<p>The Tuxer Joch is a mountain pass in the Zillertal Alps at a height of that links the lower Zillertal valley with the Brenner route just north of the Brenner Pass. To the northeast just below the summit lies the Tuxer Joch-Haus.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In early times there was a busy bridle path over the Tuxer Joch from the Brenner route into the Zillertal valley. As early as prehistoric times the saddle was known to humans. Finds of tools made of hornstein and south Alpine flints indicate that the Tuxer Joch was crossed by Stone Age peoples. A decorative pin from the Bronze Age was found at the pass. Farmers drove their cattle over the saddle, and farmers and traders also crossed the pass bearing local products. Occasionally funeral processions also passed this way, because the village of Tux once belonged to the parish of Schmirn on the other side of the saddle, so the dead had to be carried there. Later this parochial structure was changed, but the secular administrative arrangement was not altered until 1926. But the Tuxer Tal had long been oriented towards the Zillertal and when it was subsequently linked by a road in the 19th century, the Tuxer Joch lost its importance for local traffic and has since acted merely as a transit path for walkers.</p><br>
<p>In 1940/41 a plan emerged to build a tourist road over the Tuxer Joch, and a full-blown project was developed. This project was not just set up for tourist purposes, because a side road to the Brenner Pass was of considerable military-strategic importance to the Wehrmacht.</p><br>
<p>The First Congregational Church building, of Eugene, Oregon, is a former church building listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1925. Also known as the Old Congregational Church and more recently as the Willcox Building, it includes Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals and Mediterranean Revival architecture.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Having ceased to be used as a church, the building was sold in 1956. It then served as a memorial chapel from 1956 to 1979. After being sold again in 1979, to Associated Management, Inc., it was put to use for other activities. It was renamed the Willcox Building, after the architect who designed it, Walter R. B. Willcox (1869–1947).</p><br>
<p>According to its NRHP nomination, it "is significant for its architectural excellence. It is the best of the remaining local structures designed by Walter R. B. Willcox, a Northwest architect and educator of considerable renown, and considered to be his only ecclesiastic building in Oregon."</p><br>
<p>The First Presbyterian Church, located in Cottage Grove, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Italian-born architect Pietro Belluschi in what came to be known as Pacific Northwest architecture style during 1948-51 and was built in 1951. It was listed on the NRHP in 1974; the listing included one contributing building and one other contributing structure.</p><br>
<p>Its NRHP nomination quoted Marion Ross as saying "&#39;The First Presbyterian Church in Cottage Grove, finished in 1951, is the</p><br>
<p>least traditional and probably the best of Belluschis Oregon churches. The material is all wood, and while there is no obvious suggestion of the forms of vernacular building, there can be no doubt that it is suitable for the small community in which it is sited. It would seem that in this design Belluschi had become so imbued with the spirit of the region that no obvious similarity of shape was necessary to give it the feeling of belonging."</p><br>
<p>The Elmer Harlow House is a historic residence in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Built in 1922, it is important as a representative example of the bungalow style promoted by The Craftsman magazine in the early decades of the 20th century. It is especially notable for the fine interior and exterior detailing, including in woodwork and windows. The architect is unknown, and certain features of the design suggest that a professional architect was not directly involved with the construction; it is possible that the design was derived from a plan book or The Craftsman itself. Although the house&#39;s use of brick facing is not usual for Craftsman design, the use of two-tone Flemish bond masonry emphasizes the refined and careful construction.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Johnson Hall, located in Eugene, Oregon, is the main administration building of the University of Oregon. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The building was constructed in 1914–1915 from plans submitted by Oregon State Architect William C. Knighton in the American Renaissance style. The building&#39;s name was changed in 1918 to honor John Wesley Johnson, the first president of the university.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Johnson Hall, when it was constructed in 1915, was originally designed to house administrative offices and other campus services just like it still does today. Also just like its current day condition, the second floor included the offices of the President, Registrar, Business Manager and all of their related support facilities. All other services were located on the first and basement floors. In its early beginnings, Johnson Hall housed the Guild Theater, major department offices, classrooms and a collections exhibit. At the time when the building was completed the total cost of the project amounted to $103,829.96 making it the most expensive building on campus in 1915. In 1949, renovation removed the Guild Theater whose function was replaced by the "New University Theater" (Robinson Theater at Villard Hall). The beloved glass panels on the roof of Johnson were dispersed after the renovation. Some sections of the panels were located at the Erb Memorial Union until when in 1998 restoration once again moved the stained glass panels. Today some portions of the glass panels can be seen in the "Johnson Hall" boardroom while others can be seen in the second story windows of Lawrence Hall.</p><br>
<p>With the late 1960s and early 1970s came the Counterculture and anti-war sentiment. Eugene was flooded with anti-war rallies as students began to take a side against the American conflict in Vietnam. On March 23, 1970 students took to "Johnson Hall" and held a “stay-all-night” sit-in. Administration allowed the all night sit-in after talking to the crowd and announcing that as long as the students allowed the administration to return home to their families, they would permit the protestors to remain in the building overnight. The president, however, constantly reminded the students that their occupation of the building was an infraction of the law. According to newspaper reports as many as 200 students spent the night in "Johnson Hall". The sit-in continued all day Thursday and by that evening there seemed to be no resolution in sight. At that time on Thursday, President Robert Clark informed the protesters that he would not allow them to remain in the building for another night. He also told them that if they did not leave peacefully they would be arrested for trespassing. Clark finally made the decision to call the police. Eugene police backed by lane county sheriff&#39;s deputies, entered the building from the front and rear doors. Students did not try and resist them until they were pulled out of the circle they had formed on the floor of the lobby and handcuffed. After this, chaos erupted at the south entrance of the building while a group of protesters were seen staging a sit-down around the police vans. The police reacted quickly and released tear gas clearing a way for the vans. It was at that point the National Guard entered. The crowd of spectators swelled outside "Johnson Hall" that day to about 700 people after the sit-in was broken up. Many followed the police vans as they made their hurried exit from campus, throwing rocks, trash and anything they could find. The police and national guards intervention resulted in 61 arrests for trespassing and or disorderly conduct that day.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Johnson Hall is of the classically derived American Renaissance style. The style and elevations are unique to the Eugene area. The building itself is composed of brick veneer, terra cotta, and reinforced concrete. Through the years the interior of the building has had some changes done to it but all in all it still retains its original design very well (minus the Guild Theater). When it was first constructed by Knighton in 1915 the building consisted of a four-sided pitched roof with a flat fifth surface in the middle. The middle surface consisted of a large skylight that allowed light in through the center of the building.</p><br>
<p>Contextually within the campus design "Johnson Hall" works to complete a north/south axis. With its two entrances both being glass doors the design helps to maintain the relationship between the "Old Quadrangle" and the "Womans Quadrangle". Furthermore, the building is contextually significant in the campus design because being the administration building it is located close to the center of campus.</p><br>
<h3>Ellis Lawrence Contribution</h3><br>
<p>Ellis F. Lawrence, the University&#39;s major architect was involved with parts of the design for Johnson Hall in addition to Knighton. President Prince Lucian Campbell referred to Lawrence as the "advisory architect" during the construction and even though his contributions were small, Lawrence was said to have had input during the construction of the building at four parts.</p><br>
<p>1. He found the location and advised from an outside position on its design with Knighton.</p><br>
<p>2. He attempted to improve the acoustics of the Guild Theater with different drapes and floor covering, however no one is sure if this was accomplished or not.</p><br>
<p>3. When the hall was named in honor of the University&#39;s first president, Johnson in 1918, Lawrence advised against the terra cotta frieze on which “Administration Building” appeared and instead advocated for using a sign with 6-inch bronze Roman letters over the entrance which read “Johnson Hall”. This sign still remains above the entrance today.</p><br>
<p>4. In 1919 Lawrence advised Glenn Stanton from the school of architecture to design the bronze commemorative sign which is also inside the building today.</p><br>
<h2>Appearances in media</h2><br>
<p>In 1978 "Johnson Hall" was featured in the American comedy film National Lampoons Animal House, directed by John Landis. Several scenes were shot inside the Deans office and outside the building&#39;s north entrance.</p><br>
<p>The Parvin Bridge is a covered bridge located in Lane County, Oregon, USA near Dexter. It was built in 1921 as a single-lane 75 ft bridge across Lost Creek, a tributary of the Middle Fork Willamette River.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was a replacement for a 66 ft Howe truss design which failed a 1917 inspection by bridge inspector J. W. McArthur. He wrote, "An old bridge. Chords badly worm eaten. Downstream chord has been reinforced in middle by a timber bolted on. Wood is but little better than a powder from worm action. All signs indicate a new bridge in from 2 to 4 years."</p><br>
<p>George W. Breeding constructed the present bridge at the same site in 1921 for $3,617, equivalent to $ today. It is also a Howe truss and includes a 62 ft eastern approach and a 17 ft western approach. Roadwork in the mid-1970s realigned the road to bypass the bridge, being accessible only to pedestrians afterwards. A dedication ceremony was held November 17, 1986, to reopen the renovated span to vehicle traffic with a 10 ST load limit.</p><br>
<p>The Parvin Bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, located in Eugene, Oregon, United States, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Architect Frederick Manson White of Portland designed the 57,120 square-foot building to accommodate 840 students. White also designed the other school built that year in Eugene, Roosevelt Junior High on Agate Street. After it opened in September 1925, Wilson became a central part of middle school education in western Eugene. In 1953, the Wilson school was converted to an elementary school and renamed Lincoln Elementary School. Aspects of the building were altered to accommodate smaller students, such as lowered blackboards and bathroom fixtures. The original twenty classrooms were reduced to fourteen, creating larger interior spaces that included administrative offices. The library was made smaller, and a storeroom and kitchen were added. After the school was closed and vacated by the school district in 1987, the building was repurposed as the Lincoln School Condominiums.</p><br>
