<p>The Griffith Wetlands Important Bird Area is a group of wetlands lying close to the Riverina town of Griffith in southern New South Wales, Australia. It lies within the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>North and South Lake Wyangan are used for water storage; they contain an area of cumbungi. Nericon Swamp is a shallow swamp usually dry enough to be grazed by cattle, though it sometimes fills from local rains when it supports large numbers of waders. Barren Box Swamp was originally an ephemeral swamp; it has been divided into three parts, with 60% of it remaining a natural wetland which holds water only in wet years; the other 40% is used for water storage and recycling, with reed beds and grazed margins. Campbell&#39;s Swamp is a black box-lignum swamp containing extensive open areas punctuated by stands of reeds and cumbungi; it fills occasionally from local rainfall or with water released from the irrigation system.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>Together, the wetlands have been identified by BirdLife International as a fragmented 38 km&sup2; Important Bird Area (IBA) because they regularly support small numbers of the endangered Australasian bittern as well as occasionally supporting over 1% of the world populations of sharp-tailed sandpipers, red-necked avocets and chestnut teals.</p><br>
<p>The Empress Eugénie Archipelago , commonly known as the Eugénie Archipelago, is an archipelago in Peter the Great Gulf in the Sea of Japan, along the southern coast of Primorsky Krai, Russia. The population of the archipelago is 6,810 , and is administratively part of the city of Vladivostok.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The archipelago was named after Eugénie de Montijo, the wife of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, by a French sailor in the 1850s. The name was not used in the Soviet period for ideological reasons, but began to be used again after 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Eugénie Archipelago consists of five large islands: Russky Island, Popov Island, Rikord Island, Reyneke Island and Shkot Island, and a large number of small islands, including Ushi Island and Yelena Island. A number of islets, sea stacks and smaller rocks dot the coastline of the islands. Russky, the largest and northernmost island of the archipelago, is located immediately south of Vladivostok and separated from the city by the Eastern Bosphorus. In 2012, the Russky Bridge was completed to connect Russky Island to the mainland, and in 2013 a new campus of Far Eastern Federal University was opened on the island as part of further development. Shkot is connected to Russky by a thin isthmus which forms a land bridge during low tide.</p><br>
<p>The highest point in the archipelago is Russkikh Mount (291 m) on Russky Island. Three of the four inhabited islands of Primorsky Krai are in this archipelago.</p><br>
<p>Mobberley Old Hall is a country house in the village of Mobberley, Cheshire, England. It was built in 1612 and extended later in the 17th century. The house stands in gardens which retain part of the moat and ancient yew trees. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and the grounds contain two Grade II listed buildings.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house dates from the 17th century, and was built in two phases. The first stage was built in 1612 for Robert Robinson, the son of a Yorkshire wool merchant. This is now the service wing. The second stage is larger and grander, and was built later in the century, probably for Laurence Wright of Offerton. A barn was probably built at the same time, and is dated 1686. The house eventually passed to Jane Wright, who with her husband John Blakiston built a new house called Mobberley Hall in 1845; at which point the older house became known as Mobberley Old Hall. In 1924 the house was bought by Miss Elsie H. Bishop. She died in 1955 and bequeathed it to Manchester University. The house was then rented by Professor John Wilkinson and his wife until 2003. In the following year the house and its estate were bought by Mohammed Isaq. In 2005 they were purchased by a different buyer for £3 million.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner describes the plan of the house as being "irregular", and that it is "evidently only a fragment". Figueirdo and Treuherz note that the house does not have a "proper entrance front", and this suggests that "the house has been truncated or that it was intended to have been larger".</p><br>
<h2>External features</h2><br>
<p>The house stands in gardens that include lawns, a kitchen garden, a paved garden, and woodland. Part of the moat is still present, and the line of the rest of it is marked by an ancient yew hedge. Associated with the house are two structures that are designated by English Heritage as Grade II listed buildings. The barn dated 1686 is constructed in brick with stone dressings and has a stone slate roof. The wall and gate piers to the northwest of the house date from the 17th century. They are also constructed in brick, and have stone a coping.</p><br>
<p>The Soda Springs Cabin is a historic structure in Yosemite National Park in the USA. It was built about 1889 by John Baptist Lembert, the first European settler on the Tuolumne Meadows area of Yosemite. Lembert had filed a claim to 160 acre in Tuolumne Meadows in 1885 after spending three summers in the area with a flock of angora goats. Lembert built a log cabin directly over the largest soda spring in the area. Although the property was within the park boundaries, Lembert received a patent to the property in 1895. Lembert&#39;s cabin was along the Great Sierra Wagon Road over the Sierra Nevada, and he became a guide for tourists in the high country, gaining a reputation as a naturalist and entomologist. He spent the winter months in a place near Cascade Creek in the Yosemite Valley.</p><br>
<p>The ruins of the cabin are located directly over the gaseous spring, and are thought to have functioned as a springhouse rather than as a dwelling, preventing livestock from fouling the spring. The cabin measures 9 ft by 11 ft. Its walls extend to about 7 ft. There is no roof. The cabin had no windows, only a door in the north side. The logs are laid with V-notched joints.</p><br>
<p>Lembert had spent his early life in New York, and had received a classical education, reading Latin. He was murdered in his Cascade Creek cabin in the winter of 1896-1897 in a robbery. His obituary appeared in Entomological News. The site was operated as a private campground for Sierra Club members until 1972, when the club signed over the land to the National Park Service. The Park Service operated the campground for the public until 1976, when it was closed down.</p><br>
<p>The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 19, 1979.</p><br>
<p>Smithfield is a plantation outside Blacksburg, Virginia built from 1772 to 1774 as a home by Col. William Preston. It was the birthplace of two Virginia Governors: James Patton Preston and John B. Floyd. The house remained a family home until 1959 when the home was donated to the APVA.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The plantation site was part of 120,000 acres originally granted to James Patton by the British Crown. Patton died in an Indian massacre in 1755. The property passed to Patton&#39;s nephew, Colonel William Preston who built the house from 1772 to 1774. Preston was an important colonial political figure, and may have been the author of the Fincastle Resolutions. He remained on the property, despite frequent threats from nearby Tories and Loyalists and Native Americans and the disruptions of the American Revolutionary War until his death from a stroke at a 1783 local militia muster.</p><br>
<p>The property then passed to his wife, Susanna Smith Preston, who lived there until her death forty years later.</p><br>
<p>James Patton Preston, Virginia Governor, inherited the plantation from his mother. It was also the birthplace and home of his son, William Ballard Preston, who worked with Abraham Lincoln in the 1840s in Congress as part of a group of legislators known as "The Young Indians" and later, reluctantly, authored Virginia&#39;s Articles of Secession in 1861. Descendants of William and Susanna Preston included four Virginia Governors – James Patton Preston, John Floyd, James McDowell, and John Buchanan Floyd – and numerous other legislators. In addition, descendants were instrumental in the founding and growth of several universities, including Virginia Tech, VMI, and University of South Carolina.</p><br>
<p>The house itself is L-shaped, with high ceilings and large rooms. The detailing and proportions of the house are unusual for frontier homes. More unusually, the master bedroom is placed between the parlor and the dining room on the first floor, implying that Preston wanted to impress his guests with his ornate bedroom furniture.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>Preservation Virginia acquired the property in 1959 as a gift from Janie Preston Boulware Lamb, a descendant of Revolutionary War Patriot leader Colonel William Preston. With help from Preservation Virginia and the Virginia Daughters of the American Revolution, the property was restored and opened to the public in 1964. The rooms of the house are furnished with eighteenth and nineteenth century Decorative arts furniture, portraits and other items, while the basement level Museum contains a variety of artifacts found on-site, including Native American relics. The landscape includes an eighteenth-century kitchen garden tended by volunteers. The plantation is open for tours April through the first week in December.</p><br>
<p>Silver Lake is a lake and park located in the city of Dover, Delaware. The lake is the source of the St. Jones River. There are several species of fish in the lake, including largemouth bass, carp, crappie, striped bass, white perch, bluegill, catfish, and others. Silver Lake has a boat ramp. A permit is required by the City of Dover Parks and Recreation Department in order to fish at the lake. Boats also must display a permit regardless of the size of the craft.</p><br>
<p>The public area bordering Silver Lake has covered picnic tables, a walking path, children&#39;s play area with equipment, and grills for barbecue. This area is carry in/carry out but there are refuse containers on the property. Portable toilets are also provided. Access to parking is from Washington Street for the beach area and Lewis Mill Drive for boaters. Parking is ample.</p><br>
<p>The College of All Saints was an ecclesiastical college in Maidstone, Kent, England, founded in 1395 by Archbishop Courtenay. It was part of the establishment of the nearby Archbishops Palace, but was closed in 1546. The College church was the neighbouring Church of All Saints. Following its closure, the College estate was sold. The buildings and land passed through the ownership of three aristocratic families, being farmed until the late 19th century. A number of the Colleges buildings survive and all are listed buildings. Additionally, the whole site of the College is protected as a scheduled monument.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The College was founded by Archbishop of Canterbury William Courtenay in 1395. Courtenay died in 1396 and the College and church were completed by his successor, Thomas Arundel. Richard II endowed the College with land and income from the Hospital of St Peter and St Paul in Maidstone and from the parishes of Linton, Farleigh, Sutton and Crundale. The College was also granted the advowsons for the parishes. To cover the cost of building the College, Courtenay obtained a bull to levy a charge of fourpence in the pound on all ecclesiastical revenue raised in his archbishopric. For most of its existence, the college had an establishment of a master and six chaplains.</p><br>
<p>Masters of the College between its founding and its dissolution were:</p><br>
<p>John Wootton (1395–1417)</p><br>
<p>John Holond (1418–19)</p><br>
<p>Roger Heron (1419–41)</p><br>
<p>John Darell (1441–44)</p><br>
<p>Peter Stackley (1450–58)</p><br>
<p>Thomas Boleyn (1458–70)</p><br>
<p>John Freestone (1470)</p><br>
<p>John Lee (1470–94)</p><br>
<p>John Comberton (1494–1506)</p><br>
<p>William Grocyn (1506–19)</p><br>
<p>Thomas Penyton (1519–?)</p><br>
<p>John Leffe (before 1535–46)</p><br>
<p>When the College was closed in 1546 following the passing of the Chantries Act, its annual income was valued at £208 6s 2d (equivalent to £ in ). The church and the College were separated; the church became the parish church for the whole of Maidstone and the College and its lands were sold. Sixteen members of the College&#39;s establishment were granted pensions totalling £100 17s. In 1549, the College estate was granted to George Brooke, Baron Cobham for the sum of £1081 18s 1d (equivalent to £ in ). Plate and other valuables belonging to the College were sold for £200 (equivalent to £ in ).</p><br>
