<p>Huntingdon Borough Historic District is a national historic district located at Huntingdon in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 521 contributing buildings in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Huntingdon. They date from the late-18th century to the arly-20th century, and are primarily two- and three-story brick or frame structures. The buildings are reflective of popular architectural styles including Federal, Italianate, and Queen Anne. Notable buildings include the county jail , Union Depot , Penn Hunt Hotel , switching tower , Fisher and McMurties Store , Reeds Drug Store , Port Building , Iron Front Store , and Blair Building .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Marklesburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Marklesburg in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 58 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site. The buildings primarily date between about 1845 and 1870 and include notable example of the Gothic Revival style. They are primarily of wood construction. It reflects the development of the community as a local service and commercial center for local agricultural and industrial customers. Notable buildings include the former Town Hall, former Indian Queen Hotel, former James Creek School House, former Methodist Episcopal Church, and St. Matthew&#39;s Lutheran Church. The Union Cemetery is the contributing site.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Mount Union Historic District is a national historic district located at Mount Union in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 58 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Mount Union. Notable buildings include the Federal-style John Shaver House , Shapiro Theater , T.A. Appleby Store and House , Kenmar Hotel , Penn Central National Bank , Peduzzis and the Weller Building , Pennsylvania Railroad Freight Depot , St. Lukes Evangelical Lutheran Church , First United Methodist Church , St. Catherine of Siena Roman Catholic Church , Mount Union Elementary School , and USA Post Office . The contributing sites include the I.O.O.F. community cemetery, founded in 1872, and the former Victoria Park. Located in the district and listed separately is the Harbison-Walker Refractories Company complex.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<p>Robertsdale Historic District is a national historic district located at Robertsdale in Wood Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 102 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site. The buildings primarily date between about 1873 and the 1920s and are associated with the development of the company town by the Rockhill Iron and Coal Company. They include the company office, store, and railway depot, along with workers housing. Notable buildings include the company store , Rockhill Iron and Coal Company office building , Robertsdale Post Office , East Broad Top Railroad depot , Robertsdale Hotel , Reality Theatre , McClain Store , superintendents house , Methodist Parsonage , Wood Township Elementary School , and the Methodist Episcopal Church .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Sheats Apartments, also known as L&#39;Horizon and sometimes mistakenly as the Sheets Apartments, is a historic eight-unit, multi-family building located at 10919 Strathmore Drive, in the Westwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. Designed in 1948 in a futuristic or modernistic style of architecture by noted Los Angeles architect John Lautner, it was completed in 1949 for owners Helen Taylor Sheats, a renowned artist, who assisted in the design, and her professor/dean of University of California Extension husband, Paul Henry Sheats. Because of its proximity to UCLA, it was intended for and has been used primarily for student occupancy. In their book An Architectural Guidebook to Los Angeles, David Gebhard and Robert Winter praised its functionality by noting, "each apartment completely separated from the others... with its own terraces, decks, and outdoor garden space."</p><br>
<p>" On June 21, 1988, the City of Los Angeles designated the building a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.</p><br>
<p>Lake Kisale is a lake in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , in Bukama Territory, Haut-Lomami District.</p><br>
<p>At about 300 km&sup2; in area, it is the second largest of the lakes in the Upemba Depression (Kamolondo Depression), an extensive marshy area partly within the Upemba National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Lualaba River enters the Upemba Depression about 40 km after leaving Lake Nzilo (Delcommune reservoir).</p><br>
<p>The depression is a trough-like graben about 400 km long and 100 km wide, running from the southwest to the northeast. The trough is about 1,000 m above sea level at its southwest end, sloping steeply down to an elevation of 610 m, where it flattens out and is filled by lakes and marshes for a distance of 225 km in a belt that is 37 km wide on average.</p><br>
<p>The river generally flows through the marshes between the lakes, to which it is connected by narrow channels. However, as it flows through lakes Lake Kabwe and Lake Kisale, these may be seen as expansions of the river bed.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1957 pottery and metal objects were excavated from an Iron Age cemetery discovered at Sanga on the northern shore of the lake.</p><br>
<p>The site provides evidence for the origins of the Luba people of present-day Zambia and the DRC, thought to be one of the first groups to work with iron in Central Africa.</p><br>
<p>By 800 CE they were living in permanent settlements by the lakes, marshes and rivers of the region.</p><br>
<p>The soil is fertile, supporting productive farms for crops such as sorghum and millet, while fish and game provided sources of protein. The population grew and society became more complex. Grave goods include copper artifacts which must have been obtained by trading with people of the copper belt further to the south.</p><br>
<p>Mount Tomi is a mountain on the border of the city of Minamibōsō, in southern Chiba Prefecture. The mountain is formed by two peaks. The north, called Konpira Peak, is 349.5 m, and the south, called Kannon Peak, is 342 m. Mount Tomi is one of the</p><br>
<p>mountains of the Mineoka Mountain District of the Bōsō Hill Range.</p><br>
<h2>Origin of name</h2><br>
<p>The kanji for Mount Tomi, 富, means wealth or abundance. The name of Mount Tomi is said to be derived from the semi-mythical figure Ame-no-tomi-no-mikoto. According to tradition Ame-no-tomi-no-mikoto, historically associated with the Emperor Jinmu, developed the Bōsō Peninsula region, and is now associated with the nearby Awa Shrine. The former town of Tomiyama, now absorbed as part of Minamibōsō, is named for the mountain.</p><br>
<h2>Mount Tomi Prefectural Park</h2><br>
<p>The area around the mountain has been designated as Mount Tomi Prefectural Park (富山県立自然公園). The western foot of Mount Tomi is rich with broad-leaved trees, including castanopsis, live oak, camellia, as well as large stands of Japanese cedar.</p><br>
<h2>In literature</h2><br>
<p>Tomi-san is the setting for Kyokutei Bakin&#39;s 106 volume epic novel Nansō Satomi Hakkenden (南總里見八犬傳), published late in the Edo period between 1814 to 1842. Mount Tomi appears in the novel as Toyama, the home of Princess Fuse.</p><br>
<h2>Hiking</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is popular as a hiking destination. The viewing platform on the north peak offers views of the surrounding area and Miura Peninsula.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>The hiking trail that leads to Mount Tomi is accessible by bus from the Iwai Station in Minamibōsō via the JR East Uchibō Line.</p><br>
<p>Allen Chapel AME Church is a historic church at the corner of First Street and Elm Street in Fort Worth, Texas.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Tudor Gothic Revival building was designed by noted African-American architect William Sidney Pittman, son-in-law of Booker T. Washington. When the church was completed in 1914, it sat 1,350 people. It was named after Richard Allen, a former slave and African-American minister who was the first bishop of the African-American Methodist Episcopal Church. Built at a cost of $20,000 it is the oldest and largest African Methodist Episcopal church in Fort Worth. The church established the first private schools for African-Americans. A pipe organ was installed in 1923. In 2011 lightning hit the church&#39;s bell tower causing extensive damage. The church was added to the National Register in October 18, 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Photo gallery</h2><br>
<p>Plano Station, Texas Electric Railway, now known as the Interurban Railway Museum, is a historic train station at 901 E 15th Street in Plano, Texas.</p><br>
<p>The Mission Revival/Spanish Revival style station was completed in 1908 at the opening of the Texas Electric Railway. The railway operated from 1908 to 1948. The station stood vacant until the city renovated it into a museum in 1990. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 10, 2005. The museum also displays a restored Texas Electric Railway car (trolley) on the grounds.</p><br>
<p>Interurban Railway Museum October 2015 14 (Texas Electric Railway Car 360).jpgTexas Electric Railway Car 360 on display outside the museum</p><br>
<p>Interurban Railway Museum October 2015 13 (Texas Electric Railway Car 360).jpgInterior of the railway post office section of Car 360</p><br>
<p>Interurban Railway Museum October 2015 20.jpgMuseum interior</p><br>
<p>Interurban Railway Museum October 2015 18.jpgMuseum interior exhibits</p><br>
<p>Interurban Railway Museum October 2015 21 (Home Runs & Heartaches).jpgHome Runs & Heartaches baseball exhibit</p><br>
<p>The Rattlesnake Mountains are a prominent mountain range located just 4 miles north of Missoula, Montana, USA. The highest point in the range is McLeod Peak, . Much of the range is protected in the Rattlesnake Wilderness and Rattlesnake National Recreation Area on the Lolo National Forest. An additional 36,000 acre of the range are protected on the Flathead Indian Reservation as the South Fork Tribal Primitive Area; this area is off-limits to non-tribal members. Including the Tribal Primitive Area, then, about 100,000 acre of the Rattlesnakes are roadless.</p><br>
<p>Over 30 high mountain lakes grace the range, and subalpine spruce-fir forests give way at lower elevations to groves of ponderosa pine and douglas fir. Lodgepole pine and western larch are abundant. Wildlife includes black bear, mountain lions, and some mountain goats. Grizzly bear and gray wolf are sporadic visitors. Only a single dirt road separates the Rattlesnake Mountains from the Mission Mountains to the north.</p><br>
<p>The Rattlesnake Wilderness includes some lands that were logged extensively in the past, which are slowly regaining their wilderness attributes.</p><br>
<p>The Montana Snowbowl ski area is located in the southwestern portion of the range.</p><br>
<p>The Rattlesnakes are treated by many Missoula residents as their backyard playground due to its close proximity to town. A large (450 strong) elk herd summers in the Rattlesnakes and winters in the foothills near the Grant Creek area of Missoula; this herd has overpopulated its range and the State of Montana offers an extended hunting season and special permits in an attempt to reduce their numbers.</p><br>
<p>According to the Missoulian, the Rattlesnake Wilderness is the nation&#39;s only Wilderness Area with a city bus stop.</p><br>
<p>Farrandsville Iron Furnace, also known as Lycoming Coal Co., is a historic iron furnace located at Colebrook Township in Clinton County, Pennsylvania about 6 miles northwest of Lock Haven. It was built between 1836 and 1837, and measures 43 feet square by 54 feet high. It is a rare example of an early attempt to adopt coke as a blast furnace fuel.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Capitalists from Boston financed the furnace&#39;s construction starting in 1836. John Thomas likely supervised construction and John P. Salmon was the master mason. It was equipped with Scottish machinery installed by Scot James Ralston, and produced fifty tons of pig iron per week. Bituminous coal was mined at nearby Minersville and transported by inclined plane. Transportation of iron ore was from over 100 miles away via canal, but this proved difficult, as did transportation of flux from the Nittany Valley.</p><br>
