<p>Rockefeller Park is a city park named in honor of oil magnate John D. Rockefeller Sr., located in Cleveland, Ohio. Part of the Cleveland Public Parks District, Rockefeller Park is immediately adjacent Wade Park to the southeast, and across Euclid Ave on its northwest border. Besides the distinction of being the largest park located completely within city limits, Rockefeller Park is a link in a chain of parkland that connects the heights region of the eastern suburbs to the citys lakefront. Following the path of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and spanning a large section of Clevelands East Sides, the park runs in a northwesterly path between suburban Shaker Heights, bisecting the University Circle neighborhood and terminating at Gordon Park on the city&#39;s lakefront, opened to the public in 1897.</p><br>
<p>Landmarks found in Rockefeller Park include two separate entries on the National Register of Historic Places: one for its architecturally historic bridges, and one for its Cultural Gardens.</p><br>
<h2>Points of interest</h2><br>
<p>Cultural Gardens - one of park&#39;s two registrants found on the National Register of Historic Places, the Cultural Gardens serve to commemorate many of the ethnic groups who have enriched the city of Cleveland, as well as that of the United States.</p><br>
<p>Doan Brook - A seven-mile long stream that runs from suburban Shaker Lakes to Lake Erie, the brook was an essential feature in the establishment of the routing of the park.</p><br>
<p>Rockefeller Park Greenhouse - located at the northeastern edge of the park between Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and E.88th St, the greenhouse and its gardens occupy four acres and opened in 1905.</p><br>
<p>Alpine is a historic plantation house in Alpine, Alabama, United States. Completed in 1858, the two-story Greek Revival-style house was built for Nathaniel Welch by a master builder, Almarion Devalco Bell. The wood-frame house has several unusual features that make it one of the more architecturally interesting antebellum houses in the state. These features include the foundation materials, interior floor-plan, and the window fenestration.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Nathaniel Welch was born in Madison County, Virginia on November 24, 1814, the son of the Reverend Oliver Welch, a Baptist minister. Oliver Welch was a founder of the Alpine Baptist Church. He built the simple two-story hewn-log house at his homestead nearby, known as Kingston, upon his arrival from Virginia in 1832. The Welch family was intermarried with the Reynolds family, of the now-destroyed Mount Ida nearby.</p><br>
<p>Nathaniel Welch married Mary Jane Wilson on January 7, 1840. Nathaniel Welch died on November 4, 1883, followed by Mary Jane on January 16, 1902. Over time, a town grew up around the plantation when a railroad came through. Initially known as Welchs Depot, it eventually came to be known as Alpine, in honor of the plantation. The plantation remained in the Welch family until 1970.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Approached via a mi (0.4 km) long avenue of mature oak trees, the house sits upon the crest of a hillock. Conceived from the beginning as a Greek Revival-style house, the two-story structure is fronted by a monumental Doric tetrastyle portico, supporting a pediment over the central bay of the 60 ft wide three-bay front facade. The portico shelters the main front entrance in addition to a second story balcony with an intricate cast iron balustrade and matching upper doorway. The relatively simple 6-over-6 lite front windows, in addition to the doors on the first and second levels, are all flanked by sidelights, creating an unusual three-part window arrangement.</p><br>
<p>Two other unusual features for an early house in Alabama are the maximum 4 ft tall cut stone foundations and a brick-lined dining room measuring 20 x on the basement level. It was designed as a refuge from the state&#39;s hot and humid summer weather. Interior stone stairs rise from the cellar room to the ground floor. The rear left side of the house has a one-story attached ell wing, originally used as a domestic wing. The storehouse was demolished in 1970 and the timber reused to build a modern carport.</p><br>
<p>Haul Round Island is a 6 ha island in the Arafura Sea, lying close to the north central coast of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. It consists mainly of sand with a few rocks and nearby patches of mangroves. It is close to the town of Maningrida. It has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area  because it has one of the largest seabird colonies in the Northern Territory.</p><br>
<p>Counts of seabirds at Haul Island show that it supports up to 5000 roseate terns, 5000 bridled terns and hundreds of nesting crested terns, as well as silver gulls. Some 150-200 pied cormorants nest in the mangroves on an adjacent reef. Although the colony is active every year, in some years the roseate terns nest on other islands. Tern eggs are frequently harvested by the Aboriginal traditional owners of the island.</p><br>
<p>The New Castle Court House Museum is the center of a circle with a 12-mile radius that defines most of the border between the states of Delaware and Pennsylvania and parts of the borders between Delaware and New Jersey and Maryland.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the oldest courthouses in the United States and has played a role in a number of historic events. It was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1972. The building is also a contributing property to a second National Historic Landmark, the New Castle Historic District. It is part of First State National Historical Park.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>The 12 Mile Circle</h3><br>
<p>In 1682, James, the Duke of York gave William Penn a deed for land consisting of a 12-mile circle around the town of New Castle. The borders established by this deed were almost immediately contested by Lord Baltimore, proprietor of the colony of Maryland, and thus began an 87-year legal struggle between the two families. Penn first commissioned a survey of the circle in 1701. As part of the boundary dispute, the two families created a Commission led by Governor Patrick Gordon of Pennsylvania and Governor Samuel Ogle of Maryland, and the Commission met in the New Castle Court House four times in 1732 and 1733. A subsequent Commission, including William Allen and Benjamin Chew met in the Court House in 1750, where it was agreed by both sides that the cupola of the Court House building would be used as the center of the 12 mile circle. The Commission met in the Court House again in 1751 and 1760. The final survey of the borders as part of the boundary dispute was conducted in 1763 by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, who ran a series of chains on a straight 12 mile line from the Court House. Their Mason–Dixon line has been used as the unofficial dividing line between the north and the south. The Penns and Calverts agreed to the results of the Mason-Dixon survey, and their border dispute was resolved when the British crown ratified the border in 1769. The circle was surveyed again in 1849 by the Army&#39;s Corps of Topographical Engineers, and again in 1892 by the USA Coast and Geodetic Survey.</p><br>
<p>The borders created by the 12 mile circle were also heavily contested by New Jersey beginning in 1820, when New Jersey disputed Delawares cessation of Pea Patch Island to the United States government since the island was primarily on the New Jersey side of the river. Secretary of War John C. Calhoun requested a legal opinion from Attorney General William Wirt. Wirts conclusion, based on a report by George Read, Jr. and former Attorney General Caesar A. Rodney was that the state of Delaware had the valid claim. After conflicting opinions from two different circuit courts on the issue, President James K. Polk intervened in 1847 and suggested an arbitrator resolve the disagreement. John Sergeant was appointed arbitrator, and in Independence Hall heard arguments from the United States (represented by Senators John M. Clayton and James A. Bayard, Jr.) and a citizen of New Jersey (represented by former Secretary of War John Eaton and former Secretary of the Treasury George M. Bibb) regarding the history of colonial deeds and the origin of the Twelve Mile Circle. Sergeant ruled that the deed for the circle was valid and the island had belonged to the state of Delaware.</p><br>
<p>New Jersey contested the circle&#39;s borders again in 1872, when Delaware arrested several New Jersey fishermen and New Jersey claimed ownership of the Delaware River up to the middle point. The issue has been adjudicated by the United States Supreme Court several times (primarily in 1877, 1934, and 2007) in cases named New Jersey v. Delaware, and the extensive history of the circle and border dispute were documented by Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo in the 1934 case.</p><br>
<h3>Colonial and early American history</h3><br>
<p>The oldest known courthouse on the site dates back to 1687. The building was originally both a courthouse and a seat of government, as the building was used by the colonial assembly. During the years when Pennsylvania and Delaware shared an assembly, it generally met in Philadelphia, but occasionally met in New Castle instead, such as in 1684 and 1690. In 1700, the Pennsylvania colonial assembly met in the recently constructed Court House, with William Penn in attendance. In addition to the routine passing of laws, Penn&#39;s primary focus during the 1700 session was healing a rift that had developed between the assemblymen from Pennsylvania proper and those from Delaware.</p><br>
<p>This attempt was unsuccessful. In 1704, after the Pennsylvania counties sought to expand their representation in the assembly, the three Delaware counties demanded, and were granted, an independent assembly so they could pass their own laws. They chose William Rodney, grandfather of Caesar Rodney, as their first Speaker. From that year on, the assembly that met in the Court House governed Delaware alone.</p><br>
<p>This earlier building was mostly destroyed by a fire in 1729 caused by a prisoner&#39;s attempt to escape. The Court House was rebuilt on the same site within a year, and the foundation of the original is still visible.</p><br>
<p>In 1774, the assembly met here and chose three of Delawares most famous politicians to represent the colony in the Continental Congress: Thomas McKean, Caesar Rodney, and George Read. It was in this building that the assembly, at McKeans urging, voted on June 13, 1776 to sever all ties with England as well as the state of Pennsylvania, with which Delaware still shared a governor. The assembly resolved that:</p><br>
<p>Whereas it is become absolutely necessary for the safety, protection, and happiness of the good people of this colony, forthwith to establish some authority adequately to the exigency of their affairs, until a new government can be formed; and Whereas the representatives of the people, in this assembly met, alone can and ought at this time, to establish such temporary. Resolved unanimously, that all persons holding any office, civil or military, in this colony, on the 13 day of June instant, may and shall continue to execute the same, in the name of the</p><br>
<p>government of the Counties of New Castle, Kent, and Sussex Upon Delaware, as they used legally to exercise it in the name of the King, until a new government shall be formed, agreeable to the resolution of Congress of 15 May instant.</p><br>
<p>When the Congress issued the Declaration of Independence, it was read to the citizens of the town from the balcony on the second floor. Later in 1776, Delawares first Constitution was drafted and adopted by a convention including Read, McKean, and Nicholas Van Dyke inside the Court House. This was the first adoption of a state constitution following the issuance of the Declaration. The building served as the states first capitol until 1777, when Philadelphia and Wilmington were captured by the British. In light of the danger, Delaware&#39;s government moved south, establishing Dover as the new capital city. The building continued to house both state and federal judicial proceedings until 1888.</p><br>
<p>In 1804, when Benjamin H. Latrobe (the designer of the United States Capitol) was living in New Castle, the architect performed a survey and designed a town plan along with his apprentices Robert Mills (later designer of the Washington Monument) and William Strickland (architect of the Second Bank of the United States). The streets around the Court House were regraded so that it would loom above street level as a result of the town plan Latrobe devised. As part of this survey, the architects drew detailed images of the New Castle Court House that were used for later restorations.</p><br>
<h3>Impeachment of Samuel Chase</h3><br>
<p>In 1800, USA Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase convened a grand jury at the New Castle Court House and sought indictments against seditious newspapers under the Alien and Sedition Acts. The grand jury declined to issue any indictments, but Chase refused to release them from service, insisting he was aware of at least one seditious newspaper and ordering files of the towns newspapers brought in for the jury to review as evidence. The justice was not an impartial party, as the seditious activity he wanted indicted was a local printers criticisms of Chase himself, over the justice&#39;s attacks on free speech rights. Chase was furious at the refusal to indict, complaining "that... he could not get a single man indicted in Delaware, while he could in every other place."</p><br>
