<p>The Thomas Hynes House on East Main Street  in Aspen, Colorado, United States, is a wooden building from the 1880s. In 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as part of a group of historic properties in the city.</p><br>
<p>It is one of Aspens remaining miners cottages from its early years as a silver boomtown. Since it has never been significantly altered, it is considered one of the best examples remaining. Today it is used as one of Nobu Matsuhisa&#39;s eponymous Japanese restaurants.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house occupies a small lot at the southeast corner of East Main and South Monarch streets. The area is generally built up, where the commercial development of downtown Aspen begins to transition to the residential West End. Most of the neighboring buildings on that side of the street are small one-story structures, either commercial or, like the Hynes house, former houses adapted for commercial purposes. Across the street are generally taller buildings, with the Hotel Jerome, also listed on the Register, at the opposite end of the block. The terrain is generally flat, between the foot of Aspen Mountain to the south and the Roaring Fork River to the north.</p><br>
<p>The building itself is an L-shaped one-story clapboard-sided wood frame structure on a sandstone foundation. It is topped by a steeply pitched cross-gabled shingled roof pierced by brick chimneys in the center of each section. The chimneys have corbeling below their caps.</p><br>
<p>On the north (front) and west are porches, some with trim reflecting its current use. The north porch has a flat roof with ornate frieze supported by pillars. Next to it is a large double-hung window with pent-roof top. On the west is a large bay window, supported by sawn wood brackets.</p><br>
<p>Inside the building has been completely remodeled for the restaurant. It follows the Japanese aesthetics of the food. The owner describes the interior as "a modern design that is cool and urban to the nth degree".</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Aspen was founded in the late 1870s by prospectors drawn over the Continental Divide into the Roaring Fork Valley from Leadville. They sought, and found, silver in the mountains. The small settlement at the confluence of Castle Creek became the busiest of the mining camps in the area, soon evolving from a rough collection of tents and log cabins to a permanent and growing city.</p><br>
<p>Miners began building small cottages for themselves to replace the log cabins as they became prosperous. The Hynes house, with its L-shape, steeply pitched cross-gabled roof, porches, and bay window, epitomizes the form. Those cottages were themselves often demolished for larger houses, or, after the collapse of the silver market following the repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act in the Panic of 1893, allowed to fall into neglect during the long "quiet years" that followed until the development of the ski resort in the mid-20th century turned the city&#39;s economy around.</p><br>
<p>Little is known about Hynes beyond that he was a miner, built the house around 1885, then had moved to South Aspen Street sometime before 1893. The next owner, a doctor, made several improvements in 1892. During the quiet years, a sale for $500 ($ in modern dollars) was recorded in 1918 to Homer VanLoon, Pitkin County&#39;s first welfare director.</p><br>
<p>As the city grew again, the house remained standing. It passed through several owners and was never seriously altered. In 1998 chef Nobu Matsuhisa, who had become famous for blending elements of Western and Latin American cuisine into traditional Japanese dishes, remodeled the house and opened one of the restaurants bearing his last name there. It has since become one of the city&#39;s most popular and best-regarded eateries. Reservations must be made a month in advance.</p><br>
<p>The ZCBJ Hall, also known as Community Hall, is a building in Haugen, Wisconsin, United States, that was built in 1910. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. It historically served as a meeting hall for the Czech community.</p><br>
<p>It is a 50 x single-story frame building with a stage and with a partial basement. It was built in three stages, the first believed to have been by the local members of the Zapadni Cesko Bratrska Jednota (ZCBJ), or Western Czech</p><br>
<p>Fraternal Union, around 1913. It was doubled in size the next year. A 1915 expansion added the last third of the building, including the stage and a basement, and added a new roof joining all three sections. The first 50 ft has just a wooden foundation; the last section has a concrete foundation.</p><br>
<p>Battleby is a country house in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. It is located in the parish of Redgorton, 1 km west of Luncarty and 6 km north of Perth. The 19th-century house is occupied by Scottish Natural Heritage, and is protected as a category B listed building. The grounds are listed on the Inventory of Gardens and Designed Landscapes in Scotland, the national listing of significant gardens, for their important plant collection.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The estate is named after the Battle of Luncarty, recorded by Hector Boece as a battle between Scots and Danes in 990, although a later historian has doubted whether such a battle occurred.</p><br>
<p>The Battleby estate was acquired in the 19th century by the Maxtone-Graham family. The house was built around 1862, to designs by the Perth-based architect David Smart. The design of the house shows the influence of Alexander Thomson. The Grahams also laid out the grounds of the house, and planted many of the trees which still remain.</p><br>
<p>Later in the 19th century the house was leased, and served as a hospital during the First World War. Battleby was bought in 1947 by Sir Alexander Cross, who built up an important plant collection in the grounds. In 1970 the house was purchased by the Countryside Commission for Scotland, a public body with responsibility for natural heritage, and was converted for use as their national headquarters, with a visitor centre designed by Morris and Steedman. In 1992, the Countryside Commission for Scotland was replaced with a new body, Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH). SNH later moved their main headquarters to Inverness, and Battleby now serves as a local office within the Tayside and Grampian Area Management Unit.</p><br>
<p>The Natimuk-Douglas Wetlands comprise a chain of freshwater, brackish and saline wetlands in the semi-arid Wimmera region of western Victoria. Australia. They are important for waterbirds.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The wetlands lie between the small towns of Goroke on the west and Natimuk on the east, while the Little Desert National Park lies to the north and the Grampians National Park to the south-east. The Wimmera experiences hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters; waterbird numbers peak between July and November in most years, especially when there has been good local rainfall and when inland Australia is dry. Most of the wetlands are ephemeral and subject to seasonal flooding, but some retain water throughout the year. Many of the wetlands are fringed by saltmarsh; other plant communities such as sedgeland and paperbark forest also occur. Most of the wetlands have some protection in small, individual reserves surrounded by farmland, though seasonal waterfowl hunting is permitted on many.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The area has been identified by BirdLife International as a highly fragmented 65 km Important Bird Area (IBA) because it has supported over 1% of the world populations of Australian shelducks, banded stilts, red-necked avocets and red-capped plovers. Other waterbirds sometimes using the site in moderate numbers include musk ducks, black swans, grey teals, hoary-headed grebes and sharp-tailed sandpipers. The saltmarsh provides foraging habitat for blue-winged parrots. red-tailed black cockatoos, flame robins and diamond firetails are occasionally seen.</p><br>
<p>Otgontenger  is the highest peak in the Khangai Mountains in Mongolia. Its summit is currently calculated to reach an elevation of 4,008 meters above mean sea level . The mountain is located in Zavkhan Province and is the only peak in the Khangai range that is capped with a permanent glacier. The south face of Mount Otgontenger is the most extensive granite wall in Mongolia.</p><br>
<p>Since the introduction of Buddhism, traditional Mongolian beliefs have held that wrathful deities inhabit many of Mongolia&#39;s sacred mountains. Ochirvaani is particularly associated with Otgontenger.</p><br>
<h2>Accidents</h2><br>
<p>In August 1963, an Ilyushin 14 aircraft crashed into the side of the mountain while on route.</p><br>
<p>In October 2017, 27 hikers climbed the mountain and only 10 of them came back. They requested the rescue team a day after the other 17 went "missing". The rescue operation took about 4 days with power of 250 men. Rescuers found all 17 of them severely injured by both from the fall damage and from frostbite. However, it&#39;s still argued that some of the victims survived the fall and still tried to send distress signals by using flashlights. But it was too late and dark for the operation to continue.</p><br>
<p>Police officer says that there was no chance to rescue them</p><br>
<p>The Old Naval Hospital is a historic building located at 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, Southeast Washington, D.C., in the Capitol Hill neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In March 1864, president Abraham Lincoln asked Congress to construct the Hospital. It was constructed in July 1866, for $115,000.</p><br>
<p>Designed to accommodate 50 patients, the new hospital had good ventilation and running water, and gas lighting.</p><br>
<p>In 1906, the hospital moved to its newly constructed facility at Observatory Hill, 23rd Street, and E Streets, N.W.</p><br>
<p>In 1922, the building became the Temporary Home for Veterans of All Wars.</p><br>
<p>The property is still owned by the federal government but its jurisdiction was transferred to the District of Columbia in 1962.</p><br>
<p>The building was vacant for many years.</p><br>
<p>The Friends of the Old Naval Hospital has raised money to restore the building, at an estimated cost of $12 million.</p><br>
<p>The plan is for the Hill Center, to be a facility for education and community life on Capitol Hill.</p><br>
<p>Restoration started in June, 2010.</p><br>
<p>The 1983 movie "D.C. Cab" filmed inside the building, using it as the set for a hospital scene with Sampson (Mr. T) and his niece.</p><br>
<p>Berkswell windmill is a four bladed tower mill constructed in 1826 on the site of a former post mill, in the village of Balsall Common, in the parish of Berkswell, in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, West Midlands. The windmill is built in brick with a wooden boat shaped cap, and is turned into the wind by an endless chain winding mechanism. It was historically used to grind flour and animal feeds, and in 1927 the milling wheels were adapted to run via a diesel engine, not reliant upon the variable nature of the wind. The mill was finally closed in 1948, after the last miller John Hammond died.</p><br>
<p>The windmill is a grade II Star listed building and a scheduled monument. It is in private ownership. It is currently closed as it is undergoing extensive repairs and maintenance.( REF: Friends of the Berkswell Windmill). It was formerly restored between 1973 and 1975, by the Millwright Derek Ogden, for its then owners George and Betty Field, and was complete, with sails and all internal machinery and tools for making flour and animal feed. However, after the death of the owner the windmill again fell into some disrepair until purchased by the current owner in 2006. It is currently undergoing further extensive restoration work.</p><br>
<p>The refurbishment work includes work to the perimeter wall, tower, cap and new sails. (ref: Friends of the Berkswell Windmill)</p><br>
<p>The Hannah Maria Libby Smith House, also known as the Arnel Milner Home, is a historic house located in Provo, Utah, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Hannah Maria Libby Smith House * 315 East Center Street * Provo, Utah</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1878, this home is one of the best preserved vernacular residences in Provo. Hannah Maria Libby Smith was the wife of George Albert Smith, an apostle of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Their son, Charles Warren Smith, built the home during the three-year period. Hannah lived the rest of her life, raised five children and her nephew, John Henry Smith, from the time he was two. His son, President George Albert Smith, later became a president of the church. The Hannah Maria Libby Smith House was designated to the Provo City Historic Landmarks Register on March 21, 1996, and to the National Register of Historic Places in Utah County, Utah on February 14, 1980. It has been passed down through the family.</p><br>
<h3>Structure</h3><br>
