<p>The Everett Chambers or Hotel Everett is an historic mixed-use commercial and residential building at 47-55 Oak Street in Downtown Portland, Maine. Built in 1902 to a design by local architect Frederick Tompson, it is an important surviving example of a lodging house , built early in the transition period from the 19th century boarding house  to more modern 20th-century transient accommodations. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Everett Chambers building is located one block off Congress Street, Portland&#39;s central commercial thoroughfare, at the northern corner of Oak and Free Streets. The street-facing facades of this five-story building are faced in brick, with limestone trim elements. The Oak Street facade has four retail storefronts on the street level, articulated by brick pilasters, with a clipped corner providing access to a single storefront facing Free Street. The Oak Street facade is fourteen bays wide, divided roughly into groups of three on shared sills, with a single separate bay at the corner, and a projecting polygonal metal-faced bay near the center, above the main building entrance. Courses of projecting brickwork separate the third and fourth floors. The interior of the upper floors is divided into single-room accommodations, intended for one or two person occupancy. Many rooms retain original features, including decorative wood finishes and fixtures such as sinks. Bathrooms, which were shared among all of the tenants, are located on each floor.</p><br>
<p>Everett Chambers was built in 1902 to a design by Frederick Tompson, a prominent local architect, and is one of the best-preserved local examples of his work. It represented a relatively new trend in accommodations for transients (typically staying for one month or less), providing lodging but not meals, as earlier boarding houses did. It was originally three stories in height, and was extended in height in 1926 to add additional rooms. Despite its intended use as transient housing, the building had several long-term residents who lived there for several years. One well-known transient resident was Admiral Robert E. Peary. The building was operated as a lodging house until 1971; it is now used as a dormitory, housing students of the nearby Maine College of Art.</p><br>
<p>The Portland Packing Company Factory is an historic factory building at 14-26 York Street in Portland, Maine. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. Built in 1884, it was home to Maine&#39;s oldest and largest vegetable canning company until 1927. After years of neglect, it was rehabilitated in 1995-6. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Portland Packing Company Factory building is located in Portland&#39;s downtown area, on the east side of York Street opposite the end of Danforth Street. The building is a two story brick structure, shaped roughly like a parallelogram. Due to the sloping lot, the rear (east side) of the building has a fully exposed third floor. It has a flat roof and rests on a rubblestone foundation. The main facade is divided into six similar sections, separated by wide pilasters. Each section has three bays, most of which are windows set in segmented-arch openings, and is topped by a line of corbelling, and has a band of projecting brickwork between the first and second levels. Three of the sections have a loading door instead of a window at the central bay, and there is one section where the entire ground floor is taken by a half-round opening with a large entrance sized (but no longer used) for vehicular access.</p><br>
<p>The Portland Packing Company was founded about 1862, by the merger of two smaller packing companies. By the turn of the 20th century, the company was Maines largest vegetable canning business, an industry that exceeded the combined size of states slate, granite, and ice harvesting business in economic importance. This building was part of one of thirteen factories operated by the company in the state, and was built in 1884. Its design is attributed to Portland architect Francis H. Fassett on stylistic grounds. It functioned primarily as a storage facility, and was in 1927 sold to Blake Rounds Supply Company. After some years of vacancy and neglect, it was rehabilitated for commercial use in 1995-6.</p><br>
<p>The F.O.J. Smith Tomb is an historic tomb in Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, Maine. It is the tomb of Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith , US Congressman 1833-39. It was probably built by Smith in 1860, at the time of his daughter Lizzies death, and is one of Maines most sophisticated expressions of Egyptian Revival architecture. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Smith tomb is located near Pond and Ash Avenues in the western portion of Evergreen Cemetery, a rural cemetery in Portland&#39;s western Deering neighborhood. The tomb is a granite structure, most of which is covered by a mound of earth, leaving only the front facade. It is in the form of an Egyptian pylon, mostly fashioned out of roughly finished granite blocks, topped by a projecting rolled cornice. Dressed stone caps the sloping sides of the facade, and forms the pylon-shaped entrance to the tomb. A sun disk motif is set above the cornice that tops the doorway, above which a panel is set with "F.O.J.S." in raised relief. The door to the tomb is marble, and bears the following inscription:</p><br>
<p>NATURE</p><br>
<p>teaches that</p><br>
<p>All Flesh Must Die.</p><br>
<p>RELIGION</p><br>
<p>inspires Hope that all</p><br>
<p>Spiritual Beings will</p><br>
<p>live forever, in spheres</p><br>
<p>and forms to which they</p><br>
<p>are fitted.</p><br>
<p>Believe in</p><br>
<p>GOD,</p><br>
<p>and fear not to leave wholly</p><br>
<p>to Him the Great Future.</p><br>
<p>His plans for Heaven</p><br>
<p>as for Earth must be</p><br>
<p>All-wise, Benevolent</p><br>
<p>Immutable.</p><br>
<p>All men can know of future life.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith was one of Maine more colorful political personalities of mid-19th century. He controversially opposed a state lottery to fund the Cumberland and Oxford Canal, and was politically peripatetic, supporting Whigs, Democrats, and Republicans in both his political and journalistic activities. He was an early advocate of the telegraph, supporting the work of Samuel F.B. Morse, and engaged in a number of high-profile failed business ventures.</p><br>
<p>His tomb was built on his Portland estate about 1860, around the time when his daughter Lizzie died. In 1876, when his estate was subdivided after his death, the tomb and its contents were moved to Evergreen Cemetery. The design is believed to be Smith&#39;s.</p><br>
<p>Clapham-Stern House, also known as Wenlo and originally known as Stone House, is a historic mansion located at Roslyn Harbor in Nassau County, New York. It was originally built between 1868 and 1872 and turned into a premier estate in 1906 after being purchased by department store magnate Benjamin Stern. It is an asymmetrical -story dwelling resting on a full basement. It consists of a main block with wings to the north and south, a tower, and a piazza wrapping around the south and west sides. It is constructed of rough-faced gray Greenwich granite accented by limestone. It has a moderately pitched hipped slate roof with copper cresting. After a major fire in 1960, the house was returned to a High Victorian Gothic style. Also on the property is a contributing bathhouse dated to the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Ambelau or Ambalau is a volcanic island in the Banda Sea within Maluku Islands of Indonesia. The island forms an administrative district  which is part of the South Buru Regency  of Maluku province , Indonesia. It has a land area of 201.7 sq.km, and had a population of 6,846 at the 2010 Census. The administrative center is Wailua, a settlement located at the south of the island. About half of the island&#39;s population is composed of indigenous Ambelau people who speak Ambelau language; the other half are mostly immigrants from the nearby Maluku Islands and Java.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and geology</h2><br>
<p>The island is located in the Banda Sea at the southern entrance to the strait Manipa, about 20 km south-east of the larger island of Buru. It has a relatively smooth oval shape with a minor extension in the south-eastern part and the maximum diameter of about 10 km.</p><br>
<p>The island is of volcanic origin, and is composed of Cenozoic sedimentary rocks. The relief is mostly mountainous, with the highest points at 608 m (Mt. Baula) and 559 m (Mt. Nona) in the western area. The island rises vertically from the sea, and flat parts are found only on the southern and eastern coasts. Much of the territory, especially in mountainous areas, is covered with wet tropical forests. The island is located in a seismically active zone with frequent earthquakes; two significant recent earthquakes occurred in August 2006 and January 2016 when eight people were hurt and about 120 houses were damaged in two villages. Flora and fauna of the island are diverse and are similar to that of Buru. There are abundant coral reefs off the coast of Ambelau.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>The island belongs to the Indonesian province of Maluku. Until 1999 the island belonged to the Central Maluku Regency (Kabupaten Maluku Tengah), then to the Buru Regency (Kabupaten Buru), in which it was isolated into a separate administrative district (Kecamatan Ambalau). In 2008, when the South Buru Regency split up from the Buru Regency, the island became part of it, maintaining its kecamatan status. The island is divided into seven administrative units of lower rank, called village (desa) or settlement (kelurahan), namely Kampung Baru, Lumoy, Masawoy, Selasi, Siwar, Ulima and Elara.</p><br>
<p>Phonetics of the local languages reduces the vowel in the second syllable of the island name. As a result, Western sources refer to it as Ambelau, whereas modern Indonesian sources spell the name as Ambalau, particularly in official documents and on the official website of the Buru and South Buru regencies.</p><br>
<h2>Population</h2><br>
<p>The majority of Ambelau&#39;s population (6,846 at the 2010 census) resides on the coastal plains, in the settlements of Kampung Baru (969), Lumoy (1,209), Masawoy (750), Selasi (606), Siwar (890), Ulima (970) and Elara (1,452). About half of the population are indigenous Ambelau people, and another half are immigrants from other Maluku Islands belonging to Sulawesi (mainly Bugis) and Javanese ethnicities. The latter moved to the island mainly through the large-scale transmigration programs supported by both the Dutch colonial administration in the 1900s and the Indonesian authorities in the 1950s–1990s. The individual ethnic groups speak different languages and dialects in everyday life, for example Ambelau language. However, most adults have knowledge of the national Indonesian language and use it in public or in communication with other tribes. By religion, most Ambelau residents are Sunni Muslims, with a small part of Christians and with some remnants of traditional local beliefs.</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>Agriculture dominates the local economy. Cultivation of rice – the most common crop of the region – is hindered on Ambelau by the hilly terrain and abundance of the wild pig Buru babirusa damaging the crops (which is rarely hunted because of the Muslim traditions). The small terrains of fertile land on the coast are used to grow maize, sago sweet potato, cocoa, coconut, allspice and nutmeg. Tuna fishing is practiced by the villages of Masawoy and Ulimo. Some agricultural and fish products are exported to the nearby Buru islands, mainly on the markets of the town Namlea.</p><br>
<p>The Canfield-Wright House, known alternatively as Wrightland and The Pink Lady, is a historic structure in Del Mar, California. The private home was placed on the National Register of Historic Places  on May 14, 2004.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1910 for Charles A. Canfield. Canfield convinced the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway to switch from coal to oil-burning locomotives. He ultimately invested his wealth in real estate.</p><br>
<p>Intending the house as a second home, Canfield chose architect John C. Austin, who would also design the Southern Land Company&#39;s Hotel Del Mar and go on to design major Southern California landmarks such as Los Angeles City Hall and the Griffith Observatory. The house was designed in the Mission and Spanish Revival styles with influences of an Italian villa and sited with a view of the Pacific Ocean.</p><br>
<p>Canfield sold the house in 1923, and it was purchased by the Wright family. The structure was only minimally altered: small additions were made to the main residence and outbuildings, and a large retaining wall was added to the property. By the end of the twentieth century, the structure was being rented and had been painted a bright pink. Helped by groups such as the Save Our Heritage Organisation, citizens pressured the City of Del Mar, which previously had no preservation ordinances or incentives for preservation, in city council and design review board meetings, delaying the permit. Within six months of the house&#39;s being threatened with demolition, a new owner stepped forward to purchase the property and restore it. The new owner, a developer who lived nearby, presented development plans that were judged to be in compliance with historic-preservation guidelines. The home was restored over a four-year period from 2004-08. It remains a private residence.</p><br>
<p>The Zhongtiao Mountains  are a major mountain range located in the south of China’s Shanxi Province.</p><br>
<p>Running from north east to south west the range connects with the Taihang Mountains to the east, overlooks the Yellow River to the south and faces the Fen River valley to the north west. To the west the mountains are separated from the Yellow River by the Qin Mountains.</p><br>