<p>The financial Panic of 1837 forced the furnace to close in 1838. A brick furnace was then built on the same property and was later owned by Harbison-Walker Refractories Company who deeded it to the Clinton County Historical Society in 1951.</p><br>
<p>Lake Nzilo  is a reservoir formed by a hydroelectric dam on the Lualaba River in the Haut-Lomami Province of the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.</p><br>
<p>It is about 10 mi northeast of the major copper mining area of Kolwezi.</p><br>
<p>The reservoir was originally named after the Belgian soldier and explorer Alexandre Delcommune.</p><br>
<h2>Dam</h2><br>
<p>The dam with hydroelectric power plant was built to provide power for copper mining operations.</p><br>
<p>The infrastructure of this plant is four units and has a design capacity of 10MWe. The last unit was commissioned in 1953. It is currently operated by SNEL (Societe Nationale d&#39;Electricite).</p><br>
<h2>Reservoir</h2><br>
<p>The reservoir also provides a source of water for these operations.</p><br>
<p>The site was an area of wetlands along the Lualaba River before it was dammed. Some of the habitat around the lake is swamps.</p><br>
<p>It has been stocked with fish, and is now an important site for waterbirds.</p><br>
<h3>Pollution and recreation</h3><br>
<p>Although the lake is visibly polluted by the effluent from a copper mine, schistosomiasis seems to thrive and a number of infections have been reported.</p><br>
<p>As of 2007 the lake was popular with the expatriate community for weekend water sports.</p><br>
<p>The Mandeville Site  is an archaeological site in Clay County in southwest Georgia in the United States. The site now lies under the Walter F. George Reservoir, which is a part of the Chattahoochee River basin.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first occupations of the site were a village settlement during the Deptford period. Occupation of the site and the construction of two mounds continue into the Middle Woodland period. Ceramic evidence also dates occupation to the Early Swift Creek culture. The final layer of Mound A indicates it was converted to a platform mound typical of the Mississippian period.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>The site was first visited by Clarence B. Moore at the turn of the century. He tested the site but did not conduct any excavations due to negative results.</p><br>
<p>The site was visited by a field party from the University of Georgia in 1950. Some minor surface excavations were conducted.</p><br>
<p>Thorough excavations on the site were conducted during 1959-1960 by Arthur Kelly, James H. Kellar and Edward V. McMichael before construction of the dam. The site is no longer accessible for excavation.</p><br>
<h2>Site description</h2><br>
<p>The site contains 2 mounds, a flat top mound (Mound A), and one large dome shaped burial mound (Mound B). Mound A is about 240 ft by 170 ft and about 14 ft in height. Mound B is about 140 ft by 80 ft. There is also a village situated between the two mounds approximately 40 acre in area.</p><br>
<p>A pre-mound village occupation, dated to the Deptford period exists beneath Mound A. Evidence for small circular houses and pits were found dated to this time.</p><br>
<p>The first layers of Mound construction are attributed to the Late Deptford Period, with subsequent cultures building upon the original. The site was abandoned during the Woodland Period and re-inhabited about 500 years later during the Mississippian Period.</p><br>
<h2>Artifacts</h2><br>
<p>The most significant artifacts at the Mandeville site consist of ceramics, including vessels and potsherds. Bone tools and projectile points were also found, along with flake knives. Fragments from a ceramic figurine were found, including the head and two torso fragments.</p><br>
<p>The Smith Wildman and Jennie  Brookhart House, now apart of the United Presbyterian Home, is a historic building located in Washington, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. He married Jennie Hearne in 1897, and they had four sons and two daughters.</p><br>
<p>The Davenport architectural firm of Clausen & Clausen designed the house in a simple American Craftsman design, with an unadorned exterior and interior. It was completed in 1910. The two-story "fireproof" house is constructed of concrete, hollow ceramic tile, steel rods, steel mesh, and brick. Noteworthy is the double front porch. A broad single story porch stretches the width of the main facade, while the separate central portion of the porch reaches to the second floor. Originally the house was located on a small farm outside of town, but Washington grew to include the property. It became the offices of the United Presbyterian Home in 1946. The home&#39;s south wing, Sherman Hall, was built onto the back of the Brookhart house in the 1950s. Stewart Hall was added around 1980.</p><br>
<p>The Rockford Morning Star Building, located at 127 N. Wyman St. in Rockford, Illinois, is a historic building originally used by the Rockford Morning Star.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built in 1927–28, the building was designed by Davenport, Iowa, architecture firm Clausen, Kruse & Klein. The firm designed the building in the Classical Revival style. The buildings terra cotta exterior is segmented by pilasters with decorative capitals. Decorative panels situated near the buildings entrance feature Art Deco and Egyptian elements, including rows of chevrons and a guilloché of lotus buds.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first newspapers in Rockford, Illinois were The Rock River Express and the Rockford Star, both first published in 1840. Both papers lasted only a year. The Winnebago Forum, renamed The Republican in 1845, was the first city paper to have a lengthy publishing period (1842-1862). The Rockford Morning Star first published in 1888. It merged with the Rockford Daily Register-Gazette in 1928. Ruth Hanna McCormick Simms purchased the paper two years later, and again split the two papers, publishing the Morning Star as a morning daily. The paper was purchased by the Gannett Company in 1967, who merged the last two remaining Rockford papers in 1979 to create the Rockford Register Star.</p><br>
<p>The Rockford Morning Star Building was constructed during negotiations for the 1928 merge. However, the building was only used for two years; after its acquisition by Simms, a new tower was built on the other side of the Rock River. The building remained in the possession of the Simms family, who leased it to the George Rogers Clark Mutual Company. It was eventually absorbed into the Pioneer Life Insurance Company. The company bought the building from the Simms family in 1946. The company moved to Schaumburg in 1993 and henceforth only used the Rockford building for storage and mailing. The company merged into Conseco, Inc. in 1996.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1999. It was listed as a contributing property to the West Downtown Rockford Historic District in 2007.</p><br>
<p>The Max Petersen House, also known as the Petersen Mansion, is a historic building located on the west side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. It has been individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1979. In 2004 it was included as a contributing property in the Marycrest College Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Max Petersen was the son of J.H.C. Petersen, who was an immigrant from the Duchy of Schleswig, which was then in the Kingdom of Denmark. He eventually established a retail store in Davenport. His sons entered business with him and they took over the business in 1892. The business continues to exist as the Von Maur department store. Max was the oldest of the three brothers, and he had Davenport architect Frederick G. Clausen design a Queen Anne style home for his family in 1888.</p><br>
<p>Bishop Henry Rohlman of the Catholic Diocese of Davenport commissioned the Rev. Thomas V. Lawlor from St. Ambrose College to look for property to start a college for women. In 1937 he acquired the property, which was then called Clifton Hill, for $50,000. The donors for the project included members of the Petersen family. The property included the house and 7.5 acre. Marycrest College was established on the property in 1939, and the Petersen home initially became the sister’s residence. Over the years it served other functions for the college. After the college was disbanded in 2002 it was acquired by Chris Ales and became part of the Marycrest Senior Campus.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The 2½-story house is basically square in shape, however it is narrower and a little lower in the back. The brick structure rests on a rock-faced stone foundation. It is capped by a high hip roof. Both the east and west sides of the house feature projecting gable ends. A turret with a conical roof is located on the southwest corner of the main façade. The southeast corner features a rectangular shaped corner bay with a second floor porch and its own hipped roof. In the center is a tall projecting tower. Single story porches with flat roofs are located on the front and east sides of the house. At the roofline is a narrow cornice. Three string courses encircle the house flush with the brick surface. Decorative elements are restrained. They are mainly found on the large dentils on the cornice, the turned Eastlake post and punched frieze on the second story porch, and a wall dormer on the central tower that has an elaborate projecting sill and triangular pediment.</p><br>
<p>The Joe Bell Site  is an archaeological site located in Morgan County, Georgia underneath Lake Oconee, but prior to the 1970s, it was located south of the mouth of the Apalachee River on the western bank of the Oconee River. The junction of these two rivers could be seen from the site. This site was first visited by Marshall Williams in 1968 at the suggestion of the site’s landowner, Joe Bell, who had discovered various artifacts while the site was being regularly plowed. Because of Interstate construction, Marshall Williams and Mark Williams discovered this site during surface surveys and excavations of the plowed areas. The site was excavated and analyzed by Mark Williams as part of his PhD dissertation. During the 1969 excavations, four areas within the site were designated for excavation. In Areas 1-3 various five foot square units were excavated. No excavations were done in Area 4 in 1969. Large quantities of small potsherds were discovered during these excavations, and they ranged from the Duvall Phase in Area 1 to Bell Phase in Areas 2-4. As part of the 1969 excavations, a road grading machine took off the topsoil of twelve strips on the site. This uncovered Features 1 and 2, and they were completely excavated. In 1977, the site was revisited by Marshall Williams and Mark Williams. Since various plans threatened this site, major excavations took place from June 15, 1977 until September 16, 1977 by Mark Williams. Most of the work centered on Area 2 or the Bell Phase portion of the site. The Bell Phase portion of this site was probably no more the 1.5 acres. Because of time constraints, only 17 of 55 features were excavated, and no more than a handful of the 1100 posts were excavated. A few trips were made back to the site the following year with the help of volunteers, and approximately 80% of the area stripped by heavy machinery was mapped. Some of the features were trash features that consisted of a circular pit filled with food residues and pottery sherds. Evidence of a large circular structure or rotunda was found at the site. It was the social, political, and religious center for the inhabitants. A large quantity of the features was small, circular, semi-subterranean structures that were probably used as sleeping quarters on cold nights. Another structure found was warm weather structures. One major trash feature was found that had been deposited in a single episode and was burned during or after deposition. Numerous sherds were found in this pit, and a large number of reconstructable vessels were present. Ethnohistoric literature of the Southeast suggests that this feature was formed during a Busk or Green Corn ceremony. The ceremony has been described as the physical cleansing of the town.</p><br>