<p>Much of the Cobham familys estate was forfeited to the Crown in 1603 when his grandson, Henry Brooke, the 11th Baron Cobham, was charged with high treason for his part in the Main Plot against James I. The College was granted for life to the 11th Barons wife after which it reverted to Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, husband of Baron Cobhams sister. The College remained in the ownership of the Cecil family until 1697 when it was sold to Sir Robert Marsham of Mote House. The College estate was subsequently owned by Marshams heirs, the Earls of Romney.</p><br>
<p>The College buildings were used as a farm into the 19th century, until the expansion of Maidstone led to their demolition as the neighbouring area was developed. Part of the site was developed in the late 19th century for the Cutbush Almshouses, a collection of grade II listed buildings. The buildings are currently owned by Maidstone Borough Council having been donated to the borough by Sir Garrard Tyrwhitt-Drake, mayor of the borough in 1949–50. A plaque commemorating the presentation is fixed inside the archway of the Gatehouse.</p><br>
<p>Part of the buildings were used by Kent Music School (later Kent Music) until 2000 when the school relocated to Astley House on Hastings Road.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The College, like the Church of All Saints, is constructed of Kentish rag-stone in the Perpendicular style. The main building, a two-storey structure with attic, was mostly built in the 14th century and served originally as the Master&#39;s house. Some later 18th century alterations have been made and later windows added. The building contains a collar beam roof and a 16th-century staircase, moulded ceiling and aumbry cupboard. Poste records in his 1847 history of the College that some of the rooms retained traces of decorative wall painting.</p><br>
<p>The College Gateway to the north of the site is a three-storey rectangular tower with a two-storey stone-ribbed vaulted archway through it with an exterior opening 8 ft wide with a pedestrian opening 4 ft wide alongside. The ground floor room to the east of the archway was the College bakehouse where evidence existed prior to the 1845 alterations of a large bakery oven. The room on the west side of the archway housed the porter. The roof of the gateway tower is hipped, projecting above a crenellated parapet. A small turret is located in the south-west corner. Adjacent to the tower on the west side is a two-storey building that contained the College refectory, kitchen and scullery on the ground floor with a dormitory and infirmary on the first floor. Poste records that restoration and alterations carried out in 1845 included the removal of part of a range of rooms and cloisters attached to the main building as well as separate farm buildings including oast houses. On the north-west corner of this building is a small three-storey tower known as the River Tower or Muniment Tower. Poste records that around 1847 a peaked roof on the river tower was removed and replaced with a lower roof not visible above the parapet.</p><br>
<p>The two-storey Master&#39;s Tower was the original access to the College from the river. A single-storey structure is attached to the south side. The ruined gateway stands to the south separated from the other structures by the almshouses. Poste records that in 1847 it stood between two barns, neither of which now remain. It consists of a pointed arch for carriages in a roughly coursed rag-stone wall flanked by buttress walls on each side.</p><br>
<p>The Gateway and refectory are listed Grade I, the Masters house is listed Grade II* and the Masters Tower and the ruined gateway are listed Grade II. The College site is also a scheduled monument with the protection covering the ruined gateway and buried remains of demolished buildings.</p><br>
<p>The former I.O.O.F. Hall, located at 613-615 Iowa Avenue in the original commercial block of Dunlap, Harrison County, Iowa, is an historic two-story pedimented red-brick building built for local members of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Also known as the Odd Fellows Hall, it was used by Golden Rule Lodge No. 178, IOOF founded in 1869 and Guiding Star Encampment No. 68, IOOF, a higher body founded in 1874. Like many American lodge halls of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it had business and commercial space on the ground floor while the lodge hall was upstairs. In 2009 it was renovated for its owner Brad Gross, CPA, who now uses it for his professional office. On June 23, 2011, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Shannon-Williamson Ranch, is located in Antioch, California. The Williamson family settled in Antioch in 1867. They were granted a homestead in 1874 signed by then USA President Ulysses S. Grant. The original house burned down in 1895. The current house that stands is the one that was rebuilt after the fire. The ranch operated from 1875–1949. The ranch was saved in 1987 by the efforts of one of the inhabitants of the house Donald Williamson. The once 4,000 acre ranch raised crops such as wheat, barley, hay, and livestock. The ranch currently retains approximately 3 acres of the former ranch including a two story Italianate house, 3 barns and several other buildings including outbuildings and a small orchard. The ranch is currently closed to the public and there are currently no plans for the future of the house and property. The surrounding area has been named after the ranch such as the housing subdivision and the shopping mall directly across the street from it. The ranch property has a fence that surrounds the entire property.</p><br>
<p>The Gulf Plains Important Bird Area comprises 8868 km of the low-lying coastal plains bordering the south-eastern corner of the Gulf of Carpentaria in north-west Queensland, Australia. It was identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area  because of its importance to global populations of waders and other birds.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Most of the region is crown land leased for cattle grazing. There are also permanent fishing camps on the major estuaries. The IBA contains saline mudflats, grasslands, freshwater wetlands and woodlands in an area stretching along the coast from west of Burketown to north of the mouth of the Mitchell River. It is where several river systems – including the Mitchell, Gilbert, Norman, Flinders, Leichhardt and Nicholson Rivers - meet the shallow Gulf of Carpentaria.</p><br>
<p>During the wet season (December to March) much of the area is flooded when the rivers overflow their banks. The rivers are fringed with paperbark woodlands. The floodplain vegetation consists of grassy eucalypt woodlands as well as open-woodlands dominated by Eucalyptus microtheca. The freshwater grasslands are dominated by species of Dichanthium, while floodplain depressions contain Oryza grasslands that are important for birds. Along the coast, tidal inlets are fringed with mangrove forests, while the salt flats support low shrublands and patchy grasslands.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The IBA supports large populations of sarus cranes and over 1% of the world populations of brolgas, Australian bustards, black-tailed godwits, great knots, eastern curlews, sharp-tailed sandpipers, lesser sand plovers, grey-tailed tattlers, little curlews, pied oystercatchers, broad-billed sandpipers, red-necked stints and black-winged stilts.</p><br>
<p>Chipping Norton Lake is a lake located at Chipping Norton, New South Wales. It is a part of the Georges River system. Chipping Norton Lake is managed by Liverpool City Council and is an artificial lake. The lake is an important recreational area for Liverpool, Canterbury-Bankstown Council and Fairfield City Council.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Chipping Norton Lake area was inhabited by the Tharawal and Darug people before European settlement. The land surrounding Georges River (there was no lake at that time) was given to an ex-convict called Thomas Moore. He established farmland around the river. In the 1950s, sand was mined around the lake area. The mining caused irreversible environmental destruction, and the area remained lifeless after the sand was mined. Finally, a decision was made to flood the mine, leaving a large lake. Vegetation was planted around the lake to make a wildlife reserve.</p><br>
<h2>Natural Environment</h2><br>
<p>There are over 50 different kinds of birds around the lake. The City of Liverpool, City of Bankstown and the City of Fairfield work together to manage the wildlife refuge and recreation areas of Chipping Norton Lake. There are four islands within the lake. They are wildlife refuges for native birds and visitor access is prohibited. Bull sharks have been sighted in the lake.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>Chipping Norton Lake has a regional park located on Homestead Avenue, providing cycleways, barbecue facilities, picnic areas, playground equipment, boat ramps, sporting fields and the Georges River Environment Education Centre. There is also a beach in the lake called</p><br>
<p>Grand Flaneur Beach at Homestead Park. Although swimming is permitted at the beach, it is not recommended because of poor water quality.</p><br>
<p>The Chipping Norton Lake also have a number of walkways. The main one runs from South Park to Heron Park. Watercraft are permitted on Chipping Norton Lake however, a strict speed limit of eight knots applies.</p><br>
<p>Chipping Norton Lake features a community hall that can be hired by residents or community groups for birthday parties, christenings, weddings or any other type of function. The hall is known as The Lakes Boatshed (Chipping Norton Recreation Centre) and can accommodate up to 100 people and has an upstairs balcony with views across the lake and surrounding parkland. It is also managed by the Chipping Norton Lake Authority.</p><br>
<h3>Parks</h3><br>
<p>The lake is surrounded by a number of parks, recreational areas and/or reserves:</p><br>
<p>East side:</p><br>
<p>Henry Lawson Reserve</p><br>
<p>Flinders Slopes</p><br>
<p>Lake Gillawarna</p><br>
<p>Rowley Park</p><br>
<p>Garrison Point Reserve</p><br>
<p>Liverpool Golf Club</p><br>
<p>Georges River Golf Course</p><br>
<p>West side:</p><br>
<p>Irelands Bridge Reserve</p><br>
<p>South Park</p><br>
<p>Angle Park</p><br>
<p>Homestead Park</p><br>
<p>Black Muscat Park</p><br>
<p>Heron Park</p><br>
<p>Riverside Park</p><br>
<p>The McCauley and Meyer Barns in Yosemite National Park are the last barns in the park that retain their original characteristics as structures built by homesteaders. The McCauley barn and the two Meyer barns represent different construction techniques and styles of design.</p><br>
<p>The McCauley Barn was built about 1883 by Irish-born James McCauley, who operated hotels in the Yosemite Valley. McCauleys ranch was to be his winter home, since Glacier Point, where he operated the Glacier Point Mountain House, was not suitable for winter living. McCauley purchased the land in 1883 and began to live full-time at the ranch in 1897. McCauleys son Fred inherited the ranch after James&#39; death in an automobile accident in 1911. Fred dispersed the property, which became known as "Foresta" and was unoccupied after 1955. The National Park Service acquired the ranch in 1974. The barn is a wood structure, with a log cribwork core using V-notched joints, measuring 40 ft by 80 ft. A long center bay is flamed by two more open bays along the long axis of the barn. The overhanging gable roof structure is peeled logs, once covered with wood shingles but now covered with sheet metal. The logs were not chinked, and are presently sheathed with vertical boards. The design is unusual. The "Mormon Pole Barn" style dates to the 1850s in the Genessee Valley.</p><br>
<p>George Meyer operated a homestead established by his brother Henry in the 1870s in Big Meadow. A ship carpenter in Germany, Meyer married James McCauley&#39;s niece Elizabeth in 1900, acquiring the McCauley Ranch in 1923. Meyer Barn No. 1 is a saltbox-shaped timber-framed structure built in the early 1880s. The principal portion of the barn measures 30 ft by 20 ft, with a lean-to addition 30 ft by 16 ft. The barn is sheathed in vertical wood siding with a steeply-pitched metal roof. The framing is believed to have been built flat and raised into position in five bents.</p><br>
<p>Meyer Barn No. 2, nearby Barn No. 1 in Big Meadow, is similar in character to the McCauley Barn, measuring about 50 ft square, with a hipped roof. It was built in the late 1870s. The center consists of a 25 ft high saddle-notched log crib that supports the center of the steep roof. The crib was surrounded by stalls for livestock on three sides. The exterior wall is a frame structure covered in vertical board sheathing. The log roof structure was covered with shingles, now by sheet metal.</p><br>
