a large room, by its characteristics it must have been an area where most daily activities took place. Because of a sidewalk carved on the rock it is believed to have been used for certain ceremonies, as was done in the kivas, by southwestern US natives, from prehispanic times. This site has relevant similarities with sites of that region.</p><br>
<p>The room is partially roofed with pine beams and displays remains of windows that would perhaps complement those of the watchtower. Vestiges of a normal size door was found, all others are a meter of high. In this enclosure and almost in all other, the remains of strong floors with well finished stucco can be seen.</p><br>
<h3>Room 4</h3><br>
<p>It is almost totally destroyed, it lacks ceiling, and remaining walls indicate that its size was larger than others in the cave’s back, with similar functions to those of Room 3.</p><br>
<h3>Room 5</h3><br>
<p>It’s lay out is irregular and it was built over a large rock. From old photographs of the site, it is known that its interior had an oval shaped barn, with a kind of woven grass cover. Its overall height was two meters, currently it is totally destroyed and it is only possible to see remains of the walls in the floor; these were reinforced with dry woven grass and covered with mud. Other similar barns have been found in like sites of the “Sierra Madre Occidental”.</p><br>
<h3>Room 6</h3><br>
<p>The remaining rooms were built at the end of the cave, embedded in the rocky wall and it is believed were housing units.</p><br>
<p>Number 6 is in the South side and still has its ceiling pine wood beams in good conditions. Being adjacent to rooms 3 and 7 it is very dark and cold.</p><br>
<h3>Rooms 7 and 8</h3><br>
<p>Number 7 is similar to the previous one, does not have any distinguishing characteristics. Number 8 lacks a ceiling and has access to a small area that perhaps was used as an internal patio. Perhaps it was used to manufacture arrows, as a required complementary activity. Several stone tools were found, of the type used to carve and smooth the wooden materials used to make projectiles.</p><br>
<h3>Rooms 9 and 10</h3><br>
<p>Both are deteriorated and 10 were probably propped up by the last inhabitants. Vestiges of small stoves were found as well as compacted earth steps that lead to the long enclosures that are to the front.</p><br>
<h3>Room 11</h3><br>
<p>Basically it is similar to the previous, but for some reason native groups of similar cultures to the constructors, visited it and painted zoomorphic designs on its walls; these are streamlined figures that represent elongated birds, the beak is apparent. It is possible that these artists were the original inhabitants, which returned to celebrate some type of ritual that could not be made elsewhere.</p><br>
<h3>Room 12</h3><br>
<p>An individual burial was found, perhaps a local leader, it was placed in the small space between the wall and the rock of the cave. It had a small maize offering, one ceramic pot and a leather bag with pinole, used by pre-Hispanic people of Mexico. The burial also contained, semiprecious stones, possibly currency to ensure his entrance to the underworld. The man was shrouded in a mortuary bed roll (Petate) similar those depicted in some of the pre-Hispanic codices.</p><br>
<h3>Rooms 13 and 14</h3><br>
<p>Number 13 is very deteriorated and perhaps had large dimensions.</p><br>
<p>Number 14 is smaller and isolated, was constructed at the rocky bottom and because of its small dimensions it could only be used to sleep, as well as to temporarily isolate people, as per inhabitants beliefs, and as was done with young girls at the time of their first menstruation. This custom was practiced by native groups of the area, even in current times.</p><br>
<p>From this room it is possible to see the floors of the second floor rooms, although deteriorated, clay molded forms can be seen near the center of each floor; these are of rectangular shape and not too high, perhaps stoves used in the site.</p><br>
<p>Marble Community Church, formerly called St. Pauls Church, is a historic Episcopal church at 123 State Street in Marble, Colorado. The churchs main building was originally the building of the St. John’s Episcopal Chapel, which was built in Aspen, Colorado in 1886. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Construction and early History</h3><br>
<p>By the beginning of the 20th century, Marble was home to an active childrens sunday school, though the town lacked a church building for which to hold the school. In 1908, the one-room St. Johns Episcopal Chapel in Aspen was no longer required and the diocese made it available for relocation to Marble. The chapel, originally constructed in 1886, was dismantled and moved by railroad car to Marble where it was reassembled on two lots of land at 123 State Street that had been purchased with a $2500 donation from the Episcopal Women&#39;s Guild. The new church was renamed and dedicated as St. Paul’s. Shortly after the establishment, an extension was carried out to enlarge the church through the addition of two side rooms. Further enlargement of the church was carried out in 1911, with the addition of a belfry containing a 500-pound bell.</p><br>
<h3>Re-establishment</h3><br>
<p>St. Pauls Church was a center for religious and social activities and provided for three congregations: Episcopal, Union Congregational, and Catholic, as well as acting as a meeting place for other groups. The imminence of the approaching World War II however, brought about the closure of the towns local marble quarries and Marble Company mill. As a result, the town saw a decline in its population which resulted in the closure of the church in 1941. The building was left empty and unused for a number of years and was given over to the care of a local family, the Williams brothers.</p><br>
<p>The church would remain empty for more than ten years, until the early 1950s, when permission was granted to reuse the old building to hold prayer meetings and services. Renewed interest in these services grew, and shortly after a congregation had formed and adopted the name Marble Community Church. George A. Drake, who would later become a president of Grinnell College served the congregation throughout 1960 and 1961. In 1974, the congregation received permission to move back into the old church in exchange for assuming responsibility for the care and maintenance of the building.</p><br>
