<p>High Pasture Cave  is an archaeological site on the island of Skye, Scotland. Human presence is documented since the Mesolithic, and remains, including Iron Age structures, point to ritual veneration of either the landscape or deities associated with the place. The cave system extends to about 320 m of accessible passages</p><br>
<h2>Site</h2><br>
<p>The cave is about 1 km southeast of the village of Torrin, near Kilbride. The entrance of the cave lies in a narrow valley on the northern slopes of the mountain of Beinn Dùbhaich, east of the Red Cuillin hills, and is formed by erosion of Durness limestone.</p><br>
<p>The interior is accessed via a natural shaft about 6 m deep that leads into the main cave, which appears to have been in use between 1,200 BC and 200 BC (mid-Bronze Age to late Iron Age). After about 80 m there is a fork, with a rocky, dry passage on the right. In 2002 the cave explorer Steven Birch discovered broken crockery and bones. Previous visitors to the cave had thrown this material aside in the attempts to find new ways. Birch recognized the value of the find as well as the importance of the cave.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>The cave system was originally excavated in 1972 by students of the University of London Speleological Society. A full year of excavation then took place in 2003, mainly supported by Historic Scotland, and continuing project work was under the supervision of Steven Birch and Martin Wildgoose.</p><br>
<h2>Finds</h2><br>
<p>Arrowheads left behind by nomadic hunters suggest occupation during the Mesolithic period (about 6,000 to 7,000 years ago). It was only occasionally occupied during the Neolithic and the Bronze Age until about 800 BC, when the site became more frequented and a large fire place was set up in front of its entrance. The entrance area also seems to have been used for ceremonies or storage of personal items.</p><br>
<p>A wide variety of artifacts has been recovered from the cave and its surroundings, including stone items, bone, antler and residue of metalworkings along with well-preserved faunal remains.</p><br>
<p>During the following 1000 years, activities and ash deposits of the fire site threatened to block the entrance of the cave. A staircase of about 4 m in length was built to permit entry to the cave. Hundreds of finds (bronze, bone and antler needles, glass and ivory beads) around the fire pit and the cave floor point to a place of intense activity. This lasted until about 40 BC, when the stairs were completely filled with boulders and earth. The skeleton of a woman along with a four to five month-old fetus and a nine to ten month-old child were placed on top of the filling.</p><br>
<p>In 2012 a piece of carved wood thought to be the bridge of a lyre was discovered. The small burnt and broken piece has been dated to approximately 300 BC and is the earliest find of a stringed instrument in western Europe. The notches where the strings would have been placed can be easily distinguished and according to Graeme Lawson of Cambridge Music Archaeological Research the find "pushes the history of complex music back more than a thousand years". If dating and attribution are confirmed, this object may indicate contacts between local Celtic people and Mediterranean cultures.</p><br>
<p>The Venetian Prealps  are a mountain range in the south-eastern part of the Alps. They are located in Triveneto, in the north-eastern part of Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Administratively the range is divided between the Italian provinces of Trento (in the Region of Trentino Alto Adige), Verona, Vicenza, Treviso, Belluno (in the Region of Veneto) and Pordenone (in the Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia).</p><br>
<p>The Venetian Prealps are drained by the rivers Adige, Brenta, Piave and other minor rivers and streams, all of them tributaries of the Adriatic sea.</p><br>
<h2>Summits</h2><br>
<p>The chief summits of the Venetian prealps are:</p><br>
<h2>Maps</h2><br>
<p>Italian official cartography (Istituto Geografico Militare - IGM); on-line version:</p><br>
<p>The Clinch County Courthouse is the county courthouse of Clinch County, Georgia, in the United States. Located in the county seat of Homerville, the building was built in 1896 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It is one of two National Register of Historic Places-listed sites in Clinch County, the other being the Old Clinch County Jail, which also was added to the Register in 1980.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse is designed in the Victorian functional style, with Classical Revival additions.</p><br>
<p>There is a historical marker at the intersection of Georgia State Route 37 and North Cemetery Road west of Homerville describing the first courthouse site from 1850, a private residence.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Clinch County was created by an 1850 act of the Georgia General Assembly, from portions of Lowndes and Ware counties. The act established a commission of five members responsible for choosing a county seat and building a county courthouse and provided that until the courthouse of build, elections and court sessions be held at the home of Jonathan Knight.</p><br>
<p>In 1852, the first courthouse was built. It was destroyed by fire in 1856. A second courthouse was built in 1859, but this too burned in a fire, in 1867. The third and current courthouse was completed in 1896. A 1936 Works Progress Administration project rehabilitated the courthouse and added an addition.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>Clinch County Courthouse, Homerville, GA, US.jpgCourthouse in 2015</p><br>
<p>Clinch County Courthouse, inside, Homerville, GA, US.JPGrightinside</p><br>
<p>Clinch county Courthouse, courtroom, Homerville, GA, US.jpgCourtroom</p><br>
<p>Clinch County Courthouse, courtroom bench, Homerville, GA, US.jpgBench</p><br>