<p>Mayer Red Brick Schoolhouse is a building in Mayer, Arizona. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 2004. It is considered the longest used schoolhouse in Arizona, having been in operation for over eighty years. Due to its physical mass and prominent hillside location, it is "the most visible and identifiable building" in the small unincorporated town and the town&#39;s largest building.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by architect W.S. Elliott and constructed by Prescott, Arizona contractor Joe Petit for $9,000 to $10,000 on land donated by the towns founder, Joe Mayer. Since its completion in 1915, it was continuously used as a school, except for 1982-1987, until 2002 when it was condemned by the fire marshal. It became a fully accredited high school in the 1930s with the installation of indoor plumbing. It was not used as a high school after 1981. Elementary students continued to attend from 1988 to 2002. When constructed, the building faced the towns main street (called Main Street) but the street was later moved to the rear of the building. It also faced the tracks of the Prescott and Eastern Railroad until they were removed in 1949. After a historic restoration in the early 2000s, the building is now used for Mayer Unified School District administrative offices and as a Sheriffs substation.</p><br>
<h2>Characteristics</h2><br>
<p>The building is a typical school building of the era in which it was built. It has a hipped roof and concrete foundation with walls at least 13 in thick, many windows, and a bell tower on the roof. It has a prominent entrance on the north side featuring double doors with sidelights and a transom in an elaborate arched opening. Exterior walls are red brick, hence the name Red Brick Schoolhouse. The interior has maple-strip flooring and an oak staircase.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>School enrollment increased rapidly in the early 1910s, prompting the Yavapai County Superintendent of Schools to conclude that the existing school was overcrowded and a larger school building was needed. The citizens passed a municipal bond to pay for a new school. The new school was to be located on the site of the existing school, the hilltop location previously donated by Joe Mayer. This necessitated the moving of the existing wooden school. Construction of the new building began in 1914 and was completed the next year. The bricks used were made in Mayer. The building had coal-fired heating, a ventilation system, electric lights, and initially served eighty students in four classrooms. Three classrooms taught students in two or three grades and the fourth was for high school students (grades nine and ten initially and nine to twelve beginning in the 1930s). The first high school graduation took place on May 19, 1933, with two graduates.</p><br>
<p>The 1930s brought the addition of an outdoor basketball court built by the Yavapai County highway department and saw the building used for town entertainment as weekly movies were shown in the large second floor.</p><br>
<h2>Lunchroom</h2><br>
<p>Local legend states that the building originally had no basement until local hard rock miners excavated under the completed building. They were motivated to do this in order to provide space for the students to eat as there was no other space for a lunchroom and the community had no funds for expansion. Their volunteer effort, thought impossible by some, was done over several months when they were not at work in the local mines.</p><br>
<h2>Restoration</h2><br>
<p>In the 1990s, the school district decided the building was no longer suitable for use as a school. Partial remodeling done in 1987 did not overcome original design issues, and further modernizing was not considered financially viable. The school district initiated the process for listing the building by commissioning an assessment by architects Gerald A. Doyle & Associates. Their report concluded the building was no longer "ideal" for use as a school but had "significant architectural and historical significance". The report documented original features including floors, stairs, brickwork, window and door frames, ceilings, interior walls, chair rails, picture moldings, slate chalkboards, light fixtures, and the school bell. Restoration of these features was estimated to cost $411,000.</p><br>
<p>In December 2000, the school district received funding from the Arizona School Facilities Board to construct additional elementary classroom space allowing the relocation of the remaining elementary classes from the Red Brick Schoolhouse.</p><br>
<p>The district approved the renovation plan in February 2003 and began interior renovation later that year. The project architect was Swan Architects of Phoenix. Historic renovation was funded by a federal emergency repair and renovation grant from the United States Department of Education, state grants, and private donations. The building was converted for administrative use, with historic displays and the original school bell remaining. A 2003 $22,000 grant from the State Historic Preservation Office funded replacement of the roof and repair of the chimney and windows. This phase of the restoration, which was delayed due to the discovery of asbestos and the difficulty in finding historically accurate bricks to repair the chimney, was completed in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The renovation was delayed when the building was officially recognized as historic. Renovation plans were updated since some current building codes were no longer applicable to a historic structure. On June 30, 2005 a plaque was unveiled to commemorate the listing of the schoolhouse on the NRHP. The plaque is located in the first floor entryway due to fear of vandalism if it were on the outside of the structure. Restoration work was funded by state and federal grants totaling over $200,000 received by the district in the early 2000&#39;s.</p><br>
<p>In 2008, restoration of the exterior, funded in part by a Heritage Park Restoration grant, was completed.</p><br>
<h2>Current usage</h2><br>
<p>In 2013 the ground floor was leased for $1000 per month for five years to the Yavapai County Sheriffs Office as the Mayer substation. All school district offices were relocated to the second floor. The Sheriffs substation opened in June 2014.</p><br>
<p>The Yalgorup Important Bird Area comprises a group of parallel, linear wetlands, with a collective area of 59 km, on the Swan Coastal Plain of south-west Western Australia between the cities of Mandurah and Bunbury. It is an important site for waterbirds.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site encompasses the wetlands of the Yalgorup National Park; it lies just to the south of the Peel-Harvey IBA but is apparently used by waterbirds as a distinct wetland system. The major wetlands of the site are Lakes Clifton, Preston, Pollard, Yalgorup, Boundary, martins Tank, Hayward and Newnham. The lakes are evaporative salt lakes mainly fed by fresh groundwater and precipitation and vary up to about 4 m in depth. Median annual rainfall in the area is about 880 mm, falling mainly from May to August. Some of the lakes have a fringe by samphire, rushes and sedges, beyond which is a zone of paperbarks, with saltwater paperbark and red-eyed wattle around the hypersaline lakes. Many of the shorelines have been cleared for agriculture. The IBA is part of the Peel-Yalgorup Ramsar site.</p><br>
<h2>Birds</h2><br>
<p>The site has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports fairy terns, large numbers of hooded plovers and over 1% of the world populations of Australian shelducks, red-necked stints, banded stilts and, sometimes, musk ducks. Other birds recorded on the lakes in relatively large numbers include red-capped plovers, red-necked avocets, Pacific black ducks, little black cormorants, great crested grebes and black swans.</p><br>
<p>The Astoria Victory Monument, also known as the Doughboy Monument or Soldiers&#39; Monument, is a monument located in Astoria, Oregon, in the United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The concrete, Spanish Revival monument designed by Charles T. Diamond was constructed in 1926, incorporating a cast of a sculpture by John Paulding. The structure was recognized individually by the National Register of Historic Places in 1984 and as part of the Uniontown–Alameda Historic District in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The National Register of Historic Places recognized the monument individually on November 15, 1984, and later included the structure as part of the Uniontown–Alameda Historic District on August 25, 1988.</p><br>
<p>In the mid-2000s, the monument received a $10,000 grant from the State Historic Preservation Office to repair lights and windows, replace doors, renovate the restroom facilities and install new plumbing and toilet fixtures.</p><br>
<p>The Albert W. Ferguson House is a house located in Astoria, Oregon, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Albert W. Ferguson (August 29, 1821 – February 21, 1891) was an Oregon carpenter and architect. He built many now-historic houses and other buildings in Oregon, particularly in Salem and Astoria. He moved to Astoria in 1876. While living in Astoria, he designed and built several homes and other buildings, including the first city hall, built in 1878, and the NRHP-listed Capt. J. H. D. Gray House. His youngest son, James Ernest Ferguson, built his fathers house, but Albert W. collaborated with his son on the houses design.</p><br>
<p>James Ernest Ferguson later partnered with Charles Houston to found Ferguson & Houston, an Astoria architectural and construction firm. The company designed and built many area homes and other buildings, including the Old Astoria City Hall, which was designed by Emil Schacht.</p><br>
<p>Albert W. Ferguson, who was already ill at the time of the houses construction, resided in the house from its completion in 1886 until his death in 1891 from inflammatory rheumatism. Another son, Edward Z. Ferguson, was living in the house at that time and continued to do so until 1910. Alberts daughter, Ada, moved into the house with her husband, John N. Griffin, in 1910 and resided there until her death in 1937.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Black Mountain, is a ridge in the Diablo Range of southwestern Fresno County, California, south of Reef Ridge. Its east end begins about 1.25 miles west of Zwang Peak, and runs at elevations over 4000 feet, with the mid ridge rising to 4345 feet, westerly about 3.25 miles to Castle Mountain at an elevation of 4343 feet. It then turns west northwest 2 miles at elevations above 3790 feet with several peaks over 3800 feet and one over 3900 feet along the length of it. There it is linked to the next east west mountain ridge extending east from Mustang Peak. The high point of the ridge is 7.7 mi north northeast of Parkfield, California.</p><br>
<p>The crest of the Black Mountain Ridge from Castle Mountain to the Mustang Peak ridge and extending west along that ridge is the boundary line between Fresno County and Monterey County and the watershed of the San Joaquin Valley.</p><br>
<p>The far eastern end of the north slope of the Black Mountain ridge is the source of Canoas Creek.</p><br>
<p>The Yambuk Important Bird Area comprises a 10 km tract of coastal land fronting Bass Strait in south-western Victoria, south-eastern Australia. It lies some 20 km west of the town of Port Fairy and encompasses the lower reaches of the Eumeralla River and Lake Yambuk.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site lies near the small town of Yambuk. Lake Yambuk is an estuarine lagoon which receives freshwater inflows from the Shaw and Eumeralla Rivers and, when open, from tidal seawater. When the mouth of the estuary is closed by a build-up of silt, the lake is flooded by freshwater until the entrance is opened mechanically. As well as the lake, the site contains associated wetland vegetation and adjacent protected areas which have suitable habitat for orange-bellied parrots – the Yambuk Nature Conservation Reserve and the Deen Maar Indigenous Protected Area.</p><br>