<p>The Seventeen Mile House is a historic site and open space located at 8181 S. Parker Rd. in Centennial, Colorado. It is a 33 acre former stagecoach stop with a square log structure covered with clapboard. It was a stopping place during the 1800s along the Smoky Hill Trail. It is one of the last two remaining trail houses left on the trail. Mary Hightower was the original owner of the house, having moved there in 1866. It was almost torn down in 1977 until negative publicity stopped it from happening. The site was zoned for commercial development until the County of Arapahoe acquired the land in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Colorado Gold Rush in 1858-1859 began an influx of horse and wagon traffic to Denver, and two of the routes were the historic Smoky Hill Trail from Kansas and Cherokee Trail from Oklahoma. Six way stations sprang up along Cherry Creek, serving travelers in the final stretch into Denver after the two trails merged.</p><br>
<p>Railroad service reached Denver in 1870, and the wagon trails gradually fell into disuse. Seventeen Mile House closed and became a working farm alongside the Cherry Creek River by the 1880s. It is one of two surviving Way Stations. The stations were named according to how many miles each site is from downtown Denver&#39;s intersection of Colfax and Broadway. Four Mile House is the other way station still standing.</p><br>
<h2>Current Site and Future Plans</h2><br>
<p>In 2001, local historic and preservation groups worked together to acquire the property for Arapahoe County. Arapahoe County has a 2007 Master Plan for Seventeen Mile House serving as vision and roadmap.</p><br>
<p>Today the site is an Open Space park administered by Arapahoe County, Colorado, with the Cherry Creek Valley Historical Society giving monthly open house tours, and involved in preservation and development. An annual Fall Festival has been held in recent years.</p><br>
<p>This Open Space borders two other Open Spaces, thus contributing to a regional corridor for wildlife areas and biking/hiking trails along the Cherry Creek Valley, which includes Denver&#39;s extensive Cherry Creek Reservoir State Park.</p><br>
<p>Forbes River, a perennial river of the Hastings River catchment, is located in the Mid North Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Course and features</h2><br>
<p>Forbes River rises west of Spokes Mountain, on the northern slopes of Abbotsmith Ridge, Great Dividing Range, within Willi Willi National Park, and flows generally south before reaching its confluence with the Hastings River, near Yarras. The river descends 965 m over its 53 km course.</p><br>
<p>The river was named by Surveyor-General John Oxley in honour of Francis Forbes, who later became first Chief Justice of the NSW Supreme Court.</p><br>
<p>Areas adjacent to the Forbes River were an important source of logging timber with several sawmills operating along the river. The lower reaches were used for dairying, but these farms now rear beef cattle. Dingos, carpet pythons, and goannas inhabit parts of the Forbes River.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas and Bridget Shanahan McMahon House, located at 603 Division St., E., in Faribault, Minnesota was built in 1870–1871, and was listed for its Faribault stone architecture on the National Register of Historic Places on July 19, 1990. It was built by Thomas McMahon, a local quarry owner.</p><br>
<p>Thomas McMahon married Bridget Shanahan in 1849, while they lived in Iowa. The McMahons had 12 children. Three died in infancy. They moved to Faribault in 1856, where Thomas became a quarry owner. He spent $1200 on their house in 1870, and $1000 more finishing it in 1871. The house has a great room and kitchen on floor one and two bedrooms and a bath on floor two. The house originally did not have dormers or an external chimney. It had two internal fireplaces at each east west side. It also had a large wooden porch to the front. The small porch by the back door is also not original.</p><br>
<p>The Lizumer Reckner is, at, the highest mountain in the Tux Alps in the Austrian state of Tyrol.</p><br>
<h2>Location and area</h2><br>
<p>The Lizumer Reckner lies in the centre of the Tux Alps, about 20 kilometres southeast of Innsbruck within the Lizum Walchen Training Area (Truppenübungsplatz Lizum Walchen). To the west lies the Navis valley, to the southeast the Schmirn valley and to the east the Wattener Lizum. The Tuxertal valley lies not far to the southeast. It neighbouring mountain to the south is the Geier. To the north a mountain crest runs to the Lizumer Sonnenspitze, the Tarntaler Köpfe and eventually as far as the Mölsberg. To the west of the Lizumer Reckner is the high Naviser Reckner (47&deg;08&prime;39&Prime;N latitude, 11&deg;37&prime;27&Prime;E longitude).</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Reckner lies on the edge of the Tauern window, a region of the Eastern Alps, in which Penninic nappes and possibly also Helvetic nappes are exposed. The summit block of the Reckner consists of serpentinite, which is mainly embedded in radiolarite. Furthermore, in the geologically diverse surrounding area dolomite breccias, kalkschiefer and other rocks of the Jurassic period.</p><br>
<p>Below the summit block of the Reckner there are stone runs, that are seen as the remains of a former rock glacier. Traces of dead ice may also be found here.</p><br>
<h2>Bases and trails</h2><br>
<p>From the Navis valley (Navistal) the mountain may be climbed inter alia from the Naviser Hut or the Peeralm. In the Schmirn valley (Schmirntal) the hamlet of Obern acts as a departure point. From the Tuxertal the Reckner can be ascended from the high Junsbergalm or from Hintertux. The most important base in the Wattener Lizum is the Lizumer Hut.</p><br>
<p>The southern foot of the summit block can be reached from all these bases over a number of marked hiking trails. The climb from the Lizum is also possible in winter as a ski tour. The final climb to the summit requires some easy climbing and is partly secured as a Klettersteig.</p><br>
<p>Due to its location within the military training area, ascents of the mountain are banned from time to time.</p><br>
<p>&#39;Graf House redirects here. For the property in Fargo, North Dakota see Dibley House</p><br>
<p>The Andreas Graf House is a historic residence in Corbett, Oregon, United States. It stands out as one of the very few Queen Anne style structures in its rural community. German immigrant Andreas Graf arrived in Oregon and staked his homestead claim in 1883, building his house in around 1885 using lumber he milled himself on the homestead. Originally designed in the Carpenter Gothic style, the house was expanded and transformed into the more fashionable Queen Anne style around 1891. Also in 1891, Graf received one of the areas earliest federal land patents for his homestead. Graf worked as a farmer and machinist, and as a homebuilder in Portland and Corbett. He also operated a threshing business and established one of Corbetts earliest schools on his land. He died in 1903.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The house remained in the Graf (later "Graff") family at least until 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Charles and Fae Olson House is a historic house in Gresham, Oregon, United States. Designed and hand-built by the novice owner-occupant as his version of the "dream house" that sustained many men and women overseas during World War II, its modern styling embodies the breaks with tradition embraced by the generation returning from the war. The main outlines of the plan were developed during mail correspondence between Charles Olson and his wife Fae while he was serving in the Pacific, and many features are patterned on the books and magazines available to him. The Olsons&#39; willingness to devote their own labor to its construction allowed them to avoid the constraints of commercial and government financing, which favored standardized suburban tract construction during the immediate postwar period, and to flexibly adapt to the material shortages of the time.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The View Point Inn, located in Corbett, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, the inn was used in filming of prom scenes in the first film of the Twilight Saga film series. The exposure generated by the film was credited with giving the hotel and its restaurant a boost in business.</p><br>
<p>In July 2011, the building&#39;s second floor was gutted by a fire, and its owners, Geoff Thompson and Angelo Simione, faced financial difficulties, as the insurance on the building had lapsed. In October 2013, plans were made to rebuild and reopen the historic structure, with work slated to begin the winter of 2013–2014. Restore Oregon listed the inn on its 2012 list of Endangered Places; in December 2014 it reported that restoration was unlikely.</p><br>
<p>The Whidden–Kerr House and Garden, also known as High Hatch Estate, is a historic property located in the unincorporated communities of Riverwood and Dunthorpe in Multnomah County, Oregon, south of Portland and north of Lake Oswego, Oregon. William M. Whidden of Whidden & Lewis designed the house in 1901, to be his own residence, and it was built the same year. Whidden and his family lived in the house until 1911, when he sold it to businessman Thomas Kerr, Sr. . It later passed to Kerr&#39;s son, Thomas Kerr, Jr., and ultimately remained with the Kerr family until 1987.</p><br>
<p>The house is the "best expression" of Prairie School architecture by Whidden & Lewis, one of Portland&#39;s most prominent architectural firms of the period. A separate carriage house, now in use as a garage, is included as a contributing feature in the historic designation. The property includes a formal garden, which was "further developed by Kerr and his wife, the former Mabel Macleay", after Kerr acquired the estate in 1911. The site overlooks the Willamette River.</p><br>
<p>The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The Marlboro Mountains, sometimes Marlborough Mountains, are a group of hogbacked mountains arranged in a 25 mi ridge extending from Newburgh, New York to just south of Kingston, New York. Considered to be part of the Ridge and Valley Appalachians, the mountains, which reach elevations over 1,100 feet, form an imposing geologic barrier just west of the Hudson River. They subdivide the relatively flat Hudson River Valley  to create the Wallkill Valley further west. Rising abruptly on their eastern flanks, the Marlboro Mountains are known for their sweeping views of the region.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Marlboro Mountains form a broken ridgeline running from the Ulster–Orange County border in the south to the mouth of Rondout Creek in the north. The southernmost 9 mi of the ridge form Marlboro Mountain, the namesake mountain of the range. Just north of the Marlboro Mountain ridge is Bailey&#39;s Gap, which separates Marlboro Mountain from the 3+1/2 mi Illinois Mountain. North of Illinois Mountain there is a half-mile-wide break in the ridgeline before it slowly rises to a series of unnamed hilltops west of West Park, New York. North of this section is Shaupeneak Mountain, which bends to the north-northwest before reaching an area known as The Hell, a gap in the ridge through which a creek flows. North of this gap is Hussey Hill, which stretches to an area west of Port Ewen, New York, marking the northernmost limit of the Marlboro Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Toponymy</h2><br>
<p>The name “Marlboro” is a variant of the English “Marlborough”. In the case of the mountains, the name comes from the Duke of Marlborough, for whom the town of Marlborough, New York, is named.</p><br>
<p>The names of the individual ridges of the Marlboro Mountains have both European and Native American roots:</p><br>
<p>Hussey Hill is named for Frederick Hussey, a Dutch colonial settler who in 1685 had an interest in a 2,900 acre tract of land which extended to the foot of the hill.</p><br>
<p>Shaupeneak Mountain features a Native American name of Munsee Lenape origin. The name is derived from a waterfall, Shaupeneak Falls, located on the mountain’s slope. The three syllables which comprise “shau-pe-neak” are thought to be defined as follows: shau (probably short for Asho-, as in Ashokan), meaning forceful or hard current/rapids; pe, meaning water; and neak (likely ny-ak), meaning a prominent point of land. Taken together, the syllables in the name “Shaupeneak” probably mean something like ‘waterfall on the prominence’.</p><br>
<p>Illinois Mountain is named for the state of Illinois. During the early 1800s, there was a westward migration of New Englanders to the area of the former Northwest Territory, which included Illinois and Ohio. Some settlers, however, never reached their intended destination, being cut off by the swamps just west of the Marlboro Mountains. Setting up homesteads in the area, the settlers named local places and geographic features after the lands they never reached. Ohioville, New York is an example of another area with the same etymological lineage.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Though occupied and utilized by people for thousands of years, the Marlboro Mountains, which have historically provided timber, game, and agricultural land, were more intensely exploited for their resources in the past two centuries than at any other time in human history. Today, due to a decline in agriculture and logging in the mountains, some of the ridges have begun reverting to a more natural state. An information board erected by the Scenic Hudson Land Trust at the ridge-top parking area of the Shaupeneak Ridge Cooperative Recreation Area summarizes the history of human impact on the mountains, with emphasis on the Shaupeneak Ridge:</p><br>
