<p>The James Greer Bankhead House, also known simply as the Greer Bankhead House and Forest Home, is a historic house in Sulligent, Alabama. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 13, 1975. It is the only site listed on the National Register in Lamar County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bankhead family came to Lamar County in 1818 from Union County, South Carolina. The Greer Bankhead House was built circa 1850 by James Greer Bankhead, a veteran of the Mexican–American War. James Greers son, John H. Bankhead, was born at the Bankhead plantation on September 13, 1842, prior to the construction of this house. He would eventually serve in the United States Congress for 33 years. His sons, William B. Bankhead and John H. Bankhead II, were born in the house and both served in Congress as well. John H. Bankheads granddaughter, the daughter of William B. Bankhead, was the award-winning American actress, Tallulah Bankhead.</p><br>
<p>The Greer Bankhead House was added to Alabamas Places in Peril, a list of the most endangered historic sites within the state, in 2010. It was noted to be in danger due to deferred maintenance and vandalism at that time. Since being listed, the Greer Bankhead Preservation and Restoration Project has spearheaded an effort to protect the house from vandalism and is raising funds to stabilize and restore the historic structure. The Greer Bankhead Preservation and Restoration Project had its proposal to deed the house to the Lamar County Historical Society rejected by the houses owner, John Bagwell. Recently the house was savagely attacked by vandals who destroyed many of the houses original windows. The Greer Bankhead Preservatioon and Restoration Projects facebook page remains active in the hope that this historic property can still be saved.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house was built as a dogtrot house, with an open breezeway on the ground floor, but it was later enclosed. The house now takes the form of an I-house, a house-type also known in the South as Plantation Plain. It has a two-story, gable roofed main portion and one-story, shed roofed portions on the front and rear. There are two large chimneys in each gable end, which taper at the base of the pediment. A similar, smaller chimney sits on the northern side of the rear shed roof portion; a similar chimney on the south side was knocked over in a 1933 tornado. The shed roofed front porch is supported by six square columns. Windows on the main block are all nine-over-six sashes, while there are four-over-four windows on the rear portion. On each floor, the main block has two rooms on either side of a central stair hall. The rear portion is split into three rooms. A kitchen and dining room were in a wing on the south portion of the house, but were also destroyed in the 1933 tornado.</p><br>
<p>The Paul Shoup House, also known as the Shoup House, is a historic residence in Los Altos, Santa Clara County, California, United States. It was built as an American Craftsman- and Shingle-style home in 1910 for railroad executive Paul Shoup. In 2011 it was designated a historic site by the National Register of Historic Places; the first such designation in Los Altos.</p><br>
<h2>Building site and architectural description</h2><br>
<p>The wood shingle-clad building originally occupied a trapezoidal lot that crossed Adobe Creek. The building now sits on reduced acreage that retains its relationship with the creek, surrounded by denser residential development.</p><br>
<p>A century after its construction, the house retains many original wooden windows and wooden decorative features such as brackets, bell eaves, decorative vents, and a dramatic overall form. Hardscape features including the concrete retaining wall and a stone grotto were still in place.</p><br>
<p>The original front door, antique Venetian light, Douglas fir floors, paneling, beams, fireplace mantels, door and window trim, brass hardware, and antique glazing are intact in the foyer, dining and living rooms. The Douglas fir door trim throughout the house is six inches wide with a curved radius: a transitional design bridging the Victorian and American Craftsman styles.</p><br>
<h2>Residents</h2><br>
<p>Paul Shoup (1874–1946) was president and later vice-chairman of the Southern Pacific Railroad in the 1920s and 1930s, a founding board member of the Stanford University School of Business, and founder of the community of Los Altos.</p><br>
<p>Shoup&#39;s son Carl Sumner Shoup lived in the home in his youth, riding his horse to school. Carl was a Columbia University economist considered the intellectual father of the value-added tax (VAT). At the request of General Douglas MacArthur, Carl led the Shoup Mission that recommended the tax policy adopted by the Diet of Japan in 1950 during the economic reconstruction of Japan after World War II.</p><br>
<p>Living with Shoup garden caretaker Shoichi Kagawa on the property was his eldest son Bunichi Kagawa. Influenced by Los Altan and Stanford professor Yvor Winters, issei Bunichi Kagawa became a writer penning poetry in both his native Japanese and in English, collected in the 1930 volume Hidden Flame.</p><br>
<h2>Rehabilitation and celebrations</h2><br>
<h3>Rehabilitation</h3><br>
<p>The city approved a restoration of the home in time to be completed for the centennial. Changes were made to the interior of the house, bringing the house up to modern earthquake, plumbing, and electrical codes while reconfiguring the non-historic kitchen and bathrooms. Lead paint was stripped, and the wood stained to match the basement door finish, unchanged through the years. The Japanese-influenced garden was designed with plants that would have been used in the 1920s and dry-set stonework was used for landscape terracing.</p><br>
<h3>Centennial celebration</h3><br>
<p>After the rehabilitation was complete, the house was blessed by a local Catholic priest, During the centennial weekend, archival materials were opened for review at the Los Altos History Museum.</p><br>
<h3>Garden dedications</h3><br>
<p>The Los Altos History Museum and the current homeowners recognized Rose Wilson Shoup, the wife of Paul Shoup, by dedicating a rose garden to the original "Mother of Los Altos.".</p><br>
<p>In May 2011 the historic grotto across Adobe Creek from the house was dedicated to Shoichi Kagawa who was the chief gardener and caretaker of the Japanese garden. He and his family lived on the property until they were sent to Heart Mountain to be interned during World War II.</p><br>
<h2>Recognition</h2><br>
<p>Homeowners Bill and Tricia Jennings applied for National Register status on behalf of the Paul Shoup House with assistance from Garavaglia Architecture, Inc. of San Francisco. Their application was successful and the house was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on September 23, 2011; the first Los Altos property to be added into the register. The house&#39;s nomination to the National Register was based on the significance of the original owner, Paul Shoup.</p><br>
<p>The Seagull Lake is sub-coastal saline lake fed by a marine spring located near Sceale Bay on the western side of the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. It lies about 20 km south of Streaky Bay and 280 km north of Port Lincoln.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The 88 hectare sub-coastal lake was reported in 2010 as being "dominated by Zostera and Ruppia marine seagrasses". There are grassed sand-dunes on the west between the lake and the bay. On the east the lake is bordered by about a kilometre of whipstick mallee and paperbarks, before a series of ephemeral saline wetlands. The surrounds retain much native vegetation, especially samphire and halophytic shrubland. The threatened Beaded Samphire and West Coast Mintbush are found at the lake. Although some parts are permanently wet, much of the lake bed dries up during droughts.</p><br>
<h2>Protected area status</h2><br>
<h3>Statutory</h3><br>
<p>Seagull Lake is within the boundaries of the Sceale Bay Conservation Park.</p><br>
<h3>Non-statutory arrangements</h3><br>
<p>Seagull Lake is within the boundaries of an Important Bird Area (IBA) known as the Seagull Lake Important Bird Area. The IBA was identified by BirdLife International because it regularly supports a breeding colony of fairy terns. Potential threats to the colony are from disturbance by people, vehicles and dogs, water abstraction in the catchment, and fox predation. Other birds recorded using the lake are banded stilts, red-necked avocets, red-necked stints, red-capped plovers, sharp-tailed sandpipers and hooded plovers.</p><br>
<p>The Amelungsburg is a 292 m high hill in the Lippe Uplands in central Germany, in the municipality of Dörentrup in the district of Lippe.</p><br>
<p>The Amelungsburg is believed to be the observation hill (Warthberg) belonging to the Piepenkopf rampart system located on its south-southwestern spur. Investigations into the charred remains (Brandfunde) at the site of the settlement with its double-embankment have been dated to 250 B.C. and can thus be presumed to have belonged to the La Tène culture. The settlement was not rebuilt.</p><br>
<p>At the southwestern foot of the Amelungsburg today is a still easily recognised, roughly 2-metre-high section of the ramparts with a 1.5-metre-deep ditch. It is suspected that this advanced rampart used to guard the road system.</p><br>
<p>In order to beat looters, the refuge castle has been investigated. Excavations on the plateau of the Amelungsburg unearthed about 300 individual items. In a number of spots there were both single and multiple hordes of goods.</p><br>
<p>The Mackinac Trail–Carp River Bridge is a bridge located on H-63  over the Carp River in St. Ignace Township, Michigan. It is the oldest bridge in Mackinac County, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1913, road improvement began on the Mackinac Trail a state trunkline highway connecting St. Ignace and Sault Ste. Marie. The improvement project included both grading the road surface and upgrading the bridges along the roadway. For one of these bridges, which carried the Mackinac Trail over the Carp River, the Michigan State Highway Department designed a 60 ft concrete arch bridge in 1919. The department awarded the contract to construct the bridge to A. S. Decker of Flint, Michigan, who completed work on the bridge in 1920.</p><br>
<p>This section of the Mackinac Trail was later incorporated into USA Highway 2 (US 2) increasing the traffic flow across the bridge. In response, in 1929-30, new guardrails were added to the bridge, the deck was widened by 5 ft, and new approaches of decorative cobblestone were constructed. The section of US 2 was later replaced by Interstate 75, and the Mackinac Trail was redesignated as a county road, later numbered H-63.</p><br>
<p>In 2009, the bridge was considered for demolition. However, it was decided in 2010 to refurbish the bridge instead. Weakened concrete was replaced, drains installed, and the roadway was widened by another 5 ft. The Mackinac Trail–Carp River Bridge still carries local traffic.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Mackinac Trail–Carp River Bridge is an arch bridge, 60 ft in length, with a roadway width of 27 ft. The arch sits on large concrete abutments with angled wingwalls. The roadway approaches are flanked with cobblestone retaining walls. The original guardrail was removed during the 1929–30 road widening and replaced with ornamental steel rails with concrete bulkheads. This rail design, although called a "standard" design, appears to be unique among surviving bridges in Michigan. The Mackinac Trail–Carp River Bridge is one of the few remaining arch bridges constructed by the Michigan State Highway Department during its early period of design and construction.</p><br>
<p>The Mikulich General Store is a commercial building located at the junction of County Roads 1 and 44 in Limestone Township, Traunik, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1987.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the early 1900s, Traunik developed as the center of a large Slovenian community, who settled on land that at the time had been recently logged. In 1922 William J. Kehoe, a logging camp operator and former teacher, purchased 2.6 acres in Traunik for $75. Kehoe hired a local Native American carpenter known as "Wild Bill" Copeland (or Coplin) to build a store on the site; construction took place in 1922-23. However, soon after the store opened, a new school was built nearby, and Kehoe resumed his teaching career. Kehoe sold the store to John Knaus Sr., who sold the store again in 1926 to Louis Mikulich Sr. In 1927, Mikulich became postmaster of Traunik and remodelled the store and opened a post office there. The Mikulich family lived on the second floor, and the store soon became the social and economic center for the community.</p><br>
<p>Lousi Mikulich operated the store until 1961, when his son, Louis Mikulich Jr., took it over. The store later changed hands again, opening as "Lily&#39;s of Traunik," a cafe and health food store, in 2008. The store was sold again in 2010, and after extensive renovations and updating, reopened in September 2013 as the Mikulich General Store & Deli by David and Laura Coleman</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Mikulich General Store is a two-story rectangular building with a flat roof. The front facade has a recessed central entrance with two large display windows on each side. The store likely had some form of wooden siding originally; it was covered with asphalt siding in the 1920s, and later with clapboards when the asphalt began to deteriorate. The building originally rested on wooden posts, which were replaced with a concrete foundation in the 1980s. Inside, the lower floor housed the general store and post office (the original post office remains intact) and the upper floor housed living quarters for the owner. The site of the store also includes a privy, one-story grain and fuel shed, and a two-car garage and poured concrete tennis court from the 1930s.</p><br>
