<p>The Bandera County Courthouse and Jail are two separate historic county governmental buildings located near each other in Bandera, Bandera County, Texas, The Bandera County Courthouse, built in 1890 at the corner of Main and Pecan streets, is a Renaissance Revival style building designed by San Antonio architect B.F. Trester. It is three-story building with a central clock tower made from rusticated limestone cut from a local quarry. The current jail is a non-historic, modern facility located along State Highway 16 on the north end of town.</p><br>
<h2>Former courthouse and jail</h2><br>
<p>Bandera County was organized in 1856 and used makeshift quarters for jail and courthouse functions until 1877, when the county purchased a two-story stone building constructed in 1868 which is now known as the Old Courthouse. The building served as county courthouse until the present courthouse was built in 1891. A former one-story cut stone jail adjacent to the Old Courthouse designed by San Antonio architect Alfred Giles was built in 1881. On October 31, 1979, the two buildings, located on 12th St. between Maple St. and SH 16, were added to the National Register of Historic Places as a single entry. The two buildings are also jointly listed as a State Antiquities Landmark.</p><br>
<p>Druim Moir, also known as the Houston Estate Historic District, is a historic district in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>Druim Moir was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is a contributing property of the Chestnut Hill National Historic District.</p><br>
<p>"Druim Moir" means Great Ridge in Scottish Gaelic.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The centerpiece of the historic district is Druim Moir Castle (1885–86), whose main gate is at the corner of Willow Grove Avenue and Cherokee Street. Designed by architects G. W. & W. D. Hewitt, and built at a cost of over $115,000 for Henry H. Houston, the thirty-room home was the largest in its neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>Local Wissahickon schist was used for the walls, Eastern granite for the trim, and slate for the roof. The interior is notable for the variety of woods utilized: oak for the hall and stairway, butternut walnut for the parlor, mahogany for the reception room, quartered oak in the dining room and library, sycamore for the office, and cypress for the servants section. Oak, cherry, and sycamore were used on the second floor, and white pine was used for the servants quarters on the third floor.</p><br>
<p>Houston was the largest landowner in Philadelphia in the 1880s. He earned his wealth as the freight manager of the Pennsylvania Railroad, as well as from gold mining, shipping, and petroleum products. Houston also developed the neighborhood of over 80 homes known as Wissahickon Heights that surrounds Druim Moir.</p><br>
<p>Nearby Brinkwood, a Shingle-style residence, was a wedding present from Houston to his son, Samuel F. Houston, in 1887.</p><br>
<p>The gardens were altered in 1920-1921 by Robert Rodes McGoodwin for Samuel F. Houston. In 1952, the house was modified by the removal of the top story and towers.</p><br>
<p>In addition to the eponymous castle and Brinkwood, the historic district comprises five other contributing properties and eight non-contributing properties.</p><br>
<p>The Maxwell Woodhull House is a historic residence located at 2033 G Street in Northwest Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was constructed in 1855 for Maxwell Woodhull, who was a commander in the United States Navy.</p><br>
<p>William Henry Seward lived in the house between 1855 and 1858 during his second term as Senator from New York. Seward later served as Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. He was an outspoken critic of slavery, was responsible for the Alaska Purchase, and was a major figure in the founding of the modern Republican Party.</p><br>
<p>In 1921 it was donated to George Washington University by Maxwell Van Zandt Woodhull, son of the original owner, and a brigadier general in the United States Army. General Woodhull served as a trustee of the university and had an important role in development of the university. The Woodhull Memorial Flagstaff at Arlington National Cemetery is dedicated in memory of the Woodhulls.</p><br>
<p>The house is designed in the Italianate style, though the architect is unknown. It sits at the intersection of G and 20th streets, in a block known as Square 102. It is a two-story, brick building. The main facade facing G Street contains the front door, set back within an arched entryway. On either side of the entrance, window bays protrude from the main structure. On the second floor, windows sit directly above the first floor door and windows.</p><br>
<p>Maxwell Van Zandt Woodhull was elected a trustee of the university in 1911, and influenced the University Board to move their primary offices from the central business district to a rented building at 2023 G Street. The next year they purchased the building at 2023 and began renting and purchasing others in the immediate area surrounding the Woodhull House. The university used the buildings surrounding Woodhulls as a starting point in relocating the center of campus to the Foggy Bottom neighborhood, and greatly developed the immediate area. Woodhull was also responsible for establishing a student artillery corps, which helped to maintain the universitys enrollment during World War I.</p><br>
<p>The building served as the headquarters of the George Washington University Police until 2012, when the police moved to the Academic Center.</p><br>
<p>The George D. Oakley House at 2110 Kakela Place in Honolulu, Hawaii, was built in 1929 in the English Cottage style of architecture popular in Hawaii during the 1920s and 1930s. This house is one of the finest of only two dozen or so extant houses of similar style in the state. Signature elements of the style include asymmetrical massing, a roof shaped to resemble thatch, a gable with half-timbered facade, a king post truss ceiling, diamond-shaped casement windows, decorative as well as functional wrought iron, and even a tiny window in the chimney. Its architect was Miles H. Gray, an engineer with the USA Army Quartermaster Corps. The basement floor of acid-stained decorative concrete is also a rare surviving example of a technique pioneered by Robert D. Lammens during the 1920s. The house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>A native of Scotland, George Oakley arrived in Hawaii during the 1910s by way of the continental USA In 1920 he married Dean Spry and they lived in Kāneohe, where he managed a pineapple farm. After the farm ceased operations in 1923, he found work as a linotype operator and writer for the local newspapers until he retired in 1948. During the 1930s he served as music editor for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin, writing a regular column, "Music on the Tradewinds." The family also started a business to promote musical concerts, Artists&#39; Services of Honolulu, which between the 1930s and early 1960s brought famous talents to perform in Honolulu, including Yehudi Menuhin, Arthur Rubenstein, and</p><br>
<p>the Vienna Boys Choir.</p><br>
<p>After the death of their daughter, Nancy Oakley Hedemann, in 2010, the house was put on the market, with a list price of $1.2 million.</p><br>
<p>The Willard Library is a private donation library incorporated in 1881 to serve the city of Evansville and to carry out the terms of a private trust. Willard Library houses a trove of local archives and genealogical materials, in addition to its collection of standard publications. It is built in the Gothic Revival style and designed by James W. Reid . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Willard Carpenter, Evansville&#39;s "pioneer of public charity," built and endowed Willard Library. He established a trust fund in 1876 about which he wrote:</p><br>
<p>An agent for the Underground Railroad before the Civil War, Mr. Carpenter incorporated his concern for the rights of African Americans into his requirement that the library "be maintained for the free use of all persons who may desire to consult it." This definition of a "public" library was a daring social experiment in the latter half of the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>The library was named "Willard Library" rather than "Carpenter Library" because, while living in Troy, New York, Carpenter became enamored with the Emma Willard School, a Troy female seminary founded by Emma Willard. He decided to found an educational institution and name it "Willard". Although initially conceived as a college, the idea was refocused to constructing a library.</p><br>
<p>The library building was started in 1876 at First Avenue and Pennsylvania Streets in Carpenters field, a place where circuses once pitched their tents. A depressed economy halted construction in 1877. The buildings foundation lay for five years unfinished. The building was resumed in 1882 and Carpenter devoted the rest of his life to the supervision of the building. He worked with the architects, hired the workmen himself, and saw to it that only the best materials were used. Reid & Reid became the architects and are credited with the design of the superstructure. The formal opening was held March 28, 1885.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The library is built with the characteristic features of Victorian Gothic architecture. Notable architectural features employing this style include the tower, steeply pitched roofs with ornamental gables, color contrast resulting from the use of white stone and brick, and window arcades with Gothic arches. The capitals supporting the arcade arches were apparently only roughed out prior to the carving, which was never completed. Terra cotta was used extensively for exterior decoration in the form of rosettes and owls (symbols of wisdom) in roundels seen in the side gables.</p><br>
<p>The interior woodwork is finished in select quarter-grain oak. The doorways and grand staircase make an imposing entrance, also in the style of Victorian Gothic architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Governance</h2><br>
<p>Willard has a self-perpetuating seven-member board of directors. During all periods of its operation, Willard has been and continues to be open and free to residents of Vanderburgh County and neighboring counties. It also receives public financial support through a tax levy, though this tax levy must be approved by the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.</p><br>
<h2>Haunting</h2><br>
<p>The Willard Library is purported to be haunted by a specter known as the "Lady in Grey".</p><br>
<p>The Gruta das Cinco Ribeiras  is a cave situated in the southwest coast of Terceira, located in the civil parish of Cinco Ribeiras, municipality of Angra do Heroísmo, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.</p><br>
<p>The cave is situated along the coast near the Porto das Cinco Ribeiras and the surrounding bay, primarily accessible by boat from along the coast.</p><br>