<p>In 1983, The Marble Community Church became incorporated under the laws of Colorado and after negotiation the Rev. Fr. Cyril Coverly of the Episcopal Diocese was able to present the deed to the building and land back to the congregation on July 7, 1985. The church was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 as a Historic Place in Gunnison County, Colorado.</p><br>
<p>The church represents an example of an early religious structure in a mining community and is the town&#39;s only example of Gothic architecture. In 2002 renovations were begun to update the original church building as well as to add a fellowship hall. The project was subsequently completed in 2004, at which time a breezeway to connect these two buildings was also carried out. The church celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The Canard River is a river in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada which drains into the Minas Basin of the Bay of Fundy between the communities of Canard and Starr&#39;s Point. It is known for its fertile river banks and extensive dyke land agriculture.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The river has its source in a number of small brooks which flow from the sandy pine woods of what is now the Camp Aldershot military base, near Steam Mill Village. The Canard River has a short length of 15 km but its lower reaches are wide and deep due to the enormous tides of the Minas Basin. The river was once tidal for most of its length but a series of dykes first built in the 1600s held back the tide which is now stopped near the river&#39;s mouth by the Wellington Dyke. The upper reaches of the river are often referred to by the dykes which once spanned the river - Upper Dyke and Middle Dyke.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Canard river was known to the Mikmaq people as Apocheechumochwakade meaning "home of the black duck". The Mikmaq also used the mouth of the river for shad fishing.</p><br>
<p>Acadians settled along the river in the late 1600s and called it Rivière-aux-Canards after the French word for duck. They first built small dykes to claim salt water marshes for farmland at the upper reaches of the river near the communities now known as Steam Mill Village and Upper Dyke. A large cross dyke was built further down river at Middle Dyke. About 1750 an even larger cross dyke, over a mile long, was built near Port Williams. Known as the Grand Dyke it located where the current highway Route 358 crosses the river. By this date, the Acadian village on both sides of the river totaled 750 people and included the extensive dykeland farms along the river as well as several mills.</p><br>
<p>It was on this river that a parish was established in 1670 by the name of Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rivière-aux-Canards, later, Rivière-aux-Canards in short form. The best farms were located at the mouths of rivière aux Canards river and the Saint-Antoine river.</p><br>
<p>Rivière-aux-Canards was west of Grand-Pré.</p><br>
<p>The Acadian settlement was destroyed in the 1755 Bay of Fundy Campaign of the Expulsion of the Acadians. On October 27, 1755 fourteen transport ships embarked 1,600 Acadians from the region of Grand-Pré and Rivière-aux-Canards, as well as 1,300 from Pisiguit and Cobequid. They joined up with ten other ships in the Bay of Fundy with 1,900 Acadiens from the region of Beaubassin. The ships were over crowded with standing room only. Governor Charles Lawrence had given the order from returning. It was for this reason that the villages of Grand-Pré, Pisiguit, and Rivière-aux-Canards were burnt to the ground. With no one to maintain the dykes, a severe storm in November 1759 beached the Grand Dyke and flooded up to the Middle Dyke which was badly damaged, returning hundreds of acres of farmland to tidal marshes.</p><br>
<p>The New England Planters took up the Acadian lands along the river in 1760. A government ship bringing supplies up the Canard River for the Planters, the brigantine Montague was wrecked in the lower reaches of the river in December 1760. The Planter settlement on the south bank of the river becoming known as Starr&#39;s Point and the settlement on the north becoming known as Canard. The Planters repaired the Middle Dyke and rebuilt the Grand Dyke in 1782. In 1825 they built the Wellington Dyke near the mouth of the Canard River protecting in total over 3,000 acres of farmland along the river from the tides of the Minas Basin.</p><br>
<p>The York Lodge No. 563 is a historic Masonic lodge building on the northern side of Columbus, Ohio, United States. Constructed at the beginning of the twentieth century, it was home to the first Masonic lodge in its part of the city. Its architecture makes it a prominent part of the local built environment, and the building has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Masons established their first Columbus presence in the downtown area, but the northern neighborhoods were harder to penetrate; multiple attempts to start a northern lodge were made, but the first efforts failed. York Lodge 563 finally broke this trend, becoming the first northern lodge to last more than a short time. When their strength had grown to the point that they could construct their own lodge building, they contracted with the architectural firm of Stribling and Lum to design the present building, which was completed in 1915.</p><br>
<p>Built of brick with elements of limestone and metal, the lodge building is typical of early twentieth-century variants of the Italianate style. Few modifications have been made to the ornamental interior, and the original stained glass windows have likewise been preserved. The most distinctive elements of the exterior are components such as -worked limestone trim and decorative brickwork. This exterior causes the building to be greatly different from its neighbors, commercial buildings with substantially smaller setbacks from the street.</p><br>