<p>Shallow Inlet is a marine inlet, opening onto Waratah Bay on the western side of the Yanakie Isthmus in South Gippsland, Victoria, south-eastern Australia. It lies close to the small holiday communities of Sandy Point and Yanakie, as well as to Wilsons Promontory and the Wilsons Promontory National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The inlet is a shallow, curving, 18 km tidal embayment with a single channel to the sea. On the seaward side it is enclosed by a barrier of sandy spits, bars and mobile dunes. The extensive intertidal mudflats and areas of sand provide habitat for waders, or shorebirds. Fringing the mudflats are areas of saltmarsh.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The inlet has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports over 1% of the world populations of double-banded plovers and red-necked stints, and has supported the critically endangered orange-bellied parrot. Other birds recorded as using the site in significant numbers include eastern curlews, Pacific golden plovers, curlew sandpipers and sanderlings.</p><br>
<p>Alasa Farms, also known as the Sodus Bay Shaker Tract and Sodus Bay Phalanx, is a historic farm complex located near Alton in Wayne County, New York. The farm complex was originally built and occupied by the Sodus Bay Shakers, an official branch of the United Society of Believers in Christ&#39;s Second Appearing, from 1826 to 1838. It was then briefly occupied by a local lawyer Alexander Duncan and his family. Between 1844 and 1846, the property was home to the Sodus Bay Phalanx of the Fourier Society; a group devoted to establishing utopian communities based on communal living. After 1846, the property lay vacant until 1868. It became a large scale, "model farm" in the early-20th century, being named Alasa Farms in 1924, by its owner Alvah Griffin Strong, grandson of Henry A. Strong.</p><br>
<p>The property includes the contributing resources: the Main House and Deacon&#39;s House, large frame houses both built by the Shakers in 1833-1834; three gambrel roofed frame barns; board and batten barn (c. 1840s); pony barn; granary (1932); house for bachelor farmhands (1926); office (c. 1930); in ground pool and pool house (c. 1926); two tenant house (c. 1909); two small sheds; and a well with pump. In early 2011, Cracker Box Palace achieved ownership of Alasa Farms and is used for farm animals of every kind to come to recover from illness, neglect or abuse.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<p>Mont Bichet, also known as Les Trables and, formerly, La Crêche, is a mostly wooded mountain in eastern France belonging to the Chablais Alps. Mont Bichet is the Haute-Savoie department and is surrounded by the three communes of the Brevon valley, Bellevaux, Lullin and Vailly. Its elevation is 1,360 m. Its slopes include many former Alpine pastures, now in ruins, covered by woodland and heavily populated with game animals.</p><br>
<h2>Alpine pastures</h2><br>
<p>Le Moan is a former alpine pasture located in the commune of Vailly, with an elevation of 1,050 m. It has been in disuse and wooded since the 1980s; its hillsides were used by the Maquis resistance fighters in World War II. A path leads from Le Moan to Sur les Monts.</p><br>
<p>Le Plaine is another former pasture in Vailly, also used by the maquis. Disused and covered in woodland, it hosts a mill. It is accessible up to le Lavouet by taking the Sous la Joux road from the centre of the hamlet up to Granges Vulliez, passing on the left through the forest, then take the trail to le Plaine.</p><br>
<p>Sur les Monts is a lieu-dit located in Bellevaux commune, at 1,126 m elevation.</p><br>
<p>Les Granges de Lullin</p><br>
<p>Le Gros Feu</p><br>
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<p>Hirmentaz  is a mountain in eastern France, belonging to the Chablais Alps, and located in the communes of Bellevaux, Habère-Poche, Habère-Lullin and Mégevette. Two ski stations have been set up on its slopes, one, also called Hirmentaz, in the Bellevaux commune, and the other, called Domaine des Habères, in the communes of Habère-Poche Habère-Lullin.</p><br>
<h2>History of Hirmentaz station</h2><br>
<p>In 1963, under the influence of the contemporary mayor of Bellevauxe, Armand Félisaz, 37 local artisans pooled their efforts and resources (each contributing 50,000 French francs) to found a sports equipment and platter lift facility, SESAT (société déquipement sportif et daménagement du téleski). They chose Hirmentaz for its ease of access.</p><br>
<p>The partners themselves carried out the engineering work for the installation of the first lift. There was no snow on the day of the opening ceremony, which took place on the grass. Over 10 years, a new lift was set up approximately every year. In the 1970s, there was discussion of linking the chef-lieu with Hirmentaz via a chair lift, but this was never implemented.</p><br>
<p>In 2000, an artificial lake was set up for water storage and snow cannons.</p><br>
<p>In early winter of 2008, an old chair lift from 1977 was donated to Kyrgyzstan, and replaced with a faster model.</p><br>
<p>The J. Bruce Hain House is a historic house in Sardis, Alabama. The Classical Revival style structure was completed in 1913 for J. Bruce Hain on his working plantation. The house contains roughly 8,000 ft&sup2; spread over two floors. The interior is divided on a central hall plan. The front exterior is adorned with a monumental two-story Corinthian portico with a full-width second floor balcony. The house sat vacant for more than two decades until it was purchased by Cecil Gayle and Kenneth Parker of Atlanta in 1998. They stabilized and restored the home to its original condition. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 30, 2001. The home was purchased in December 2015 by Ray and Angie Harrelson of Selma.</p><br>
<p>Shoal Bay is a shallow bay lying adjacent to, and north of, the city of Darwin in the Northern Territory of Australia. Encompassing Hope Inlet at its eastern end, it is characterised by extensive areas of intertidal mudflats and mangroves and is an important site for waders, or shorebirds. The bay is situated within the Shoal Bay Coastal Reserve, a protected area that was established in 2000.</p><br>
<p>Shoal Bay is also known for accommodating the Shoal Bay Receiving Station, a signals-intelligence collection facility that contributes to the NSA&#39;s global data collection program.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The bay comprises the lower reaches of the Howard River and several small tidal creeks that drain into Hope Inlet. Much of the bay is exposed at low tide, with about 100 km&sup2; of tidal mud and sand flats. Unlike most other bays in the Northern Territory, it is not associated with large rivers, nor freshwater coastal floodplains. It does include some swamps and remnants of monsoonal vine forest on the margins. Because of its proximity to Darwin it is threatened by urbanisation and land development. It is also affected by invasive species, frequent fires and largely uncontrolled recreational use of the area.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<h3>Plants</h3><br>
<p>Some 61 plant species endemic to the Northern Territory are found around the bay. Of these, three, Cycas armstrongii, Ptychosperma macarthurii and Utricularia dunstaniae, are considered threatened. Two, Utricularia holtzei and Typhonium praetermissum, are only known from the Darwin Coastal bioregion.</p><br>
<h3>Birds</h3><br>
<p>Some 96 km&sup2; of the bay has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports, with its low-tide feeding habitat and high-tide roosting sites, over 1% of the world population of great knots. Other birds recorded from the bay in significant numbers include black-tailed godwits, greater sand plovers, Terek sandpipers and beach stone-curlews. Chestnut rails inhabit the mangroves.</p><br>
<h3>Other animals</h3><br>
<p>Apart from birds, threatened animals recorded from the bay and its surrounds include northern quolls, Mertens&#39; water monitors, argus monitors, flatback and olive ridley turtles, dwarf and longcomb sawfish, and Dodd&#39;s azure butterflies. Feral pigs and water buffaloes are present. There is an ongoing program to monitor and remove saltwater crocodiles from the bay.</p><br>
<p>The Elizabeth Public Library is the free public library of Elizabeth, New Jersey. Serving a population of approximately 127,558, its collection contains 342,305 volumes, circulating 190,581 items annually from its four locations.</p><br>
<h2>Locations</h2><br>
<p>Main Library - 11 South Broad Street</p><br>
<p>LaCorte Branch Library - 408 Palmer Street</p><br>
<p>Elmora Branch Library - 730 W. Grand Street</p><br>
<p>Elizabethport Branch Library - 102-110 Third Street</p><br>
<h2>Carnegie library building</h2><br>
<p>Elizabeths Main Library was built during the "free library movement" at the turn of the 20th century in part with the impetus of Charles N. Fowler, US Congressman from Union County. It is one of New Jerseys original thirty-six Carnegie libraries, which by the 1940s had become one of the busiest libraries of its size in the USA. Records show that millionaire Andrew Carnegie granted $130,810 made February 3, 1910, for the main and no longer existing Liberty Plaza branch libraries. Opened in 1912, the building, reminiscent of an Italian palazzo and the Boston Public Library was designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton, who had designed many other Carnegie libraries as well as the immigration station at Ellis Island. It is a contributing property to the Midtown Historic District, a state and federal historic district established in 1994-1995. The Main Library is the Federal Depository Library for Union County.</p><br>
<p>The Jefferson Historic District is a collection of at least 15 historic buildings in the town of Jefferson, Texas. The district encompasses 1070 acres of the southeastern portion of Jefferson, and was designated on March 31, 1971. Listed below are the known contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>Atkins House</p><br>
<p>Rowell-DeWare Home</p><br>
<p>Sagamore</p><br>
<p>Marsh Place</p><br>
<p>Guardian Oak (Lester House)</p><br>
<p>Knightwood</p><br>
<p>Falling Leaves (Koontz-Amoss Home)</p><br>
<p>Todd-Terhune Residence</p><br>
<p>Alice Emmert House</p><br>
<p>Figures House</p><br>
<p>Presbyterian Church</p><br>
<p>Schluter Home</p><br>
<p>Brown Building</p><br>
<p>Jefferson Public Library - A Carnegie library built in 1907</p><br>
<p>Kahn Saloon</p><br>
<p>Thurman Place</p><br>
<p>The River Lumi  is located in northern Tanzania and southern Kenya in Coast Province. It originates on the east side of Mawenzi , and flows so close to the River Rombo as almost to form a fork. The Lumi, however, maintains its southerly direction, and may thus be said to represent the upper course of the Ruvu, one of tho two main sources of the Pangani River.</p><br>
<p>It flows around the Lake Chala and the Taveta town in the west and empties into the Lake Jipe. The fish species Barbus sp. Pangani has only been found in the rivers Njoro Springs, situated in the upper Pangani River drainage basin.</p><br>
<h2>Wetland management</h2><br>
<p>Most water taken from the Lumi is from the section that flows through Kenya. After the building of several dams along the Kenyan side of the Lumi, and with several periods of reduced rainfall, the dry up of Lake Jipe became a concern, necessitating wetland management programs. During the period of 2004-2006, the United Nations Development Programme GEF Small Grants Programme and the Biodiversity Conservation Programme of the European Union have completed a de-siltation and restoration project of the river&#39;s original course.</p><br>
<p>The Pangani River   is a major river of northeastern Tanzania. It has two main sources: the Ruvu, which rises as Lumi at Kilimanjaro, passes through Lake Jipe, and empties into the Nyumba ya Mungu Reservoir, and the Kikuletwa, coming from the west and mainly fed by Mount Meru, which also enters into the Nyumba ya Mungu Reservoir. Just after leaving the reservoir the stream becomes the Pangani, which empties into the Indian Ocean at the town of Pangani.</p><br>
<p>For much of its length the river flows along the regional borders of Kilimanjaro Region and Manyara Region, before flowing into Tanga Region, which contains the 68 MW Pangani Power Station and the Pangani Falls Dam. There are several inhabited islands within the river. The river is full of crocodiles; hippopotami are scarcer in its lower parts.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>A main source of Pangani originates on Kilimanjaro, where it is the River Lumi. Lake Jipe may be considered a backwater of the Lumi.</p><br>
<p>Below Lake Jipe and above the falls, the river is referred to as "Ruvu".</p><br>
<p>Formerly the main course towards the sea was alternatively called "Ruvu" and "Pangani". Nowadays that has been settled as "Pangani" from the Nyumba ya Mungu reservoir to the Ocean.</p><br>
<p>While the Sudheli language calls it "Pangani" (meaning distribute or arrange), it is called "Luffu" by the Wasambara (indigenous to the Nderema area, on the three ridges nearer the coast) and Wasegua (who live on the river&#39;s islands).</p><br>
<p>Almost all authorities agree that the river "Rhaptus" of Ptolemy&#39;s topographical maps is the Pangani of modern maps.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Pangani is 500 km in length.</p><br>
<p>One source of the river rises in Kilimanjaro, about 120 mi from the sea. Known as the Lumi in this area, its course runs through Lake Jipe. The other is at Mount Meru in the west and is known as the Kikuletwa. Like all African rivers, its depth varies with the season. The river is highest around May and lowest around October.</p><br>