<p>The geological formation is directly related with the former-volcano of Serra de Santa Bárbara, and is characterized by high areals, lava flows and pyroclasts that created perfect stratifications of geological materials. It is associated specifically with a lava tube and arches created during the eruptions of the Santa Bárbara volcano. The morphology of the location allowed the formation of subaquatic caves popular with divers. Although there are various depths associated with the site, its maximum depth extent is 16 m, resulting in several small galleries and interspersed by stone, cliffs and sandy shallows.</p><br>
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<p>Gruta das Agulhas  is a cave located along the promontory of Ponta dos Coelhos, in the Bay of Refugo, in the civil parish of Porto Judeu, in the municipality of Angra do Heroísmo, the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.</p><br>
<p>The cave is situated along the coast of Salga, along the high cliffs of the promontory, formed from an accumulation of lava flows. It was formed during the eruption of the volcano associated with the Algar do Carvão, which flowed to the sea, arriving at the coast of Serretinha, in the civil parish of Feteira. The flow spread to Porto Judeu, forming a coastal geomorphology of black basalt of large dimensions, arribas and coves of dangerous cliffs. As the lava, which was primarily aa and pahoehoe, flowed into these tubes slowly decreased, it left hollow caverns opening into galleries, some of various kilometres of length.</p><br>
<p>It obtained its name from the great quantity of needle-like sedimentary deposited on the rocks and ceiling of the lava tube, ranging from.2 -. The 250.5 m gallery is situated over a smaller gallery that is 30 m wide. The tube&#39;s extent is carved by layers (or steps) sculpted by various lava flow cycles. The Gruta das Agulhas is at its highest point 5.4 m and at the widest point 4.5 m.</p><br>
<p>The cave was discovered and explored until its exit at the sea by the Associação Espeleológica Os Montanheiros in 1967. Since it was discovered, the cave has been studied for its varied fauna and geological importance. Of note, were species of Troglofauna, including Pseudoblothrus vulcanus, Macarorchestia martini and Pseudosinella ashmoleorum, in addition to endemic species like Phthiracarus falciformis, Orchestia chevreuxi and Pseudosinella azorica.</p><br>
<p>Eventually, the space was illuminated and an entranceway constructed to restrict access into the space by Os Montanheiros. Due to sea erosion, access was restricted to the public.</p><br>
<p>The Lagoa do Negro is a ephemeral lake and humid zone located in the civil parish of Biscoitos, municipality of Praia da Vitória, on the island of Terceira, Portuguese archipelago of the Azores.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It a small kettle-like ephemeral lake that was first referred to during the primordial period of human settlement on the island of Terceira.</p><br>
<p>Legend suggests in the early settlement on the island there existed a noble family, who owned black slaves. The daughter of the Majorat at the time was obliged to participate in a marriage of convenience, in order to increase their landholdings and wealth. It was a loveless marriage and she began an illicit affair with one of her slaves. Eventually, they realized that the only way to fulfill their life was to escape their life together. But, her husband had ordered her handmaid to follow her, and having been relayed their encounters, he ordered the capture of the slave. After hearing hunting dogs, and knowing that it was not a hunting day, realized he was being hunted and escaped to the island interior. After a day and noite of flight he was consigned to his fate, and began to cry. As the legend suggested, his tears multiplied, forming a small pond alongside a woodlot. With his persuers quickly closing in on horseback, the desperate slave threw himself into the dark waters and drowned.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>It is situated in a zone of scoria cones that form the Serra de Santa Bárbara, along the edge of a Cryptomeria forest and flanked by Pico do Gaspar. Within a mesotrophic humid zone consisting of aquatic vegetation, including specifically Littorela uniflora and Isoëtes azorica. It</p><br>
<p>Nearby is the Gruta do Natal, a lava tube cavern system, formed from volcanic eruptions along the Serra de Santa Bárbara system.</p><br>
<p>In 2010 an experimental project was undertaken to recover the biodiversity of the lake, settle migratory birds and transform it for sustainable ecotourism. Researcher Eduardo Dias, a plant ecologists indicated that recovery project assumed "birds were the key role in the creation of biodiversity" and that trails had been poorly designed, creating a constant human presence, that prevented the establishment of bird species. Part of the Central Plateau, it is an area to safeguard migratory birds, including more than 150 terrestrial and marine species. The area of intervention included 5 hectare, with 3 hectare buffer used to support the area of conservation. Owing to the efforts in the region, the Whiskered tern returned to the area after an absence of 50 year, in addition to the nocturnal herons. Further, the investigation of surrounding peatlands was undertaken to determine their types, uses and restoration. This included the introduction of rare endemic species of flora, such as Marsillia Azorica (which is rare throughout the world), and the creation of a ecological corridor between the hills of Santa Bárbara and Pico Alto.</p><br>
<p>The Sugar Grove Petroglyphs are a group of petroglyphs in the southwestern part of the USA state of Pennsylvania. Located on an outcrop of sandstone in Monongahela Township near the eastern edge of Greene County, the petroglyphs have been known since at least the 1930s. Due to their value as an archaeological site, the petroglyphs have been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Creation</h2><br>
<p>It is certain that the Sugar Grove Petroglyphs are the work of a Native American people, although the cultural affiliation of their creators is unknown. Among the cultures that archaeologists have seen as possible creators are the Monongahela or Fort Ancient, both of which are known to have inhabited the upper portions of the Ohio River valley. In his 1974 monograph Rock Art of the Upper Ohio Valley, petroglyph specialist James L. Swauger argued for a Monongahela-related and proto-Shawnee identity of the creators; this conclusion he drew from the presence of carvings that he interpreted as representations of Ojibwe religious subjects. Although the Ojibwe never inhabited southwestern Pennsylvania, Swauger believed that the ancestors of the Shawnee shared these subjects as part of a common cultural heritage.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The petroglyphs were carved into the flat portion of a large outcrop of Dunkard-series sandstone; it rises somewhat more than 4 ft above the ground on its western side, but its other edges are level with the floor of the surrounding woodland. The petroglyphs are confined to a roughly square area of the stone that measures approximately 23 ft on each side, although most appear on the eastern side and center of this area.</p><br>
<h2>Carvings</h2><br>
<p>Forty-eight different carvings are present on the sandstone; although most are Native American artwork, a few have been added by vandals since white settlement of southwestern Pennsylvania. Swauger grouped the designs into six categories, as follows:</p><br>
<p>Identification of the various designs has been complicated by erosion; some designs, especially those that are clustered closely together, have deteriorated and are thus difficult to classify conclusively. Among the most difficult are the carvings that were identified as bird tracks; they may have originally been abstract designs or arrowheads. Likewise, many abstract designs may have been created as identifiable designs, with their present conditions being the result of vandalism, later Native American carvings, or erosion. The most distinctive image on the rock is a large, almost circular animal that appears to be swallowing its tail; due to its unique shape and great size its diameter is approximately 5 ft, it has been seen as the most important single petroglyph at the site. It has been claimed that the site was damaged by quarrying circa 1950, but the only damage visible in a 1960 survey was small bits of stone that had been chipped away, possibly by vandals attempting to remove individual carvings. A 1982 survey discovered that the site had not changed since the 1960 survey.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>Locals have long known the petroglyphs as the "Picture Rocks;" its original scholarly recognition was under this name, producing confusion in archaeological records after the site was separately recorded under the name of "Sugar Grove Petroglyphs." The first appearance of the Sugar Grove Petroglyphs in scholarly literature was no later than 1931, when they were given a short appearance in an archaeological survey of adjacent Fayette County. More detailed surveys in 1934 and 1950 led respectively to the publication of detailed drawings of the designs and to formal recognition as an archaeological site.</p><br>
<p>Finding preservation of the designs to be a priority, the Carnegie Museum of Natural History arranged for the production of plaster casts of the designs during the twentieth century. Sugar Grove has been seen as one of western Pennsylvania&#39;s most important petroglyph sites: although it is smaller than many others, its location has spared it from the fate of many waterside petroglyphs that have been submerged by the construction of major dams, and it has suffered less vandalism than many other sites that occupy dry ground.</p><br>
<p>In recognition of their archaeological value, the Sugar Grove Petroglyphs were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. They are one of four petroglyph sites in Pennsylvania to have received this designation, along with the Indian God Rock in Venango County, the Francis Farm Petroglyphs in Fayette County, and the Big and Little Indian Rock Petroglyphs in Lancaster County.</p><br>
<p>The Bastrop County Courthouse is a historic courthouse built in 1883 at 803 Pine St, Bastrop, Texas. The Renaissance Revival style building was designed by Jasper N. Preston and F.E. Ruffini. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 20, 1975.</p><br>
<p>Bastrop County was organized in 1837 and several houses served as early courthouses. A brick courthouse with a jail was built on the courthouse square in 1851 and used until it burned in 1883. The present courthouse was erected immediately after the fire. The courthouse is a three-story, stuccoed brick, structure with a copper-domed clock tower in the center of a flat roof. Originally, the building was not stuccoed. The stucco was added in a remodeling in 1924. Also at this time, the dome was lowered and various architectural details were removed giving the building a Neoclassical look. The addition of a wing to the south of the original building occurred in 1953-1954. The Austin architectural firm of Page, Southerland and Page designed the south wing.</p><br>