<p>In July 1984, the York Lodge No. 563 was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture. Critical to its historic site status was the lack of modification either inside or out, and its architect was also related to designation: although Stribling and Lum operated from 1902 until 1933, almost none of their buildings comparable to or grander than the lodge building have survived.</p><br>
<p>Otter Lake is a lake in geographic Foley Township in the municipality of Seguin, Parry Sound District in Central Ontario, Canada.</p><br>
<p>There are several segments to the lake. The "Long Arm" is a long, narrow portion which goes to the east. The "Little Long Arm" protrudes to the west. The "Little Otter" part is to the north, separated from the rest of the lake by the Otter Lake Narrows. The unincorporated places and railway points of Otter Lake and Holmur are at the narrows and on the north side of the lake respectively. The water level is controlled by a dam at the outflow to the Boyne River at the Little Otter portion of the lake.</p><br>
<p>There are over 400 cottages on the lake.</p><br>
<p>The Canadian Pacific Railway and Canadian National Railway main lines both pass the lake, the former at Otter Lake Narrows and the latter on the north shore of the lake.</p><br>
<p>The Wallischeck Homestead is a historic group of farm buildings in southwestern Mercer County, Ohio, United States. The family of Philo Wallischeck, all natives of the Grand Duchy of Baden, settled on the site in 1855. For their first ten years, they lived in a log cabin along the road; this arrangement ended when Philo bought a substantially larger area of land in 1866. Starting in that year and continuing until 1880, the family erected a complex of buildings that survive, virtually unchanged, into the present day.</p><br>
<p>Among the buildings in the farm complex are a brick butchering structure, a brick chicken coop, wooden sheds and rabbit hutches, a brick outhouse with a kitchen and watch house, a wooden grain barn, and the brick farmhouse. This house is a symmetrical one-and-one-half-story structure that features a single central recessed doorway with two windows on each side. Inside, the residents walk along walnut woodworking and are greeted by stencilling on the walls. Like the rest of the buildings on the homestead, the house has changed very little in the past century and a half, remaining in a condition almost identical to that of its youth.</p><br>
<p>In 1978, the Wallischeck Homestead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Key to its inclusion on the Register was its well-preserved historic architecture, which was seen as being a fine example of German vernacular architecture; it also qualified for its place in Ohio&#39;s history.</p><br>
<p>The Reliance School was built in the coal mining community of Reliance, Wyoming in 1923-27. The buildings was designed by James L. Libby, a Union Pacific Railroad employee. The school was built by the Union Pacific Coal Company to serve Reliance, which existed almost entirely to serve the Union Pacific mines. The gymnasium, also designed by Libby, was completed in 1931. Together, the buildings served as an educational and social center for the isolated community.</p><br>
<p>The brick school building is set on a high daylight basement with one main floor. The entry is offset to the left, at the top of a flight of stairs. The entrance is marked by a Tudor arch, with a projecting battlement-like form enclosing it, crowned by parapet with stylized crenelations. Brickwork is marked by diaper patterns, and trimmed with gray granite.</p><br>
<p>The gymnasium is set into a slope with two stories visible at the from, and one to the rear. It is 68 ft wide and 82 ft deep, with brick walls and steel sash windows glazed with semi-obscure wire glass. The interior walls are finished in the same manner as the exterior, with brick interior surfaces laid with white mortar. The ceiling is covered with wood fiber board in a decorative pattern. The maple floor is laid in a log cabin pattern. A stage at one end doubles as a spectator seating area.</p><br>
<p>The school was closed in 1959, when declining enrollment due to a slackening of mining activity led students to be bused to Rock Springs, 7 mi away. It was used by the Western Wyoming Community College from 1959 to 1969, when the college relocated to a new campus. A renewed mining boom, this time for coal and trona led to the reopening of the school in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Reliance School and its gymnasium were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<p>The Cedar Mountain Range is a short 20 mi  long, mountain range in southwest Luna County, New Mexico, USA, just north of the Mexico-United States border with Chihuahua.</p><br>
<p>The range lies in the northwest Chihuahuan Desert and the extreme northwest end of the range lies in southeast Grant County. It is here that the Continental Divide of the Americas crosses the range, turns northwest, then west, and south at the north perimeter of the north-south Playas Valley. The continental divide continues south into Mexico on the western perimeter of the Playas Valley, through three mountain ranges, the Pyramid, Animas, and San Luis Mountains (New Mexico).</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Cedar Mountain Range is a northwest by southeast trending range, and longer, than wide. The northwest end contains Deer Mountain, 5,494 ft, with an excursion of the continental divide around the wash that drains the northeast. The water divide continues through Deer Mountain and heads northwest on a circuitous route around the northern perimeter and water divide of the north Playas Valley.</p><br>
<p>Three other larger peaks dot the range: the center contains Hat Top Mountain, 5,586 ft at north-center. Old Baldy, at 5,473 ft is adjacent and southeast. The highest peak is at the extreme southeast end of the Cedar Mountain Range, Flying W Mountain, 6,217 ft, and located at 31.922041&deg;N latitude, 108.094759&deg;W longitude.</p><br>
<h2>Continental Divide</h2><br>