<p>The range extends for approximately 160 km with the highest peak rising to 2,321 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>During the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937&ndash;1945) the Japanese army advanced west into Shaanxi and encircled this area many times in what was known as the Zhongtiao Mountains Campaign.</p><br>
<p>The Zhongtiao Mountains were one of the birth places of Taoism in Northern China and an important religious site. In ancient times the area was also a major center for copper mining and is today one of the operational bases of Zhongtiaoshan Non-ferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd, one of China’s largest metal processing companies.</p><br>
<p>Grace and Thomaston Buildings are two historic commercial buildings located at Great Neck Plaza in Nassau County, New York. The Grace Building was built in 1914 and the Thomaston Building in 1926. They were both built by the W. R. Grace and Company.</p><br>
<h2>Grace Building</h2><br>
<p>The Grace Building, located a 11 Middle Neck Road, is a massive -story brick building shaped like a chevron. It originally housed stores, offices, and apartments. It features a large octagonal tower at its central point and decorative wrought iron balconies adorn several windows.</p><br>
<h2>Thomaston Building</h2><br>
<p>The Thomaston Building, located at 8 Bond Street, is a -story brick building that originally served as headquarters for W. R. Grace Company&#39;s real estate operations. It features a slate covered gable roof.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 14, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Thomaston Building currently contains 25,000 square feet of space, with 15 office spaces and 2 sidewalk-level restaurants. A 1981 basement-to-rooftop restoration effort fully modernized the building with contemporary amenities, energy efficiencies and private marble bathrooms. Management-sponsored programs such as 8at8, a tenant business networking and education group, help build community and offer business development skills. Unusually, some of the offices feature residential accommodation.</p><br>
<p>The name of the building is attributed to Thomaston, Maine, the hometown of Lillius Gilchrist, wife of William Russell Grace, future mayor of New York and founder of W. R. Grace and Company.</p><br>
<h3>Architecture and Design</h3><br>
<p>The Thomaston Building was designed by James O’Connor and constructed in the Station Plaza neighborhood of Great Neck, near the company’s global headquarters at 11 Middle Neck Road, also an O’Connor project. A four-story brick mews in Georgian Revival style, the structure’s distinguishing characteristics include a cross-gabled roof, period showroom windows, round oculus windows and iron-tinted brickwork. Above the first story, a wood belt course with dentil molding separates the floors. On permanent display is a private collection of historic American flags and replicas. In 1978 it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated a local historic landmark by the Village of Great Neck Plaza.</p><br>
<h3>History</h3><br>
<p>The building was commissioned by the W. R. Grace Company and built in 1926 to house its international real estate operations. W. R. Grace occupied both buildings until 1971, when it moved to Manhattan. For much of that decade the Thomaston Building housed a multi-vendor ground floor mall, while leasing the space above to private tenants and the Village of Great Neck Plaza, which used the building as its city hall. In 1976 the building was bought by Great Neck realtor Sidney Berg, who preserved the building’s facade as part of a downtown beautification campaign. In 1981 the building was bought by an ownership group headed by Patrick Silberstein. Silberstein oversaw a complete restoration, with particular focus on historic preservation and use of authentic building materials. During this restoration the building was fitted with a greener energy system.</p><br>
<p>The Cave of the Ramban is located in the southern cliff of the Upper Kidron Valley, on a slope descending into the Arab neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz, Jerusalem. It is believed by some to be the traditional burial place of Nahmanides , a foremost rabbinical scholar during the medieval era.</p><br>
<h2>Burial chamber</h2><br>
<p>The large rock-hewn cave, measuring 19 by 20 m, reaches a height of 3.5 meters and is supported by two columns. The area once functioned as an ancient underground stone quarry. Above the façade, in the upper portion of the cliff, are the remains of a square rock-cut chamber which may have been used for burials.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The cave is believed by some Jews to be the site where Ramban prayed in the 13th-century and the place of his interment. It is thus claimed to have been a holy site for Jews for many centuries.</p><br>
<p>In 2000, the cave became a subject of controversy between a group of Jewish inhabitants in Wadi al-Joz and the Muslim owner of the site, who had fenced off the cave in protest to Jewish settlement in the area. The Muslim wakf subsequently petitioned the High Court of Justice which resulted in a temporary injunction freezing the sites designation. In 2003, a government committee was appointed to examine the issue. While acknowledging the sites connection to the Jewish faith, it was decided that the court could rule on the matter. This however was thwarted when the holy status was reinstated by a government minister. The wakf persisted in its battle for control of the site in the courts and in 2008 it was decided that the cave be placed under the wakfs authority and Jews were banned from entering.</p><br>
<p>Other traditions hold that Ramban was buried in Silwan, in Hebron or in Acre.</p><br>
<p>The Floyd County Administration Building at Fourth Avenue and East First Street in Rome, Georgia was built in 1896 and extended in 1904, 1911, and 1941. It was formerly known as the USA Post Office and Courthouse and has also been known as the Federal Building and Post Office.</p><br>
<p>The 1975 nomination to the NRHP was written by an architectural historian of Atlanta, Elizabeth Z. Macgregor. She named no original or subsequent architect to be credited, but she knowledgeably described the building in some detail as quite a competent work, finding it:significant</p><br>
<p>architecturally as an example of the Second Renaissance Revival style structure. In the Rome area this is the only building designed in this style. / From a strict sense the U. S. Post Office and Courthouse is a combination of details of decorative relief work reflective of the earlier nineteenth century Renaissance Revival Italian Mode; however the general effect is a well coordinated horizontal design that has obvious influences from the later Second Renaissance Revival.</p><br>
<p>Postcard views from c. 1908 and from the 1940s shows views. It was purchased by the Floyd County Board of Commissioners in 1975.</p><br>
<p>It serves now as the County Administration Building, at 12 East First Street. The Commissioners Meeting Room, on the second floor, is presumably the old courtroom space.</p><br>
<p>The current Federal Building in Rome is at 600 East First Street. It includes a USAP.S. facility (the Martha Berry Post Office), a United States Bankruptcy Court, and more.</p><br>
<p>The former USA Post Office and Courthouse in Waycross, Georgia was built in 1911 and expanded in 1936. It is occupied in 2016 by the Southeast Antique Exchange business. The building reflects Renaissance architecture and "Romano-Tuscan" architecture. It served historically as a courthouse of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Georgia and as a post office until 1975.</p><br>
<p>It is a two-story building with basement of approximately 21,700 square feet in size. The original building of 1911, designed by James Knox Taylor, was one story with basement and with a tile roof. The 1936 expansion, designed by G. W. Stone, added the second story and two-story wings at each end, and has a composition roof. Floors in the building are terrazzo and maple hardwood, except the second floor courtroom&#39;s floor is cork tile. Stairs, door facings and wainscoting are in marble. Woodwork is oak.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It was only ever used as a courthouse and post office, and the building had been empty from 1975 until at least 1980. It now houses the Southeast Antique Exchange.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>The Muir Site, , is an Early Fort Ancient culture archaeological site located in Jessamine County, Kentucky, in the Bluegrass region of the state. It was occupied from about 1010 to 1255 CE during the Osborne Phase of the local chronology. The site is near Jessamine Creek, on top of a broad ridge. Unlike later Fort Ancient villages, which are more compact, the Muir site structures were spread out over the ridge top. These structures were rectangular with single set post construction, as opposed to Mississippian style wall trench construction. Within the houses were 30 cm to 50 cm deep floor basins with centrally located hearths for cooking and heating. Pottery found at the Muir site was limestone tempered, unlike some later Fort Ancient pottery which became mussel shell tempered after contact with Mississippian cultures.</p><br>
<p>The Cox Site  is a Middle Fort Ancient culture  archaeological site located in Woodford County, Kentucky, in the Bluegrass region of the state. The site is located on a large ridge and is approximately 65 m by 60 m, although there may be other unexplored sections to the north.</p><br>
<p>Not enough investigations at the site have happened for archaeologists to be able to determine the pattern, shape or layout of the proposed village site. The finding of shell tempered pottery and distinctive triangular-shaped arrowheads along with radiocarbon dates has allowed researchers to date the site. Two burials have been located at the site; however, one was a flexed burial found by the owner of the site and the other was an extended burial found by archaeologists during investigations.</p><br>
<p>The Hansen Site  is an archaeological site located near South Portsmouth in Greenup County, Kentucky, United States. The 6 hectare site is on a flood terrace of the Ohio River across from the mouth of the Scioto River, just upstream from the Lower Shawneetown site and the Old Fort Earthworks. The site was occupied several times over the centuries, with occupations dating from the Late Archaic , Middle Woodland , and Fort Ancient  periods.</p><br>
<h2>Archaic period occupation</h2><br>
<p>Investigations by archaeologists have shown that the Hansen Site was lightly occupied probably during the summer months in the Late Archaic period at about 2000 BCE. Distinctive projectile points from this time period have been found at the site, including Cave Run, Merom, and Rowlette style points. Tests of materials found during excavations have returned uncalibrated dates of 2060 and 1930 BCE.</p><br>
<h2>Woodland period</h2><br>
<p>The Hansen site was occupied twice during Middle and Late Woodland periods. The first was from 300 to 450 CE, with an intensive occupation with activities centering on three circular single post structures and small clusters of households. Evidence has been found for stone tool manufacturing, food storage, and waste disposal. The second episode of habitation was from 500 to 600 CE and centered on more communal structures and many activities such as tool manufacturing seeming to take place in communal areas. During this time period the nearby Old Fort Earthworks and Biggs Site, parts of the Portsmouth Earthworks complex, were constructed by people of the area&#39;s Adena culture.</p><br>
<p>The E.P. Adler House, is a historic house located in the central part of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983 and as a contributing property in the Vander Veer Park Historic District since 1984. It has been on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties since 2008.</p><br>
<h2>E.P. Adler</h2><br>
<p>Emmanuel P. Adler became a printer’s apprentice at the age of 13. He was working in the mechanical department of the Ottumwa Courier when he was discovered by the paper’s publisher A.W. Lee. Adler became a reporter for the Courier and was then sent to Davenport as the business manager of the Davenport Times. When Lee died in 1907, Adler took over as president of the Lee Syndicate, now known as Lee Enterprises, and held the position for more than 40 years. Under Adler’s guidance the company grew to include newspapers, radio and television stations.</p><br>
<p>After the Bank Holiday in 1933 Adler was instrumental in reopening American Commercial and Savings Bank as Davenport Bank and Trust Company. By 1936 the bank had grown to become the second largest bank in Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The E.P. Adler House is located set back from Main Street on a low terraced lot, just south of Vander Veer Botanical Park. It exhibits a mixture of the Colonial Revival and Prairie School architectural styles. The Colonial Revival features includes its symmetrical five-bay main façade, a hipped roof with dormers, and a main entrance that is framed by sidelights and a transom above. The entrance is also surrounded by a shallow curved pediment with engaged columns. The Prairie style is represented by wide eaves with stylized projecting rafter ends and the combination of brick and stucco surface materials.</p><br>
<p>The Alice French House is a historic building located on a bluff overlooking the Mississippi River on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Alice French</h2><br>
<p>George French moved to Davenport from Andover, Massachusetts in 1855 and he served the city as mayor, banker, school board member and trustee of the local Unitarian society. His daughter Alice, who was five when the family moved to the Midwest, became the first writer from Iowa with a national reputation. Her first short story appeared in a local newspaper in 1871 and by the 1880s she was being published in The Atlantic and Harper’s. She wrote under the pen name Octave Thanet and her stories became popular in the 1890s and early 1900s.</p><br>