<p>In 1804, Chase became the first, and only, Justice of the Supreme Court impeached by the House. One of the eight articles of impeachment focused on the justices conduct in the New Castle Court House. Delawares USA Representative Caesar A. Rodney was one of the House&#39;s impeachment managers. The House alleged that Chase had been engaged in a witch hunt to silence Democratic opposition, and that he had abused his authority by refusing to release the grand jury in New Castle. The article of impeachment stated that Chase, "did descend from the dignity of a judge and stoop</p><br>
<p>to the level of an informer by refusing to discharge the grand jury, although entreated by several of the said jury so to do," and quoted his words to the grand jury in saying that he:</p><br>
<p>... understood "that a highly seditious temper had manifested itself in the State of Delaware among a certain class of people, particularly in Newcastle County, and more especially in the town of Wilmington, where lived a most seditious printer, unrestrained by any principle of virtue, and regardless of social order, that the name of this printer was..." --but checking himself, as if sensible of the indecorum which he was committing, added "that it might be assuming too much to mention the name of this person, but it becomes your duty, gentlemen, to inquire diligently into this matter," or words to that effect</p><br>
<p>Chase defended himself by stating that if he was aware of a federal law having been broken, it was his duty to bring it to the attention of the court. The Senate found Chase not guilty on each count of impeachment.</p><br>
<p>Though the attempt to remove Chase was unsuccessful, Rodney fared well, as he was considered the strongest speaker of the managers. The Virginia Law Register stated, "The Managers were entirely overmatched, and with the exception of Rodney, of Delaware, won no praise." He gave one of the closing arguments of the trial, in which he stated, "Give any human being judicial power for life, and annex to the exercise of it the kingly maxim that he can do no wrong, you may call him a judge or justice, no matter what is the appellation, and you transform him into a despot." Two years later, President Thomas Jefferson appointed Rodney USA Attorney General.</p><br>
<h3>Penn's heirs</h3><br>
<p>Presiding over the case was USA Judge Gunning Bedford, Jr. and Justice Samuel Chase. After hearing the legal arguments from each side, Chase determined that the repeal of the 1801 Act left the court without authority to decide the case, and he dismissed it with a memorable opinion:</p><br>
<p>The question is whether this Court now have a jurisdiction, not whether they have had. The question is very different whether Judicial power extends to a particular case & whether the jurisdiction of a particular Court embraces the case. Congress has certainly power to vary a jurisdiction created by Statute—tho not by Constitution. The question here is whether there is a statutory jurisdiction. This is to be determined by the consideration whether we are to be governed by Statute in force or repealed. The Act of 1801 is repealed without a saving. This is not an ex post facto law—it is retrospective as to rights, I agree, but against no part of the Constitution. I know that in England construction has gone a great way in construction of the words of Statutes. This doctrine I explode. If the words of Statutes are clear, I am bound, tho the provision be unjust. This I hold to be the duty of an American Judge. A Judge has in this Country only to say Sic lex est scripta. Here is a Statute which gave a jurisdiction. It has been repealed. What are we to do. No power remains. The law repealed is dead & is as if it never existed.</p><br>
<p>The Penns had Lord Gambier bring the claim up to Bayard when the two were negotiating the Treaty of Ghent, but Bayard claimed he had no authority to negotiate the issue, and the Penns made no further legal attempts at the claim.</p><br>
<h3>Garrett and Hunn trials</h3><br>
<p>One of the building&#39;s most famous of judicial proceedings was a series of trials which took place in 1848. Prominent abolitionists and Underground Railroad conductors Thomas Garrett (a close friend and ally of Harriet Tubman) and John Hunn were put on trial for violating the Fugitive Slave Act. The trial was presided over by USA Chief Justice Roger Taney. Garrett was defended by his friend USA Senator John Wales. The prosecution was handled by James A. Bayard, Jr., son of USA Senator James A. Bayard, Sr. (negotiator of the Treaty of Ghent) and grandson of Richard Bassett (one of the drafters of the USA Constitution). The trials mostly served to harden the feelings over slavery of each of the men involved.</p><br>
<p>Justice Taney&#39;s instructions to the jury left little choice but a conviction:</p><br>
<p>To entitle the plaintiff to a verdict in this case, it is necessary for him to have proved property of the slaves. This has not been contradicted by the defense. It only remains then to prove that they escaped, and that the defendant harbored them, knowing them to be slaves. It does not require absolute knowledge on the part of the defendant that these persons were slaves. If, at the time, or before he harbored them, circumstances came to his knowledge sufficient to put a prudent man upon his inquiry, it is "knowingly harboring" within the meaning of the act of Congress, and makes him liable to the penalty.</p><br>
<p>Both Garrett and Hunn were found guilty and were issued fines heavy enough to bankrupt both men. Despite the fines, Garrett and Hunn defiantly declared they would continue helping slaves escape to freedom. Upon hearing Taney&#39;s punishment, Garrett gave a speech to the courtroom in which he stated:</p><br>
<p>I now pledge myself, in the presence of this assembly, to use all lawful and honourable means to lessen the burdens of this oppressed people, and endeavour, according to ability furnished, to burst their chains asunder, and set them free; not relaxing my efforts on their behalf while blessed with health and a slave remains. After mature reflection, I can assure this assembly it is my opinion at this time that the verdicts you have given the prosecutors against John Hunn and myself, within the past few days, will have a tendency to raise a spirit of inquiry throughout the length and breadth of the land, respecting this monster evil (slavery), in many minds that have not heretofore investigated the subject. The reports of those trials will be published by editors from Maine to Texas, and the far West; and what must be the effect produced? It will, no doubt, add hundreds, perhaps thousands, to the present large and rapidly increasing army of Abolitionists. The injury is great to us who are the immediate sufferers by your verdict; but I believe the verdicts you have given against us within the last few days will have a powerful effect in bringing about the abolition of slavery in this country—this land of boasted freedom, where not only the slave is fettered at the South by his lordly master, but the white man at the North is bound as in chains to do the bidding of his Southern masters.</p><br>
<p>After the trials, Garrett corresponded with Harriet Beecher Stowe, and four years later she used the events as the inspiration for some of the scenes in her novel Uncle Toms Cabin. Garrett was the primary basis for the character of Simeon Halliday. Stowe also described the trials and recounted her correspondence with Garrett in her book A Key to Uncle Toms Cabin, where she noted, "The writer had in mind, at the time of writing, the scenes in the trial of Garret, of Wilmington, Delaware, for the crime of hiring a hack to convey a mother and four children from Newcastle jail to Wilmington." By the time the Civil War broke out, Garrett had helped 2,700 slaves escape to freedom. Hunn served with the Freedmen&#39;s Bureau, and his son was elected Delaware governor and oversaw state approval of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the Constitution.</p><br>
<p>Taney would go on to author the decision in the famous Dred Scott case in 1857, which held that blacks could not be considered American citizens. Bayard later defeated Wales again in 1850 when he won election to the Senate, where he became one of the fiercest critics of the loyalty oaths and where he voted to acquit President Andrew Johnson in his impeachment trial.</p><br>
<h2>Museum and National Park</h2><br>
<p>The Court House was opened as a museum by the state of Delaware in 1963. The building is now part of First State National Historical Park. The parks headquarters and visitors center will be located in the Sheriffs House adjacent to the Court House. The National Historical Park was created to preserve and interpret the unique history of the regions colonization by the Swedes, Dutch, and English, and Delaware&#39;s role in establishing the United States leading up to it becoming the first state.</p><br>
<p>Windsor Shades—also known as Ruffin&#39;s Ferry and Waterville—is a historic home located near Sweet Hall, King William County, Virginia. It was built about 1785, and is a 1 1/2-story, five-bay, gambrel-roofed, frame structure covered with beaded weatherboards and set on a low, English-bond brick basement. Located on the Pamunkey River, this home was at one time called "Waterville" by the owners. The house was completed in 1794 by James Ruffin. The house features massive Flemish bond brick double-stack chimneys at either end.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>In 1897 a piece of pig iron was recorded as a possession with a provenance traced to George Washington&#39;s father Augustine.</p><br>
<p>There are ruins of an older residence, with a preserved brick dated to 1600, at this same location.</p><br>
<p>West Point Historic District is a national historic district located at West Point, King William County, Virginia. The district encompasses 75 contributing buildings and 1 contributing object in the town of West Point. The district includes residential, commercial, and institutional buildings and is notable for its variety of late-19th- and early-20th-century styles and building types. Notable buildings include the William Mitchell House , Anderson-Mayo House , Ware House , St. Johns Episcopal Church , Mt. Nebo Baptist Church , West Point United Methodist Church , OConnor Hotel and annex , Treat-Medlin House , Gouldman House , First Baptist Church , USA Post Office , West Point Town Office Building, Citizens and Exchange Bank , and Beverly Allen School .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>St. Paul&#39;s Episcopal Church is an historic Episcopal church building located on High Street in Hicksville, Ohio, United States.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Based on Carpenter Gothic style designs supplied by Joseph C. Talbot, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Indiana, it was built in 1873 by Alfred Peck Edgerton, developer of Hicksville and former United States Congressman from Ohio. Although the church lacks the lancet windows usually found in Carpenter Gothic churches, it does feature the steep sloping roof, board and batten siding, rosette window and lancet-shaped front entrance that are typical of such buildings.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Consecrated on October 17, 1875, the church is still owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Ohio, although it is no longer an active parish. The building is maintained by the Hicksville Historical Society which in 1976 rescued it from a state of disrepair. It is still used occasionally for weddings and other events. On June 7, 1976, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Mohokos is the highest peak of a hill range situated in Međimurje County, northern Croatia. The hill range extends for about 20 kilometres across the northwestern part of the County  in northwest-southeast direction and represents the terminal easternmost slopes of the Alps.</p><br>
<p>As the highest elevation in the County, Mohokos lies exactly 344,4 metres above the sea level. There are meadows, vineyards, orchards and groves around it. On the top there is a stone landmark with a built-in polished plaque containing the following text: "The highest geographical point in Međimurje – Mohokos 344,4 m – 26.IX.1999".</p><br>
<p>Mohokos is a popular tourist destination, especially for many admirers of hiking, hillwalking or bicycle touring.</p><br>
<p>Farmers Bank is the first bank museum of its kind found in Virginia. Farmers Bank was incorporated in 1812 and the Petersburg, Virginia branch opened in 1817.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The three-story building, built in the Federal style, was a frequent meeting place for the community. The bank maintained operations through the American Civil War and closed by order of the Virginia General Assembly in 1866.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. It is located in the Petersburg Old Town Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>The property served various functions throughout the next hundred years, until it was acquired by Preservation Virginia in the 1960s. Preservation Virginia undertook restoration of the building, and reopened it as a museum and visitors center.</p><br>