<p>The Continental Divide starts to leave the forested mountain regions as it goes southwest from Silver City. It passes from the southern Little Burro Mountains, crosses the Big Burro&#39;s, then on a circuitous route after skirting the northeast of the Cedar Mountain Range, it passes across the water divide of the north Playas Valley, west of Hachita. It finally enters a series of north-south ranges, including the Animas Mountains, and travels south into northwest Chihuahua, Mexico.</p><br>
<p>Metamorfosi  is a village in Laconia, five kilometers from the center of Molaoi and about seventy-eight kilometers southeast of Sparta. The village is built at the foot of the mountain of Koulochera on the outskirts of the Parnonas range. Its altitude is 120 meters. According to the 2011 census, Metamorfosi has 559 residents.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is believed that an ancient town named Lefki (Λεύκη) existed at the northern end of the Asopos plain and that a river, named Asopos or Lefki, flowed through the middle of this plain. In a devastating earthquake in AD 375, the river disappeared underground, forming the natural hole at the northeast end of the plain. In the flat outskirts of the village, near the modern public school and cemetery, are three areas where artefacts from Byzantine and Roman times have been found. These archaeological finds most likely indicate the original site of the village.</p><br>
<p>It appears that the inhabitants of Laconia in the early Bronze Age were a Pre-Hellenic people called Leleges, who made a living by hunting and farming. In 3000 BC the Acheans, a Hellenic race, came from the north and settled in Laconia establishing strong commercial centers close to the shoreline. In 1100 BC, the Dorians invaded the area, and this period comes to be known as the Spartan Years that lasted until 146 BC. During this time these centers lost their autonomy and were brought under the "guardianship" of Sparta. In 146 BC, eighteen Laconic cities including Gythio, Asopos and Epidavros Limira, declared their independence from Sparta and establish an independent federation, the Union of the Free Laconians. The Romans who dominated the area in 27 AD, granted this federation many privileges and freedoms and the region of Epidavros Limira flourished greatly and experienced its own "golden age".</p><br>
<p>In 375 AD, severe earthquakes shook the Laconic lands and completely destroyed major centers like Asopos and Epidavros Limira. In their place, the new focal city of Monemvasia was created and in the Byzantine years that followed, from 395 to 1210, this region continued to grow and flourish. Twenty years following the earthquakes the Goths arrived and looted the area. Barbarian invasions greatly decreased the population and by the 8th century, Slaves settle the highlands of Laconia bringing further conflict and insecurity to the region. Due to these barbarian invasions from the north, many villages in the surrounding areas were deserted by their inhabitants who sought refuge and better defense on higher grounds. In this manner, around the 10th century the Katavothrians, relocated close to the foot of the hill which is the present site of the village.</p><br>
<p>When the Crusaders invaded Constantinople in 1204, the region fell to the Franks, who ruled there from 1210 to 1259. With the reestablishment of the Byzantine Empire, in 1259, the region experienced new growth and prosperity and the sparsely populated villages established themselves under the protection of Monemvasia until 1347, and later under the mighty Domain of Mystra until 1460. At this time, the bishop of Mystra allowed the emigration and settlement of 10,000 Albanians in the general vicinity of Mystra, some of whom settled in Katavothra and adopted their new land as their own, making a living as shepherds. English historians Vace and Hasluck (BSA volume 12 pg. 146–160) refer to this Albanian settlement, "... Albanians inhabited the area that included the villages called Geraka, Rehia, Niata, Harakas, Kyparissi, Kremasti, Giotsali, Geraki, Katavothra and Sikia".</p><br>
<p>After the Fall of Constantinople, the Emperor Mohammed II in 1460, occupied Laconia, the fortress of Mystra and all the surrounding area. The Ottomans controlled the region for the next 360 years, excluding a period from 1684 to 1715, when the Venetians dominated Laconia. In the years of Ottoman rule, the Turks were drawn to settle in Katavothra due to its abundant cultivated land and its very productive vineyards. In this manner, before the War of Independence in 1821, fifteen Turkish families and thirty-six Greek families resided in Katavothra. Most of the fertile land was taken by the Turks, with less fertile land falling to the Christians.</p><br>
<p>Under Venetian rule, the Laconians paid heavy taxes and were subjected to Venetian attempts to convert to Catholicism. The Venetians were responsible for much of the economic and cultural improvements in the area. This is exemplified by the systematic cultivation of the olive tree and the growth of the population in Katavothra, which by 1700 had risen to 128, comprising thirty-two families, compared with fifteen families seventy years earlier.</p><br>
<p>The Turks reclaimed Laconia in 1715. In 1770, the enslaved Greeks rebelled under the protection of Russia. The Peloponnesus, especially Laconia and Messinia fought courageously, but the Turks called for the help of Turkish Albanians; the Arvanites, who brought immense devastation to the Greek uprisers by burning whole villages to the ground and butchering the inhabitants or selling them as slaves in the slave trade of the East. Many of the villagers went into hiding in caves and in the mountains, and others escaped to Hydra, Spetses, Russia and Asia Minor. Cultivation stopped, productivity fell to one third and only shepherds were left to view the devastated villages. After nine years, in 1779, Greek guerrillas and Turks were able to neutralize the Albanians. Turkish rule continued with heavy taxation but with relative calm until the 1821 revolution.</p><br>
<p>On March 22, 1821, the Turks living in Katavothra, fearing the coming of revolution, barricaded themselves in the castle of Monemvasia. The Greeks, including many Katavothrians, seized the castle on March 29 and forced the Turks to surrender. Ibrahim Pasha was sent to quell the uprisings in the Peloponnesus in 1825, and with Tripolis as his headquarters, he went on severe campaigns to destroy all the villages of Laconia, including Katavothra.</p><br>