<h3>Flora</h3><br>
<p>The coastal part of the site is dominated by dune shrubland featuring coast wattle and coastal beard-heath with scattered emergent trees. Behind the dune scrub the margins of the lake support saltmarsh and reed beds and other forms of wetland vegetation, with patches of closed swamp scrub and low open eucalypt woodland on the northern, inland side. The threatened coast ballart, is present.</p><br>
<h3>Fauna</h3><br>
<p>The site has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a wintering population of critically endangered orange-bellied parrots, a breeding population of hooded plovers, and has regular records of Australasian bitterns. The Eumeralla River is a stronghold for the threatened dwarf galaxias.</p><br>
<p>John B. McCormick House is a historic home located at South Mahoning Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania. The original section was built between 1817 and 1829, and is a 2 1/2-story, three bay, stone building with a gable roof and massive gable chimney. It was expanded between 1905 and 1905 by John B. McCormick. At that time, a large, two story hip and gable roofed addition was built on the rear. Attached to that is a one-story, shed roofed addition with a parapet. The original house was modified with the addition of a three-story stone tower, porch with Doric order supporting columns, and dormers.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974.</p><br>
<p>The house is named after John Buchanan McCormick (1834-1924), who had a varied career. In 1870 he moved from Pennsylvania to Holyoke, Massachusetts where he designed, using the flumes at John Wesley Emerson&#39;s plant, what would later become the Hercules water turbine. The McCormick water turbine was considered a breakthrough in hydrodynamics. Under various names, including the Hercules brand, and patents, it was manufactured in Holyoke, Dayton, Ohio, and Glasgow, Scotland and Imatra, Finland. In 1890, a McCormick turbine took first place honours at the Edinburgh Exposition.</p><br>
<p>Downtown Indiana Historic District is a national historic district located at Indiana in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 86 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Indiana. The district includes notable examples of buildings in the Italianate, Second Empire, and Queen Anne styles. Notable buildings include the Federal-style William Houston House , Clawson Hotel , Thomas Sutton House, Calvary Presbyterian Church, Zion Lutheran Church, First United Presbyterian Church, and First Methodist Episcopal Church. The contributing site is Memorial Park, established as a burial ground in the early 19th century. Located in the district and listed separately are the Silas M. Clark House, James Mitchell House, Old Indiana County Courthouse, Indiana Borough 1912 Municipal Building, Indiana Armory, and Old Indiana County Jail and Sheriff&#39;s Office.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Justøya or Justøy is an island in Lillesand municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. The 7.9 km&sup2; island lies just south of the town of Lillesand with the Skaggerak to the east and the Blindleia strait and the mainland to the west. The name comes from Old Norse word Jóstr.</p><br>
<p>At 7.9 km&sup2, Justøy is Aust-Agder county&#39;s second largest island. Justøya is connected to the mainland by the 116 m long Justøybrua bridge, built in 1949. There are about 360 residents on the island located in scattered settlements across the island. The old outport, Brekkestø, lies on the south side of the island. The outport is one of the remains from the time of sailing ships in the Skagerrak coast. The island is largely characterized by summer tourism. There are Montessori school, Justøy Chapel, cemetery, pension boarding house, campsite, and the summer shop in Brekkestø.</p><br>
<p>In Nyberg, just north of Brekkestø, are the Festung Björkestraße ruins from World War II. The German fortifications and bunkers in Nyberg that were built by Norwegian prisoners of war.</p><br>
<p>The Newberry House, also known as the Judge Shaw House, is located on Lake Avenue in Aspen, Colorado, United States. It is a wooden structure in the Shingle Style built around 1890. In 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with other properties in the city.</p><br>
<p>It incorporates an unusual carriage house into its overall design, the only house in Aspen to do so. In 1922 William Shaw, an attorney who had specialized in water law, moved in, following his ascension to the city&#39;s judgeship the previous year. He remained in the house until 1969, during which time Aspen went from a depressed former mining town to a bustling, glamorous ski resort, a process he played a small role in.</p><br>
<p>After his tenure, the house passed to other owners, eventually becoming one of several Aspen properties owned by Jack Nicholson, one of the celebrities who had early on been drawn to Aspen as a retreat, until he sold it in 2013. It has remained intact with few alterations.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The house occupies a 0.27 acre lot on the north side of Lake Avenue, the northernmost street in Aspen&#39;s predominantly residential West End, at the oblique three-way intersection Lake makes with North First and West Smuggler streets. The terrain is generally level, sloping slightly towards the Roaring Fork River to the north. To the south and west are houses generally of a similar scale, or larger, and more modern construction. On the north and east is a small lake and woodlands, and north of them the river. Tall mature trees shade many of the houses.</p><br>
<p>The house itself is a two-and-a-half-story wood frame structure on a brick foundation. It is sided in clapboard on the first story, shingles on the second and fishscale shingles in the attic gable field. At the top is a complex gabled roof pierced by a brick chimney. A low iron fence and gate separates the house from the street.</p><br>
<p>On the three-bay south (front) facade, the western two bays are on a small projecting section. A veranda begins here and wraps around the house&#39;s west side. It has a wooden rail with regular turned posts supporting the slightly flared upper story. Behind it are a double-hung one-over-one sash window and plain wooden door. The upper story has a double one-over-one sash. A wide overhanging eave at the roofline sets off its projecting nested gable, decorated with half-timbers.</p><br>
<p>To the east the single rectangular bay is also on a projecting section. It has a rectangular picture window with decorative muntins along the sides. Above a molded cornice continues from the porch roofline to the east side of the projection. A similar, plainer cornice marks the bottom of the flaring on the second story, where the projection narrows to not much wider than the single one-over-one double-hung sash on that floor. Three smaller one-over-ones are in the main gable apex.</p><br>
<p>On the west side there is a single-pane window under a pent roof next to the porch. Above it is a section with a hip roof and four casement windows. At the rear the carriage house, with four sliding doors, projects from the house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Aspen went from a rough settlement of tents and log cabins in the late 1870s to a bustling silver mining boomtown of around 10,000 by 1890, when the house is believed to have been built. While the citys entire street grid pattern had been plotted out early, most development was concentrated in the citys eastern section, where its commercial and civic center was and is. Residents who had made their fortune from mining or related businesses chose to build their houses in the undeveloped West End.</p><br>
<p>The area where the house was built was known as Hallam&#39;s Subdivision, after an early developer of the town who bought it in the early 1880s with the intention of building a park with walks, drives and pavilions. The lake was to be stocked with trout. Other than the pavilions, none of this ever came to pass and houses were built on the tract instead. From the use of the Shingle Style, it is likely that the Newberry House was built in the early 1890s, when that became popular. The attached carriage house is a unique feature in the city.</p><br>
<p>Prosperity came to an abrupt end with the Panic of 1893. In response to the crisis, Congress repealed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, which had required the federal government to buy silver to support the dollar, to ease fears of inflation. Aspen had been unaffected by the crisis itself, but with the silver market limited to private purchasers, most of its mines became unprofitable. Residents began leaving for more promising opportunities elsewhere, such as Cripple Creek, Colorado. The city&#39;s population steadily declined, beginning a period of several decades known as "the quiet years".</p><br>
<p>Many of the buildings from Aspen&#39;s glory years went vacant and neglected. Some succumbed to either fire or the harsh effects of long and severe mountain winters at almost 8,000 ft above sea level. The Newberry House endured, and in 1922 it was purchased by William Shaw, a local water-law attorney who had become a Pitkin County judge the year before. There is no record of the seller, Mrs. Alex Tompkins, other than this transaction.</p><br>
<p>In the years before World War II, when the citys population had declined to a few hundred year-round residents, some downhill skiing enthusiasts who chanced on Aspen noticed that the mountains around the city had slopes that would make an ideal place for their hobby, then beginning to establish itself as a recreational activity. Before the war, some had cut trails and built a primitive ski lift from leftover mining equipment. This was put on hold when the United States became involved in World War II in 1941, but Aspen continued to attract interest as a winter-sports destination when members of the Tenth Mountain Division, the Armys "soldiers on skis", who trained at nearby Camp Hale, visited the city when on leave. After the war, many of the Tenth&#39;s veterans became involved in the development of skiing, and some returned to Aspen to do so.</p><br>
<p>At the same time, Walter Paepcke, chairman of the Container Corporation of America, on vacation elsewhere in Colorado, visited Aspen at the behest of his wife Elizabeth. She had gone there with some friends to sample the skiing, and found it an ideal place for the classical-music festival the couple were looking to start as an American counterpart to the Salzburg Festival in Austria. The mountain location was comparable, and the remaining Victorian houses and commercial buildings added a great deal of charm, although many would need to be restored.</p><br>
<p>In order to discreetly acquire those properties, many of which had been foreclosed and were available for the small sum of unpaid property taxes, Paepcke retained Shaw as his local attorney. As a county judge, Shaw was able to smooth over the transfer of some properties which lacked clear title. Eventually the Paepckes acquired many of Aspen&#39;s landmarks, such as the Hotel Jerome and Wheeler Opera House, as well as many of the houses in the West End, and hired Bauhaus architect Herbert Bayer to refurbish them.</p><br>
<p>Paepcke invested heavily in the new Aspen Skiing Company, and was eventually able to start the first Aspen Music Festival in 1949. With the founding of the Aspen Institute, the city became an attraction for corporate executives and intellectuals. Movie stars began to find Aspen a pleasant place to stay as well, and Shaw would officiate at the 1965 wedding of Kim Novak and Richard Johnson in a mountain meadow at the ski resort.</p><br>
<p>After Shaw died in 1969, the house eventually became the property of another Hollywood celebrity drawn to Aspen. Jack Nicholson and his friend, record producer Lou Adler, had bought homes in the city after learning to ski in Gstaad. Neither one, it turned out, was located in an area with good television reception. After finding out that the Judge Shaw house did get a good signal, they split the purchase price in order to have a place in Aspen where they could watch Los Angeles Lakers basketball games together. They sold the house in 2013 to a Beverly Hills-based limited liability corporation.</p><br>