<p>The building now houses the Petersburg Visitors Center. Visitors can see a printing press and scales for weighing gold. The living quarters on the third floor has also been restored.</p><br>
<p>The Eiskögele is a 3,426 metre high mountain in the Glockner Group in the western part of the main Tauern chain, a range of the Austrian Central Alps. It lies right on the border between the Austrian states of Salzburg, Carinthia and East Tyrol and thus forms a tripoint. The mountain has the shape of an ice-covered horn with a mighty North Face, a prominent Northeast Ridge  and a sharp firn edge  to the west. From its base, the Oberwalder Hut, it is easy to reach via the Pasterzeboden glacier. It was first climbed on 30 July 1872 by the tourist B. Lergetporer from Schwaz and mountain guides, Michel Groder and Josef Kerer. The first solo ascent of the mountain was achieved in August 1891 by Ludwig Kohn from Vienna as part of a crossing from the Schneewinkelkopf.</p><br>
<h2>Sources and maps</h2><br>
<p>Willi End: Alpine Club Guide Glocknergruppe, Bergverlag Rother, Munich, 2003,</p><br>
<p>Eduard Richter: Die Erschließung der Ostalpen, III. Band, Verlag des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenvereins, Berlin 1894</p><br>
<p>Alpine Club map 1:25.000, Sheet 40, Glocknergruppe</p><br>
<p>The Frances Building and Echo Theater in southeast Portland in the USA state of Oregon is a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1911, it was added to the register in 1994. The Frances Building is a two-story structure that faces Southeast Hawthorne Boulevard, while the Echo Theatre is a one-story structure facing Southeast 37th Avenue. The adjoining buildings, constructed as parts of a single project, are separated by a party wall.</p><br>
<p>Investor Rudolph Christman, who financed construction of the project, named the Frances Building in honor of his wife. It was the first commercial structure built along Hawthorne Boulevard between Southeast 20th and 39th avenues. Other commercial development soon followed, enhanced by the growth of nearby residential areas and construction of trolley lines to serve them. The original first floor of the Frances Building was home to a barber shop, and a dry goods store, a candy store, and a drug store. The second floor included offices and living quarters. Through many decades, commerce has continued on the first floor; seven apartments occupy the second floor.</p><br>
<p>Entered originally from Hawthorne via a passage through the Frances Building, the Echo Theater was a movie house. Facing competition from the nearby Bagdad Theater, which opened across the street in 1927, the Echo Theater closed, and its entrance was moved to 37th Avenue side. Storage and plumbing companies used the space until 1984, when it again became a theater. Do Jump!, a company of "actorbats", performs in the Echo Theater and teaches movement styles via the Do Jump Movement Theater School.</p><br>
<p>Higginson Island is a small island in the Arafura Sea lying off the north-eastern coast of Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory of Australia. It is one of the East Bremer Islets, lying to the north and east of the much larger Bremer Island.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The island has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports globally significant numbers of bridled (up to 10,000 individuals) and roseate terns (up to 30,000). The 9 ha IBA includes the other East Bremer Islets where the roseate tern colony sometimes relocates, and where large numbers of bridled terns nest regularly. There are also up to 10,000 nesting crested terns and up to 300 nesting common noddies, for which the IBA is the only known breeding site in the Northern Territory, as well as some nesting silver gulls. Tern eggs are frequently harvested by the Aboriginal traditional owners of the islands.</p><br>
<p>The Fuscherkarkopf, sometimes also written Fuscher-Kar-Kopf in German and formerly also called the Fuschereiskarkopf, is one of the twin peaks of a mountain in the Glockner Group in the centre of the main mountain chain  in the High Tauern, a range in the Austrian Central Alps. The mountain lies right on the border between the Austrian states of Salzburg and Carinthia. The main peak is 3,331 metres high, but the northwest summit is only 3,252 metres high. The two peaks are about 500 metres apart and linked by a curved firn-covered ridge. Further sharp, prominent ridges run away to the northwest and west, forming the main crest of the Tauern. To the southwest the Heiligenblut Open Face  branches off, a mighty side ridge that starts as the southeast ridge  at the Fuscherkarkopf. The northwest summit has a great, 650 metre high West Face , that used to be covered with firn, but today is covered with loose rock slabs. The mountain is easy to reach from the Hofmanns Hut over the southwest ridge  and offers a good view of the Großglockner and the Pasterze. The peak was first climbed in the 1840s by the hunter, Gregor Maier, known as Badhans, from Fusch.</p><br>
<h2>Surrounding area</h2><br>
<p>The Fuscherkarkopf is surrounded by glaciers except to the southeast. To the west lies Waterfall Corner (Wasserfallwinkel), which is the southern, lower part of the Bockkarkeeses glacier, to the north is the small Fuscherkarkees and to the west the relatively insignificant Freiwandkees. Finally, to the south is the Pasterze, the largest glacier in the Eastern Alps. The nearest mountains along the Northwest Ridge, separated by the wind gap of the Fuscherkarscharte (up to 2,841 m), are the Breitkopf (3,115 m) and, beyond that, the Middle Bärenkopf (Mittlere Bärenkopf, 3,358 m). Along the Western Ridge, that forms the main Tauern crest and is separated by a gap (Einschartung) with the name Der Rinner (3,145 m), is the Sinabeleck (3,261 m). Further east it is followed by the Kapuziner (2,852 m) and the Spielmann (3,027 m). To the southeast, along the Heiligenblut Open Face, and separated by the Freiwandscharte (2,975 m), rise the summits of the Freiwandspitz (3,034 m) and Freiwandkopf (2,854 m). South of the two peaks is the Gamsgrube, a massive, bowl-shaped cirque, 600 metres across. The nearest settlement of any importance is Heiligenblut in Carinthia, which lies about 8 kilometres away as the crow flies. A good 15 kilometres northeast lies the Salzburg village of Fusch an der Großglocknerstraße.</p><br>
<h2>Sources and maps</h2><br>
<p>Willi End: Alpenvereinsführer Glocknergruppe, Bergverlag Rother, Munich, 2003,</p><br>
<p>Eduard Richter (editor): Die Erschließung der Ostalpen, Vol III, Verlag des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenvereins, Berlin 1894</p><br>
<p>Alpine Club Map 1:25.000, Sheet 40, Glocknergruppe</p><br>
<p>Harvey House of Florence, Kansas, United States, also known under the older name of Clifton Hotel, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places  in 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The current building is part of the first Fred Harvey House, of the Fred Harvey Company, which stood south of the Santa Fe railroad tracks until the early 1900s. The existing structure was the original part of the Clifton Hotel that was erected to serve passengers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway as a permanent eating station and hotel for passengers. This Harvey House is notable, since it was the first one to provide sleeping facilities.</p><br>
<h2>TV</h2><br>
<p>Feasting on Asphalt, 2006, season 1 episode 3 titled "High Plains Feaster", 7.5 minutes of video while Alton Brown visited the Spring Fling event and Harvey House in Florence.</p><br>
<p>Ramsdell Hall is a country house in the parish of Odd Rode in Cheshire, England, overlooking the Macclesfield Canal. It was built in two phases during the 18th century, and is still in private ownership.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built during the 18th century in two phases. The central block was built in the middle of the century, and the wings were added later, probably in about 1768. It is possible that the architect for both phases was William Baker. The house continues to be in private ownership.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Ramsdell Hall is constructed in brick with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. It consists of a three-storey central block, with single-storey wings ending in two-storey pavilions. The central block has an L-shaped plan. The garden front of the central block is symmetrical and has three bays. The central bay has Venetian windows in the ground and middle floors, and a three-light window in the top floor. The lateral bays have canted bay windows rising through all three storeys. Above the top floor windows is a cornice, with a pediment above the window in the central bay. Over this is a brick parapet with ball finials. The side wings each have three bays with round-arched windows. The central bay on each side projects slightly, with pilasters and an open pediment. The pavilions also project slightly, and have Venetian windows in the lower floor, with lunette windows in the gables above. The pavilions are surmounted by circular lanterns with ogee-shaped roofs and weathervanes. To the rear of the central block is a gabled wing. The entrance to the house is at the angle of the two wings. The interior contains an octagonal dining room, a hexagonal hall, and a drawing room with a Rococo ceiling. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building. The architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "a curious house", while the architectural writers Figueirdo and Treuherz say it is "an appealingly quirky house".</p><br>
<h2>Associated structures</h2><br>
<p>There are two structures associated with the house that have been listed at Grade II. The gate piers date from the early 18th century, and the gates from the later part of the same century. The piers are in rusticated yellow sandstone ashlar. The gate piers and gates were moved to the house in the 1950s by Stanley Harrison, the owner of the house at that time. Immediately to the east of the hall is a two-storey timber-framed house, originating in the 16th century, with later additions and alterations. The timber-framing infill is a mixture of brick and wattle and daub.</p><br>
<p>Castles Camp is a univallate Iron Age hill fort in the Taunton Deane district of Somerset, England. The hill fort is situated approximately 1 mi west from the village of Bathealton. A few trees a scattered around the camp&#39;s defences along with Roman coins being found in previous years.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the first millennium BC. The reason for their emergence in Britain, and their purpose, has been a subject of debate. It has been argued that they could have been military sites constructed in response to invasion from continental Europe, sites built by invaders, or a military reaction to social tensions caused by an increasing population and consequent pressure on agriculture. The dominant view since the 1960s has been that the increasing use of iron led to social changes in Britain. Deposits of iron ore were located in different places to the tin and copper ore necessary to make bronze, and as a result trading patterns shifted and the old elites lost their economic and social status. Power passed into the hands of a new group of people. Archaeologist Barry Cunliffe believes that population increase still played a role and has stated " provided defensive possibilities for the community at those times when the stress burst out into open warfare. But I wouldn&#39;t see them as having been built because there was a state of war. They would be functional as defensive strongholds when there were tensions and undoubtedly some of them were attacked and destroyed, but this was not the only, or even the most significant, factor in their construction".</p><br>
<p>Buckelew Mansion, also known as Lakeview, is a historic home in Jamesburg, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It now serves as a museum of local history and the headquarters of the Jamesburg Historical Association.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A single room at its creation in 1685, the residence expanded over following centuries to become the 23 room mansion it is today. The single-story structure became two during the ownership of James Buckelow, who took up residence with his new wife in 1829 and expanded the house to accommodate his growing family and reflect his community prestige. A third story was added during the 1870s.</p><br>
<p>The mansion was listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places in 1979 as the Ensley-Mount-Buckalew House.</p><br>
<p>The Granatspitze is the mountain giving its name to the Granatspitze Group in the High Tauern, the Alpine backbone of Austria. This, despite the fact that several peaks in this group are actually higher, for example the Stubacher Sonnblick which is less than a kilometre to the north and two metres higher. But, unlike, its oft-climbed neighbour, the Granatspitze is more rarely frequented due to the level of difficulty of the ascent. The steep summit block of this striking peak is made of granite.</p><br>
<h2>Ascent</h2><br>