<p>The three-story tan and red brick old Bastrop County Jail, opened in 1892, also stands on the courthouse square. The jail was remodeled in 1925 including improvements to the ventilating, heating and sewage systems. In 1971, a new jail and sheriff&#39;s office were built on the courthouse square immediately to the southeast of the courthouse. The building ceased to be a jail in 1974 and was converted to office space. The courthouse and jail were renovated again in 1990. The courthouse square in Bastrop is surrounded mostly by houses and a church as opposed to the commercial buildings that surround the typical Texas courthouse square.</p><br>
<p>The county jail was moved to a new sheriff&#39;s office complex a mile southeast of the courthouse, and an annex to the courthouse was added on the square and dedicated in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander Macomb House at 39–41 Broadway in Manhattan served as the second Presidential Mansion. President George Washington occupied it from February 23 to August 30, 1790, during New York City&#39;s two-year term as the national capital.</p><br>
<p>Alexander Macomb (1748–1831) was an Irish-born American merchant and land speculator. He built the four-story city house on the west side of Broadway in 1786–88. Macomb leased it to the French Minister Plenipotentiary, the Comte de Moustier, who occupied it until his return to Paris in early 1790. President Washington purchased furniture, mirrors and draperies from the departing Minister with his own money, including American-made furniture in the French style. Some of these items survive at Mount Vernon and elsewhere.</p><br>
<p>The first Presidential Mansion was the Samuel Osgood House at 3 Cherry Street in Manhattan, which Washington occupied from April 23, 1789 to February 23, 1790. He had been living there a week before his April 30, 1789, inauguration as the first President of the United States. The Osgood House (demolished 1856) was in the most congested part of Manhattan, near the port along the East River, and Washington found it cramped for his presidential household. The Macomb House was significantly larger, located in a neighborhood just north of the Bowling Green, with an extraordinary view of the Hudson River out its rear windows.</p><br>
<p>The presidential household functioned with staff of about 20, composed of wage workers, indentured servants and enslaved servants. Slavery was legal in New York, and Washington brought 7 enslaved Africans from Mount Vernon to work in his presidential household: William Lee, Christopher Sheels, Giles, Paris, Austin, Moll, and Oney Judge.</p><br>
<p>Two of Martha Washington&#39;s grandchildren were part of the First Family: Nelly Custis (born 1779) and "Wash" Custis (born 1781).</p><br>
<p>Under the July 1790 Residence Act, the national capital moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, for a 10-year period while the permanent national capital was under construction in the District of Columbia. Washington vacated the Macomb House on August 30, 1790, and returned to Mount Vernon, stopping in Philadelphia to examine what was to become the third Presidential Mansion, the President&#39;s House in Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>In 1821, the Macomb House became Bunker&#39;s Mansion House Hotel.</p><br>
<p>In 1939, the Daughters of the Revolution erected a bronze plaque at 39 Broadway.</p><br>
<p>The Deaf Smith County Historical Museum in Hereford in Deaf Smith County, Texas, seeks to preserve the West Texas pioneer heritage with a collection of both indoor and outdoor exhibits. The county is named for Erastus "Deaf" Smith, a famous scout during the Texas Revolution.</p><br>
<p>The museum was organized in 1967 by the Deaf Smith County Historical Society. It is located north of the county courthouse at 400 Sampson Street in a red brick former Roman Catholic school building, listed as an "Official Texas Historical Site.""Hereford,</p><br>
<p>Texas," Texas State Travel Guide, 2010, p. 127 The museum promotes the theme of "How Our Pioneers Lived, Worked and Played". School or group tours are available by appointment. An annual Christmas open house features seasonal entertainment, special activities, and holiday refreshments. Other events are hosted to commemorate special occasions.</p><br>
<h2>Museum exhibits</h2><br>
<p>The indoor exhibits on the first floor include recreations of a general store, which became a social wedding and engagement centre in the 19th century as well as the source of needed goods. A non-denominational chapel includes artefacts, including stained-glass windows, from the first churches built in the county. It is sometimes used for small weddings. There is an early-day kitchen with a cast-iron cook stove and a primitive ice box. A restored bedroom depicts furniture purchased from local stores in the early 1900&#39;s, including a washstand, dresser, and bed. A parlour shows a later period as Hereford had prospered to allow citizens to own nice furniture, a pump organ, and other items for family entertainment.</p><br>
<p>The museum has a display of arrow points, pottery, tools and other Indian artifacts donated from a private collection. There is a one-room school; a hand-carved three-ring circus, and a women&#39;s clothing shop. Items from an Italian POW camp during World War II near Hereford are also highlighted. There are also paintings, including portraits of Deaf Smith, Francisco Coronado, and Ranald S. Mackenzie and scenes of a 19th-century homestead and a cattle drive.</p><br>
<p>The outside exhibits include a half-dugout, a first residence for many settlers on the Great Plains, where the absence of forests and lack of available stone required digging into the ground. An Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway caboose, a wooden windmill, early jail cells, farm implements, and a wagon barn with a chuckwagon, originally developed by Charles Goodnight, are displayed outside.</p><br>
<h2>E. B. Black House</h2><br>
<p>The historical society also exhibits the E. B. Black House, a Victorian residence at 508 West Third Street in Hereford. It was built in 1909 by Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Black, ranchers who also owned a furniture company. Jim Black, the oldest son of the E. B. Blacks, died in 1976. His widow, Prudish Black, donated the house to the historical society. The house has been renovated, and a flower garden and gazebo were added. The Texas Historical Commission has designated the house a state landmark. It is also entered in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Dr. Archibald Neil Sinclair House on Puu Pueo  overlooking Mānoa Valley and Diamond Head on the island of Oahu was built in 1917 in a Colonial Revival style designed by a leading local architectural firms, Emory and Webb, who also designed the Hawaii Theatre and other fine buildings on the island. The large, sloping property has two entrances: one below the front lawn at 2726 Hillside Ave., the other above the house at 2725 Terrace Dr., Honolulu, Hawaii. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The two-story, wood frame, 2,811 sq. ft. main house is a fine example of the Colonial Revival style as adapted to Hawaii, with extensive verandahs and balconies outside and open spaces inside delineated by columns rather than walls. Its foundation rests on lava rock and redwood piles. There is a separate, 240 sq. ft. maid&#39;s quarters and garage accessible from Terrace Drive and an underground bomb shelter (added later) below the front lawn.</p><br>
<p>Dr. Sinclair (b. 20 January 1871) was a prominent physician whose father had come to Honolulu from New York to supervise the construction of Iolani Palace. He attended Punahou School then obtained a medical degree from the University of Glasgow in Scotland in 1894. He began his medical practice in England before returning to Honolulu, where he served with the United States Public Health Service (1900&ndash;1919), as city physician (1901&ndash;1909), and as founding director of Leahi Home for tuberculosis patients (1901). His published research in the fields of bacteriology, immunology, and pulmonary diseases earned him induction into the American College of Physicians and other medical societies. The Sinclair Society of pulmonary specialists is named for him.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in the College Hills tract (named for Oahu College, now Punahou School), a rapidly expanding suburb of Honolulu that was newly served by the extension of electric streetcar lines into Mānoa in 1901 and the relocation of the College of Hawaii to Mānoa in 1912. Many later residents of the house have been students and faculty of the University, the most notable being Janet Bell, who served as curator of the Hawaiian Collection from 1936 until 1970.</p><br>
<p>Lamotrek is a coral atoll of three islands in the central Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district in Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia. The atoll is located approximately 11 km east of Elato.</p><br>
<p>The population of Lamotrek was 373 in 2000, living on almost 1 km.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The atoll is 11.5 km long northeast-southeast, and up to 6.5 km wide. Its total land area is only 0.982 km&sup2, but it encloses a lagoon of 32 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>Among the individual islets are the following:</p><br>
<p>Falaite (northwest)</p><br>
<p>Pugue (northeast)</p><br>
<p>Lamotrek (southeast)</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Before European rule, Lamotrek was invaded by Ifalik during Mweoiush&#39;s reign, with aid from the Mailiyas. As with all of the Caroline Islands, sovereignty passed to the Empire of Germany in 1899. The island came under the control of the Empire of Japan after World War I, and was subsequently administered under the South Pacific Mandate. Following World War II, the island came under the control of the United States of America and was administered as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947, and became part of the Federated States of Micronesia from 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Further reading</h2><br>
<p>Werle, Kerstin J. S.: Landscape of Peace: Mechanisms of Social Control on Lamotrek Atoll, Micronesia.. Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS, 2014. (print); (eBook)</p><br>
<p>Elato is a coral atoll of three islands in the central Caroline Islands in the Pacific Ocean, and forms a legislative district in Yap State in the Federated States of Micronesia. It is located approximately 10 km west of Lamotrek.</p><br>
<p>Its population was 96 in 2000, living on 0.5 km.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island is a double atoll forming the number eight, with a total length of 14 km, and up to 2 km wide. The northern component, called Elato, contains two lagoons and three islets. It is connected to the southern component, called Lamolior, by a narrow submarine ridge. Lamolior has two islets. Both components are part of the same seamount. The total land area for both components combined is only 0.526 km&sup2;. Nearby Olimarao Atoll belongs administratively to Elato.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>As with all of the Caroline Islands, sovereignty passed to the Empire of Germany in 1899. The island came under the control of the Empire of Japan after World War I, and was subsequently administered under the South Pacific Mandate. Following World War II, the island came under the control of the United States of America and was administered as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands from 1947, and became part of the Federated States of Micronesia from 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Foot Hills State Forest is a state forest located in Cass, and Hubbard counties, Minnesota. The forest is a popular recreation spot due to its proximity to the greater Minneapolis – Saint Paul metropolitan area.</p><br>