<p>The house is largely the same as it was in a 1919 photo. A 1981 renovation added screens to the porches. Some of the exterior windows may not be original, either.</p><br>
<p>Baosbheinn is a Scottish mountain situated in the Torridon area of the Northwest Highlands. It stands in a remote area within the Flowerdale deer forest some 39 km NNE of Kyle of Lochalsh.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>Baosbheinn which is made up of Torridon Sandstone reaches a height of 875 m making it the 56th highest Corbett and the 277th highest Marilyn. It is a long elongated mountain with a NW-SE orientation, its summit ridge is impressive, barely dropping below the 700 m contour in its 3 km length. Its SW slopes drops away steeply and rockily towards Loch a’ Ghobhainn while its NE slopes are less precipitous, throwing out a series of spurs which produces three craggy corries. Strong hill walkers can climb Baosbheinn with the adjacent Corbett of Beinn an Eoin which stands across Loch na h-Oidhche and gives a demanding circular walk of 21 km which takes between six and nine hours.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The translation of Baosbheinn from the Scottish Gaelic language is usually given by guidebooks as “Wizard’s hill” this comes from the word baobh but strictly speaking this translates as a hag or bitch. Buidsear or fiosaiche is the usual word for a wizard. Scholars have put forward alternatives, one of these is beidhis-fjall from the Old Norse language which translates as hunting hill, with the Norse fjall later changed to the Gaelic bheinn. Local residents of Wester Ross refer to the hill as “mountain of the face”, this is explained by the fact that when viewed from Gairloch in the morning light, the hill resembles the appearance of a human head. This is supported by older spellings of the name which use derivations of bathais which translates as face or forehead. In conclusion, although the translated name is usually given as Wizard’s Hill, the alternatives of Hill of the Face, Hunting Hill or Hill of the Hag (or Wicked Person) may have stronger supporting evidence.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and geology</h2><br>
<p>Baosbheinn summit ridge is made up of five prominent high points, starting at the SE end of the ridge is the outlying shoulder of Ceann Beag (705 m) after a short descent to a col at c. 620 m the ridge rises steeply over an unnamed top of c. 805 m before continuing to the main summit (875 metres), named Sgorr Dubh on OS maps. The ridge continues for two km to reach the NW top (801 m) before descending to Creag an Fithich (738 m) at the northern end of the ridge. Baosbheinn has three north facing corries, An Rèidh-choire is the largest and lives up to its name of Smooth corrie, being quite open and grassy while the smaller Coire Beag and Coire Mor are more compact and are lined by crags.</p><br>
<p>Baosbheinn has one noteworthy geological feature: it being the site of the largest and most impressive protalus rampart in Great Britain. The rampart is situated at the NW end of the ridge below the crags of Creag an Fithich at an height of around 450 m. It formed in post-glacial times when a massive rockslide or series of rockslides involving failure of approximately 200,000 m³ of rock over-rode a former snowbed and accumulated as a boulder ridge. The north west end of Baosbheinn where the protalus rampart is situated has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest over an area of 39,000,000 m².</p><br>
<h2>Ascents</h2><br>
<p>The usual ascent of Baosbheinn starts at a parking place at the Red Barn on the A832 road. Most walking guidebooks recommend climbing Boasbheinn along with Beinn an Eoin, this calls for the ascent of Beinn an Eoin first, however a direct ascent of Baosbheinn is possible although the crossing of the river, the Abhainn a’ Gharbh Choire can be difficult in spate conditions. The walk goes SE on the track which leads to Loch na h-Oidhche, the early part of the track goes through a recently sown plantation just to the East of Loch Bad na Sgalag where over 1 million native species trees have been planted. The original trees in this area were cut down in the 16th and 17th centuries to feed the ironworks on the shore of Loch Maree. The track is left after 3 km and the ridge of Baosbheinn can be attained by crossing pathless moorland.</p><br>
<p>Conyn-Van Rensselaer is a historic home located on Stone Mill Road in the town of Claverack, New York. It is a gambrel-roofed structure of brick, two and a half stories high, and was eventually owned by A. H. Van Rensselaer, a descendant of Hendrick Van Rensselaer. It has recently undergone extensive restoration. The property also contains barns and outbuildings.</p><br>
<p>Kasparus Konyn was a captain in a provincial regiment, and warmly espoused the American cause in the Revolution. In 1776 he erected this large house. The Conyns were among the Palatine Germans who immigrated to the Germantown area of Columbia County, New York in the 1700s seeking religious freedom. He married Mildred (Joan Gardner) Yates who was a member of another local family, for whom a nearby road is named.</p><br>
<p>The area was well settled by members of the Van Rennselaer family who eventually acquired the farm upon Conyn&#39;s demise and have held it since.</p><br>
<p>The historic home of Hendrick I. Van Rensselaer is nearby on Yates Road in the town of Greenport.</p><br>
<p>Hillandale-Main Residence and Gatehouse are historic structures located in the Burleith neighborhood in Washington, D.C. They have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1995.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The estate was originally the home of heiress Anne Archbold who was a prominent Washington socialite. She donated much of the land that became Glover-Archbold Park. The buildings are the only known work in Washington of Boston architect Josephine Wright Chapman. They were built from 1922 to 1925 in the Italian Villa style. The 42.1 acre site included the gatehouse and wall that was along Reservoir Road, NW with the main residence near the top of a hill. The building exteriors feature stucco facades, terra cotta tile roofs, balconies and loggias. The interior of the main residence includes a frescoed vestibule and music room with a vaulted ceiling. In the late 1970s and the early 1980s the estate was subdivided and 28 single family residences and 238 townhouses were built in a gated community. The main residence remains a single-family dwelling.</p><br>
<p>The Twin Oaks is an 18.1 acre estate located in the Cleveland Park neighborhood in Washington, D.C., United States.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The historic residence, completed in 1888, was designed by Francis Allen for Gardiner Green Hubbard, founder and first president of the National Geographic Society and father-in-law of Alexander Graham Bell.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Twin Oaks was listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites in 1983, the National Register of Historic Places listings in western Washington, D.C. in 1986, and is a contributing property in the Cleveland Park Historic District. The estate was the residence of nine Republic of China ambassadors to the United States from 1937 until 1979, when the United States switched diplomatic recognition to the People&#39;s Republic of China.</p><br>
<p>The Government of the Republic of China, currently represented by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in Washington in place of an official embassy, continues to own the property and uses it for official receptions.</p><br>
<p>On 1 January 2015, the flag of the Republic of China was raised for the first time since the end of diplomatic relations in 1979. The ceremony (protested by the People&#39;s Republic of China) was held by Taipei Economic and Cultural Representative Office in the USA, a move symbolizing significant progress in Taiwan–United States relations. Representative Shen Lyu-shun said that they not only returned, but they did it with dignity, respect and honor.</p><br>
<p>The United States Department of States spokesperson responded at the daily press briefing that "The ceremony is not consistent with USA policy. We remain fully committed to the USA One China Policy, based on the three communiques and the Taiwan Relations Act. No USA Government personnel attended the event in any capacity."</p><br>
<p>The Federal Home Loan Bank Board Building is an historic structure located in Downtown Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The structure was built to house the Acacia Mutual Insurance Company, which was the only federally chartered life insurance company. It was incorporated in 1869 as the Masonic Mutual Relief Association of the District of Columbia. The Federal government took procession of the building in 1934 to house the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, which is how the building acquired its name in 1937. It was a New Deal program that supported home ownership.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>George E. Mathews of the architectural firm of Hoggson Brothers was the original architect for the building. Louis A. Simon of the Public Works Branch in the Department of the Treasury was the architect for an addition that was built from 1935 to 1937. The building exemplifies early-20th-century Classical Revival intuitional office architecture. The exterior features facades covered with limestone with classical detail. The interior features an ornamented lobby.</p><br>
<p>Federal-American National Bank is an historic structure located in Downtown Washington, D.C. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The bank was formed as a merger between two other banks in 1923. Hamilton National Bank inhabited the building after the banking crisis of 1933. More recently it housed the National Bank of Washington.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Architects Alfred C. Bossom and Jules Henri de Sibour designed the building. The exterior of the structure is covered in limestone and features a Classical Revival facade, large arched windows, engaged columns and sculptural embellishment. The interior features a bronze vestibule and a Renaissance Revival banking room with a marble entrance stair, mezzanine, elaborate polychrome coffered ceiling, chandeliers, ornamentation in classical motifs, and innovative open counter design The building is somewhat unusual in that the main banking room is on a raised main floor and storefronts on the ground level.</p><br>
<p>Harris & Ewing Photographic Studio is an historic structure located in downtown Washington, D.C. It was built in 1924 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building housed Harris & Ewing, which in the early 20th century was the largest news photo service in the United States. They also served as the official White House photographer and the city&#39;s most noted portrait photographers from 1905 to 1955. This building with its Italian Renaissance Revival limestone façade replaced an earlier building built by Harris & Ewing in 1905. It was designed by the architectural firm of Sonnemann & Justement.</p><br>
<p>Today the building houses advertising agency Don Schaaf & Friends, Inc. (ds+f).</p><br>
<p>Lake Zimbambo is a lake in the Malemba-Nkulu Territory of Haut-Lomami Province, in the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo.</p><br>
<p>It is one of the lakes in the Upemba Depression, an extensive marshy area.</p><br>
<p>The Lualaba River enters the depression about 40 km after leaving Lake Delcommune.</p><br>
<p>The depression is a trough-like graben about 400 km long and 100 km wide, running from the southwest to the northeast. The trough is about 1,000 m above sea level at its southwest end, sloping steeply down to an elevation of 610 m, where it flattens out and is filled by lakes and marshes for a distance of 225 km in a belt that is 37 km wide on average.</p><br>
<p>The river generally flows through the marshes between the lakes, to which it is connected by narrow channels.</p><br>