<p>The easiest ascent runs from Rudolfs Hut initially westwards towards the notch of the Granatscharte, turning south in front of it to continue along the East Ridge (Ostgrat) to the summit. This route takes about 3 hours and has a climbing grade of II-. Another option is offered by the North Ridge (Nordgrat) with its several pinnacles or rock towers (Grattürme), but this is more difficult, albeit still II-. The South Ridge is also an option, especially from the East Tyrolean side. This can be reached from the Karl Fürst Hut, an emergency shelter west of the Stubacher Sonnblick, crossing the Prägratkees glacier, which has several difficult crevasses at the notch of Untere Keeswinkelscharte (II-).</p><br>
<h2>Sources and maps</h2><br>
<p>Geord Zlöbl: Die Dreitausender Osttirols im Nationalpark Hohe Tauern. Verlag Grafik Zloebl, Lienz-Tristach 2005,</p><br>
<p>Alpine Club map sheet 39, 1:25.000, Granatspitzgruppe. Österreichischer Alpenverein, 2002,</p><br>
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<p>The General Squier Memorial Park is a park located at 4725 South Mill Road in Dryden Township in southeastern Lapeer County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan Historic Site on June 6, 1977 and later added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 5, 1986 as the Dryden Community Country Club–General Squier Historic Park Complex. The site is also known locally as the General George Squier Club or General Squier County Park.</p><br>
<p>The oldest structure on the 80 acre (33 hectare) site is a three-story timber mill dating to 1871. Other structures include a large single-story structure known as Forest Hall and a cottage, both built in 1917, and a two-story wooden lookout tower and tea house built in 1920. Other structures also contribute to the sites architecture. The complex served as the summer residence of Dryden native Major General George Owen Squier (1865–1934). After retiring from active military service, Squier converted his property into Lapeer Countys first (and only) privately owned park—what he referred to as a free "Country Club for Country People." When he died, the property was renamed in his honor and continues to this day as a free recreational facility, which now includes a waterpark situated next to the old mill.</p><br>
<p>Shotwick Hall is a former manor house in the village of Shotwick, Cheshire, England. It replaced an earlier manor house that stood on a moated site some 150 metres to the west. The hall and four associated structures are listed buildings, and the moated site is a Scheduled Monument.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1662 for Joseph Hockenhull, replacing an older fortified manor house. Internal alterations were made during the 20th century. The hall is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>Shotwick Hall is a small house constructed in brick. It has red sandstone quoins, a Welsh slate roof, and large brick chimneys. The house has an E-shaped plan with two storeys and attics. The front is symmetrical with five bays. The lateral bays are wide and project forward; they have plain brick gables with finials. The central bay is much narrower and also projects forward, forming a two-storey porch. It has a stepped stone gable. Between the floors is a dentil brick band. Above the upper floor windows is a band that rises over the windows to form a hood mould. The windows date from the 20th century and have wooden mullions and transoms. The window above the door has two lights; all the other windows on the front have three.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>The front door leads to a small hall with a Jacobean-style open well staircase. This has pierced flat balusters, moulded handrails and square newels. Under the staircase the plaster ceiling has a moulded frieze decorated with fleur-de-lis and lions. In one of the rooms are the arms of Shotwick quartered with those of Hockenhull and bearing the date 1662.</p><br>
<h2>Associated external features</h2><br>
<p>In front of the house is a square garden surrounded by brick walls with red sandstone dressings. The front wall has a pair of central gate piers, piers at the corners, and intermediate piers. The corner and intermediate piers have moulded capstones. The gate piers are taller and are surmounted by ball finials. The north wall is plain with a stone coping; the south wall has a ramp, buttresses internally, and a gateway has been inserted. The walls and gate piers are listed at Grade II*. Three structures nearby are listed at Grade II. Attached to the northeast corner of the hall is a brick two-storey building dating from the late 17th century, with later alterations. This was formerly a kitchen and bakehouse. To the north of the hall is a brick two-storey stable dating from the later part of the 17th century that is derelict and roofless. Further to the north is an L-shaped brick building dating from the early 18th and early 19th centuries consisting of a threshing barn and shippons (cowsheds). Some 150 metres to the west of the hall is a moated site formerly occupied by the earlier hall.</p><br>
<p>The Ohio Theatre is located at 3114 Lagrange St in the Toledo’s Polish International Village of Toledo, Ohio. Built in 1921, it is Toledo’s last operating neighborhood theatre. This three-story brick and stone masonry building comprises 8,000 ft&sup2; and features stadium seating, the original Mighty 90 carbon arc 35mm movie projectors, and the Marr and Colton pipe organ originally installed in the razed Rivoli Theatre in downtown Toledo. The theatre has a spacious 40’ by 60’ thrust stage with a 10’ by 20’ orchestra platform. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Ohio Theatre is located in Toledo’s Polish International Village on Lagrange Street, the center of Toledo’s largest concentration of people of Polish ancestry for over 130 years. The Ohio Theatre is a tremendous neighborhood asset and historical treasure that contributes to the uniqueness of the Lagrange Street business district. For generations, the Ohio Theatre has been a source of entertainment for Toledo area residents — from vaudeville and silent films, to movies and weekly serials, and even performing arts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Ohio Theatre was built by the Lagrange Street Amusement Company, opening its doors on February 28, 1921, featuring the Douglas Fairbanks film, The Mark of Zorro. Admission, including the War Tax, was 25 cents for adults and 15 cents for children. It was the largest neighborhood theatre in the country at the time.</p><br>
<p>It is best remembered as a movie house and remains Toledo’s only historic operating neighborhood theatre. In 1929 Toledo had 41 indoor movie houses. While the country was experiencing the Great Depression, movie houses such as the Ohio Theatre offered quite an entertainment value. The Ohio Theatre still features the original deluxe red brick façade with Greek columns, a loading dock with overhead doors, the original wood seats with the original aisle lighting, the original side wall sconces and the original projection booth with a newsreel work bench. It has the same footprint as when it was built in 1921.</p><br>
<p>The Lagrange Street Amusement Company was dissolved by court order in 1923 and sold at public auction to Rosa Bialorucki, the only bidder and one of the five investors in the Lagrange Street Amusement Company. The Bialorucki family owned the theatre until 1974 when it was acquired by the Catholic Diocese of Toledo. It was sold to the Ohio Theatre, Inc., a non-profit management board in 2004, and sold again in 2009 to United North, formerly known as the Lagrange Development Corporation, a non-profit community development corporation.</p><br>
<h2>Notable events</h2><br>
<p>1928 the movie Louise and the Haunted House required crowd control with people standing in line from 1 to 9 pm on New Year’s Day.</p><br>
<p>1950 Dale Evans, Roy Rogers and Trigger (Roy’s horse) appeared at the Ohio Theatre.</p><br>
<p>1953 the twin billing of The Long, Long Trailer starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and Cheaper by the Dozen is the Ohio Theatre’s all-time biggest movie draw.</p><br>
<p>1960 the Democratic Party rented the Ohio Theatre for John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign.</p><br>
<p>The Toledo Area Theatre Organ Society has had their headquarters at the Ohio Theatre since 1977, and since 1985 has featured the former Rivoli Theatre’s Marr and Colton theatre pipe organ.</p><br>
<p>In the 1990s, the Ohio Theatre hired professional children’s theatre groups to develop programs to allow area children to perform in one-act plays.</p><br>
<p>The Ohio Theatre has hosted the Moscow Boys Choir, the Warsaw Wind Quartet, Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple starring Jamie Farr and William Christopher, Mickey Rooney and his wife Jan Chamberlin, and the infam</p><br>
<p>The Hinterer Bratschenkopf is a mountain in the Glockner Group on the Fusch-Kaprun ridge  in the High Tauern, a high mountain range in the Austrian Central Alps. According to the listed sources it is 3,412 metres high, but the Austrian Federal Office for Metrology and Survey gives its height as 3,413 metres. The mountain lies in the Austrian state of Salzburg. It appears from the north, east and south as a gently curved firn summit, but from the west it has a mighty, 1,400 metre high and 40 to 60° rock face. A steep, 500 metre long knife-edge ridge bears away from the mountaintop to the north. Due to its close proximity to the Heinrich Schwaiger Haus, the summit is a popular viewing point. The peak was first climbed on 18 September 1869 by the Munich Alpinist, Karl Hofmann, the Prague businessman, Johann Stüdl, and mountain guides Thomas Groder and Josef Schnell from Kals am Großglockner.</p><br>
<h2>Origin of the name</h2><br>
<p>The name "Hinterer Bratschenkopf" was given to the mountain in 1871 on the recommendation of the Imperial and Royal Austrian survey officer, Major Joseph Pelikan, of Plauenwald. On the old Tauern map by Franz Keil dating to 1855 the peak was still described as the Glockerin, which went back to Karl Sonklar and Johann Stüdl, whilst the peak known today as the Klockerin was still unknown then. The word bratschen in German means the broken piles of calc-schist rock often found at height in the High Tauern.</p><br>
<p>The names of the surrounding mountains were rather confusing. "Kleiner", "Mittlerer", "Großer" and "Vorderer Bärenkopf" (i.e. "Little", "Middle", "Great" and "Fore") were designations arbitrarily given to different peaks and, in some cases, the same peaks. Not until the 1891 Alpine Club map was issued was there an authoritative allocation of names, that gave a recognised schema for Alpinists and reduced the then common difficulties of orientation and mistakes in climbing and surveying.</p><br>
<h2>Surrounding area</h2><br>
<p>The Hinterer Bratschenkopf is ringed by glaciers. To the northeast lies the little Kaindlkees glacier, to the east is the accumuluation zone of the Teufelsmühlkees which reaches to just below the summit. To the south lies the Bratschenkopfkees and, in the west, below the mighty West Face, the (Untere) Klockerinkees. Important neighbouring peaks are:</p><br>
<p>the Vordere Bratschenkopf (3,401 m) on the Southeast Ridge (Südostgrat) separated by the notch of the Bratschenkopfscharte (3,383 m)</p><br>
<p>the Klockerin (3,425 m) on the other side of the 3,295 metre high ice divide between the Bratschenkopfkees and Oberes Klockerinkees.</p><br>
<p>The highest mountain in the area, the Großes Wiesbachhorn (3,564 m), lies away to the northeast. The nearest significant settlement is Fusch an der Großglocknerstraße, just under 11 kilometres to the north as the crow flies. To the northwest the Hinterer Bratschenkopf falls steeply to the dam of the Mooserboden.</p><br>
<h2>Bases and tours</h2><br>
<p>The trail blazed by the Alpinists in 1869 runs from the Kaprun side, i.e. from the north, over the glacier saddle with the misleading name of Wielingerscharte ("Wielingen Notch") to the top. This route is still the standard one used today. The Hinterer Bratschenkopf can only be reached as part of a high Alpine tour, and appropriate equipment and glacier experience are necessary. The Heinrich Schwaiger Haus (2,802 m) acts as a base and lies to the east above the Mooserboden valley. From the hut, the trail runs in a southeasterly direction up to the Oberen Fochezkopf (3,159 m), over the firn-covered Kaindlgrat ridge on the upper Wielingerkees glacier, past the foot of the West Ridge of the Wiesbachhorn (Wiesbachhorn-Westgrat), then southwards over the so-called Wielingerscharte to the Bratschenkopfscharte and up to the summit cross of the Hinterer Bratschenkopf. According to the literature, the journey takes about 2 to 3 hours, depending on the conditions. Another option is the easy firn ascent from the southeast. More difficult climbs run from the Schwarzenberg Hut (2,267 m) to the south, over the Hochgruberkees and Bratschenkopfkees as an ice tour up the South Flank with gradients of 40 to 60°. Climbing routes of grade UIAA III run up the steep North Ridge (Nordgrat), a climb of 620 metres. Routes of up to about UIAA grade III+ difficulty and 1,300 metres in height run up the West Face, first conquered in 1928, but there is a high risk there of falling rocks.</p><br>