<p>It is navigable for small craft between the lake and the Höhnel Cataracts, a series of rapids. Below the Höhnel Cataracts, it has numerous tributaries, and many islands with villages on them. The stream is strongest above Koleni, within 5 miles of the Pangani Falls, where the river is narrow. This section is not navigable for any considerable distance on account of the falls, which are about 30 mi from the mouth. Approximately 4 mi from the mouth, dense mangrove swamp covers the flatland between the hills on either side. In this area, near Teufelsfelsen, are higher land, a fertile area, and the arid Masai Steppe. The village of Lemkuna and the hamlet of Ngage are on the river&#39;s west bank, while Mvungwe and Meserani are on its eastern bank.</p><br>
<p>The mouth is located 52 km south of Tanga. The river is tidal for a distance of 22 mi from the entrance. The southern side of the entrance is marked by a perpendicular bluff named Bweni, about 200 ft high; there is a village of the same name, Bweni, situated here. The northern side of the entrance is a flat sandy beach that extends from the head of the bay. There are several settlements at the entrance, two on the northern and two on the southern bank. Historically, the town of Pangani, on the river&#39;s left bank, had a reputation for fevers. At its estuary, by Pangani town, the river is about 600 ft in breadth, and 12 - deep.</p><br>
<p>Several tributaries coming from the Pare Mountains, the Usambara Mountains and the Wasegiia wilderness join the Pangani in its course. These include the Kibaya, Komkuza, Kwachigulu, Kwamwadyau and Mnyusi.</p><br>
<h2>Hydrometry</h2><br>
<p>Average monthly flow of Pangani measured at the hydrological station in Korogwe Estate, about 110 km above the mouth in m³ / s (1959–77). The Pangani flows stimulate time-dependent, like most rivers in the region.</p><br>
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<h2>Pangani River Basin</h2><br>
<p>The Pangani River Basin (PRB) makes up one of Tanzania&#39;s nine drainage basins. Covering an area from the northern highlands down to the northeastern coastline, the PRB is approximately 56,300 km&sup2; in size, of which 4,880 km&sup2; lie within Kenya.</p><br>
<p>Five sub-basins make up the basin, namely the Pangani River (43,650 km&sup2;), Umba River (8,070 km&sup2;), Msangazi River (5,030 km&sup2;), Zigi River and Mkulumuzi River (2,080 km&sup2;), which all empty into the Indian Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The Pangani Basin Water Board (PBWB) was established in July 1991 in accordance with the Water Utilization (Control and Regulation) Act No. 42 of 1974, with its headquarters in the municipality of Moshi in Kilimanjaro Region, and two other offices in Arusha and Tanga. The PBWB consists of ten professionals from public institutions and private sector LGAs, UWSAs and other committees.</p><br>
<p>The river system is under pressure from conflicts of interest in water use. Many farmers rely on the river for irrigation and damming projects along the river have reduced several hundreds to less than 40 m3/s, affecting coastal communities, which have seen fish populations dramatically reduced. In 2002, the Pangani River Basin Management Project (PRBMP) was established to manage the basin&#39;s water resources. It receives technical assistance from the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the Netherlands Development Organization (SNV) and the local NGO PAMOJA. The project also receives funds from the Government of Tanzania, IUCN, the European Commission (EU) and the Global Environment Facility through the UNDP.</p><br>
<h2>Commerce</h2><br>
<p>There is a good deal of trade here, dhows loading and unloading on the river. Produce is brought down the river, principally on rafts made of the Moale palm, which are then broken up and become articles of commerce. In 1878, the most common crop cultivated on the river&#39;s banks was reported to be sugar.</p><br>
<p>Palmyra Village Historic District is a national historic district at Palmyra in Wayne County, New York.</p><br>
<p>The district includes 207 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, 7 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object. It encompasses Palymra&#39;s commercial, civic, religious, and residential core. Most of the buildings were built between about 1830 and 1890, and is representative of a quintessential canal town in New York State. It includes the previously listed Market Street Historic District, East Main Street Commercial Historic District, and Zion Episcopal Church. New areas in the district are the Palmyra Village Civic Center Area, Four Churches Area, Swift Cemetery Area, Residential West Main Street, Palmyra Elementary School Area, Residential Cuyler Street and East and West Jackson Street, The Fairgrounds, and Residential East Main Street.</p><br>
<p>Notable buildings include the Village Hall (1866-1868), Griffith Block (c. 1893), First National Bank (1925), bandstand on the village green (c. 1906), First Methodist Church (1866-1867), Western Presbyterian Church (c. 1832), First Baptist Church (1871), St. Anne&#39;s Roman Catholic Church (1859-1870s), Alexander McKachnie House (c. 1830), Garlock Office Building, Sherburne Ford building (c. 1910), Palmyra Elementary School (1924), the Carlton Rogers House (1850s), and the Floral Hall (1856).</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>2013 Downtown Fire</h2><br>
<p>On May 3, 2013, a fire started by alleged arson destroyed three historic Main Street buildings dating to the villages Erie Canal era, and water from the firefighting response damaged a fourth. The buildings were condemned on May 7 and are scheduled to be demolished by June 30. The buildings survived proposed demolition during the urban renewal era of the 1960s, and may be replaced by a new structure to be raised by one of the destroyed buildings owners.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph Old Cathedral is a parish church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City located in downtown Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States. It was the seat of the Diocese of Oklahoma City-Tulsa from 1905-1931; and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The cathedral was severely damaged during the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Rev. Nicolas F. Scallon arrived in Oklahoma City on April 22, 1889. He was the first priest to serve in the recently formed town. He located other Catholic settlers and looked for a place to celebrate Mass. For the most part in those early days Mass was celebrated in a tent that normally functioned as McGinley&#39;s General Store. Less than two weeks later three lots were purchased for $225. Construction on a church building that measured 24 by 40 feet was begun on July 1, 1889 and was completed a month later. A 650-pound bell was purchased for $101 and the first Mass was celebrated in St. Joseph’s Church on August 4.</p><br>
<p>By the turn of the 20th century the congregation began to outgrow its wood frame building and plans were made for a larger church. Work began on October 19, 1901 and it was finished the following year. It was dedicated by Bishop Theophile Meerschaert of the Vicariate Apostolic of Indian Territory on December 18, 1904. The church was constructed of Coffeyville brick in the Gothic Revival style. It features a central tower with a spire that is flanked by two shorter towers that are crenellated at the top. The building measures 137 by 64 feet.</p><br>
<p>The year after the church was dedicated St. Pius X established the Diocese of Oklahoma City on August 23, 1905. St. Joseph’s became the first cathedral in Oklahoma. St. Joseph continued to serve the downtown area as a parish church.</p><br>
<p>St. Joseph&#39;s Old Cathedral was extensively damaged when a bomb exploded at the nearby Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995. Most of the stained glass windows on the east side of the church were shattered, and the pipe organ was extensively damaged. The explosion raised the roof several inches off its steel pillars and several of the rafters were broken. Plaster fell from the walls and ceiling and the painted, symbolic plaster medallions were destroyed. The church was closed for nearly two years. A statue carved from Italian marble entitled And Jesus Wept was created to commemorate the event and is adjacent to the Oklahoma City National Memorial. It was dedicated in May 1997 and the church was rededicated on December 1 of the same year.</p><br>
<p>An interfaith prayer service was held in St. Joseph’s on September 12, 2001 in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Archbishop Eusebius J. Beltran said during the service, "This building was rebuilt as a sign of faith and remembrance of those people who were killed at the site of the Murrah Bombing. We gather here today to mourn the loss of our brothers and sisters in New York City and in Washington, D.C."</p><br>
<p>Zigi River, in literature also often Sigi River , is a river in the Tanga Region in Tanzania.</p><br>
<p>The river rises in the Amani Nature Reserve in the Usambara Mountains, more precisely in Handei Mountains, at an altitude of 1130 meters and flows for 100 km long course and multiple changes of direction 40 km north of the town of Tanga in the Indian Ocean. Its tributaries are the Kihuhui (from south) and the Musi (from North).</p><br>
<h2>Hydrometrie</h2><br>
<p>Average monthly flow of Zigi measured at the hydrological station in Lanconi Estate, about 10 km above the Mabayani Dam in m³ / s (1957 - 1990). The Zigi flows stimulate time-dependent, like most rivers in the region.</p><br>
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<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The BVF is located in the north of the Bayuda Desert in the bend of the Nile between the Fourth and the Fifth Cataract. The main volcanic field is 48 km long and 11 km wide covering an area of about 480 km and extending in a NW direction from 18.28 N, 32.92 E. to 18.43 N to 32.50 E.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The BVF has a very long geological history as it was a part of the Gondwanaland. It comprises at least 57 Cinder cones, 15 Maars and large Lava fields. The volcanoes are small and composed of basaltic lavas and Tephra. Each of the composite volcanoes passed through a stage of pyroclastic cone-building followed by a period of lava extrusion which usually resulted in the breaching of the cone.</p><br>
<h2>Maar-like craters</h2><br>
<p>Due to their lack of erosion the maar-like explosion craters are considered of recent, Pleistocene or Holocene, origin. The largest one, Hosh ed Dalam, is 1.3 km wide, and approximately 500 m deep. The El Muweilih or Atrun Crater is certainly the best known one. El Muweilih means The Salty Place and refers to a small saline lake on the crater floor from where natron-rich clay is dug out and dried by local nomads.</p><br>
<p>Shuanggudui is an archeological site located near Fuyang in China&#39;s Anhui province. Shuanggudui grave no. 1, which belongs to Xiahou Zao, the second marquis of Ruyin, was sealed in 165 BCE in the early Han dynasty . Excavated in 1977, it was found to contain a large number of texts written on bamboo strips, including fragments of the Classic of Poetry and the Songs of the South, a text on breathing exercises, a "year table" recounting historical events, a manual on dogs, a version of the I Ching  that differs from the received one, and artifacts including the oldest known cosmic board, a divinatory instrument. Like Mawangdui and Guodian, two other tombs from the area of the old state of Chu, the Shuanggudui find has shed great light on the culture and practices of the early Han dynasty.</p><br>
<h2>Excavation and identification</h2><br>
<p>Shuanggudui (, literally "paired ancient tumuli") was excavated in July 1977 during the expansion of the Fuyang municipal airport in Anhui province, China. Located about two miles outside Fuyang at the time, the site was known to contain old tombs, yet it is unclear whether the excavation was pre-planned or rushed just as construction started. The digging was supervised by two archeologists from the Anhui Provincial Archaeological Relics Find Team, who discovered two tombs, one of which (Tomb 1, to the east) was found to contain texts and artifacts. A ramp 4.1 m wide led to a coffin chamber measuring 9.2 m north-south by 7.65 m east-west, about half the area of the more famous Tomb 3 that had been discovered in Mawangdui in 1973.</p><br>
<p>Some of the bronze artifacts found in Tomb 1 were marked with the name of the tombs occupant Ruyin Hou, which means "Lord of Ruyin". This title had first been granted to Xiahou Ying (d. 172 BCE), who had helped Liu Bang (r. 202–195 BCE) to establish the Han dynasty. Archeologists have identified the tomb as belonging to Yings son Xiahou Zao, the second Lord of Ruyin. Little is known about him, except that he died seven years after his father. The tomb is therefore thought to have been sealed in 165 BCE, the fifteenth year of Emperor Wen&#39;s reign.</p><br>
<h2>Artifacts</h2><br>
<h3>Cosmic boards</h3><br>
<p>The Shuanggudui tomb contained the earliest known diviner&#39;s boards (shi ), or "cosmographs", divinatory instruments that were widely used during the Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 AD). These two lacquered astrological boards consist of a movable disk – 9.5 cm in diameter – representing the Heavens mounted on a square base – 13.5 by – representing Earth. The center of the circular top depicts the seven stars of the Northern Dipper (which was considered to be a powerful astral deity), whereas the rim of both the disk and the square base is inscribed with astro-calendrical signs that helped to perform divination. Donald Harper, who wrote about this artifact soon after its discovery, argued that it should be called "cosmic board" because it is "so obviously a mechanistic model of the cosmos itself".</p><br>
<p>The use of such boards is described or alluded to in many ancient Chinese texts like the Chu Ci, Han Feizi, Huainanzi, and some military texts. The diviner would rotate the disk until the Dipper pointed in a chosen direction, usually corresponding to the current date. He would then find an answer to his question by means of numerological calculations. Manipulation of this miniature model of the cosmos was supposed to bring power to its user.</p><br>