<p>French was part of an informal literary circle known as the Davenport Writer’s Group. Other members included George Cram Cook, Susan Glaspell, Arthur Davison Ficke, Floyd Dell and Harry Hansen. While most of them had careers away from Davenport, their shared experiences in the city affected their writings. Alice French’s work was especially affected by Davenport and life on the Mississippi. She often wrote about life in a western town named Fairport, which was a fictionalized Davenport. She blended realistic details of daily life in the city with romantic ideals.</p><br>
<p>As literary tastes changed French’s work fell out of favor. She abandoned writing and took up social work. She would spend the spring, summer and autumn in Davenport and the winter in Arkansas.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Alice French House is a rather undistinguished Queen Anne-Colonial Revival combination structure, a style that was popular in Davenport at the turn of the 20th-century. It sits on a corner lot that sits diagonally from Sacred Heart Cathedral. It is a large two-story building of wood construction built in 1906. The home was originally a single-family dwelling that has been divided into a multiple-family dwelling. Its significance is due to Alice French residing here rather than the house&#39;s architecture.</p><br>
<p>Hillside, also known as the Charles Schuler House, is a mansion overlooking the Mississippi River on the eastside of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1982 and the Davenport Register of Historic Properties since 1992. It is also a contributing property in the Prospect Park Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Charles Schuler</h2><br>
<p>The house was designed by prominent Davenport architect Frederick G. Clausen and built from 1905 to 1906 for Charles Schuler. Schuler owned Schuler Coal, which operated coal mines in southern Illinois, Iowa, Colorado and Wyoming. He was also involved in the lumber and construction businesses and the president of several other companies, including a bank. He is credited as being one of the businessmen that helped Davenport grow from a small city to an important commercial center in the first part of the 20th century. The house remained in the Schuler family until the 1950s.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Hillside is considered a locally significant example of the Georgian Revival style. The house&#39;s design does not reflect the architectural features that were common in contemporary Victorian architecture, but incorporates elements of the Beaux-Arts and Art Nouveau styles.</p><br>
<p>The 2½-story mansion is a brick structure built on a limestone foundation. It follows a rectangular plan that features projecting semicircular bays or rectangular pavilions at the corners on the east and west sides. The home features a porte-cochere on the north side and porches on the east and west sides of the building. There is a porch that faces the south side that runs the length of the house whose floors are of hand-made mosaic tile. There is also a two-level projecting pavilion; the upper part of which was enclosed in the 1920s. The front columns are 30 ft in height and feature fluted Ionic capitals. All of the secondary columns on the house are 15 ft high. The structure is capped by a decked hipped roof with roof dormers that feature semicircular pediments above round arch windows. At the roof line is a copper cornice. The interior of the home features many of original architectural features, which include stained glass, three fireplaces, tapestry walls, pocket doors and mahogany woodwork. The house is situated on a corner lot at the top of a bluff with a commanding view of the river.</p><br>
<p>The Daniel T. Newcome Double House, also known as Brady Manor, is a historic building located on the Brady Street Hill in Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Daniel and Patience Newcomb</h2><br>
<p>Daniel and Patience Newcomb farmed 1,200 acres in Scott County, Iowa. In 1842 he produced an unheard of 30,000 bushels of corn.</p><br>
<p>After Daniel’s death in 1870, Patience donated the funds to build Newcomb Presbyterian Memorial Chapel and donated the land for the Academy of Sciences, the forerunner of the Putnam Museum. The Newcombs residence became St. Lukes Hospital in 1892.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Daniel T. Newcome Double House is a three-story Second Empire structure designed by T.W. McClelland. It is the only recorded double house in Davenport built in that style. The building is brick construction and features bracketed eaves and a mansard roof in metal, which is somewhat unusual in the city. A frieze is created below the eaves with a single strip of molding. The entryways on both sides of the house are in the center of the structure. The six second floor windows are equally spaced across the front. The paired entrances and the even number of bays is typical of Davenport&#39;s double houses. The third floor features five windows. All of the windows are topped with decorative hoods. A small porch covers the double entry. The house presents a symmetrical appearance.</p><br>
<p>The Cerrito is an archaeological zone in Queretaro State.</p><br>
<p>As a place of worship, was venerated by local cultures (Chupícuaro) as well as Teotihuacan’s, Toltec, Chichimeca, Otomi and Purépecha, as late as 1632.</p><br>
<p>The first Querétaro human settlements are related to the Chupícuaro culture, which originated in the margins of the Lerma River, in the current Acámbaro, Guanajuato. This presence is more noticeable and early in San Juan del Río and Querétaro. Chupícuaro culture had a simple low platform architecture, very elaborated funeral rites, and very elaborated pottery decoration. Material evidence of this culture has been registered on sites located in the skirts of the Cimatario Hill on the banks of the Pueblito River.</p><br>
<p>Magdalena to the west and La Griega, to the east are further evidence of this culture in the Valley of Querétaro. The earliest settlements in Querétaro were related and contemporary to the Chupícuaro culture in the mesoamerican preclassical period. From the social, political and territorial structure of Chupícuaro, inhabitants of the Querétaro region developed their own cultural expressions within the context of the Mesoamerican civilization.</p><br>
<h2>Site investigation</h2><br>
<p>Some main walls of the pyramid are discovered. Archaeologist Carlos Margain. (1941)</p><br>
<p>A map is prepared, some sampling, and exploration wells, determining extent of the archaeological site. Archaeologist Ana Ma. Crespo (1984)</p><br>
<p>Land recucperation and some excavations at the ceremonial center. (1995)</p><br>
<p>The site El Cerrito is declared archaeological monument. (November 9, 2000)</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Since 300 BCE, The Chupicuaro culture settled in the region, followed by the Teotihuacan and Toltec, and then the chichimeca and Otomi, immediately prior to Spaniards arrival at the valley of Queretaro.</p><br>
<p>Towards 400 CE, the Altépetl, the ceremonial center and its pre-Hispanic urban zone, becomes the polítical and religious capital of several peripheric settlements.</p><br>
<p>El Cerrito had a long history as a regional political and religious center, and was contemporary of Teotihuacan and Tula. As a regional capital, it had a series of urban religious and residential complexes in Cerro Gordo, Balvanera, La Magdalena, Santa Barbara, La Negreta and the banks of the River El Pueblito.</p><br>
<p>El Cerrito functioned as a regional political and religious center of regional importance from 400 to 1500 CE. Its apogee occurred in the postclassical period, from 450 to 850 CE, during the Toltec culture influence of the center.</p><br>
<p>Over time, El Cerrito became a sacred space or sanctuary. The buildings and altars around the pyramid are expressions of religious activities around the worship of a female deity, probably the old mother or mother of the gods.</p><br>
<p>During the Spaniards arrival, it was populated by Chichimecas, a sedentary and semi-nomadic culture, with the addition of Otomi and Purépecha.</p><br>
<h3>Apogee</h3><br>
<p>The most intense occupation period is associated with the Toltec culture in the early postclassical (900-1200 CE). El Cerrito is one of the most important sites of the Toltec world, a Tollan or site where the power of the great lords and warriors region was legitimized. It is possible that through these rituals it maintained the Toltec cosmogony.</p><br>
<p>During that period, it went from being a local ceremonial center to a regional shrine. Ceramic pieces found (vases, figurines and malacates) provide evidence of trade networks with remote regions, as far as Tajumulco in Guatemala, the Huasteca Mexico and Los Altos de Jalisco to the north.</p><br>
<h3>Fall</h3><br>
<p>Around 1,200 CE, the Toltec groups left the Valley with the consequential decline of ceremonial center functions. During the late postclassical various ethnic groups continued to live in the Valley, and used partially site for their ceremonies, essentially the pyramid. El Cerrito would not regain the splendor reached with the Toltec, but its recognition as a sacred space open to prehispanic deities continued well into the 17TH century.</p><br>
<p>According to Franciscan records (1632), Chichimeca, Otomi and Purépecha natives continued to make offerings at the altar. The religious order, placed an image of Mary at the site, to transform the prehispanic cult held onsite for over 1000 years.</p><br>
<h2>The site</h2><br>
<p>El Cerrito archaeological site, also known as "El Pueblito pyramid", is a magnificent example of the influence that the Toltec culture reached in the area.</p><br>
<p>El Cerrito Toltec monumental architecture integrated two architectural types of constructions, the sunken patios and palaces or rooms with columns.</p><br>
<h3>Constructive stages</h3><br>
<p>Per recent excavations, the pyramid has three different constructive stages:</p><br>
<p>First Stage. At the ceremonial center and pyramid, engraved stones were found, forming a vertical wall, with an 80 metros per side basement, it is dated in the epiclassical.</p><br>
<p>Second Stage. It is part of the ceremonial center, with limestone walls forming panels and slopes, probably with bas-relief sculptures and battlements, during the early postclassical.</p><br>
<p>Third Stage. It has large sloped walls made with basalt stone, covered with stucco, altar type structures, embedded in walls, during the late postclassical and the 16th century.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>Used stone plates for construction, with decoration engravings in walls, altars and sidewalks. The motifs include representations of historical and mythical characters, war markers, calendar glyphs, symbols, and numerous attributes terrestrial, aquatic and astral of the Quetzalcoatl deity. The material used includes bas-relief engraved slabs, for finishing they were painted with mineral pigments of colors blue, red, yellow, white and black.</p><br>
<h3>Large pyramid</h3><br>
<p>It is a large elongated platform, partially destroyed and cut in the middle by the access road. As part of the main structure, Chac Mool sculptures, atlantes or columns walls were found. The Platform is 130 meters long, 30 meters wide, the height is not known, from its deterioration.</p><br>
<p>Was built on a leveled platform 118 m per side. On this platform the pyramid was built, it is 30 meters high. It consists of thirteen small bodies slope-staggered, for construction basalt stone and red sandstone were used, the structure was stuccoed and painted in red and ochre colors. Each of its facades had large stairways delimited by “alfardas” (intermediate side walls).</p><br>
<h3>Palace</h3><br>
<p>Between the Sculpture Plaza and La Danza, as palace was built, where small altars were found, with abundant offerings associated; clay braziers almost a meter in height. This Palace, in addition ot dividing the site, provided privacy in the squares, necessary for ritual functions. The façade towards each of the squares was formed by a portico, this is a roofed area supported by wooden columns decorated with stone and stucco painted in red and blue crowning.</p><br>
<h3>Cuadrangular Plaza</h3><br>
<p>It is enclosed by a stone wall that reaches up to six meters in height, the South side is 290 meters long and the west side is 225 meters long.</p><br>
<h3>Plaza La Danza</h3><br>
<p>Located northeast of the platform is built by a system of stone boxes, the west facade of the square is sloped and is covered with stuccoed basalt stones and red paint.</p><br>
<h3>Sculptures Plaza</h3><br>
<p>It is of the sunken patio type. Is located at the southeast corner of the pyramid basement, the best preserved, it is 72 metres long by 60 wide, altars were built at the ends eastern and western ends, with a sloped wall. At this place two offerings were found, consisting of skulls and smokers, it is referred to as the skulls altar or Tzompantli.</p><br>
<h2>Sculptures</h2><br>
<p>All El Cerrito and ceremonial center structures, contained sculptures fragments, indicating their importance and of the sculpted architectural elements, part of the construction and decoration of the site.</p><br>
<p>The sculptures have traces of having been painted in colors red, yellow and blue, sometimes covered with stucco.</p><br>
<p>The facades and cornices of the building and the walls of the structures were decorated.</p><br>
<p>Battlements have been found in the form of snails and crossed arrows with floral motifs and chalchihuites drums, all forming friezes and frames.</p><br>
<h2>Ceramic</h2><br>
<p>Ceramic found include shapes and decoration of pots, boxes and jugs. Most articles are for ceremonial rituals, as smokers, braziers, ollas, Tlaloc, pipes vases, Mazapa figurines and clay malacates.</p><br>