<p>At the turn of the twentieth century the land where the forest is now located, along with the majority of Minnesota, was logged and opened to homesteading, however the area proved unsuitable for agriculture. Many homesteads were abandoned after the old-growth forests were logged and the logging companies ceased the upkeep of their railroads, making the homesteads isolated. With the elimination of the red pine and eastern white pine that originally dominated the landscape, secondary successional species such as the northern hardwoods (aspen, red maple, paper birch, and sugar maple), red oak, and bur oak, established and are now the principal tree species in the forest. Although the species are no longer common in the forest, 36 acre of red pine and 30 acre of black ash are designated old-growth and are exempt from harvesting.</p><br>
<p>The hundreds of small lakes and potholes in the forest, formed during the Wisconsin glaciation, make boating, swimming, canoeing, and kayaking popular recreation activities. They also make the forest an attraction for many bird and waterfowl species. Rookeries for the great blue heron are present in the forest, as are mallards and wood ducks. North American beavers also use the abundance of aspen in the forest to build dens.</p><br>
<p>Other outdoor recreational activities include hiking and mountain biking on provided trails, as well as backcountry camping. Trails include 40 mi available for Class I and II all-terrain vehicle use as well as dirt biking, and 11 mi designated for other off-road vehicles. 8.6 mi are also designated for cross-country skiing.</p><br>
<p>Mont Albert is a mountain in the Chic-Choc range in the Gaspésie National Park in the Gaspé Peninsula of eastern Quebec, Canada. At 1,151 m, it is one of the highest mountains in southern Quebec, and is popular for hiking.</p><br>
<p>Mount Albert was named in honour of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, husband of Queen Victoria, because geologist Alexander Murray made the first recorded ascent of the mountain on the Prince&#39;s birthday, 26 Aug. 1845.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The summit of Mount Albert is a plateau 13 km across called La Table à Moïse, or Moses&#39;s Table. It includes two summits, Albert North (1,070 m) and Albert South (1,151 –). Each of the summits is situated at either side of the plateau.</p><br>
<p>The principal component of Mont Albert is an unusual kind of bedrock called serpentine; this originated as oceanic crust and was then uplifted during the formation of the Appalachian Mountains about 480 million years ago.</p><br>
<p>The ascent of Mount Albert from near sea level is challenging, but popular with hikers, offering a view of the St. Lawrence and the Côte-Nord, the river&#39;s north shore, part of the ancient bedrock of the Canadian Shield.</p><br>
<p>The General C. C. Andrew State Forest is a state forest located in Pine County, Minnesota. The forest is named in honor of major general Christopher Columbus Andrews, a Civil War veteran, and an early Minnesota state Forestry Commissioner and proponent for scientific forestry and forest management. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources manages the majority of the forest.</p><br>
<p>At the turn of the twentieth century the land where the forest is now located, along with the majority of Minnesota, was logged and opened to homesteading, however the sandy soil make the area unsuitable for agriculture. Many homesteads were abandoned and returned to the county up until the end of the Great Depression, when in 1939 the state purchased land for the General Andrews State Forest Nursery, a tree nursery. Four years later the land the nursery and the surrounding land were incorporated as a state forest.</p><br>
<p>Jack Pine and Red Pine dominate the rolling terrain and sandy soils of the forest, which are a result of the glacial outwash that occurred at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation. Acres of Paper Birch, aspen, and Red Oak are also present. There is boating access and a pier on the Willow River, which runs through the forest.</p><br>
<p>Other outdoor recreational activities include mountain biking, cross-country skiing, and horseback riding, as well as camping on a site adjacent to the Willow River. Trails include 40 mi for hiking, 37 mi available for Class I and II all-terrain vehicle use as well as dirt biking.</p><br>
<p>The French invasion of Saint Kitts also known as the Siege of Brimstone Hill  was a siege of the American Revolutionary War. After landing on Saint Kitts, the French troops of the Marquis de Bouillé stormed and besieged Brimstone Hill, and after a month of siege the heavily outnumbered and cut-off British garrison surrendered. The Comte de Grasse, who delivered de Bouillés troops and supported the siege, was outmanoeuvred and deprived of his anchorage by Admiral Hood. Even though Hoods force was inferior by one-third, de Grasse was beaten off when he attempted to dislodge Hood. Hood&#39;s attempts to relieve the ongoing siege were unsuccessful, and the garrison capitulated after one month.</p><br>
<p>About a year later, the Treaty of Paris restored Saint Kitts and adjacent Nevis to British rule.</p><br>
<h2>French capture</h2><br>
<p>De Grasse set sail from Martinique, reaching Saint Kitts by 11 January. The British had already retired into their stronghold under Brigadier General Fraser, so the French landing forces disembarked without opposition and began to besiege them on January 19. In concert with the Governor of the French West Indies, François Claude Amour%2C marquis de Bouillé, an attack by De Grasse upon Barbados was previously planned, but adverse winds forced them to return to Martinique, and then onwards to Saint Kitts.</p><br>
<p>On 24 January, 22 British warships under Admiral Hood were sighted near Nevis intending to reinforce Saint Kitts. De Grasse went out to intercept then, but by dawn the next day Hood had veered towards Montserrat, and contrary east-southeast winds impeded the French from reaching the British before they had circled north around Nevis and dropped anchor off Basseterre. De Grasse attacked the anchored British fleet on both the morning and afternoon of 26 January, but was beaten off, disembarkation proceeding apace. During these naval engagements, the French suffered 107 killed and 207 wounded, compared to 72 dead and 244 injured for the British. On 28 January, the 1,200-man British vanguard advanced against the town of Basseterre under General Prescott, while its French occupiers fought a delaying action under Colonel de Fléchin with 274 men of the regiments of Agenois and Touraine until the Marquis de Bouillé could hasten reinforcements across the island.</p><br>
<p>Prescotts drive was eventually repelled, but otherwise French efforts continued to be hampered by the loss of their field artillery in a wreck while approaching Saint Kitts and the capture of an ammunition ship by one of Hood’s frigates. The governor sent artillery and ammunition to Fraser which were intercepted by the inhabitants, and by them deliberately made over to the French. Defending the fort at Brimstone Hill were the 1st Battalion of the 1st Foot (approximately 700), flank companies of the 15th Foot (approximately 120), Royal Artillery detachment, and many militia. By 12 February, Frasers little garrison, having lost over 150 killed and wounded, besides many men out of action through sickness, was exhausted. Additionally, there were breaches in the walls, and many of the militia petitioned to surrender. Fraser had no alternative but to negotiate a surrender, which included marching out with the honors or war. The next day, de Grasse ventured to Nevis to meet an arriving convoy of French victuallers, while Hood availed himself of the opportunity to escape in the opposite direction on the morning of 14 February.</p><br>
<h2>Additional reading</h2><br>
<p>The Capture of Montserrat was accomplished by a French naval expedition that seized the island of Montserrat from the British on 22 February 1782 during the Anglo-French War.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Following the Franco-American success in the October 1781 Siege of Yorktown, French Admiral François Joseph Paul de Grasse returned to the West Indies to continue campaigning against British-held islands there. In concert with the French governor of the West Indies, the Marquis de Bouillé, he sought to capture Barbados, a key British possession. However, two separate attempts to reach the island (which is to the windward of most of the Caribbean islands and can require a lengthy journey against the prevailing easterly trade winds to reach) failed. The leaders then turned to other targets, beginning with St. Kitts, which was besieged on January 11, 1782. St. Kitts fell on February 13, at which point de Grasse detached a squadron to take Montserrat.</p><br>
<h2>Capture</h2><br>
<p>The Comte de Barras, commander of the squadron, dispatched Count of Flechin; along with 500 men from the Régiment Auxerrois, to capture the island from the British. At the time of its surrender, British artillery on Montserrat consisted of 62 pieces of cannon of different bores and six howitzers.</p><br>
<p>Montserrat was occupied by the French until it was returned pursuant to the terms of the 1783 Treaty of Paris.</p><br>
<p>Varingskollen is a mountain of Akershus, Above Hakadal in southeastern Norway. It is a well known ski resort, 25 minutes by train from Oslo direction Gjøvik, the railway station is Varingskollen.</p><br>
<p>The ski resort consists of six slopes in total, with a FIS approved Giant Slalom / Slalom course called Olaløypa (black course) as the main feature. This slope is 1250 metres long, descending 350 metres from the Varingskollen summit to the valley below. In addition, there are two red courses (Kariløypa - 1600 metres, Terrengparken - 400 metres), one blue course (Hakkebakken, 500 metres), and two green courses (Trollparken - 500 metres, Barnebakken - 100 metres).</p><br>
<p>Further, the ski resort has three cafeterias, slopes for cross country skiing and ski rental possibilities.</p><br>
<p>In the summer, the mountain is used for mountain biking, hiking and wildlife spotting.</p><br>
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<p>Brandsnutene or Brandsnutane is a 1,496 m tall mountain on the border of Aust-Agder and Telemark counties in southern Norway. Is the second highest mountain in Aust-Agder of the mountains with a prominence of at least 50 m. The mountain is located on the border of the municipalities of Bykle  and Tokke . The mountain has a secondary peak of 1,480 m located about 1 km east of the municipal/county border inside Tokke.</p><br>