<p>Numeral juxtaposition on the inner, round part of the board correlates to the Luoshu layout which was long supposed to have been invented in the Song dynasty (960–1279).</p><br>
<h3>Other objects</h3><br>
<p>The most valuable goods that were buried with the tomb&#39;s occupant had long been robbed when archeologists excavated the tomb in 1977. In addition to the two cosmic boards, many lacquered vessels were nonetheless found, as well as terra cotta musical instruments, metallic weapons (a few made of iron but most of bronze), and a number of bronze artifacts like a mirror, a lamp, and a cauldron.</p><br>
<h2>Texts</h2><br>
<h3>Reconstruction of the bamboo strips</h3><br>
<p>Robbers who looted the tomb in the late second century CE took the bamboo strips out of the lacquered bamboo hamper in which they had been placed and left the strips on the ground of the coffin chamber. The chamber itself later collapsed, breaking the strips, and muddy water covered the strips, eventually turning them into "paper-thin sheets, fused together into clumps by ground pressure." The largest of the three clumps was about 25 cm long by 10 cm wide and 10 cm high. To complicate matters, the 1977 excavation took place under a heavy rainstorm, and the pump that the excavators used to remove mud from the coffin chamber also pumped out other fragments of bamboo strips.</p><br>
<p>It took a team led by Han Ziqiang of the Fuyang Local Museum and Yu Haoliang (; 1917–1982) of the Bureau of Cultural Relics in Beijing almost two years just to separate the surviving fragments. They first removed mud from the clumps by soaking them in a "weak vinegar solution", then baked them to remove moisture. Next, they detached the thin and extremely brittle fragments of strips from the clumps one by one and photographed each piece. Historian Edward Shaughnessy, who has worked on some of the Shuanggudui texts, finds it "miraculous" that they could be reconstructed from such damaged material.</p><br>
<p>After Yu Haoliang&#39;s death in 1982, Hu Pingsheng replaced him at the head of the team. It is Hu and Han Ziqiang who edited the texts for publication.</p><br>
<h3>Classic of Changes</h3><br>
<p>The longest text found in Shuanggudui is an incomplete version of the Yijing, or Classic of Changes, in 752 fragments containing 3,119 characters. The hexagram and line statements of the Shuanggudui text closely resemble the received version, yet it is too fragmentary to reconstruct the complete text of any single hexagram or even the sequence in which they were presented.</p><br>
<p>Nearly two thirds of this Shuanggudui Yijing consist in "formulaic divination statements" that are present neither in the received Yijing, nor in the version that was found in Mawangdui that was also sealed in the 160s BCE. Edward Shaughnessy has hypothesized that the line statements of the received Book of Changes may have originated in similar but older divination statements.</p><br>
<h3>Classic of Poetry</h3><br>
<p>More than 170 fragments of the Classic of Poetry or Book of Odes, for a total of 820 characters, have also been found in Shuanggudui. These fragments are longer and have been more extensively studied than other incomplete versions of the Shijing found in ancient tombs like those of Guodian (tomb sealed around 300 BCE) and Mawangdui (168 BCE).</p><br>
<p>The Shuanggudui version contains portions of 65 songs from the "Airs of States" (Guofeng ) section and 4 from the "Xiaoya" section. Although the song titles are the same as those of the received version, the text varies substantially from that of the other early Han versions. Since each strip contained one stanza (zhang ), characters were written smaller when a long stanza had to fit on a single strip.</p><br>
<h3>Cangjiepian</h3><br>
<p>Named after the mythical inventor of Chinese writing, the Cangjiepian or Cang Jie Wordbook was one of the earliest primers of Chinese characters. It was first compiled by Li Si (ca. 280–208 BCE) – an important statesman of the Qin dynasty who wanted to use it to support his policies of language unification – and later augmented with two other works. The Shuanggudui version counts 541 characters, a little less than 20 percent of the complete work. It is longer and more legible than the fragments of the same work that were found in Juyan (at the confines of Inner Mongolia and Gansu), and among the Dunhuang manuscripts. Its presence in several early Han tombs shows that the Cang Jie Pian "was, if not a common manual for elementary instruction, at least not a rare work."</p><br>
<h3>Wanwu</h3><br>
<p>The text that Chinese editors have titled "Myriad Things" or "Ten Thousand Things" (Wanwu ) is an extensive list of natural substances that historians of Chinese medicine see as a precursor of later Chinese herbology, or literature on materia medica like the Shennong bencao jing. It explains how to use some substances for healing purposes, but also contains technical information on how to catch animals or expel vermin. In the words of historian Donald Harper, this work "catalogues human curiosity about the products of nature," noting among other things that pinellia can fatten pigs and that "a horse-gullet tube can be used to breathe under water." The names of drugs and illnesses found in Wanwu correspond with those found in the Recipes for Fifty-Two Ailments, a text dating from about 200 BCE that was buried in a tomb in Mawangdui in 168 BCE. These and other correspondences between the two texts show that the same knowledge of drugs was circulating in both the southern Chu region (Mawangdui) and the Yangzi River valley (Shuanggudui).</p><br>
<h3>Historical annals</h3><br>
<p>The most fragmentary and badly damaged of the texts found in Shuanggudui is a text that the Chinese editors have called "Table" (biao ), an annalistic compilation of events from about 850 to the end of the third century BCE, that is, from the late Western Zhou through the Spring and Autumn period and the Warring States. Some of the strips still carry the horizontal markers that divided the text into rows. The existence of this chronological "Table" in the early second century BCE shows that Sima Qian did not invent this mode of historical representation, as he often gave the impression in his magnum opus the Shiji.</p><br>
<h3>Breathing exercises</h3><br>
<p>An incomplete text dealing with breathing exercises was also excavated in Shuanggudui. Modern editors have named it Xingqi, or Moving the Vapors. Along with similar texts found in Mawangdui, Zhangjiashan, and Shuihudi, it testifies to the widespread existence of gymnastic practices in Han times.</p><br>
<h3>Manual on dogs</h3><br>
<p>The tomb also contained a Classic for Physiognomizing Dogs (Xiang Gou Jing ), "a text for assessing the qualities of dogs." It has been compared to another text on dogs from Yinqueshan (tomb sealed in the second half of the second century BCE) and to a work on the physiognomy of horses that was excavated from a grave in Mawangdui (sealed in 168 BCE).</p><br>
<h3>Other fragments</h3><br>
<p>Fragments of the following texts were also found in the tomb:</p><br>
<p>Eight bamboo strips bearing 56 characters from the "Miscellaneous Chapters" (Zapian ) of the Zhuangzi.</p><br>
<p>A handbook for government officials that the modern editors have named Zuowu Yuancheng, or Per Capita Rate for Work Duties. This manual gives the "standard rates of work for different tasks to be carried out by farmers and artisans".</p><br>
<p>Almanacs (rishu or "day books") and other divinatory texts similar to those that were found in other graves such as Yinqueshan.</p><br>
<p>Ninety-six strips bearing a text resembling the Chunqiu Shiyu (Stories and Sayings of the Spring and Autumn) excavated in Mawangdui.</p><br>
<p>Three "wooden boards" (du ) each bearing the table of contents of one book. One is the Chunqiu Shiyu (see previous entry), and the most complete one is called Rujiazhe Yan (Sayings of the Ru School), close in content to the Kongzi Jiayu (School Sayings of Confucius), which has been transmitted to the present.</p><br>
<p>The Sir Joseph Banks Group is an archipelago of 21 small islands with a collective land area of 1,275 hectare located in Spencer Gulf about 20 km off the eastern coast of the Eyre Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia. Eighteen of the islands are in the Sir Joseph Banks Group Conservation Park while the surrounding waters are protected by Sir Joseph Banks Group Marine Park. It is considered to be an important seabird breeding site.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The islands are low-lying, with the highest point on Spilsby of about 50 m They consist mainly of a granite base beneath limestone and are usually capped with calcrete or sandy soil. Reevesby and Spilsby are the largest islands in the group. Spilsby Island is privately owned and continues to be grazed by sheep, as well as holding a few holiday cottages.</p><br>
<h3>Islands</h3><br>
<p>The group consists of the following islands:</p><br>
<p>Blyth Island</p><br>
<p>Boucaut Island</p><br>
<p>Buffalo Reef</p><br>
<p>Dalby Island</p><br>
<p>Dangerous Reef</p><br>
<p>Duffield Island</p><br>
<p>English Island</p><br>
<p>Hareby Island</p><br>
<p>Kirkby Island</p><br>
<p>Langton Island</p><br>
<p>Lusby Island</p><br>
<p>Marum Island</p><br>
<p>Partney Island</p><br>
<p>Reevesby Island</p><br>
<p>Roxby Island</p><br>
<p>Seal Rock</p><br>
<p>Sibsey Island</p><br>
<p>Spilsby Island</p><br>
<p>Stickney Island</p><br>
<p>Smith Rock</p><br>
<p>Winceby Island</p><br>
<h3>Access</h3><br>
<p>Visits to the islands are only possible by boat, with the closest mainland access point being the coastal town of Tumby Bay, 22 km to the north-west. Some islands are not open to the general public because of their environmental sensitivity.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The islands were named by Matthew Flinders on 23 February 1802 on his voyage of exploration in HMS Investigator. The group is named after Sir Joseph Banks, who was a sponsor of the Investigator voyage.</p><br>
<p>Many islands in the group are named after places in Flinders’ home county of Lincolnshire, England.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Most islands are vegetated with low shrubland dominated by nitre bush or African boxthorn. Some support tall shrubland dominated by coastal boobialla or coastal daisybush. Areas of sandy loam may support marsh saltbush. The larger islands retain patches of woodland. Islands previously used for grazing sheep have introduced grasses and burr medick.</p><br>
<p>As well as the native death adders, tiger snakes, and several species of lizard including goannas, many of the islands have introduced mammals such as feral cats, house mice or chinchilla rabbits. The archipelago has Australian sea lion breeding colonies. Greater stick-nest rats were reintroduced to Reevesby Island in 1990/91.</p><br>
<h3>Little penguin colonies</h3><br>
<p>A holiday-maker visiting the Sir Joseph Banks group in 1923 noted the presence of little penguins, commenting that "On every island there are hundreds of nests,or rather roosts, of the fairy penguins, with their meek faces poking up under the barest shelter." As of 2011, several penguin colonies in the group are believed to be in decline.</p><br>
<h4>Spilsby Island</h4><br>
<p>As of June 2011, the colony of little penguins on Spilsby Island is believed to be in decline. In 1935, the population was described by a visitor: "All around the shores of Spilsby the quaint, pretty little fairy penguins have their burrows. Sitting bolt upright, their short, hair-like plumage dark blue, with white fronts, they look at human beings with eyes which hold no fear, only a mild wonder at the appearance of the intruder. You can walk among them: they do not move, except to follow you with their eyes." In 2006, the Spilsby Island population was estimated at 2000-3000 birds. In 2010 the population was estimated to be less than 100 birds. In 2011, the population was described as few. Landholders and conservation groups report that numbers in Spencer Gulf have crashed since the early 2000s.</p><br>
<h4>Reevesby Island</h4><br>
<p>Little penguins have been recorded on Reevesby Island. In 1907, the colony was mentioned by Douglas Mawson from the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science: "The cavities in the limestone, which have been hollowed out by the sea, were found to contain a very large number of penguins." In 2009 the population was estimated to be 1,857 breeding birds. The colony is believed to be in decline, based on unpublished data and declining results of pitfall trap surveys.</p><br>
<h4>Sibsey Island</h4><br>
<p>In 1916, three men became marooned on Sibsey Island. They survived for twelve days on a diet of penguins and penguin eggs. In 2004, there were few penguins recorded on Sibsey Island.</p><br>
<h2>Protected area status</h2><br>
<h3>Statutory reserves</h3><br>
<p>Eighteen of the islands within the group are in the Sir Joseph Banks Group Conservation Park with the waters surrounding the islands are protected by the Sir Joseph Banks Group Marine Park.</p><br>
<h3>Non-statutory arrangements</h3><br>
<h4>Important Bird Area</h4><br>
<p>The archipelago has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) known as the Sir Joseph Banks Group Important Bird Area because it supports over 1% of the world populations of white-faced storm petrels (with up to about 180,000 breeding pairs), Cape Barren geese (up to about 1200 individuals), black-faced cormorants (from 3000 to 5000 breeding pairs), and, probably, of Pacific gulls. Other seabirds which breed in the archipelago include little penguins, silver gulls and greater crested terns. Fairy terns and eastern reef egrets have been recorded.</p><br>
<p>The Rechberg  is one of the three Imperial mountains near Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.</p><br>
<p>Together with the Hohenstaufen and Stuifen, it forms the so-called "Three Kaiser mountains" (Drei Kaiserberge).</p><br>
<p>It lies south of Schwäbisch Gmünd on the northern end of the Schwäbische Alb. The other two Imperial mountains are the Stuifen to the southeast and the Hohenstaufen to the west. In 1979, the Rechberg was made a state recreation area.</p><br>