<p>Olimarao Atoll is an uninhabited atoll with a land area of 0.2 km in the State of Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia. It is located 5 kilometers northwest of Elato and 860 kilometers southeast of Yap island. Olimarao belongs administratively to Elato.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The atoll&#39;s surface is 11 km² and it is roughly 5 km long and 3 km wide. The lagoon has a surface of about 6 km² and two passages into it located in the southern fringes of the reef.</p><br>
<h3>Islands</h3><br>
<p>There are only two small islets (Motus) on the reef, with a total surface of 0.2 km² (20 hectares):</p><br>
<p>*Olimarao Island, located at the NE end of the reef is the largest</p><br>
<p>*Falipi Island in the SW corner is only 2.4 ha in surface</p><br>
<p>Both islands have coconut palms, among other vegetation, like Scaevola taccada bushes.</p><br>
<h3>Ecology</h3><br>
<p>The whole atoll is part of the Olimarao Conservation Area. This zone is meant to protect the breeding places of sea turtles, coconut crabs and pelagic birds.</p><br>
<p>Union Congregational Church and Parsonage, built in 1886, is a historic church located at 110 Bennett Street in Buffalo, Wyoming. It was the first church built in Buffalo, and one of the first two churches established in the northern part of the Wyoming Territory.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>In December 1883, the Reverend Addison Blanchard, Superintendent of Missions for the Colorado and Wyoming Congregational Church, visited Buffalo. He spent three weeks preaching, and visiting almost every family in town. He found that there were a few families who wanted to participate in a "union church" on the "simple basis of pure Christianity in which minor differences of opinion and forms should be tolerated...."</p><br>
<p>In February 1884, Buffalo&#39;s first resident pastor, Revenend George C. Rock of Philadelphia arrived, and he preached during the next eight months. On October 13, 1884, Superintendent Blanchard organized the Union Congregational Church of Buffalo, with ten founding members. The congregation met for services in the log schoolhouse located at what is now 138 North Main Street. However, they purchased some land from Mrs. Juliet Hart, and began to plan for their own building.</p><br>
<h2>Church Building</h2><br>
<p>The plans for the new church were drawn up by Thomas Hutton in 1885. Mr. Hutton was also hired to do the grading, build the foundation, and oversee the construction by the contractor, S. Sherrill. The church was built during the summer and fall of 1886, and was ready for occupancy on December 12, 1886. The cost of the building was $2469.87.</p><br>
<p>The National Register nomination includes a description of the building:</p><br>
<p>"Situated on the top of a steep hill, the church was a plain, gable-roofed, rectangular, frame structure about 26 x 29 feet, with the length running north south. The exterior finish was unusually narrow beveled siding (less than three inches weather exposure) which is preserved on the present church. On the south end of the building was an entry hall with a three-sided truncated hip roof. This entry ran the width of the building and was about 10 feet wide. There were two pairs of tall six-paned windows on the west, south, and east sides of the church,a main door on the south in the center of the entry hall/and a small belfry on the south end of the gable roof. The builders added some decoration in the exposed rafters which were carved and pierced and backed by a dentate-carved board, still visible today on the east side of the church.</p><br>
<h2>Expansion</h2><br>
<p>The church building was expanded in 1911 and 1912. A basement was dug on the lower slope of the hill to the west, and the church building was moved onto the new basement. The basement was 14 feet wider than the sanctuary, so it was possible to add another 14 feet to the room above. The gable roof over the addition runs west from the north-south alignment of the original roof. The north-south gable roof was extended to cover the entry hall, and the door to the building was moved to the east end of the entry hall. The two gables formed an angle where a belfry tower was built to a height of about two feet above the roofs. The square tower provides an entry to the basement, and a stairway to the church above. The basement, which opens out to the west, has space for meetings and social activities along with Sunday School classes.</p><br>
<p>In 1913, the stained glass windows were added to the sanctuary. A fire in 1922 damaged the interior of the first floor, and destroyed the large stained glass window on the west side of the sanctuary. All of the other windows are original. Two other rooms were added north of the sanctuary in 1938 and 1958. In 1974, the exterior of the basement walls were faces with sandstone flagstones from an outcrop about 60 miles southwest of Buffalo.</p><br>
<h2>Parsonage</h2><br>
<p>The parsonage, built in 1910, is built on a level with the west side of the basement of the church. It is a frame structure with a gable roof and tall paired windows. There is a shed-like roof on the south side of the parsonage. Originally, it must have looked like a small replica of the church.</p><br>
<p>Methodist Episcopal Church  is a historic Methodist church at Fort and N. Adams Streets in Buffalo, Wyoming, United States. The church was built in 1899, and was added to the</p><br>
<p>National Register in 1976. It is located at the corner of Adams Avenue and Fort Street in Buffalo, Wyoming.</p><br>
<h2>Construction</h2><br>
<p>The Methodist Episcopal Church in Buffalo was organized on October 7, 1892, with the appointment of the first minister, Reverend H.A. Toland. Reverend E.J. Robinson was appointed as minister in 1895, and he supervised the construction of the church building. The building was built by members of the congregation, and the total cost was $2075.00.</p><br>
<p>The design of the church probably came from an architectural pattern book. The cornerstone was laid on August 17, 1898, and laid within the stone were a Bible, a hymnal, a copy of the Church Discipline, several church papers, and some coins. The stone was made and presented by Z.T. Stocks, a stonemason. The interior of the church building follows the Akron Plan, which typifies many Methodist churches in the American West. The plan, which originated in Akron, Ohio, emphasizes good acoustics, good sight lines, and flexibility, with a focus on the pulpit and communion table. The elevated platform for preaching is placed in the corner of the audience room, with the seating in a circular pattern. The main room of the church measures 22 by 36, the lecture room measures 14 by 12, and the bell tower is 40&#39; tall.</p><br>
<p>The pews were obtained from the Methodist Church in Sheridan, Wyoming. The pulpit was donated by Dave Muir and the "Scotch Boys." A basement was built in 1906 so that a hearing plant could be added. The stained glass windows were donated in 1916. An electric organ was donated by members of the church in memory of relatives. On December 19, 1923, a fire damaged the rear part of the building. When the basement the church was restored after the fire, the building was lengthened by addition 16 feet to the north. A small choir room was also added.</p><br>
<h2>Church History</h2><br>
<p>A Social Center was added in 1917, and that was connected to the main building in 1993. In 1939, the church&#39;s name was changed to the First United Methodist Church. A Sunday school building was added in 1959. The church is the current home of a congregation now known as the First United Methodist Church of Buffalo Wyoming.</p><br>
<p>St. Luke&#39;s Episcopal Church is a historic church at 178 S. Main in Buffalo, Wyoming. The church was built in 1889, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Early days</h2><br>
<p>St. Lukes Episcopal Church, as well as several other early Buffalo churches, had its beginning in the Sunday School which was held in the local schoolhouse in 1883. In 1884, Bishop John Spalding organized an Episcopal mission developed into the congregation. The first service was held in a private home in September 1884, and a group of wardens was chosen. Other services were held at the schoolhouse, and at a local hotel. Chaplain G.W. Simpson from Fort McKinney held services every Sunday at three oclock. The first resident minister, Reverend F.C. Elred, served from 1887 to 1891.</p><br>
<h2>Church building</h2><br>
<p>In 1888, the congregation decided to build a church on Main Street, and acquired several city lots. The deeds were recorded on October 31, 1888. The cornerstone was laid in 1889. A local woman described the new building:</p><br>
<p>"St. Lukes Church was built of red brick, the bricks made and burned in the brickyards of Curran Brothers. Its builder was Thomas Hutton, an ardent churchman as well as an artisan. The style of St. Lukes is Gothic It is considered the most perfect form of Gothic in the state. People from far and wide have stopped while passing through to study the architecture. The furniture of the chancel, the altar, and hangings were given by the Vanderbilit family of New York. This is the history of the gift. As you know, the officers of Fort McKinney helped to start St. Lukes. A young man, a Lieutenant Webb, was related to the Vanderbilt family. He knew that he could get the financial aid to buy the chancel furnishings. He wrote to New York with splendid results. The massive beams in the ceiling of the church were hewn in the sawmill of Martin Woodard who had his mill in the forests of the Big Horns. They were brought down from the mountains over steep and rugged roads by Yorkie&#39; Waters who had a large freighting outfit."</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the Johnson County War, several important funerals took place at St. Luke&#39;s. When Deputy Marshall George A. Wellman was murdered by the “Taylor Gang”, known as the “Red Sashes”, the outlaws did not want the lawman to have the honor of a Christian funeral at St. Luke’s. The outlaws, however, did not reckon with the courage and determination of The Rev. Charles Duell, members of St. Luke’s and the Masons, all of whom carried concealed weapons during the funeral. The funeral took place on May 13, 1892.</p><br>
<p>In 1897, Dr. H.U. Onderdonk came to St. Luke&#39;s Parish as a lay reader. He studied for Holy Orders, and was ordained in 1900. Dr. Onderdonk served not only as physician and a clergyman, but also as a chemist, mathematician, nurse, and editor. The church hall, built in 1925, is named "Onderdonk Hall" in his memory."</p><br>
<p>On March 19, 1919, St. Luke&#39;s Church became a self-supporting regular parish. The church building is basically the same as it was when completed in 1889. Care has been taken to retain its basic design while maintaining it in excellent condition. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. Services are held every Sunday.</p><br>
<p>Piagailoe Atoll is an uninhabited atoll in the State of Yap in the Federated States of Micronesia, geographically part of the Caroline Islands. It is located 71 kilometers northeast of Lamotrek, 71 kilometers northwest of Satawal and 945 kilometers southeast of Yap island.This atoll lies at the western end of a chain of submarine mountains that extend westwards of the Gray Feather Bank for about 180 km. The Condor Reef, Pikelot and the Oraitilipu Bank belong to this underwater feature as well. In order to distinguish this atoll from Fayu  Atoll in Chuuk State, located about 500 km to the east, this atoll is also known as West Fayu.</p><br>
<p>The atoll is roughly 7 km long and 3.5 km wide in its widest area. The 5.6 km² lagoon has a passage into it located in the southwestern fringe of the reef. Its maximum depth is 38 m.</p><br>
<p>There is only one island on the reef, West Fayu Island, with a surface of 6 ha. It is located at the NE end of the reef.</p><br>
<p>Administratively it belongs to Satawal municipality., which is also one of the legislative districts of Yap State.</p><br>
<p>The Punk Rock Shelter  was an archaeological site found in Putnam County, Georgia. The site flooded in 1979, putting it 65 ft under Lake Oconee. It was not actually a rock shelter, but a jumble of granite boulders or tors. These tors happened to create a shelter-like area. Unfortunately, due to poor land management in the 19th and 20th century associated with cotton farming, the shelter floor area is now underneath at least a meter deep of red clay and silt mud. The Native Americans at the site were most likely Hitchiti in ancestry.</p><br>