<p>In addition to their consumable resources, the mountains have provided quiet solitude and escape. It is in the Marlboro Mountains that naturalist and essayist John Burroughs, with the aid of his son Julian, constructed Slabsides, a cabin retreat which he used in the summer.</p><br>
<h3>Hussey Hill Gold</h3><br>
<p>A series of infamous events in the history of the Marlboro Mountains and the town of Esopus involves gold mining operations at Hussey Hill. In the 1870s, a Kingston chemist and physician, Edgar Eltinge, claimed that he had found gold at Hussey Hill. Though locals doubted his find, Eltinge, along with another man, Royal Dimmick, bought a lease on the hill. After forming the Hudson River Gold & Silver Mining Company the two began mining for gold in 1877.</p><br>
<p>Ultimately, the men claimed to find gold-bearing quartz. However, the gold that was found was supposedly not enough to make up for recovery costs, the mine closing after just eighteen months. Later, in an odd twist, Dimmick’s son claimed to develop a second sight which allowed him to sense gold deposits. The Dimmicks would lead Eltinge and others on fruitless gold finding expeditions in the Shawangunks and Catskills, leaving their followers broke.</p><br>
<p>In 1879, the owners of the land on Hussey Hill granted a lease to Simon S. Westbrook, who had purchased the Hudson River Gold & Silver Mining Company’s equipment at foreclosure. Westbrook became involved with the Home Gold and Silver Mining Company, which established offices in Esopus and New York City. The company quickly acquired two million dollars in investment funds to work the mine on Hussey Hill. Much of this funding was raised through public viewings of weekend dig operations directed by a company sales associate. As with Eltinge and Dimmick, no appreciable gold was ever verifiably found, and none of the gold supposedly produced was ever shown.</p><br>
<p>The last gasp of gold fever at Hussey Hill occurred in 1891. A farmer, Conrad Burger, claimed he discovered a rock on his farm at the base of Hussey Hill which contained gold. A sample of the rock was sent to New York City to verify the claim, and it was judged to actually contain gold. However, whether the rock came from Hussey Hill is questionable. In spite of this fact, Burger managed to sell a twenty-year lease to three men hoping to strike gold on his property.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Marlboro Mountains are primarily formed of shallow marine/delta sediments deposited during the late Ordovician, approximately 450 million years ago. After millions of years, these sediments have been titled and uplifted. Weathering has removed more easily eroded material surrounding the mountains, producing their modern topographic relief.</p><br>
<p>Structurally, the Marlboro Mountains constitute a geologic formation known as a dip slope. The sedimentary layers comprising the bulk of the mountains dip towards the west, with a hard cap rock layer at the surface. The ridgeline of the mountains forms the edge of the cap rock layer, which is being eroded relatively slowly, protecting underlying geologic layers from being weathered. This setup leads to the hogback appearance of the mountains: gently sloping westward flanks and steeply graded eastern flanks.</p><br>
<p>The hard cap rock layer responsible for the mountains&#39; topography is composed of rock of the Quassaic Group (named after Quassaic Creek), a geologic group consisting of hard sandstone and quartzite. Quartzite, which consists of sandstone that has been recrystallized, is naturally resistant to erosion. This type of rock is common to other ridges in the Appalachian Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>The Marlboro Mountains provide numerous outdoor activities to the Mid Hudson Valley, including hiking, cross country skiing, and fishing.</p><br>
<p>Recreation areas, nature sanctuaries, and trails from north to south:</p><br>
<p>Shaupeneak Ridge Cooperative Recreation Area</p><br>
<p>John Burroughs Nature Sanctuary at Slabsides</p><br>
<p>Hudson Valley Rail Trail</p><br>
<p>Hemlock Ridge Multiple Use Area</p><br>
<p>Recently, new land has been preserved on Illinois Mountain by the Scenic Hudson organization. Trail building on Illinois Mountain is currently ongoing, having started in June, 2011. It is proposed that hikers and cyclists will be able to reach the summit of Illinois Mountain from the Hudson Valley Rail Trail.</p><br>
<p>The American Legion Cabin on US Alt. 95 in Potlatch, Idaho was constructed in 1928-29. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 because of its historically significant architecture. It was designed as a bungalow with American Craftsman influenceBungalow/Craftsman architecture and served as a clubhouse.</p><br>
<p>It is a one-and-a-half-story L-shaped log bungalow building. It is significant as one of few privately built buildings in the company town of Potlatch, for its association with the American Legion, and as one of few social settings where company workers and managers interacted. It is a memorial to World War I servicemen from Potlatch. As of 1985 it was owned by the American Legion chapter but was leased out as a restaurant.</p><br>
<p>The Cushing American Legion Building is an American Legion hall located at 212 S. Noble in Cushing, Oklahoma. The building was built in 1924 to serve as a meeting place for American Legion Post 108, which was organized by World War I veterans. The Mission Revival building features a raised parapet and a colonnade of square columns in front of the entrance. The American Legion Post hosted social events for veterans and sponsored observances on Armistice Day and Memorial Day. The post expanded to include World War II veterans in the 1940s and hosted meetings of other local groups throughout the 1940s and 1950s; the American Legion has continued to meet at the post into the 21st century.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The Carl L. Caviness Post 102, American Legion was built in 1925. It reflects Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architecture and was designed by Chariton architect William L. Perkins. In its National Register of Historic Places nomination, it was deemed "a good example of the Revival styles popular in the 1920s", a well-preserved work by William L. Perkins and an illustration of "the importance of the American Legion in the social life of the community." It was named in honor of Carl L. Caviness who was the first Lucas county resident to be killed in action during World War I.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006. The listing included two contributing buildings, the second being an attached Quonset hut that was no longer in use.</p><br>
<p>The Beely-Johnson American Legion Post 139 is a historic meeting hall at 200 North Spring Street in Springdale, Arkansas. It is a single-story vernacular structure, built out of rough-cut stone laid in irregular courses, and topped by a gable roof. The building is one of the few remaining stone buildings on Springdale. It was built in 1934 with locally raised funding after a grant proposal to the Civil Works Administration, a federal government jobs program, was rejected. The building has served as a meeting point for a large number of local civic organizations, and has been used as a polling place.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 for its architecture and role in the area&#39;s social history.</p><br>
<p>The American Legion Forest CCC Shelter is a historic rustic log shelter, located on the west side of West River Road within the American Legion State Forest in Barkhamsted, Connecticut. It is the only surviving one of four such structures in the area built by the Civilian Conservation Corps , and one of only three CCC-built shelters to survive in the state. The shelter was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The American Legion Forest CCC Shelter is located in a wooded area west of the former site of Camp White, the 1930s site of the CCC camp that improved the facilities of the forest. It is a three-side log structure set on stone piers, with a side gable roof that is short on the front and long on the back. It has a relatively low profile, providing little headroom to its occupants. Its roof, originally wood shingles, is now made of more modern materials.</p><br>
<p>The American Legion State Forest was established in 1927, as a gift to the state by the local chapter of the American Legion, and grew to reach more than 700 acre in the following decade. The forest was the site of CCC Camp White from 1933 until 1941. The crews were mostly involved with building roads and trails, but also built four of these shelters. This one was the only one located with the American Legion Forest; the other three, which have not survived, were located in Peoples State Forest, located across the West Branch Farmington River to the east. It is similar in form to the Cream Hill Shelter and Red Mountain Shelter, two other surviving shelters built by other CCC crews on what was then the route of the Appalachian Trail.</p><br>
<p>The Southern Union Gas Company Building is a historic building in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico, which is notable as one of the earliest International style buildings in the city. Built in 1951, it was the largest of several Southern Union offices around the state designed by southwestern architect John Gaw Meem. Meem was much better known for working in the Pueblo Revival style but did design a handful of other modernist buildings, such as the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.</p><br>
<p>Meem completed the design for the Southern Union building in 1949, intending to "project the image of a progressive, public-spirited company". The building has two stories, with the former appliance showroom on the ground floor and a multipurpose "hospitality room" upstairs. The main showroom space is 17 ft high, with a sweeping staircase to the upper level and expansive plate-glass windows on the south and west sides.</p><br>
<p>The Southern Union Building was added to the New Mexico State Register of Cultural Properties in 2003 and the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. In 2004–5, the then-vacant building was renovated and converted into a Flying Star restaurant at a cost of $3.5 million. The Flying Star location closed in October 2015 as part of the chain&#39;s bankruptcy proceedings. Just two months later, it was announced that the building would house the Albuquerque offices of Rural Sourcing, Inc., an Atlanta-based tech company. The building was renovated a second time in order to convert the restaurant space to offices, costing over $1 million.</p><br>
<p>The Western District Lakes of Victoria, in the Western District of Victoria, south-eastern Australia, were recognised on 15 December 1982 as wetlands of international importance by listing under the Ramsar Convention, as Ramsar site no.268.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site comprises nine lakes with a combined area of 329 km&sup2;, varying in depth and salinity from fresh water to hypersaline. They include State Wildlife Reserves and Lake Reserves and serve as drought refuges for tens of thousands of waterbirds. Several threatened plants occur within the site, including the endangered Lepidium ashersonii. The lakes are used for various purposes, including recreational fishing and duck hunting as well as grazing, commercial fishing, and wastewater disposal. The lakes lie in a basaltic grassland landscape at an altitude of 40 – above sea level. Average annual rainfall (recorded at Beeac) is 617 mm. Lakes included in the site are:</p><br>
<p>* Lake Beeac; hypersaline; 662 hectare</p><br>
<p>* Lake Bookar; 500 hectare</p><br>
<p>* Lake Colongulac; saline; 1,460 hectare</p><br>
<p>* Lake Corangamite; hypersaline; 23,300 hectare</p><br>
<p>* Lake Cundare; hypersaline; 395 hectare</p><br>
<p>* Lake Gnarpurt; saline; 2,350 hectare</p><br>
<p>* Lake Milangil; saline; 125 hectare</p><br>
<p>* Lake Murdeduke; saline; 1,550 hectare</p><br>
<p>* Lake Terangpom; fresh; 208 hectare</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The Ramsar-listed lakes, along with other nearby lakes have been identified by BirdLife International as a 384 km&sup2; Important Bird Area (IBA) because they support over 1% of the world populations of Australian shelducks, chestnut teals and banded stilts and irregularly support over 1% of the world populations of freckled ducks, musk ducks, blue-billed ducks, black swans, Australasian shovellers, pink-eared ducks, hoary-headed grebes, straw-necked ibises, sharp-tailed sandpipers and white-headed stilts.</p><br>