<p>The Ronald Watson Gravel Site  is an archaeological site near Petersburg in Boone County, Kentucky, on an inside bend of a meander of the Ohio River. Excavations have determined that the site was occupied several times, during the Late Archaic, Middle Woodland, Late Woodland, and Middle Fort Ancient periods, although none of these are transitional occupations from one period to another. It is the best documented Middle Woodland site in the Northern Bluegrass region of Kentucky.</p><br>
<h2>Occupations</h2><br>
<p>The site is a 0.4 hectare open habitation area on an alluvial terrace of sand and gravel beds overlooking the Ohio River. The eastern side of the site was occupied twice during the Late Archaic period, 3715 plus or minus 40 years before the present, during the Central Ohio Valley Phase (2750-1750 BCE) and 3090 plus or minus 50 years before the present, during the Maple Creek Phase (1750-1000 BCE). The site was occupied twice during the Woodland period, during the Middle Woodland (1–500 CE) with dates 83-482 CE and 258-534 CE and during the Late Woodland (500–1000 CE) with dates 655-854 CE, 668-893 CE, 692-961 CE, and 785-1017 CE. During this time period the residents of Ronald Watson relied heavily on nut resources and farmed native plants from the Eastern Agricultural Complex such as goosefoot, erect knotweed, sunflower, and maygrass. The Late Woodland occupation was during the Newtown Phase and was the most intensive occupation of the site. The site was also occupied briefly during the Middle Fort Ancient period (1200 to 1400 CE), during the Anderson Phase.</p><br>
<p>The Koboltstaler Köpfe  are a group of three mountains, that rise southwest of Sankt Andreasberg and east of Sieber in the district of Osterode am Harz in Lower Saxony. The highest of the three peaks is 673 metres high. The other two summits lie roughly 350 metres east and south of the main peak respectively and are ony a few metres lower. The Koboltstaler Köpfe are mainly covered by pine forest and accessible on all sides by forest roads.</p><br>
<p>To the southwest runs a mountain ridge, the Gödeckenkopf or Gödeckekopf, whose crest lies between 600 and 650 metres high. It is bounded to the west by the Mittleren Gödeckental and to the east by the Kleinen Gödeckental. To the southwest it falls away steeply towards the Großes Gödeckental valley.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Topographische Karte 1:25000, No. 4328 Bad Lauterberg im Harz</p><br>
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<p>Lake Dulverton is a large shallow lake/lagoon associated with the town of Oatlands in Southern Midlands of the Australian state of Tasmania. The lake has an uneven shoreline with many low sandstone cliffs and overhangs. The only island in the lake, Mary&#39;s Island, is a small sandstone rock roughly 80 m long with nothing more than a few cedars growing on it. The lake dried up in 1993 and remained dry for years until heavy rains in August, 2010, filled the lake to near full supply level. During this dry period, two levees were built across the lake dividing it into three sections. Only the smallest section near the Callington Mill was able to remain full.</p><br>
<p>The floor of the lake is composed of peaty soils, rock and sand. When full, the waters of the lake quickly fill with pondweed and numerous waterbirds. The lake is currently part of a wildlife sanctuary.</p><br>
<p>Lake Sils, Catalan Estany de Sils or Llac de Sils, is a freshwater dry lake with residual wetlands and marshes located in Caldes de Malavella, Maçanet de la Selva and Sils municipal terms, in the comarca of Selva, Catalonia, Spain. Located in a tectonic basin, this lake was the largest natural lake in Catalonia before being drained in the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original surface of the ancient lake was around 7 km², therefore it appears larger than Lake Banyoles in the ancient cartography of Catalonia.</p><br>
<p>The lake was located in a tectonic depression without natural drainage. The highly seasonal rivers of Riera de Vallcanera, Riera de Santa Maria, Rec Sorrer, El Reclar, Riera de Pins and la Torderola contributed with their waters to fill Lake Sils basin. The surface of the lake was most likely subject to periodical variations, reaching its lowest level at the height of the summer in periods of drought when inflow reached a minimum and evaporation was high.</p><br>
<p>As in most wetlands in Europe in the past, the Sils Lake was seen as an unhealthy area, a focus of maladies. There were several attempts to drain the lake in the past centuries, but these were not successful. Finally in 1851, as part of a campaign against malaria and to promote agricultural development, a long canal was built leading to the Riera de Santa Coloma —a tributary of the Tordera River— and the waters of the lake ebbed away.</p><br>
<p>The lands that were obtained through the desiccation of the lake area were distributed among the people who had built the drainage canal.</p><br>
<p>As time went by the lake basin filled mainly with hay fields that were cut in order to store hay for the local cattle in the winter.</p><br>
<p>Towards the last quarter of the 20th century, when cattle-rearing was on the wane in the region, the hayfields gave way to poplar and hybrid plane plantations for commercial use.</p><br>
<h3>Maps</h3><br>
<p>Sils Lake is represented clearly in the following ancient maps, among others:</p><br>
<p>"Cataloniae principatus descriptio nova" by Gerard Mercator, 1619</p><br>
<p>"Catalonia de Guiljelmus Blaeu excud.", Amsterdam, 1632</p><br>
<p>"Cataloniae principatus et Ruscinonis ac Cerretaniae comitatuum exactissima dilineatio, cura et studio de Matthäus Seutter", 1740</p><br>
<p>"Cataloniae principatus, nec non Ruscinonensis et Cerretaniae Comitatus in eorum vicariatus peraccurae distincti de Nicolaum Visser"</p><br>
<p>"Cataloniae Principatus novissima et accurata descriptio" by J.B. Vrients, 1608</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>Nowadays there are a few vestiges of the former lake as marshes and seasonal ponds in the area formerly occupied by Lake Sils. These are partly a fruit of the effort of a 1998 project called "Life" under which some of the former hayfields are being restored by buying private land. The final and most ambitious part of the project is to reestablish a permanent lake and recreate some of the local forest that had formerly grown at the edges of the ancient lake.</p><br>
<p>This project is under the Natural Interest Areas Plan, Pla dEspais dInterès Natural (PEIN) of the Generalitat, and is part of the Natura 2000 ecological network of protected areas in the territory of the European Union.</p><br>
<h3>Species</h3><br>
<p>There are many different species of birds in the few marshes remaining in the area. These were probably part of the original fauna of the lake that disappeared. Among the herpetological fauna, the Mediterranean Painted Frog, the Palmate Newt, the European pond terrapin and the small snake Natrix maura deserve mention.</p><br>
<p>It is difficult to know which fishes inhabited the waters of the ancient lake. The incertitude is largely based on the introduction of exotic species, like common carp, crucian carp and Gambusia rather than to the probable extinction of some original local species. Besides the exotic species, nowadays the European chub and European eel are common in the present remaining wetlands and rivulets.</p><br>
<h2>Lake basin</h2><br>
<p>The Leon Bismark Beiderbecke House is a historic building located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The house is the birthplace and boyhood home of jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke and so the house is also known simply as the Bix Beiderbecke House. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Leon Bismark Beiderbecke</h2><br>
<p>Leon Bismark Beiderbecke, nicknamed Bix, was born in this house on March 10, 1903, and grew up here. His father, Bismark Herman Beiderbecke, was a son of German immigrants and was the owner of East Davenport Lumber and Coal Company. His mother, Agatha Jane (Hilton) Beiderbecke, was the daughter of a riverboat pilot and was the organist at First Presbyterian Church. Bix learned to play the piano by ear in the family home. By the age of three he could play simple melodies. The Davenport Democrat published an article about his musical accomplishments when he was six years old.</p><br>
<p>As he grew older he would go down to the Mississippi River to listen to the jazz music that could be heard playing on the riverboats. He heard Louis Armstrong play for the first time on one of the boats. He would also stow away and play the calliopes on the boats. He went on to perform with Neal Buckley’s Novelty Orchestra and the Plantation Jazz Orchestra on the stern-wheeler Majestic.</p><br>
<p>In 1921, Beiderbecke was sent to Lake Forest Academy. Except for a brief period in the early 1920s when he returned home to work for his father, Bix lived the rest of his life lived away from Davenport as a professional musician playing in jazz bands. He would come home to visit from time to time and when he was here he played with local bands. It is believed that on his visit from December 1924 to January 1925 Bix composed "Davenport Blues" in this house. Beiderbecke died in New York City in 1931 at the age of 28 and is buried in Oakdale Cemetery in Davenport.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Beiderbecke house is located in a neighborhood of similar houses from the Late Victorian era. It is built on a property that includes a 5 ft terrace to the sidewalk. It is situated across the street from a neighborhood park. The rectangular shaped house is 26 ft wide and 57 ft deep. A full-size porch wraps around from the front to the south side of the house. Above the entrance to the porch is a decorative wooden pediment. Above that is a small semi-circular porch topped with a conical roof. Entrance to the smaller porch is from one of the second-floor bedrooms. There is a two-story bay window section that projects from the south side of the house and a projection on the north side that contains a stairwell. There is a small L-shaped addition on the back of the house (date unknown) that contains an enclosed porch and a family room. The house is topped by an irregular gabled roof.</p><br>
<p>Mount Saint Peter , also referred to as Caestert Plateau, is the northern part of a plateau running north to south between the valleys of the river Geer to the west, and the Meuse to the east. It runs from Maastricht in the Netherlands, through Riemst in Belgian Limburg almost to the city of Liège in Belgium, thus defining the topography of this border area between Flanders, Wallonia and the Netherlands. The name of the hill, as well as the nearby village and church of Sint Pieter and the fortress of Sint Pieter, refers to Saint Peter, one of the Twelve Apostles.</p><br>
<h2>Principal characteristics</h2><br>
<p>The plateau, of which Mount Saint Peter is part, is bounded on the east by the Meuse river (Dutch: Maas) and on the west by the Geer (Jeker). Since the 1930s, the Albert Canal divides the hill in two sections. Near the small Liège province village of Lanaye (Dutch: Ternaaien) the canal cuts through the ridge over a length of 1,300 m and 65 m deep. The Lanaye locks at the eastern end of the cut permit boats to pass from the upper Meuse and the Albert Canal to the lower Meuse and Rhine basin. To the east of these locks the Meuse has altered its course, creating backwaters and old channels.</p><br>
<p>Mount Saint Peter&#39;s limestone composition, its deposits of flint nodules and its geographic position make it a remarkable place. The locale has been mined for flint from Neolithic times. The network of mining tunnels extended 200 km by the 19th century but was severely shortened in the 20th century by surface mining. These days Mount Saint Peter is considered an important nature reserve, as well as an area for recreation and tourism.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the part of Mount Saint Peter that is in the Flemish municipality of Riemst, archaeological evidence of an Iron Age fortress has been found. The fortress is one of the strongest contenders for being identified as the fortress Atuatuca of the Eburones, which played an important role in Julius Caesar&#39;s commentaries on his wars in Gaul. Dendrochronological evidence was once thought to count against this proposal, but more recent review of the evidence has reinvigorated the idea.</p><br>
<p>During the Middle Ages several castles were built on the hill, of which various ruins remain. The hill was favoured by attackers during the various sieges of Maastricht, most notably by Louis XIV of France in the Siege of Maastricht (1673). As a result of this, the fortress Sint-Pieter was built on the northern edge.</p><br>
<p>Around 1765 the skull of a Mosasaurus was discovered here in a limestone quarry, one of the first recognised reptile fossils, which was later acquired by the Teylers Museum in Haarlem. A more famous Mosasaurus fossil was found between 1770 and 1774 but was confiscated by the French in 1794 and is now in the Muséum national d&#39;Histoire naturelle in Paris. Later dinosaur remains were discovered here as well, belonging to Betasuchus and Orthomerus, as well as turtles and fossils of smaller creatures of the sea.</p><br>
<p>From 1930 through 1939 the Albert Canal was constructed, cutting through parts of Mount Saint Peter. The first ships went through in 1940. The hill&#39;s strategic location made it the site of Fort Eben-Emael (1931–35), a major artillery defence point in the Belgian defences against any invading forces coming from Nazi Germany. At the opening of the war, the entire installation was taken quickly by a relatively small number of German paratroopers.</p><br>
<h2>Geology and mining activities</h2><br>