<p>A one story orange brick home, the Hannah Smith house is built on a rubble rock foundation. The home includes gabled roofs, double hung windows, original glass and woodwork, and wood siding for the dining room, kitchen and bathroom areas. The most unusual decor is the Federal-style lintel with brackets topping all of the windows, which are unusually large six-on-six windows. The home is still primarily original with many authentic features highlighted in a 2006 restoration. The original four rooms of brick were augmented by two more in wood which connected with the Granary building at the back of the house by 1890. The raised granary has a back door extant which was used for deliveries, but is too far off the ground to have been used for over 75 years. Before the harvest, the area was used as a summer kitchen. Although the back porch is a replacement of its predecessor, the front porch is original with the house, The two fireplaces served rooms on both front and back with brick made in Utah, and one has been restored to the original oak-veining. The parlor shared a fireplace with a bedroom; the central living area adjoined Hannah&#39;s bedroom. The twelve-foot high cove ceilings are original, with one chandelier dating to the 1920s. The floors are also original, and were sanded, patched and refinished during the restoration. The panel above the built-in china cupboard in the living room was concealed until discovered and restored in 2006.</p><br>
<h3>Hannah Maria Libby Smith</h3><br>
<p>Hannah Maria Libby was born June 29, 1828 in Ossipee, Grafton, New Hampshire. She and her sister, Sarah Ann Libby (who was ten years older) married George Albert Smith, an apostle serving in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Sarah on 20 November 1845, Hannah on 26 January 1846 in the city of Nauvoo, Illinois. At the time she was his sixth wife, her sister his fifth. Leaving her home in Illinois with her husband in 1846 to migrate to Utah, she and many other families waited at Winter Quarters, Iowa, while her husband made the rest of the journey before returning for her in 1847 to transport them there. She traveled with her sister and fellow wife, Lucy Merserve Smith () in the George A. Smith/Dan Jones Company that left Kanesville June 22, 1849 and arrived in Salt Lake October 27, 1849. Her sister was sickly in Winter Quarters and traveled in the wagon while Hannah herded cattle and cooked and took care of children. Once in Salt Lake, they shared a room until a home could be built. Sarah died 12 June 1851 when her only child was two, and Hannah raised him as her own. In 1852, George A. Smith was called to settle the southern area of Utah, and took Hannah and Lucy to Utah Valley and settled them in what was to become the city of Provo. Lucys two children had died very young, but she and Hannah were a good team. The carpet that they wove for the Provo Tabernacle was so uniform that no one could tell where ones work left off and the other began. When their husband became ill, Lucy moved back to Salt Lake City to take care of him. He died 1 September 1875.</p><br>
<p>Hannah&#39;s oldest child, was born 16 January 1849 in Carbunca/Kanesville, Pottawatamie, Iowa, four months after his half-brother, John Henry. Sarah Maria was born 1 January 1856 in Provo during a very hard winter. Her sister, Eunice Albertine was born four years later, 6 March 1860 in Provo, but died 4 October 1861 in the fall of the next year. George Albert Smith, the second of that name was born 7 April 1862 in Provo, but also died young on 28 October 1863. Hannah had Grace Libby Smith on 14 May 1865, four years after the Provo Tabernacle was completed.</p><br>
<p>"The Smith wives, though often geographically scattered, cooperated economically, those in outlying settlements sometimes sending handwoven fabric to wives in Salt Lake City who sent back dyed cloth or sewn clothing. Many plural wives were economically independent or interdependent because of their husbands’ intensive involvement in missionary and colonization efforts"</p><br>
<h2>History of the home and the women of 315 East Center</h2><br>
<p>After the death of George A. Smith in 1875, Hannah sold her previous home on 2nd North 5th West to finance this one while it was being built. She lived here until she died in 1906.</p><br>
<p>Her youngest daughter, Grace Libby Smith, married Joseph Edwin Cheever (born 26 February 1865) on 12 June 1889 in Manti, Sanpete County, Utah and they moved in with Hannah. The picture is of Hannah and Grace & Joseph Cheever and some of Hannah&#39;s 26 grandchildren in front of her house at 3rd East and Center. Grace Libby stayed in the home until she in turn died in 1939. Of her eight children, two—Grace Smith Cheever, born 8 August 1901 and Tirzah Libby Cheever, born 7 October 1903, llved in the house from their births until their deaths.</p><br>
<p>Grace cared for her ailing mother and father and her younger sister, Tirzah who was handicapped and confined to a wheelchair. She was an extraordinary woman who personified the word "grace" itself during her many years of service. She worked as an executive secretary at and was active in womens business organizations. She served in many positions with the Young Womens organization of the LDS Church, as well as served on the Young womens General Board for many years. She helped organize and build a large lodge behind Mount Timpanogos (near Sundance) that was a young womens camp for decades until acquired by BYU. On 22 September 1951 she married Arnel Seaton Milner, born 9 January 1896. She was as lovely as her name. They kept house until she died in there in 1974, and Arnel Milner passed it on to daughter Beth Milner Raynes when he died on 19 October 1987. Arnel Milner made arrangements to sell it once to the Utah County Heritage Foundation as a place for women to "meet in small groups, talk read, write, study and create." The home still possessed its original interior and furnishings, including furniture that had come across the plains. The funding didn&#39;t come through, and Beth and her husband, Lincoln Raynes lived in it for a number of years, as well as rented it to students and families.</p><br>
<p>Their daughter, Marybeth received the house from her parents in 2003. Because of her close connection with her grandmother, as well as living in the house several times as a young person, she decided to restore the house, keeping in mind historical accuracy. After three years, she held an Open House upon its completion. She continues to provide access for the Provo Tour of Historic Homes. Utah Valley Visitor&#39;s Bureau publishes a self-guided booklet called "Historic Provo" yearly.</p><br>
<p>The house today is focused on women and their crafts today as it was 135 years ago. Harmony Provo offers classes as well as the materials for women&#39;s home industries.</p><br>
<p>Hannah&#39;s House continues to be a valuable historical link in the city of Provo today.</p><br>
<p>The George Angus and Martha Ansil Beebe House is a historic house located in Provo, Utah, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>George Angus and Martha Beebe House * 489 West 100 South * Provo, Utah</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1903 exemplifying the Queen Anne Style, the Angus Beebe House was built for Angus G. Beebe. “The style and substance of the home suggest the aspirations to fashion of many second-generation Provo residents (Historic Provo p. 26).” This home was entered in the national register for the state of Utah on October 31, 1980, and was designated to the Provo Historic Landmarks Registry on March 7, 1996.</p><br>
<h3>Physical Appearance</h3><br>
<p>Built in 1903, The Angus Beebe House is clearly influenced by the Queen Anne Style, as illustrated by the square, stubby tower with bell-cast roof which extends through the porch roof. The significance of the architecture of this home is not only in the Queen Anne Style as mentioned, but in the complex roof and the short projections from the mains section of the house which creates the slight cruciform plan. The simpleness of the decor of the home, such as the bracketed cornices and the gable sections reflect both modesty and style. Another interesting fact about the structure of this home is that it helps create a symmetrical corner lot. "The two street facades are near mirror images of each other from the corner of the porch to the gabled projection.</p><br>
<h3>George and Martha Beebe</h3><br>
<p>George Angus Beebe, the man who originally owned this house, was the son of a flour-milling family. Born to parents George Beebe and Hester Ann Rogers Beebe, George was born on February 29, 1872, in Pok City, Iowa. Beebe was at one time employed as a bookkeeper of the Provo Roller Mills and later a founder of the Beebe Lumber company. Eventually, Beebe married a woman named Martha Ansel Barrett Beebe, who died in 1946. George died two years earlier at the age of 72, on March 15, 1944. The home in which he lived is still in good operating condition, especially the interior.</p><br>
<p>The Charles E. Davies House is a historic house located in Provo, Utah. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Charles E. Davies House * 388 West 300 North * Provo, Utah</h2><br>
<p>The Charles Davies House was built about 1885. “The house, a double-gable H-plan type, is the only example of the H-plan in Provo and its distinctive Victorian bay windows make it one of the best examples of such houses in the state (Historic Provo p. 8).” The Charles E. Davies House was designated to the Provo City Historic Landmarks Registry on March 7, 1996.</p><br>
<h3>Structure</h3><br>
<p>Built in the double-gable H-plan style, this home is very representative of the average home in this area during the period in which it was built. There are several windows on the front facade of the house. The two windows closest to the small porch in the front are relatively simple and slim, while the two double-hung sash windows on the front facade have a more elegant appearance and are each enhanced by a relieving arch hovering over them, complete with raised extrados. The front door used to be aligned under the porch, but has subsequently been bricked in. The west wall is adjacent to a gable.</p><br>
<h3>Charles E. Davies</h3><br>
<p>Born in the country of Wales in 1859, Davies was a farmer by profession, and after he converted to the LDS Church he immigrated to the United States. Settling down in Provo, Utah, he married Rachel E. Davis in Salt Lake City.</p><br>
<h3>History of House Ownership</h3><br>
<p>David L. Van Wagenen purchased the home in 1907 from Charles E. Davies, and continued to live there until 1922 even after he sold it in 1912. The house then passed to Eliza Smith Stewart, and then to Thomas Callister in the year 1918. In 1920 the title passed to Georgianna Parry in 1920, who sold the house three years later to Clyde Bunnell. The Bunnells retained the home until 1929 when the property was attained by Ray Barrett. Madeline Hales purchased the house in 1945, and the very same year sold it to Arthur S. Roberts. The title went to Clark S. Nelson in the Year 1950, where it remained until it was sold to Dr. Orlo Allen in 1956. Allen sold the home to Howard L. Jensen in 1960, who sold it to Louis B. Jones later that year.</p><br>
<p>The L. S. Good House or Good Mansion is a historic home located in Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. It was built in 1904 and was placed in the National Register singularly on November 28, 1988 and as part of the East Wheeling Historic District on November 22, 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lippmann Gut was born in Gailingen on the border of Switzerland and Germany in 1855 to German speaking Jewish parents. He immigrated to America in 1873 at the age of eighteen. He arrived in Galveston, Texas with no possessions or funds. Shortly after arriving he changed his name to Lee Samuel Good to sound more native. He moved to Wheeling (it is claimed he walked the entire length) and opened a business selling imported and domestic dry goods, oils, fabrics and carpets. His store was located on Main Street in the Cotton Building but moved further down Main Street after the turn of the century.</p><br>
<p>He built his new house on 14th Street in 1904 at a cost of $7,000 in the midst of his new fortune. Good employed Millard F. Giesey, a Wheeling architect to construct his lavish residence. Giesey had already established his name in Wheeling in the later years of the 19th Century with architect Edward B. Franzheim and constructed a wide variety of buildings and homes stretching across a wide portion of West Virginia.</p><br>
<p>The home was completed in 1905 and Good spent another 22 years in residence until his death in 1927. During those years he would entertain his employees with parties at his home and donated freely though anonymously as he wanted the donations to be discreet. Wheeling Park received most of his charity and its twin man-made lakes are credited to Good&#39;s funding. When Good died nearly every store in Wheeling closed for his funeral out of respect for the prominent city leader.</p><br>