<p>The barns were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 15, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Paramount Theater  is an historic theater located at 1676-1708 Main Street in Springfield, Massachusetts. Built in 1926 out of part of the grand Massasoit Hotel at a cost of over $1 million, the Paramount Theater was the most ornate picture palace in Western Massachusetts. As of 2011, The Paramount is in the midst of a $1.725 million renovation to once again become a theater after decade as a disco and concert hall,  when it was the center of Springfield&#39;s club scene.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>From 1926 until the 1960s, The Paramount changed names several times - including a brief stint as the Julia Sanderson Theater, honoring a famous actress from Springfield - however, it remained a movie theater until the 1960s, when it began to find use as a mixed use venue for movies, rock concerts, and other live performances. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>In 1999, the venue was purchased and restored by Steven Stein and Michael Barrasso of Paramount Realty Investment LLC/Creative Theater Concepts. At that time, it was turned into a lavish nightclub and performance space. The venues main floor seats were removed; however, the 1,100 balcony seats were retained and restored. The theater underwent a $1.3 million renovation in 1999, and was reopened as the Hippodrome. The original organ was restored and the marquee was changed to reflect the theaters new name.</p><br>
<p>The Hippodrome became a popular nightclub and concert venue during the 2000s. In 2011, the theater was purchased by the New England Farm Worker&#39;s Council. As of 2011, the Paramount Theater is in the midst of a $1.725 million renovation to once again become a theater and performance space.</p><br>
<p>The Gadloch  is a fresh water loch in North Lanarkshire, situated near the town of Lenzie, Scotland.</p><br>
<p>To the south of the loch is the small village of Auchinloch, the village&#39;s name means "Field of the Loch" and derives from its proximity to the Gadloch.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Gadloch was originally much larger but was reduced by the addition of a drainage tunnel, local folklore has it that the tunnel was excavated by Napoleonic Prisoners of War though it is generally accepted that the tunnel predates that period. Following this the drained land was used for agricultural purposes and farms were built at the east and west ends of the Gadloch. The 18th century Easter Gadloch Farm has been left unoccupied for a number of years. Over the years the tunnel has become compromised and the water levels of the loch are rising back towards their earlier height.</p><br>
<p>Parkhillhead Farm overlooks the loch from the south.</p><br>
<h2>Curling</h2><br>
<p>In Winters when there is thick enough ice the Gadloch is often used for Curling and has been for many years. Postcards were made showing curlers on the Gadloch in 1910 and 100 years later in Winter 2010/2011 curlers were again shown to be active on the Gadloch. Cadder Curling Club was previously based in an old railway wagon on the edge of the Gadloch.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>Bird watchers are frequently seen at the Gadloch as it has a variety of bird species present and has been known to attract rare and non-native species as well, some possibly escaped from captivity. For instance in the 1970s white pelicans were sighted on the loch.</p><br>
<h2>Deaths</h2><br>
<h3>1970s</h3><br>
<p>In 1974 Lee Fraser from Auchinloch fell through the ice along with his sledge, but died of hypothermia before he could be rescued.</p><br>
<h3>1980's</h3><br>
<p>In the 1980s one of the accused on trial for murders claimed to have killed and disposed of a man in the Gadloch The police and their underwater unit searched the loch but no body was ever found.</p><br>
<p>"Mr McEwan also claimed that another alleged victim was driven to Gadloch, near Lenzie, where his head was held under the water until he drowned. The body was then weighted down with bricks and left there".</p><br>
<h3>2011</h3><br>
<p>On Sunday December 18, 2011 37-year-old builder John McAllister drowned after falling into the loch trying to rescue the familys 14-year-old pet spaniel Tain who had gone into the water. Strathclyde Police said that his body was recovered from the Gadloch following an extensive search involving both a police helicopter and divers. Roddy McAllister, 56, last heard his step-son John, 37, shout Im needing help as he struggled in the water at the popular walking area. John and Roddy had earlier been walking their six dogs when 14-year-old Tain had wandered onto the ice. Attempts to coax her back towards the shore were fruitless so the two ventured homewards expecting that Tain would return. Not long afterwards John noticed Tain in trouble from his house window overlooking the Gadloch and rushed to her aid planning to use the blue lilo he had grabbed to prevent him going though the ice. The lilo burst when John tried to hoist her out of the causing them both to plunge into the freezing waters. Strathclyde Fire and Rescue were also involved and the Officers of Strathclyde Police cordoned off an area of the adjacent Crosshill Road up to half-a-mile from the scene. Moving swiftly the Police had begun the search not long after 5pm and were using a helicopter to light up the water.An added difficulty was that the isolated spot sat behind an unoccupied farm house and was surrounded by trees, obscurring the accident site from the road and nearby Lenzie. McAllisters step-father Roddy and other family members were at the scene as the loch was being searched. The Police had been called to the incident at around 5.05pm that evening together with ambulance and fire and rescue services, McAllisters body was recovered at around 7.30pm. Tain also lost her life through drowning. The next day Roderick McAllister spoke of how the family were proud of son John for trying to save Tain: "I would say he was a real hero - a silly hero, but we are proud of him."His funeral was held on 7 January 2012 at Daldowie Crematorium and the family asked attendees to make donations to the Dogs Trust instead of flowers.</p><br>
<h2>Flooding</h2><br>
<p>Flooding from the Gadloch severe enough to close the neighbouring roads has been common for many years. In more recent years the Gadloch&#39;s drainage tunnel has collapsed and the water levels have risen even further, flooding into the nearby Lenzie Golf Course and affecting the nearby Farms and Crosshill Road. In 2011/2012 parts of the golf course were ruined by the flooding and four different fairways had to be relaid and returfed after the Gadloch encroached more than 200 metres onto the greens. The heights reached by the water have become such a problem that the Lenzie community council has created a special section of its website to deal with coverage of the issue. In the winter time the frozen Gadloch covers the path to Auchinloch and members of the public have been taken to hospital after falling through the ice.</p><br>
<p>The Auto Freight Transport Building of Oregon and Washington, also known as East Side Terminal and Eastbank Commerce Center, in southeast Portland in the USA state of Oregon is a four-story commercial structure listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1924, it was added to the register in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Occupying an entire block of the Central Eastside Industrial District, the 64,892 ft2, U-shaped structure has a flat roof, large industrial windows, and a plain interior with concrete floors and walls. The original building, an open warehouse with a few offices on the second floor, has since been divided into spaces for light industry, business, and office work.</p><br>
<p>The original building was part of an industrial complex that developed on the east bank of the Willamette River in the early 20th century. As Portland grew, freight shipments delivered to receiving stations on the rivers west side were slowed by heavy traffic on the citys bridges and in the central downtown. Pressure from business owners and civic groups over two decades led to construction of a central eastside receiving station, the Auto Freight Transport Building. The building, served by huge river docks located about 100 ft to the west and by rail lines and surface streets, was capable of handling and storing a wide variety of cargo for transhipment to its ultimate destination. In addition, many small freight companies used it for office and lounge space for their employees.</p><br>
<p>The Auto Freight Transportation Association of Oregon and Washington, a group of small trucking companies, operated the terminal jointly until 1938, when the group changed its name to East Side Terminal, Inc., and moved to another building in the Central Eastside Industrial District. Subsequently, the building became a warehouse used by a variety of freight companies.</p><br>
<p>The Auto Freight Transport Building had a small built-in service station. However, around 1930 an adjunct building called the Auto Freight Terminal Service Station, across Southeast Water Avenue, was constructed to provide fuel and mechanical repairs to vehicles using the Transport Building. It continued to function as a service station until the early 1940s.</p><br>
<p>In 1964, relocation of Interstate 5 from the west bank of the Willamette to the east led to removal of the docks and other waterfront structures of the industrial district and demolition of many old industrial buildings. The Auto Freight Transport Building is the best-preserved historic waterfront building in the 680 acre district.</p><br>
<p>Peabody Historical Library Museum, also known under the older name of Old Peabody Library, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1973. It is located in the Downtown Historic District of Peabody, Kansas. The building has state significance because it was the first free tax-supported library in Kansas.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Library</h3><br>
<p>The city of Peabody was named in 1871 after F.H. Peabody, of Boston, formerly vice-president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway company.</p><br>
<h3>Moved</h3><br>
<p>In 1914, the library was moved, and the Peabody Township Carnegie Library was constructed on the original location. The building was initially moved to the Peabody City Park, then later it was moved to south of the old Peabody Grade School near the railroad tracks. It was restored in 1927. The building was used for club meetings and stood idle for a number of years.</p><br>
<h3>Museum</h3><br>
<p>In 1960, while planning for the 1961 Kansas centennial celebration, local citizens organized to move the structure to a lot near its original location (east of the Carnegie library). The old library building was converted and dedicated as a museum on July 3, 1961.</p><br>
<p>Hours</p><br>
<p>As of 2011, it is open from Memorial Day to Labor Day on the 2nd and 4th Saturday of each month and each federal holiday (Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day). The hours are 2 pm to 4 pm on each of these days.</p><br>
<p>Lake of the Clouds is a lake located in Ontonagon County in the Upper Peninsula of the USA state of Michigan within the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness State Park. The lake is situated in a valley between two ridges in the Porcupine Mountains. Surrounded by virgin wilderness and stunning vistas, the lake is a popular destination for hikers, campers, and fishermen.</p><br>
<p>The lake is a prominent feature of the park, and can be viewed at the Lake of the Clouds Overlook at the west terminus of former Michigan highway M-107. The state park occasionally hosts a nighttime sky watch at the lake. The lake is fed from the east end by the Carp River Inlet and the outflow from the western end is the Carp River, which empties into Lake Superior on the boundary between Ontonagon and Gogebic County.</p><br>
<p>The Riverview Union High School was the first high school built in Contra Costa County. Located at 1500 W First Street in Antioch, California. Charles Appleton Hooper donated the land to end a dispute between Antioch and Pittsburg over land that was used for the school. The school opened November 4, 1911. Students from as far away as Oakley and Pittsburg attended this high school. The last class that graduated from the high school was in 1931. A new high school replaced this on located on D Street in Antioch, California. The building was then occupied by the Bureau of Reclamation during the design and construction of the Central Valley Project. In 1947 the Fibreboard Corporation bought the building for its research. The riverview Fire Protection District acquired the building in 1965 for its headquarters till leaving it unused in 1994. The Antioch Historical Society bought the property in 1999 and now use it as their home.</p><br>
<p>Lake Basaka  is a shallow, saline lake in the Oromia Region of central Ethiopia. It is located in the Great Rift Valley about 200 km south east of the capital Addis Ababa. The lake is at an elevation of 950 m.</p><br>