<p>At Mount Saint Peter the rivers Geer and Meuse have cut into the limestone plateau known in the east as the Herve plateau and in the west as Hesbaye. The succeeding geologic layers include loess, gravel, quartz sand and chalky limestone of the Maastricht Formation with inclusions of flint. The chalk deposits contain numerous fossils of sea urchins, clams and belemnites.</p><br>
<p>Humans have used the site since the lower Paleolithic period. The area around Spiennes is known for its flint mines. Limestone has been quarried in the area for building stone and fertilizer for many centuries. Several of Maastrichts medieval churches were built from local stone, incorrectly referred to as mergel (marl). The quarrying of limestone has created a vast network of subterranean corridors, also incorrectly referred to as grotten (caves). Although vast sections of these "caves" have now disappeared through surface mining, other sections are well-preserved. Guided tours of these limestone quarries, some with ancient inscriptions, drawings and other works of art, constitute one of Maastrichts main tourist attractions.</p><br>
<p>In modern times limestone from Mount Saint Peter continues to be quarried in surface mines, mainly for portland cement production. Abandoned quarries in the Belgian part of the hill are used to dispose of ashes from municipal waste incinerators. A large quarry and cement factory operated by ENCI exists since 1921 in the Dutch part of the hill. The quarrying of limestone in a protected nature area was controversial for many years but for economic reasons ENCI was able to extract most of the mount&#39;s limestone, creating a vast area of connected quarries. In 2010 it was decided that by 2018 the quarry will close down. Various plans for redevelopment of both the quarry and the factory site have been presented in recent years. Parts of the quarry that were abandoned years ago have been taken over by nature once again.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>Mount Saint Peter is a Natura 2000 protection area. Because of its limestone soil, the hill is exceptional in its botanical variety. It is the northern limit for a number of species of orchids due to its favorable microclimate.</p><br>
<p>The Dutch part of the plateau is largely owned by the Dutch society for preservation of nature monuments Natuurmonumenten. A sheep herd is used to keep vegetation open in certain areas.</p><br>
<h2>Listed buildings</h2><br>
<h3>Castles and farmsteads</h3><br>
<p>On the western part of the mount remains of the motte-and-bailey castle De Tombe can be detected in the landscape. On the northeastern section, now overlooking the ENCI quarry as well as the river Meuse, is the farmstead Lichtenberg, largely dating from the 18th century but which includes an 11th-century keep. Further south, in the Walloon municipality of Visé, is another ruined castle overlooking the Meuse, Caestert, of which only some of the farm buildings remain. Well-preserved is the 16th-century house De Torentjes ("The little towers"), at the bottom of the hill in the village of Sint Pieter.</p><br>
<h3>Other buildings</h3><br>
<p>The imposing fortress Sint-Pieter on the northern edge of the hill overlooking the city of Maastricht was built in 1702 as part of the defense works of the heavily fortified city of Maastricht. The fortress was recently restored to reflect its original state. The old village of Sint Pieter was part of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège until 1794. The medieval church was replaced in the 19th century by the present Gothic Revival building by architect Jules Kayser. South of the village remnants of the 17th-century Franciscan Slavante Monastery can be seen, including a small baroque chapel dedicated to Saint Anthony. Nearby, an elegant pavilion, Casino Slavante, was built in 1846 by a Maastricht military gentlemen&#39;s club. A sinister reminder of World War II is the fortress Eben-Emael, constructed in 1931–35 to protect the Belgian border near the Albert Canal.</p><br>
<h2>Sources and references</h2><br>
<p>This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding French Wikipedia article as of November 4, 2010, and from the Dutch article as of March 22, 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Braakberg is a 645.5 metre high mountain in the Harz in central Germany that lies in the unincorporated area of Harz in the district of Osterode am Harz in the state of Lower Saxony.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<h3>Location</h3><br>
<p>The Braakberg lies in the South Harz within the Harz National Park about 2.4 km north of Lonau. To the north it transitions into the ridge known as Auf dem Acker. The Braakberg forms the watershed between the streams of Große Steinau to the west and Kleine Lonau to the east.</p><br>
<h3>Subpeak</h3><br>
<p>The Kargeskopf and the Franzosenkopf are southern foothills of the Braakberg. In a wider sense the ridge running away to the southwest is also known as the Braakberg, especially its southern foothills west of Lonau which have a 512.1 m high sub-peak of the same name.: (Coordinates: 51.6952&deg;N latitude, 10.3518&deg;E longitude)</p><br>
<h3>Crags and rock formations</h3><br>
<p>In the transition zone from the Braakberg to the Haspelkopf (ca. ), a high point in the southwestern area of the Auf dem Acker ridge, around 500 m north-northwest of the summit lie the crags of the Sophienklippe (max. ca. 51.7156&deg;N latitude, 10.3644&deg;E longitude) and about 700 m northwest is the Spießerklippe (max. ca. 51.7142&deg;N latitude, 10.3585&deg;E longitude).</p><br>
<h2>Vegetation</h2><br>
<p>The upper slopes of the mountain are covered in spruce, the very lowest with beech trees. It lies entirely within the Harz National Park.</p><br>
<p>The Bristol Historic District in Bristol, Pennsylvania was included on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The district has over 300 buildings, a few dating back to the early eighteenth century. It includes 28 acres, which is the area of the original town as laid out in 1697 and is bounded by the Delaware River, and Lincoln, Pond, Cedar, and Mill Streets. Most of the buildings are residential and only 22 are considered to be non-historic intrusions to the district.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bristol&#39;s first European settler, Samuel Clift, operated a ferry across the Delaware River starting in 1681. A Quaker settlement soon grew near the ferry,</p><br>
<p>and in 1697 residents petitioned the Provincial Council to establish the community as the third town in the Pennsylvania Colony. The Bristol Friends Meetinghouse, built in 1711-1714 and partially reconstructed in 1728, is still standing and represents this era of the town&#39;s history. Many other buildings burned down in the fire of 1724.</p><br>
<p>During the last half of the 18th century the town was an important station on the New York to Philadelphia stagecoach route. The Delaware Hotel, at Radcliffe and Mill Street, was originally built in 1765 but has been added to many times since. The 1781 Thomas Belford residence at 200 Mill Street, later turned into a drug store, also represents this era.</p><br>
<p>From the 1780s to the 1820s Bath Springs, just north of the original town, became a famous spa and large residences were built by wealthy Philadelphians and New Yorkers.</p><br>
<p>Shipbuilding was also an important industry.</p><br>
<p>In 1832 the Delaware Division of the Pennsylvania Canal was completed with Bristol at its southern end, and the town became a transportation hub. Business boomed with hotels, wharves, docks and warehouses lining the riverfront. About 1855 the boom ended as the canal gained access to the Delaware River to the north at New Hope, allowing traffic to New York to bypass Bristol. Many of the houses in the 300 block of Radcliffe Street were built during this period. The 1851 First Baptist Church was designed by Thomas U. Walter. St. James Episcopal Church, designed by Samuel Sloan was completed in 1857. The Dorrance Mansion was completed during the Civil War.</p><br>
<p>Following the Civil War to town&#39;s economy recovered as mills and factories were built along the canal, which provided both water power and transportation. Bristol became the largest center of industry in Bucks County and the town grew with both workers housing and the mansions of industrialists.</p><br>
<p>The Americanization School in Oceanside, California, built in 1931, was intended as an assimilation school where Spanish-speaking Oceanside residents would be taught English and civics. Historically, it reflects a time before the rise of multiculturalism where immigrants who arrived in the United States were more actively Americanized in assimilation programs.</p><br>
<p>The building, now known as the Crown Heights Resource Center, was designed by Irving Gill. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Building design</h2><br>
<p>Late in his career, Gill had been taking fewer and smaller projects. Several were in Oceanside, where he continued to try to develop his work. The Americanization school displays hints of Art Deco while also taking in North African–Islamic influences that he picked up from his brief partnership with Frank Mead, another San Diego architect. Gill designed the 3,550 ft&sup2; wood-frame and stucco structure to fit its triangular, wedge-shaped corner site. With a prominent corner, Gill placed an arched entryway with a minimalist Islamic-style dome atop a short, octagonal tower. For class space, Gill planned two wings to run back from the corner, along the length of the lot in a V-shape; however, only one was ever built. To break up a potentially monotonous wall, he stepped the classes into three sections along the edge of the property. To bring in natural light, he placed clerestory windows and French doors to the south-facing side.</p><br>
<h2>Conversion</h2><br>
<p>By the early 1990s, the structure was not in use, rundown and boarded up. In 1992, the City of Oceanside began a $316,000 restoration, with $50,000 in city money and the rest in donated services. The Crown Heights Resource Center moved into the structure in July 2001 from a nearby house. The resource center was initially opened in 1996 in response to the high crime rate and gang activity in the surrounding neighborhood, and is operated by the Housing and Neighborhood Services Department of the City of Oceanside.</p><br>
<p>Sleepy Hollow Lake refers to both a lake and a co-located residential community in Greene County, NY located 120 miles north of New York City and 28 miles south of Albany, NY in the Hudson River Valley. The lake is a two and a half mile long, 324 acre, 70 foot deep man-made, Class “A” drinking water reservoir for the neighboring communities. It is surrounded by a 2,200 acre residential community, also known as “Sleepy Hollow Lake”, which is a Planned Unit Development  that self-governs residential land use, maintains common roads, parks, beaches, and other recreational facilities, operates most of the development’s sewer and water services, and provides community security and code enforcement. The community is within the viewshed of the Taconic Mountains to the east and the Catskill Mountains to the west. The community was featured in a 2015 episode of the HGTV series Lakefront Bargain Hunt.</p><br>
<h2>Towns</h2><br>
<p>The Sleepy Hollow Lake community is located within the boundaries of three municipalities – the town of Coxsackie, NY, the town of Athens, NY and the Village of Athens, NY. The postal zip code for the community is 12015, as mail is serviced through the local post office in the Village of Athens. The nearest larger communities are Catskill, NY about 7 miles south, Kingston, NY and Rhinebeck, NY, both about 30 miles south, and Hudson, NY, just 2.5 miles directly across the Hudson River from the community, but reached by car via the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, about 10 driving miles away, or via a Hudson River ferry on Friday and Saturday evenings during summer months. An Amtrak passenger rail station is located in Hudson, NY.</p><br>
<h2>Fish</h2><br>
<p>The lake is home to various game fish, including largemouth bass, smallmouth bass, and crappie. The New York State record white crappie (3 lbs 13 oz) was caught at Sleepy Hollow Lake in 2001.</p><br>
<p>The Qandil Mountains , are a mountainous area of Iraqi Kurdistan near the Iraq-Iran border. The region belongs to the Zagros mountain range and is difficult to access, with extremely rugged terrain. The highest peaks reach over 3,000m.</p><br>
<p>The area is notable as a sanctuary and headquarters for the Kurdish leftist resistance group Kurdistan Workers&#39; Party (PKK). Approximately 5,000 PKK and other armed resistance factions control an area of roughly 50 km², which has been sporadically bombarded by the Turkish Air Force and shelled by Iranian artillery for several years. The group Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) is also stationed in Qandil alongside the PKK, which allows them to infiltrate into Iran. The main leader in the area is Murat Karayılan.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office and Courthouse in Bismarck, North Dakota, United States, was built during 1912-13 and expanded in 1937. It was designed by James Knox Taylor and includes Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture and Second Renaissance Revival architecture. Also known as Federal Building, it served historically as a courthouse and as a post office. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>It is notable as one of the last works of James Knox Taylor, who was Supervising Architect of the USA Treasury during 1897-1912.</p><br>
<p>It is a three-story steel-framed building with reinforced concrete floors and a red tile roof that can be seen from far away to the south. It was approximately 100 ft wide (on Broadway) by 64 ft deep (on Third Street) when completed in 1913, then deepened to 115 ft in 1937.</p><br>