<p>The Perth Amboy Ferry Slip, located on Arthur Kill in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States, was once a vital ferry slip for boats in New York Harbor.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The ferry slip was restored in 1998 to its 1904 appearance. A replica of the ticket office has been constructed and is used as a small museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Perth Amboy is located at the mouth of the Raritan River at the Raritan Bay, an arm of the Lower New York Bay. Perth Amboy served as the capital from 1686 until 1776. In 1684, it became the capital of East Jersey and remained so after the union of East and West Jersey in 1702, becoming an alternate colonial capital with Burlington until 1776. Ferry service at the site dates back to 1684. During the colonial era and for a long thereafter, Perth Amboy was an important way-station for travel between New York City and Philadelphia. The slip was later used to transport newly arrived immigrants from Ellis Island, many of whom remained in the town.</p><br>
<p>The native Lenape provided crossings to settlers as early as 1680.</p><br>
<p>The longest-running ferry service crossed the Arthur Kill to Tottenville, Staten Island, with regular service beginning in 1709. or 1719 operated by Christopher Billopp Steam service was introduced late 19th century by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and ran until 1943, and was served by the Staten Island Railway at the Tottenville Station. In the early motoring age the ferry was an important link for travelers to the Jersey Shore It became less important with the 1928 opening of the Outerbridge Crossing, but continued operating until 1963.</p><br>
<p>The Northampton County Courthouse Historic District is a nine-acre historic district in Northampton County, Virginia, in the United States. The district is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Three buildings are located on the property: A courthouse and a clerk&#39;s office , and a prison . The buildings house documents dating back to 1632. It is included in the Eastville Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse was constructed by John Marshall in 1731 at the cost of 50,000 pounds of tobacco. Built in the Flemish bond style, the brick building measured approximately 35 feet by 23 feet. The Clerk&#39;s Office was built adjacent to the courthouse. It features diagonally-battened door fastens and an unusual assortment of variously sized paving stones.</p><br>
<p>The building remained in use through 1795, when another courthouse was constructed nearby. It was then turned into a storehouse for a rent of $1 per year, on the condition that the new lessee would fund a new roof for the building.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>The court house remained in the possession of the original lessee and his descendants until it was purchased by the county in 1913 for $4,000. Preservation Virginia had the building moved to its current location, near the Clerks Office. Using funds from the County of Northampton, the local Preservation Virginia Branch, and a grant from the parent Preservation Virginia, the 1731 Courthouse, Clerks Office, and the Debtor&#39;s Prison underwent extensive repair in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>The buildings are owned by the County of Northampton, Virginia. The Northampton Historic Preservation Society (formerly the Northampton Branch of Preservation Virginia) works as an advocate with County Supervisors and personnel to maintain the preservation of the entire Eastville Court Green and its buildings. The courthouse includes a museum, which along with the three buildings is open daily during regular business hours from April through October.</p><br>
<p>The Eastville Court Green is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (2009) and the Virginia Landmarks Register (2009).</p><br>
<p>Hatula is an early Neolithic archeological site in the Judean hills south of Latrun, beside Nahal Nachshon, in Israel, 20 km west of Jerusalem. The site is 15 m above the riverbed on a rocky slope in an alluvial valley. Excavations revealed three levels of occupation in the Natufian, Khiamian and PPNA .</p><br>
<p>The site was excavated in eight seasons between 1981 and 1990 by Monique Lechevallier of the CNRS and Avraham Ronen from the University of Haifa. They unearthed a semi-circular dwelling with burial in the latest period. The site was suggested to have been a hunting station for flocks of gazelle. Radiocarbon dates for the site suggest habitation between 10150 and 9320 BC by semi-sedentary groups. Evidence suggested domesticated dogs were present at the site. Study of the lithic industry suggested the Khiamian was an adaptation of the Natufian in the area. Evidence of an accomplished bone industry were found but no signs of any grinding tools, art objects or building materials in the earliest two levels indicating a short term settlement pattern.</p><br>
<p>Archeaobotanical samples were taken from the Khiamian and Sultanian periods for phytolith analysis. This gave evidence of wheat at the site, along with an unidentified grass whose seeds were possibly a food source, both of which suggested that cereals may have been part of the Natufian economy in Hatula. Changes in morphology of cells from husks of the grasses suggest a larger seed content, possibly due to increased exploitation, in the Sultanian.</p><br>
<p>The Johannisberg  is a 3,453 m high mountain in the Glockner Group of the High Tauern, a mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps in Austria.</p><br>
<p>The peak is located in the central section of the main Tauern crest, right on the border between the Austrian states of Salzburg and Carinthia, near the tripoint with East Tyrol. It was given its present name in honour of Archduke John of Austria by the Regensburg botanist David Heinrich Hoppe in 1832, on the occasion of a failed attempt to advance into the area beyond the Riffltor (3,094 m). The Johannisberg has, seen from the east, a firn-capped dome shape, its western side consists of a mighty, 450 metre high and 50° inclined West Face. Long, prominent, knife-edge ridges radiate away from it to the northwest and southwest. The mountain is a popular destination for walkers and climbers due to its easy accessibility.</p><br>
<p>Cholesbury Manor House which is close to the centre of Cholesbury, Buckinghamshire is where the Lord of the Manor held his Court periodically between 1599 and 1607. The building dates back to the end of the 16th century. It is a Grade II Listed Building.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Manor House at Cholesbury was most probably built towards the end of the 16th century. It is a two storey, Grade II listed building. Originally constructed of wood, it has retained its timber framework but acquired a brick casing in the 18th century. It is suggested by English Heritage that the original building was much larger than it is today, consisting probably only the cross-wing of a once much larger house.</p><br>
<p>The house was built on an area previously occupied by a section or rampart which formed part of the ringwork of Cholesbury Camp, an Iron Age hillfort. Also, close by the house and within the boundary of the hillfort is St Lawrences Church.</p><br>
<p>Today the house still retains much of the original roof structures and timber interior structure, an older thin brick chimney stack at the west end of the building and a much more modern chimney at the east end. Major refurbishment work in 2011 has retained the extant original features and removed or renovated the more modern additions.</p><br>
<h2>Occupants</h2><br>
<p>The building has not been used as a Manor House on a continuous basis since the 17th century. The manor court or court leet met infrequently and by 1836 its residual powers had in effect been sequestrated by the Cholesbury Parish vestry. Census records during the 19th century indicate it was occupied by the David Newton a veteran royal marine who fought at the Battle of Trafalgar. In the early part of the 20th century it was lived in by Thomas Robinson, the retired miller of Cholesbury Windmill.</p><br>
<h2>Lords of the Manor</h2><br>
<p>The manor of Cholesbury is not recorded in the Domesday Book and was first recorded in the 13th century as Chelwardisbyry. In 1086 it was, most likely, included within the manor of Draitone (Drayton Beauchamp), which according to the Victoria County History for Buckinghamshire was under the control of Magno le Breton and was assessed at 6 hides, and 3 virgates.</p><br>
<p>Prior to the Conquest the manor which contained the lands known then as Chelwardisbyry had been overseen by Aluric a thane or servant of King Edward I. The le Breton family stewarded the lands for King William I and those that succeeded him to the Crown of England for almost two hundred years. The manor of Cholesbury was first recorded in a conveyances of 1248 and another in 1251 to Hughle le Breton who was living in Wolverton. Thomas Perot was keeper of the manor in 1330. His name lives on to this day as Parrott&#39;s Farm. The next mention was in 1362 certifying it was in the hands of Mary the Dowager Countess of Norfolk.</p><br>
<p>Thomas was the first of several in the Cheyne family who resided nearby at Chenies and Chesham Bois and become Lord of the Manor in 1384. In 1541 the manor at Cholesbury was sold to Chief Justice Baldwin by Robert Cheyne. and was subsequently sold in 1571 by John Baldwin to Robert Maldred Thomas Stile, who was an attorney of the Court of King&#39;s Bench. The ownership of Cholesbury passed via several families including the Hobys and Sayers through marriage between 1666 and 1689 when Mary Sayer married her second husband Loftus Brightwell. John Seare was Lord of the Manor in 1650 and was the first to be at the same time, Lords of both the manor of Cholesbury and the neighbouring manor of Hawridge. It was passed to Richard Seare in 1712 and until his death in 1714 when his son John took over, selling it in 1748 to Robert Darell. Edward Darell bequeathed the manorship in 1813 to his nephew the Rev. John Jeffreys, Rector of Barnes, Surrey. His son the Rev. H. A. Jeffreys the Rector of Hawkhurst, Kent inherited it and on his death in 1899 the lordship was bought by Mr. Henry J. Turner, J.P., the first Lord of the Manor to reside within the area for 200 years at Braziers End House. The Turner family lived in the village until 1935 when the manor was sold to Malcolm Stewart. Henry Moore took it on after the Second World War in 1948 and it was purchased from him by John Randall in 1953. After his death in 1979 Elma Randall became the first female Lord of the Manor before it was bought by Dennis Smith in 1982. From 1987 the Lordship was held jointly by Michael Smith and Christine Stott, and from 1996 solely by Christine Stott.</p><br>
<p>The Kearny Cottage is a historic home in Perth Amboy, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It is open to the public as a historic house museum and is operated by Kearny Cottage Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1781, it was originally located on High Street but was moved to Sadowski Parkway when the last Kearny descendent died in the 1920s. The building was later moved again to where it now stands at 63 Catalpa Avenue, just inland from the mouth of the Raritan River. The four-room cottage is a museum operated by Kearny Cottage Historical Society and serves as a repository for many items donated by citizens of Perth Amboy reflecting the maritime history of its owners and the city. A colonial garden is located on the grounds.</p><br>
<p>The cottage was home Elizabeth Lawrence Kearny, the poet Lady Scribblerus, and Michael Kearny. Their son, Lawrence Kearny was born and died in the house. Commodore Kearny was famous for his open door trade policy with China and he was known as “the Sailor Diplomat.”</p><br>
<p>The house is listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places and National Register of Historic Places as the Lawrence Kearny House</p><br>
<p>The Tower of Jericho is an 8.5 m stone structure, built in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A period around 8000 BCE. It is among the earliest stone monuments of mankind.</p><br>
<p>The Wall of Jericho was discovered by John Garstang during the excavations of 1930 to 1936, which he suggested were those described in the Book of Joshua in the Bible and dated to around 1400 BCE. Kathleen Kenyon discovered the tower built against the wall inside the town during excavations between 1952 and 1958, in trench I. Kenyon provided evidence that both constructions dated much earlier, to the Neolithic, which is the latest part of the Stone Age, and were part of an early proto-city.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The tower was constructed using undressed stones, with an internal staircase of twenty two steps. Conical in shape, the tower is almost 9 m in diameter at the base, decreasing to 7 m at the top with walls approximately 1.5 m thick. The construction of the tower is estimated to have taken 11,000 working days.</p><br>
<h2>Purpose</h2><br>
<p>The Tower has been interpreted as a fortification, an anti-flooding system, a ritual centre and a political symbol of communal power and territorial claim.</p><br>
<p>Recent studies by Ran Barkai and Roy Liran from Tel Aviv University have suggested astronomical and social purposes in the construction of the tower. Showing an early example of archaeoastronomy, they used computer modelling to determine that the shadow of nearby mountains first hit the tower on the sunset of the summer solstice and then spread across the entire town. Noting that there were no known invasions of the area at the time of construction, the defensive purpose of the tower, wall and ditch at Jericho has been brought into question. No burials were found and suggestions of it being a tomb have been dismissed.</p><br>