<p>The mountain sits in the Setesdalsheiene mountains on the east side of the Setesdalen valley. It is part of a line of large mountains marking the county border. The mountain Gråsteinsnosi lies a few kilometers to the north and the mountains of Svolhusgreini and Sæbyggjenuten lie a few kilometers to the south. The nearest village is Berdalen, located on the river Otra, about 10 km to the southwest of the mountain. The lake Byrtevatn in Tokke lies 15 km straight to the east.</p><br>
<p>Stølsdalsnutane or Støylsdalsnutene is a mountain on the border of Aust-Agder and Telemark counties in southern Norway. The 1,438 m tall mountain actually has 3 peaks, all three are just slightly over the border inside Bykle municipality in Aust-Agder, but much of the mountain lies in neighboring Tokke municipality in Telemark. The highest peak, known as Nordvestre Stølsdalsnuten, is the 7th highest peak in Aust-Agder. The second highest of the three peaks, called Nordre Stølsdalsknuten is the 9th highest peak in the county at 1,424 m, and the third peak, known as Sørvestre Stølsdalsknuten, is the 10th highest peak in the county at 1,420 m.</p><br>
<p>The mountain sits in the Setesdalsheiene range, on the east side of the Setesdalen valley in a line of large mountains marking the county border. The mountain Sæbyggjenuten lies about 6 km to the northeast and about 5 km west of the mountain Urdenosi.</p><br>
<p>The George Washington State Forest is a state forest located in Itasca, Koochiching, and Saint Louis counties, Minnesota. The forest was established and named after George Washington in 1931, the first President of the United States, to commemorate the bicentennial of his birth. The forest borders the Chippewa National Forest and completely environs the Scenic State Park to the west, and borders the Sturgeon River State Forest and McCarthy Beach State Park to the east. The Taconite State Trail passes through the forest.</p><br>
<p>Wildfires were common in the area from 1880 to 1930, when the area was logged and homesteaded. The last large fire occurred in 1933. The infrastructure of the forest was expanded largely during the Great Depression. Between 1933 and 1945 three Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camps were located in the forest and were responsible for campground construction, road-building, and soil and water conservation projects. The popularity and breadth of outdoor recreation in the forest are attributed to the work done by the CCC.</p><br>
<p>These outdoor recreational activities include hunting and picnicking. Surface water sports, such as boating, canoeing, kayaking, and fishing are popular on the numerous and prevalent small lakes and rivers. There are eight established campgrounds in the forest, including two horse campgrounds; additionally backcountry camping is an option. Trails include 60 mi available for horseback riding, hiking, mountain biking, and Class I and II all-terrain vehicle use. Around 200 mi are also designated in the wintertime for cross-country skiing and snowmobiling.</p><br>
<p>The Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center is a museum dedicated to the life and works of author Mari Sandoz, and to the High Plains region of the western United States, in which Sandoz grew up, and which was the setting of many of her fictional and non-fictional works. The Center is located on the campus of Chadron State College in Chadron, Nebraska. It occupies the college&#39;s former library building, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Chadron State College</h3><br>
<p>In 1909, the Nebraska state legislature authorized the construction of a new normal school in what was then the Sixth Congressional District. In the following year, the Nebraska Board of Education chose Chadron as the site for the new school. Classes began in the summer of 1911, with an enrollment of 111 students.</p><br>
<p>In 1921, the legislature passed a bill granting the state normal schools the status of teachers colleges. In 1949, the school officially became the Nebraska State Teachers College at Chadron; in 1963, it was given its current name of Chadron State College.</p><br>
<p>From the founding in 1911 to 1938, seven buildings were constructed on the campus. After that, no new major construction was undertaken until 1953.</p><br>
<p>The first seven buildings were the Administration Building, begun in 1910 and dedicated in 1911</p><br>
<p>a women&#39;s dormitory, now Sparks Hall, built in 1914; the gymnasium, now Miller Hall, built in 1920</p><br>
<p>the "training school", now the Hildreth Education Building, built in 1926</p><br>
<p>a library, built in 1929; a new womens dormitory, Womens Hall, now Edna Work Hall, built in 1932; and Crites Hall, built in 1938.</p><br>
<p>The 1929 library served as such until 1967, when the new Reta King library was opened.</p><br>
<p>The old library building then became the Media Center, housing the campus print shop and educational television studio.</p><br>
<p>In 1983, five of the original seven buildings on campus, including the 1929 library, were named to the National Register of Historic Places under the collective designation "Chadron State College Historic Buildings TR".</p><br>
<p>The other two, Administration and Hildreth, had been too much altered for inclusion in the Register. The nomination was principally due to the college&#39;s status as the primary educational institution in western Nebraska.</p><br>
<h3>Mari Sandoz</h3><br>
<p>Mari Sandoz (1896–1966) was born and grew up in Sheridan County in the Nebraska Sandhills. In 1935, she published Old Jules, a biography of her homesteader father Jules Sandoz.</p><br>
<p>Most of her subsequent works of fiction and nonfiction dealt with the history of the High Plains and its Native Americans, explorers, and settlers.</p><br>
<p>Shortly before her death, Sandoz gave much of her writing material to the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.</p><br>
<p>Most of her papers are now at the UNL Archives and Special Collections. Additional manuscripts, correspondence, notes, and other papers are preserved by the Nebraska State Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>After Sandozs death, her sister Caroline Sandoz Pifer was named her executrix. Pifer brought Sandozs personal papers and belongings from Sandoz&#39;s last residence, in New York City, to Sheridan County. For over 20 years, she maintained a Mari Sandoz Room, a museum, and a bookshop in and near Gordon, Nebraska.</p><br>
<p>In 1971, the Mari Sandoz Heritage Fund was created at Chadron State; the college provided a room to house donations of Sandoz memorabilia. Through the 1970s and 1980s, several abortive efforts were made to establish a Sandoz center at the college. In 1988, the Mari Sandoz Heritage Society was reactivated, with the goal of developing a center, and in 1991 a Mari Sandoz Heritage Room was opened in the Administration Building. A year later, fundraising began for a Mari Sandoz Center for High Plains Research, to be located in the former Chadron State Library; and in 2002, the Center opened under its present name.</p><br>
<h2>Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center</h2><br>
<h3>Buildings and grounds</h3><br>
<p>The core of the Center is the former college library. The building was designed by Norfolk, Nebraska architect J. C. Stitt, and built in 1929. Its design is typical of libraries of the first quarter of the 20th century, as recommended by professional librarians and the Carnegie Corporation. The building consists of a single story above a raised basement, a form that provided two floors of usable space without the need for a two-story building. The original floor plan is one commonly used in contemporary Carnegie libraries, consisting of a single large reading room, a vestibule in a projection from the front of the building, and bookstacks and a librarians room in a rear projection. Also in keeping with the usual design of Carnegie libraries, the buildings Neoclassical style is simple, with few decorative details. The front entrance is flanked by Doric columns supporting a pediment; there is a simple stone cornice, and a hipped tile roof.</p><br>
<p>Adjoining the library building on the south is the Chicoine Atrium, which provides an additional 2,400 ft2 of space. The building was named after donors Vernon P. and Madge Fortune Chicoine.</p><br>
<p>Its cornerstone was laid in 2002.</p><br>
<p>A life-sized bronze statue of Sandoz by artist George Lundeen stands in front of the 1929 library.</p><br>
<h3>Holdings and exhibits</h3><br>
<p>The Center holds a number of items directly related to Sandoz, including manuscripts, sound recordings, and personal effects from Sandoz&#39;s New York apartment. Its collection also includes a number of oral histories of regional ranching families, and a 6000-volume library focusing on the High Plains region.</p><br>
<p>Permanent exhibits include a gallery dedicated to Sandoz&#39;s life and literature; one for the history of cattle ranching on the High Plains; and one devoted to the paleontology of the Sandhills.</p><br>
<p>Exhibits both indoors and outdoors describe the botany of the region. Sandoz&#39;s younger sister Flora Rosa Sandoz was a trained botanist, who spent most of her life in the Sandhills; an interactive kiosk in the Center displays her photographs of local wildflowers, along with her comments on them.</p><br>
<p>The Heritage Gardens consist of several distinct collections, including fruit trees descended from those grown by the Sandoz family, plants brought to the High Plains by early settlers, and native plants used by the Lakota Sioux. The statue of Sandoz is surrounded by Sandhills prairie plants, some of which were collected near her grave in Sheridan County.</p><br>
<h3>Visitors</h3><br>
<p>The Center is open year-round; it reports an average of over 5,000 visitors per year.</p><br>
<p>The Chillicothe Water and Power Company Pumping Station is a historic building on the northern side of Chillicothe, Ohio, United States. A Gothic Revival structure built in 1881,</p><br>
<p>From 1881 to 1882, Chillicothe constructed a water supply system; among the elements of this system were a well, a massive reservoir, the pumping station in Yoctangee Park, and water mains to supply all parts of the city. A single-story building with a two-and-a-story tower, it is a brick structure with a foundation of sandstone and a slate roof.</p><br>
<p>By the late 1970s, Chillicothe had erected a new waterworks, and its electricity was supplied by other sources; consequently, the old building was abandoned. Ideas were proposed for its renovation and preservation: plans were laid for its conversion into a community center, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places late in 1979. Key to its designation as a historic site was its historic architecture, primarily because of its construction as an "ornament" for Yoctangee Park. Today, the pumping station has been converted into an art gallery, the Pump House Art Gallery.</p><br>
<p>The Sears, Roebuck and Company Retail Department Store Building in Camden, Camden County, New Jersey, United States, was built in 1927 and housed a Sears department store until 1971, when the store relocated to Moorestown Mall. It was South Jersey&#39;s first free-standing department store. It was also among the first department stores to be built with its own parking lot, a precursor to the modern shopping mall. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 27, 2000.</p><br>