<h2>Growth</h2><br>
<p>The salt lake has grown significantly in the past 50 years, growing from 3 km&sup2; in 1957 to 42.6 km&sup2; in 2008. The lake is growing to the east and north east due to the local topography.</p><br>
<h2>Impact</h2><br>
<h3>Agriculture</h3><br>
<p>Due to the growth of the lake, there increasing concern that it will permanently damage the nearby Awash River, which is a major water source for nearby cotton and sugar plantations. These crops have significant economic importance to the region and the whole of Ethiopia. The salinity of the lake is 10.7 dS/m. The water salinity is also effecting the area groundwater as the salinity levels have increased in most plantation sections, Local sugar refineries have reduced production rates due to the loss of growing area.</p><br>
<h3>Population</h3><br>
<p>In 2011, a school succumbed to the growing level of the lake. Highway number 4, the main route between Addis Ababa and Djibouti has a permanent detour that has been constructed since the old highway is submerged. Homes have also been lost due to the expansion. It has been predicted that in 20 - 30 years, the town of Metehara will be displace along with 21,000 citizens.</p><br>
<p>Lake Albanel is located east of Lake Mistassini and covers a total area of approximately 445 km&sup2;. It is located in the region of Jamésie. Quebec Route 167 ends beside this lake. It is entirely located in the protected area of Lacs-Albanel-Mistassini-et-Waconichi.</p><br>
<h2>Formation theory</h2><br>
<p>In 2016, it was reported that the arc shaped lake, together with nearby Lake Mistassini, may have been formed by a large meteor impact about 2.1 billion years ago. The rest of the 500 km diameter crater is thought to have now been mostly eroded away or buried but geological indications of a major impact have been found in the rocks around the lake. If confirmed this would be the largest impact crater found on the earth.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>Lake Albanel is named in honour of Charles Albanel who discovered it in 1672.</p><br>
<p>The Eagle Hotel, also called the Stone Hotel, is a former hotel built in 1826 in Waterford, Erie County in the USA state of Pennsylvania. It was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey in 1933 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1977. The first floor of the Eagle Hotel is used by the Sugar &#39;n Spice restaurant, with the second and third floors used as a museum by the Fort Le Boeuf Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The Eagle Hotel is located on High Street (USA Route 19) in the borough of Waterford. The hotel is a 2-story, L-shaped building constructed out of fieldstone from a nearby quarry. The main, front portion of the Eagle Hotel is 40 x with "five bays across and four bays deep", while the rear portion is 36 x. The architecture of the Eagle Hotel "exceeds that of a typical hotel" of the period, with decorative stone features like "corbel ends" and quoining.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Eagle Hotel was constructed in 1826 by Thomas King. It was built at a time when "plank road, turnpikes, canals and later railroads went through or near Waterford." Also, the Waterford was used as a "terminal and distribution point" for the developing salt industry in New York. The Eagle Hotel was documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) in 1933. The hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 28, 1977. The hotel was purchased by the Fort Le Boeuf Historical Society to preserve it and to prevent it from being demolished. The Eagle Hotel was renovated and the kitchen modernized from October 1997 to February 1998. A restaurant was opened in the hotel but closed several months later. In October 1998, the Eagle Hotel was leased by the owners of the Sugar &#39;n Spice in Titusville, Pennsylvania to open another location of the restaurant in the hotel. The hotel was designated a contributing property to the Waterford Borough Historic District on March 9, 1990.</p><br>
<p>Old US 71 – Wilton Segment is a former alignment of USA Route 71  near Wilton in Little River County, Arkansas. The roadway of about 2 mi is a 1934 construction and was the main travel route in the county upon construction until US 59/US 71 bypassed this alignment in 1965.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Little River County began to grow with the coming of the railroad in the late nineteenth century. Towns were being established quickly, and railroads were springing up in the county. Millkin was established in 1890 and was renamed Wilton in 1892. The need for a bridge over the Little River became apparent to the county. A project to build a bridge was let in 1912, and the federal designation of US 71 came when Arkansas designated a state highway system in 1926.</p><br>
<h2>Pavement</h2><br>
<p>The pavement for this section of US 71 was "Bates-type pavement". The winner of a high traffic contest in Bates, Illinois, Bates-type pavement is concrete with welded wire reinforcement. This type of pavement became very popular for high-volume highways in the 1930s.</p><br>
<h2>After construction</h2><br>
<p>The route served as a main artery in Little River County and as the main route between Texarkana and Fort Smith. The high traffic caused a settlement named Taylors Store to spring up north of Wilton, though it subsequently died out when this segment was bypassed in 1965. The route remains today as a drivable county road.</p><br>
<p>The road section was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Gainesville Historic District is a historic district that encompasses a historic section of Gainesville, Alabama, United States. The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on March 25, 1976</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Gainesville lies on the south bank of the Tombigbee River in southwestern Alabama. It reached its zenith prior to the American Civil War; when it was an important inland port, before the wide-scale introduction of railroads.</p><br>
<p>The Gainesville Historic District is one of two historic districts in the town, the other being the Main–Yankee Street Historic District. The district is bounded by North Carolina, Church, School, Lafayette, and Webster streets. It is bisected down the center north to south by McKee Street, now overlain by Alabama Highway 39. Architectural styles present include Federal, Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and other Victorian types. The Sumter County Historical Society owns and utilizes one historic contributing property, Aduston Hall, as a welcome and visitor center for the district.</p><br>
<p>The Villars Cave, in French Grotte de Villars or Grotte du Cluzeau, was occupied during the Lower Magdalenian by Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherers. The cave is part of the French commune of Villars in the northern Dordogne département. Besides its enormous wealth in beautiful stalactites, stalagmites and similar calcite deposits it contains cave paintings and some engravings. The Villars Cave and the Rouffignac Cave are the biggest known cave systems in the Dordogne.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and geology</h2><br>
<p>The Villars Cave is situated 3.5 kilometres to the northeast of Villars and about 500 metres to the northnortheast of the hamlet Le Cluzeau. It can be accessed via the D 82 from Villars to Saint-Saud-Lacoussière; after a right-turn at Le Cluzeau one crosses the hamlet and reaches the ample parking area on a hill. The entry of the cave is at 170 metres above sea level, somewhat below the parking area along the left-hand slope of the little stream Ruisseau de l&#39;Étang Rompu, a left-hand tributary of the Trincou River. The cave was formed by karstic phenomena affecting the outcropping oolithic limestones of Upper Bajocian (Jurassic) age. On the other side of the valley arrives a southeast-trending fault which most likely disrupted the cohesion of the local strata and triggered the erosional shaping of the similar oriented cave system by carbon dioxide-laden waters during the Quaternary.</p><br>
<h2>Discovery</h2><br>
<p>The Villars Cave was discovered in December 1953 by members of the Spéléo Club de Périgueux after their attention was drawn to a fox hole exuding steam. They enlarged the hole and thus found the entry to the enormous cave system. In 1956 the first scratch marks of cave bears were noticed along the entry passage. Yet the cave paintings were only recognized later in 1957 by Pierre Vidal, a member of the speleology club.</p><br>
<p>The art work was then investigated and approved of by the expert archeologist Henri Breuil. In 1959 the cave was opened for the first time to the public.</p><br>
<p>Besides Breuil further scientific investigations were carried out in 1958 by André Glory and François Bordes, who were followed in 1959 by André Leroi-Gourhan and by Brigitte and Gilles Delluc in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The show cave is about 600 metres long and consists of several rooms connected by passageways. The cave system not open to the public continues on different levels for nearly another 13 kilometres. The Villars Cave is therefore together with the Rouffignac Cave the most extensive cave system known in the Dordogne.</p><br>
<p>The not ornate part of the cave beginning right behind the entry excels in beautiful stalactites and stalagmites, pillars (i.e. coalesced stalactites and stalagmites), curtains and draperies of all sorts, wall coatings, so called maccaronis (thin, hollow stalactites) and large saucers (in French: gours).</p><br>
<p>A steep stone staircase, not suitable for people in wheel-chairs, leads down to the new entry which is somewhat below and farther to the northwest then the original one. A 40 metre long, southsoutheast-striking entry passage (galerie d&#39;accés) leads to the crossing (carrefour) where three different passageways diverge from. The branch on the right follows a southeasterly direction and is 130 meters long. It is a combination of rooms and passageways, which begins with the salle de bénitiers (holy water fonts room ), continues in the fairly narrow le passage (passage) and ends in the grand balcon (great balcony) with the grand stalagmite (big stalagmite). The salle de bénitiers also prolongs to the northwest into the salle du chaos (chaos room). The left branch leads to the northeast and northnortheast into the ornate part of the cave. It starts with the 10 metre long salle des cierges (candle room) where the first paintings were noticed, followed by the 30 metre long salle des peintures (painting room) with most of the art work. At its far northeastern end is the exit. The 50 metre long middle branch leads just before the candle room also to the southeast. After the salle des griffades (scratch room) the passage swings into a southsoutheasterly direction and therefore meets up again with the right-hand branch just before the great balcony.</p><br>
<h3>Entry passage</h3><br>
<p>On the right hand side of the entry passage the scratch marks of cave bears can be seen. Also some painted dots and traits can be noticed either occurring individually or grouped in clusters.</p><br>
<h3>Holy water fonts room</h3><br>
<p>This first room along the right-hand passageway can be reached right after the crossing via a descending slope. It contains besides very beautiful stalactites and stalagmites also two fairly big saucers which have given it its name.</p><br>
<h3>Chaos room</h3><br>
<p>In the 30 metre long and 15 metre wide chaos room a partial collapse of the ceiling has happened so that big limestone blocks and slabs were covering the floor. Subsequently the chaos was covered in fairly thick and massive calcite concretions. From the more elevated west end of the adjoining salle des bénitiers one has an impressive view of the room.</p><br>
<h3>Candle room</h3><br>
<p>Along the left-hand branch the candle room - named after its beautiful stalagmites (candles) - also contains dots and traits but mainly features with some very nice art work like a 40 centimetre bison, the head of a horse and a bovine. The room ends in a very narrow passageway that was later enlarged to facilitate the entry to the painting room, which meant that some very beautiful concretionary deposits had to be sacrificed.</p><br>
<h3>Painting room</h3><br>
<p>The painting room exhibits most of the art work. It is most famous for the fresque de chevaux (horse fresco), the petit cheval bleu (little blue horse) and the l&#39;homme et le bison (man and bison). Yet it also contains exuberant and partially intergrown calcitic deposits.</p><br>
<h2>Findings</h2><br>