<p>The plateau at the summit is topped by a Baroque pilgrim&#39;s chapel built in 1686-88 by Count Bernhard Bero von Rechberg. Since the 15th century, the Rechberg has been the goal of pilgrimages.</p><br>
<p>On the west shoulder of the mountain about 100 m from the summit are the ruins of the Hohenrechberg. This castle was built in the time of the Hohenstaufen emperors by the counts of Rechberg and was the administrative center of their domain.</p><br>
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<p>The Thaddeus Binford House is located in Marshalltown, Iowa. The house was built in 1874 for Thaddeus Binford, a wealthy Quaker attorney, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Binford house was home to Jessie Florence Binford (1876-1966), daughter of Thaddeus and Angie (Beasley) Binford. Jessie Binford was a long-time Hull House resident and executive director of the Juvenile Protective Association. While at Hull House, Binford became interested in criminal justice and children&#39;s issues, becoming the Director of the Legal Aid Society when it was established at Hull House in 1906. She was known throughout the thirties, forties, and fifties for her efforts to fight the growing problem of illegal drugs. Binford was active in the fight to preserve the Harrison-Halsted neighborhood as a residential community and opposing the sale of Hull House property to the City of Chicago. Jessie Binford returned to her native Marshallown in 1963, giving away her family residence and choosing to spend her last three years in the nearby Hotel Tallcorn.</p><br>
<p>The South Arm Important Bird Area is a disjunct tract of mainly intertidal land on the eastern outskirts of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site comprises several separate tidal inlets, with a collective total area of 46 km, that together form a diverse and extensive system of wetlands providing habitat for large numbers of waders, or shorebirds. The components include Ralphs Bay, Mortimer Bay, Calvert&#39;s Lagoon, South Arm Neck, Barilla Bay, Orielton Lagoon, the seaward side of the Sorell Causeway over Pitt Water, and Pipe Clay Lagoon in Frederick Henry Bay. These are mainly estuarine sand and mud flats with significant areas of saltmarsh. The system is the southernmost destination for migratory waders in the East Asian – Australasian Flyway.</p><br>
<h3>Birds</h3><br>
<p>The wetland system has been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because it supports well over 1% of the global population of pied oystercatchers. Other waders using the wetlands in relatively large numbers include red-necked stints, curlew sandpipers, Far Eastern curlews and sooty oystercatchers.</p><br>
<h3>Other animals</h3><br>
<p>The Sorell Causeway and the rocky shoreline of Pitt Water have the largest concentration of the endemic viviparous sea star Patiriella vivipara. The saltmarsh around Barilla Bay is one of the few Tasmanian localities of the rare chequered blue butterfly (Theclinesthes serpentata).</p><br>
<p>The South Barnard Islands Important Bird Area comprises a group of two small islands and a sand islet, with a combined area of 15 ha, on the inner Great Barrier Reef, Far North Queensland, Australia. The group lies about 6 km off the coast and 26 km south-east of Innisfail and is protected within the Barnard Island Group National Park. It is an important breeding site for terns.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The group contains two forested islands, Stephens and Sisters, joined by intertidal sand. Stephens is a 12 ha rainforested island surrounded by cliffs. Sisters is 2.5 ha, covered with low, dense rainforest with fringing mangroves. Most terns nest on the grassy 0.3 ha islet.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The islands have been identified by BirdLife International as an Important Bird Area (IBA) because they have supported over 1% of the world populations of lesser crested terns (with up to 1000 breeding pairs) and bridled terns (up to 10,000 breeding pairs). Some 120 pairs of roseate terns bred in the IBA in 1985, and up to 1500 non-breeding black-naped terns have been recorded there.</p><br>
<p>The Jed Prouty Tavern and Inn is an historic building at 57 Main Street in downtown Bucksport, Hancock County, Maine. It was built around 1780 as a two family home and converted into a tavern and inn around 1820. In this guise it hosted prominent national figures, including Daniel Webster and Presidents Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison. After standing largely vacant in the later 20th century, the building was converted an assisted living facility, and presently serves as a community senior center. it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The tavern is set on the north side of Main Street in the center of Bucksport, between Central and Federal Streets. It is a large three-story wood frame building, eight bays wide, with a side gable roof, clapboard siding, and three brick chimneys. The facade is symmetrically arranged, with two entrances under a full-width porch. The building has modest Greek Revival styling, including corner pilasters and doorway surrounds. A series of 20th-century additions extend the building to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The oldest portion of the tavern dates to about 1783, when Asa Peabody built a two-story frame house here. In 1820 this building was purchased by a man named Sparhawk and adapted it for use as an inn and tavern, serving travelers en route between Bangor and Castine. The name "Jed Prouty" was adopted for it in the early 19th century, based on a play in which the building was featured. In about 1850 the building was substantially enlarged, with the building extended westward and the third floor added. Its Greek Revival styling probably dates to this period. Its 19th-century guests include a number of prominent national politicians, including Daniel Webster, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Jefferson Davis, Andrew Jackson, and John Tyler. The building was still serving as an inn at the time of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>In the 1990s, the building was significantly modernized, including the addition of a sprinkler system, elevators and other additions needed to turn it into an elder care facility. The building was sold at auction in 2011 and is currently the Jed Prouty Assisted Living Center.</p><br>
<p>Rombaken or Rombaksfjord  is a fjord branch of the Ofotfjorden in the municipality of Narvik in Nordland county, Norway. The fjord is about 20 km long, and is surrounded by steep mountainsides. The European route E06 and European route E10 highways run along the northern and southern shores of the fjord. The Hålogaland Bridge, under construction since February 2013 and expected to be completed in 2017, is being built across the mouth of the Rombaken fjord to shorten the travel time from Narvik to Harstad.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Along the inner part of the fjord there used to be a city—Rombaksbotn—with 700 inhabitants.</p><br>
<p>It had its time of greatness during the construction of the Ofotbanen, between 1898-1903.</p><br>
<h3>World War II</h3><br>
<p>Rombaken was the site of several naval battles during the Battle of Narvik in World War II. Ten German destroyers, half the destroyer force of the Kriegsmarine, and one U-Boat were sunk during the battle.</p><br>
<h3>After World War II</h3><br>
<p>Parts of the bow of the German destroyer Georg Thiele remain visible above the water in Rombaksbotn to this day. The wrecks at Narvik remain popular diving spots, although some are off-limits because they still contain undetonated ammunition Three of the German destroyers were lifted in 1964 and moved to Framnesodden, near Eidsvoid, to clear the shipping lane. The destroyers Anton Schmitt, Diether von Roeder and Wilhelm Heidkamp rest in 12 m of water there and were opened for diving. A number of other wrecks are accessible, too, but most have been preserved as historic sites and it is forbidden to dive to them.</p><br>
<h2>Media gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Miller Town Hall is a two-story brick building in the Miller Beach community in Gary, Indiana, in the United States. It was constructed to serve as the administrative building for the town of Miller, incorporated in 1907, and was used for that purpose until Miller&#39;s annexation into Gary in 1918. It later served as a fire station through much of the 20th century, and is currently used for storage only.</p><br>
<p>The Miller Town Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Although the Town Hall is owned by the city, the grounds are landscaped and maintained by local volunteers, including members of the Miller Historical Society and Miller Garden Club. In 2011, the Town Hall became a flashpoint of controversy when the city government attempted to stop neighborhood volunteers from removing broken concrete from the front of the building. Although the work went forward, lead volunteer James Nowacki was charged with creating a public nuisance.</p><br>
<p>Neoi Poroi  is a coastal village of the Dio-Olympos municipality. Before the 2011 local government reform it was part of the municipality of East Olympos, of which it was a municipal district. The settlement of Neoi Poroi had a population of 733 inhabitants as of 2011. Neoi Poroi is a part of the community of Poroi. The main occupation in the village is tourism. A model development plan, has huge streets and squares.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The village is located on the southernmost coast of Pieria, near the traditional village of "Παλαιοί Πόροι", Paleoi Poroi and the vast and scenic wetlands in the northern part of Pineios.</p><br>
<h2>Nearest places</h2><br>
<p>Platamon, north</p><br>
<p>Beach of Panteleimon, north</p><br>
<p>Neos Panteleimonas, north</p><br>
<p>Palios Panteleimonas, west</p><br>
<p>Beach of Skotina, north</p><br>
<p>The Archaeological Park of Urbs Salvia is situated in the comune of Urbisaglia , in the Marches, Italy. It is the largest archaeological park in the region.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was the birthplace of some leading figures of the Roman Empire, such as the consul Gaius Fufius Geminus and Lucius Flavius Silva Nonius Bassus.</p><br>
<p>Urbs Salvia was sacked by the Visigoths in 408-10 AD, and suffered destruction over the years from earthquakes and plundering.</p><br>
<p>The decadence of the town is described by the poet Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) in his Divine Comedy (Paradiso, XVI, 73-78):</p><br>
<p>If Luni thou regard, and Urbisaglia,</p><br>
<p>How they have passed away, and how are passing</p><br>
<p>Chiusi and Senigallia after them,</p><br>
<p>To hear how races waste themselves away</p><br>
<p>Will seem to thee no novel thing nor hard</p><br>
<p>Seeing that even cities have an end.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological Park</h2><br>
<p>The Archaeological Park of Urbs Salvia is exceptional on account of the ease with which the overall building plan can be deciphered.</p><br>
<p>The itinerary starts at the Archaeological Museum which houses, among other things, epigraphs, statues and portraits that were excavated in Urbisaglia from the middle of the 18th century onwards.</p><br>
<h3>Reservoir</h3><br>
<p>Just outside the medieval city walls, on the highest point of the site, you can find the large reservoir collecting and cleaning the water coming from the Roman Aqueduct of Urbs Salvia. It was formed by an underground vaulted conduit with lateral walls made of bricks (opus latericium). The ancient aqueduct ran under the top of this hill and was about 1.5 km long. It had a gentle and constant slope so that it could carry water from a spring situated at the opposite side of the present-day Urbisaglia into this structure.</p><br>
<p>The cisterns consist of two barrel vaulted tunnels connected at both ends, with internal walls covered by hydraulic mortar. The whole structure was built in opus caementicium (Roman mortar).</p><br>
<p>Each tunnel was about 51 m long, 2.90 m wide and 4.10 m high and had a capacity of about 1,000 cubic metres of water.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir provided the whole town with spring water and it was situated in the highest area inside Urbs Salvia so that it could be powered only by gravity. In the reservoir are still visible:</p><br>
<p>the water outlet: the opening through which water was distributed to the town. The pipes (fistulae) were made of lead</p><br>
<p>the ventilation shafts (lumina): a series of openings in the vault for air exchange, check of level and quality of water and periodical maintenance (manual cleaning of the internal walls)</p><br>
<p>the water inlet: whence water flowed inside. It is formed by one of the ends of the aqueduct and shows a very thick layer of water deposit (calcium carbonate)</p><br>
<p>traces of the planks utilized to build the vaults are still visible at some parts.</p><br>
<h3>From the theater to the amphitheater</h3><br>
<p>Proceeding downwards there is the imposing Roman Theatre, built in 23 AD, on the Hellenic model. The structure presents a cavea (auditorium) divided into three tiers of seats with entrances on the different levels. Around the cavea there is a corridor with steps running to the top, where there was a sacellum (small temple). Of the original stage the lower part of the walling is preserved; behind the stage, there is an artificial terrace which was framed by a colonnade supported by solid brick walling.</p><br>
<p>Lower down is a niched building, a containment wall which is to be included in the whole urban context pivoting on an axis characterized by the Theatre – Forum – Temple.</p><br>
<p>At the foot of the hill, conveniently placed alongside the Salaria Gallica (i.e. the main line of communication in the Picenum, here matching up with the Cardo Maximus of the town), was the sanctuary-complex.</p><br>