<p>The USA Post Office and Courthouse in Devils Lake, North Dakota, was built in 1908. It was designed by James Knox Taylor and includes Classical Revival architecture. Also known as Devils Lake Post Office and as the Federal Building, it served historically as a courthouse and as a post office. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>According to its NRHP nomination, its Greek Revival styling is rare in North Dakota, and especially in Devils Lake, a "small rurally oriented community". In addition, the "quality of materials and workmanship set a nearly unattainable standard among contemporary buildings and, therefore, the Federal Building became a cultural and artistic landmark to the community, a source of prestige still felt and honored."</p><br>
<p>The Lake Region Heritage Center in the Old Post Office Building hosts many local and travelling exhibits. Exhibits include local history displays, a post office, recreations of a local doctor&#39;s and dentist office, the original federal courtroom, an early law office, a barber shop, and a display of Native American artifacts. The Center also hosts art exhibits in cooperation with the North Dakota Art Gallery Association.</p><br>
<p>The Ketchikan Federal Building is a courthouse of the United States District Court for the District of Alaska, located at 648 Mission Street in Ketchikan, Alaska. It was completed in 1938, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on. The buildings primary tenant is the United States Forest Service Tongass National Forest Supervisors Office, which occupies space on the first, second, third, fourth and sixth floors. The fifth floor houses a courtroom and related support offices, while the first floor also houses an office of the United States Customs and Border Protection.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Significance</h2><br>
<p>The beginnings of the Ketchikan Federal Building can be traced back to 1924 when the City of Ketchikan was constructing a new school house and little space was left on the school lot for playgrounds. The USA Courthouse, constructed in 1905, was located directly across the street and was apparently in "disrepair, inadequate for present needs, and unfavorably located in a residence section with its jail in close proximity to the school". The Ketchikan Women&#39;s Council developed a proposal where the City of Ketchikan agreed to donate a site for a new federal building, centrally located in the business district of the city, in exchange for the courthouse site to be used for a school playground.</p><br>
<p>On July 16, 1924 the Common Council of the City of Ketchikan adopted a memorandum to petition the federal government to make "ample appropriations" for the erection of a new courthouse or federal building. Copies of the memorandum were sent to the office of the Attorney General, the Treasury Department and the Committee on Territories in both the House and the Senate. The ground-breaking ceremonies on March 3, 1937 marked the end of years of continuous struggle by local agencies to obtain a new federal building. The building was designed by the Cleveland architectural firm of Garfield, Stanley-Brown, Harris and Robinson. The J.B. Warrack Construction Company was awarded the building contract of $320,000, not including the elevator, fixtures and furnishings.</p><br>
<p>The building officially opened on March 5, 1938, a year and a day after ground was first broken. Five times larger than the average federal building in cities of a population of 5,000, the building originally housed 11 governmental departments, services and bureaus. The post office occupied the entire L-shaped first floor, with service and lock box lobbies spanning the length of each wing. The district courtroom, offices and jail cells were located on the fifth floor.</p><br>
<p>In the 1950s, the movie Cry Vengeance was filmed in the Ketchikan Federal Building and the original layout of the first floor lobby can be seen in some of the scenes.</p><br>
<p>General Services Administration acquired ownership of the building in 1976, after postal services were relocated to a new facility. In 1977-1978, GSA totally remodeled the building to create modern office space; and additional minor remodeling has occurred since. Remodeling has removed much of the historical significance on the 1st and 4th floors, the old jail space in the southern half of the 5th floor, and much of the private office space on the 2nd and 3rd floors. Intact historical interior elements include window trim; some doors, frames and trim; the entry vestibule floor and wall finishes; the courtroom and adjacent lobby, judges chambers, and clerk of courts office; the elevator doors; and the northeast stair.</p><br>
<p>Of interest in the former jail cell area are four murals painted directly on the concrete block walls. These murals are believed to have been transferred from magazines and painted by prisoners who were members of the Tlingit and Haida Alaskan Indian tribes in the early 1980s. The murals are protected by Plexiglas panels and available for limited viewing, located in a private office.</p><br>
<p>The exterior of the original building is largely intact, except where a new two-story wing was added at the west side of the south end of the original six-story tower. Windows were removed and openings infilled at a new stair added at the south end of the tower, and an insensitively-designed bump-out housing the stair&#39;s exterior vestibule was added at the first floor on the south end of the tower. Replacement windows, although not exact duplicates of the original design, match the original material (wood) and proportions. The exterior paint colors were originally white; the current pink and beige colors are not original.</p><br>
<h2>Architectural description</h2><br>
<p>Local newspaper articles at the time of its dedication described the Federal Building in Ketchikan, Alaska as "inside and out, the structure is plain and practical." The six-story, L-shaped building was constructed of cast-in-place reinforced concrete on a structural foundation of driven steel piles with concrete caps. Designed by the Cleveland architectural firm of Garfield, Stanley-Brown, Harris and Robinson; the plain, box-like exterior, flat roofs, and lack of ornament identify the Federal Building as International Style architecture.</p><br>
<p>Pioneered by European architects shortly after World War I, the International Style rejected the ornate designs of previous eras, turning instead to a streamlined, modern approach for buildings. Walls were flat planes with no decorative treatment and windows were placed flush to the exterior. This style became widely accepted in the United States in the mid-1930s.</p><br>
<p>The building also represents a regional construction type and style known within Federal organizations as New Deal Concrete. A number of federal buildings built under Roosevelt&#39;s New Deal plan exhibit similar characteristics.</p><br>
<p>The Federal Building is located at the southwest corner of Mission and Stedman Streets in downtown Ketchikan. The site is bounded by concrete sidewalks and grassy lawns on the northwest and northeast sides, and by paved concrete parking lots on the southeast and southwest. The northwest lawn features a metal flagpole with a concrete base, one of two originals. After almost four decades of grass bounded by chain link fencing, in the mid 1970s, landscaping was added and the fencing removed at the northeast and northwest lawns at Stedman and Mission Streets. The original steps at the main entry have been altered by the addition of a functional but insensitively designed off-center ramp with painted free-standing metal handrails.</p><br>
<p>The L-shaped building consists of a long and narrow six-story tower stretching along Stedman Street to the northeast, with the narrow end of the tower and a one-story wing facing Mission Street to the northwest. The inside of the "L" originally included a basement level boiler room. While the main blocks of the building have remained intact; in 1954, a one- and two-story wing was added to the southeast side, east end of the main tower, adjacent to the boiler room. This addition has metal panel and stucco exterior finishes.</p><br>
<p>The original building sits on a slightly projecting concrete base. The concrete wall surfaces have a rubbed finish and are smooth except for continuous horizontal reveals at the heights of window sills and heads on each floor level. The building is terminated by a slightly recessed continuous concrete parapet cap. The exterior elevations are penetrated by grouped window openings which align vertically and horizontally, from floor-to-floor. The original horizontal-light, two-over-two, wood double-hung sash windows, some with matching transoms, have been replaced by new, single-light, one-over-one, wood units with operable awning sash below fixed upper sash(es). The building was painted pink in 1990, at the request of the newly built Cape Fox Lodge; the color was decided upon by a local committee. The exterior concrete and paint is deteriorated. A study has recently been completed, identifying deficiencies and recommendations for improvement.</p><br>
<p>The main building entrance is centered on the narrow northwest face of the six-story tower. The main entry doors are framed by a slightly protruding concrete surround that matches the base element. Two wrought-iron coach-lights (not original) are located at the sides of the entry doors and original cast bronze letters reading "FEDERAL BUILDING KETCHIKAN ALASKA" are located directly above the doors. The commemorative granite corner stone is located near the east end of the north wall.</p><br>
<p>The original interior of the building continued the simple and practical theme. The most significant spaces were the postal lobbies on the first floor, and the courtroom and lobby on the fifth floor. Due to substantial renovation work in the 1970s, only the fifth floor courtroom and its lobby retains their original integrity.</p><br>
<p>Las Vegas Valley is a basin located in the USA state of Nevada. The valley in the northwest section is a northwest-by-southeast trending area, and trending parallel to Las Vegas Wash, lies at the northeast of the Spring Mountains massif.</p><br>
<p>USA Route 95 leaves Las Vegas&#39; northwest and goes northwesterly through the northwest valley section, with Las Vegas Wash about 2 mi northeast. USA 95 lies on the southwest perimeter of the valley bottomlands, and small alluvial fan areas from the northeast Spring Mountains border southwest.</p><br>
<p>A "distorted surface", a playa-like region, occurs at the farthest northwest area, for about 15 to 18 mi, starting from Nevada Route 157. At Nevada Route 156, 10 mi northwest, the distorted surface, bottom land turns north, a 6 mi area in length and about 3 mi wide. It lies at the south drainage section of the Three Lakes Valley, where a water divide separates Dog Bone Lake in the valley&#39;s center from the southwest washes that drain into the Las Vegas Valley (upland Las Vegas Wash).</p><br>
<p>The Corn Creek Dunes lie about 5 mi southwest of Route 156&#39;s intersection with USA 95, and they are slightly northeast of Las Vegas Wash.</p><br>
<h2>Las Vegas Valley</h2><br>
<p>The Las Vegas Valley is an area about 1,600 square miles. All perimeters, except the northwest, are foothills or mountain ranges, with all highway routes entering the foothills; this includes the Interstate 15 to the southwest, as it climbs to Jean Pass (north), before traversing Ivanpah Valley. Only the USA Route 95 northwest follows an actual valley. The northwest section, thus describes the entire landform as a central, and large valley with an attached feeder valley northwest, and in this case the northwest source, and actual course of the Las Vegas Wash.</p><br>
<p>The valley is a fault-bounded structural and hydrologic basin made of alluvial-fan deposits. There are several aquifers contained within the valley including the Las Vegas Aquifer. These heavily depleted water sources exist at about 200 - in depth. As of 1986, estimate show that the valley floor in Downtown Las Vegas has subsided by about 6.2 ft and about 2.9 ft along The Strip as a result of pumping from these aquifers.</p><br>
<p>The valley is an active earthquake zone crossed by multiple fault and thrust lines. These include the 20 mi long Frenchman Mountain Fault capable of a magnitude 7 event, Whitney Mesa Fault, Cashman Fault, Valley View Fault, Decatur Fault, Eglington Fault and the West Charleston Fault.</p><br>
<h2>Great Basin Divide</h2><br>
<p>The Great Basin Divide is represented in southeast Nevada by a circuitous path, that in the east, enters Nevada at the Clover-Bull Valley Mountains, and in the south leaves Nevada at the New York Mountains. At the northwest of the entire Las Vegas region, and also the northwest section upland area of the watershed of Las Vegas Wash, the Great Basin Divide, changes direction in the Spring Mountains, from a north-south transect, to leave the massif at the northeast, in the foothills, and enter the east-west transect, mostly at the southern perimeter of the north-south mountain ranges, on the Las Vegas north perimeter.</p><br>
<p>At the height of 3,770 m the Kleinglockner is the third highest mountain in Austria. However, with a prominence of only 17 metres it is arguable whether it can be counted as an independent mountain, or just as a subpeak of the Großglockner. It lies in the Glockner Group of Austria&#39;s Central Alps, the middle section of the Hohe Tauern. Geographically and geologically speaking, it is viewed a secondary summit of the neighbouring Großglockner, but in the literature, in view of its importance to mountaineering, it is in some cases treated as separate. Its peak forms part of the Glockner crest or ridge  and lies exactly on the border between the Austrian state of Carinthia and Lienz District in the East Tyrol. The Kleinglockner has the shape of a sharp edge, covered with the so-called Glockner Cornice  and, depending on the conditions, can make the ascent of the mountain dangerous to almost impossible. The climbing history of the Kleinglockner is closely linked to that of the Großglockner, because the first climbers, coming from the south and east, had to cross it.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Willi End: Alpine Club Guide Glocknergruppe. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2003.</p><br>