<p>Altogether 30 paintings have been discovered, their size not exceeding 50 centimetres. The paintings were drawn in black manganese oxide bound by animal grease. Later on the paintings were naturally covered by a thin, milky calcite coating which renders the traits in blue (like the famous little blue horse of Villars). Yet at the same time the coating has protected the art work from external influences and the Villars Cave does not seem to have the problems that affected Lascaux. Besides the paintings some engravings are also present, as well as abstract female silhouettes, red dots painted with ochre and some very abstract geometrical signs like staffs, crosses and hooked symbols. The geometrical signs are very difficult to interpret.</p><br>
<p>Besides horses, bovines, bisons, capricorns and a deer head, a human figure attacked by a bison is depicted. The latter resembles a similar scene found in the well of Lascaux (scene du puits).</p><br>
<p>Cro-Magnon man&#39;s presence has left a few traces like knocked over calcite concretions and broken stalagmites. Some lost or discarded utensils have also been found – to name silex flakes, bone fragments (mainly from reindeer), a reindeer antler and ochre and manganese oxide fragments for painting together with cup-shaped calcite deposits used as receptacles.</p><br>
<h2>Age</h2><br>
<p>According to Leroi-Gourhan the art work can be attributed stylistically to the second period of his style III which correlates with the Older Magdalenian. This represents in absolute terms roughly 17,000 years BP.</p><br>
<p>Absolute age dating with the radiocarbon method was done by Michel Genty on a burnt tooth found in a fireplace below the man and bison. He found a result of 18,000 years BP for the tooth.</p><br>
<p>The close stylistic resemblance of the man and bison scene with similar depictions in Lascaux and in Roc-de-Sers also indicates an age range of 18,000 to 17,000 years BP.</p><br>
<p>Aduston Hall is a historic antebellum plantation house in the riverside town of Gainesville, Alabama.</p><br>
<p>It is a contributing property to the Gainesville Historic District. The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on March 25, 1976, and the National Register of Historic Places on October 3, 1985. Now owned by the Sumter County Historical Society, the house is operated as a visitor welcome center for the historic district.</p><br>
<p>In addition to its use as a welcome center, the Sumter County Historical Society utilizes the house and grounds as the centerpiece of its Sumter Heritage Days, held each spring. In 1994 the Historical Society received $130,000 for the stabilization and restoration of the house from local, state, and federal funds.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Aduston Hall was built as a summer home for Amos Travis from 1844 to 1846. Travis, a resident of Mobile, used the house as a refuge from the heat, humidity, and disease that plagued Mobile during the summer months. The property was a largely self-sufficient plantation complex. Five 19th century outbuildings remain at the site.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The one-story wood-frame house is composed of a rectangular central main block and H-shaped side wings. The roof of the central portion runs parallel to the front of the house. The center of this block is fronted by a temple-like pedimented Doric portico projecting several feet out from the main Doric porch under the main roof. The central front entrance door is derived from designs published by Asher Benjamin. The main block is abutted on both sides by front gabled side wings projecting past the central portion to the front and rear of the house. These are ornamented with Doric pilasters. With its H-shaped plan, the house provided excellent cross ventilation for all of the major rooms.</p><br>
<p>Historically, there were two other very similar houses known in the vicinity of Aduston Hall. The Travis-Derryberry-Harwood House (also built by the Travis family as a summerhouse), which also survives in Gainesville, and the Norwood Plantation in Faunsdale, Alabama, destroyed in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>Iraq ed-Dubb, or the Cave of the Bear, is an early Neolithic archeological site 7 km northwest of Ajlun in the Jordan Valley, in modern-day Jordan. The settlement existed before 8,000 BCE and experimented with the cultivation of founder crops, side by side with the harvesting of wild cereals. Along with Tell Aswad in Syria, the site shows the earliest reference to domestic hulled barley between 10,000 and 8,800 BCE. The site is located on a forested limestone escarpment above the Wadi el-Yabis in northwest Jordan. An oval-shaped stone structure was excavated along with two burials and a variety of animal and plant remains.</p><br>
<p>The cave is 150 m above the wadi el-Yabis with a total area in the cave of around 150 m, with as much as 300 m on the surrounding terrace. The cave measures 10 m by 14 m with an oval structure inside measuring 4.5 m. It features mud floors overlaid on mud brick architecture along with a burned post and the two human burials found in bedrock depressions. The site was discovered in June 1989 when a few soundings were made with further excavations over three seasons, led by Ian Kuijt. The cave was covered in goat dung at the time of excavation, indicating it was used as an occasional animal holding pen until modern times. The stone tool assemblage was suggested to be similar to other early neolithic sites in the Jordan valley and included El Khiam points. The site has provided important information regarding the use of upland forested areas in the early neolithic period. Material remains at the site have been radiocarbon dated to around 7,950 BCE.</p><br>
<p>Two periods of occupation were detected in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) period with one of them possibly being late Natufian. The later structure had upright stone walls, mud floors and remains from a hearth. The earlier construction was detected to have had mud bricks, several pit features in the bedrock and the burned post. The radiocarbon date of charcoal suggested occupation earlier than the sites of Netiv Hagdud or Jericho providing insight into different means of subsistence in upland areas during this transitional phase prior to the development of farming in the Jordan valley. At the time of excavation, it was the only known stratified cave site dating to the early neolithic period in Jordan.</p><br>
<p>Sue Colledge has suggested that along with Tell Aswad, the site shows the earliest evidence for domesticated cereal morphology, claiming the site has the "earliest dated evidence for the use of domestic cereals in southwestern Asia" with a date range from approximately 9600 to 9475 BCE. It was noted that the number of specimens reported was low and their preservation was poor. Colledge assumed finds of domesticated barley (Hordeum vulgare) and wheat (likely Triticum turgidum dicoccum) were growing in secondary habitats.</p><br>
<p>George Wilcox warned that the discovery of two grains of einkorn wheat at the site should be treated cautiously as anomalies to the general assumption that emmer was the only type of wheat used during the PPNA in the southern Levant. Graeme Barker has suggested that the spikelet forks and glume bases of domesticated wheat found were likely emmer.</p><br>
<p>Studies have also been carried out on the fauna remains over the period of time between the Natufian and PPNA periods when hunter-gatherer groups first experimented with farming.</p><br>
<p>Hollingbourne Manor is an Elizabethan manor house in Hollingbourne, Kent, England.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The L-shaped house was built in the late 16th century and comprises the south and west wings of an incomplete E-shaped house, the north wing not being built apart from the first few courses of brickwork. It is constructed largely of English bonded red brick with a tiled roof and is a two-storey house with an attic roof featuring storey-height dormer windows. Door and window surrounds are of stone and window frames are timber. The walls are detailed with a rendered string course and projecting brickwork banding between the ground and first floors, a string course with decorative brickwork above the first floor and a cornice above the dormers.</p><br>
<p>The gables to the roof and gable projections above the dormers are partly stepped and detailed with heavy, rendered copings with cylindrical finials. The roof is punctuated with four wide chimney stacks, each capped with three tall brick chimneys set at an angle to the stack. The interior includes 18th-century panelling on the first floor, and early 20th-century panelling on the ground floor. The house is a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The Patrick Rodgers Farm is located in Pleasant Hill, California. In 1868 Patrick Rodgers and his family moved to this area from the California Mother Lode area to what was then a 149 acre farm. Patrick Rodgers died in 1891 leaving the ranch to his heirs. 16 years later the property was divided among his heirs. Alice and James Rodgers received a 38 acre portion containing the house and barn which were constructed in the 1860s. In 1915, the ranch was sold to Rollo Hough, a partner in the Luther Burbank Company, to become a demonstration farm, but because of financial difficulties it never came to be. A few years later the property was reduced to 18 acre and remained that size until the area was developed. Alice Hobart purchased the property in 1937. Alice Hobart, a noted author, is best known for her novel, Oil for the Lamps of China. In 1942, the ranch was sold to Dr. and Mrs. Kaho Daily who maintained it as a working ranch until 1978. A development for single family homes was approved in 1987. The Pleasant Hill Historical Society stepped in to save what remained of the ranch and in 1991 got it added to the National Register of Historical Places. The current address is 315 Cortsen Road Pleasant Hill, CA</p><br>
<p>The Tucker House is located in Martinez, California. Originally located at 40 Escobar Street, this luxurious 4 story, 4 bedroom, 2 bath mansion was built for Captain John Tucker, a former sea captain from Nantucket, Massachusetts, who settled in Martinez, become a wheat farmer and built a mansion atop the hill on Escobar Street in 1877. The persons who moved into the house included not only the Captain, but also his wife, Mary Swain Tucker, Marys brother, Sylvester Swain, Swains wife and daughter, and a Chinese servant known only as Vu. On Halloween, October 31, 1880, Captain Tucker died. The house was moved to 110 Escobar St. in the 1920s by City Postmaster Franklin Glass. After the house had been moved, it had served as a bordello for a while during the 1920s and 30s.</p><br>
<h2>Revealing mysteries</h2><br>
<p>According to a 2010 article in the San Jose Mercury News, a Martinez couple, Joey and Linda Piscitelli, both general contractors who restore houses for a living, decided to buy Tucker House in 2005. When they started cleaning up the old house, they began to discover various mysteries. When they opened the attic, they found that it had been divided into eight separate cubicles, each containing a mattress. This led them to do further research into the history of the house, revealing the secret of its use as a bordello.</p><br>
<p>The new owners found scores of old medicine bottles, in addition to an 1879 medical almanac. Researching historical records, the Piscitellis learned that the Pacific Medical and Surgical Journal had reported in 1874, that Martinez had experienced an epidemic of Scarlatina (better known today as scarlet fever). Only two of these cases were classed as serious. A young child who contracted the disease had died. The other case was Captain John Tucker, who survived.</p><br>
<p>The Old Borges Ranch is a 1,035 acre Historic District containing four contributing buildings, in the Diablo Foothills of the northern Diablo Range, within the 2,600 acre Walnut Creek Open Space in Contra Costa County, California.</p><br>
<p>The former ranch of early Walnut Creek pioneer Frank Borges is the home base for the surrounding Shell Ridge Open Space park&#39;s activities. It is located at 1035 Castle Rock Road, south of Walnut Creek. The Borges Ranch houses as a ranger station, maintenance facility, and ranger residence. The park and ranch are owned and operated by the City of Walnut Creek.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1899 early Walnut Creek pioneer Frank Borges purchased 700 acre for a cattle ranch and home for his family. The former ranch complex includes a blacksmith shop, numerous outbuildings, farm equipment displays, and a barn.</p><br>
<p>The Borges family home was built in 1901. It is a five-room redwood structure, that withstood five generations of Borgeses. It was restored as a historic house museum, with period furnishings and artifacts, including a silver and black Stewart stove, and historical displays of the early 1900s in the area. It serves as the Old Borges Ranchhouse and Visitor Center for the Walnut Creek Open Space parks.</p><br>