<p>The additional lakes in the IBA are:</p><br>
<p>* Cundare Pool / Lake Martin; 3,730 hectare; saline</p><br>
<p>* Lough Calvert (including Upper, Middle and Lower Lough Calvert)</p><br>
<p>* Lake Thurrumbong</p><br>
<p>Other birds for which the lakes occasionally support high numbers include double-banded plovers, red-necked avocets, Eurasian coots, great crested grebes, Australian pelicans, great cormorants, little pied cormorants, grey teals, whiskered terns, hardheads and red-necked stints.</p><br>
<p>Plummer Peak is a summit located in Mount Rainier National Park in Lewis County, Washington. With an elevation of 6,374 ft it is the seventh highest peak in the Tatoosh Range. It was named for Fred G. Plummer, a Forest Service cartographer who taught geography in Tacoma Public Schools.</p><br>
<p>Hiking to the summit requires a mix of hillwalking and scrambling. The area is also used for skiing, though avalanches present a danger; in 1988, skier Pamela Benton Lee died after being buried by an avalanche on Plummer Peak.</p><br>
<p>From the peak, views of Mount Rainier, the town of Packwood, the Goat Rocks, Mount St. Helens, and Mount Adams are visible. A small tarn is located on the side of the summit. A col called "The Saddle" creates a walkable ridge connecting Plummer Peak to its neighbor, Pinnacle Peak.</p><br>
<p>Zelengora is a mountain range in the Sutjeska National Park of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has a highest altitude of 2,014 m.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>Geologically, the Zelengora range is part of the Dinaric Alps and formed largely of secondary and tertiary sedimentary rock, mostly limestone. The Zelengora range is bordered to the south-west by the Neretva river, to the east by the Sutjeska river and to the north by the Lelija range. A number of mountain lakes are scattered throughout the group, among which the beautiful Orlovačko Jezero. The Neretva river sources from these mountains: as also the Hrčavka, tributary of the Sutjeska river and the Bjelava, tributary of the Drina river. Highest peak is Bregoč (2014 m.), other notable peaks are Kozje Strane (2013 m.), Dhrtar (1970 m.), Trebova Planina (1872 m.) and Orlovača (1969 m.).</p><br>
<h2>Particulars</h2><br>
<p>The mountains of Zelengora were not part of the frontline during the 1990-1995 conflict and therefore have virtually no contamination with land mines and unexploded ordnance. Earlier though, in 1943, Zelengora became the scene of fierce combat during the Second World War, especially in a decisive phase of the Battle of the Sutjeska. By means of an operation called Fall Schwarz, the German occupational forces tried to encircle and destroy the YNLA, the partisan forces of Marshal Josip Broz Tito who had taken positions around Durmitor mountain in present Montenegro. Tito planned to break out of the encirclement towards the north across the river Sutjeska. In a battle that started on 5 June 1943, Partisan units of the YNLA 2nd Dalmatian Brigade took up positions in order to enable an escape of the YNLA forces through Zelengora. They were engaged by the German 118th Jäger Division. In spite of exhaustion, illness and dwindling munition supplies, the partisans of the 2nd Dalmatian Brigade held out against the far superior German forces until they were strengthened by the 1st Majevica Brigade on 9 June and were enabled to retreat in order to join the YNLA on 10 June. By that time, the 2nd Brigade had lost two thirds of its numbers, but had been successful in stalling the German advance sufficiently to allow Tito&#39;s forces to cross the Sutjeska river and break out of the German encirclement.</p><br>
<p>Later, in May 1945, these mountains became the site of the last military standoff between the Yugoslav People&#39;s Army and the Četnik forces of Draža Mihailović in a battle that lasted from 8 until 13 May 1945.</p><br>
<p>Zelengora is now known as "a wilderness of outstanding beauty" The eroded peaks of Zelengora that emerge from large mixed forests, attract, also because of the remoteness of the area, relatively few hikers. The wildness of the nature and the complete lack of signs of modern civilization gives these mountains a special appeal. The area around Orlovačko Jezero -and elsewhere- though, bears visible traces of historical habitation. The protection as part of the Sutjeska National Park of a large area of these mountains safeguards the integrity of the wilderness. A marked trail leading to the highest summit, Bregoč (2014 m.), starts at Orlovačko Jezero.</p><br>
<p>Lelija is a mountain range within the Sutjeska National Park, Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It has an altitude of 2,032 metres . Geographically, it is part of the Dinaric Alps of southern Bosnia and Herzegovina, located south of Kalinovik, within the territory of the Republika Srpska. Geologically, the Lelija range is part of the Dinaric Alps and formed largely of secondary and tertiary sedimentary rock, mostly limestone and dolomite. Lelija is bordered by the Jezernica in the north, the Drina in the east, the Neretva in the west and Zelengora range in the south. Notable peaks are Velika Lelija , Todor , and Saikov Vrh </p><br>
<p>The Lelija mountains were not part of the frontline during the 1992-&#39;95 conflict and therefore have virtually no contamination with land mines and unexploded ordnance.</p><br>
<p>Therefore, Lelija is an attractive destination for hikers and tour skiers. The slopes of Lelija are covered with mixed forest up to an altitude of ca. 1400 m., thick shrubs of Pinus Mugo grow further up. A rough unpaved mountain road passes from Kalinovik and Jelašca north-south through the Lelija range and further through Zelengora. A mountain house used to be located at Jablan Vrelo, a spring that is located on the trail to Velika Lelija summit, but it has long fallen into oblivion. What remains is a beautiful hike in an area that doesn&#39;t see many visitors.</p><br>
<p>The Isaac Watson House is the headquarters of the New Jersey State Society of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution . It is located just outside the state capital of Trenton in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States, situated on a bluff overlooking Watson’s Creek and the Abbott Farm National Historic Landmark in John A. Roebling Park, a 257 acre nature preserve.</p><br>
<p>Built by Isaac Watson in 1708, the stone house is recognized as the oldest house in Mercer County. Originally 800 acres, the grounds at one time ran from the bluff to the Delaware River.</p><br>
<p>The building was restored by the DAR as part of the New Jersey Tercentenary Celebration in 1964 and listed on the New Jersey Register of Historic Places in 1972 and National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The Albert S. Sholes House, located in Cornelius, Oregon, is a house listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Built in 1909, the bungalow was designed by Richard Martin Jr. for banker Albert Sholes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Albert Seymour Sholes was born in 1844 in Michigan and moved to Oregon in 1901. He settled in Portland, then moved to Hillsboro in 1903; there, he was a banker with Edward Schulmerich at the Hillsboro Commercial Bank. Schulmerich&#39;s home in Hillsboro is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Sholes started buying into the Cornelius State Bank in 1906; he would later own a majority share.</p><br>
<p>In 1909, he had a new home built in Cornelius on Alpine Street, just south of the railroad tracks. He platted 91 lots on his property in the city&#39;s Pleasant View Addition, and retained three on the eastern end at 16th Street for his house and two for his children. The next year, he left the Hillsboro Commercial Bank, and in 1911 he was elected mayor of Cornelius. During his single term he helped to found the fire department. His son Frank H. also served as mayor from 1915 to 1918 and in 1929.</p><br>
<p>Albert Sholes died in 1931, and businessman Percy Hillis bought the home in 1933. Hillies and his family kept the home into the 1960s, leaving it in its original condition. Joe and Katherine Redwine acquired the house in 1967. On September 2, 1982, the structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places. By 2005 the home was owned by Mark Dakins.</p><br>
<h2>Details</h2><br>
<p>The architect for the house was Richard Martin Jr., who helped designed other buildings such as the now Waldschmidt Hall at the University of Portland. He designed a two-and-a-half story Craftsman Bungalow with a Georgian Colonial facade. Inside, there is a central entry with stairs that the entire home is focused upon. The exterior includes porches and a shed-roofed dormer.</p><br>
<p>The Walker Naylor Historic District, located in Forest Grove, Oregon, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places . The district is bounded by Gayles Way on the west, Covey Run Drive on the north, A Street on the east, and 21st Avenue on the south, which is west of Pacific University and north of the city&#39;s downtown area. The district has 145 properties covering 32 acre, and includes three houses listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>Part of the area that became the neighborhood was settled in 1844 by Thomas G. and Sarah Naylor, while the other portion was claimed by Elkanah Walker in 1849. In 1858, the first house in the district was built. Forest Grove was incorporated in 1872, and the next year it was platted, listing the Walker and Naylor additions. The neighborhood continued to grow with landowners building a house, and then subdividing the property to sell of lots. After slow growth, the number of houses increased greatly in the first two decades of the 1900s, before slowing in the 1920s and 1930s. As of 1912 there were 68 homes in the district, which grew to 145 by 1959. Walker Naylor then experienced a housing boom following World War II.</p><br>
<h2>Details</h2><br>
<p>The area was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 3, 2011. Architectural styles in the 33 acre district include craftsman, bungalow, English Cottage, Traditional, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Queen Anne, and Ranch, among others. Homes individually listed on the NRHP are the Stephen and Parthena M. Blank House, the Dr. W.R. and Eunice Taylor House, and the Harry A. Crosley House.</p><br>
<p>The Belle Ainsworth Jenkins Estate, located near Beaverton, Oregon, United States, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built starting in 1912, the main house on the property was intended as a summer home. The entire 68 acre estate is owned by the Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District . The estate has eight buildings, including the main home and a farmhouse built in 1880.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Ralph and Belle Jenkins purchased the property for $7,000 in 1912 for what was intended to be their summer home. Belle was the daughter of John C. Ainsworth, a founder of the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, while Ralph had been a teacher. The Jenkins began construction on a large estate that year as an escape from the city. The English hunting lodge-style main home took three years to complete, and was in addition to the original farmhouse on the property. Other facilities on the estate included fine equestrian facilities, as well as gardens, a greenhouse, an ornamental pool, a tea house, a carriage house, and a water tower.</p><br>
<p>Ralph Jenkins died in the 1950s; Belle died in 1963. In 1978, the estate was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Belle Ainsworth Jenkins Estate.</p><br>
<p>The Tualatin Valley Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society started working with THPRD in 1982 to restore the rhododendron garden on the property. The park district restored the property in 1989 at a cost of $178,000. Elephants Delicatessen was selected to manage the events at what it calls the Jenkins Estate.</p><br>
<h2>Details</h2><br>
<p>Jenkins Estate covers 68 acre and contains 28 acre of gardens. The structures on the property are the main house, stable, carriage house, greenhouse, tea house, water tower, pump house, and the farmhouse. The 14,550 ft2 main house is L shaped with a full basement. THPRD rents out the buildings for business meetings, weddings, and other events.</p><br>
<p>Grmeč  is a mountain in north-western Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is more than 60 kilometres long, stretching between the city of Bihać and the town of Ključ. The highest peak of Grmeč is Crni vrh  at 1,605 m above sea level. Grmeč is surrounded by the city of Bihać and towns Bosanski Petrovac, Ključ, Sanski Most, and Bosanska Krupa.</p><br>