<p>After Sears relocated, the building was home at different times to a nightclub, a car dealership, a day care center, and a housing authority office, before becoming vacant for several years. In 2007, it was purchased by Ilan Zaken, owner of the hip-hop clothing company Miskeen Originals, for $2.7 million. Zaken spent more than $1 million on a plan to transform it into his company&#39;s headquarters as well as a culinary school and restaurant supply mall, but the project was not completed.</p><br>
<p>In February 2011, a New Jersey Superior Court judge ruled that the city could acquire the building through eminent domain.</p><br>
<p>On June 11, 2012, Campbell Soup Company, whose corporate headquarters is nearby, purchased the building for about $3.5 million, with plans to demolish it. Campbell contended that uncertainty surrounding the building impeded its development of an adjacent office park. The purchase effectively ended the ongoing legal battle to preserve the building.</p><br>
<p>Demolition of the building began on June 5, 2013. It was completed on August 23, 2013.</p><br>
<p>The Miage Glacier is a debris-covered glacier in the upper Aosta Valley, in northwestern Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>It is situated on the southwest flank of the Mont Blanc massif, flowing from the Col de Bionnassay (3,892 m above sea level) in a generally southerly direction towards Val Veny. Its most northerly arm or tributary is the Glacier de Bionnassay Italien, which arises from a cirque between the south eastern side of the Aiguille de Bionnassay, the Col de Bionnassay and the Calotte des Aiguille Grises. This descends for 2.5 km below the Col Infranchissible then turns south-east to merge with other glaciers, thence continuing as the Glacier du Miage (Ghiacciaio del Miage).</p><br>
<p>At around 10 km in length, the Miage Glacier is Italy&#39;s longest glacier and also the largest debris-covered glacier in Europe. Approximately 5 km&sup2; of its total area of ~11 km&sup2; is covered in debris originating primarily in rockfall from surrounding walls and avalanching in accumulation areas of its four tributaries. Debris carried along within the glacier is also being exposed at increased rates due to accelerating thinning of the glacier tongue.</p><br>
<p>The number of sources of supraglacial debris as well as the unusual, mica schist-dominated lithology of the rock walls surrounding the glacier, makes for a varied debris lithology; debris cover becomes continuous at ~2,400 m above mean sea level (asl) and remains unbroken to the terminus. Patchy areas can occur, however, where crevasses or moulins occur. Debris thickness generally increases from a few centimetres at 2,400 m asl to over 1 m at the terminus at ~1,775 m asl, although the spatial distribution of thicknesses is heterogeneous especially on parts of the northern terminal lobe.</p><br>
<h2>Miage Lake</h2><br>
<p>Miage Lake is an ice-contact lake near the southern end of the Miage Glacier, located on the outside of the glacier&#39;s 90-degree bend eastwards. It is a popular tourist attraction due to the spectacular ice cliffs rising up to one side and its two-coloured appearance. The colours reflect varying sediment concentrations in the water which arise as a result of the filtering effect of the debris.</p><br>
<p>Huge ice blocks have been known to break off the glacier and fall into the lake, providing another major tourist attraction despite the low chance of such an event occurring. On August 7, 1996, a particularly large block, estimated to have had a volume of 7000-16000m, fell into the lake causing an abnormally large wave that seriously injured several people.</p><br>
<p>Green Hill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Amsterdam in Montgomery County, New York. It was established in 1858. Unitarian Minister Amory Dwight Mayo delivered the dedication address, which explained the role that cemeteries played in creating a "Christian Republic." It encompasses 14,860 individual interments marked by imposing mausolea, elaborate monuments, family plots, decorative markers, and simple stones. It includes four contributing structures: Church Street entrance gate, upper pedestrian gate and path, receiving vault, and Sanford mausoleum. Notable burials include congressman Benedict Arnold  and his grandson Lt. Benedict Arnold Leonard .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Knights of Pythias Lodge Hall, also known as Pythian Castle, in Weiser, Idaho is a building built in 1904. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Pythian Castle was originally owned and commissioned by The Order of Knights of Pythias- an international, non-sectarian fraternal order, established in 1864. The building was designed by Boise, Idaho Architectural firm Tourtellotte & Hummel Company. The cut stone for the front was supplied by Roberts and Sheff and quarried at Sand Hollow, near Weiser. The masonry work was completed by Hamilton and Reader Masonries of Weiser, Idaho. Each stone was transferred to the site and hand cut to fit.</p><br>
<p>The degree in craftsmanship is displayed in the detail of the medieval styling, and intricate stained glass windows. The symmetrical cut-stone structure faces south. Two plate-glass windows make up the first floor, with a glass door at the eastern corner. Three cut-stone columns break up the first story&#39;s facade and culminate in Romanesque arches over the plate glass windows. A stone band separates the first and second stories. A large, centered window, originally stained glass but now boarded over, dominates the second story. It has a corbelled Tudor arch and is flanked by two double-hung sash windows with small stained glass transoms, also capped by Tudor arches. Four cylindrical pilasters extend the length of the second story. The two interior pilasters extend the length of the second story. The two interior pilasters are wider and terminate as miniature towers with flagstaffs. The entire building is surmounted by crenellated battlements.</p><br>
<p>In 1982 the building came into ownership of the Weiser Architectural Preservation Committee and remains as a historical monument in the City of Weiser, Idaho.</p><br>
<p>Period of Significance: 1875-1899, 1900-1924</p><br>
<p>Location: 30 E. Idaho St., Weiser, Idaho 83672</p><br>
<p>The Pythian Castle in Toledo, Ohio, is a Romanesque-style building built in 1890. Located in Toledo&#39;s Center City at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and N. Ontario Street, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 185-foot-tall, 30,000-square-foot building was built in 1890 by the Knights of Pythias, a fraternal organization and secret society, to use as a meeting place. In 1908, it was described as “the finest building to be found anywhere entirely devoted to the uses of Pythianism.”</p><br>
<p>The building also had retail space. One early tenant was the J.W. Green Co., a retail and wholesale dealer in pianos and organs.</p><br>
<p>In 1951, the group sold the building to Greyhound Lines and left.</p><br>
<p>In the 1970s, the building was owned by Ed Emery, a resident of Sylvania, Ohio. He ran a youth center and rented space to a music store, an art studio, and an antiques shop. In 1972, he got the building placed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>A fire in 1978 put an end to the buildings active occupation, and it fell into disrepair. In 2006, then-Mayor Carty Finkbeiner put it on his Dirty Dozen" list of the city&#39;s worst-maintained buildings.</p><br>
<p>In the late 20th and early 21st century, the building was owned by Robert Shiffler, who died in 1997, and Brian Uram, who died in 2011. Uram said in 2004 that the two men had poured $250,000 into attempts to stabilize the decaying building, including a temporary replacement roof.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the building was owned by Toledo’s Pythian Castle LLC, an Ohio limited liability corporation.</p><br>
<p>In early 2013, the Toledo Blade wrote about the building&#39;s history. A series of photos revealed a dilapidated interior.</p><br>
<p>On July 10, 2013, the building was acquired by the Lucas County Land Bank for redevelopment. In November 2016, the Land Bank sold the building to developer David Ball for $300. The deal also gave a $274,000 loan to Ball to cover the cost of a new roof and the stabilization of its turret. Lucas County Treasurer Wade Kapszukiewicz, the Land Bank&#39;s chairman, said the loan would be forgiven if the renovations produced "a certificate of occupancy for the building from the city saying it is a habitable building” within three years.</p><br>
<p>In February 2017, renovations were begun by Ball&#39;s company, Water Street Development LLC.</p><br>
<p>The Knights of Pythias Pavilion in Franklin, Tennessee, also known as Carlisle House, is a Classical Revival architecture building designed by Henry Gibel and built in 1897. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>According to a 1988 study of Williamson County historical resources, conducted by staff of the Tennessee Historical Commission:An unusual addition to the county&#39;s architecture in the 1890s was the Knights of Pythias Pavilion which was moved to a hill west of Franklin (WM-996). The pavilion was originally located on the grounds of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition in Nashville which was held in 1897. It was purchased after the exposition and moved by wagon to its present location off Highway 96. The building is of Neo-Classical design and features a prominent red dome. (page 31)</p><br>
<p>Later the same study describes again:One of the most significant frame residences in the county is the Knights of Pythias Pavilion (WM-996) which was originally constructed in Nashville for the 1897 Centennial Exposition. The pavilion was part of the Centennial complex and after the Exposition came to an end it was purchased and moved to Williamson County. The house has Colonial Revival detailing and a prominent central projecting dome. The house has not been altered and is one of the most unusual designs in the county. (page 43)</p><br>
<p>The capture of Demerara and Essequibo was a French military expedition carried out in January 1782 as part of the Anglo-French War. In 1781, Admiral Lord Rodney sent two sloops from his fleet at Sint Eustatius to take possession of the Dutch colonies of Essequibo and Demerara. In 1782, the French successfully took possession of these settlements, compelling British Governor Robert Kinston to surrender. The Peace of Paris, which occurred in 1783, restored these territories to the Dutch.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>In December 1781, Great Britain declared war on the Dutch Republic, bringing it formally into the 4th Anglo-Dutch War. In early 1781, a large British fleet, under Admiral Lord Rodney, was sent to the West Indies. After making seizures in the Caribbean Islands, Rodney sent two sloops to take possession of the colonies of Essequibo and Demerara. The possession was taken without much difficulty. The colonies had already de facto surrendered to six British privateer ships by the time the two naval vessels arrived. The governor, Van Schuilenburg, was not satisfied by Dutch protection and surrendered to the British, who found a rich booty in the colonies from the vast quantity of produce which had accumulated due to a lack of shipping.</p><br>