<p>The Don Fernando Pacheco Adobe is located at 3119 Grant Street in Concord, California.The Fernando Pacheco Adobe is the only Concord landmark listed in all three Historical Registries: entry on the National Register occurred on June 6, 1980; the California Registered landmark number is 455; and the Concord Historical Landmark designation is 1-26-26/5458. The Adobe was built by Don Fernando in the early 1850s as the base of operations for his growing ranch activities, and as his family’s formal residence. Fernando was the oldest son of Don Salvio Pacheco. He was born on May 30, 1818 while his father was assigned to a Militia-Guard unit at the Pueblo of San Jose. At age 17, he was sent to take possession and mark the boundaries of his father’s 17,921 acre land grant. Fernando was given 1,500 acres as initial share of the rancho. He subsequently married Pasquala   – a widow. Their six children: Pedro, Bonifacio, Cipriana, Maria Asuncion , Librada and Bersabe were raised at the Adobe. Don Fernando’s family enjoyed a reputation as gracious hosts. They were famous for their generosity and extensive fiestas on Adobe’s then lush, well irrigated grounds. The Adobe’s 32” thick walls were built of local adobe – mud.</p><br>
<p>Ownership remained with Don Fernando’s descendants until 1918. The land and adobe were then sold to the California Water Service Company; it then was essentially abandoned. In 1940 title to 2 and 1/2 acres and the deteriorated adobe structure transferred to Contra Cost County, which leased it to the Horsemen’s Association. The Horsemen undertook a major rehabilitation, and used the then remote facility and corral for their headquarters. In 1979, the country transferred the Adobe and its grounds to its current owner, the City of Concord. In the early 1980s the Horsemen, the city, and the Concord Historical Society completed another restoration effort to stabilize the landmark Adobe. The Horsemen’s Association continue activities on site. The Fernando Pacheco Adobe is located at 3119 Grant Street, now ell within the city limits. It is adjacent to Hillcrest Park and the De Anza Expedition Memorial marker.</p><br>
<p>The Moraga Adobe, is located at 24 Adobe Lane in Orinda, California. It was built by Don Joaquin Moraga who was the grandson of Jose Joaquin Moraga an early Spanish explorer in California who founded the city of San Jose, California. In 1835, Mexico granted 13,326 acre, El Rancho Laguna de los Palos Colorados, to Joaquin Moraga and his cousin Juan Bernal. Six years later in 1841, Joaquin built this house, which is the oldest of the five surviving adobe house in Contra Costa County. The adobe sits on a knoll at the center of the 20 acre property of what is left of the original land grant. The house has been restored and remodeled twice since it was photographed for HABS, first in 1941 when Katharine Brown White Irvine of Oakland, California purchased the old adobe, making additions such as adding three bedrooms and a veranda, and covering the adobe walls and again in 1964 when it was incorporated into a private home. The house is not accessible to the public and it is fenced off. However, it was photographed in 1922 for the Historical American Building Survey . Today, the Moraga Adobe is privately owned and unoccupied. The overall condition of the original adobe section and the more modern addition is neglected, but the building appears sound. The surrounding property was recently purchased, and the new owners have boarded up the windows to prevent vandalism and trespassing. The Moraga Adobe has been designated as a Historical Landmark by the City of Orinda and the State of California.</p><br>
<p>The Bernardo Fernandez House is located at 100 Tenant Ave in Pinole, California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bernardo Fernandez, who died at his home in Pinole yesterday after an illness of several weeks, was one of the oldest pioneer residents of Contra Costa county, having come to California in 1853 and settled in Pinole soon afterward. He was born in Portugal on November 15, 1828, and remained in his native land until 13 years old, when he went to Brazil, where he lived until 1850. Fernandez on going to Pinole engaged in the mercantile business, later becoming interested in real estate. At the time of his death he was a large holder of Contra Costa realty. He married Charlotte Cuarda, daughter of a pioneer family of Marin county, in 1859. Six children. Miss Mary Fernandez, Mrs. C W. Sinclair, Dr. M. L. Fernandez and Thomas B. Fernandez of Pinole. Mrs. W. K. Cole of San Francisco and Bernardo Fernandez Jr., who died in 188S, were born to Mr. and Mrs. Fernandez.Fernandez was one of the oldest members of Martinez lodge, F. & A. M. having belonged to the order for 47 years.</p><br>
<p>Fernandeze acquired his first land at the waterfront from the Rafaela Martinez Tennent estate and by 1882, he owned 4 large warehouses, and 5 acres of water front property. By 1894 he owned more than 3000 acres, eventually expanding his real estate holdings to over more than 20,000 acres throughout Pinole, Oakland & San Francisco. This 22-room mansion was the third home of the Fernandez family and is an excellent example of Second Empire French, a rare style in the area. The wood frame building has a central projecting pavilion and arched dormer windows. Stick trim panels grace the main structure, with tall 2 over 2 first floor windows that have brackets supporting window hoods and eaves. To the left side is a full height slanted bay with a pedimented gable roof. The home is listed on the Contra Costa Inventory of Historic Places & the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Gemellae was a Roman fort and associated camp on the fringe of the Sahara Desert in what is today part of Algeria. It is now an archaeological site, 25 km south and 19 km west of Biskra, and 5 km southwest of the present-day village of M&#39;Lili with which it probably shares an original Berber name. It was connected by military Roman road to Castellum Dimmidi and Capsa.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Apparently there was a fortification at Gemellae prior to the coming of the Romans. Pliny the Elder recounts that when Lucius Cornelius Balbus celebrated his victory over the Garamantes of the Sahara in 19 BC, one of the conquests feted in the parade through Rome was that of Milgis Gemmella, described as an oppidum (usually meaning fortified settlement).</p><br>
<p>The Romans seem to have then occupied the site and made it one of the southernmost outposts, marking the limes or boundary of the Roman Empire.</p><br>
<p>The earliest epigraph retrieved from the site is an inscription for a statue of Emperor Hadrian, in about the year 126 AD, by a cohors equitata (equestrian regiment) originating from Chalcis in Syria. The presence of this army unit in Africa is attested by inscriptions elsewhere dating from as early as 78 AD and as late as 164 AD.</p><br>
<p>A second very large dedication to Hadrian, which faced the central courtyard, dates from 132 AD. The name of the Legion to which the regiment belonged was hammered off, presumably because of the withdrawal of their legion for disciplinary reasons, then re-inscribed, presumably following the return of the regiment in 253 AD.</p><br>
<p>Also present in the sacellum were statues of Antoninus Pius, Pertinax and Gordian, the latter two with inscriptions indicating the presence of the Ala I Pannoniorum (a cavalry unit raised by the Emperor Gordian). Altars to the Dii Campestres (army gods) were dedicated by Marcus Celerius Augendus, prefect of the Pannonians, and by Titus Aurelius Aurelianus, prefect of another cavalry unit from Thrace. It is likely that the Pannonians were substitutes for the Legio III Augusta regiment until its reinstatement in 253 AD.</p><br>
<p>The hypothesis is that the inscription of 126 AD, for a small-sized statue, represents the establishment of a provisional camp, and that the inscription of 132 marks the completion of the greater fort.</p><br>
<p>The establishment of the fort and surrounding settlement is probably linked to the construction of the Fossatum Africae. Gemellae is the largest of several forts in the area which follow the line of the Fossatum. In the 5th century there is still mention of a sector of the limes called Gemellensis just prior to the Vandal invasion. Other than that, the history of Gemellae after 253 AD remains uncertain.</p><br>
<p>No Christian artefacts have been recovered, so there is no current archaeological evidence for a Byzantine presence. However, Justinian is known to have ordered Belisarius in 534 AD to restore the fortifications of the limes</p><br>
<p>as they were before the Vandal invasion. The 6th-century historian Procopius mentions a Meleon as one of those forts rebuilt as a result, which may have been Gemellae. The 9th-century Arab historian Khalifa ibn Khayyat relates that when Abu al-Muhajir Dinar was emir of Ifriqiya (c. 675-682) he conquered Mila which may have been Gemellae.</p><br>
<p>Gemellae has now been reclaimed by the desert, and excavators have complained about the continually blowing sand. The remains of the fort are known locally as al-Qasba (casbah, exactly a fort).</p><br>
<h2>Archaeology</h2><br>
<p>The great fort (praetorium or General Headquarters) of Gemellae is rectangular with sides oriented to the cardinal directions, constructed in a manner common to most Roman castra. It measures 150 m. north to south and 190 m. east to west. For the most part, the masonry wall was about 3 m. thick, using stone from a quarry 14 km. distant. However, the fort&#39;s corners were rounded and reinforced to a thickness of 4.85 m. Just outside the masonry wall was an earth wall (vallum).</p><br>
<p>There was a gate in each side, and a number of towers. The towers were situated at each corner and at each gate, also the short sides of the fort had 2 additional ones and the long sides 3, i.e. one tower every 30 m,</p><br>
<p>compared with one tower per 60 m. at the Legion&#39;s headquarters at Lambaesis. The towers had no external bastions, interiorly they reduced the wall thickness by about 1.5 m.</p><br>
<p>The interior courtyard was entirely paved over, and the walls and columns painted. The oldest layer of paint was a reddish purple, later covered by a cream base on which were painted various designs. The columns, for example, were painted with fruiting grapevines.</p><br>
<p>Outside the fort, the town was surrounded by a vallum at a distance of 700–800 m from the centre of the praetorium. Just outside the fort was a small almost circular amphitheatre with three stages of seating and an internal diameter of 12.5 m. At 75 m. northeast of the fort it was found the ruin of a temple to the Dii Campestres or army gods. Pieces of painted fresco, including a half-size head of a deity, were recovered, along with offerings such as sea-shells and gazelle horns.</p><br>
<p>At a distance of 700 m. (hence outside the town vallum) was another temple, of mudbrick on a masonry base. A ciborium contained a small sculptured stone lion seated before a 30 cm. statuette of a goddess in richly painted terracotta. The goddess held a cornucopia and was either a personification of Africa, or the goddess Cybele. In the interior courtyard were two stelae representing the sacrifice of a ram to Saturn. Many vases and amphorae were found in the temple, holding ashes and burnt fragments of animal bones. In the area around the temple were also found roughly fashioned approximately life-sized prone human figures which may have been used to incinerate animal sacrifices.</p><br>
<p>Töö Ashuu , literally "camel pass", is a mountain pass in Kyrgyzstan on the highway from Bishkek to Osh  in Kyrgyzstan approximately 120 km from Bishkek. The pass goes over part of the Kyrgyz Alatau range of the Tien Shan mountains. A 2.7 km road tunnel enters the mountain at 3130 m on the north side and comes out at 3180 m on the south side. The old pass over the mountain at this point was around 3500 m and thus this road pass is often described as reaching this height.</p><br>
<p>A ski resort is situated on the south slope of the Too Ashuu pass at 2960 m.a.s.l. The resort has one blue 1,500 m ski slope operated by a chairlift with height difference of 200 m. There is a possibility to ski further 1500 m down to the highway. Shuttle marshrutkas then take the skiers back to the top section of the resort.</p><br>
<p>Kawah Putih  is a striking crater lake and tourist spot in a volcanic crater about 50 km south of Bandung in West Java in Indonesia.</p><br>
<p>Kawah Putih lake (7.10° S 107.24° E) is one of the two craters which make up Mount Patuha, an andesitic stratovolcano (a "composite" volcano). Mt Patuha is one of numerous volcanoes in Java. Kawah Putih crater lake itself represents a relatively stable volcanic system with no records of significant activity since around 1600.</p><br>