<p>Redstone Castle, also known as Cleveholm or Osgood Castle, is a mansion south of Redstone, Colorado, United States. It is a large timber frame structure built in the early 20th century as the home of John C. Osgood, founder of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, in a simplified version of the Stick style. In 1971 it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, the first property in Pitkin County to be listed. It was later additionally listed as a contributing property to the Redstone Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The castle was at the south end of the planned company town of Redstone, meant by Osgood to be an improvement over the usual housing and conditions in Western mining towns of the late 19th century. Just across the Crystal River were the coke ovens that processed coal mined higher up in the mountains and loaded onto a rail line. Miners and cokers in the town lived in cottages with electricity and running water, considered luxury items at the time. At his mansion, Osgood, at the time one of the countrys richest men, entertained guests like Theodore Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller and King Leopold of Belgium, who joined him on hunts. The lush interior features European antique furniture and work by Gustav Stickley and Louis Comfort Tiffany. Its design was supposedly based on the ancestral home of Osgoods wife Alma.</p><br>
<p>Redstone&#39;s prosperity ended within a decade, after Osgood lost control of the company, and he spent less time there. He returned to the property in the late 1920s to die. His wife tried to convert the house into a resort, but the Great Depression made that economically unviable; however, later owners were able to run it as a hotel into the 1990s.</p><br>
<p>A recent owner who tried to refurbish was indicted in a financial fraud scheme, and the Internal Revenue Service sold it to compensate victims in its first-ever online auction of seized real property. It was sold again in 2016; the new owners is once again attempting to restore it into a resort. It is open for daily public tours. The 2006 film The Prestige used the castle as a location.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and grounds</h2><br>
<p>The mansion and its surviving outbuildings are located on 150 acre approximately one mile (1.6 km) south of Redstone at the south end of Redstone Boulevard, which makes a loop to form the house&#39;s main driveway. It is located on high ground overlooking the Crystal River and State Highway 133 to the west, at an elevation of almost 7,400 ft above sea level. On either side of the narrow valley are steep, undeveloped mountain slopes towards summits above 12,000 ft. They rise into White River National Forest, with the eastern slopes part of the Maroon Bells–Snowmass Wilderness between Redstone and Aspen.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior</h3><br>
<p>The main house sits at the east end of a cleared area that slopes up from the river, its west elevation visible from Highway 133. A walled terrace is attached to the southeast corner, and a cobbled courtyard on the east. The carriage path crossing it leads to the main entrance arch.</p><br>
<p>It is an irregularly shaped three-story structure on a foundation of locally quarried rough-cut sandstone, irregularly exposed due to the slope, that also serves as the facade material for most of the first story. Lighter-toned stone serves as trim on some of the arched windows, keystones and quoins.</p><br>
<p>Above the stone the house is faced in either wood shingles or stucco. Most windows are one-over-one double-hung sash windows. Those set in shingled faces are simply treated, while those in stone are trimmed in contrasting stone with radiating voussoirs.</p><br>
<p>On the south and west facades are oriel windows supported by brackets. There are some decorative half-timbered friezes. The sections have variously peaked or hipped shingled roofs, pierced by occasional hip-roofed dormers and four tall stone chimneys. At the southwest corner is a three-story octagonal tower with a conical roof and stone buttresses, complemented by two peaked-roof towers on the eastern (rear) elevation.</p><br>
<h3>Interior</h3><br>
<p>Inside, the houses 24,000 ft&sup2; are divided among 42 rooms. The first floor is dominated by the English-style Great Hall, with 18 ft ceilings and a large sandstone fireplace carved with Osgoods lion-based coat of arms and topped by a trophy elk mount. Three large brass globes designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany, themselves decorated with lions, pineapples and angels, light the room. A special "peeping window" in the ceiling allowed Alma Osgood to see how female visitors were dressed so that she could adjust her own attire before receiving them.</p><br>
<p>Persian carpets cover the floors in the hall and other first-floor rooms. Much of the furniture is antiques brought over from Europe by the Osgoods. The wooden paneling on the walls, made of English oak and Honduran mahogany, was designed by Gustav Stickley. The dining room reflects Russian tsarist tastes, with its hand-rubbed mahogany stained cherry red and covered with ruby velvet. The ceilings are finished in gold leaf.</p><br>
<p>The library, overlooking the front lawn, has a Persian theme, evoking the private railcars tycoons like Osgood traveled in. Its walls and shelves are of mahogany, topped with green leather stamped in gold leaf. On the ceiling is a gold leaf border, hand-stenciled in a peacock motif. A French-styled music parlor, meant as the ladies drawing room, has green silk damask walls, frescoed plaster ceiling and a Carrara marble fireplace topped with a diamond dust mirror. The corresponding gentlemans game room down in the basement has its original billiards and card tables.</p><br>
<p>Upstairs are the bedrooms for the Osgoods and their guests. All feature bathrooms with oversized claw-foot porcelain bathtubs and sinks. Each has a fireplace of Italian marble or colored tile paneling. In the south tower is a two-room suite whose domed ceiling has been painted with birds and flowers.</p><br>
<h3>Outbuildings</h3><br>