<p>Grmeč is the best-known place of bullfights in the Balkans. They are called the Corrida of Grmeč (Grmečka korida) and have been organised on every first Sunday in August for over 200 years, attracting thousands of visitors. These are fights between bulls themselves and there is no death of a bull. Fights happen in an empty field. The Corrida of Grmeč was depicted by the sculptor Slobodan Pejić. The sculpture of two bulls in a fight, made in bronze in 2004, has been compared to a confrontation of the oppressor and the oppressed or of the Bosnian people and the Austrian Emperor.</p><br>
<p>The Gilfert is a 2,506 metre high peak in the Tux Alps. It is the most northerly extent of the Rastkogel Massif and can therefore be seen from almost anywhere in the Lower Inn Valley.</p><br>
<h2>Location and countryside</h2><br>
<p>The summit bears a large cross, as do the two northwesterly subpeaks (Wetterkreuz) and the northeasterly Sonntagsköpfl (2,244 m). Hollowed out of its eastern flank is Das Kar, an almost three-quarters enclosed rock basin (Felskessel). It is drained by the Lamarkbach stream into the lower Zillertal valley.</p><br>
<p>Although the massif of Gilfert-Rastkogel has a very distinctive ridge with many branches, the rock faces are mainly oriented in a north-south direction. This geological feature gives the heavily divided mountain group its own character.</p><br>
<h2>Paths</h2><br>
<p>The summit of the Gilfert is easily climbed from Innerst near Weerberg (south side of the Inn valley) via the Nonsalm (1,785 m). The route from Innerst to Nonsalm can be climbed as a ski tour or with snow shoes in the winter and spring, because the route is relatively safe from avalanches. A second route runs almost parallel to it from Pill or the district town of Schwaz up to the summit.</p><br>
<h2>Ski region versus nature reserve</h2><br>
<p>For many years discussions have taken place over whether to develop the Gilfert as a ski region, or designate it as a nature reserve. On the one hand, it has been envisaged for a long while to create a Gilfert-Rastkogel reserve (Ruhegebiet). On the other hand, the Inn valley municipalities around Weer have striven to provide access to the Hochfügen-Hochzillertal ski region, whose facilities would extend to the ridge. A regional planning policy decision about the future of the Central Alps around Hintertux is pending.</p><br>
<p>Konjuh is a mountain in north-east part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mountain is bordered by rivers of Seona, Turija, Litva, and Oskova on the north, river Gostelja and highway Tuzla–Sarajevo on north-east, and river Krivaja on south and west. With Ozren, Javor and Javornik, Konjuh makes part of mountain chain which with Trebavac and Majevica present transition of Dinaric mountain system to the spacious Panonian plain.</p><br>
<p>Average height of this mountain is 1000 meters. Above this height there are tops: Šuplji Javor (1157 m), Vina Kruška (1088 m), Suho Drvlje (1206 m), Zidine (1180m), Brezina (1120 m), Vrh Konjuha (1328 m) and Bandijerka, top of Javorje (1261 m), Bijeli Vrh (1272 m) and Zečiji Rat (1275 m) on southwestern comb Smolin.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Konjuh is covered with covered with dense vegetation in conifer which prevails (pine and spruce), beech, maple and in a small number oak. On the mountain also grows very rare and curative lincura – srčanik (Gentiana lutea), which is on this mountain protected and endangered.</p><br>
<p>In the woods of Konjuh there are wild animals like: brown bear, roe deer, wild boar, wolf, fox, squirrel, grouse, and in the streams and rivers trout and crayfish. Snakes that live here are horned viper, common viper, copperhead, and also lizard, green lizard and salamander.</p><br>
<h2>Cultural and historical monuments</h2><br>
<p>On the mountain of Konjuh there are many necropolises stećaks, and only in the municipality of Kladanj 500 stećaks are known. There are also ruins of caravan road which is used for transport of salt from Tuzla, as well as monuments from World War II in Yugoslavia.</p><br>
<h2>Mountain protection</h2><br>
<p>Hiking associations and nature lovers are trying for years to convince authorities that part of the mountain call a protected natural zone. Government of Tuzla Canton submitted a Law for declaring parts of the mountain Konjuh a protected natural zone.</p><br>
<p>The Rastkogel is a 2,762 metre high, pyramidal, mountain on the main crest of the Tux Alps in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol.</p><br>
<h2>Location and area</h2><br>
<p>The Rastkogel lies five kilometres north-northeast as the crow flies of Vorderlanersbach (municipality of Tux) in the Tuxertal, the westernmost side valley of the Zillertal. Its neighbouring peaks are: to the west, separated by the Nurpensjoch saddle, the Halslspitze at 2,574 metres, and beyond that over the Wattentaler Lizum, the Hirzer. To the north lies the Roßkopf and - jutting far out into the Inn valley - the Gilfert and, to the east, separated by the Hoarbergjoch, the Pangert at 2,550 metres.</p><br>
<p>Due to its prominent location in the south of the Tuxertal, the Rastkogel is an oft-frequented mountain. At its summit the crest divides like a cross into the three aforementioned directions, although its rock faces are mainly oriented in a north-south direction. To the south the massif drops relatively steeply into the Tuxertal.</p><br>
<h2>Bases and routes to the summit</h2><br>
<p>An ascent of the Rastkogel as an Alpine mountain hike along the normal route, which is the easiest one, takes about 3 hours, approaching from the north along the southeast ridge (Südostgrat) from the Rastkogel Hut. Another route runs from the Weidener Hut (1,799 m) to the northwest over the Haslspitze and the west ridge (Westgrat) taking a good four hours to gain the summit.</p><br>
<p>On the southwest flank of the Rastkogels there is a skiing area that is reached from Vorderlanersbach on a ski lift.</p><br>
<p>A popular route for those staying in Mayrhofen is to take the Penken lift to the top station and then walk along route 23 to Penkenjoch with stunning views actross the Zillertal Alps. Route 57 should then be followed(clearly signposted)past the Wanglalm hut. Route 57 then climbs up to the summit of the Wanglspitze at 2420m continuing on to Hoarbergjoch at 2590m. Continue NNW along route 57 until it joins route 51. Continue along route 51 which becomes steeper until the ridge is reached. Turn west along a well marked trail that leads to the summit of Rastkogel. The final km involves some mild scrambling. The recommended time for the walk is 3.5 - 4hrs each way. These timings are for an average walker in good conditions. The Penken lift starts at 9.00 am and the last trip down is at 4.30pm (2011). It is worth checking before you start as if you miss the last lift down it is another 2-3hrs walk down to Mayrhofen! (The 1:35000 Mayr map 33 Zillertaller Alpen has all the route numbers for the area clearly marked.)</p><br>
<h2>Sources and maps</h2><br>
<p>Walter Klier: Gebietsführer Zillertaler Alpen (Nördlicher Teil) und Tuxer Voralpen, Munich, 1990,</p><br>
<p>Walter Klier: Zillertal, mit Gerlos- und Tuxer Tal, Bergverlag Rother, Munich, 2008.</p><br>
<p>Freytag & Berndt-Verlag Vienna, Wanderkarte 1:50,000, Blatt WK 151, Zillertal, Tuxer Alpen, Jenbach-Schwaz.</p><br>
<p>Poggio Colla is an Etruscan archaeological site located near the town of Vicchio in Tuscany, Italy.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The site of Poggio Colla preserved undisturbed habitation layers of Etruscans; it appears to have been inhabited by Etruscans at least as early as 7th century and was abandoned or destroyed in the late 3rd century BCE. The site suffered a violent destruction and was rebuilt during the Hellenistic period.</p><br>
<h2>Excavation</h2><br>
<p>The first excavations of Poggio Colla were directed by Francesco Nicosia from 1968 to 1972. Since 1995, the site has been excavated annually by the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project (MVAP) under the direction of Gregory Warden and Michael Thomas; MVAP is sponsored by Southern Methodist University and the University of Pennsylvania. Excavations have revealed fortification walls, a necropolis area, and the remains of an archaic monumental building (possibly, a temple).</p><br>
<h2>Research</h2><br>
<p>The faunal remains recovered from Poggio Colla primarily contains the remains of cattle, sheep/goat and pig, as well as the remains of dog and wild species. The relative importance of pigs increases over time; this trend is linked to intensification of meat production and rising urban populations. Similar faunal assemblages have been found in other Etruscan settlements.</p><br>
<p>A black-glaze olpe filled with one hundred Roman silver victoriati was discovered in 2001 in the west end of the Poggio Colla acropolis. The significance of the finding is that it is found in the context of a sanctuary and it was buried after the sanctuary was destroyed in the late 3rd century BCE.</p><br>
<p>The use of a rounded molding on the base of monumental tombs, temples and altars is the characteristic of Etruscan architecture; and it was consistent between 6th to 2nd century B.C. in different Etruscan cities. A large number of such moldings was discovered in Poggio Colla; the large single or double round fits into the known pattern of Etruscan architecture.</p><br>
<p>A large number of roof tiles of the monumental structure on the Poggio Colla acropolis and workshop/farmhouse of Podere Funghi has been discovered during ongoing excavation. A geochemical study has been done in an attempt to characterize the composition of ceramics, tiles and the local sediments discovered at the site of Poggio Colla. Using methods like X-ray, petrography, thermogravimetric analysis, macroscopic observations, it is found that typical pottery sherds and tile fragments constituent of abundant quartz, feldspar, minor amount of mica, lithic, and grog. The compositions of tiles and pottery of Poggio Colla and Podere Funghi are similar, but the rock and sediment specimens were different; which supports the hypothesis that diverse ceramic industry co-existed in close proximity to Poggio Colla acropolis.</p><br>
<p>Paleoethnobotanical studies have been done at Poggio Colla to identify the plants utilized by the Etruscans; this could provide potential information about Etruscan diet and common plants used in weaving. The soil samples from features and stratum, are floated to obtain botanical remains, which includes modern roots, charcoal, whole seeds, and seed fragments. Thus far, the identified seeds include cereal, mainly barley, wheat, broad beans, chickpeas, and grape pips. This is an ongoing research of MVAP.</p><br>
<p>The Embassy of the United States of America in Tel Aviv is the diplomatic mission of United States of America in the State of Israel. The embassy complex opened in 1966, and is located at 71 HaYarkon Street in Tel Aviv. The USA also maintains a Consulate General in Jerusalem.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The United States was the first country to "accord de facto recognition" to the newly founded state of Israel on 14 May 1948, immediately following Israel&#39;s proclamation of independence. USA President Harry S. Truman subsequently announced that there would be an exchange of missions:</p><br>
<p>Agreement has been reached between the Government of the United States and the Provisional</p><br>
<p>Government of Israel on the establishment of a mission of the United States in Israel and a</p><br>
<p>mission of the Provisional Government of Israel in the United States. Agreement has also been</p><br>
<p>reached on the exchange of special representatives.</p><br>
<p>On 22 June, Clark Clifford, President Trumans aide, called James G. McDonald telling him that the President wanted McDonald to be the United States first representative to Israel. During his ambassadorship, McDonald helped strengthen relations between the two governments. For example, in 1950, the United States and Israel entered into an "Aviation Agreement" that allowed Trans World Airlines (TWA) to operate fully out of Israel and El Al to send regular flights to the United States. Ambassador McDonald hoped the signing of the first formal agreement between the two governments would be the first in a series of similar agreements that would gradually bind the two countries and peoples closer together in creative co-operative work.</p><br>
<p>There is controversy surrounding the Tel Aviv location of the United States embassy because the State of Israel has identified Jerusalem as its capital, citing 3,000 years of Jewish history to buttress the claim. The United States does not recognise Jerusalem as Israel&#39;s capital.</p><br>
<p>Walworth Barbour served as Ambassador of the United States to Israel from 1961–1973, which is when the Embassy re-located to its present location of 71 Hayarkon Street. He assumed his post already very familiar with the Middle East and South Eastern Europe but with "no particular interest in Israel one way or another." Nevertheless, Barbour was Ambassador to Israel for 12 years, and when asked why he stayed so long he answered, "I like it." The American International School in Even Yehuda, Israel is named after him.</p><br>