<p>The main temple had a six-column facade. What remains of the original structure is part of the podium lacking the white limestone slabs with which it was originally paved. It was dedicated to the Salus Augusta (protector goddess of the Emperor), and was probably used for the imperial cult promoted by Tiberius, successor of Augustus. The temple is enclosed by a porticus made up of four underground galleries with frescoes in the 3rd Pompeiian style. The frescoes represent haunting animals, masks, and pictures connected with Augustus&#39; political propaganda (trophies).</p><br>
<p>Next to the main temple there is a smaller one. Behind it there is an area which was probably devoted to the ritual use of water, and behind the main temple there is a via munita, corresponding to the first East cardo.</p><br>
<p>Just outside the city walls, there are two funeral monuments and the Amphitheatre, one of the best preserved examples of this type in the Marche region.</p><br>
<p>The amphitheatre was built after the year 81 AD by the Urbisalvian Titus&#39; military general Lucius Flavius Silva Nonius Bassus, who captured the Masada fortress in Palestine. The amphitheatre was used for gladiatorial contests and other entertainments. All its perimeter is preserved up to the first seating level, including the first level of the vomitoria (the exit-ways) and the bases of the pillars of the external corridor. In its original form it probably had three tiers of seats. The external wall of the cavea (auditorium) had a series of semicircular niches which later formed the supports of the stairs to the entrances on the upper floors.</p><br>
<p>The arena is 59m long and 35m wide. The two entrances at the major axis of the elliptical amphitheatre were for the gladiators.</p><br>
<p>The Catedral Santiago Apostól, or in English, the Cathedral of St. James the Apostle, is a Catholic cathedral located on the town plaza in Fajardo, Puerto Rico. Along with Concatedral Dulce Nombre de Jesus in Humacao it is the seat of the Diocese of Fajardo-Humacao. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Church Santiago Apóstol of Fajardo in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The parish was established in 1766 and the first church building was completed in 1776. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1867. Construction of the present church began two years later utilizing the side walls and floor tiles of the previous church. It became a cathedral church when Pope Benedict XVI established the Diocese of Fajardo-Humacao on March 11, 2008.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed by Don Pedro A. Beibal. It is located on the north side of the town plaza and is surrounded by a balustrade concrete wall with pillars that features metal grillwork gates. A square bell tower dominates the main façade. The bells are in the third level contained within open arches. Two small windows flank the tower and define the side naves on the interior. The side facades feature a doorway and four windows. A large parish house, which was built later, blocks the back of the cathedral from view.</p><br>
<p>Simple pillars divide the main nave from the side aisles in the interior. The five pillars divide the space into six bays. The first bay includes the vestibule and features a spiral wooden staircase to the choir loft. The apse is square in shape and is crowned by a brick lanterned dome.</p><br>
<p>The supposed tomb of Saint Nicholas a fine slab effigy in low relief of an early 14th-century ecclesiastic popularly associated with Saint Nicholas of Myra in County Kilkenny, Ireland. While more probably a local priest from Jerpoint Abbey, it lies in the medieval lost town of Newtown Jerpoint, just west of the Cistercian Jerpoint Abbey.</p><br>
<p>It is located 3.2 km southwest of Thomastown, just off the N9 national primary road in the grounds of the privately owned Jerpoint Park. St. Nicholas&#39;s Church and graveyard are in the town, where the earthly remains of St. Nicholas of Myra are said to be buried. Belmore House stands at the top of the town.</p><br>
<p>The memorial has been moved since 1839, and it has sustained damage from the fall of a tree. A conservation plan was developed by the Heritage Council in 2007. In advance of conservation work in 2013, St Nicholas church and the tomb of St Nicholas were surveyed and modelled in 3D.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The lost town of Newtown Jerpoint was founded by either Earl Marshall or Griffin Fitzwilliam in the 12th century at the main crossing of the River Nore by a toll bridge, giving Jerpoint its name, meaning Nore bridge. It was a vibrant town, with about 27 dwellings, a court house, woollen mill, a tannery, a brewery, and reputedly 14 taverns. Newtown Jerpoint lasted at least into the 17th century, but eventually declined, perhaps from the loss of its bridge and the re-routing of the road. Its visible remains and its proximity to one of Irelands best-known and well-preserved Cistercian abbeys makes Newtown Jerpoint one of the most important sites in the study of medieval settlements in Ireland. The ruins of St Nicholass medieval parish church dates from the 12th to 13th century, with a late medieval rood gallery and a tower where the parish priest would have resided.</p><br>
<p>Belmore House was commissioned as a hunting lodge by Earl Belmore in the 18th century and designed by the Irish architect Sir Richard Morrison. An extension of the house was planned as a square villa at the east end of the house with the rest of the house to become a service wing, but it was never built. The Earl of Belmore&#39;s main residence was Castle Coole, in County Fermanagh.</p><br>
<h2>Legends</h2><br>
<p>The bones of St. Nicholas, who inspired the legend of Santa Claus, were believed to have been buried in Newtown Jerpoint in the 12th century. The graves stone slab is carved with the image of a cleric with the heads of two knights behind each shoulder, said to be those of the two crusaders who, so the story goes, brought Nicholass remains to Ireland. Evidence lends some credence to this tale as the Normans in Kilkenny were keen collectors of religious relics, and it is known that Norman knights participated in the Holy Land Crusades.</p><br>
<p>The Huy  or Huywald is a ridge, up to 314 metres high, in western Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. It lies in the northern part of the district of Harz, about 10 kilometres northwest of Halberstadt and a few kilometres west of Schwanebeck. It is chiefly composed of bunter sandstone and muschelkalk and has been designated a protected area. Towards the north and northwest the terrain falls away into the Großes Bruch. Towards the east the Huy transitions to the Magdeburg Börde; to the south and southwest it is adjoined by the Harz Foreland and the Harz Mountains.</p><br>
<p>The highest hill, the 314 metre high Buchenberg, is located about three kilometres southwest of Dingelstedt am Huy, within the municipality of Huy. The Huy Forest (Huywald) is one of the largest, almost pure beech forests of central Europe.</p><br>
<p>On the crest of the Huy lies the Benedictine abbey of Huysburg, which is on the Romanesque Road, and Daneil&#39;s Cave.</p><br>
<p>Politically the Huy belongs to the parish of the same name. Its villages lie around the ridge itself.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Between 1882 and 1887 several drillings were carried out in the Huy about five kilometres from Anderbeck. They uncovered large deposits of potash and rock salt not far below the surface. This led to the foundation of the Wilhelmshall Mining Company (Bergrechtliche Gewerkschaft Wilhelmshall), which started mining salts here in 1926 and triggered a boom in the Huy region. The Jerxheim–Dedeleben–Nienhagen railway, with its industrial siding built in 1891 from Anderbeck to the potash works, was constructed primarily for the transportation of potash salts.</p><br>
<p>In 1897 a cement works built close to Schwanebeck that used a limestone quarry in the Huy was also connected to the railway line.</p><br>
<p>During quarrying work in 1910 ice age kettles were discovered.</p><br>
<p>From 1934 the Dingelstedt b Halberstadt Army Ammunition Depot (Heeres-Munitionsanstalt Dingelstedt b Halberstadt) was located in the Huy in several old potash mine galleries. In 1944 up to 600 employees and forced labourers worked here. Two explosions on 21 September 1944 caused 59 deaths. From 1957 to 1961 there was discussion about reopening the potash mines, but the idea was eventually dropped. By 1962 the underground facilities were cleared and, in 1978, the shafts were flooded.</p><br>
<p>Today the Huy is heavily used by hikers, cyclists and riders.</p><br>
<h2>Transport</h2><br>
<p>The Huy lies in the angle formed by the B 244 federal road heading westwards from Helmstedt to Wernigerode and the B 79 that runs southwards from Wolfenbüttel to Halberstadt). It measures about 25 kilometres from east to west and some three kilometres from north to south.</p><br>
<p>The (Jerxheim–)Dedeleben–Nienhagen railway, also known as the Huy Railway (Huybahn), rungs along the eastern and northern edge of the Huy. It was closed in 2001.</p><br>
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<p>The Union Trust Building is a historic building, located at 740 15th Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C.</p><br>
<p>The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and is a contributing property to the 15th Street Financial Historic District. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 1906 Waddy Butler Wood and the Wood, Donn & Deming became the first Washington, D.C. architectural firm to design a bank high-rise in their city when they designed the Union Trust Building, now home to the New America Foundation and, the DC location of a high end steak and seafood chain. The building is also listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In the past, the citys largest banks had each retained nationally renowned architects while local architects were only chosen to design bank branches or remodel existing buildings. By choosing Woods firm, Union Trust began a trend of the citys banks choosing local architects to design their buildings.</p><br>
<p>Woods partnership with Donn and Deming is best known for the firms work in 1907 on the Masonic temple located at the intersection of 13th Street, H Street, and New York Avenue NW, which is now the National Museum of Women in the Arts.</p><br>
<p>Tenants have included Covington & Burling, which had its offices in the Old Union Trust Building in 1940, when Gerhard Gesell joined the firm (according to his 1984 unpublished memoir).</p><br>
<p>Black Donald Lake is a reservoir lake in the Township of Greater Madawaska, Renfrew County and the Township of North Frontenac, Frontenac County in Eastern Ontario, Canada. It is on the Madawaska River and is part of the Saint Lawrence River drainage basin.</p><br>
<p>The major inflow, at the west, is the Madawaska River, which arrives directly from Centennial Lake at the same elevation as Black Donald Lake. Secondary inflows are Black Donald Creek and Little Black Donald Creek at the centre north. The major outflow is also the Madawaska River, which flows over the dam at the Ontario Power Generation Mountain Chute Generating Station (hydroelectric) to Norcan Lake at the southeast. The Madawaska River then flows via the Ottawa River to the Saint Lawrence River and thence to the Atlantic Ocean.</p><br>
<p>The settlement of Black Donald is on the southeast shore of the lake. From the outflow of the lake almost to the major inflow of the Madawaska River from Centennial Lake, Black Donald Lake forms the boundary between Greater Madawaska, Renfrew County and North Frontenac, Frontenac County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Black Donald Lake and Centennial Lake adjacent upstream were created by the construction of the Mountain Chute Generating Station and dam and an associated embankment dam in 1965–1966. Black Donald Lake subsumed the previous White Fish Lake and drowned the former mining community of Black Donald Mines, whose graphite mine by then had been exhausted. The reservoir took six months to fill and flooded 8,500 acre.</p><br>
<p>The lake is primarily used for recreation, tourism and cottages.</p><br>
<p>Old St. Mary Church was built in 1847, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by the Old St. Mary Parish. The parish was founded a year earlier, by German Catholic immigrants. Milwaukee, having been incorporated only the year before, was still a young city at that time, and Wisconsin had not yet become a state. Old St. Mary&#39;s is the oldest church still standing in the city.</p><br>
<p>The church was designed by Victor Schulte, a Prussian immigrant, who designed three other religious buildings in the area. It is constructed of Cream City brick. Its tower gained a clock in 1860 and three bells in 1868. These bronze bells were cast in Munich. Mass was held on the main level, and a school was housed on the lower level until 1867. The carved wooden main altar was purchased in 1848.</p><br>
<p>Corral Hollow, formed by Corral Hollow Creek, is a canyon with part in Alameda County and parts in San Joaquin County, 6.5 mi southwest of Tracy, California. Corral Hollow Creek, formerly El Arroyo de los Buenos Ayres , from its source 1.9 mi north of Mount Boardman, flows north 1.89 miles where it turns to flow west-northwest 8.5 mi then turns abruptly east in the vicinity of Tesla to flow 5 mi east where it turns again in a northeasterly direction for 6 mi to the Delta-Mendota Canal in the San Joaquin Valley.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Name of the Canyon</h3><br>
<p>The El Camino Viejo, passed to the west through the canyon of El Arroyo de los Buenos Ayres over the Portezuela de Buenos Ayres (Pass of Good Winds) to the Arroyo Seco and the Livermore Valley. The &#39;49ers passed through the canyon now named Corral Hollow on their way to the gold fields as did the first mail to the Tuolumne mines. The name change was perhaps because at its mouth there was a large corral for catching wild horses. This "caral" was mentioned in the California Star on March 18, 1848:</p><br>