<p>The Kawah Putih site was opened to visitors in 1987. The lake is 2,430 meters above sea level so the local climate is often quite chilly (temperatures are frequently around 10 degrees Celsius). This makes a brisk change from the humidity of the north Java plain and the capital city of Jakarta. Kawah Putih is a sizeable highly acid lake (pH 0.5-1.3) which changes colour from bluish to whitish green, or brown, depending on the concentration of sulfur and the temperature or the oxidation state. The sand and rocks surrounding the lake have been also leached into whitish colours through interaction with the acidic lake waters (with possible mineral precipitation as well).</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lake is said to have been first documented in the western world in 1837 by Dr Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn, a German botanist who carried out a considerable amount of research in Indonesia until his death in Lembang, just north of Bandung, in 1864. At the time, there were various local stories about the history of the area. Birds were said to be reluctant to fly near the region and villagers in the area tended to regard the forest around the lake as eerie and somewhat mysterious. These stories prompted Dr Junghuhn to investigate. He discovered Kawah Putih. There was formerly a sulfur mine at the crater although production has now ceased. A sulfur plant known as the Zwavel Ontgining was first established near the lake during the period of Dutch rule in Java. The plant was later taken over during World War II by the Japanese military and operated under the name Kawah Putih Kenzanka Yokoya Ciwidey. Entry points to various tunnels which represent the remnants of these mining activities can be seen at several points around the current site.</p><br>
<p>Over a century after Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn first discovered the lake, in 1991 the Indonesian state-owned forestry firm Perhutani Unit III Jawa Barat dan Banten (Forestry Unit No III for West Java and Banten) began to develop the site as a tourist spot.</p><br>
<h2>The site</h2><br>
<p>The surrounding area is heavily forested. There is a pathway down to the lake which is surrounded by the high walls of the crater nestling into the side of Mt Patuha. The smell of sulfur is strong because there is a good deal of steam and sulfurous gas bubbling from the lake. There are tracks around the lake and through the nearby forest including to the peak of Mt Patuha. Visitors can walk around the crater area or sit in the various shelters. Local plants not widely found in lower altitudes in Java include javanese Edelweiss and Cantigy (Vaccinium varingifolium). Animals and birds which may be spotted include eagles, owls, monkeys, mouse deer, and forest pigs. Panthers, leopards and pythons have also sometimes been seen in the nearby forest.</p><br>
<p>A range of simple facilities exists near the lake. There is ample parking and public toilets. Entrepreneurial vendors sell trinkets and food. The site is well-signposted. Local farmers often take the opportunity to sell strawberries (widely grown in the area), steamed corn, and various other items such as pumpkin seeds (pepita).</p><br>
<p>Kawah Putih and the surrounding area (where there are resort facilities such as hot spas) is a popular spot for people from Bandung. On weekends and on holidays, quite large numbers of Indonesian tourists visit Kawah Putih. The site is so far less well-known to international tourists. According to Perhutani staff at the site, up to 10,000 people might visit on busy holidays and the total number of visitors is perhaps 300,000 per year.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Access is gained from the left of the main road travelling south by entering the park and proceeding along a 5 km access road. Travel time from the centre of Bandung, depending on traffic in and around Bandung, is perhaps two hours. The turnoff from the main road to Kawah Putih is hard to miss: there is a large signboard to the left of the main road and a prominent entry gate. The entry facilities and the crater location are well-managed by staff from the state-owned forestry firm Perhutani.</p><br>
<p>The usual arrangement is for visitors to leave their vehicles in a main carpark at the entry to the site and catch one of the regular mini shuttlebuses (leaving every five minutes or so) for the 5 km to the crater. For Indonesian citizens, the cost of entry to the site (October 2011) is Rp 15,000 plus Rp 5,000 for the return minibus ride (total of Rp 20,000, around $US 2.20). Charges for foreign visitors are slightly higher. Visitors who prefer to drive in their own vehicles up to the crater must pay a significantly higher charge (Rp 150,000, or $US 17 per vehicle plus tickets for passengers). Tickets are issued by Perhutani staff and include insurance while at the location.</p><br>
<p>The main road is the busy road south from Bandung through the town of Soreang, the capital of the Bandung District, continuing down through the crowded Pasir Jambu township. Minibuses ply the route southwards from Bandung and, depending on traffic, can take up to two hours to reach the entrance to the Kawah Putih area. There are many thousands of small market-crop farmers in the fertile valley to the south of Bandung which leads up towards the Kawah Putih area. Local food-crops grown include a wide range of fruits and vegetables. A strawberry industry is well-established in the area and many strawberry farms have fruit for sale along the side of the highway.</p><br>
<p>Accommodation is available at various hotels in the Patuha area close to the nearby town of Ciwidey and also in Soreang.</p><br>
<p>The MacDougal–Sullivan Gardens Historic District is a small historic district consisting of 22 houses located at 74–96 MacDougal Street and 170–188 Sullivan Street between Houston and Bleecker Streets in the South Village area of the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.</p><br>
<p>The district was designated a New York City landmark in 1967 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land under what would become the historic district was purchased in 1796 by Nicholas Low, a prominent New York merchant. The houses were built in 1844 (MacDougal Street) and 1850 (Sullivan Street) by Low&#39;s estate, in the fashionable Greek Revival style. The original plans for the houses called for street level retail space and dormered roofs.</p><br>
<p>Over time, the houses became run-down, until they were bought in 1920 by William Sloane Coffin Sr., a director of the furniture and rug retailer W. & J. Sloane, who formed the Hearth and Home Corporation to do so. Coffins intention was to create an affordable development for middle-class professionals in what had become a slum; the project would be the most extensive such effort to that time. Coffin engaged architects Francis Y. Joannes and Maxwell Hyde, who converted the houses into apartments &ndash; a five-room duplex, a four-room apartment, and two "non-housekeeping" apartments &ndash; and re-faced the buildings in Colonial Revival style while retaining some of the original Greek Revival elements. They removed all the buildings stoops, altered the doorways and entrances to the basement level, and combined the rear yards to make a common garden which included a playground for children.</p><br>
<p>The renovation of the buildings was completed by 1921, and the garden by 1923. The houses were sold to individual owners in 1924, with the integrity of the project maintained by the MacDougal–Sullivan Gardens Association.</p><br>
<p>Coffin&#39;s development was influential in its time, inspiring other developments such as that which is now the Turtle Bay Gardens Historic District, and remains a "model for urban city housing".</p><br>
<p>The Fayetteville Historic Square , in Fayetteville, Arkansas, includes the original Fayetteville post office, the Old Bank of Fayetteville Building, the Lewis Brothers Building, the Mrs. Young Building, and the Guisinger Building. These buildings are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. There are several more recent buildings located on the Square.</p><br>
<p>The historic district is defined by Center Street on the north, Mountain Street to the south, Block Avenue to the west and East Avenue to the east. The block within these one-way streets contains the Old Post Office, and formerly, the County Courthouse.</p><br>
<h2>Old Post Office</h2><br>
<p>The Old Post Office, built in 1911, is the centerpiece of the Historic Square. The lot contained the Washington County Courthouse until 1905, when a new structure was built 1½ blocks away. The building has been renovated and now serves as office space and a startup hub.</p><br>
<h2>Old Bank of Fayetteville Building</h2><br>
<p>The Old Bank of Fayetteville Building, sometimes called the Eason Building, anchors the northwest corner of the Historic Square. Built in the Queen Anne and Romanesque revival styles, the building held the Bank of Fayetteville and First National Bank upon their merger in 1915. The modern Bank of Fayetteville, located across the street in the Lewis Brothers Building, was founded in 1980, and has no affiliation to the Bank of Fayetteville of the 1915 merger.</p><br>
<h2>Lewis Brothers Building</h2><br>
<p>The Lewis Brother Building located directly south of the Old Bank Of Fayetteville Building was constructed in 1908. Built in the Queen Anne and Classic revival styles, the building housed the Lewis Brothers Hardware Store from 1912. The hardware store has since closed, and the building now contains the main branch of the modern Bank of Fayetteville ( founded circa 1980, and unaffiliated with the original Bank of Fayetteville ). The brick exterior of the building was filmed in the television program Evening Shade.</p><br>
<h2>Mrs. Young Building</h2><br>
<p>The Mrs. Young Building, built in the Italianate style in 1887, is one of the older building on the Square according to National Register of Historic Places information.</p><br>
<h3>Eponym</h3><br>
<p>Mrs. Young and her husband came from Illinois in the 1870s. She was a photographer, and her husband was a travelling dental surgeon. She purchased a lot for a home in 1881. After receiving a divorce in 1883, Mrs. Young built a two-story studio on the town square in 1887. The second floor was home to her photography studio. The first floor was, at various times, a grocery and a bank. With the money from her business plus the rent, she was able to retire.</p><br>
<h2>Guisinger Building</h2><br>
<p>The Guisinger Building is located in the southeast corner of the Fayetteville Historic Square. Built in 1886, the building consists of brick walls, a marble base, and pressed tin ceilings. It was constructed by William Crenshaw, a Fayetteville native in the hardware business. Now housing a law firm, the building was recently remodeled.</p><br>
<h2>Non-NRHP listed buildings on the Fayetteville Historic Square</h2><br>
<p>The University of Arkansas Global Campus offices are located on the northeast corner of the square. The East Square Plaza constitutes the east side of the Square. The east half of the south edge of the Square hosts the Fayetteville Town Center. Constructed in 2001, the Town Center hosts weddings, business events, and various special events throughout the year. For events, the Town Center will close the Municipal Parking Garage for use by event patrons.</p><br>
<p>Two blocks west of the Square on Mountain Street is the Fayetteville Public Library (Blair Library). The LEED certified building was built in 2004 and named Library of the Year in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Parking on the Square</h2><br>
<p>Parking is free for any consecutive two hours within a four-hour time period, despite nearby Dickson Street&#39;s 2010 change to pay parking. Nearby pay lots are available for Square patrons who plan on staying over two hours.</p><br>
<p>Olean School No. 10, now known as Ivers J. Norton School, is a historic school building located at Olean in Cattaraugus County, New York. It was designed and built in 1908-1909, in the Prairie School style. It is three stories, nine bays wide and four bays deep. It is constructed of brick and stone and topped with a flat roof with deep overhangs. It features "Boys" and "Girls" entrances and large brick engaged columns on the front facade. It remained in operation as a school building until 2012, when it  was closed as a result of budget cuts implemented in the wake of New York&#39;s property tax cap. In late 2014 the school was purchased by a pastor and turned into a church.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.</p><br>
<p>Peabody Township Library, also known under the older name of Peabody Township Carnegie Library, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1987. It is located in the Downtown Historic District of Peabody, Kansas, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1875, the original library was constructed. The library was useful but within a few decades of use had become too small.</p><br>
<p>A committee of the Commercial Club, applied for a Carnegie library grant, and by the spring of 1913, the Carnegie Corporation had agreed to a grant of $10,000. The building plan agreed upon will resemble that of the Carnegie library of Galena, Illinois. The original library building was moved to the Peabody City Park, and the new Carnegie library was built on its site. On April 18, 1914, the doors were open to the public.</p><br>