<p>The Embassy is notable for being the sole example of an American Embassy not located in the national capital. Congressman Tom Lantos and Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan have contrasted this with the fact that during the Cold War the American Embassy to Germany was located in Communist East Berlin.</p><br>
<h2>Organization</h2><br>
<p>The USA Embassy in Tel Aviv maintains and promotes diplomatic and people-to-people relations between the United States and Israel. The Embassy has a large staff of officers and specialists who are responsible for all aspects of economic, political, commercial, military, media, educational, cultural, and humanitarian relations. Tel Aviv operates one of the State Departments busiest Non-Immigrant Visa sections, which produces the highest volume of nonimmigrant visas in the Middle East. The American Citizens Services (ACS) office is the State Departments third largest ACS office overseas, and the volume of USA passports issued makes Tel Aviv the second largest passport operation in the world.</p><br>
<p>There is also an American Consular Agent in Haifa.</p><br>
<h3>Press and Cultural Affairs at the USA Embassy Tel Aviv</h3><br>
<p>The Office of Press and Cultural Affairs is responsible for embassy communication through its public website and popular social media platforms. The office maintains a Facebook page, a YouTube page, and a Flickr page (see External links). It is also responsible for all communication with media organizations in Israel. The office invites Israelis to participate in professional visits to the United States, conducts exchange programs, showcases American culture through visits of visual and performing artists, and invites academics to speak with students, experts and general audiences. The Embassy reaches thousands of young Israeli Jews and Arabs through English language programs, and provides grants to many non-government organizations involved in co-existence activities.</p><br>
<h4>The American Center in Jerusalem</h4><br>
<p>A public-access American Center in Jerusalem was established in 1968 as part of the embassy’s effort to reach out to Israeli academics and officials. The staff of the American Center design and oversee educational seminars, exchanges, performances, and grant programs in a wide variety of areas, including cultural diplomacy, sports diplomacy, legal issues, diversity, coexistence, women’s issues, human rights, religious tolerance, and English instruction. These activities take place at the Center itself or at partner institutions. The American Center also operates an Information Resource Center, which is open to the public and offers 6,000 reference and circulating books, 1,000 DVDs, 80 periodicals and journals, and access to news and scholarly databases.</p><br>
<h4>Middle East Partnership Initiative</h4><br>
<p>The Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI) is a USA State Department program that supports political and economic reform efforts in the Middle East and North Africa. Run out of the Public Diplomacy office of the USA Embassy Tel Aviv, MEPI Israel&#39;s projects strive to build a more pluralistic, participatory, and prosperous society in Israel. Specifically, MEPI programming in Israel empowers community leadership, provides educational opportunities, and opens an outlet for civic discourse. To this end, MEPI partners with local organizations to bolster agents of change.</p><br>
<h4>The Fulbright Commission for Israel</h4><br>
<p>The United States-Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF) was established by the governments of the United States and Israel in 1956 and given responsibility for the administration of Israel’s participation in the Fulbright program. The Ambassador of the United States serves as Honorary Chair of the 8-member USIEF Board. The primary activity of the Fulbright commission for Israel is to strengthen mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of Israel through academic and professional exchanges. In 2011, a total of 73 Fulbright Israel Fellowships were awarded, 40 to Israeli citizens and 33 to American citizens.</p><br>
<p>The United States-Israel Educational Foundation also operates an EducationUSA Counseling Center which distributes information on post-secondary educational opportunities in the United States. The Counseling Center assists interested candidates in the selection of suitable programs and offers advice in the preparation of application files. The Center provides both group information sessions and individual counseling.</p><br>
<h3>United States Commercial Service in Israel</h3><br>
<p>The United States Commercial Service (USCS) is the trade promotion arm of the USA Department of Commerce International Trade Administration. Located within the USA Embassy Tel Aviv, the Commercial Service assists hundreds of Americans each year to learn about opportunities in Israel’s economy and to expand their sales in the Israeli market. The Commercial Service also works with individual American States to attract Israeli investment. The goal of the Commercial Service is to broaden and deepen the USA exporter base, remove export obstacles for small and medium-sized companies in the United States, advance USA business interests abroad, and support job creation in Israel and the United States.</p><br>
<h3>USA Agency for International Development in Israel</h3><br>
<p>The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is the principal USA assistance agency that extends help to countries recovering from disaster, trying to escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms. Although USAID is separate from the State Department, both report to the United States Secretary of State. Since 1994, USAID has worked in the West Bank and Gaza providing more than $3.4 billion in USA economic assistance to Palestinians in the areas of water and sanitation, infrastructure, education, health, economic growth, and democracy. USAID also provides assistance for basic human needs in both the West Bank and Gaza, including emergency food, health care, and access to safe water.</p><br>
<h3>USA Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Israel</h3><br>
<p>USA Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Office located within the USA Embassy Tel Aviv. As the largest investigative arm of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS), HSI enhances USA national security by conducting international law enforcement operations. The HSI Office in Tel Aviv partners with their Israeli counterparts to combat criminal organizations and prevent terrorist activities. They are charged with enforcing a wide array of laws, including those related to financial crime, trade fraud, and narcotics and cash smuggling. Aside from Tel Aviv, HSI works with 69 offices in 47 countries around the world.</p><br>
<h3>Federal Bureau of Investigation in Israel</h3><br>
<p>For nearly seven decades, the FBI has stationed special agents and other personnel overseas to help protect Americans back home by building relationships with principal law enforcement, intelligence, and security services around the globe that help ensure a prompt and continuous exchange of information. The FBI Legal Attaché in Israel works with the Israeli law enforcement and security agencies to coordinate investigations of interest to both countries.</p><br>
<h3>USA Defense Attaché Office in Israel</h3><br>
<p>USA Senior Defense Official/Defense Attaché represents the USA Secretary of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Commander of USA European Command in Israel. To accomplish this mission USA Defense Attaché Office (DAO) personnel advise the USA Ambassador to Israel on military matters, implement a variety of bi-lateral military engagement programs, and thoroughly report political-military developments in a timely manner. The USDAO serves as the primary point of contact for all joint USA-Israeli military activities and communications on defense matters between the USA government and the Government of Israel.</p><br>
<h2>Jerusalem Embassy Act</h2><br>
<p>The Jerusalem Embassy Act, passed by Congress in 1995, requires the United States to relocate its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem by December 31, 1999 and that Jerusalem be recognized as the capital of Israel. The Embassy remains in Tel Aviv because the Act also allows for the President to "delay the implementation of the law indefinitely if the move presents national security concerns." Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama have regularly invoked the clause, delaying the move of the embassy to Jerusalem.</p><br>
<p>The United States maintains a Consulate General in Jerusalem which has offices in 18 Agron Road and on 14 David Flusser Street. The Consulate General in Jerusalem, established in 1844, represents the United States in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip as an independent USA Mission whose members are not accredited to a foreign government.</p><br>
<p>Mount Siguniang  is the highest mountain of Qionglai Mountains in Western China. It is located in the bordering area of Rilong Town, Xiaojin County and Wenchuan County in Ngawa Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province.</p><br>
<p>Mount Siguniang encompasses four peaks: Daguniang Feng (Big Peak or 1st peak), Erguniang Feng (2nd peak), Sangungiang Feng (3rd peak), and Yaomei Feng (4th peak). The highest peak is Yaomei Feng, also known as the "Queen of Sichuan&#39;s peaks", standing at 6250 meters. It is also the second highest mountain in Sichuan Province and the easternmost or higher peak on Earth. The first ascent was in 1981 by a Japanese team via the east ridge. Very few people attempt to climb this and very few of them succeed after that. The first ascent of the southwest ridge was made in 2008 by Chad Kellogg and Dylan Johnson.</p><br>
<p>The other three lower peaks are regular mountaineering destinations through all seasons. Mount Siguniang DaFeng (, 5025 m) is normally considered as a pure trekking peak while ErFeng (, 5276 m) and SanFeng (, 5355 m) is more challenging as it involves basic climbing technique.</p><br>
<p>Mount Siguniang is famous for its beautiful scenery. The area is reputed to be the "Oriental Alps". Mount Siguniang National Park was identified as a UNESCO Heritage Site as part of Sichuan Giant Panda Sanctuaries in 2006. The park comprises Mount Siguniang and the surrounding three valleys, namely Changping Valley, Haizi Valley and Shuangqiao Valley, covering an area of 2,000sq km.</p><br>
<p>North Star House  is a house located roughly a mile south of Grass Valley, Nevada County, northern California. The building served as the superintendent&#39;s house for the North Star Mine. Commissioned by Superintendent Arthur De Wint Foote and his wife, Mary Hallock Foote , an author and illustrator, it was designed in 1905 by the architect Julia Morgan. This was her first significant, large-scale, residential project. The house is notable for its relationship to the literary career of Molly Foote and the master architect, Morgan.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The house is located at 12075 Old Auburn Road, near the Nevada County Fairgrounds. Situated on a 14 acres site, the property is on a hillside that overlooks foothills and a valley. To the south is Quail Valley Golf Club.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The North Star Mine was the second largest producer of gold during California’s Gold Rush. When Foote and his wife decided they needed a home to entertain the investors, dignitaries and celebrities that were coming to the Gold Country, they hired Morgan to design it. Built in 1905, it was one of her first projects. While living in the house Mary Foote wrote her lifetime reminiscences which form her published memoirs, A Victorian Gentlewoman in the Far West. From the time of construction to 1968, the residence was occupied by the Foote family.</p><br>
<p>In 1968, the property was purchased and served as a private religious school for boarding students during the 1970s, and as a school for troubled youths from 1970 through the early 1980s. It attracted youths as far away as Michigan after it became known as a non traditional Christian church. It was operated by a renegade Baptist preacher called Rev. Bill. By the late &#39;70s rumors were circulating about unorthodox dealings with the youths at the school. The school eventually closed. Rev Bill was never heard from again. Now operated as an event center by a non-profit organization, it is currently the home of the weekly Nevada County Growers Market. The North Star House was the setting for Wallace Stegner’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Angle of Repose.</p><br>