<p>Eduard Richter (Redaktion): Die Erschließung der Ostalpen, III. Band. Published by the German and Austrian Alpine Club, Berlin 1894.</p><br>
<p>Raimund von Klebelsberg: Geologie von Tirol. Berlin 1935.</p><br>
<p>Alpenvereinskarte 1:25.000, Blatt 40, Glocknergruppe.</p><br>
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<p>The Nicholas Koester Building is an historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983. The building is a two-story brick structure that sits on the southeast corner of West Third and Fillmore Streets. It is part of a small commercial district near the historic German neighborhoods and the industrial areas along the Mississippi River. It is a typical commercial building in the West End which combines commercial space on the first floor and apartments on the second floor.</p><br>
<p>Previous to opening his shop, Nicholas Koester lived down the street and worked as a tinsmith. In his store he sold stoves and tin ware. Koester also lived in the residential space above. The business on the first floor continues to carry the Koester name.</p><br>
<p>The building was completed in 1890 and was designed in the Italianate style. It features a decorative cornice and rectangular windows on the second floor. There is an oriel window on the Fillmore Street side of the building.</p><br>
<p>The Schroeder Bros. Meat Market is a historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The Commercial Vernacular style building was complete in 1905 and it has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was probably built for Henry and John Schroeder for their meat market. Another building that housed a cigar factory and residence occupied this property previously. Since at least the latter part of the 20th-century, the building has housed a tavern in the commercial space.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is a two-story brick structure that sits at the corner of West Third and North Pine Streets. The entrance into the first floor commercial space faces the corner. Above the entrance is a pressed-metal oriel window, which gives the building a sense of prominence. Another oriel window is further back along North Pine Street. The second floor also features rectangular windows with hoods above them. The building has a cornice across the top.</p><br>
<p>Frick&#39;s Tavern is an historic building located in the West End of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974. The building is a two-story brick structure that sits on the northwest corner of West Third and Fillmore Streets. It is part of a small commercial district near the historic German neighborhoods and the industrial areas along the Mississippi River. It is a typical commercial building in the West End which combined commercial space on the first floor and apartments on the second floor.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was built in 1872. Over the years it has housed a bakery, tavern, barbershop and living quarters. A tavern opened in the building in 1876 and there has been one there ever since. It is the oldest bar in Davenport, and the second oldest in the State of Iowa. Charles Frick opened a tavern in the building in 1888 and his descendants kept it in operation for three generations. The family lived in the apartments above, and Floy Frick maintained a garden in the back. The bar was a center of social activity for Davenport&#39;s west end German community. After Ross Frick died in 1986, the family sold the business to Chuck Fogle. When Chuck died in 1992 his wife Betty continued ownership until she sold the business in 2015. A self proclaimed teetotaler, Betty Fogle leased the business to five different people. She sold it to Nathan Sharp and NKP LLC, who completed an extensive renovation of the building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building is designed in the Italianate style. It features bracketed eaves and flat arched windows on the second floor. The building is topped with a hipped roof. The main floor of the building had two commercial spaces for most of its history. They were combined in the 2016 renovation and a full-size commercial kitchen was added. There was a door in between the commercial spaces on Third Street with access to the two apartments on the second floor. The apartments were also eliminated in 2016, and converted into an upstairs barroom. At the time the building became a tavern the rear section of the building, covered with a shingled surface, was added. There is also a brick addition in the back that was added at an unknown date. In 1923 the corner door entrance was added to the tavern. Shutters and chimneys were also removed over the years.</p><br>
<p>The B.J. Palmer House, also known as the Palmer Family Residence, is a historic building located on the Brady Street Hill in Davenport, Iowa, United States. It is on the campus of Palmer College of Chiropractic and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984. The college offers tours of the first floor of the mansion.</p><br>
<h2>B.J. Palmer</h2><br>
<p>Bartlett Joshua Palmer (1882–1961) was the son of Daniel David Palmer who established the practice of chiropractic. B.J. Palmer convinced his father to establish a school of chiropractic in Davenport. In the first decade of the 20th-century, B.J. Palmer purchased the mansions built by J.C. Duncan, W.D. Petersen and Thomas Barron on the top of Brady Street for the school. He served the college as its president and is credited with the development of chiropractic. In 1922 he bought a small radio station in Rock Island, Illinois and moved it to a studio near the school’s campus and it became WOC. It was the second commercial radio station in the United States and the first west of the Mississippi River. Palmer created a communications dynasty during the 1930s and 1940s after he acquired WHO is Des Moines in 1930.</p><br>
<h2>Palmer Family Residence</h2><br>
<p>The Palmer Family Residence was built in the Second Empire style in 1874 by Louis C. Dessaint, who was a local lumber mill owner. They had the parquet floors, painted plaster moldings and Italian marble fireplaces installed in the house. Palmer acquired the property in 1912 for $25,000.</p><br>
<p>In 1921-1922 he had the 140 ft enclosed porch built around the structure that created a room for entertaining. In most cases this would be considered a significant alteration of the original building, but because it reflects Palmers peculiar personality and his disassociation from the traditional tastes of Davenports elite, it is significant in its own right. The porch is an odd assortment of institutional form with residential features such as the beveled glass. WOC radio had its first studio on the porch.</p><br>
<p>The home contains an Aeolian player pipe organ that was purchased by the Palmers for $75,000. B.J. Palmer&#39;s favorite room in the house was called the rustic room. It incorporated the trunks and branches of four oak trees that were cut down to make room for a classroom building that was built next to the house. Some of the logs are wrapped in belts with metal buckles from the uniforms of Palmer students who served in World War I. The house also contains a sunken solarium that features a ceiling of square latticework that is painted to look like a circus wagon in colors of yellow, green, orange and red. The white wicker furniture in the solarium came from a Philippine prison. It also contains an eclectic collection that includes a humidor and umbrella stand made out of elephants’ feet, which is next to a kangaroo from Australia. There is a bird of paradise on top of a Bodhisattva from India, which is on top of a cabinet from Korea placed on top of Native American rugs. It also contains a shrine from the Philippines holding a Hindu idol with a piece of African art. Rounding out the collection is a figure in Carrara marble from Italy, a Buddha from Siam, Japanese lanterns, and a Buddhist monk’s umbrella that has been made into a light fixture.</p><br>
<p>The house&#39;s kitchen has been restored to its 1950s appearance. The floor is covered in multi-colored tiles. Palmer obtained these from a local merchant, Wayne Montgomery, who would keep aside a floor tile every time he sold a batch of them. In time the kitchen was covered in the tiles where no two look alike. The kitchen also contains a Roper stove and a Kelvinator Foodarama refrigerator/freezer. The walls and woodwork are painted in bright circus colors. The butler’s pantry still contains dishes that bear the Palmer crest.</p><br>
<h2>A Little Bit O’ Heaven</h2><br>
<p>Palmer started to build a garden along the north side of the house in 1924 that he called A Little Bit O’ Heaven. It was largely a collection of artwork and artifacts that Palmer and his wife, Mabel, collected on their trips to Asia and Europe. Part of the collection was also kept on the porch. A courtyard contained items such as totem poles, statues of deer, birds and the birth of Venus. There was a rock lined corridor called “purgatory” that led to the heart of the exhibit that contained a large greenhouse with a waterfall of 40 ft and a pond that was filled with tropical fish, alligators and Oriental art. For a small fee the public was allowed to visit the site. It was one of the most popular attractions in Davenport. After Palmer’s death in 1961 A Little Bit O’ Heaven started to decline and it was closed to the public in 1981 and it was dismantled in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Over their lifetime the Palmers amassed a large collection of artifacts that decorated their house and A Little Bit O’ Heaven. Half the Palmer&#39;s collection went to their son David when Mabel died. When B.J. died, half of what was left was relocated to the Putnam Museum in Davenport. The remainder went to the Palmer’s three granddaughters and what was left over remains in the house. The house remains a part of Palmer College today and the courtyard became a patio for students.</p><br>
<p>The Old USA Post Office and Courts Building is a historical 19th century brick government building, located in Jefferson, Marion County, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The building now houses the Jefferson Historical Museum. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1969.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Construction on the Romanesque Revival building with Greek Revival details started in 1888, and was completed by 1890.</p><br>
<p>It originally served as a courthouse of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, and as a USA post office.</p><br>
<p>The post office was on the first floor, the court was on the second.</p><br>
<p>The building was purchased by the Jefferson Historical Society for use as a museum in 1965.</p><br>
<p>The Birnlücke is the border pass at the western end of the Hohe Tauern mountains in Austria, between the Venediger Group and the adjoining Zillertal Alps. The border between Austria and Italy has run over the pass since 1919. The pass forms the border between the Austrian state of Salzburg and the Italian region of South Tyrol, the valleys of the Krimmler Achental and Ahrntal, and the Rieserferner-Ahrn Nature Park and Hohe Tauern National Park.</p><br>
<p>Until the Schengen Agreement there used to be a regular border checkpoint at Krimmler Tauern.</p><br>
<p>Not far south of the border crossing at is the Birnlücken Hut (Rifugio Tridentina) of the Italian Alpine Club&#39;s Bruneck branch. It was built in 1900 and named after the pass.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The name Birnlücke is a corruption of the old spelling. As late as 1888 the pass was called Pyrlücke, after the old names for the stream, the Pirra or Birlbach, in the Ahrn valley. The Italian name is Forcella del Picco.</p><br>
<p>The Hintere Bachofenspitze in the Karwendel mountains of Tyrol is 2,668 m high and forms the northernmost point of the parish of Thaur in the Inn Valley. Since the erection of a summit cross, that was set up in October 2003 by Franz Brunner and Fritz Gostner, this summit has enjoyed growing popularity.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Hintere Bachofenspitze in the second Karwendel mountain chain, known as the Gleirsch-Halltal Chain, separates the Gleirsch chain (Gleirschkette) in the west from the Hall Valley chain (Halltalkette) in the east. It is also the northernmost peak of the linking ridge (Verbindungsgrat) which runs over the Rosskopf south to the Stempeljochspitzen joining up with the Inn Valley chain. The north face of the Hintere Bachofenspitze drops 700 metres to the small Gschnierkopf in the upper Hinterau valley.</p><br>
<h2>Routes to the top</h2><br>
<p>The easiest and shortest way to reach the summit is on the marked path from the Pfeis Hut through the Sonntagskar to the southwest. Even the route through the rock barrier of the upper section is well marked and equipped with some iron steps (UIAA II). Another route runs from the "Wilde Band Steig" in the southeast through the pathless Bachofenkar. At the back of the kar, climb through a rubbly gully north up to the gap between the summits of the Vordere and Hinterer Bachofenspitze. From here the summit is reached, either along the ridge or just below it to the west (Grade I). In addition, the peak may be gained by crossing the ridge either from the Sonntagkarspitze (III), from the Haller Rosskopf (II) or the Großer Lafatscher (II).</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