<p>The house passed to one of Good&#39;s sons, Samuel Lee Good, who continued his fathers charity work and served on the Wheeling Park Commission from 1933 to 1972. Another son, Sidney, directed his fathers business. Samuel lived in the house until 1920.</p><br>
<p>The house is currently owned by Dominick Cerrone, who operates Good Mansion Wines out of the historic home.</p><br>
<h2>Appearance</h2><br>
<p>The Good Mansion is a three-story Classical Revival style brick townhouse. It features a full-width porch with pairs and clusters of fluted wooden columns on sandstone plinths. The third story facade has an engaged Ionic order brick colonnade. It has a sumptuous interior.</p><br>
<p>Dendles Wood is an area of protected oak-beech woodland located on the southern edge of Dartmoor, in the English county of Devon. Forming part of the Dartmoor Special Area of Conservation, the wood is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and 30 hectares of it has been designated a national nature reserve. It is one of five woodlands within Dartmoor that have been protected as national nature reserves. Dendles Wood and the adjacent Hawns Wood are sometimes known collectively as Hawns and Dendles. The wood supports a variety of flora and fauna, representative of upland oakwoods. In particular, it has a rich variety of moss and lichen, and several breeding bird species.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Dendles Wood is situated on the southern edge of Dartmoor, covering the slopes of the valley around the confluence of Broadall Lake and Ford Brook with the River Yealm. It is about 3 km north of the village of Cornwood. This village is the nearest stopping point for travel to the wood by car or by bus. In total, Dendles Wood covers 50.4 hectare. The River Yealm runs through the middle of the wood. A path leads through the adjacent Hawns Wood onto open moorland.</p><br>
<p>The wood is located at an altitude of between 160 m and 280 m.</p><br>
<p>The parent rock is granite, with some slate in the southern parts of the wood.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<h3>Flora</h3><br>
<p>Dendles Wood is a representative example of upland oakwood, consisting predominantly of pedunculate oak. However, there are also a number of beech trees, located to the east and south-west of the wood and growing in number. Beech is a genus that is not thought to be a native to any other part of Dartmoor. There are also a few species of shrub found throughout the wood, namely the common hazel, European holly and rowan.</p><br>
<p>As with Dartmoor&#39;s other upland oakwoods, the cool, moist and well-lit environment has enabled a rich variety of mosses and lichens to grow. Natural England has established a monitoring system for the latter, due to the presence of two particularly rare species: Graphina ruiziana, of which there is a greater quantity than any other South West location, and Cetrelia cetrarioides, which is found in other Dartmoor woodlands as well. The more common species in the wood are Parmelia laevigatum and Usnea florida. In terms of moss, Rhytidiadelphus squarrosus and Thuidium tamariscinum are both present. Other varieties, such as Isothecium myosuroides, Dicranum scoparium, Polytrichum formosum and Plagiothecium undulatum, can be found on rocks.</p><br>
<h3>Fauna</h3><br>
<p>Dendles Wood is home to a breeding colony of barbastelles, one of Britain&#39;s rarest species of bat. As they were first discovered in the area in 2002,</p><br>
<p>Several breeding bird species, typical in upland oakwoods, can be seen in Dendles Wood. Species include the common buzzard, wood warbler, redstart and pied flycatcher, as well as the white-throated dipper and grey wagtail that nest alongside the woodland rivers. A nestbox scheme for the pied flycatcher operates in Dendles and a few other Dartmoor woodlands.</p><br>
<p>Butterflies found in the woods include the silver-washed fritillary and green hairstreak species. Red deer and fallow deer are both frequent visitors to the area.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Dendles Wood is an ancient woodland. According to the title deeds of Blachford Manor, the wood was formerly known as Daniels, probably in reference to a former landowner; Dendles is almost certainly a corruption of this name. For much of its history since the medieval period, the wood has been used for coppice. In particular, when mines on Dartmoor were active, oak coppice was used to produce charcoal for smelting. At the end of the nineteenth century, with the decline in the mining industry, the demand for coppice products ceased and Dendles Wood was no longer used for this purpose.</p><br>
<p>Instead, Hawns and Dendles, which was part of the Blachford Estate, became a popular tourist location, opened to the public on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. At the turn of the century, the United Devon Association described it as one of the most charming sylvan spots in the whole of Devonshire.</p><br>
<p>During the 1930s, Dendles Wood was also passed through as part of the Dartmoor Hunt, when starting at Wisdome Mill or Cornwood Common.</p><br>
<p>In October 1965, the Nature Conservancy purchased 29 hectare of the wood from the Economic Forestry Group, to create the Dendles Wood National Nature Reserve. Since this point, access to the Dendles Wood reserve has been restricted; permits for access are granted by the Natural England Site Manager. Restrictions also apply to livestock, which are not permitted within the wood; heavy grazing in the past has adversely affected the shrub layer. In 1986, the wood was notified as a Site of Special Scientific Interest, which was later expanded with part of the Hawns Wood and High House Moor SSSI.</p><br>
<h2>Literary descriptions</h2><br>
<p>In his 1909 novel The Three Brothers, Dartmoor author Eden Phillpotts described Dendles Wood as follows:</p><br>
<p>In the glen beneath spread Dendles Wood, with fringes of larch and pine hiding the River Yealm and spreading a verdant medley of deep summer green in the lap of the grey hills.</p><br>
<p>The Botten Cabin, also known as the Wilder Patrol Cabin, was built in 1929 in the Elwha River valley for Henry H. Botten.The hunting cabin is located in the back country of what in 1938 became Olympic National Park in the USA state of Washington. The remote backcountry cabin was built by local settler Grant Humes for Botten, who used it until his death in 1953. Botten&#39;s widow continued to apply for special use permits into the 1960s. More recently, the National Park Service has used the cabin as a backcountry patrol cabin. The cabin is one of only two former private hunting camps left in Olympic National Park.</p><br>
<p>The cabin is constructed of logs with unusually fine dovetail-notched corners. The one-story cabin measures 11 ft by 17 ft and rests on a dry-laid rubblestone foundation. The gabled roof extends to create a porch at one end, with wood shakes on the gable, with a wood shingle roof. A porch once extended across the long side of the house with a shed roof, but was damaged by a falling tree and removed. The cabin retains some of its original furnishings.</p><br>
<p>The Botten Cabin was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 2007.</p><br>
<p>Ketron Island is an island and a census-designated place  in Pierce County, Washington, United States. The island had a population of 24 persons according to the 2000 census, and 17 persons at the 2010 census.</p><br>
<p>Ketron Island is located in southern Puget Sound just off the shoreline from Steilacoom. It lies between the mainland near the city of Steilacoom and Anderson Island near the extreme south end of Puget Sound. The island has a land area of 0.893 km² (220.67 acres).</p><br>
<p>The island was originally named "Kittson Island" by Charles Wilkes during the Wilkes Expedition of 1838-1842, but was misspelled "Ketron" by his cartographers. The island was named for William Kittson, an employee of the Hudson&#39;s Bay Company, who supervised the construction of Fort Nisqually in 1833 and served at its chief factor.</p><br>
<p>Ketron is accessible only by ferry. The Steilacoom / Anderson Island / Ketron Island run is the only one operated by Pierce County. Ferry service to Ketron is available four times per day. The ferry runs between 5:45 AM to 8:00 PM Monday through Thursday and to 10:30 PM on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays.</p><br>
<p>The ferry "Steilacoom II" was put into service in January 2007 to work side by side with the aging ferry "Christine Anderson". The Steilacoom II still serves with the "Christine Anderson" to transport islanders from both Ketron and Anderson Island.</p><br>
<p>Paviken is a lake in Västergarn on the western side of the island of Gotland. The lake is a popular birding and fishing site.</p><br>
<p>The lake is drained by the river Idå. The lake and its surroundings form a nature reserve which is more populated by birds than any other reserve on the island. In 1994, the reserve was designated a Natura 2000 area. During spring and autumn it is a stop-over site for migratory birds, a total of 240 species has been observed in the area. The lake offers fishing principally for perch and pike.</p><br>
<p>During the Viking Age, Paviken was a sheltered bay and cove connected to the Baltic Sea by a narrow strait. It formed a natural harbour which was improved by jetties. These were built during the 8th century and were used for about 300 years until the harbour became too shallow. Subsequently the harbour and commercial activity were moved to nearby Västergarn harbor. Dating from the early 1960s, archaeological investigations have found remains of port facilities, buildings and burial grounds.</p><br>
<p>The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd is an historic Carpenter Gothic style Episcopal church building located at 1001 Hearst Street at Ninth Street  in Berkeley, California. Built in 1878, it was designed in the Carpenter Gothic style of architecture by architect Charles L. Bugbee who was associated with his father Samuel C. Bugbee in the San Francisco firm of S. C. Bugbee & Son. Charles L. Bugbee patterned it after the Carpenter Gothic style Mendocino Presbyterian Church, which the firm had designed in 1867. While all of the Mendocino church&#39;s exterior walls are of board and batten siding, only the upper walls of Good Shepherd are board and batten while the lower walls are of Dutch lap weatherboarding. Both churches feature tall side-entrance bell towers, steep gabled roofs and lancet windows, but according to writer Daniella Thompson: "...the Church of the Good Shepherd is considerably more ornate and playful than its severe Presbyterian model..." On December 15, 1975 Good Shepherd became the second building in Berkeley to be named an Historic Landmark. On December 1, 1986, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Church of the Good Shepherd-Episcopal.</p><br>
<h2>Current status</h2><br>
<p>The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd is still an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of California. The current priest-in-charge is the Reverend Este Gardner Cantor. It&#39;s associate pastor is the well-known theologian William Countryman.</p><br>
<p>Paoay Lake, locally known as Dacquel a Danum , is a lake in the municipality of Paoay in northwestern Luzon in the Philippines. It is the largest lake in the province of Ilocos Norte and one of the largest natural lakes in the area.</p><br>
<p>Historically known as Lago de Nanguyudan, the lake supposedly was the site of a prosperous barangay called San Juan de Sahagún (Saint John of Sahagún) that sank after an earthquake. The freshwater lake and its 1 km surroundings was declared a national park in 1969 by virtue of Republic Act 5631. In 1978, through Presidential Decree 1554, the park was reduced to an area of 340 hectare concentrated on the lake itself around its highest water level.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The lake covers a surface area of 386 hectare with an average depth of 6 m. It is bounded by the barangays of Suba in the north, Nanguyudan in the northeast, Pasil in the east, Sungadan in the south, and Nagbacalan in the west near the border with the city of Laoag and some 3 km away from the sea. It was formed as a result of coastal progradation and the subsequent development of a sand dune barrier during the late Quaternary Period. The lake has no tributaries. Most of the lake&#39;s inflow consists of groundwater and surface runoff from surrounding hills during rainy season.</p><br>
<h2>Biota</h2><br>
<p>The lake is inhabited by phytoplankton, macrophytes and zooplankton which includes 8 species of copepods, 8 species of cladocerans and 11 species of rotifers. Fish recorded include tilapia, catfish and mudfish. Some aquatic plants also inhabit the lake such as water spinach, water hyacinth, tape grass and Buntót-pusà (lit. "cat&#39;s tail", Dysophylla auricularia).</p><br>