<p>The long-awaited independence finally came with the arrival of Kapodistrias in January 1828 and with the withdrawal of the ruthless Ibrahim forces. In 1830, Hellas was declared a nation. Thus, in 1928 Katavothra had 761 inhabitants. Many families who had left the village returned, such as the Roumanis from Spetses, the Laggis from Crete and the Batsakis from Zaraka.</p><br>
<p>The year 1927 completed the construction of a primary school. A two class school remains active and is home to students of E or F grade from the village, as well as from neighboring Sykea. Students of other classes are transported every day and attend classes at the Elementary School in Sykea.</p><br>
<p>In 1961 the village was renamed Metamorphosi with the completion of the new church, named Metamorphosis of Christ. The new church was built in place of the old with the help of expatriates from abroad and the personal work of the villagers.</p><br>
<h2>Religious life</h2><br>
<p>Despite the immense pressure exerted by the Turks, no villager ever converted to Islam. The oldest church in Metamorfosi is the church of St. Georgios in the cemetery which was built in the middle of the Byzantine era. Marble and old Roman columns were used in its construction. It served as a hiding place for many throughout the years, and according to some, it served as a krifo scholio under Turkish rule. The original church was torn down and rebuilt, losing its original Byzantine architecture.</p><br>
<p>In later years and in the middle of the present-day square, the church of Panagia was built. South of the church lay the village square with a few cypress and lilac trees. Most village festivities were held in the square, especially during the Easter holiday. This church was demolished in 1922 and a new, larger one was built to accommodate the increasing population and it was dedicated to the Metamorfosis of Christ. This church was built with a dome and decorated with precious icons and hand-carved wood. Many of the icons as well as the holy articles were donated to the church by the Roumanis and Manolakakis families from Odessa. Most of these items were distributed to large city centres and museums in 1967, when this church was also demolished for the construction of the present-day one.</p><br>
<h2>Places of interest</h2><br>
<p>Metamorfosi has its own natural beauty. On one side is the beautiful valley of the village with a variety of vegetation and on the other the mountains, which have been declared a protected area and are sources of wealth and in places are suitable for walking and meditation.</p><br>
<p>Another place worthy of observation is a natural sink, 1,300 meters southeast of the village, with the surrounding meadow and wetland in Vothana. In this wetland there is an interesting flora and fauna (especially birds) periodically and presents scientific interest.</p><br>
<p>Another place of natural beauty is the Tsakonas stream west of the village, which is a quiet canyon, a place suitable for meditation and concentration. To add to the natural landscape of the region, many of the churches and the special historic sites add architectural interest. These include St. John, the chapel of St. Nicholas, St. Marina and St. Gregory which are examples of the deep faith of the villagers. Another important area is "Pigadia" (English: Wells) on the southern boundaries of the settlement. This is an area where traditional watermills have recently been restored. These arouse nostalgia in older people and provide a source of teaching materials for the young.</p><br>
<p>Of particular interest is the cave "Trypa tou Voria" (English: Hole of the North) which was discovered by the Italian Speleological Group "SPARVIERE" in the late 1990s. It has many beautiful stalagmites and stalactites and the speleologists who explored it talk about a miracle of Greek nature. There are few other such caves in Greece. The cavern is so large that the village is built on a section of the cave.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>The climate in Metamorfosi is Mediterranean, characterized by the alternation of a wet and cold period with a dry and warm period. A significant feature of the village&#39;s weather is the strong northerly wind.</p><br>
<h2>Nearest places</h2><br>
<p>Molaoi</p><br>
<p>Sykea</p><br>
<p>Monemvasia</p><br>
<p>Elafonisos</p><br>
<p>Voies</p><br>
<p>Cythera</p><br>
<p>Sparti</p><br>
<h2>Notable people</h2><br>
<p>Giorgos Lafkas (1919–1972), singer/songwriter</p><br>
<p>Albert Mountain is a mountain in North Carolina&#39;s Nantahala Range of the Appalachian Mountains. A fire tower offers views of the Blue Ridge and the Little Tennessee River valley.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>Albert Mountain is named after Albert Siler (1829-1904), a local resident. Nearby geographic features are also named after Silers family, such as Siler Bald (not to be confused with Silers Bald), named after Alberts father William Siler and Rufus Morgan Falls, named after Siler&#39;s grandson Rufus Morgan.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Albert Mountain is located inside the Nantahala National Forest in Macon County. The mountain has an elevation of around 5,200 ft. Standing Indian Mountain is located about 3.5 mi to the south, while the town of Franklin is located about 10 mi northeast of the mountain. The summit is also located about 4 mi north of the Georgia border.</p><br>
<h2>Fire tower</h2><br>
<p>A log lookout cabin has existed on Alberts Mountain since as early as 1942. In 1951, a steel tower was built on Albert Mountains summit to supplant the abandoned lookout towers on Big Pinnacle Mountain and Standing Indian Mountain and to provide fire detection for the Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory. The steel tower has a height of 55 ft. The tower offers views of the Nantahala Mountains and the Little Tennessee River valley. The Great Smoky Mountains and the Great Balsam Mountains are also visible from the fire tower.</p><br>
<h2>Hiking</h2><br>
<p>The Appalachian Trail passes over Albert Mountain&#39;s summit. From Bearpen Gap, the hike is about 0.5 mi up to the summit.</p><br>