<h2>French capture</h2><br>
<p>French naval Captain Armand Guy Simon de Coëtnempren, Comte de Kersaint, with his 32-gun flagship Iphigénie and four lesser ships, arrived at Demerara without much opposition.</p><br>
<p>There, 335 French men from the Regiment Armagnac and the 1st Legion Volontaires étranger de la Marine launched an assault on the British garrison and compelled Gov. Robert Kinston and his detachment from the 28th Regiment of Foot to surrender. As a result, Essequibo and Berbice also surrendered to the French on 1 and 5 February.</p><br>
<p>The French seized five Royal Navy vessels: the 20-gun Orinoque (Commander William Tahourdin), 16-gun Barbuda (Commander Francis Pender), 18-gun Sylph (Commander Lawrence Graeme), 16-gun Stormont (Commander Christmas Paul), and 16-gun brig Rodney (Lieutenant John Douglas Brisbane).</p><br>
<h2>Aftermath</h2><br>
<p>The Comte de Kersaint became governor of the three rivers and their settlements and inhabitants. To guarantee their conquest, the French began to construct forts at the mouth of the Demerara River, one on each eastern and western bank, and for that purpose, they compelled the planters to furnish slave labor. They also doubled the capitation tax. These burdens were felt severely by the colonists.</p><br>
<p>The Peace of Paris, which occurred in 1783, restored these territories to the Dutch.</p><br>
<p>When Demerara surrendered to the French, the British naval commander, being at that place, signed the capitulation.</p><br>
<p>Gov. Kingston&#39;s proposals for terms contained the following rather singular proposition:</p><br>
<p>To this the following answer was returned:</p><br>
<p>St. Vincent DePaul Catholic Church is a complex of historic buildings in the Shelby Park neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. The main church at 1207 South Shelby Street was purchased by Sojourn Community Church in 2010, which has since rehabilitated and occupied it as Sojourn Midtown. Several related properties were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Properties</h2><br>
<p>The main church was designed by D. X. Murphy in the Gothic Revival style. In 1886, a rectory was added, a brick Italianate structure. Also contributing to the property is the former St. Vincent DePaul School, located across Shelby Street. Designed by Thomas & Bohne in the Classical Revival style, it was completed in 1911. The St. Ursula Home, completed in 1915, reflects classical, American Craftsman, and Italianate influences. The oldest property is 1214 Logan Street, an Italianate structure built in 1884 as a home for sisters who were instructors at the school.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the late 1800s, the still-rural area was mostly populated by German Catholic immigrants. The cornerstone for the first parish church was laid in 1878, a two-story brick building, with services offered in German. The congregation quickly outgrew this facility and in 1886, the cornerstone for a larger church was laid. The Archdiocese of Louisville closed the church in 1996, though it continues to use the former elementary school, now called the Maloney Center, for a variety of offices.</p><br>
<p>Sojourn Community Church purchased the building from the Archdiocese in 2010 for $535,000 and undertook a renovation estimated to cost $3.4 million, to rehabilitate the structure and make it suitable for evangelical Southern Baptist worship. The Italianate marble altars and several statues were to be installed at the new St. Bernadette Catholic Church in Norton Commons, and statues of St. Peter and St. Paul were given to parishes of those names in Jefferson County.</p><br>
<p>The former St. Patrick&#39;s Catholic Church is a historic Roman Catholic parish church located at 1301-1305 West Market Street in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. The church built in 1860 is a large 3-story steepled redbrick Romanesque Revival building, while the rectory next door is a 2-story redbrick structure. In 1991 the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Louisville leased the building for 25 years to Dismas House Charities to be use as a rehabilitation center known as "Dismas House".On March 17, 2004 over 600 attended a the 150th celebration. The original 1854 Church and school which was situated behind the church on 13th Street were torn down without a demolition permit in June 2004 by its owner, Cardinal Insulation, shortly before the time the Xaviarian Brothers would celebrate their 150th anniversary. Despite all three structures being added March 1, 1982, to the National Register of Historic Places former parishioners were in shock and vowed to seek local Louisville Landmark status for the 1862 Church and rectory. A complete history of the church was written by Doris Batliner and published to secure the needed funds to pay for the designation. On March 17, 2006 the church became a local Louisville landmark.</p><br>
<p>Plans are underway to return the 1854 Church cornerstone to the site of its former location March 17, 2014 for the church&#39;s 160th anniversary.</p><br>
<p>The former St. Anthony&#39;s Catholic Church is an redbrick historic Roman Catholic steepled church complex located at 2222-2238 West Market Street in Louisville, Kentucky. Designed by noted local architect William H. Redin in the Gothic Revival style of architecture, it was built in 1887. After a disastrous fire in 1939 which caused extensive damage to all buildings in the complex except the rectory to the left of the church, architect Walter C. Wagner, Sr. designed the reconstruction of the complex which was done by Skilton and Sullivan Construction Company. In 1978, the parish school was merged with St. Cecilia School and Our Lady of the Port Academy to form Community Catholic School on the St. Cecilia campus. On March 1, 1982, the complex was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 2011, the Archdiocese of Louisville closed the church, merging its boundaries into those of the nearby Good Shepherd Parish.</p><br>
<p>First Baptist Church is a historic church on College Street in Paintsville, Kentucky.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original building was built in 1907 in a Late Gothic Revival style and added to the National Register in 1989. It was located on the corner of Fourth and College Street. The church occupied the building on Fourth Street until October 1, 1967, when the Church conregation moved into the present structure on the corner of Third and College Streets.</p><br>
<h2>Associations</h2><br>
<p>First Baptist Church Paintsville is associated with the Enterprise Association of Southern Baptists, Kentucky Baptist Convention as well as the Southern Baptist Convention and is a member of the Paintsville Ministerial Association.</p><br>
<p>St. Augustine Catholic Church Complex is a historic church located at 1839 Euclid Avenue in Covington, Kentucky.</p><br>
<p>The history of the St. Augustine parish began with the immigration of Germans to the Northern Kentucky area in the 1840s, and cresting in the 1890s. The German influx of immigrants to the area was attributable to economic hardship, religious persecution and the harsh treatment by the Prussian government. In addition, advertising of attractive prices for pork played a large part in enticing the Germans to the Ohio River Valley of Northern Kentucky and Cincinnati.</p><br>
<p>Initial settlement concentrated in the Main Strasse neighborhood of Covington, but by the 1860 s and 1870s, the Germans began to move into the southwestern part of the city, a separate entity known as the City of Central Covington. St. Augustine was the fifth Catholic parish established in Covington and the original St. Augustine church was built in 1870. The Reverend Father Joseph Goebbels led the church in the 1870s and organized a wire nail factory to pay back the debt incurred in constructing the church. The enterprise was not successful and a number of parishioners lost their life savings in the venture. The parish was returned to a sound financial footing by Father Paul Abeln who was pastor from 1883 until his death in 1911.</p><br>
<p>The existing church was designed by local architect David Davis (1865–1932), who also designed the 1910 Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption, Covington. Little is known of Davis, considering he designed two prominent churches in the city. Construction began on the Euclid Avenue structure in 1913 under the direction of Father William Kathman and the church was dedicated by Bishop Camillus P. Macs on December 20, 1914. The church stands 60 high, 52 wide, 92 in the transept and 160 long. Seating capacity is 1000.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the existing school building, built of the same dark red brick as the church, began in 1915, and was completed in September 1916.</p><br>
<p>Holy Cross Church and School Complex—Latonia is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Covington at 3612 Church Street in Covington, Kentucky. The campus straddles Church Street with the sanctuary and rectory on the east side and elementary school, high school and convent on the west. The church was constructed between 1906 and 1908 with the elementary school added in 1914, rectory in 1924, the high school in 1930 and the convent in 1941. The complex was added to the National Register in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The parish was carved from a portion of the parish of St. Augustine in the adjacent Peaselburg neighborhood in 1889. Residents of Latonia first petitioned Bishop Camillus Paul Maes for a more convenient place of worship in 1887, however he denied their request because St. Augustine&#39;s was facing financial problems. By 1889, the crisis eased and the bishop approved the new parish.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the first church began August 24, 1890 and the structure was complete in March 1891 on the west side of Church Street (then known as Longworth Street). By 1903, the congregation was already outgrowing the facilities and the parish began to acquire additional land for a new building. Construction of the current sanctuary began July 16, 1906 and it was dedicated November 29, 1908.</p><br>
<p>South Union Shaker Center House and Preservatory is a historic Shaker building on USA 68 in South Union, Kentucky. It was built in 1822 and added to the National Register in 1974. Located within the building is the Shaker Museum at South Union.</p><br>
<p>South Union was one of 24 villages built up by the Shakers. During the village&#39;s 115-year history, the Shakers constructed over 200 buildings, worked 6,000 acre of farmland, and produced garden seed, fruit preserves, brooms, baskets, rugs, linen, hats, bonnets and silk to be used both within the community and sold to the outside world. One of the best known Shaker songs today, "Love is little," originated at South Union during the 1830s.</p><br>
<p>Today, there is only Shaker community remaining active, located at Sabbathday Lake, Maine, USA. It is the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village.</p><br>