<p>On the slopes around and above the lake grow ipil-ipil, acacia, gmelina and banaba plants. The park is also home to avifauna species such as the white-collared kingfisher, brahminy kite, and Philippine duck, including some migratory birds such as the grey heron, osprey, and great egret.</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>Paoay Lake is one of the many tourist attractions in Ilocos Norte. Some of its most visited sights include the Malacañang ti Amianan (Malacañang of the North), a historical house museum built by the family of former president Ferdinand Marcos, the 18-hole Paoay Golf Course, and a sports complex. Also located in the vicinity are Fort Ilocandia Resort and Casino and Plaza del Norte Hotel and Convention Center. It is accessible via the Paoay Lake Road from the main highway and the Laoag–Balaccad Road from the Laoag International Airport.</p><br>
<p>Aside from tourism, small-scale aquaculture has also been introduced as livelihood of the local townsfolk residing in the area. Fish pens primarily of tilapia can be found near the shores. The lake&#39;s status as a protected area, however, enables the government to monitor and control human activity in the lake in order to prevent misuse of its resources.</p><br>
<p>The Elkhorn Guard Station, also known as the Elkhorn Ranger Station, comprises four buildings in the backcountry of Olympic National Park, Washington. The station was built by the USA Forest Service between 1930 and 1934, before the establishment of the national park, when the lands were part of Olympic National Forest . The structures were designed in the Forest Service&#39;s interpretation of the National Park Service rustic style, using native materials and construction techniques. The complex was built using labor from the Public Works Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps. The Elkhorn Guard Station is one of five surviving USFS-built guard stations.</p><br>
<p>The chief structure is the residence, built in 1933 to replace a smaller cabin that had previously served as the guard station.The 12 ft by 16 ft cabin is built of peeled logs on a stone foundation with a gable roof. One end of the roof overhangs at the gable to form a porch supported by log posts. A shed roof on the opposite elevation shelters the front door. An woodshed was built nearby in 1934, of frame construction. A barn was built in 1933 by Civilian Conservation Corps laborers, 20 ft by 20 ft in size with four stalls, a manger and a hay rack. The log barn was relocated in 1996 due to changes in the course of the nearby Elwha River. An open-fronted shelter was constructed in the early 1930s, one of six built at the time, and the only survivor. The 14 ft square shelter is saltbox-shaped with a wood floor and built-in bunk beds. The shelter was relocated at the same time as the barn.</p><br>
<p>The Elkhorn Guard Station was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Alexander Crummell School is an Elizabethan Revival school building, located at 1900 Gallaudet Street and Kendall Street, Northeast, Washington, D.C., in the Ivy City neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was designed by Snowden Ashford in 1910, and named for educator Alexander Crummell.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1911 by Allan T. Howlson, for $44,987.00.</p><br>
<p>It was dedicated on November 23, 1911. It was closed in 1977. A community group used the school for a preschool, library, job training and daycare center. During the 1990s, the property was used by an automobile auctioneer.</p><br>
<p>In 2012 the District government, under Mayor Grey, decided to relocate tour bus parking from Union Station to the Crummell School, paving the schoolyard, fencing-in the property, and adding pylons to protect the historic building from buses running into it. Empower DC sued the DC government, and won injunctions preventing the city from actually using the historic schoolyard, dedicated to the teaching of African Americans, as a parking lot. The city, blocked from using it as a tour bus parking lot, dropped the tour bus plan in 2016, instead putting an RFP out for private developers to bid on.</p><br>
<p>It was listed by the D.C. Historic Preservation Review Board, on May 23, 2002.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, in 2003.</p><br>
<p>In 2016, it was part of a redevelopment plan.</p><br>
<p>The Abraham River  also known as Adonis River, is a small river in the Mount Lebanon Governorate in Lebanon, with a length of about 14 mi. The river emerges from a huge cavern, the Afqa Grotto, nearly 5,000 ft above sea level before it drops steeply through a series of falls and passes through a sheer gorge through the mountains. It passes through the town of Nahr Ibrahim before emptying into the Mediterranean Sea. The city takes its name from the river .</p><br>
<p>The ancient city of Byblos stood near its outlet and was a site for the veneration of Adonis, the god of love, rebirth and beauty in Phoenician Mythology. He was said to have been killed near the river by a boar sent by Ares, the god of war (or by Ares himself disguised as a boar, depending on the version). According to the myth, Adonis&#39;s blood flowed in the river, making the water reddish for centuries and spawning a carpet of scarlet buttercups along the river&#39;s banks. In reality, the river flows red each February due to the volume of soil washed off the mountains by heavy winter rains, making it appear that the water is filled with blood.</p><br>
<p>Due to the river&#39;s mythological connections, it was revered in ancient times and its valley contains the remains of numerous temples and shrines. Even today, local people hang out clothes of sick people at a ruined temple near the river&#39;s source in the hopes of effecting cures.</p><br>
<p>Tsambagarav  is a mountain between Khovd Province and Bayan-Olgii Province in western Mongolia, it is a mountain of the Altai Mountains range. It has two peaks, its highest peak "Tsast Uul"  has an elevation of 4,193 m and another peak same named "Tsambagarav" . The mountain is the stand-alone eternally snow-capped mountain of the Mongol Altai and the regional sacred mountain in Mongolia.</p><br>
<p>Massif of Tsast Uul-Tsambagarev. Italians Gianni Pais Becher, Gastone Lorenzini and Elziro Molin climbed in western Mongolia in June and July. In late June, they first climbed Tsast Uul (4250 meters, 13,944 feet), the second highest peak in Mongolia, by the normal route. On June 27, they established Base Camp at 2520 meters north of the massif and the next day placed a camp in an alpine meadow. On June 29 the three Italians with Mongolians Jndonpuncav, Gotov, Samubun and Battulga climbed a 55° ice slope to the summit of unclimbed P 4030 (13,222 feet). On June 30, they moved camp to Tavan Betchir. On July 2, they started for a peak they had seen from Tsast Uul. They had to climb over a ridge to 3800 meters, down the far side, across a glacier and finally up the icy, 60° northwest face of P 4150 (13,616 feet). The summit was reached by Pais Becher, Molin, Mongolians Dorjpalam, Tumentogootch, Damba, Rentsenbyamba, Gaadamba and Vantchig</p><br>
<p>Grindstone Lake is a large freshwater lake located in Dell Grove Township, Pine County, in east central Minnesota approximately 6.5 mi west of Sandstone, Minnesota. The lake is roughly oval shaped being approximately 2 mi in length north to south and 0.5 mi east to west, and a maximum depth of 153 ft. The lake has several small streams that drain the area wetlands and is considered the headwater for the Grindstone River. The lakes name is a translation from the Ojibwe zhiigwanaabikokaa-zaagaigan . Sandstone taken from near the lake was used to make sharpening stones. The lake, North Fork Grindstone River and the lower course of the Grindstone River are depicted on the 1757 Mitchell Map.</p><br>
<p>Grindstone Lake is a popular resort area drawing cabin owners and visitors from the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. It also features a sea plane base, a religious summer camp, and a nature education center.</p><br>
<p>The St. Regis Washington, D.C. known for many years as The Carlton Hotel, is an historic hotel located at 923 16th Street NW in Washington, D.C. two blocks north of the White House.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Beaux-Arts and Neo-Renaissance style luxury hotel was built as The Carlton Hotel in 1926 by local developer Harry Wardman. It was designed by architect Mihran Mesrobian. Cordell Hull lived there during World War II.</p><br>
<p>Wardman was forced to sell the hotel in 1930, due to the Great Depression. The hotel was then resold in 1953 to Sheraton Hotels, which renamed the hotel the Sheraton-Carlton Hotel.</p><br>
<p>The Sheraton-Carlton closed for extensive renovations from December 1987 to October 2, 1988 at a cost of $16 million. Soon after reopening in 1988, the hotel&#39;s name reverted to The Carlton Hotel. In 1999, it was renamed The St. Regis Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<p>Claret Capital, a real estate investment firm based in Dublin, Ireland, purchased the hotel in 2007 for about $170 million. Claret renovated the property in 2008. But the Great Recession significantly hurt both the luxury hotel industry and the Irish economy, and Claret Capital was not able to continue making payments on the loan it secured from Barclays Capital. Barclays foreclosed on the hotel in September 2010, and announced plans to auction off the property.</p><br>
<p>Westbrook Partners, a real estate investment firm based in New York City, purchased the St. Regis from Barclays in May 2011 for $100 million. Westbrook renovated the lobby and main bar in 2013. That same year, the hotel&#39;s high-end restaurant, Adour, closed and was replaced by a more moderately priced establishment, Decanter, which was owned and managed by the hotel itself.</p><br>
<p>"The Pursuit of a Legacy: The Mehran Mesrobian History and Heritage Tour of the St. Regis Washington D.C." – an hour-long history and heritage tour of the property for guests of the hotel and the public - ran on Thursdays and Fridays at 5:00 PM from October 2013 through July 2014. The experience was led by the hotel&#39;s Cultural Attaché. The tour was the first of its kind in Washington D.C. and took participants through the hotel’s extraordinary 87-year history, from its inception to the modern day.</p><br>
<p>Westbrook Partners sold the St. Regis Hotel to Al Rayyan Tourism Investment Co. (ARTIC), a hotel and resort investment company based in Qatar, for an undisclosed sum in July 2015. Included in the purchase was a 22,000 ft&sup2, two-story building next to the hotel. ARTIC said that the hotel would continue to be branded a St. Regis.</p><br>
<p>The hotel is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is designated as a contributing property to the Sixteenth Street Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Ratings</h2><br>
<p>The AAA gave the hotel four diamonds out of five in 2008. The hotel has maintained that rating every year, and received four diamonds again for 2016. Forbes Travel Guide (formerly known as Mobil Guide) awarded the hotel four out of five stars as well in 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Superintendent&#39;s Residence at the Utah State Hospital is a historic house located in at the Utah State Hospital, Provo, Utah, USA. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>This colonial revival style home was built in 1934. It is one of 232 structures built in Utah during the 1930s under the WPA and various New Deal Programs. The Superintendent’s Residence at the Utah State Hospital was designated to the Provo City Historic Landmarks Registry on March 21, 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Historical significance</h2><br>
<p>During the time of the great depression, the State of Utah was hit hard economically; harder than most of the states. The state had an unemployment rate of 36 percent in 1933, which was the fourth highest in the country. The unemployment rate averaged 25 percent over eight years, between 1932 and 1940. Due to this crisis, and the fact that Utah was worse off than other states, Utah received more federal assistance than many other states. Per capita federal spending in Utah in the 1930s was 9th highest among the 48 states.</p><br>
<p>Many buildings were built with the funds now provided by the national government, such as fire stations, city halls, national guard armories, public schools and county courthouses. This building, the Superintendent’s Residence, is historically significant because it represents and helps document the impact of New Deal programs enforced by the federal government during this time of crisis.</p><br>
<h2>Structure</h2><br>
<p>The Superintendent&#39;s Residence was built in 1934 and is a beautiful -story, brick, white house. Inspired by both the Colonial Revival style and the PWA Moderne, this home has a gable roof, a long main section and one-story wings on either side of the main section. Hanging over the entryway is a stylized cornice and frieze, and above these is a balcony. The windows on this home consist of both those of the casement type, which are located on the east side wing, and the windows on the west side wing, which have elliptical fanlight arches. The home is still in good working condition.</p><br>