<p>Diogo Island is an uninhabited volcanic island in the province of Batanes, the northernmost province in the Philippines. Also known as Dinem Island in the native language, Diogo is a lone rock rising out of the sea, with steep cliffs on every side, and dangerous currents make landing there practically impossible. It is an extinct volcano which has suffered heavily from marine erosion.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Diogo is a small, round island over 1,683 ft high, about 3/4 mile (.75 mi) in diameter, lying 3 1/2 miles (3.5 mi) southeastward of Itbayat Island. It is steep on the western side but has several small islets lying off the eastern side, the outermost being nearly 1/2 mile (.5 mi) distant.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>In 1903, Diogo Island was observed to be volcanic, discharging vapor and dark material, but another observation in 1908 believe that those are small clouds which often hang around the mountain. It is listed as an inactive volcano by the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.</p><br>
<h2>Previous names</h2><br>
<p>In old Spanish maps, the name of the island was listed as Isla Diego or Rodonta.</p><br>
<p>Lake Eugenia is an artificial lake considered to be the "Hidden gem of Grey County". Located in Eugenia, Ontario, the lake is an hour and a half away from Toronto and several kilometres north of Flesherton.</p><br>
<h2>History and Geography</h2><br>
<p>The lake was man-made in the early 1900s as a reservoir for a hydro-electric dam on the Beaver River built in 1912. In 1913, the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario bought 1,900 acre of land from farmers. Soon cabins were built along the edge of the lake and word began to spread. Beginning at the end of the 1900s, cabins began to develop into cottages. These cottages are usually large and grand. When the lake began to grow in popularity, fishers, swimmers, boaters and naturalists began coming in droves for holidays. The area around Lake Eugenia is part of the Niagara Escarpment and known for its picturesque views available year-round.</p><br>
<h2>Lake Use</h2><br>
<h3>Boaters</h3><br>
<p>Recreational boating is very common in Lake Eugenia. Motorized and manually propelled watercrafts are accepted on the lake but speed boats must stay 30 metres away from shore. Common watercrafts include speed boats, fishing boats, kayaks, canoes, wind surfing boards and row boats.</p><br>
<p>There have rarely been problems regarding boaters and lake users, but the O.P.P does patrol the waters on holiday weekends.</p><br>
<h3>Cottages</h3><br>
<p>Lake Eugenia is a sought after place to have a cottage due to its proximity to Toronto, Owen Sound and Collingwood. It is estimated that there are about 400 cottages around the lake, more than the number of full-time residents in the village of Eugenia. Because of the location, real-estate prices are high and have not gone down in recent years. Many cottages are now similar to modern house as they are examples of current holiday homes and are quite large. All cottages are beach front properties, and so water activity is high with swimmers, boaters and fishers.</p><br>
<h3>Fishing</h3><br>
<p>Eugenia Lake attracts recreational fishers both local to the region and those visiting due to the range of fish in the lake. The main species of fish that can be caught in the lake include Rock, Smallmouth and Largemouth Bass, Perch, Sunfish, and Bullhead catfish. Unfortunately, these fishers and boaters have brought invasive species into the lake, namely the zebra mussel which is now throughout the lake and considered a major problem. Back before the lake became inundated with cottages, the main species was trout. If you got a bite, it was only a question of was it a Brown or Rainbow. In the 60&#39;s someone must have dumped a bait bucket, because Rock Bass appeared by the thousands. On the opening day of Trout season, the MNR would put a couple of 45 gal. drums on the causeway bridge, and by the end of the first day they were both overflowing with Rock Bass. Hawthornes Cabins at the south east corner of the causeway, would rent you a rowboat for $1.00 a day, and fishermen could rent a cabin for $1.50 a night. You were always assured of a good feed of Rainbow Trout at the end of the day.</p><br>
<p>Ön, formerly called Öhn, is an island and district in the Ume River in Umeå, Sweden. About 280 people lived on the island in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Ön is located in the Ume River in central Umeå. It is 2.6 km long, 0.6 km wide and have a shoreline of 5.8 km. The part of the Ume River which is southwest of the island is called Lillån, and the northeast part is called Storån.</p><br>
<p>The island consists mostly of forest and a partially overgrown green area. It is said that there are 110 species of birds on the island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Like most of Umeå, buildings on the island were destroyed in the Umeå city fire in 1888.</p><br>
<p>A suspension bridge to the island was built in 1915. It was demolished in the 1970s and a new concrete bridge on the western side of the island was built during the same decade. The 700 meter long Kolbäck Bridge, which connects to mainland on both sides of the island, was built between 1998 and 2001. The island had about 100 households and 280 residents in 2005.</p><br>
<p>A sewage treatment plant was built on the island in 1972. It has subsequently been extended several times, and is the largest of the 18 sewage treatment plants in the Umeå Municipality.</p><br>
<p>On 21 December 2008, the municipal assembly adopted a plan for a large-scale housing construction. A total of 3,600 apartments will be built on the island. They will be built in several stages and the entire project is expected to take at least 20 years to complete.</p><br>
<p>The Pyramid Mountains are a 30 mi  long, mountain range in central-east Hidalgo County, New Mexico. The city of Lordsburg and Interstate 10 lie at its northern border.</p><br>
<p>The range lies between the northeast corner of the north-south Animas Valley on the west and the Playas and Lordsburg valleys to the southeast and northeast respectively. The continental divide passes through the southern end of the range.</p><br>