<p>Kirksville Christian Church is a historic Disciples of Christ church building at the intersection of KY 1295 and KY 595 in Kirksville, Kentucky. It was built in 1878 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Kirksville congregation of Disciples of Christ was founded in 1849, with the present frame building constructed in 1878. The Gothic Revival church features a steep gable roof with narrow angled brackets under the eaves and at the gable ends. One gable end forms the front facade that contains two Gothic-arched windows with stained-glass, a Gothic-arched double-leaf entrance, and a pointed lunette. On each side facade three pointed-arched windows also contain stained glass. Although replaced in 1975, the design of the glass is based on that found in two original windows in the apse on the rear facade. The pipe organ, used in the First Christian Church of Lancaster, Kentucky, from 1904 to 1952, originally was pumped by hand.</p><br>
<p>The Foreaker Covered Bridge, with the first word sometimes spelled Foraker, and also called the Weddle Covered Bridge, is located on Monroe County Road 40, three miles east of Graysville, Ohio. The property was listed on the National Register in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Foreaker Bridge was built over the Little Muskingum River in 1886 in order to help ease traffic heading from the inner communities of Monroe County to the county seat at Woodsfield. The area is surrounded by large hills and steep valleys causing these agrarian families to circle around to a lower level of passage, while the water has cut a deep channel under the site of the bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Foreaker family owned the land around the south end of the bridge when it was built.</p><br>
<p>One of two extant covered bridges in Monroe County, the Foreaker Bridge is a single-span structure with a king post truss core. The white oak walls are vertically sided and covered with a metal roof; its builder was anonymous, although the stone abutments are known to have been constructed by Isaiah Cline. When the bridge was erected, it took the name of a family named Foreaker, which owned an adjacent farm; the Foreakers sold the property in 1925 to a Mr. Weddle, and the bridge has also sometimes been known as the "Weddle Bridge".</p><br>
<p>The bridge was reinforced in 1938 for automobile traffic and has been well maintained by the county. The bridge is still open to automobile traffic. In 1971 a large section of the roof was blown off in a windstorm and lead to the entire roof being replaced with sheet metal. Currently, the bridge is repainted every year and inspected. The abutments have been reinforced with concrete to add stability.</p><br>
<p>The floor is made of oak planks with additional beams and supportive I-beams added later.</p><br>
<p>The B.P.O. Elks Lodge is a historic fraternal lodge building at 34 Prospect Street in Hartford, Connecticut. It is a Classical Revival architecture building designed by John J. Dwyer, and built in 1903 for the local chapter of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 for its architecture.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Hartford&#39;s Elks Lodge is located south of Downtown Hartford, on the east side of Prospect Street across from the back of the Wadsworth Atheneum. It is a -story yellow brick building with egg-and-dart moldings, and brownstone and limestone detailing. The interior features rich woodwork.</p><br>
<p>The lodge was built in 1903 to a design by John J. Dwyer, a local architect who is credited with a number of significant institutional buildings in the city. The lodge has one of the city&#39;s finest unaltered interior spaces of the period, with a series of paneled assembly rooms on the ground floor separated by arched and columned openings. The main staircase, ascending to the main meeting hall, is of dark mahogany, with a skylight providing natural light. The meeting hall itself is richly appointed in Baroque woodwork. Many original technical features remain in the building, including a large iron lever for dimming the hall lights.</p><br>
<p>The Elks Club, also known as Community House, is a historic fraternal society clubhouse at 67 West Main Street in Marianna, Arkansas. It is a two-story brick building, built in 1911 by S. A. Keedy, a local contractor. It has an irregular layout, with a two-story main block and a side single-story wing with a porch on its flat roof. The main entry is centered in the two-story block, sheltered by a porch supported by brick posts and Doric columns. It was built for the local chapter of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, who occupied it until financial constraints force its sale in 1934. It was acquired by the city in exchange for the payment of the outstanding mortgage, and was first occupied by the city library, with its second floor ballroom used as a community function space. The space occupied by the library is now used by the local chamber of commerce.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>The Sankwala Mountains are a mountain range in Obanliku Local Government Area of Cross River State in Nigeria. The Sankwala Mountains lie southeast of the town of Obudu, north of the Okwangwo section of Cross River National Park.</p><br>
<p>The mountains attain an average elevation of about 1,800 m above sealevel.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>The Sankwala Mountains have a cool climate. This has attracted tourists to the mountains in recent years to the Obudu Plateau on the Sankwala Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Tourist activities</h2><br>
<p>The Sankwala Mountains record a high number of tourist activities every year.This has led to the development of the Obudu Mountain Resort on one of the ridges of the mountains, known as the Oshie Ridge.</p><br>
<p>The Xe Bang Fai River or Nam Xebangfai is a river of Laos .</p><br>
<p>Xe Bang Fai River originates in the Annamite Range on the border between Lao and Vietnam .</p><br>
<p>It flows through Khammouane Province and Savannakhet Province.</p><br>
<p>Nam Theun 2 Dam released water from Nam Theun river into it, thereby increasing its flow and producing hydroelectricity in the process.</p><br>
<h2>Xe Bang Fai River Cave</h2><br>
<p>Xe Bang Fai River Cave, also known as Khoun Xe Cave (Tham in Laotian is Cave), is an immense river cave located in a remote corner of Khammouane Province. It is believed to be one of the largest river cave in the world with enormous passages some 120 meters tall and 200 meters wide, and subterranean channel 7 km long.</p><br>
<p>The Elks Building in Stockton, California is a 5-story U-shaped Chicago style/Commercial Style building built during 1906-08. Located at the corner of Sutter and Weber Streets, it has a copper cornice over those two streets.</p><br>
<p>It is unusual, structurally, due to reports from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake about which types of buildings survived earthquake and fire. Ergo it is built from steel and concrete on the first two floors, although from there up has timber framing with two-foot thick brick masonry exterior walls. A March 1906 newspaper report had stated the building was expected to be built from brick masonry; a May 1906 newspaper report said its construction would change.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks Lodge, also known as the Elks Civic Building, is a historic building in Montrose, Colorado, United States. It served as an Elks lodge from construction in 1927 until 1969, and has since housed a college and city offices. In 2017 it is the location of the citys Visitors Center. The building is listed on the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties and the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>An Elks Lodge was first organized in Montrose in late 1906. In 1926, work on building the historic lodge building began. Architect J.H. Antrobus created plans in mid-1926 and the construction contract was awarded to firm White and Okey on August 13, 1926. The cornerstone was laid on November 18, 1926, to an audience of seventy-five Elks members, and construction began in early 1927. The lodge was built at a cost of $34,600 and was officially occupied on May 26, 1927.</p><br>
<p>The building served as an Elks lodge until 1969, when the group moved to a new building that was constructed downtown. The former lodge was then used by Colorado Western College until this educational establishment closed in 1972 for lack of funding. Montrose County Social Services used the building from 1976 to 2003. The building was bought in 2003 by the City of Montrose for $400,000. It underwent renovation to house city offices and was renamed the "Elks Civic Building".</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties on March 10, 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building features an eclectic mixed style with elements of Mission Revival, Pueblo Deco, and Late Gothic Revival styles. The facade consists mostly of blond brick in running bond with accents of red brick. In the curved portion of the parapet is a stone block inscribed with "1053", and the letters "BPOE" are formed by red bricks below.</p><br>
<p>The Litchfield Elks Lodge No. 654, also known as Elks Club, is an Elks building located at 424 N. Monroe St. in Litchfield, Illinois. The building was constructed in 1923 for Litchfields Elks lodge, which formed in 1901. Architect Oliver W. Stiegemeyer designed the building in a Classical Revival plan with a significant Beaux-Arts influence, particularly in its form. The main section of the front facade has five bays and features terra cotta pilasters along the corner bays. The buildings front porch, which projects from the three center bays, has a balustrade supported by three arches and decorated with terra cotta. The red tile mansard roof has five dormers and a bracketed cornice along the bottom.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Pilier d&#39;Angle  is a buttress on the southern side of Mont Blanc in the Mont Blanc massif in the Aosta Valley, Italy.</p><br>
<p>The first ascent from the valley was by James Eccles with guides Michel Payot and Alphonse Payot on 30 July 1877 during an ascent of the Peuterey ridge, although the summit had been visited on 20 August 1822 by F. Clissold with guides J. M. Couttet, M. Bossonney, D. Couttet, P. Favret and J. B. Simond on the descent from their first ascent of Mont Blanc de Courmayeur.</p><br>
<p>The first ascent of the pillar (the north-east face) itself was by Walter Bonatti and Toni Gobbi on 3 August 1957. Bonatti said after the climb that "the mixed terrain of the face was without doubt the most sombre, the most savage and the most dangerous of any that I have ever encountered in the Alps." The first winter ascent of the Bonatti-Gobbi route was by A. Dworak, J. Kurczab, A. Mróz and T. Piotrowski between 5 and 9 March 1971. The first solo ascent of the route was by Nicolas Jaeger on 3 August 1975.</p><br>
<p>Other well-known routes on the face include the Cecchinel-Nominé (Walter Cecchinel and Georges Nominé, 17 September 1971; the Boivin-Vallençant of 1975 adds a direct finish to this route) and Divine Providence (Patrick Gabarrou and François Marsigny, 5–7 June 1984). The first solo ascent of this route was by Jean-Christophe Lafaille in 1990, who said, "This route is the most difficult and involving in the whole of the Mont Blanc massif."</p><br>