<p>West Farleigh Hall, previously known as Smith&#39;s Hall, is an 18th-century country house in West Farleigh, Kent.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A house on the site of West Farleigh Hall was owned by the Brewer family from the mid-15th century until 1762 when the house and estate was left by Jane Brewer to her cousin Rev. John Davis, Rector of Hamsey, East Sussex. Davis died in 1766 and the estate passed to his son Sir John Davis who sold it in 1774 to William Perrin. Perrin died in 1820. By 1838, the house was owned by Sir Henry FitzHerbert, son of Sir William FitzHerbert and his wife Sarah FitzHerbert (née Perrin, and probably William Perrin&#39;s niece).</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<p>The current house was constructed in 1719 as recorded in the dated rainwater hoppers. It is two-storeys and brick-built with a plain tile roof. The main façade on the west side is nine bays wide arranged symmetrically around a central doorway. The pale red brick façade is divided by projecting brick pilasters of darker red rubbed bricks into three equal sized sections. The first floor has nine sash windows of twelve panes with curved tops - three in each section. the ground floor window arrangement repeats that of the first floor except that the central doorway replaces the central window. The windows on both floors are framed in dark red rubbed bricks with the central voussoir brick enlarged to appear as a keystone. Recessed panels of brickwork are placed beneath the windows on each floor. The dark red brick detailing continues up the façade past the cornice into the brick parapet. The central doorway is a pair of doors in a later 18th century porch with a modillioned open pediment. The doors are larger than the opening with the upper panels concealed behind a lowered lintel.</p><br>
<p>The north and south side façades follow the pattern of the west façade but in red and grey brickwork, with pilasters at each side and the panelled parapet. The north façade is five bays wide with twelve pane sash windows on each floor constructed from a galletted ragstone plinth. The south façade has a brick plinth and the windows here are less regular with blocked windows on the west side at both levels and smaller six pane windows. A projecting bay fills the centre of the façade. The rear façade is divided by a central wing projecting eastwards which turns to the south to form the north and east sides of a courtyard. The rear of the main block has a cornice and two six pane windows. The central wing and its returns have six pane windows on the south side and twelve pane windows on the north side.</p><br>
<p>Internally, the house has a two-storey timber panelled entrance hall with a balustraded timber gallery along the wall opposite the door supported by a large fluted Corinthian column. Steps lead up from each end of the gallery to the first floor. The gallery bridges the main stairs which extends into the central wing. Rooms on the ground floor and first floor off of the hallway feature 17th and 18th century panelling. A room to the rear of the ground floor has 18th century library shelving.</p><br>
<p>The house is a Grade I listed building. A separate 18th century red and grey brick house in the garden that was formerly the coach house is listed Grade II as is the wall around the grounds.</p><br>
<p>Pallikaranai wetland is a freshwater marsh in the city of Chennai, India. It is situated adjacent to the Bay of Bengal, about 20 km south of the city centre, and has a geographical area of 80 km&sup2;. Pallikaranai marshland is the only surviving wetland ecosystem of the city and is among the few and last remaining natural wetlands of South India. It is one of the 94 identified wetlands under National Wetland Conservation and Management Programme  operationalised by the Government of India in 1985–86 and one of the three in the state of Tamil Nadu, the other two being Point Calimere and Kazhuveli. It is also one of the prioritised wetlands of Tamil Nadu. The topography of the swamp is such that it always retains some storage, thus forming an aquatic ecosystem. A project on Inland Wetlands of India commissioned by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India had prioritised Pallikaranai marsh as one of the most significant wetlands of the country. The marsh contains several rare or endangered and threatened species and acts as a forage and breeding ground for thousands of migratory birds from various places within and outside the country. The number of bird species sighted in the wetland is significantly higher than the number at Vedanthangal Bird Sanctuary.</p><br>
<p>Indiscriminate dumping of toxic solid waste along the road, discharge of sewage, and construction of buildings, railway stations and a new road to connect Old Mahabhalipuram Road and Pallavaram have shrunk the wetland to a great extent. In 2007, as an effort to protect the remaining wetland from shrinking further, the undeveloped areas in the region were notified as a reserve forest.</p><br>
<h2>Location and ecology</h2><br>
<p>The marshland is located along the Coromandel Coast south of the Adyar Estuary. It is surrounded by the expressway of Old Mahabalipuram Road and the residential areas of Perungudi, Siruseri, Pallikaranai, Madipakkam, Velachery and Taramani. An extensive low-lying area covered by a mosaic of aquatic grass species, scrub, marsh, and water-logged depressions, it is connected to 31 different water bodies, all of which release surplus water into the marsh during the monsoons. It has a catchment of 235 km&sup2; that includes the urban sprawls of Velachery, Pallikaranai and Navalur. The terrain of the area is generally plain with an average altitude of about 5 m above mean sea level. It receives an annual rainfall of 1,300 mm, mostly during the northeast monsoon (September–November), but also during the southwest monsoon (June–August). Temperature ranges from 35 to 42 C during the summer, and from 25 to 34 C in the winter. A large part of the southern region of Chennai was historically a flood plain as evidenced by the soil type of the region, which is described as recent alluvium and granite gneiss. The entire landscape comprises a coastal plain with intermittent and overlapping habitat types of cultivated land, wetlands and scrub forests. The wetlands comprises a large marsh (the Pallikaranai marsh), smaller satellite wetlands, large tracts of pastureland and patches of dry forests. The marsh has been cut into two for a road with no free flow underneath. Spread over 50 km&sup2; at the time of Independence in the 1940s, about 90% of the wetland was lost as the city expanded and it continued shrinking at an alarming rate. The marshland has shrunk over the last four decades following the creation of residential areas around it, including Perungudi, Siruseri, Pallikaranai, Madipakkam, Taramani and Velachery. Nearly a decade ago, about 120 species of birds were sighted at the marsh. However, their population has sharply decreased now due to various ecological disturbances in the region. The original expanse of the marsh, estimated on the basis of the Survey of India toposheet of 1972 and aerial photographs (Corona) of 1965 was about 5,500 hectare, which has shrunk to about 600 hectare. Today, the marsh extends up to Sholinganallur Road.</p><br>
<p>Excess rainwater is drained into the sea through a channel called the Oggiyam Madavu, a contiguous portion of the marsh at Oggiyam Thorapakkam draining into the Buckingham Canal, which in turn discharges into the Kovalam estuary. Locally known as Kazhiveli (a generic Tamil name for marshes and swamps), the marsh drained about 250 km&sup2, through two outlets, namely, the Okkiyam Madavu and the Kovalam creek. Remnant forests can be observed within the Theosophical Society campus, Guindy National Park–IIT complex and the Nanmangalam Reserve Forest.</p><br>
<p>The heterogeneous ecosystem of the marshland supports about 337 species of floras and faunas. Of the faunal groups, birds, fishes and reptiles are the most prominent. Pallikaranai marsh is home to 115 species of birds, 10 species of mammals, 21 species of reptiles, 10 species of amphibians, 46 species of fishes, 9 species of molluscans, 5 species of crustaceans, and 7 species of butterflies. About 114 species of plants are found in the wetland including 29 species of grass. These plant species include some exotic floating vegetation such as water hyacinth and water lettuce, which are less extensive now and highly localised. The region has a bird bio-diversity about 4 times that of Vedanthangal. It is also home to some of the most endangered reptiles such as the Russell&#39;s viper and birds such as the glossy ibis, grey-headed lapwings and pheasant-tailed jacana. Cormorants, darters, herons, egrets, open-billed storks, spoonbills, white ibis, little grebe, Indian moorhen, black-winged stilts, purple moorhens, warblers, coots and dabchicks have been spotted in large numbers in the marshland. The marsh has also had the distinction of new records of reptiles and plants being described, on a rather regular basis since 2002.</p><br>
<p>Another rare species spotted in the region is the white-spotted garden skink having appeared for the first time in Tamil Nadu. Fish such as dwarf gourami and chromides that are widely bred and traded worldwide for aquaria, naturally occur in Pallikaranai. Other estuarine fauna present at the marsh includes the windowpane oyster, mud crab, mullet, halfbeak and green chromide.</p><br>
<h2>Encroachments and pollution</h2><br>
<p>The external manipulation of the wetland system began in 1806 with the construction of the 422 km Buckingham Canal. The marshland experienced several major construction activities, ranging from the National Institute of Ocean Technology, the Centre of Wind Energy Technology, Chennai&#39;s Mass Rapid Transport System, and flyovers to construction of buildings for educational institutions, IT parks, restaurants, shopping malls, and hospitals, which affected free flow of water. The land occupied by the corporation is 200 acre, including 30 acre where a waste management plant is planned. The locals started using the stagnant water in this part of the marsh as a bathing ghat and as a grazing ground for their cattle.</p><br>
<p>The existing sewage treatment and disposal facility for south Chennai is located on the immediate periphery and within the marshland. A large-scale sewage treatment facility of the Alandur municipality is also located on the premises.</p><br>
<p>About 32 million litres (32,000,000 L) of untreated sewage was being released every day at Thorapakkam by Metrowater, which contaminated water quality. In addition, garbage collected from the city was dumped close to the sewage-letting point.</p><br>
<p>The marshland also houses one of Chennais largest official dump sites. Over 250 acre of the marsh is choked by half of the citys garbage. The Chennai Corporation dumps 1,500 t of waste into the marsh daily.</p><br>
<p>Despite several court rulings, burning of garbage continued unabated at the marsh and the adjacent area of Perungudi. All these led to a decrease in the estuarine fauna. Official statistics reveal that, in the absence of source segregation of waste, the dumpyard is eating into 4 hectare of marshland every year.</p><br>
<p>The dumpyard originally covered 19 acre in Sevaram village at Perungudi in 1970. By the mid-1980, the area was completely filled up and the corporation shifted to the present location in Pallikaranai. While the marsh which originally covered an area of 5,000 hectare had shrunk into 593 hectare by 2002, the corporation&#39;s dumpyard that covered 56 hectare in 2002 had expanded to 136 hectare in 2007 and is expanding constantly. Over 4,500 t of garbage are dumped daily in the marsh region from the southern part of the city. In addition, industrial waste is dumped in heaps along the water bodies.</p><br>
<p>The SIPCOT Area Community Environmental Monitors group analysed an ambient air sample collected downwind of the garbage dump in Pallikaranai and found that it contained at least 27 chemicals, 15 of which greatly exceed health-based standards set by the United States Environmental Protection Agency. Three of the 27 chemicals are also known to cause cancer in humans and were found in quantities as high as 34,000 times above safe levels. A research by the Anna University revealed a large quantity of metallic sedimentation discharged from the Perungudi dumpyard being deposited in the marshland, affecting its biodiversity.</p><br>
<h2>Conservation efforts</h2><br>
<p>In 2002, the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board commissioned a study to find out the total area of the marsh and its habitat quality and suggested interventional methods. The survey revealed the presence of 275 species of flora and over 100 species of birds in the wetland. On 20 February 2003, the Kancheepuram district collector issued a gazette notification announcing that 548 hectare of the marsh area was classified as Protected Land. In late 2005, the government constituted a high-level committee to restore the ecosystem, and in the summer of 2006 the locals formed an environment committee to protect the wetland. In 2007, an eight-member team from Freiburg University in Germany conducted a study on the physical and social features of the marsh.</p><br>