<p>The Chihuahuan Desert has its northwest extension into the foothills regions of the Pyramid Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Pyramid Mountains are a moderate altitude, north-south trending mountain range at the north of two valleys that also are north-south, and extensive, as the Continental Divide traverses due south through the ridgeline to enter northwest Chihuahua state, Mexico. The Animas Valley lies west; the Playas Valley lies east of this mountain-series ridgeline.</p><br>
<p>The Pyramid Mountains are about 30 mi long, and about 12 mi at its widest. Various peaks and hills form the range as the water divide of the continental divide forms its southeast and south. But the water divide of the Animas Valley continues north 20 mi and then crosses to the north side of Lordsburg.</p><br>
<p>Various semi-arid canyons, draws, and washes also are found in this linear range.</p><br>
<h3>List of peaks and hills</h3><br>
<p>The range consists of a north and south portions separated by a lower elevation pass (1,430 m) between Jose Placencia Canyon on the west and Muir Draw on the east.</p><br>
<p>North:</p><br>
<p>Pyramid Peak, 5,994 ft (highpoint)</p><br>
<p>Fourmile Hill, 4,339 ft</p><br>
<p>Leitendorf Hills 5,640 ft</p><br>
<p>Swallow Fork Peak, 4,957 ft (west)</p><br>
<p>Cedar Mountain, 5,154 ft (east)</p><br>
<p>South:</p><br>
<p>Cedar Knob, 4,905 ft (east)</p><br>
<p>Lightning Dock Mountain, 5,528 ft (west)</p><br>
<p>Russel Hills 5,310 ft (east)</p><br>
<p>Kink Peak, 5,361 ft (west)</p><br>
<p>South Pyramid Peak, 5,909 ft (continental divide)</p><br>
<p>Pinkey Wright Mountain, 5,538 ft (continental divide)</p><br>
<h2>Continental Divide</h2><br>
<p>The Continental Divide starts to leave the forested mountain regions as it goes southwest from Silver City. It passes from the southern Little Burro Mountains, crosses the Big Burro&#39;s, then on a circuitous route after skirting the northeast of the Cedar Mountain Range, it passes across the water divide of the north Playas Valley, west of Hachita. It finally enters a series of north-south ranges, including the Animas Mountains, and traverses south into northwest Chihuahua, Mexico.</p><br>
<p>It turns from due-west to due-south at South Pyramid Peak, at the southern perimeter region of the Pyramid Mountains. Pinkey Wright Mountain lies 3 mi south on the divide.</p><br>
<p>Mertoun House is a country house situated by the River Tweed, 2 mi east of St Boswells in the Scottish Borders. It is home to the Duke of Sutherland. The early 18th-century house is category-A listed, and was designed by Sir William Bruce. The gardens of the house are open to the public, and are included on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mertoun was a property of the Halliburton family, who sold it to Sir William Scott of Harden in around 1680. Much of the present landscape garden around the house was laid by 1865, including the removal of a small village which lay north-west of the house, and the construction of the walled garden around Old Mertoun House.</p><br>
<p>The Scotts sold Mertoun in 1912 to John Egerton, Viscount Brackley (later 4th Earl of Ellesmere), who carried out alterations to the house and gardens. The property passed to his son, the 5th Earl of Ellesmere (1915–2000), who became 6th Duke of Sutherland in 1963. The house was reduced to its original size in 1956, by the architect Ian Gordon Lindsay, removing the 19th- and 20th-century additions.</p><br>
<p>In 1984 the Duke established the Mertoun Gardens Trust as a registered charity to run the 26 acre gardens, which have been open to the public since. The house remains private, and is now the home of the 7th Duke of Sutherland.</p><br>
<p>Philosophical Hall is a historic building at 105 5th Street in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US. Located near Independence Hall, the building has, for over 200 years, been the headquarters of the American Philosophical Society. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965 for its association with that organization.</p><br>
<h2>Origin</h2><br>
<p>For twenty years after its founding, the American Philosophical Society (APS) had no home of its own, and met in different locations in Philadelphia. In 1783, APS members voted to construct a building in which meetings could be held. The society originally considered a lot near Arch Street, but a lot became available in the State House yard (today, Independence Square and the State House is known as Independence Hall, and the Pennsylvania Legislative Assembly voted to give the lot to the Society in 1785. The Society immediately began the excavation of the cellar of the new building. However, fundraising proceeded slowly, and the building took four years to construct, the final money needed to complete it coming by way of a loan from Society member Benjamin Franklin.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Philosophical Hall provided a place for the APSs meetings, as well as for its offices and library. The building was larger than the Societys requirements, and it rented out rooms. Classes for the University of Pennsylvania were held here for several years. Charles Willson Peale located his Philadelphia Museum here for several years. Government also rented space—including the city and the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The Society finally ended its practice of renting space in 1934, when a significant bequest from a member placed it on a sound financial footing.</p><br>
<p>The Society considered leaving Philosophical Hall several times; once when the city sought to acquire the building as a courthouse, however the parties could not agree on a price. In the early 20th century, the Society considered a move to the newly constructed boulevard, the Benjamin Franklin Parkway. Planners hoped to lure intellectual groups to offices on the Parkway. The Society&#39;s membership considered this several times, but the 1934 bequest put an end to the discussions; the APS remained at Philosophical Hall. In 1890, the APS built a third story onto Philosophical Hall to house the expanding needs of its library, but the addition was considered ugly and was removed in 1949, after the library moved to other space.</p><br>