<p>Discussing in the Jerusalem Post, Barkai argued that the structure was used to create awe and inspiration to convince people into a harder way of life with the development of agriculture and social hierarchies. He concluded with, "We believe this tower was one of the mechanisms to motivate people to take part in a communal lifestyle."</p><br>
<p>The Metamora Crossroads Historic District is a historic district centered at the intersection of Oak and High Street in the small village of Metamora in Metamora Township in Lapeer County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site and also added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1984.</p><br>
<p>The historic district comprises 3.5 acres (1.4 hectares) and 15 buildings and one non-contributing property. These structures consist of various functions and architecture, including Greek Revival, Gothic Revival, and Italianate architecture. Most of the buildings were built between 1850–1910, and several of them still retain their original purpose. The White Horse Inn, located at 1 East High Street, is promoted as Michigans oldest continually running restaurant since first opening in 1850. Founded in 1838, Metamora itself served as a pioneer way station for travelers and grew to become the center of the townships prosperity. Development of this core area ceased prior to World War I, preserving the early architecture.</p><br>
<p>The Glocknerwand is a mountain in the Glockner Group in the Austrian Central Alps in the central region of the High Tauern. According to the literature it is 3,721 metres high, but the Austria Federal Office for Metrology and Survey gives its height as 3,722 metres. It is separated from Austria&#39;s highest peak, the neighbouring Großglockner, by the col known as the Untere Glocknerscharte . The mountain lies on the boundary between East Tyrol and Carinthia.</p><br>
<p>The Glocknerwand is a massive, fan-shaped mountain, that has very steep, over 400 metre high rock faces to the southwest and northeast. The summit region is covered with thick snowdrifts, that make its ascent dangerous and unpredictable. The towers of the Glocknerwand are therefore considered the most difficult summits to climb in the entire Glockner Group.</p><br>
<p>The Hunter Estuary Wetlands comprise a group of associated wetlands at and near the mouth of the Hunter River in the city of Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia. Some 30 km of the wetlands has been recognised as being of international importance by designation under the Ramsar Convention. It was listed on 21 February 1984 as Ramsar site 287. A larger area of the wetlands has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area . The wetlands are recognised as the most important area in New South Wales for waders, or shorebirds.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<h3>Ramsar site</h3><br>
<p>The Ramsar site comprises the Kooragang Nature Reserve and the nearby Shortland Wetlands, which are connected by a wildlife corridor that includes the Hunter River and Ironbark Creek. Kooragang Island is an artificial, estuarine island liable to flooding at high tide. Its habitats include mangroves, brackish and freshwater swamps, saltmarsh, Casuarina forest, mudflats, beaches and rock walls. The site is important for migratory waders and the mangroves are important for fish. Surrounding areas are used for livestock grazing and heavy industry.</p><br>
<p>Shortland is a small (45 ha) complex of various wetland types that was added to the Ramsar site in 2002. It contains Melaleuca swamp forest, freshwater reed marsh, and a mangrove-lined creek, surrounded by urban development. The previously degraded wetlands have been restored through the establishment of the Shortland Wetlands Centre (now the Hunter Wetlands Centre Australia) in 1984.</p><br>
<h3>Important Bird Area</h3><br>
<p>The 85 km IBA includes, as well as the Ramsar-listed areas, the Hexham Swamp, Pambalong and Newcastle Wetlands Nature Reserves. It was identified as an IBA because the swamps and the estuary support the endangered Australasian bittern and over 1% of the world populations of chestnut teal, straw-necked ibis, red-necked avocet, eastern curlew, sharp-tailed sandpiper and sometimes Latham&#39;s snipe.</p><br>
<p>Somerford Booths Hall is a grade II* listed country house in the parish of Somerford Booths, Cheshire, England, 3 km northwest of Congleton on the bank of the River Dane.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was built in 1612 as a moated dwelling for Edmund Swetenham. After several generations of Swetenhams the ownership passed in 1768 to Roger Cumberbatch, who then assumed the name and arms of Swetenham. The house was improved for Clement Swetenham in 1817 by John Webb. After several more generations the house was sold in the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>During much of the 20th century the house has been used as offices. In 2010 planning permission was granted to restore it for residential use.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is constructed in rendered brick, with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. It has an E-shaped plan and is in two storeys plus attics. The entrance front is symmetrical in five bays, the central and lateral bays projecting forwards. The central bay comprises a porch, containing a doorway with a lintel inscribed with "Edmund Swetenham" and the date 1612. Above this is a four-light window with mullions and a transom. At the top of the bay is a small gable with ball finials at the sides and apex. The recessed bays on each sides of the porch, and the projecting lateral wings, have five-light windows in the ground floor and four-light windows in the upper storey. The lateral wings are gabled and have ball finials. Behind and above the projecting wings is the attic floor that contains three gables, each with a three-light window and more ball finials. The left side of the house has four bays, three of which are gabled. In the ground floor are four sets of French windows; the upper floor contains sash windows. At the rear are five symmetrical bays, the central bay having a flat parapet, the others being gabled. The central bay contains a single-storey bay window. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>Bennett Cockayne House is a historic home located at Glen Dale, Marshall County, West Virginia. It was built about 1850, in a vernacular I-house style. It is a two-story, wood-frame building with wooden clapboard siding and a slate roof. Also on the property are a contributing supply shed  and water pump . It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Built by Moundsville postmaster Bennett Cockayne c. 1850, the Cockayne house served as the first school house in what would later be known as the town of Glen Dale, WV. Samuel A. J. purchased sheep, cattle, hogs and other livestock from distant farms in order to produce the finest product.</p><br>
<p>In 1877, the farm was published in what some historians now consider to be “the most extraordinary county atlas produced in the Nineteenth-Century” when a lithograph of the farm was included in the Illustrated Atlas of the Upper Ohio River Valley from Pittsburgh to Cincinnati. Samuel A. J. and his wife, Hannah Jane Alexander, whom he married in 1863, continued to work the farm for the rest of their lives and by the time their son, Samuel A., inherited the farmhouse and most of the farm in 1917, it had been renamed Glendale Farm.</p><br>
<p>Samuel A. carried on the farming tradition of the family and earned the designation of “county wool dealer” in 1917. He gathered wool from local farmers and, combined with his own wool, distributed products to eastern markets. In 1924, Samuel A. oversaw the naming of the town of Glen Dale in honor of the farm and, in the 1930s, he became a member of the Washington District board of education and postmaster of the city of Glen Dale.</p><br>
<p>Samuel A.&#39;s son, Samuel A. J., took over the running of the family farm after serving in the military in World War II. After the war, and following the death of his parents, Samuel A. J. became increasingly reclusive. Although he continued to farm the land, until he sold part of it in order to make way for John Marshall High School in 1965, he chose to spend the majority of his life in only two rooms of the mansion. The house remained in the nineteenth century style, and now features over 1,500 family relics such as photographs and oil paintings of early descendants, a square grand piano complete with original bill of sale issued in 1881, books dating from the 1700s, handwritten letters from the 1800s and handmade furniture from over 200 years ago.</p><br>
<p>Samuel A. J. donated the house and its contents upon his passing in 2001. The city immediately began a partnership with the Marshall County Historical Society, aiding and expediting the efforts of the community to document, preserve and restore the Cockayne properties. The first major accomplishment of the Cockayne Historical Preservation Committee, which works within the Marshall County Historical Society, was the induction of the Cockayne Property into the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>The Teufelshorn is a mountain in the Glockner Group in the Austrian Central Alps in the central part of the High Tauern. According to the literature it is 3,677 metres high, but the Austrian Federal Office for Metrology and Survey gives its height as 3,680 metres. It lies on the Northwest Ridge  of Austria&#39;s highest peak, the neighbouring Großglockner, along which the border between the Austrian federal states of Tyrol  and Carinthia runs. The Teufelshorn has a turret-like summit that juts about 30 metres above the massif itself and, together with the nearby and similar-looking Glocknerhorn , forms a twin peak. The Teufelshorn was first climbed on 8 August 1884 by Moriz von Kuffner, guided by Christian Ranggetiner and E. Rubesoier. The 3,680 metre high Glocknerhorn, by contrast, had already been conquered on 29 August 1879 by the Alpinists, Gustav Gröger and Christian Ranggetiner.</p><br>
<p>The Admonter Reichenstein is a mountain in the Ennstal Alps and the highest and easternmost peak in the Reichenstein Group. An ascent of the mountain requires climbing ability sufficient to handle UIAA grade II climbs.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>The Admonter Reichenstein has three summits. From west to east these are: the Admonter Horn, the Reichenstein main summit and the Totenköpfl. The Admonter Horn is separated from the main summit by the Reichenstein Saddle (Reichensteinsattel, ). The Totenköpfl is separated from the main summit by the notch of the Reichensteinscharte. The mountain is surrounded on all sides by steep rock faces and drops. The Reichenstein is separated from the Sparafeld in the west by the wind gap of the Wildscharte.</p><br>
<p>The Großer Sonnblick or Malteiner Sonnblick, a mountain with a height of, is a peak in the Ankogel Group of the Hohe Tauern range in Austria. It is the easternmost peak of the Alps with a prominence over 100 metres that exceeds a height of 3,000 m.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The summit is located about in a distance of 18 km northwest of Gmünd and ca. 8.5 km northeast of the Hochalmspitze. The normal ascent route that is quite flat in the upper stages from the Gmünder Hut, is not difficult when conditions are dry and free of snow, but it is quite tiring to climb due to the large difference in height that has to be over come (some 1,900 metres). As there are no signposts or markings, good orientation is needed for this tour. In good weather there is an outstanding view from the top to the Großer Hafner and the Hochalmspitze.</p><br>
<p>The Großer Sonnblick has a prominence of 133 m and an isolation of 2,820 m to the Großer Hafner.</p><br>
<h2>Ascent</h2><br>
<p>The normal route takes about 5-6 hours from the Gmünder Hut initially along a forest track to the unmanaged Ochsen Hut, then over the footbridge of a stream (from here level) northwards across grassy slopes, steep in places to an alm bottom near the lake of Kleiner Melniksee. Next the route heads northwest through a blockfield up to a cirque south of the &#39;Middle Sonnblick, over a steep, scree slope into a col and finally in a southwesterly direction along the rocky summit ridge (sure-footedness needed) to the highest point.</p><br>
<h2>Neighbouring peak</h2><br>
<p>East of the Großer Sonnblick lies the sub-peak of Mittlerer Sonnblick. The two summits are linked by a ridge that can be negotiated without the need for climbing.</p><br>
<p>The British Methodist Episcopal  Church, Salem Chapel was founded in 1820 by African-American freedom seekers in St. Catharines, Ontario. It is located at 92 Geneva St., in the heart of Old St. Catharines. The church is a valued historical site due to its design, and its important associations with abolitionist activity.</p><br>