<p>As a first real effort to protect the wetland, the state declared 317 hectare of the marsh as a reserve forest on 9 April 2007 (Gazettee notification G.O.Ms.No.52, dated 9 April 2007) under the Forest (Conservation) Act of 1980 and brought under the jurisdiction of the District Forest Officer–Kanchipuram (Tambaram range), a separate range in Chengalpet Forest Division at Kancheepuram with headquarters at Pallikaranai. The Kancheepuram district authorities transferred the land to the forest department. However, researchers suggested that an additional 150 ha on both sides of the Thoraipakkam–Tambaram road bisecting the marsh be declared a reserve forest as birds, especially several varieties of ducks, came there for feeding. Named Pallikaranai Swamp Forest Block, it is the 17th reserve forest area in the Tambaram Range, whose reserve forest area goes up to 56.27 km&sup2; with this addition.</p><br>
<p>The first scientific bird census in the state conducted in January 2010 revealed that birds still visit the marsh despite the non-stop dumping by the city corporation.</p><br>
<p>Anticipating the obstruction of the water flow from north to south by the growing garbage mounds, the government directed the civic body to transfer 150 hectare to the forest department. After this, the state government will acquire patches of land in the northern (adjacent to Velachery–Tambaram road) and southeastern parts of the marshland, measuring about 127 hectare, to protect the ecosystem in its totality from becoming an open dumpyard. Save Pallikaranai, a campaign for protecting an ecologically sensitive environment despite urban pressures, has achieved significant success owing to people’s participation, sustained media support and a responsive government.</p><br>
<p>There was a proposal to turn the Pallikaranai marsh into a wetland centre by networking with international agencies to attract funds for its protection and restoration.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, an adaptive management plan for the Pallikaranai marshland estimated at a cost of 150 million was prepared by Chennai-based NGO called Care Earth, an organisation working towards ecological conservation, which has been sent to the Union Ministry by the state department and is pending for approval. The plan recommends setting up digital boards, depictive murals, viewing decks and towers connected through walkways, aquaria, viewing telescopes, night-vision cameras and camera traps.</p><br>
<p>The State Forest Department has prepared a comprehensive five-year plan to protect the marshland. Initially, desilting and dredging work at a cost of 10 million per year would be taken up. The plan also includes forming a bio-shield costing 1.087 million annually, removal of aquatic weeds at a cost of 2.5 million for 5 years, mound planting at a cost of 2.75 million for 3 years, linear planting along the boundary at a cost of 1.65 million and forming flood bund and trail paths at a cost of 34 million. Apart from this, the department is also considering allocation of 5 million for conducting research projects on the marshland, about 6 million towards a bird census, a 3 km boardwalk path in a period of 3 years at a cost of 30 million, watchtowers at two places in a period of 2 years at a cost of 2 million, and a wetland centre at a cost of 4 million. In addition, there is a proposal for creating roadside parks, installing signage, and conducting awareness camps during the project implementation period at a cost of 4 million as part of the initiative.</p><br>
<p>The State Forest Department has made the preliminary move to get the marshland declared as a Ramsar site by submitting a compliance report to the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands.</p><br>
<p>In 2010, steps were taken to facilitate birdwatching at the marsh. Fencing has been completed in the area for over half a kilometre along the marshland. The entire stretch of 1.7 km would be provided with benches for the benefit of birdwatchers. The forest department is constructing a compound wall on the southern portion of the marsh covering a distance of 5 km. A 870 m portion of the boundary wall has been completed on the Sholinganallur side of the Pallikaranai marsh to protect the wetland from encroachers.</p><br>
<p>In September 2011, the civic body initiated the process of handing over the marshland following a request from the Forest Department. The Forest Department, which plans to undertake restoration of the eco-sensitive Pallikaranai marshland, will get 421 acre for the purpose from the Chennai Corporation. The area to be handed over is on the southern side of Radial Road near NIOT junction. The civic body is planning to use only around 200 acre elsewhere in the marshland for its solid waste management project in Perungudi.</p><br>
<p>On 26 March 2012, the state government announced that the scheme of restoring and conserving the marshland would be implemented in the coming year with an outlay of 50 million. Setting up of a Pallikaranai Marsh Conservation Society has also been proposed.</p><br>
<p>In 2012, eco-restoration work began on about 100 acres of land near the southernmost point of the marshland. The completion of the eco-restoration project will take five years and cost about 150 million. A water course spread over two hectares is being spruced up. A bund for a distance of more than 3 km has been planned, in addition to an observation centre, an interpretation centre where photographs of birds that visit the marshland will be displayed, and planting of a few thousand saplings of arjuna (neer maththi), portia (poovarasan), bamboo (moongil) and rosewood (sisu).</p><br>
<p>In August 2017, The Madras High Court has initiated contempt proceedings against an official of the Registration Department for going against an order of the court and transferring an officer SIVAPRIYA, who was Joint Sub-Registrar-I, Saidapet.The court had ordered that the transfer be kept in abeyance. “It is understood that many sale deeds have been registered during her (SIVAPRIYA) tenure and moreover, as an officer working in that place for the past 3 years, she should be able to give details required by this court than any other new officer,” the August 3 order said.</p><br>
<p>The judge also suo motu impleaded the National Biodiversity Authority (NBA) as a party respondent in the case and directed the Assistant Solicitor General S Srinivasan to get instructions whether any steps could be taken to preserve the existing marshland and to restore the same to its original state.</p><br>
<h2>Incidents</h2><br>
<p>On 19 March 2011, a fire started on a patch of land opposite Kamakshi Memorial Hospital around 4 pm local time and spread to 15 locations in the marsh. Patches measuring more than 10 acre of the protected 200 acre marshland were burnt in the fire lasting for about 5 hours. Several nesting migratory birds were feared killed in the incident.</p><br>
<p>Rawa Pening  is a lake in the Ambarawa Basin in Central Java, Indonesia. It serves as a source of power, irrigation, and flood control, and is used for fishing. Due partly to high numbers of aquatic plants, it may dry out by 2021.</p><br>
<h2>Location and description</h2><br>
<p>Rawa Pening is located in the volcanic Ambarawa Basin in Central Java,</p><br>
<p>between Ambarawa and Salatiga. It covers a total area of 2500 to 2670 ha. It is shallow and swamplike, with muddy banks.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Rawa Pening is estimated to have been formed between 18,000 and 13,500 BC after a period of increased precipitation. It reached its largest size from 11,000 to 9,000 BC, but shrank until it reached its current size around 6,000 BC.</p><br>
<p>In order to protect Rawa Pening, the local government has enacted a green belt policy. Several establishments, such as the tourist attraction Kampoeng Rawa, were controversial owing to their construction within this belt.</p><br>
<h2>Role</h2><br>
<p>One of the major roles of Rawa Pening is as a source of hydroelectricity, with a power station located on the Tuntang River near the lake. Fishing is common as a source of supplementary income, and the water from the lake irrigates nearby rice fields. It has also been cited as being used for flood control.</p><br>
<h2>Plant infestation</h2><br>
<p>Numerous species of aquatic plants live in Rawa Pening, including Panicum repens, Eichhornia crassipes, Salvinia cucullata, and Hydrilla verticillata. Estimates of the total number of species vary, from 20 in 1949 to 19 aquatic and 71 semi-aquatic species in 1972. According to Soenarto Hardjosuwarno, P. repens is one of the main contributors to the formation of floating islands in the lake, with M. Soerjani noting that E. crassipes and S. cucullata also contribute. The aquatic plants, such as H. verticillatta, take root in the large amount of peat (in some places measuring 2 m thick), causing more peat to gather. Eventually, terrestrial plants take root in the floating islands as well.</p><br>
<p>According to Tri Soeprobowati, a researcher at Diponegoro University in Semarang, Rawa Pening could become dry by 2021 due to increasing sedimentation. She reports a total rate of deposition of 270 to 880 kg per day, averaging 780 tonnes yearly, with the water level dropping 29% since 1989. The overabundance of aquatic plants has been blamed, especially E. crassipes. As such, there are calls for a culling of the E. crassipes population to 20% by 2030. Other suggestions include the introduction of grass carp to control the plant population and the use of herbicides as last resorts. The destruction of H. verticillatta had earlier been attempted beginning in 1932, originally using mechanical methods but later switching to herbicides. These efforts were discontinued in the 1960s.</p><br>
<p>The North Victorian Wetlands, also known as the Kerang Wetlands, comprise an extensive series of over 100 freshwater, brackish and saline lakes and swamps on the floodplain of the Loddon River where it enters the Murray valley, in the vicinity of the town of Kerang, in northern Victoria, south-eastern Australia. They are important for a variety, and sometimes large numbera, of waterbirds.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The wetlands lie about 300 km north-west of Melbourne. Many of them are regulated and linked to the regional irrigation system. Many are also affected by salinity caused by land clearance, agriculture and irrigation practices, resulting in raised levels of groundwater and highly saline watertables. Many of the lakes are used recreationally for sightseeing, hunting, fishing, boating, waterskiing and swimming; some are used for storing irrigation water, or for the disposal of saline water and sewage.</p><br>
<h2>Important Bird Area</h2><br>
<p>A subset of 12 wetlands with a collective area of 60 km, defined as those which have recently supported significant numbers of birds, have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA). They support populations of endangered Australasian bitterns and near threatened blue-billed ducks. They sometimes support over 1% of the world populations of freckled ducks, straw-necked ibises, black-fronted dotterels, banded stilts and red-necked avocets.</p><br>
<p>Other birds recorded as sometimes occurring on the wetlands in relatively substantial numbers include black swans, Pacific black ducks, grey teals, Australian shelducks, Australasian shovellers, pink-eared ducks, hardheads, black-backed bitterns, Australian white ibises, hoary-headed grebes, Eurasian coots, sharp-tailed sandpipers, red-necked stints, marsh sandpipers, white-headed stilts, double-banded plovers, red-kneed dotterels, red-capped plovers and whiskered terns. Australian painted snipes have been recorded from Hird Swamp in the IBA.</p><br>
<h2>Ramsar site</h2><br>
<p>A larger and overlapping subset of 22 wetlands, with a collective area of 94 km, were recognised on 15 December 1982 as being of international importance when they were listed under the Ramsar Convention as Ramsar Site 265. The wetlands were so recognised because of their great importance to waterbirds, supporting large numbers of endemic and migratory species, and serving as a drought refuge, as well as supporting rare or vulnerable plant species.</p><br>
<p>John McLure House, also known as the Hans Phillips House, Lawrence Sands House, and Daniel Zane House, is a historic home located on Wheeling Island at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. It was built between 1853 and 1856, and is a three-story, Federal-style brick dwelling. A two-story rear addition was built before 1870. A semi-circular columned portico and two-story, projecting side bay, were added in the late 19th century and added Classical Revival elements to the home. A "widows walk" was placed on the roof sometime after McLures death. It was the home of Captain John McLure , an American steamboat master, boatbuilder, and capitalist.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It is located in the Wheeling Island Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Godey Lime Kilns, also known as Washington Lime Kilns, are an historical industrial building ruin, located beside the Rock Creek Parkway, near 27th Street and L Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C., in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Located on the east bank of Rock Creek, at the terminus of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the kilns produced lime for construction of the city of Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1864, by William H. Godey, the site originally included four wood-fired ovens that were used to make lime and plaster, from limestone.</p><br>