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<p>The Ficke Block is a historic building located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The structure is immediately adjacent to the Henry Berg Building, which is also listed on the NRHP.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building at 309 Harrison Street is associated with a prominent Davenport Attorney Charles August (C.A.) Ficke. He was responsible for building or renovating numerous properties in the downtown area. The block, which has the appearance of two separate buildings, was built in 1899 to house the McCormick Division of the International Harvesting Company of America and apartments on the upper floors. The southern storefront (307) became the L.R. Wareham pool hall in 1915 and remained a pool hall through the 1940s. The north side (309) was home to a variety of businesses that included: City Fuel and Lumber Company, Bee Jay Tire Service, the Savoy Café, the Colorado Restaurant, the Old Timer (tavern), and the Three Hundred Nine Tavern. It currently houses the Berg Apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Ficke Block is a four-story, brick structure built on a stone foundation. It features many details found in late Victorian architecture: rusticated, semi-circular window arches on the third floor and flat stone lintels over the paired windows on the fourth floor recall the Romanesque style. A pair of two-story bay windows with embossed garland swags, wrought iron balconies, and ornate cornices reflect the Queen Anne style. The storefronts, however, have been significantly altered.</p><br>
<p>The Bell Hill School or District Number One School is an historic school in Otisfield, Maine. The one-room brick schoolhouse was one of three completed in 1839 for the town, and is the only one to survive. It served the town as a district school until 1940. It was acquired in 1950 by the Bell Hill Meetinghouse Association , and has been converted into a local history museum. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Bell Hill School is a single-story brick structure, measuring about 18 ft by 30 ft, resting on a granite foundation. It has a front-facing gable roof with low pitch, covered in asphalt shingles. The cornices are simple wooden boxes, with a piece of ogee moulding on the eave wall. The main (southern) facade has three bays, with a centered doorway flanked by sash windows. The north and west facades have three sash windows each, while the east facade has two windows flanking a chimney. The brick is laid in Flemish bond on two facades and American bond on the other two; it is not clear if the walls were originally built this way or if it was the result of later restoration work.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the school is divided into a foyer area and the single classroom. The foyer contains a small washbasin, shelf, and towel rack. The walls are finished in plaster above irregularly-sized wainscoting. The western wall of the classroom is covered in fiberboard painted black, which was used as a blackboard.</p><br>
<p>The building has had only modest alterations. An opening in the western gable is filled with brick; its original decoration is unknown. In 1902 a woodshed and outhouse were attached to the school&#39;s north facade; these were removed after the school was closed in 1940, including the restoration of brick in a doorway space that had been opened between the school and that structure.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bell Hill School was one of three brick schoolhouses built in Otisfield in 1839. Their designer and builder are unknown. The town reached its height of population in 1840, and declined from 1307 in that year to 488 in 1940. Its other schools were eventually consolidated and adapted for residential use, while the Bell Hill School remained open until 1940. The building was sold by the town to the Bell Hill Meeting House Association in 1955, which oversaw its restoration, and opens it to the public.</p><br>
<p>The Lower Sunday River School is an historic school on Sunday River Road, just north of its junction with Skiway Road, in Newry, Maine. Built in 1895 by the town, this is one of the best-preserved one-room schoolhouses in northern Oxford County. The school was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The school is a 1-1/2 story wood frame structure, with a clapboarded exterior and a gable roof, and rests on a granite foundation. A single brick chimney pierces the roof, and a small ell, containing a passage and two privies, extends to the northeast. There are no windows in the south and east walls, and a bank of four sash windows in the north wall. The west wall has the main entrance, which is flanked on each side by sash windows, with a third window in the gable.</p><br>
<p>The interior is divided into three sections. The entrance opens into a vestibule area which extends across much of the western facade, with a small storage room on the northwest corner. Most of the building is taken up by the classroom. The classroom has a form of wainscoting using floorboards to a height of about 4 ft; the rest of the walls are plastered. A slate blackboard occupies most of the south wall. The room is filled with original desks made of wood and cast iron, with glass ink wells. Other furniture includes the original desk and teacher&#39;s chair, a wooden table, bookcases which hold most of the library collection of the former town of Grafton, and a stove. Maps of Maine dating to the 1860s adorn the walls.</p><br>
<p>The school was built by the town of Newry in 1895 to serve its district number 1 student population. It was used by the town until the 1940s, when its schools were consolidated into a larger district. It has since been used as a community center and Sunday school.</p><br>
<p>White Horse Farm, also known as the Elijah F. Pennypacker House, is a historic home and farm located in Schuylkill Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The original section was built around 1770. In the 19th century, it was the home of abolitionist Elijah F. Pennypacker and served as a station on the Underground Railroad. The farm was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Elijah F. Pennypacker (1804-1888) served in the Pennsylvania State Legislature as a colleague of Thaddeus Stevens from 1831 until 1836, when he left to focus on the antislavery cause.</p><br>
<p>He became president of the Chester County and Pennsylvania abolitionist societies. In 1840 his home became a station on the Underground Railroad. Fugitive slaves arrived from three different routes, and were sent north to Norristown and other stations to the north and east. Poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier said of Pennypacker, "In mind, body, and brave championship of the cause of freedom, he was one of the most remarkable men I ever knew."</p><br>
<p>The house is a 2 1/2-story, stuccoed stone structure with a gable roof. The oldest section dates to about 1770, as a simple two-story, two bay one room over one room house. About 1810, a two bay section was added to the north, and about 1840 a two-story, two bay frame section was added to it. The house was remodeled and expanded in 1915, with the addition of a two-story rear section and one / two-story front verandah with Doric order capitals. The remodeling incorporated Georgian Revival design details. Also on the property are a contributing barn (c. 1810) and spring house.</p><br>
<p>The Eastport City Hall, originally built as the Boynton High School, is an historic municipal building at 78 High Street in Eastport, Maine. Built in 1847 to a design by Gridley James Fox Bryant, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. It served as a school until 1917, and has housed the city&#39;s offices since 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>Eastport City Hall is set at the southwest corner of Boynton and High Streets, in a predominantly residential area west of the city&#39;s main waterfront area. It is a 2-1/2 story rectangular wood frame structure, with a gable roof, clapboard siding, and a brick foundation. Its main entrance is now on the long south side, although it was probably on the eastern street-facing facade when used as a school. The eastern facade now has a windowless first level, and three round-arch sash windows on the second level. The building has wooden quoining blocks at the corners, and bracketed eaves and gables, both markers of the Italianate style. The ground floor, originally a single classroom space, has been divided into offices, while the upstairs, also originally a single classroom, is now used as a meeting space.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1846, replacing the Old South School, which had been destroyed by fire. It was one of three works in Eastport commissioned by Boston architect Gridley James Fox Bryant, and is the only one to survive. The building was used as a school until 1917, when a new high school was opened. From 1921 to 1926 the building housed a laundry, and from 1927 to 1937 George Pearse Ennis ran a summer branch of his New York–based School of Art in the building. The town then leased the building for a variety of community purposes, and from 1946 to 1951 it was leased by the local chapter of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Thereafter it was returned to an academic use, housing the high schools industrial arts program. In 1974 the building was adapted for use as a city hall, a role it continues to serve. Most of the buildings original interior decorative features were lost when the building was used as a laundry.</p><br>
<p>The Greer&#39;s Corner School is an historic school in Belmont Corner, Maine. Built in 1908, it is the only surviving one-room schoolhouse in the rural community. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Greers Corner School is located in western Belmont, at the southeast corner of Back Belmont Road and Lincolnville Road, a junction known locally as Greers Corner. The school is a small single-story wood frame structure, with a gabled roof, wooden clapboard siding, and a granite foundation. A small gabled wing, housing privy toilets, projects to the south. The main facade faces west, and has centrally-placed windows on the first floor and in the attic level, with the entrance set to the right, sheltered by a bracketed hood. On the interior, the walls are finished with vertical tongue-and-groove wainscoting, with plaster above and on the ceiling. Original blackboards are located on two walls. The privies are finished entirely in horizontal tongue-and-groove paneling.</p><br>
<p>At the turn of the 20th century, the rural community of Belmont had five school districts, and it was reported in 1907 that the school at Greer&#39;s Corner was its oldest. The following year this building was constructed by Edmund Brewster at a cost of about $550. The school was used until 1953, when the town opened a consolidated school on the diagonally opposite corner. The building then housed town offices until the early 1980s. It has since been taken over and restored by the local historical society.</p><br>
<p>The Union School is a historic former school building on Mt. Ephraim Road in Searsport, Maine. Built in 1866, it is one of the town&#39;s prominent former public buildings, and an important surviving school commission of architect George M. Harding. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. It is been converted into apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Union School building stands just outside the main downtown area of Searsport, on the east side of Mt. Ephraim Road, about 0.2 mi north of its junction with United States Route 1. It is a two story brick structure with a side gable roof and granite foundation. It is oriented facing south, with a five-bay facade that has a central entrance sheltered by a porch supported by narrow turned columns. Sash windows are set in rectangular openings, with stone sills and lintels, and there is a mansarded gable at the center of the roof above the entrance. The side elevations have fully pedimented and bracketed gables, with round-arch Italianate windows at their centers. These are partially obscured on the street-facing west side by a modern fire escape.</p><br>
<p>The school was completed in 1866, to a design by Portland architect George M. Harding, one of Maines leading mid-19th-century architects. It is one of eight known school commissions of his, and is of those the best preserved (at least two have been demolished). (Harding is also credited with the design of Union Hall, Searsports town hall.) The building was used as a school until 1953. Since its listing on the National Register in 1993, it has been converted to residential use.</p><br>
<p>Uvita Island, or Isla Uvita , officially Isla Quiribrí, is a small 0.8 km&sup2; island 885 m offshore of the port at Limón on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. The island is 420 m long from north to south and 315 m wide, northwest to southeast. It is currently uninhabited, but there is at least one structure on the island, and a small dock. It is possible to visit the island by renting a boat and a driver at one of the fishing docks on the Cieneguita River.</p><br>
<h2>Island name</h2><br>
<p>Uvita has had several names over the years; in English, these include Grape Cay, Grape Island, and Uvia Island; in Spanish, the names Isla Uvita and La Uvita are now most common. The Cariari Indians called the island Quiribrí. In 1986 the Comisión Nacional de Nomenclatura (National Commission of Nomenclature) approved the restoration of the name Isla Quiribrí, and the Academia de Geografía e Historia de Costa Rica (Academy of Geography and History of Costa Rica) asked that the Comisión and the Municipality of Limón publish the name change in 2002 during the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christopher Columbus on the island. Isla Quiribrí is now the official name but is seldom used; locally, the island is still referred to as Isla Uvita, even on official government maps.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Christopher Columbus anchored his ships on the island for repairs during his final voyage to America in 1502, and gave the island the name of La Huerta (Spanish: "the orchard"). The two-week visit allowed contact with the Indians, who welcomed the Europeans dressed in clothing of gold, which was the reason that some mistakenly attributed to Columbus the naming of Costa Rica (Spanish: "rich coast"), a name which was actually first used by the Royal Audiencia of Panama in 1538.</p><br>