<p>Today, Philosophical Hall provides space for the APS&#39;s offices, but not its meetings—those moved to Benjamin Franklin Hall, about a block away, in 1993. It is today the only privately owned structure on Independence Square.</p><br>
<p>Sia Kangri  is a mountain in the Baltoro Muztagh in the Karakoram. Its summit is the tripoint of territory controlled by India, China and Pakistan where the Actual Ground Position Line between Indian and Pakistani forces meets Chinese-controlled territory. Territories on all sides are disputed. The land immediately to the southwest of the peak is claimed by both Pakistan and India and controlled by Pakistan. The land to the northeast is part of the Trans Karakoram Tract, controlled by China under a 1963 border agreement with Pakistan but claimed by India. The land to the southeast is claimed by Pakistan and India, but controlled by India, as a part of its Siachen glacier territory.</p><br>
<p>It is the 63rd highest mountain in the world, and the 25th highest in Pakistan. The peak is on the watershed between the Indus River basin and the Tarim Basin. Indira Col is 3 km to the east. Sia Kangri (24,350 ft) is India’s northernmost point.</p><br>
<p>Sia Kangri was first climbed in 1934 by the International Himalaya Expedition led by the Swiss/German Günther Dyhrenfurth. The summit party included Hettie Dyhrenfurth, who thereby set the women&#39;s world altitude record, which stood for 20 years.</p><br>
<p>Kaumakapili Church is a Gothic Revival church located at 766 North King Street in the Kapālama neighborhood of Honolulu, Hawaii. It was originally established on April 1, 1838 at the corner of Smith and Beretania Streets as a Protestant church for common people; the only existing church, the Kawaiahao Church, was attended by nobility. A new brick and wood frame church building with two steeples was built for the church from 1881 to 1888; however, that building was burned along with large areas of Chinatown in an attempt to control an outbreak of bubonic plague. Construction began on a third church building at the current site in 1910; this church, which is still in use, was dedicated in 1911. A $2.4 million restoration project conducted by Mason Architects in 1993 rehabilitated the church, which had been extensively damaged by nature and vandalism.</p><br>
<p>The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 5, 2008.</p><br>
<p>The St. James Episcopal Church is a church located at 25150 East River Road in Grosse Ile, Michigan, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Lisette Denison Forth</h2><br>
<p>Elisabeth (Lisette) Denison Forth was born as a slave in 1786 near Detroit. Her family was owned by William and Catherine Tucker; when William Tucker died, her parents were freed, but Lisette and her brother were not. Later, following a newly established legal precedent, Lisette and her brother crossed into Canada to establish residency and gain their freedom; the two returned to Detroit in approximately 1815.</p><br>
<p>In 1831, she joined the household of John Biddle, mayor of Detroit and founder of Wyandotte, Michigan. During this time, Lisette purchased land and invested her savings in business ventures, reaping a tidy profit. Lisette spent much of her time at Biddles Wyandotte estate, eventually following the Biddles to Philadelphia in 1849 and later to Paris at the request of Biddles wife, Eliza. In fact, Lisette had become good friends with Eliza Biddle, and the two women, both Episcopalians, made a vow to eventually build a chapel.</p><br>
<p>Lisette returned to Michigan in 1856, entering the employ of John Biddles son, William S. Biddle, at his estate on Grosse Ile, She died on August 7, 1866 (shortly after Eliza Biddles death), and is interred in Elmwood Cemetery.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>When Lisette Denison Forth died, she willed a portion of her estate to her family and the rest, some $3,000, James Biddle also built an altar cross, and a kneeling bench and reading stand for the minister.</p><br>
<p>Bishop Samuel Allen McCoskry consecrated the church in July 1868; in his later report to the diocese, he stated:</p><br>
<p>In 1898, a large Tiffany glass window was installed in the church, donated by Col. John Biddle (William&#39;s son) in memory of his mother Susan. A larger church was constructed on the site in 1958, and the 1867 structure serves as a chapel for the new church. The red doors of the structure are dedicated to the memory and benevolence of Lisette Denison Forth.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Saint James Episcopal Church is a front-gable, Carpenter Gothic frame structure. The walls a vertical board and batten, and pierced vergeboards line the gables. The entrance is located on one side under a gable, and a frame steeple tops the church. The building has stained glass lancet windows, including the 1898 Tiffany window, Angel of Praise, which measures 11 feet by 5 feet 6 inches (3.4 m by 1.7 m). In the years since its construction, the church has undergone several repairs and had multiple additions, but the main structure remains substantially original and in excellent condition.</p><br>
<p>The Berckelman River is a river in the Kimberley of Western Australia.</p><br>
<p>The headwaters of the river rise in the Harding Range and flow in a north-westerly direction before discharging into the Sale River, of which it is a tributary.</p><br>
<p>The river was named the Berckelman on 13 June 1865 by Trevarton Charles Sholl while on an exploratory expedition from the short-lived Camden Harbour settlement (in Camden Sound). Sholl named the river after his mother, Mary Ann Sholl, née Berckelman (1822-1889).</p><br>
<p>TC Sholls father RJ Sholl was the Government Resident of the North District: all of the Colony of Western Australia north of the Murchison River. TC Sholl was his fathers Clerk, Tidewaiter, Postmaster and Assistant Registrar for the North District. At the time, the Government Resident&#39;s office was based at Camden Harbor, but was transferred to the Tien Tsin Harbor (later Cossack) area in November 1865.</p><br>