<p>Godey&#39;s business closed in 1908.</p><br>
<p>A partial restoration was completed by January 1, 1967.</p><br>
<p>The remains were added to the National Register of Historic Places, on May 22, 1973.</p><br>
<p>Sacred Heart Cathedral is the former cathedral church for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Dodge City located in Dodge City, Kansas, United States.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Sacred Heart Parish was established in 1883. Ralph Adams Cram designed the present church, which was built in the combined Mission Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival architectural styles in 1916. As the school enrollments grew additions were made to the building in 1929, 1949, and in 1954. On May 19, 1951 Pope Pius XII established the Diocese of Dodge City and Sacred Heart Church became the cathedral. The cathedral was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Sacred Heart Cathedral was retained and used as part of the school facility.</p><br>
<p>Mount Lukens is a mountain peak of the San Gabriel Mountains, located in Los Angeles County, Southern California.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>It is located in the Sunland-Tujunga community within the northeast corner of the city of Los Angeles, above the Crescenta Valley. The summit, at 5,075 ft in elevation, is the highest point within the city limits. The summit&#39;s elevation makes Los Angeles the largest city with the highest and lowest (sea level) elevation difference in the country.</p><br>
<p>Because of its location, prominence, and proximity to Los Angeles, the summit is dotted with television, radio, and cellular transmission towers. The mountain is also within the boundaries of the Angeles National Forest and Los Angeles County.</p><br>
<h2>Name origin</h2><br>
<p>The mountain was named after Theodore Lukens, a former supervisor of the Angeles National Forest and later, the mayor of Pasadena, California. Previously, the mountain was known as Sister Elsie Peak. It has been said that she was a Catholic nun who died while caring for the sick during a smallpox epidemic. On the USFS map of 1925, the mountain was shown as Mount Lukens and subtitled Sister Elsie Peak. The identity of Sister Elsie (also referred to as Sister Else) is not certain and the stories surrounding her have not been verified.</p><br>
<h2>2009 Station Fire</h2><br>
<p>Mount Lukens is in an area that was impacted by the 2009 Station Fire in the San Gabriel Mountains, the largest wildfire in the history of Los Angeles County.</p><br>
<p>The Brooks Catsup Bottle Water Tower, trademarked "The World&#39;s Largest Catsup Bottle", is a water tower south of Collinsville, Illinois. It is claimed to be the largest catsup bottle in the world. As a prime example of mid-20th-century novelty architecture, it is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Presently, the tower is most notable in its capacity as a regional landmark and as a roadside attraction.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The water tower was constructed in 1949 by the W.E. Caldwell Company. The tower was built to supply water to the nearby Brooks catsup plant owned by the G.S. Suppiger Company. The president of the company, Gerhart S. Suppiger, is credited with the suggestion that the water tower be designed to resemble one of the company&#39;s catsup bottles.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>In 1993, the owners of the Brooks plant, Curtice-Burns, Inc., prepared to sell the property. It offered the water tower to the nearby city of Collinsville, but the city declined to purchase it due to the high projected cost of repairs and restoration. The project was completed in June 1995, and the structure was added to the National Register of Historic Places in August 2002.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>The tower was featured in A Program About Unusual Buildings & Other Roadside Stuff, a 2004 PBS documentary by Rick Sebak of WQED.</p><br>
<p>Otham Manor, previously known as Wardes, is a late 14th-century manor house in Otham, Kent.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in the late 14th century, probably around 1370, and was altered and extended in the 16th century. It is a L-shaped two-storey timber-framed hall house; the north wing being the older part and the south wing being from the 16th century. The north wing has jettied bays at each end; the western bay having been rebuilt. The clay tiled hipped roof is steeply pitched with a gable to the south end of the south wing. Internally the roof structure is exposed with tie beams and king post.</p><br>
<p>The house was restored in 1912 by Sir Louis Mallet who added an extension to the west side of the southern wing. The whole house is a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The Ye College Inn is a nationally recognized historic building in Seattle, Washington. It is located at the Northeast corner of University Way and NE 40th Street in the University District one block West of the University of Washington. It was designed in 1909 by Graham & Myers and is an excellent example of Tudor Revival architecture used on a commercial building. At the time of its construction, the University Campus was the site of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and the College Inn was intended to function as a small hotel for fair goers. It later provided housing for students as well as commercial services on the lower floor and does to this day. Following a complete restoration in 1979, The Ye College Inn was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Romeo Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by the corporate lines of Romeo, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1970.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The area around Romeo was first settled in 1821, and in 1822 the first building was constructed in what was then known as "Hoxies Settlement." The first piece of the present-day village, extending two blocks in each direction from the corner of St. Claire and Main Streets, was platted by Col. John B. Hollister in 1830. By 1837 a number of simple log farmhouses dotted the area, and the settlement boasted over 200 people, 34 houses, three dry goods stores, a wagon shop, tannery, shoe shops, a foundry, a cooper shop, carpenter shop and a hoopskirt factory. Hoxies Settlement was incorporated as the village of Romeo in 1838. The University of Michigan established a branch campus, the Romeo Academy, in the area in the 1840, attracting more prosperous academics and professionals to the area. A railroad was laid through the village in 1869, bringing increased trade. Planned growth has allowed the Romeo community to maintain a high degree of historic integrity.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Romeo Historic District contains approximately 100 well-preserved historic structures, constructed in a variety of architectural styles. Most are frame structures, including a number of Gothic Revival cottages, but the district also includes substantial brick buildings located along Romeo&#39;s main street.</p><br>
<p>The Cathedral of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as St. Mary’s Cathedral, is the cathedral church for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Island located in Grand Island, Nebraska, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Parish and church</h3><br>
<p>In 1859 two brothers from Iowa City, Iowa, Patrick and Richard Moore, settled in Hall County, Nebraska. They are believed to be the first Catholic settlers in the county. Other Catholic families moved to the area as well. The first priest to visit the area, the Rev. Almire Fairmont, arrived two years later. He celebrated Mass in the Moores&#39; log dwelling, which was located three miles west of the present town of Wood River. In the following years, a priest from Omaha or Columbus would visit once a year to celebrate Mass and administer the Sacraments.</p><br>
<p>After the railroad arrived in Hall County in 1868, it was decided that a church should be built. The Union Pacific Railroad donated the land in Grand Island in 1869 and a church, named St. Mary’s, was built under the direction of the Rev. M.J. Ryan. The building, however, was destroyed by a windstorm before its dedication. A second attempt at building a church in 1873 was stopped because of an economic depression. A third attempt was initiated on February 17, 1877. The cornerstone was laid on May 7; the building was completed in July, and the new church was dedicated in September 1877. It was a frame structure built on a brick foundation. The Rev. P.J. Erlach was named the parish’s first resident pastor in that year.</p><br>
<p>The parish continued to grow, and by the late 1880s a larger church was needed. The Rev. Wunibald Wolf was sent to Grand Island to build the church. Bishop James O’Connor of Omaha laid the cornerstone for the new church on August 15, 1888; the building was dedicated on July 7, 1889 by the diocesan vicar general, the Rev. R. Schaffel. The new brick and stone church measured 44 x, and featured two bell towers 104 ft high; it cost $20,000 to build.</p><br>
<h3>Diocese and cathedral</h3><br>
<p>On March 8, 1912, Pope Pius X divided the Diocese of Omaha into two parts, establishing the Diocese of Kearney in western Nebraska. Four years later, Pope Benedict XV added four additional counties to the new diocese. In 1917, the see city was moved from Kearney to Grand Island, and the diocese was renamed accordingly.</p><br>
<p>St. Mary’s Church, however, was considered inadequate for a cathedral. Bishop James Duffy studied building styles during his travels. He decided on the Gothic Revival style and construction was begun in 1926 and completed in 1928. The new cathedral was designed by Brinkman & Hagan Cardinal Patrick Hayes of New York consecrated the new cathedral on July 5, 1928. The parish continued to grow and in 1949 Blessed Sacrament parish was created on the north side of the city. The present rectory was completed in 1951. The old rectory and two other houses were used as a convent until the present convent was completed in 1967.</p><br>
<p>The cathedral was redecorated in the 1950s and again in the 1980s. Old St. Mary’s, which had been used as a gymnasium, was torn down in 1965. Two new parishes were created in Grand Island in 1973. St. Leo’s was created in the southwest part of the city and Resurrection in the northwest. A new social hall was built on the site of the old St. Mary’s School in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Island  is an island in the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, United States. It was named by Captain Lester A. Beardslee of the United States Navy in 1880. Located off the eastern shore of Favorite Channel, it is 25 mi northwest of the city of Juneau. The name was collected by the United States Geological Survey between 1976 and 1981, and entered into the Geographic Names Information System on March 31, 1981.</p><br>
<p>Benjamin Island is 1.5 mi long and 0.5 mi wide. It is about 0.75 mi north of the Sentinel Island Light and 0.25 mi south of North Island; it is one of the northernmost islands in Favorite Channel. The island is a part of the Channel Islands State Marine Park; it is used for picnicking and camping.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Canadian Pacific Railways SS Princess Sophia grounded on Vanderbilt Reef to the north early in the morning of October 24, 1918, in the midst of a snowstorm. The United States Lighthouse Service tender Cedar, captained by John W. Ledbetter, had taken up sheltered at a cove of Benjamin Island when it received word of the passenger liners plight at 14:00 that day. The Cedar left Benjamin Island almost immediately but did not reach the reef until 22:00.</p><br>
<h2>Wildlife</h2><br>
<p>Humpback whales and Steller sea lions live in the area of the island. A cow moose was noted on the island in 2005.</p><br>
<p>A joint project between the National Marine Fisheries Service and the University of Alaska Fairbanks placed cameras on the island for the purposes of studying the sea lions.</p><br>
<p>The Rad Plzen cis. 9 ZCBJ  is a building located in Morse Bluff, Nebraska that was built in 1911. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 20, 1986. The building historically served as a meeting hall for the Czech community. It was the meeting hall for the ZCBJ Lodge Plzen, a branch of the Zapadni Ceska Bratrska Jednota. The ZCBJ Lodge Plzen was originally organized on June 6, 1880 as a branch of the Czech-Slovak Protective Society, but was incorporated into ZCBJ in 1897.</p><br>