<h2>Discovery</h2><br>
<p>The Punk Rock Shelter was discovered by Greg Paulk and Dean Wood on November 15, 1974. They discovered it while conducting the Wallace Reservoir Archaeological Survey.</p><br>
<h2>Excavation</h2><br>
<p>On November 18, John Doolin accompanied Paulk and Chester DePratter to excavate a 1 by 2 meter deep trench between the back wall and the front entrance of the shelter. On November 20, Wood and DePratter returned to excavate a midden in the trench. On November 21, Wood and DePratter brought Paulk and Doolin to extend the trench 1 meter north, making it a 1 by 3 meter trench. On November 22, all four returned to do a detailed excavation of the eastern part of the trench with photographs, drawings, and backfill.</p><br>
<p>The final excavation of the site was proposed in spring of 1977 within the Wallace Reservoir sites listed to be “more thoroughly excavated.” From June 14 to August 10 in 1978, Mark Williams led this final excavation, and it was an expansion on DePratter’s 1974 excavation. According to this final excavation, the maximum size of the shelter is 7.5 meters long and 4.5 meters wide.</p><br>
<p>The most peculiar find during this excavation was a large amount of quartz pebbles (usually found alongside concentrated areas of potsherds). These quartz pebbles were red. In Williams’s previous research, he shows that red quartz usually meant that the pebbles were directly exposed to fire potentially for the use of indirect heating.</p><br>
<h2>Dating</h2><br>
<p>Through the analyses of the ceramic vessels and potsherds, the site dates to the Lamar and Savannah periods of the overarching Mississippian Period. The Punk Rock Shelter is the only known site producing a large collection of vessels from the Lamar and Savannah periods in the Oconee Valley.</p><br>
<p>The vessels found in the Punk Rock Shelter span over a single phase (Scull Shoals) in the Savannah period and all four phases of the Lamar period (Duvall, Iron Horse, Dyar, and Bell). Traditional seriation was used to determine the dates of the Mississippian phases. Overall, the potsherds and the site would fall in between A.D. 1250 – A.D. 1650.</p><br>
<p>Distribution-wise in concern to the potsherds over the span of phases, Williams’ report shows that potsherds were relatively evenly present in all the phases. This provides evidence that the shelter was used consistently over 400 years.</p><br>
<h2>Usage</h2><br>
<p>Potsherds show that site was used repeatedly over a long period of time. There was a lack of flora and faunal remains (other than burnt wood), lithic material, and structural remains making it unlikely that people lived or stayed there for long periods at a time. There was a large number of red quartz pebbles in correlation to areas with large amounts of potsherds.</p><br>
<p>Williams recognizes that there are six potential explanations behind the usage of the Punk Rock Shelter:</p><br>
<p>A normal habitation area</p><br>
<p>A seasonal habitation area</p><br>
<p>A pottery production area</p><br>
<p>A spring site</p><br>
<p>A clay source</p><br>
<p>A “ceremonial” area</p><br>
<p>Williams discounts the first five hypotheses and supports the last one based on his research.</p><br>
<p>The actual ceremony that occurred at the site is still up for debate. There were no human remains or cremations found at the site. However, Williams does propose hypotheses. Although the people of the site were Hitchiti, they shared a lot of similar traditions with the Cherokee. The site, being between water (Riley Shoals and the Oconee River), would have drawn in Cherokee-like ceremonies for two reasons—the plentiful food around water and the wariness the people had of rivers. This could have been a site where people would gather and teach the next generation the dangers of the shoals and rivers.</p><br>
<p>Another applicable Cherokee tradition would have been sweat baths. Ceremonial sweat baths was considered a medical cure to diseases. Additionally, by “going into water,” Cherokee considered this to be a religious experience in itself. The Punk Rock Shelter could have easily been a site for sweat baths. The water-worn and red pebbles could have been used to heat up the bath. There would only be a need for a few skins to keep the steam in the shelter. The large rocks could have been seats for people or had fires built around the bases heating them. The pottery vessels could hold hot water, and the Oconee River is conveniently there for people to jump in and cool-off.</p><br>
<p>The Chauga Mound  is an archaeological site once located on the northern bank of the Tugaloo River 1,200 ft north of the mouth of the Chauga River in Oconee County, South Carolina in the Lake Hartwell Basin. The mound is now inundated by Lake Hartwell. The mound and village portion of the site was built by peoples of the South Appalachian Mississippian culture </p><br>
<h2>Site description</h2><br>
<p>The site is a mound and village that once sat on a natural levee about 100 ft from the Tugaloo River at its confluence with the Chauga River.</p><br>
<h3>Site chronology</h3><br>
<p>There exist four distinct periods of occupation. The first period occurs during the Middle Archaic, as indicated by quartz and some scattered campsites. Phase two encompasses the first six levels of the mound and dates to the Jarett Phase (1100 to 1200), a local variation of the Etowah Culture. The third phase encompasses the final four stages of the mound construction and dates to the Tugalo Phase (1500 to 1600), a local manifestation of the Lamar Phase.</p><br>
<p>The final period of occupation dates from the Estatoe Phase to the early 18th century. It is associated with the historic Cherokee, an Iroquoian -speaking people who migrated into this area from the north.</p><br>
<h3>Mound</h3><br>
<p>Originally standing about 12 ft in height, the platform mound was constructed in 10 stages. Extensive damage through erosion and amateur digging have resulted in only the first four stages to have distinguishable form and purpose, while also decreasing the height of the mound to 8 ft. Stage 1 of the mound began as a low truncated rectangular pyramid about 2.2 ft in height, which was probably used as a dance platform or dias. The fill for this mound came from the midden area of a previous Woodland period settlement; it was followed by a thinner semi-impermeable blue-grey clay cap. Stages 2–6 follow the same pattern. The clay cap had a low rim and trough around the base of the mound and in some cases extended to as much as 10 ft from the base of the mound. The nature of the impervious clay and the trough to carry away rainwater helped to protect the interior basketloaded fill from erosion. At Stage 2 the mound was 45 ft across at the base and with a summit roughly 25 ft square and several feet higher than Stage 1. On top of this mound a structure was added. During these stages, smooth boulders from the river were incorporated into the mound, possibly to help stabilize the shape. Stages 7–10 did not have the clay cap feature and mound construction seems to occur only on the southern and eastern sides of the mound. These stages may have been to add an apron-like extension or ramp out from the main body of the mound.</p><br>
<h3>Village</h3><br>
<h3>Burials</h3><br>
<p>There are more than sixty burials at the Chauga site, and more than thirty burials within the mound itself. The mound contains artifacts ranging from stone tools, potsherds and ornaments made of shells, copper plates, rocks and minerals, many of which were deposited as grave goods with the burials. Among the artifacts found at the site is a 30 mm steatite plate with an anthropozoomorphic human-headed winged figure of a style often associated with the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>Joseph R. Caldwell first excavated there in 1953 and he was later followed by Carl Miller in 1958. The most complete excavation took place under the leadership of Arthur R. Kelly and Robert S. Neitzel from August, 1958 to January 1, 1959. Kelly and Nietzel performed salvage archaeology on the site in conjunction with the USA National Park Service while working at the University of Georgia with the hope of salvaging as much information as possible before the Hartwell Basin flooded the site.</p><br>
<p>Ennayiram  is a village in Vikravandi  taluk in Villuppuram  district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The major occupation of the people living at this place is agriculture.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>Ennayiram means eight thousand in Tamil. An inscription dated 1025 CE, belongs to the Rajaraja Chola mentions the name "Ennayiram". Hence the name "Ennayiram" is 1000 years old. It also refers to the caste name of Jain merchants. It has close connection with Ashtasahasram, a sub sect of Tamil Iyer community.</p><br>
<h2>Information</h2><br>
<p>Name of the Place=Ennayiram</p><br>
<p>Taluk=Vikiravandi</p><br>
<p>District=Villupuram</p><br>
<p>State=Tamil Nadu</p><br>
<p>Country=India</p><br>
<p>Coordinates=12°728"N 79°2931"E</p><br>
<p>Area=1 km</p><br>
<p>Population=1000 (2011)</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Ennayiram is located 20 km north of Villupuram, 16 km southeast of Gingee.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Town buses from Villupuram town bus stand (bus no: 20, 21) to Pidaripattu go through Ennayiram. Otherwise, one can alight at Nemur Koot road bus stop (all mofussil buses going from Villupuram to Gingee) and can take shared auto.</p><br>
<h2>About the village</h2><br>
<p>Ennayiram village has more than 1000 years old heritage. This village was a city during the Rajaraja Chola I period. It was dominated by Jains before the arrival of Ramanuja. It is also believed that Saint Ramanuja had converted eight thousand Jains to Vaishnavites here.It was called Rajaraja Sathuurvedimangalam in those times. The main importance of this village comes from Azhagiya Narasimma Perumal temple, a Vedic college and Ennayira malai which contains evidence for the past existence of Jain monks.Tamil poet Kalamegam was born in this village.</p><br>
<h2>Azhagiya Narasimma Perumal Temple</h2><br>
<p>This temple was built by Raja Raja Chola and Narasimma Perumal was considered as the family deity of Rajaraja Chola. The Sanctum sanctorium has the idol of Lord Paramapathavasan and consorts Sridevi and Bhoodevi. The presiding deity is Lord Azhagiya Narasimmar. The temple also has a shrine for the six foot high idol of Lord Varahamurthy. Special pooja is performed in every Thiruvathirai Natchathiram day. Sadly, vandalism have dismembered the two hands of Lord Narasimmar which are made of green stone. The deity has been kept in a corner of the temple for the past 400 years. Saint Ramanuja visited this temple twice. Koorathazhwar also visited this temple. This temple contains many Tamil inscriptions on the walls and stairs. It is surrounded by three Shiva temples namely Padaleeswarar temple, Brahmmapuriswarar temple at Brahmadesam and Ramanatha Eswarar temple at Esalam. All three Shiva temples are within two kilometers. All these temples are now under the control of Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).</p><br>
<h2>Existence of ancient Vedic College</h2><br>
<p>The Vedic College functioned with 10 teachers and 340 students 800 years ago. The college provided free boarding to students and each student received one seer (unit) of rice per day which was sufficient for their daily meals. The teachers got a daily allowance of one kalam which was equivalent to the cost of food for 16 persons per day. They were also given half kalingu gold as bonus per year.</p><br>
<h2>Ennayira Malai (Ancient Jain cave, beds and inscriptions)</h2><br>
<p>Another attractive feature of this village is the presence of Ennayira malai or Ennayiram hill with Jain cave and beds, which is now called as Koodalur hill. The 23rd Thirthankarar of Jainism, Parshavanathar, was nicely carved on the rock. There are 35 stone beds, a natural cave and five Tamil inscriptions. Among the five inscriptions, one belongs to the period of the Pallava king Nirubathunga Varman (850 to 882 CE), while the remaining four belong to the period of Chola King Parantaka Chola I (907 to 953 CE). Near the hill, broken black and red painted pots from 1st to 2nd centuries CE were found in large numbers.</p><br>