<p>The church has a congregation of approximately 20 people, and a Sunday worship service takes place at 11:00 am. Guided tours of the church and museum, which displays original documents, artifacts, and a rare book collection, all associated with the anti-slavery movement, are available by appointment.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Salem Chapel was an important centre of abolitionist and civil rights activity, and was the cornerstone of a growing community of African-American refugees from the United States. The most famous and celebrated member of the church was Harriet Tubman, who lived in the area from 1851-1858, and led many fugitives to freedom via the Underground Railroad (UGGR) to St. Catharines, Ontario.</p><br>
<p>As of 1851, the church was known as Bethel Chapel, AME Church, and resided in a small log building which was constructed by black freedom seekers. In 1853 it was decided that a larger building was needed in order to respond to the growing Methodist population settling in the area.</p><br>
<p>Passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in the United States in 1850 caused some ex-slave preachers to fear travel to church conferences in the USA, which might expose them to capture. Reverend Benjamin Stewart of Chatham suggested churches in the United Canadas form a separate organization, and this was adopted at the AME Church&#39;s 1856 conference in Philadelphia. The name British Methodist Episcopal Church was selected to recognize British America as a safe haven from slavery.</p><br>
<p>At the Canadian General Conference in 1856, some of the AME Churches changed their names to reflect the new organization&#39;s name, including the Bethel Chapel in St. Catharines. Bethel was renamed the Salem Chapel in 1957.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage value</h2><br>
<p>Salem Chapel was designated a National Historic Site in 1999, and is marked outside by several historical markers and a bust of Tubman. The heritage value of this church resides in its exceptional associations with the anti-slavery movement and the early black community to which it bears witness, as illustrated by the church with its auditory-hall form, typical of early African Canadian churches. A provincial historical plaque to Tubman was joined by a civic heritage marker concerning the building. Since then, the national Historic Sites and Monuments Board has erected two federal plaques: one to the chapel as a national historic site, the other to Tubman as a national historic person.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and design of the church</h2><br>
<p>Salem Chapel is a well preserved, 3 level chapel which is gable-fronted and set on a high foundation. The stucco building is distinguished by its regularly arranged pointed-arch windows, modest scale and overall simplicity. The chapel has an auditory-hall design which is typical of churches associated with the Underground Railroad (UGRR) movement.</p><br>
<p>Other key physical elements of the church include:</p><br>
<p>the central entry door on one gable end, set between two large pointed-arch windows and approached by a split staircase</p><br>
<p>four regularly spaced pointed arch windows on each side elevation</p><br>
<p>wood construction materials, wood trim, and stone foundation</p><br>
<p>high basement</p><br>
<p>simple interior finishes, including a restored, hand-painted stencil border circling the upper gallery</p><br>
<p>and surviving original fittings including the long single-log walnut benches.</p><br>
<p>Boughton Place, formerly Bocton Place or Bocton Hall, is a country house in Boughton Malherbe, Kent, England. It is the historic home of the Wotton family and birthplace of Sir Henry Wotton , ambassador to Venice under James I.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A fortified manor house was built on the site in the 1340s by Robert Corbie. Through the marriage of his grand daughter Joan to Nicholas Wotton, Lord Mayor of London in 1415 and 1430, the house became the property of the Wotton family. The Wottons retained ownership of the house until it passed into the Stanhope family in 1683 when it was willed by Charles Kirkhoven, 1st Baron Wotton to Charles Stanhope, younger son of his half brother Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield. Charles Stanhope changed his name to Wotton and on his death in 1704, the house passed to his elder brother Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield. The fourth earl sold the house in 1750 to Galfridus Mann, twin brother of Sir Horace Mann of nearby Linton Hall in Linton. On Galfridus Manns death, it passed to his son Sir Horatio Mann MP, who also inherited his uncles baronetcy and Linton Hall in 1786.</p><br>
<p>In 1771, Sir Horatio&#39;s sister Catherine married James Cornwallis. Cornwallis later became Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry and was briefly the 4th Earl Cornwallis. His son, James Mann, 5th Earl Cornwallis, inherited Boughton Place and it remained in the Cornwallis family until it was sold by Fiennes Cornwallis, 1st Baron Cornwallis to John Kitchin in 1922.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house is the remaining part of a larger courtyard house, much of which has been demolished. The first part was constructed in the 1520s and was added to and enlarged in the 1550s and 1580s and alterations were made in the 19th and 20th centuries. It is a two-storey building aligned roughly north-south with an attic floor in the roof. It is built mostly of local rag-stone with a tiled roof and stone framed windows in a variety of sizes, but also has later sections constructed of red brick. The interior features some 16th-century moulded plaster ceilings, but historic timber panelling dating from the 1520s was removed from the house in 1923 and taken to the United States.</p><br>
<p>The house is a Grade I listed building and an adjacent cottage and oast house are listed Grade II.</p><br>
<p>Zahrat adh-Dhraʻ 2 or ZAD 2 is an early Neolithic archeological site 1 mi north of the village of edh-Dhra on the Lisan Peninsula, in modern-day Jordan.</p><br>
<p>The site is a low, small tell mound, located in what is now an arid region that would have been far more hospitable during the settlement&#39;s occupation. It sits at an altitude of 650 ft below sea level. Excavations were carried out to a depth of 1.5 m in 1999 by Phillip C. Edwards of La Trobe University. Several rounded stone buildings were found with plaster floors although lime-firing pyrotechnology was probably not used in their preparation. Archaeobotanical studies suggested that cultivation of wild crops was likely to have occurred on site. A large number of flint tools were found including sickles, picks, axes, drills, arrowheads and scrapers made from local flint sources. A few examples of stone tools made from other materials such as quartz, obsidian and quartzite were discovered. Other discoveries included a ceramic figure, greenstone, some copper ore and two incised fragments of burnt limestone showing geometric designs suggesting early Neolithic use of art and symbols. Radiocarbon dates for the site range between 9140 and 8470 BC. This has suggested occupation during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A and possibly during the transitional phase into the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B between 8800 and 8600 BC that was identified in 2002 by Danielle Stordeur and Frédéric Abbès.</p><br>
<p>analyzed the lithic assemblage from the site providing comparison with other sites in the southern Levant. He found little discernible difference between the Khiamian and Sultanian assemblages and argued for an extension of the PPNA and later start of the PPNB in the southern Levant around 9200 BP.</p><br>
<p>Nemrik 9 is an early Neolithic archeological site in the Dohuk Governorate in the north of modern-day Iraq.</p><br>
<p>The site covers an area of approximately 1.8 hectare and was excavated between 1985 and 1987 by Stefan Karol Kozlowski and Karol Szymczak from Warsaw University as part of the Saddam Dam Salvage Project. It is located on a terrace of the Tigris near the Kurdish Mountains and sits at an altitude of 345 m above sea level. Numerous rounded buildings were found along with evidence of communal courtyards. Buildings featured post holes and benches with walls that were made of mudbrick and plastered with clay. Several graves were found containing anything from skull fragments to full skeletons. Stone tools found at the site included pestles, mortars, quern-stones, grinders, axes and polishing stones. Some rare examples of worked stone were discovered including one piece made from marble. Some decorative adornments were also found, including beads, pendants, shell and bone ornaments. Some stone and clay art objects were recovered in the shapes of heads and animals, these included a series of sixteen bird heads.</p><br>
<p>Faunal analysis was carried out by A. Lasota-Moskalewska and found relatively few remains from domestic sheep, goats, pigs and cattle. Other bones found included various antelope, jackal, deer, boar, badger, and horse. Some snail shells were found that were also considered to be a food source. There was also evidence of panther and Indian buffalo. Plant remains at the site were floated by Mark Nesbitt and indicated evidence for bitter vetch, pea and lentil, the domestication of which was not determined. The site was well situated between the two terrain types of grassy steppe and forest and is considered of key importance for research into village structures in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic A stage.</p><br>
<p>Pioneer Park, also known as the Henry Webber House or the Webber–Paepcke House, is located on West Bleeker Street in Aspen, Colorado, United States. It is a brick structure erected in the 1880s, one of the few such homes in the city. In 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Henry Webber, its builder, was a shoe merchant who grew wealthy from his mining investments during Aspens original growth during the Colorado Silver Boom. The house is said to be haunted by the ghost of his wife Harriet, who died under controversial circumstances. It is the only intact house in the Second Empire architectural style in the city, particularly on the interior. At one time it was owned by Walter Paepcke, the Chicago businessman who led Aspens mid-20th-century renaissance as a ski resort town.</p><br>
<p>While Paepcke owned the house, he invited Albert Schweitzer to Aspen to give the keynote speech at a festival he organized to commemorate Johann Wolfgang von Goethes bicentennial. It was Schweitzers only visit to the USA, and he stayed in the carriage house at the rear of the property. Today that building, a contributing resource to the Register listing, is known as Schweitzer Cottage. The house remains a private residence.</p><br>
<h2>Building and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The house is located on the north side of West Bleeker between North Third and North Fourth streets in Aspen&#39;s residential West End. Main Street (State Highway 82) is a block to the south, and the commercial areas of downtown several blocks east. The terrain is flat, with Aspen Mountain rising abruptly and steeply two blocks to the south.</p><br>
<p>The lot occupies the entire southern half of the block below the alley midway between it and West Hallam Street to the north. Its eastern section is a landscaped area with mature cottonwood trees and curving walkways. The house itself sits in the western portion of the property, near the middle of the frontage.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>It is a one-and-a-half-story brick structure, three bays by two, topped by a shingled mansard roof. Behind the main block is a smaller rear addition. A long rectangular section projects to the west from the rear addition, putting the house on the north and east of its swimming pool. Along the front are an original iron fence and a line of tall mature mixed evergreen and deciduous trees.</p><br>
<p>The south (front) facade has two projecting polygonal bays with double-hung one-over-one sash windows, flanking the main entrance, double wooden doors reached by low, wide semicircular brick steps. "Pioneer Park" is written on the glass transom. Above it is a brick course connecting all the brick arches above the windows and the transom; it is complemented by another course at the base.</p><br>
<p>Above the bracketed cornice the roof flares slightly, creating overhanging eaves. Three pedimented dormer windows with double-hung one-over-one sash pierce the steep face of the mansard roof on the upper story; the central one is additionally set in a projecting trapezoid. Above the windows the nearly flat roof peaks in the center. On the east and west sides fenestration consists of three narrow windows on the sides with a wider window in the center, all with the same one-over-one double-hung sash as the front windows. There are only two dormers on those faces. In the rear is a two-story kitchen wing with a one-story clapboard-sided timber frame addition on its west.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>Wide semicircular brick steps rise to the main entrance, consisting of paneled double doors set with etched glass windows. They open into an interior that abounds in original black walnut woodwork. It is used for the doors, door and window surrounds, baseboards and stairway. Unusually, it is even used upstairs.</p><br>
<p>All rooms on the first floor have high ceilings, with the doors nearly reaching them. To the east is the living room, whose ceiling has wide molding and a plaster medallion in the center from which a chandelier hangs. In the wall is a carved marble fireplace. Opposite is a room that was used either as a library or parlor. Its fireplace has a painted wooden surround. Carved panels on its face have an abstract design; brackets support the mantelpiece.</p><br>