<p>However the name of the Creek did not change for some time. The name "Arroyo Buenos Ayres" appears on the Charles Drayton Gibbes&#39; "Map of the Southern Mines" in 1852. However an 1857 Map Of The State Of California shows the canyon was named Corral Hollow, but Buenos Aryes Creek, although anglicised, remained with its old name. By 1873 a State Geological Survey map indicated the name change was complete to Corral Hollow Creek and Corral Hollow Pass.</p><br>
<h3>Early settlements</h3><br>
<p>California Historical Landmark #755, indicates the site of the home of its first settler, Edward B. Carrell, which was built here at the former site of an Indian village. The men and animals received food and drink at Wright&#39;s Zink House, five hundred yards north of the landmark site.</p><br>
<p>California Landmark #755, (now missing), was located 1.5 miles west of I-580 on County Hwy J2, Corral Hollow Road. (Coordinates on this page mark that site.)</p><br>
<h3>Carnegie and Tesla</h3><br>
<p>Some miles up the Corral Hollow Road in the canyon is the site of the former town of Carnegie. A few miles on, beyond the Alameda County line where the road becomes the Tesla Road, is the site of coal mining that began in 1855, and later was the site of the former mining town of Tesla. Tesla appeared in 1889, as the San Francisco & San Joaquin Coal Company built the Alameda and San Joaquin Railroad line to the coal mines. When clay was discovered in the coal mine, the Carnegie Brick and Pottery Company was formed in 1902, its plant built four miles east of Tesla, to make brick and terra cotta. In 1904, the Pottery sewer pipe plant was built between Carnegie and Tesla. Carnegie became a town with a population of about 300, Tesla had a population of over 1200. The towns were abandoned after a 1911 flood, which destroyed the railroad and workings and the Company could not afford to rebuild. The rail line from Carbona was abandoned by the Western Pacific Railroad in January 1916.</p><br>
<h3>Upper Canyon</h3><br>
<p>The canyon turns to the southwest beyond the site of Tesla and ascends into the hills back into San Joaquin County. After passing the site of Tesla, the Tesla Road turns northwestward and winds up the side of a canyon into the Corral Hollow Pass and crosses over to the Arroyo Seco, and follows it as it descends into the Livermore Valley.</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>Today the former town site of Tesla is within the Carnegie State Vehicular Recreation Area. The Carniege town site partly within the Recreation Area, the rest is on the hillside on the north side of the Tesla Road where it intersects Carnegie Ridge Road.</p><br>
<p>The Wicks Building is a historic commercial building on Courthouse Square in downtown Bloomington, Indiana, United States. Built in the early twentieth century in a distinctive style of architecture, it has remained in consistent commercial use throughout its history, and it has been named a historic site because of the importance of its architecture.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A veteran of the Civil War, Colonel W.W. Wicks was a Bloomington businessman who owned one of the areas economically dominant limestone quarries. Because of his prosperity, he decided to diversify his business; as a result, he chose to open a general store and to enter the retail market. Unfortunately for Wicks, the destruction of his property by fire forced him to erect a new structure. Purchasing property at 116 Sixth Street on Courthouse Square, he erected the present building in 1915. One of Bloomingtons first department stores, the Wicks Company operated out of the Sixth Street building until its closure in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Three stories tall, the Wicks Building is a brick structure with a limestone facade. Reflecting its commercial origin, the majority of the facade is glass: the middle and upper stories feature large windows from floor to ceiling, the entirety of the first floor (aside from the entrance) is composed of display windows, and the gap between the first and second stories is filled with a large leaded glass window. Bracing the sides of the building are massive limestone piers; between them, the only non-glass surfaces in the facade are seven smaller limestone piers on the second and third stories, which separate the windows of those floors into eight bays. Below the second story and above the third are prominent horizontal limestone piers: the lower carries large letters proclaiming "The Wicks Company," while the higher lacks written details but is far taller from top to bottom.</p><br>
<p>Large numbers of ornamental details grace the buildings exterior. Each of the sixteen large window bays of the second and third stories features five pieces of glass: a single large pane that occupies the vast majority of the bays area, and four smaller panes (two above the large pane and two below) that divide the small remaining area. Cast ironwork is also common on the facade: a small balustrade of iron has been placed at the bottom of each window, and the space between the second and third story windows is composed of large iron spandrels decorated with cartouches. Similar details are reproduced in the stone of the building&#39;s summit; it is crowned by the tips of the piers, which rise slightly above the main roofline.</p><br>
<p>Aside from its facade, the Wicks Building is an undistinguished commercial structure, both in its other walls and in its ordinary rectangular shape. Surrounded by brick buildings, the side walls are plain brick, and the rear is composed of a painted brick wall, a fire escape and ordinary windows, and a service entrance. Covering the entire structure is a simple sloping roof.</p><br>
<p>Taken together, the overall design and the many details of the facade combine to form a distinctive example of the Chicago school of architecture. Most buildings in this style are significantly taller than the three stories of the Wicks, but the placement and size of the windows, the roofline, and the general plan of the building are all similar to buildings considered typical of the Chicago school.</p><br>
<h2>Historic designation</h2><br>
<p>In 1983, the Wicks Building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, due to its distinctive historic architecture. It is also a contributing property to the Courthouse Square Historic District, which is listed on the National Register.</p><br>
<p>Dog Hole Cave is an archaeologically significant cave near Storth, Cumbria, England. Other names for the cave include Haverbrack Bank Pot, Haverbrack Dog Hole, Fairy Cave, It consists of a largely excavated 12 m shaft formed in Carboniferous limestone with 6 m of steeply dipping phreatic tube at the bottom.</p><br>
<p>It was originally excavated by J. W. ("Wilfred") Jackson in 1912; by local scouts in the 1950s; and by researchers from Liverpool John Moores University in 2003 and more recently. Jackson found domestic animal bones (dogs, pigs) some of which are in the Natural History Museum, and the scouts also found human bones. The cave was gated in the 1980s to protect the archaeology, but inspection in 2003 showed that this had been destroyed.</p><br>
<p>Radio carbon dating of the deposits have provided dates ranging from Romano-British to Early Medieval.</p><br>
<p>The Bobota Canal  is a canal in Croatia. The canal is of paramount importance within the system for irrigation and flood protection for settlements in the surrounding area and because of that is ranked in the channels of the first category in Croatia. Every year it is enriched with about 1500 kg of high quality fish.</p><br>
<h2>Route</h2><br>
<p>The canal runs some 30 km from west to east.</p><br>
<h2>Settlements along the canal</h2><br>
<p>Vukovar</p><br>
<p>Bršadin</p><br>
<p>Lipovača</p><br>
<p>Trpinja</p><br>
<p>Bobota</p><br>
<p>Ćelije</p><br>
<p>Ernestinovo</p><br>
<p>Divoš</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The canal was built to defend against harmful effects of excess water at area which is very low and flat.</p><br>
<p>In 2003 The World Bank has funded additional works on chanal.</p><br>
<p>The Putnam-Parker Block, also known as City Square, are historic structures located in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. The property is three buildings that take up the south half of block 43 in what is known as LeClaire’s First Addition. The main façade of the structures face south along the north side of West Second Street. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. The former Putnam Building now houses a Marriott Autograph Collection hotel named The Current Iowa.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Antoine LeClaire, who was primarily responsible for establishing the city of Davenport, built a hotel named the LeClaire House on the northeast corner of Main and West Second Streets in 1839. It contained retail space on the ground level. At the other end of the block on the northwest corner of Brady and West Second Streets, he built a three-story brick building in 1850. It also provided retail space on the main level and LeClaire Hall on the upper floors. It was later renamed LeClaire Row. Charles Viele bought the half-block sometime before 1886. The LeClaire House was renamed the Newcomb House after Viele’s sister Mrs. V. Newcomb and the LeClaire Row was renamed the Viele Building. The Fair, a department store that would eventually become the M.L. Parker Department Store occupied the retail space of the Newcomb house at this time.</p><br>
<p>William C. Putnam bought Viele’s interest in the block in 1895. He renovated the buildings and lowered the stores to street level. Putnam and his mother, Mary Louisa Duncan Putnam, established the Putnam Trust. The Trust owned the entire half block of West Second Street. It benefited the Putnam Memorial Fund, which was the non-profit charitable support organization for the Davenport Academy of Sciences, now known as the Putnam Museum. They paid for the construction of the present museum building and the neighboring building, which housed the former Davenport Museum of Art until it moved downtown as the Figge Art Museum. The trust was dissolved in 2015 when the estate sold its last property, a parking lot on Main Street.</p><br>
<h3>Putnam Building</h3><br>
<p>Putnam planned to replace the old hotel with a modern office building, but he died in 1906. The plans were eventually carried out and the Putnam Building was completed in 1910. The other structures on the block were renamed the North Putnam Buildings. A variety of retail and professional offices have been housed in the building over the years. Among them was the historical library of the Davenport Public Museum, now the Putnam Museum.</p><br>
<h3>M.L. Parker Building</h3><br>
<p>The M.L. Parker building was constructed on the northwest corner of Brady and West Second Street in 1922. They occupied the entire building until 1972. Parkers was a major non-franchise company that operated a classic department store offering clothing, furniture, rugs, housewares and a toyland in the basement at Christmas. In 1970 another Davenport department store, Peteresen Harned Von Maur, bought Parkers. They operated a budget outlet for their store here until 1974 after they closed Parker&#39;s. The upper floors of the building were converted into office space after that. Among the tenants in the office space were the accounting firm of McGladrey & Pullen, later RSM McGladrey, and Verizon operated a call center. The main floor retail space remained empty.</p><br>
<h3>Center Building</h3><br>
<p>Between the Putnam and Parker buildings is a two-story infill section. It was designed by Burnham to complement the two towers. However, it was never built. The exact date of the structure that originally stood between the Putnum and Parker buildings is unknown, The façade was covered by 1964 and it has been modernized since. Rather than having a unified appearance as envisioned by Burnham, the Putnam-Parker Block now appears to be three separate structures. For many years the central building housed the downtown J.C. Penney store. It continues to house retail establishments.</p><br>
<h3>City Square</h3><br>
<p>In 2012 the city of Davenport was discerning what to do about the riverboat casino anchored on the Mississippi River. Three companies proposed development ideas concerning a new land-based casino. Amrit and Amy Gill of Restoration St. Louis, who renovated the Hotel Blackhawk in 2010, planned a $155 million project to transform the Putnam and Parker buildings and adjoining properties. The city chose one of the other projects, and the Gills announced a new development in November 2013. Called City Square, the $60 million project would transform the Putnam-Parker block into a suite hotel and market-rate housing in the Putnam Building and Class A office space in the Parker Building.</p><br>
<p>The Parker Building now houses four floors of office space. Wells Fargo Bank was signed as the anchor tenant on the main floor. The top two floors house 20 luxury apartments. There is a connection to the Center Building on the second floor. The Putnam Building houses the hotel. The lobby, restaurant, and bar are located on the main floor. Most of the 78 suites are located on the second through the sixth floors, and the top two floors house 14 luxury apartments. A restaurant and bar is located on the roof of the building. The hotel is also decorated with over 500 pieces of original artwork created by Midwest artists. The Center Building houses 12 extended stay rooms and houses amenities such as the swimming pool, fitness center, and executive conference space for the hotel. It also continues to house retail on the main floor. There will also be a connection with the college campus project that is being planned by Eastern Iowa Community College District on the north half of the block.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The two office buildings were designed by Chicago architect Daniel Burnham. It was the last building he completed, and The Current Iowa is the only hotel in a building he designed. The Parker Building is seven stories tall and rises 100.29 ft above the ground. Both structures are built on a brick foundation and feature a steel skeleton covered in red brick. Decorative materials include stone facing and decorative panels of terra cotta. The two towers each show a clearly defined tripartite façade. Classical Revival elements are found in the decorative cornice at the top. However, the simplified design and use of terra cotta show the Chicago School’s influence.</p><br>