<p>The house eventually became derelict. From the mid-1980s until April 2002, it was owned by Terra Alta Development. During this time Penelope Curtis founded the Julia Morgan Conservancy which began restoration plans for the house. By November 2002, Sandy Sanderson, an Oregon developer, obtained a binding contract on the property. Restoration was begun by the North Star Historic Conservancy after the Nevada County Land Trust hired Bruce Conklin to oversee the site&#39;s restoration in 2003. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on February 1, 2011, it is still undergoing restoration.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and fittings</h2><br>
<p>The 10,000 ft&sup2; mansion, with 22 rooms, is an early example of the California Arts and Crafts style. Exemplifying Morgan&#39;s style, the house features exposed beams, strong horizontal lines, the use of shingles, and earth-toned colors.</p><br>
<p>The building is oriented west and u-shaped in plan. An entry courtyard is situated on the east side, while a sprawling stone terrace is on the west side. Framed in wood, the walls are of stone masonry at the first level, and redwood shingle sheathing at the second level. The low pitch gable roof features wide overhangs and eyebrow vents, the original wood shingle replaced in 2004 with fireproof composite shingles.The foundation is of quarry stone and cement, while the chimneys are of brick. There are several entry doors which access the living room, library, study, and dining room. Original features, such as doorknobs and light fixtures, are no longer on the property.</p><br>
<p>A courtyard is situated between the building&#39;s two wings. A small garage, which was added at the northeast corner of the building ca. 1968, is being removed.</p><br>
<h2>Grounds</h2><br>
<p>The grounds feature a Great Lawn and other distinct areas for community events. There are giant ponderosa pines, sloping lawns, and plantings that date to the late 1800s. The hybridized fruit trees that resulted from Foote’s collaboration with Luther Burbank are evidenced in the surrounding heritage orchard.</p><br>
<p>Historically, the property included hydrangeas, magnolias, and crepe myrtle. There was a fern grove to the south and landscaping to the north included Japanese quince, peonies, cedar, and tulip trees.</p><br>
<p>Bileća Lake  is an artificial lake located in the municipality of Bileća, in the entity of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina, its length forming part of the Montenegrin border thus a small part being within Montenegro. The manmade lake was created by building the Grančarevo Dam an arch dam across the Trebišnjica River, which was built in 1968. It lies in the upper and central part of Trebsinjica valley, 17 km from Trebinje town and is one of the largest lakes in Bosnia and Herzegovina.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Bileća Lake is a large man made lake on the Trebijanca River, which was created in 1968. This is the only source of surface water in an area which is subject to extreme weather conditions in winter and also in summer. Cepelica is its small tributary in Bileća Rudine and is stated to be the best known subterranean river in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It lies in the Upper and central part of Trebsinjica valley 17 km from Trebinje is one of the largest lakes in the country.</p><br>
<p>The landscape of the district where the lake is situated consists of lime stone mountains with bare karst formations</p><br>
<p>The Benton County Courthouse is a courthouse building located in Corvallis, Benton County, in the American state of Oregon. Built in 1888, the facility is regarded as the oldest county courthouse in Oregon still being used for its original purpose. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>The Benton Country Courthouse building includes a basement and four stories of functional rooms, housing county government offices and functioning court rooms.</p><br>
<p>From the time of its construction in 1888, the spire of the courthouse has housed a gigantic clock, visible from four sides. Until 1953 the clock had to be wound by hand twice a week by a building custodian who climbed into the tower to manually raise the 650 pounds of weights which kept the device in operation.</p><br>
<h3>Building purposes</h3><br>
<p>The basement of the courthouse has long housed the Benton County Elections Department, which under state law retained and stored ballot boxes and original ballots between one local election and the next.</p><br>
<h3>1918 heating reconstruction</h3><br>
<p>By 1918 the original steam heating system had begun to fail after 30 years of use. Bids were taken and in August 1918 a contract was signed with a local plumbing firm for the installation of a completely new hot water heating system was installed based on the what was then new Durham system of threaded pipe and cast iron fittings. Only the original boiler was retained as part of the heating modification, which was completed that same fall.</p><br>
<h3>1954 building remodel</h3><br>
<p>In 1954 the courthouse underwent a major remodeling, in which the large circuit courtroom was split in half, to form a new district courtroom, a judges&#39; office, and a 182-square foot conference room. The orientation of the circuit courtroom was changed from east and west to north and south in its remodeled form and the ceiling was lowered by one-third, to a height of 16 feet. The newly remodeled 35-by-50 foot room is said to have retained much of its large feel, making use of mahogany plywood and a light green color scheme.</p><br>
<p>The 1954 makeover was also used to eliminate some 20 brass spittoons which had adorned the courthouse&#39;s hallways and offices since its original construction. These were replaced with four modern sand urns for the disposal of cigarette butts.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Benton, or Benton Hotel, is a historic former hotel in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. Constructed from 1924 to 1925, the building represents a distinctive example of the Italian Renaissance style by Portland architects Houghtaling and Dougan. It is one of several Oregon buildings the firm designed in the revival styles popular in the 1920s and 1930s.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Background</h3><br>
<p>After the decline of the Julian Hotel and other earlier establishments during the first years of the 20th Century, the small college town of Corvallis, Oregon found itself without a suitable modern hotel for visiting guests. Several proposals were floated by community leaders for construction of a new "first class, modern, fireproof" hotel during the first half of the 1920s, without success. In the spring of 1924 the development of a modern downtown hotel was undertaken as a project by the local Kiwanis club, headed by President Ralph Lyman Bosworth, in the effort to establish an important public asset for the growing community.</p><br>
<p>A committee of 7, headed by Bosworth and including bankers, an attorney, and newspaper publisher Claude Ingalls, was established as the Benton Hotel Corporation as a legal coordinating body for the project. These worked together with other local business and community leaders doing the initial planning work to get the project off the ground.</p><br>
<p>Reflecting the progressive spirit of the early 1920s, this proposal was largely financed through public subscription and carried out by local contractors with a stake in the success of the project. Some 167 members of the community committed to the loan of $90,000 at 5 percent interest to provide half the financing for the project, with a like amount generated by a 6.5 percent bond floated in Portland by financiers there.</p><br>
<p>This funding allowed for the construction of the planned 7 story concrete and steel edifice, complete with 120 rooms, over half of which contained either a shower or a bath. Floors were laid in concrete and partition walls covered with tile, making the building quiet and relatively safe from the danger of fire.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the building began in 1924 and was completed during the first half of 1925. Approximately 95 percent of the work on the building was carried out by Corvallis contractors and construction workers.</p><br>
<h3>Opening</h3><br>
<p>The hotel opened to the public on June 1, 1925. The opening was promoted with the printing of 50,000 letters of announcement, which were systematically mailed out to business leaders around the state, including a mailing by the dean of the Pharmacy department of Oregon Agricultural College to the state&#39;s pharmacists and another sent to every banker in Oregon in conjunction with a planned meeting there.</p><br>
<p>Salem hotelery operator A.N. Pierce, previously a manager of the Seward Hotel in Portland, was selected as the manager of the new facility.</p><br>
<p>With its prominent location across the street from the Benton County Courthouse and one block from the train station, its easy visibility, and its sophisticated design, the Hotel Benton became a social and business hub of Corvallis for more than 30 years.</p><br>
<h3>Decline and repurposing</h3><br>
<p>The hotel&#39;s fortunes began to suffer after the termination of passenger rail service in the 1940s, and especially with the later rise of auto-oriented motels outside the downtown core. By the 1980s, the building was in use for low-income public housing.</p><br>
<h3>National Register of Historic Places listing</h3><br>
<p>The hotel building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Castolon, also known as La Harmonia Ranch and Campo Santa Helena, was a small community in southwestern Texas, located in what is now Big Bend National Park along the Rio Grande. The location was first settled in 1901 by Cipriano Hernandez, who farmed the area and built the original Castolon Store, now known as the Alvino House.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area began to attract refugees from nearby Mexico who were fleeing the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The Castolon area was the site on a USA Army encampment, called Campo Santa Helena, to house units patrolling the Mexican–American border. However, by the time the camp was complete in 1920 the border was quiet and the camp buildings were never used by the Army. In 1921 the La Harmonia Company was established in the barracks, operating a trading post and farming cotton. The La Harmonia Company was established in 1918 by Howard Perry, who owned the Chisos Mining Company in Terlingua, in partnership with Wayne Cartledge. Cartledge and his son Eugene chose the name and managed the company. The La Harmonia Company lasted until 1961, when it was sold to the National Park Service. The store continues to be operated by a park concessioner.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Castolon is divided into two areas. "Old Castolon" comprises the Old Castolon Store, a cafe-residence and a shed. The Army Compound includes a barracks, now the Castolon Store, a recreation hall, latrine, two officers&#39; residences, a granary and tack room, and the Magdalena, Garlick and Alvino residences. The Magdalena and Garlick houses post-date the Army construction and are associated with La Harmonia Ranch, while the Alvino house pre-dates the Army. All of the buildings are built with adobe walls, and most are roofed with corrugated metal roofing. A few use traditional vigas, latillas and a soil roof covering.</p><br>
<p>Castolon was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 6, 1974.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Coordinates: 29.13444&deg;N latitude, 103.515&deg;W longitude</p><br>
<p>Elevation: 2,169 ft</p><br>
<p>The former home of the Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan, constructed in 1889 in Corvallis, Oregon, is a gothic-style religious assembly hall that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Converted to secular use after the congregation moved to a new facility in 1961, the building now houses the Corvallis Arts Center, established in 1962.</p><br>
<h2>Corvallis Arts Center</h2><br>
<h3>Establishment</h3><br>
<p>The Corvallis Arts Center was created by the Corvallis Arts Council, established in September 1961 with a view to establishing a showplace for the visual arts. Chair pro tem of the group was Marion Gathercoal at the time of its formation.</p><br>
<p>The Corvallis Arts Council was incorporated as a non-profit corporation in March 1962. It gained access to the Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan on loan from the Corvallis chapter of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks late in 1962 and immediately set about fundraising to pay for a remodeling of the interior of the hall, including new paint, carpeting, and furnishings. Additional funds were generated through the sale of $10 "patronages" to interested community members.</p><br>