<h3>Outbuildings</h3><br>
<p>There are several outbuildings. A garage sits next to the house. In the northeast corner is a wooden octagonal summer house. The carriage house, the only outbuilding to be considered contributing to the property&#39;s historic character, is similar in appearance to the main house. It is located on the west, facing North Fourth Street at the alley, with several small brick additions on that side.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Henry Webber arrived in Aspen with his wife Harriet from the East in 1880. She was one of 13 women who spent that winter in what was still a mining camp. At that time it was beginning to transform from a small collection of log cabins into a more permanent settlement due to the many lodes of silver being mined from the surrounding mountains. The couple started a business selling and repairing shoes and clothing. The Webbers also began investing in local mines.</p><br>
<p>Both businesses succeeded, making them wealthy, but Harriet Webber was unable to enjoy it. In 1881 she died of an overdose of strychnine, then available over the counter as a tranquilizer. Her last words, "Henry will know", led to rumors that her death was either a suicide or murder brought on by a rumored extramarital affair between him and her niece. In the end it was ruled accidental.</p><br>
<p>Webber became city treasurer in 1883. Harriets ghost is said to haunt the house he built two years later. Aspens newly successful were building homes in a variety of Victorian styles in the citys West End. Webber, who also built downtown Aspens Elks Building, used the Second Empire mode for his house, not a common choice at the time in the city. It is the only one that remains intact in Aspen today, along with its original iron fence along the street.</p><br>
<p>Later Webber served a term as mayor of Aspen, elected despite revelations that he had abandoned a wife and family prior to marrying Harriet. Shortly after that time, the Sherman Silver Purchase Act was repealed and the citys economy began to contract. The decades afterward, as its population declined from over 10,000 to 500 by 1930, are called "the quiet years". Many buildings and houses from the boom years were abandoned and succumbed to fire and/or the effects of severe winters at high elevation in the Rocky Mountains. The Pioneer Park house survived because after Webbers death in 1911,</p><br>
<p>In 1944 it was purchased by Walter Paepcke, a Chicago businessman who, along with his wife Elizabeth, had seen the potential Aspen offered for the development of a ski resort and financed the initial development of the Aspen Mountain ski area. The Paepckes also began efforts to make Aspen a cultural center. They are regarded as the founders of modern Aspen as a result.</p><br>
<p>As one aspect of this, in 1949 Walter Paepcke, working with University of Chicago chancellor Robert Maynard Hutchins, organized a conference and festival in Aspen to commemorate the bicentennial of German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. They invited German humanist Albert Schweitzer to come from his missionary and medical work in West Africa to give the festivals keynote address; it would be his only visit to the United States during the 90 years of his life. While in Aspen, as Paepckes guest, he stayed in the carriage house on the Pioneer Park property. It has since been named Schweitzer Cottage in his memory and designated a local landmark.</p><br>
<p>Paepcke painted the house pink while he owned it; since then it has been painted light tan. He and Elizabeth built the summer house and garage. They may also have built the additions on the carriage house, and added the marble fireplace in the living room. At some point after 1980 the additional wings on the building and the swimming pool were added. The trees along the street and the property line have also been allowed to mature, isolating and shading the house. There have been no other significant changes to the property.</p><br>
<p>The Aremberg is, at, the highest mountain in the Ahr Hills  or Ahr Eifel . It lies in the district of Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate .</p><br>
<h2>Geographic location</h2><br>
<p>This former Tertiary volcano rises in the northwestern part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, around 2.25 km east of its border with North Rhine-Westphalia and belongs to the volcanic region of the High Eifel. On its southwestern slopes lies the village of Aremberg and, at its southeastern foot, the village of Antweiler. The basalt cone is surrounded by the small nature reserve of Aremberg.</p><br>
<p>A section of the middle reaches of the River Ahr flows past the Aremberg to the east; to the north an Ahr tributary, the Eichenbach, flows around the mountain.</p><br>
<h2>Aremberg Castle</h2><br>
<p>On the summit are a few ruins belonging to Aremberg Castle, once a mighty fortress, below and north of the mountaintop runs a section of Roman road.</p><br>
<h2>Nürburgring Nordschleife</h2><br>
<p>A section of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife racing track, from which the Aremberg can be seen, is named after the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Bagley Wood is a wood in the parish of Kennington between Oxford and Abingdon in Oxfordshire, England . It is traversed from north to south by the A34 road, which was rerouted through the wood in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bagley Wood is an ancient wood. Except for a few years in the 16th century it has had only two owners since 955. From 955 to 1538 it was owned by Abingdon Abbey, and since 1557 most of the wood has been owned by St John&#39;s College, Oxford. Bagley Wood was historically an extra-parochial area in the hundred of Hormer. In 1858 it was made a civil parish, although its population in the 1861 census was only 10. In 1900 the civil parish became part of the parish of Radley, and in 1936 it was transferred to Kennington when that parish was formed.</p><br>
<p>The wood is open to the public by permit from St John&#39;s College.</p><br>
<p>Moundsville Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located at Moundsville, Marshall County, West Virginia. It encompasses 72 contributing buildings in the central business district of Moundsville. They are large 2-4 story brick buildings reflecting the Georgian and Late Victorian styles. Notable buildings include the Marshall House , Roberts House , F.O.E. Building , State Food Store , Simpson United Methodist Church , First Christian Church , St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church , Strand Theater , Marshall County Courthouse , and Post Office and Federal Building . Located within the district is the separately listed Ferrell-Holt House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.</p><br>
<p>Wildwood, also known as the General Alfred Beckley Home, is a historic home located at Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia. The house is open as the Wildwood House Museum and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>General Alfred Beckley (1802–88) wanted his home to be the center of what he envisioned for Beckley, West Virginia which he founded in 1838. Although his town was a piece of paper in 1838, it would later become the county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, which was also founded by Beckley in 1850. His house was built in 1835-36, initially as an unpretentious double log cabin. "I took possession of a double log cabin built for me in the fall of 1835 by Mr. John Lilly Sr. of Bluestone."</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The current appearance of Wildwood began in 1874 with remodeling by Alfred Beckley. This included the addition of a kitchen and dining room to the back of the house. The log cabins exterior was also covered in white clapboard. This was replaced in the 1970s with aluminum siding. Most of the original pine floor exists, and wood beams have been exposed within parts of the house to demonstrate its log cabin origins. There have been plans to restore the structure to its original 1874 appearance.</p><br>
<p>Wynnestay or Wynnstay is a historic house, one of the oldest extant houses in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The two-and-a-half-story house was first built in 1689 as the residence of Dr. Thomas Wynne, Pennsylvania founder William Penn&#39;s personal physician and first Speaker of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly.</p><br>
<p>The land surrounding Wynnestay was developed starting about 1895 with the encouragement of Pennsylvania Railroad President George B. Roberts, and the building of the nearby Wynnefield Station. The house was extensively renovated in 1904, with the addition of a large ell designed by Walter Smedley.</p><br>
<p>The home was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>The home is available for touring by appointment only.</p><br>
<p>Phillips-Sprague Mine, also known as the Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine, is a historic coal mine located at New River Park in Beckley, Raleigh County, West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The mine opened about 1889 on what had been operated as a drift mine. Commercial development of the drift mine began in 1905 and the first coal was shipped on January 4, 1906. Mine operations ceased in 1953, and the property sold to the City of Beckley.</p><br>
<p>The Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine opened in 1962, as the first historic site wholly dedicated to educating the public about coal mining. It consists of 1,500 feet of restored passageways and entries with 3,000 feet of vintage track. It reopened to the public on April 1, 2008. It is a preserved coal mine that offers daily tours and a history lesson on coal mining in Appalachia.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>Sebuku  is a 275 km&sup2; island south-east of Borneo and administratively part of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. Sebuku is home to a large coal mine operated by Straits Asia Resources, which produces 3 million tonnes of coal every year.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>Sebuku is located to the south-east of Borneo, approximately 5 km from Laut Island. It is roughly 35 km from north to south and 10 km from east to west at its widest point, It is on the Kanibungan Fault.</p><br>
<p>Coal was first found on the island by the Dutch colonial government in 1925. Large deposits of coal, dating from the Eocene, have been found in Sebuku&#39;s south-west region; the main deposit forms a syncline which trends from north to south. The strata around the coal is mainly mudstone and shale.</p><br>
<p>Sebuku is home to roughly 4,900 people, with a total population density of 17.8 PD/sqkm.</p><br>
<h2>Mining</h2><br>
<p>Although the Dutch originally discovered at least 25 coal deposits on Sebuku, after realizing that the island may not survive mining they cancelled their plans. Instead, they kept the island as a preserved park to serve as a buffer for Laut Island.</p><br>
<p>Due to estimates of coal reserves measuring eleven million metric tonnes, infrastructure for a mine was built beginning in June 1997; mining began in December of the same year, despite concerns that the mining could sink the island. The mine is operated by Singapore-based Straits Asia Resources, a subsidiary of Straits Resources. Mining is done using multiple open pits.</p><br>
<p>As of 30 June 2008, the total remaining coal was estimated at 384 megatonnes, with a reserve base of 19 megatonnes. Production is estimated to be 3 megatonnes per annum.</p><br>
<p>Chimney Rock is a mountain located in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness of the Central Cascade Range in western Washington, United States. The mountain has two main summits, a northeast spire   and a central spire , as well as a minor south peak . Situated 10 miles NNE of Snoqualmie Pass, with its craggy appearance Chimney Rock is the most distinctive peak on the crest dividing the Snoqualmie River and Yakima River drainage areas. Lemah Mountain  is to the south on the crest and Summit Chief Mountain  to the northeast. Overcoat Peak  is off the main ridge just to the north of Chimney Rock. The mountain has three glaciers: the Overcoat Glacier on the north, the Chimney Glacier on the south and east, and an unnamed glacier on the east side of the North Peak.</p><br>
<p>The Main Peak was a prized climbing object in the first half of the 20th century. A report of a party reaching the summit in 1923 turned out to be false, as it had climbed Lemah instead. A group of climbers who made an attempt in 1925 declared the summit as probably impossible. However already on August 27, 1930, Forest Farr, Art Winder and Laurence Byington reached the summit via the south and east face, spending several days for exploration, in a feat quite remarkable for the time. It took 10 years before the summit was reached again, in 1940 by Jim Crooks and Fred Beckey.</p><br>
<p>Due to the climate and elevation, Chimney Rock is more easily attempted during the early to mid summer. Areas of the climb are rated as YDS Class 5 and require specialized equipment and technical rock climbing to complete.</p><br>