<p>Situated at the top of a steep hill, the Dacian fortress of Căpâlna was built in the second half of the 1st century BC as a military defense, guarding the entrance from the Sebeș Valley to the capital of the Dacian kingdom, Sarmizegetusa Regia.</p><br>
<p>It is supposed that the fortress was the residence of a Dacian chieftain. Archeological findings include ceramics, iron and bronze tools, silver and bronze jewellry and Roman coins from the Republican and Imperial periods. Around 2002 - 2003 a gold necklace and two gold earrings were discovered here.</p><br>
<p>The fortress was witness to Dacian - Roman battles during Trajan&#39;s Dacian Wars. In the first war, the fort was occupied by the Romans. Ultimately, it was burnt and destroyed by the Romans around 106 AD.</p><br>
<p>The fortress is encircled by an elliptical wall (c. 270 m long). The wall was partially destroyed during the first war, and was hastily rebuilt just before the second war.</p><br>
<p>Inside two terraces were found. On the higher level terrace, at the highest point, an observatory tower existed.</p><br>
<p>A tower house (9.5 m x 9.5 m) was positioned strategically near the main fortified gate. A second gate positioned through the Sebeș Valley was blocked after the first war, sometime after 102 AD. The fort follows the architectural principles of the Dacian Fortresses of the Orăștie Mountains; the wall being the typical murus Dacicus. Outside the fortification three defensive ditches were found.</p><br>
<p>During excavations from 1982 - 1983, Dacian sanctuary ruins were found.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Near the bridge from Căpâlna, a sign indicates the road to the fortress.</p><br>
<p>The site can be reach by walking around 2 kilometres on a steep gravel road starting from the main road (DN67C) situated on the bottom of valley.</p><br>
<p>Crawfordton House is a category B listed 19th-century country house, situated close to Moniaive in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. It was operated as Crawfordton School in the second half of the 20th century.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Crawfordton Tower was a tower house once held by the Crichtons in the 17th century and then the Hays. The site of Old Crawfordton is located around 2.5 km south-east of the house.</p><br>
<p>Between 1863 and 1866 the present house was built for the Conservative politician Sir George Gustavus Walker (1831–1897), and designed by the Edinburgh-based architects Peddie & Kinnear. Built in local red sandstone, Crawfordton House is an example of Scottish Baronial architecture, with crowstepped gables, towers, turrets and carvings. There is a four-storey square tower over the entrance bay.</p><br>
<p>In 1940 the house was purchased for use as a school, and in 1941, pupils were evacuated from Belmont House School in East Renfrewshire to Crawfordton House, which had been converted into a preparatory school for this purpose. Extensions were built during the 1970s and 1980s, though these are excluded from the listed building. In 1995, Crawfordton House School closed down. The house was then run as Cademuir International School, which relocated from the Scottish Borders, but which ceased trading in 2006 due to financial difficulties.</p><br>
<p>Following closure of the school Crawfordton House was placed on the market. It remained unoccupied until 2013 when it was purchased by Hong Kong architect Kenneth Ko, who is currently renovating the house as a family home.</p><br>
<p>The Tithe Barn in Lenham, Kent, England is a large medieval tithe barn to the south of St Mary&#39;s Church. It was probably built in the late 14th century and is a Grade I listed building.</p><br>
<p>The timber framed structure has internal aisles on both sides and both ends and sits on a timber sill supported on a stone plinth or on stone pedestals. It is nine bays long, two of which were added in the late 15th century or early 16th century and is weatherboarded with a tiled hip roof. The main part of the roof is supported on crown post trusses with the aisle roofs formed by raking rafters between the wall studs and the main truss posts.</p><br>
<p>The barn belonged to St Augustine&#39;s, Canterbury, and was originally one of a pair, but the other burnt down in 1962.</p><br>
<p>Aristodimio  is a local community  of the municipal unit  Ithomi, of the municipality  of Messini within the regional unit  of Messenia in the region  of Peloponnese, one of 13 regions into which Greece has been divided. Before 2011 it held the same position in the administrative hierarchy, according to Law 2539 of 1997, the Kapodistrias Plan, except that Ithomi was an independent deme and Aristodemio was a Local Division  within it.</p><br>
<p>Aristodimio is named after Aristodemus, one of the three brothers among whom the Peloponnesus was divided during the event the ancient Greeks called the Return of the Heracleidae. His tomb is traditionally located in the area.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The community of Aristodimio contains two villages, Aristodimio and Kalovrissi or Voumazi.</p><br>
<p>The Frankenfield Covered Bridge is a wooden covered bridge that spans Tinicum Creek in Point Pleasant, Pennsylvania, United States. The bridge is located in Bucks County on Cafferty Road about 0.6 mi southeast of Headquarters Road, near Vansant Airport, and a similar distance northwest of East Dark Hollow Road, near Palisades School District. Hollow Horn Road branches off from Cafferty Road a short distance from the south end of the span and goes south.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1872, and is a town truss bridge constructed of oak. The sign on the Frankenfield covered bridge states that the structure is 130 ft long with a clearance of 9.42 ft.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 1, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Casa Rinconada is an Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site located atop a ridge adjacent to a small rincon across from Pueblo Bonito in Chaco Culture National Historical Park, northwestern New Mexico, United States.</p><br>
<p>It is an isolated great kiva (out of four in Chaco Canyon) with all the typical elements of great kivas: a masonry firebox, an inner bench, four roof-supporting large seating pits, masonry vaults, and 34 niches, divided into two sizes, encircling the kiva. There is also an unusual 39 foot (12 m) long underground passage, perhaps used in the ceremonies to allow performers sudden entry thus surprising the audience. It was dug out of the sandstone and shale that compose the ridge on which the kiva sits.</p><br>
<p>Casa Rinconada was excavated in 1930-31 by archaeologists Vivian and Reiter and the University of New Mexico/School of American Research field schools. It was reconstructed in part by Vivian in 1933, while Richter of the National Park Service worked on capping outer walls in 1955.</p><br>
<p>Casa Rinconada is accessible through the Canyon Loop Drive and 1/2-mile (800 m) trail (round trip) off the Drive.</p><br>
<p>With a diameter of 64 feet, Casa Rinconada is the largest great kiva in Chaco Canyon.</p><br>
<p>Mochou Lake  is located west to Qinhuai River and Hanzhongmen Gate in Nanjing, China, inside Mochou Lake Park. The lake is named after Mochou, a legendary woman known for her beauty, versatility, virtue and loyalty. It was named Hengtang in ancient times, and also known as Stone City Lake. The lake park was owned by Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of Ming Dynasty, and bestowed to his general Xu Da. Since then, it has become a famous garden best known for its two-storied Shenggi Pavilion. Within the park are other pavilions, gardens, pools and a stunning rock display. It is noted for its architecture, collection of carved antique rosewood furniture and calligraphies. Visitors can take boats allow through the lotus blossomed lake.</p><br>
<h2>Tales of Mochou</h2><br>
<p>The name of Mochou Lake originated from a beautiful woman called Mochou, which means "do not worry" in Chinese, from the Liang dynasty who committed suicide to prevent herself from being married to an undesirable man.</p><br>
<p>Another tale has it that Mochou was a beautiful and virtuous woman who lived during the Northern and Southern Dynasty (386-589). She was married and had a child. Her happy life was disrupted when her husband was conscripted into the army. No news of her husband came even after months of his leaving for the front. Mochou grew sadder with each passing day. Finally, unable to shake off the grief of separating from her husband, she turned into a lake, with the hope of flowing to her husband. The lake was named after this woman, as a tribute to her unflagging love and devotion to her husband.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Since the early Ming Dynasty, Mochou Lake was gradually developed into a famous garden, which was bestowed to Xu Da by the Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of Ming Dynasty, because he won his majesty while playing chess. Chinese folklore tells that the emperor and the general played the game regularly, and although the general was a great player, he always lost intentionally so as not to offend the emperor. Before long Emperor Taizu discovered the generals habit and ordered him to play normally. Needless to say, the general won. But while playing the general skillfully displayed the character wan sui, meaning long life. This feat pleased the emperor so much that he instantly gave Shengqi (winning the game&#39;) Pavilion along with the Mochou Lake to his general During the following dynasty, this garden was extended several times and many other pavilions were added.</p><br>
<p>Since 1929 Mochou Lake has been known as Mochou Lake Park. In 1953, Mochou Lake Park underwent major restorations, and the waterside pavilion and ready for ferry pavilion were built. The statue of Mochou was remodeled as well.</p><br>
<h2>Park</h2><br>
<p>It lies outside Shuixi Gate of Nanjing City, with a total area of 47 hectares and a circumference of 5 km. In Qing Dynasty, it was a beautiful garden that was also famed as the first attraction of Nanjing. Mochou Lake was once part of Yangtze River. Later the channels of Yangtze River and Qin Huai River changed their carrying capacity and direction, so Mochou Lake gradually became a lake.</p><br>
<p>The park is a collection of pools, gardens, and pavilions, and a stunning rock display. Perhaps the most well-known feature of the park is the Shengqi Pavilion. It is a two-storied structure redolent of the austere architecture of ancient China. The first floor of the pavilion houses paintings and calligraphies created by famous artists. On the second floor the most conspicuous sight is of a picture depicting the emperor and Xu Da engrossed in a game of Weiqi that led to the emperor bestowing Shengqi (winning the game) Pavilion along with the Mochou Lake to his general.</p><br>
<p>North of the Shengqi Pavilion lies Mochous former house. It is called Yujin Hall, after yujin, which means white cardamom. The hall is partitioned by a pond in which grow lilies. The pond is adorned by a 2 m marble statue of Mochou, which stands in the middle of the pond. The statues sorrowful expression is a reminder of that woman&#39;s tragic life. The pond is surrounded by cloistered pavilions.</p><br>
<p>A large collection of ornately carved antique rosewood Chinese furniture is exhibited in one of the courtyards.</p><br>
<p>The lake is situated behind the pavilion. Lotuses cover the lake, and when they are in bloom, they present a wonderful sight. There is an island in the lake&#39;s middle that can be reached by boat.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>Mochou Lake Park celebrates Duanwu Festival each year with a dragon boat race.</p><br>
<p>The Blues Armory is a large brick armory in downtown Richmond, Virginia. Housing the Richmond Light Infantry Blues, the castle-like structure originally served multiple purposes, with a food market on the ground floor and a drill hall for the National Guard of the United States on the top floor. The level between housed suites of offices for each individual National Guard company. In 1985, the ground floor was converted to retail and restaurant space, part of the 6th Street Marketplace.</p><br>
<p>The composite steel-reinforced structure is clad with brick and heavily rusticated stone masonry. Completed in 1910, it was designed by the Washington, D.C. firm of Averill and Hall. The castellated design was not entirely whimsical, as the structure was designed to withstand attack during riots. The ground floor was entirely separated from the military upper floors. The structure extends over the sidewalks, forming an arcade at ground level, with five bays on the Marshall Street side and seven bays on Sixth Street. The corners are marked with projecting turrets or bartizans, while the upper level is machicolated. The roof of the drill hall rises above the parapet.</p><br>
<p>The Richmond Light Infantry Blues existed from 1789. They were called in 1800 to deal with Gabriel&#39;s Rebellion, led by the slave Gabriel. During the American Civil War the unit was part of the Army of Northern Virginia. From 1894 the Blues were a battalion, then a regiment after World War II. A 1968 reorganization of the National Guard disestablished the Blues and the armory fell into disuse. By the 1990s the lower level was incorporated into the Sixth Street Market development. The upper floor offices and first floor food court closed in 2002. The city is now working to untangle the legal entity of the Marketplace in order to redevelop the property The Blues Armory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 17, 1976.</p><br>