<p>Later, the original library was moved again and became the Peabody Historical Library Museum.</p><br>
<p>Since 2008, two computers have been available for high-speed T1 internet access, and free WiFi access allow patrons to browse the internet. The library is a member of the, which provides an inter-library book loan service between its members.</p><br>
<p>Ripley Historic District is a national historic district located at Ripley, Jackson County, West Virginia. It encompasses 110 contributing buildings, one contributing site , and one contributing structure that include the commercial and civic core of the town, and surrounding residential buildings. It includes example of popular architectural styles of the late-19th and early- to mid-20th century, including Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Art Moderne, Neo-Classical Revival, Italianate and Modern. Notable buildings include the USA Post Office, Phillips/Pfost House, Alpine Theater, Hockenberry Store building, Jackson County Courthouse , the Beymer House, and the Hinzman House. Located within the district is the separately listed Clerc-Carson House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Ravenswood "Old Town" Historic District is a national historic district located at Ravenswood, Jackson County, West Virginia. It encompasses 313 contributing buildings and two contributing structures, the Ohio River Rail Road Steel Pratt-through truss Bridge and Concrete bridge on State Route 68 over Sandy Creek. It includes the commercial and civic core of the town, and surrounding residential buildings. It includes example of popular architectural styles of the mid- to late-19th and early-20th century, including Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Italianate, Craftsman, and Bungalow. Notable buildings include the McIntosh Building, First Baptist Church , Randolph Building/Caldwell Building , the Grace Episcopal Church ; Our Savior Evangelical Lutheran Church , Ravenswood Community Center , and McIntosh House .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Palaia Epidavros or Palaia Epidauros  is a small town in the Argolis prefecture of the Peloponnese. Today also called Archaia Epidauros , it is built in the same place where was located the ancient city of Epidauros, on top of and surrounding a small peninsula between two bays, on the coast of the Saronic gulf. It is situated 34km to the East of Nafplio and 60km to the South of Korinthos. Its population is 1618 inhabitants according to the 2011 census.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>At the foot of the akropolis of Ancient Epidauros is located the so-called "Small Theatre of Epidauros" (not to be confused with the more famous theatre at the Sanctuary of Asklepios in Epidauros, some 10km to the South-West Theatre of Epidaurus). This smaller theatre was built in the middle of the 4th century BCE. It was re-discovered in 1970 and excavated in 1972. Its capacity is 2000 seats. Every Summer cultural events take place in the theatre, under the title of "Musical July" but better known as a part of the much bigger annual "Athens-Epidauros Festival".</p><br>
<p>Since Palea Epidauros is a coastal town, there are a number of beaches. The most famous is Kalamaki beach. Other beaches are Polemarcha beach and Gialasi beach.</p><br>
<h2>Historical population</h2><br>
<p>Thiên Đường Cave  is a cave in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, UNESCO&#39;s World Heritage Site, 60 km northwest of Đồng Hới city.</p><br>
<p>Thiên Đường Cave is located on an elevation of 200 meters above the sea level, near the west branch of Ho Chi Minh Highway, in Son Trach Commune, Bố Trạch District, Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam. The cave was discovered by a local man in 2005 and the first 5 km of this cave was explored by explorers from British Cave Research Association in 2005, the whole 31 km was explored and publicly announced by the British cave explorers. This cave is 31 km long, longer than Phong Nha Cave which had been considered the longest cave in this national park. The height can reach to 72 m and 150 m wide. The limestone formation is also more spectacular than that of Phong Nha Cave. The British cave explorers were impressed by the beautiful and spectacular stalactites and stalagmites inside this cave and they named it Thiên Đường Cave (Paradise Cave).</p><br>
<p>In 2012, a new scorpion species Vietbocap thienduongensis was found here.</p><br>
<h2>Tourist activities</h2><br>
<p>The access road and internal road of this cave was built by a local company (Truong Thinh Group) and the cave has been open to tourists since 3 September 2010. The car park is 1.6 km from the entry of the cave, and tourists can go by golf cart or walk on a paved road to the cave mouth. Only 1 km is open to tourists.</p><br>
<p>Har HaAri  is a mountain in the Upper Galilee in northern Israel. With its 1047 meters  it is one of the highest mountains in Israel and is located about 1 kilometer south of Beit Jann. It is named after the father of Kabbalah, known as the Ari. It is close to the Druze shrine of Baha&#39; ad-Din, probably dedicated to the founding Druze leader of this name.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is a popular place for paragliding in part because of the landscape visible from there. On a clear day you can see the Gilboa Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea from it.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Har HaAri has a Mediterranean climate with hot summers and cold, damp and sometimes snowy winters. Its altitude makes it vulnerable to strong winds at any time of the year. The precipitation rate on the mountain is high and reaches nearly 1000 mm. Most precipitation falls between October and May.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Har HaAri is located in the Upper Galilee and is 1047 meters (3435 ft) high. Note that the directions of the below chart are reversed to fit the view of the panorama.</p><br>
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<p>The Yosemite Transportation Company Office, also known as the Wells Fargo Office, was built in the Yosemite Valley in 1910 to house facilities of motor stage and horse stage services between the nearest rail terminal at El Portal and Yosemite National Park. The rustic log structure also provided telegraph and express services.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The 1-1/2 story log structure measures 23 ft by 21 ft, with a prominent front porch, accented by a decorative log truss. The building is an example of the National Park Service rustic style as it was applied at Yosemite, with strips of cedar bark applied in a decorative pattern.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>After 1927 the importance of stage services declined with the completion of a paved automobile road into the valley, and the YTC Office became a clearinghouse for accommodations in the Yosemite Valley. In the late 1930s the building was converted to a residence.</p><br>
<p>The National Park Service management plan for the Yosemite Valley planned for the removal of buildings considered intrusive in the Old Yosemite Village area. The YTC building was designated for demolition during the Mission 66 program, but was instead moved to the Pioneer Yosemite History Center at Wawona in Yosemite National Park for preservation, part of an ensemble of other buildings moved from elsewhere in Yosemite.</p><br>
<p>The Yosemote Transportation Company Office was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Hastings-Macleay Important Bird Area is a 1148 km tract of land stretching for 100 km along the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, from Stuarts Point in the north to the Camden Haven River in the south. It is bounded on the west by the Pacific Highway. It combines ephemeral floodplain wetlands with coastal swamp forests. It is mostly cattle-grazed but contains large blocks of state forest, protected areas and tea-tree plantations.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The land was identified by BirdLife International as an IBA because it regularly supports significant numbers of the endangered swift parrot, regent honeyeater and Australasian bittern, and probably over 1% of the world population of sharp-tailed sandpipers.</p><br>
<p>The Road Up Raritan Historic District is located along River Road in Piscataway, Middlesex County, New Jersey.</p><br>
<p>It is north of Raritan Landing, once an important inland port on the Raritan River during the 18th and 19th centuries. The name is taken from an earlier colonial era name for what was once a Lenape path, Assunpink Trail that became a main road parallel to the river. Piscataway Township itself was formed on December 18, 1666 as one of the first seven townships in East Jersey, and is one of the oldest municipalities in the state. The district includes nine of fourteen historic homes along an approximately 1.2 miles stretch of River Road. The Metlar-Bodine House and the Cornelius Low House are also in the immediate vicinity.</p><br>
<p>There are seven contributing properties in the district plus two properties that were previously listed.</p><br>
<p>The Elijah Cutler Behunin Cabin was built to house Elijah Cutler Behunin&#39;s family in 1883-84 in what is now Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. The Behunins lived there for only a year, leaving for Fruita after a flood threatened the house and its fields. The one story sandstone structure measures 13 ft by 16.5 ft, with a single room. Elijah and his wife and their 13 children all lived within the home. The walls are sandstone covered with a plaster-cement wash. The roof structure is wood, covered with wood sheathing and bentonite clay. The cabin was renovated in the 1960s by the National Park Service and represents the most intact example of a settler cabin in Capitol Reef National Park.</p><br>
<p>The Behunin cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 13, 1999.</p><br>
<p>The Cleveland Cultural Gardens are a collection of public gardens located in Rockefeller Park in Cleveland, Ohio. The gardens are situated along East Boulevard & Martin Luther King Jr. Drive within the 276 acre of wooded parkland on the city&#39;s East Side. In total, there are 31 distinct gardens, each commemorating a different ethnic group whose immigrants have contributed to the heritage of the United States over the centuries, as well as Cleveland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Twenty-seven individual gardens, and growing. Each presents the culture of their respective nation through cultural figures and icons in a variety of materials. Each Garden&#39;s landscaping suggests the particular country or nationality for which it is named.</p><br>
<p>Conceived in 1916 to feature literary figures and then modified as time went on. The first garden, named in honor of William Shakespeare, was British. Leo Weidenthal, a Jew, started a tradition when he planted the first ethnic garden called the Hebrew Garden in 1926. The original purpose was to get nationality groups working with each other and learning more about each other’s culture at a time when most of the nationalities lived in self-imposed ghettos, self-developed to facilitate the transition from immigrant status, with little or no English language skills, to functional Americans.</p><br>
<p>Highly successful from the start, the project had almost universal political, media and civic support that only grew as time went on. This became critical when the original plan to have each nationality group fund its own Garden ran into the Depression’s economic wall. However, the City came to the project’s rescue by channeling Federal money and manpower (Works Progress Administration) into building thirteen of the original fifteen Gardens, after the first two were finished.</p><br>
<p>The number of Gardens continue to increase as new immigrant groups to the region fund their own Garden, a source of great pride.</p><br>
<h2>The Gardens</h2><br>
<p>British Garden (1916)</p><br>
<p>Hebrew Garden (1926)</p><br>
<p>German Garden (1929)</p><br>
<p>Italian Garden (1930)</p><br>
<p>Slovak Garden (1932)</p><br>
<p>Slovenian Garden (1932)</p><br>
<p>Hungarian Garden (1934)</p><br>
<p>Polish Garden (1934)</p><br>
<p>American Garden (1935)</p><br>
<p>Czech Garden (1935)</p><br>
<p>American Legion Peace Gardens (1936)</p><br>
<p>Lithuanian Garden (1936)</p><br>
<p>Irish Garden (1939)</p><br>
<p>Rusin Garden (1939)</p><br>
<p>Greek Garden (1940)</p><br>
<p>Ukrainian Garden (1940)</p><br>
<p>Finnish Garden (1958)</p><br>
<p>Estonian Garden (1966)</p><br>
<p>Romanian Garden (1967)</p><br>
<p>African-American Garden (1977)</p><br>
<p>Chinese Garden (1985)</p><br>
<p>India Garden (2005)</p><br>
<p>Latvian Garden (2006)</p><br>
<p>Azerbaijan Garden (2008)</p><br>
<p>Serbian Garden (2008)</p><br>
<p>Croatian Garden (2009)</p><br>
<p>Armenian Garden (2010)</p><br>
<p>Syrian Garden (2011)</p><br>
<p>Albanian Garden (2012)</p><br>