<p>The ZCBJ evolved into the Western Fraternal Life Association (WFLA). As membership in the Morse Bluff area declined, the organization found it increasingly difficult to maintain the hall. In 2001, the building was transferred to Morse Bluff American Legion Post 340; the WFLA retained the right to use the hall, as long as it continued to operate in the area. Beside Legion and WFLA activities, the hall is rented out for events such as wedding receptions, reunions, and graduation parties.</p><br>
<p>Lake Fergus is a lake in the South Island of New Zealand, located at {{coord|44|50|42|S|168|6|40|E|type:waterbody_region:NZ|display=inline,title}}.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>A small lake between Lake Te Anau and Milford Sound, it lies adjacent to the New Zealand State Highway 94 (the Milford Sound Road). The lake is within the boundary of the Fiordland National Park, and is surrounded by native bush. The west branch of the Eglinton River flows through the lake, and it drains into Lake Gunn located south of it.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first Europeans to explore the valley were David McKellar and George Gunn in 1861, two runholders from Southland.</p><br>
<p>This lake was seen and named on January 4th, 1889, &#39;Lake Fergus&#39;, by W. H. Homer and G. Barber.</p><br>
<p>On this journey, the explorers found what they called the Homer Saddle on 27 January. Homer suggested that a tunnel through the saddle would provide access to the Milford area. The Eglington Valley Road past Lake Fergus, now known as SH94, was completed in 1935, giving easy access to the lake for the first time. The Homer Tunnel opened to traffic in 1953, giving visitors reason to drive past Lake Fergus.</p><br>
<p>Woodward Heights is a neighborhood and historic district located immediately west of downtown Lexington, Kentucky. It is bounded by Maxwell Street and the Pleasant Green Hill neighborhood to the southwest, by the parking lot for Rupp Arena to the southeast, by the Lexington Convention Center property to the northeast, and by Herlihy, Cox, and High Streets to the north.</p><br>
<p>The neighborhood includes one park, Woodward Heights Park, at 651 West High Street in the neighborhood&#39;s eastern corner. The neighborhood has a land area of 0.049 square miles, and as of 2009, a population of 292 people, a population density of 6,002 people per square mile, and a median household income of $34,571. Like all of Lexington, the neighborhood is in the Fayette County Public Schools district. Neighborhood children attend Harrison Elementary School, Lexington Traditional Magnet School (middle school), and Lafayette High School.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1980, the neighborhood was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as Woodward Heights Neighborhood Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Historic Woodward Heights Neighborhood Association incorporated as a non-profit in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Individually listed properties</h2><br>
<p>In addition to being listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a district, several individual properties are or have been listed. Located near the center of Woodward Heights, Botherum, a private residence built in 1850, was listed in 1973. At the northeast side of the neighborhood, adjoining Woodward Heights Park, the Henry Watt House (also known as the Saunier House and the Watt-Saunier House) was listed in 1977. Built circa 1818, it was the second-oldest house in the area, and no longer stands.</p><br>
<h3>Botherum</h3><br>
<p>Botherum was built for Madison C. Johnson.</p><br>
<h3>Henry Watt House</h3><br>
<p>Henry Watt House, aka Saunier House, aka Watt-Saunier House, stood at 703 West High Street in Lexington, Kentucky. House was built circa 1818 by an unknown architect, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, included as a contributing property in the 1980 listing of the Woodward Heights Neighborhood Historic District, and demolished in the 1990s following a fire.</p><br>
<h3>Cassidy House</h3><br>
<p>The Cassidy House at 816/820 W. High St., on the National Register of Historic Places, was built and occupied for the esteemed educator Massillon Alexander Cassidy.</p><br>
<p>Botherum was built for Madison C. Johnson in 1850 or 1851</p><br>
<p>Although McMurtry was known for his Gothic Revival architecture, and is credited with establishing the popularity of that style in central Kentucky, Botherum shows an unusual combination of Greek, Roman, and Gothic architectural elements.</p><br>
<p>A large ginkgo tree that stands on the property is said to have been a gift to Johnson from Henry Clay. The original 36-acre estate faced High Street, but the house now sits on a 3/4 acre lot and is approached from Madison Place, to the side.</p><br>
<p>In 1886, Johnson&#39;s heirs sold the estate to J. C. Woodward, who subdivided much of it into Woodward Heights, selling the lots individually.</p><br>
<p>John Cavendish owned the house from 1983 until 2012, and in the mid-1980s he added a high stone wall that hides the single-story house from the street and a two-story guest house.</p><br>
<p>Mount Saint Joseph, also known as Holloway Estate, is a historic house and motherhouse located near Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The Holloway House was built in 1854, with two additions dated to the 1920s. The original farmhouse is two stories and measures 35 feet by 45 feet. The 1920s additions include one with a garage and apartment above, and an "L"-shaped addition which became the main living quarters. Located on the property is an immense, three winged structure built as the motherhouse for the Sisters of St. Joseph. It is a Modern building built in 1954-1956. Also on the property are a contributing cold storage building, spring house, and bathhouse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.</p><br>
<p>"Edemar", also known as Stifel Fine Arts Center, is a historic house and national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district includes two contributing buildings and two contributing structures. The main house was built between 1910 and 1914, and is a -story, brick-and-concrete Classical Revival mansion with a steel frame. The front facade features a full-width portico with pediment supported by six Corinthian order columns. Also on the property are a contributing brick, tiled-roofed three-bay carriage barn/garage; fish pond; and formal garden. The Stifel family occupied the home until 1976, when the family gave it to the Oglebay Institute to be used as the Stifel Fine Arts Center.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>Kapıdağ Peninsula   is a tombolo in northwestern Anatolia extending into the Sea of Marmara in Balıkesir Province, Turkey. The peninsula forms the Gulf of Bandırma on its east and the Gulf of Erdek on its west.</p><br>
<p>Kapıdağ was the classical island of ancient Greek Arctonnesus, but was joined to the mainland by a narrow isthmus in historic times either by an earthquake or (according to legend) by Alexander the Great. It was also known as the Peninsula of Cyzicus after its chief town.</p><br>
<p>Cyzicus was abandoned following a series of severe earthquakes, but served from 1303 to 1304 as the base of the Catalan Company of the East and was the site of the Battle of the Cyzicus in October 1303. After its conquest by the Ottoman Empire, it was part of the kaza of Erdek in the province of Bursa.</p><br>
<h2>Locations</h2><br>
<p>Erdek, a small town known as a seaside resort, is located in the Gulf of Erdek west of the peninsula. Erdek hosts a naval base of the Turkish Navy.</p><br>
<p>La Belle Iron Works, also known as La Belle Cut Nail Works, is a historic factory complex and national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district includes four contributing buildings; three Italianate style brick buildings dated to the founding of the company in 1852, and a tin plate mill built 1894-1897. After 1902, the buildings were combined under a single roof, although the truss systems date to different periods achieving the configuration visible today. When listed in 1997, it was known as the "La Belle Cut Nail Plant, The Largest in the World, Wheeling Corrugating Company, A Division of Wheeling Pittsburgh Steel Corporation." The cut nail machinery still in use by La Belle dates to 1852 and the 1860s. The machinery at La Belle along with the different processes were documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey team during the summer of 1990.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>Centre Market Square Historic District is a historic district in Wheeling, West Virginia, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The district includes 181 contributing buildings in a variety of popular architectural styles dating from as early as about 1850. The district encompasses the area of Wheeling focused on the separately listed Center Wheeling Market. Notable buildings include the Second Presbyterian Church (1850), St. Alphonsus Church and School (1875, 1887), Mary A. Reed Building (c. 1885), Shaefer Building (1887), Bellinger Building (c. 1885), Schmeichel Building (c. 1900), Zink House (c. 1878), Lotz Building (c. 1873), Thoner House (c. 1877), Wheeling Public Library (1911), German Evangelical Lutheran Zions Church (c. 1850, now Oglebay Institute-Towngate Theatre), 2333 Eoff Street (c. 1870–1900), 2227 Eoff Street (c. 1900–1915), 2330 Chapline Street (c. 1876), 2318 Chapline Street (c. 1901), townhouses on Chapline Street, (c. 1870s), 2325 Chapline Street, 2241 Chapline Street, 2233 Chapline Street, the Hellenic Orithodox Church of St. John the Divine (c. 1949–1951), St. Johns United Church of Christ (c. 1907–1908), Michel Building (c. 1860–1870), Wheeling Fire Company-Hook and Ladder #6 (late 1870s-1880s), and the "Iron Building" (c. 1867).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register in 1984, with a boundary increase in 1987.</p><br>
<p>68 High Street, formerly the Childrens Hospital, is a historic colonial revival building in Portland, Maine. Located on the eastern edge of Portlands West End, the building was built in 1909 and was designed by architect Frederick A. Tompson. According to news archives, Drs. Edville Gerhardt Abbott and Harold A. Pingree and Frank W. Lamb founded this worldwide famous children&#39;s hospital for crippled children with scoliosis together in 1908. It closed in 1948, with most of the 56 patients at the time being transferred to Maine General Hospital, which was later renamed the Maine Medical Center. It also served as an annex to the Mussey Mansion until the left part of that building was demolished in 1961. It had also been owned and used by the University of Southern Maine as administrative offices. In 2010, Community Housing of Maine sought to develop the property and the adjacent empty lot into 35 units of affordable housing. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>Elm Terrace</h2><br>
<p>In 2011, the Maine State Housing Authority approved the building and the adjacent empty lot, 68 High Street, for 38 low income housing units. The building is set to be renovated to fulfill the Americans with Disabilities Act requirements, including the addition of elevators. The first floor of 66 High Street will include parking units. The plan to redevelop the property became controversial after state treasurer Bruce Poliquin criticized the housing authority for their per-unit cost.</p><br>
<p>Synyards is a late 15th-century house in Otham, Kent.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in the late 15th century with additions in the 16th century and in 1663. It is a mostly two-storey timber-framed hall house with a steeply-pitched plain tile hipped roof. The house has a jettied bays on each end of the main western elevation with a gabled dormer bay to the right of the midpoint which is dated 1663. A first floor was inserted at each end of the building in the 16th century and the third floor at the south end was added when the dormer was constructed. A variety of window sizes and types from various periods provide illumination to the interior. The walls on the ground floor have 16th century panelling in some parts and wall paintings of a lion and dragon and merman and mermaid cover the walls of the room in the north end room of the first floor.</p><br>
<p>Synyards was restored in 1905 by P. M. Johnston. The house is a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>North Wheeling Historic District is a national historic district located at Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia. The district encompasses 134 contributing buildings and one contributing object in a 2 1/2-block section of northern Wheeling, known as "Old Town". Most of the district consists of mid- to late-19th-century residential buildings. A number of popular architectural styles are represented, including Greek Revival, Italianate, and Late Victorian. Notable buildings include the Vigilant Engine House , William Goering House , Alfred Paull House , Williams Duplex Tenement , George W. Eckhart House , Christian Hess House , Edward Hazlett House , Henry K. List House . The object is the Pollack Memorial Monument .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988, with a boundary increase in 2008.</p><br>