<p>Fayu Atoll  is an uninhabited atoll in the state of Chuuk, Federated States of Micronesia. It is located 36 km to the west of Nomwin Atoll and 104 km north of Chuuk Lagoon.</p><br>
<p>In order to distinguish this atoll from West Fayu (also called Piagailoe Atoll) in Yap State, located about 500 km to the west, this atoll is also known as East Fayu.</p><br>
<p>The atoll is roughly 2.7 km long and 1.4 km wide in its widest place. It has a surface of 2,5 km². The atoll is composed of a reef shelf with a very shallow lagoon on it. There are two islands in the middle of the lagoon, located closely together, with a total surface of about 40 ha.</p><br>
<p>Although presently uninhabited, the atoll had a population of 50 inhabitants in 1860. The presence of fresh water in this atoll was the subject of a Micronesian legend, "The Sweet Waters of East Fayu".</p><br>
<p>Although geographically not part of the Hall Islands, administratively Fayu belongs to Nomwin municipality, of the northwestern region (Oksoritod) of Chuuk State.,</p><br>
<p>On 26 August 2016, two people were rescued from the island after a US Navy helicopter spotted their SOS sign drawn into sand on East Fayu Island, and alerted the US Coast Guard. Linus and Sabina Jack, both in their 50s, who were reported missing a week earlier when they failed to reach a nearby island. The couple had left Weno Island with limited supplies and no emergency equipment. The Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft crew spotted the boaters on the beach near their makeshift sign on Friday. A search and rescue team was called in by the Coast Guard and the survivors were rescued and transferred by patrol boat to Nomwin Atoll.</p><br>
<p>The Old US 41–Backwater Creek Bridge is a bridge located on an abandoned section of US Highway 41  over Backwater Creek in Baraga Township, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1913, the state of Michigan authorized the construction of trunkline roads through the state. A main trunkline route through Baraga County was designated, extending from Michigamme to Chassell. By 1915, the trunkline had been completed, and the Baraga County Road Commission spent the remainder of the decade slowly improving the route, regrading segments and replacing some bridges.</p><br>
<p>One of the improvements along the route was the construction of a bridge across the end of Keweenaw Bay, 2 mi south of Baraga. The Michigan State Highway Department designed a long-span pony truss bridge for the crossing, designated State Trunk Line Bridge No. 86. In 1917, the department awarded contracts for the construction of the bridge: Smith-Sparks Construction Company was awarded $5,414.20 to fabricate the concrete substructure, and the Northwestern Bridge and Iron Company fabricated and installed the truss for $4,536.00. The structure was completed in 1918.</p><br>
<p>In 1926, the trunkline road was incorporated into US 41. Traffic along the route increased, and eventually a replacement bridge was built nearby. The original bridge remains, in essentially unaltered condition, and is now a privately owned structure.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Old US 41–Backwater Creek Bridge is a rigidly connected Warren pony truss, 80 ft long with an 18 ft roadway. The deck is constructed of I-beams bolted to the verticals and support stringers, over which a concrete roadway is laid. The trusses are supported by concrete abutments on all four corners, hacing angled wingwalls.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is historically important as an early part of the region&#39;s infrastructure, and is technologically noteworthy as one of the earliest examples of a standard highway department pony truss design in the state.</p><br>
<p>Saltsburg Historic District is a national historic district located at Saltsburg in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. The district includes 118 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 1 contributing structure, and 15 contributing objects in the central business district and surrounding residential areas of Saltsburg. The district includes notable examples of buildings in the Federal and Late Victorian styles. Most of the buildings were built between the 1830s and 1880s. Notable buildings include the William McIlwaine House and Store , Dr. James Crawford House , Dr. McFarland&#39;s Drug Store and Office , Saltsburg Hotel , Western Pennsylvania Railroad Station , Saltsburg Presbyterian Church , Sons of Zebedee Evangelical Lutheran Church , Altman Feed Mill , First National Bank Building , DeLisi Theater . The contributing site is former canal / railbed of the Western Pennsylvania Railroad and Lock #8, now occupied by Canal Park. The contributing structure are the retaining walls of the railroad. The contributing objects are canal markers.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<p>The Lt. Robert Andrews House is an historic house at 428 South Bridgton Road in Bridgton, Maine, United States. Built in 1805 by John Kilborn, Jr., a local master builder, it was the home for many years of Robert Andrews, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War and an early settler of the Bridgton area. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Andrews House stands close to the east side of South Bridgton Road (Maine State Route 107) in a rural area of southern Bridgton. The house is a rambling connected series of wood frame structures, with the main house block at the southern end, and ells extending along the road to the north and behind the house to the east. The main block is a 2-1/2 story structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, central chimney, clapboard siding, and a stone foundation. Decorative elements are minimal, with the central entrance framed by pilasters and a fanlight, with a dentillated cornice above. A shed-roof porch extends across the southern facade, supported by fluted Doric columns. A 1-1/2 story four-bay addition, its front flush with that of the main block, extends north, with another section extending further north to join the house to a carriage barn. On the east side a series of two ells join the house to a livestock barn.</p><br>
<p>Lieutenant Robert Andrews, a native of Boxford, Massachusetts, was one of several American Revolutionary War veterans from that town to receive grants of land from the state in 1780 in the area of what is now Bridgton. His first house location is not known, but he commissioned construction of this "mansion house" in 1805 from John Kilborn, Jr., another war veteran with a reputation for high-quality workmanship. Andrews was a major benefactor and civic actor in the town, serving as town selectman, and donating land and funds for churches and schools. A bachelor, he shared the house with younger relatives as he got older, building the four-bay ell on the north side as his living space. This arrangement ultimately led to the division of the house as a two-family after his death in 1845; the house was returned to single-family use in the 1990s. The extensive series of additions in two directions is a consequence of this division. One family Andrews shared the house with was with his niece and her husband, Sophia and Thomas Cleaves. Their son Henry, who later served as Governor of Maine, was born in this house in 1840.</p><br>
<p>The William Fenderson Perry House is an historic house at 32 Main Street in Bridgton, Maine, United States. Built in 1870 and extensively remodeled in 1874, it is a fine example of transitional Italianate-Second Empire architecture, and was owned for many years by Bridgton&#39;s most prominent businessman, mill owner William F. Perry. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Perry House stands on a hill overlooking the village of Bridgton, on the north side of Main Street (United States Route 302), at its junction with Highland Road. It is basically a high-style interpretation of the 19th-century connected New England farmstead, with its main block connected to a carriage barn via a series of ells. The main house has elaborate style, with projecting window bays flanking its front entrance, with an engaged porch with mini-gabled roof between. The mansard roof is topped by a cupola, and there are hip roof dormers flush with the front facade. Cornices over the window bays and on the roof are bracketed. The elegant Victorian detailing is continued through the ell and to the carriage barn.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1870 for William Cross, a local cattle merchant, and was purchased in 1874 by William F. Perry. The houses styling is probably the result of alterations made by Perry, who was by then already owner of Bridgtons largest textile mills. Perrys fortune was due in part to his marriage in 1859 to Anna Maria Gibbs, daughter of the towns biggest mill owner of that period. Perry rapidly expanded the area&#39;s mill capacity, and was able to win lucrative contracts to supply textiles to the Union Army during the American Civil War. Perry also invented a more efficient turbine, which was manufactured in Bridgton and installed in mills across Maine. The house is now the Clipper Merchant Tea House that opened in July, 2016.</p><br>
<p>The Arthur Jordan Memorial Hall, often referred to as "Jordan Hall", is a historic building on the campus of Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is one of the original buildings of the campus, along with Atherton Union and Hinkle Fieldhouse. It was designed by noted architect Robert Frost Daggett and built in 1928. A four-story, Collegiate Gothic style building, it is a reinforced concrete structure with bearing walls of pink granite with limestone trim.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in June, 1983.</p><br>
<h2>Use</h2><br>
<p>Jordan Hall houses the offices of the President of the University, provost, and the deans of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the College of Education. The majority of the courses at Butler are in Jordan Hall.</p><br>
<p>The Baxter House is an historic house museum at 67 South Street in Gorham, Maine, United States. Built in 1797, it was the birthplace of James Phinney Baxter, mayor of Portland, and also home to two-term Governor of Maine Percival Baxter. The house was donated to the town by James Phinney Baxter in 1907, and opened as a museum in 1908. It is open on select weekdays from June to August. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Baxter House stands on the west side of South Street, a short way south of the town center, and immediately north of the Baxter Memorial Library. It is a 2-1/2 story wood frame structure, five bays wide, with a side gable roof, a single off-center interior chimney, and clapboard siding. The (east-facing) front is symmetrical, with a central entrance flanked by short sidelight windows and pilasters, and topped by a Federal style semi-oval fan. A pair of small gabled dormers project from the roof, whose cornice has widely spaced pairs of brackets. A two-story ell extends to the rear.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in 1797 by Isaac Gilkey, a local carpenter who is credited with other buildings in the South Street area. It was acquired by Doctor Elihu Baxter in 1812, and is where is youngest son, James Phinney Baxter, was born in 1831. Later 19th-century residents of the house included Dr. N. H. Cary and his daughter Annie Louise Cary, and James Phinney&#39;s son Percival. James Phinney Baxter repurchased the family in 1907, and donated it to the town, with the stipulation that a library be built on its site, and that it be preserved as a museum in honor of his father. The house was moved to its present location, just north of its original site, and the library was built in its place.</p><br>
<p>James Phinney Baxter served six terms as Mayor of Portland, Maine (1893-1896 and 1904–1905) and was a leading local businessman and philanthropist. Percival Baxter served two terms as Governor of Maine, and is best known for donating most of the land for Baxter State Park. Annie Louise Cary was a well-known opera singer of the third quarter of the 19th century.</p><br>