<p>The grand opening of the Corvallis Arts Center took place on the weekend of January 26-27, 1963. Those displaying their works during the opening included graphic artist Junichiro Sekino (1914-1988) of Tokyo as well as a host of staff from the Art Department of Oregon State University. Local art groups the Corvallis Weavers Guild and the Clay Clan and other craftspeople were on hand to demonstrate techniques, and a series of musical performances were provided. Over 7,000 people from around Oregon visited the center during its grand opening weekend.</p><br>
<p>While the original lease of the building from the Corvallis Elks Club was a nominal $1 per year, maintenance and utility costs for the facility were pegged at approximately $15,000 per annum by the group&#39;s pro bono attorney, Robert Mix. Owing to the expense of the operation, as early as 1963 suggestions were made to place the facility under the umbrella of the Corvallis Parks and Recreation Department.</p><br>
<p>The site of the Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan was initially planned to be used as the location for a new temple for the Corvallis Elks Lodge, but another location was eventually found and the Arts Center has remained in uninterrupted occupation of the facility for more than half a century.</p><br>
<h3>Corvallis Arts Center today</h3><br>
<p>The Corvallis Arts Centers stated mission includes the conducting of an array of "diverse exhibitions and cultural events" and the provision of outreach and educational services to the local community relating to the arts. The center provides an ongoing series of art classes and camps, with a particular focus on the needs of at-risk youth. More than a dozen teaching artists working in a range of mediums conduct classes, exhibits, and demonstrations in connection with the centers work.</p><br>
<h3>NRHP listing</h3><br>
<p>The 1889 building&#39;s survival was insured with its addition to the National Register of Historic Places in September 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Episcopal congregation today</h2><br>
<p>The current home of the Episcopal Church of the Good Samaritan is at 333 NW 35th St. in Corvallis. The new facility of the group was consecrated in 1961.</p><br>
<p>Leaze stone circle is a stone circle located in the parish of St. Breward on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall, UK.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The circle stands in enclosed pasture near the buildings of Leaze farm and is composed of sixteen stones, six of which have fallen. It is approximately twenty four metres in diameter and is cut through the centre by a hedge. It has been estimated the circle once comprised twenty two stones. There is one stone positioned outside of the circle along with three dips suggested to have been formed by removed stones. The stones are of squarish granite of approximately 1.22 m in height and around.50 m wide. Rough Tor, Tolborough Tor and Catshole Tor can be seen from the site with Brown Willy obscured behind Garrow Tor.</p><br>
<p>The fragmentary remains of two other stone circles (Emblance Downs stone circles) can be found about 300 metres northwest of Leaze stone circle. Less than 1 kilometre in a west by north-west direction lies the enigmatic enclosure known as King Arthur&#39;s Hall.</p><br>
<h2>Alignments</h2><br>
<p>Alexander Thom proposed a definitely indicated, site to stone, solar alignment at the site.</p><br>
<p>The William Sturgis House was built by cattle baron William Sturgis in Cheyenne, Wyoming in 1884. The Shingle Style house was designed by architect George D. Rainsford, a New York architect who moved to Wyoming to raise Morgan horses and Clydesdales. While horse breeding was his principal occupation, Rainsford continued to practice architecture, designing many of the houses in the neighborhood surrounding the Sturgis residence.</p><br>
<p>Sturgis was another New Yorker, who moved to Cheyenne in 1873, joining forces with his brother Thomas to form the Northwestern Cattle Company and the Union Cattle Company, becoming one of the most prominent cattle ranchers in Wyoming. The Sturgises were instrumental in the founding of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. William held interests in mines, the Stockgrower&#39;s National Bank and the Cheyenne Electric Light Company. Sturgis took heavy losses in his cattle holdings as a result of the hard winter of 1886-87 and sold the house to another rancher, John Whitaker.</p><br>
<p>The 2-1/2 story L-shaped house originally had brick on the first floor and shingles above. The brick was covered with stucco. A complex roofline features multiple dormers, including an eyelid dormer over the front door. The interior features a large living hall, featuring fishscale-pattern shingles as a wall treatment.</p><br>
<p>The house was published in American Architect, attributed to William A. Bates. Vincent Scully, who repeats the Bates attribution, notes that the house is significant as an example of the westward spread of the Shingle Style. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 8, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Wigman House is a historic American Queen Anne house in the Carrick neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is a City of Pittsburgh Designated Historic Structure.</p><br>
<p>The four-bedroom home was constructed in 1896 for William H. Wigman, the owner of Wigman Lumber on the South Side. At the time, Carrick, which sits upon a hilltop south of Pittsburgh, was a popular neighborhood for wealthy entrepreneurs who sought to escape the smoke of the city. The Wigman House is all that remains from this area known as "Millionaire&#39;s Row"</p><br>
<p>Since 1952, the house has been owned by the McClory family; in 2011 they placed the property for sale, seeking $150,000, a move that set local preservationists into action.</p><br>
<p>In April 2011, the citys Historic Review Commission approved the historical societys application, setting the stage for contentious hearings before the Pittsburgh City Council.</p><br>
<p>The historic status was opposed by City Councilman Ricky Burgess, expressing a concern about the rights of the houses current owners. In a reversal, the current owners changed their position on the historic status in a letter to the Council, citing historic tax credits and the possibility that the houses historic value could be a selling point.</p><br>
<p>The Harderkulm  is a viewpoint at 1,321 m in the Berner Oberland region of Switzerland, overlooking the towns of Interlaken and Unterseen. It is located at the western end of the Harder, which in itself is the most western, forested ridge of the about 30 km long, prominent mountain range dominating the north shore of the Lake of Brienz.</p><br>
<p>The viewpoint belongs to the municipality of Unterseen in the canton of Bern with the slopes shared between the municipalities of Unterseen and Interlaken. The viewpoint offers extensive views across Interlaken, the alluvial land called Bödeli, and southwards up the valley of the river Lütschine to the high peaks of the Bernese Alps, whilst itself forming part of the Emmental Alps.</p><br>
<p>Harderkulm is occupied by the castle-like Bergrestaurant Harder Kulm and adjoining observation platform. The Harderbahn, a tourist funicular, links Interlaken with an upper station some five minutes walk from the restaurant. The funicular journey takes eight minutes.</p><br>
<p>The Annunciation Church is a Catholic church located at the corner of Texas and Crawford in downtown Houston, Texas.</p><br>
<p>Annunciation Church sprung from the congregation at St. Vincents, Houstons first Catholic church. In 1866, Father Joseph Querat and Galveston Bishop Claude M. Debuis believed the congregation was outgrowing the old building and started planning for a new one. The congregation chose the name for the planned building, "Church of the Annunciation." The original architect is unknown, but was dedicated on September 10, 1871. Nicholas Clayton altered the building, adding the bell tower twin towers in 1884.</p><br>
<p>The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The church remains Houston&#39;s oldest existing church and, as such, the property was eventually faced with a foundation problem. A large void had developed underneath the church’s southwest corner and, symptomatically, the foundation subsided. Through a polymer injection process work at Annunciation Catholic Church was completed in two days with minimal disruption to mass and parishioners.</p><br>
<p>The Ritzville Carnegie Library, located in Ritzville, Washington, is a building listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1907 with a grant from Andrew Carnegie and still operates as Ritzville&#39;s library. It was designed by the Spokane architectural firm of Preusse & Zittel.</p><br>
<p>Daniel Buchanan created a library in 1902 when he donated 268 books to the town, and a small library was created above a store. In 1903, the town allocated $1000 toward the maintenance of the library. By 1906, the citizens of Ritzville had convinced Carnegie to help, and he pledged $10,000 toward a permanent library if the town secured and maintained a location for it. At that time, Ritzville was the smallest town in the United States to receive financial assistance from Carnegie for a library. Its basement was used for town council meetings.</p><br>
<p>The Ritzville Historic District, located in Ritzville, Washington, is a district listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing Properties</h2><br>
<p>The historical district contains a total of 27 contributing properties, built between 1889 and 1935:</p><br>
<p>The Ritzville Carnegie Library, also known as Ritzville Public Library, at 302 West Main Avenue, 47.12629&deg; latitude, -118.38207&deg; longitude, built 1907.</p><br>
<p>The Ritzville Hotel, 220 West Main Avenue, 47.12648&deg; latitude, -118.38176&deg; longitude, built 1910.</p><br>
<p>The George H. Lemman Building, also known as the B&J Restaurant, 214 West Main Avenue, 47.12656&deg; latitude, -118.3816&deg; longitude, built c. 1905.</p><br>
<p>The F.G. Spanjer Building, 208 West Main Avenue, 47.12681&deg; latitude, -118.38136&deg; longitude, built 1898.</p><br>
<p>The Ritzville Trading Company Buildings block, at 202 West Main Avenue, 201 and 203 West Broadway Avenue, 47.12701&deg; latitude, -118.38151&deg; longitude, built 1898.</p><br>
<p>The H.E. Gritman Building, at corner of West Main Avenue and North Washington Street, 47.12715&deg; latitude, -118.38095&deg; longitude, built 1902.</p><br>
<p>The William Snyder Building, at 116 West Main Avenue, 47.12722&deg; latitude, -118.38085&deg; longitude, built 1899.</p><br>
<p>The O.R. Haight Building, at 114 West Main Avenue, 47.12728&deg; latitude, -118.38078&deg; longitude, built 1901.</p><br>
<p>The A&C Bakery building, at 102 and 104 West Main Avenue, 47.12757&deg; latitude, -118.38043&deg; longitude, built 1910.</p><br>
<p>The Pioneer State Bank, now USA Bank, at 101 East Main Avenue, 47.12781&deg; latitude, -118.38015&deg; longitude, built 1901.</p><br>
<p>The Ritz Theater, at 107 East Main Avenue, 47.1279&deg; latitude, -118.38003&deg; longitude, built c. 1935.</p><br>
<p>The Hanson Flower&#39;s building, at 105 West Main Avenue, 47.12723&deg; latitude, -118.38004&deg; longitude, built c. 1905.</p><br>
<p>The Burt&#39;s Hardware building, at 107 West Main Avenue, 47.12716&deg; latitude, -118.38007&deg; longitude, built c. 1905.</p><br>
<p>The Sears building, at 109 and 111 West Main Avenue, 47.12708&deg; latitude, -118.38016&deg; longitude, built between 1910 and 1920.</p><br>
<p>The N.H. Greene Building, at 119 West Main Avenue, 47.12687&deg; latitude, -118.38043&deg; longitude, built 1889.</p><br>
<p>The German American Bank, now Columbia Bank, at 201 West Main Avenue, 47.12665&deg; latitude, -118.38068&deg; longitude, built 1904.</p><br>
<p>The Orris Dorman Building, at 203 and 205 West Main Avenue, 47.12658&deg; latitude, -118.38079&deg; longitude, built 1904.</p><br>
<p>The A.F. Rosenoff Building, at 207 West Main Avenue, 47.12649&deg; latitude, -118.38088&deg; longitude, built 1901.</p><br>
<p>The Myers Dry Goods Store Building, at 209 and 211 West Main Avenue, 47.12642&deg; latitude, -118.38097&deg; longitude, built c. 1901-1904.</p><br>
<p>The building at 213 West Main Avenue, 47.12636&deg; latitude, -118.38108&deg; longitude, built c. 1901-1904.</p><br>
<p>The Adams County Bank Building, at 301 West Main Avenue, 47.12597&deg; latitude, -118.38152&deg; longitude, built 1892.</p><br>
<p>The Kalkwarf Motor Company Building, 101 to 107 North Adams Street, 47.12569&deg; latitude, -118.38127&deg; longitude, built 1910.</p><br>
<p>The E.D. Gilson Building, at 218 West Railroad Avenue, 47.12598&deg; latitude, -118.38084&deg; longitude, built 1904.</p><br>
<p>The Journal Building, at 214 and 216 West Railroad Avenue, 47.12607&deg; latitude, -118.38068&deg; longitude, built c. 1910-1920.</p><br>
<p>The Kalkwarf Hardware Store, at 210 West Railroad Avenue, 47.12624&deg; latitude, -118.38058&deg; longitude, built c. 1910-1920.</p><br>
<p>The Northern Pacific Railway Depot, now hosting the Railroad Depot Museum, at 201 West Railroad Avenue, 47.12638&deg; latitude, -118.37989&deg; longitude, built 1909-1910.</p><br>