<p>Several of the original outbuildings remain. The northern of the two gatehouses is located on Redstone Boulevard. It is architecturally similar to the main house, with a rusticated stone foundation and shingled siding. At the roofline&#39;s overhanging eaves are decorative vergeboards. The gabled roof is pierced by similarly gabled dormers.</p><br>
<p>Closer to the house is a stable and carriage house. It, too, is similar to the main house, with a randomly laid stone foundation, shingled walls, towers and gabled dormers. Inside it has oak walls and a special glass case for the harnesses. It has been converted into a house. To the west, near the river, is a small open pagoda used for concerts in the summertime.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The history of the castle has three periods: Osgood&#39;s early trips to the Crystal Valley and plans for the estate, the realization of that dream, and the years since his death in which it has been used as a hotel.</p><br>
<h3>1882–1899: Osgood comes to the Crystal Valley</h3><br>
<p>A native of Brooklyn, New York, John C. Osgood first came to Colorado in 1882 to survey the state&#39;s coal resources for the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. The next year, he formed the Colorado Fuel Company to supply the railroads with coal mined elsewhere. He intended to go into the mining business himself, and had his eye on the lands of the remote Crystal Valley, recently opened up to European settlement through a treaty with the Ute people, the Native American tribe that had long lived in the area.</p><br>
<p>During his surveys, Osgood had found that the valley&#39;s coal was of particularly high quality, low in ash and with few impurities. Coal that pure could not only be used as it was, it could be made into coke, useful in the production of steel.</p><br>
<p>For both the estate and the mining to happen, the valley had to be made accessible. Various schemes to build toll roads and railroads were launched over the next ten years, and some construction was undertaken, but not enough financing was available to complete them. In 1892 Osgood&#39;s company merged with its rival, the Colorado Coal and Iron Company, to form Colorado Fuel and Iron (CFI), the largest such concern in the West. The combined firm had the assets to borrow against, but in the wake of the Panic of 1893 and its effect in Colorado, where many mining towns including nearby Aspen went into precipitous decline when the federal government stopped buying their silver, it was difficult to find banks willing to lend enough to pay for the railroad extension down the valley.</p><br>
<h3>1899–1925: Estate years</h3><br>
<p>By 1899 the economy had improved. Osgood and CFI were able to build first the coke ovens, and then the company town of Redstone. Architect Theodore Boal designed small wooden cottages for the coke oven workers with running water and electricity, then luxury items rare in most Colorado mining towns. He adapted various contemporary architectural styles, particularly the Swiss chalet style, to the mountain setting.</p><br>
<p>For himself, Osgood had reserved and fenced off 4,200 acre, to which access was controlled by two gates. He had Boal design the mansion, which like the Redstone Inn to the north, then a dormitory for unmarried mine workers, used elements of the Tudor Revival style in addition to the Swiss Chalet forms. Originally it was intended to be a hunting lodge, as both Osgood and his Swedish-born wife, Alma, were avid outdoor sportspeople.</p><br>
<p>Additional outbuildings no longer extant include the southern gatehouse, similar to its northern counterpart with a rusticated foundation of local sandstone, Tudor arches, overhanging eaves, gabled dormer windows and half-timber detailing. Next to it the large wrought iron gates were in a large stone arch with Osgood&#39;s crest carved into the center and a bell.</p><br>
<p>Glaziers from New Jersey, then the center of the industry, were brought in to build a greenhouse, also no longer in existence. It consisted of an octagonal central pavilion and four radiating wings. Its southern entry used the same Tudor styling as the other buildings on the estate, with a half-timbered gabled entrance, decorative vergeboards and slanted lintels. It grew fresh flowers year-round, offsetting the valley&#39;s naturally short growing season.</p><br>
<p>A stone reservoir held water both for the extensive lawns and fire suppression. It was complemented with a hose house storing the linen and rubber hoses needed for both purposes. Neither are extant.</p><br>
<p>The stable was originally designed with both automobiles and horses in mind, reflecting the time of its construction. It also included a kennel for Osgood&#39;s hunting dogs. Horses were kept in a style almost as high as their owners, with paneled walls in their stalls and glass cases for their harnesses.</p><br>
<p>John and Alma Osgood lived in the house at nearby Crystal River ranch while they waited for the house to be complete. They entertained many prominent guests there. J.P. Morgan, Theodore Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller and King Leopold II of Belgium came to enjoy the hunting on the private preserves, where elk and other game were abundant and rare bighorn sheep roamed (one of the stories told about the history of the house holds that Roosevelt took pleasure in shooting for game while standing on the mansion&#39;s front porch.) An extensive network of foot and bridle paths linked them with the house. After returning to the main house, guests shared dinner with their hosts, served on fine china with silver service, in the dining room. Following the meal, the women would retire to the music room with Alma while male guests would go downstairs to the game room and smoke cigars. A faint scent of cigar smoke can still be detected in the room.</p><br>
<p>These parties became less common after 1903. Interests controlled by Rockefellers family gained control of CFI. Osgood started the Victor American Fuel Company, which became CFIs chief competitor, but spent less time in the Crystal Valley and more in New York. In 1909 changes in the economy made the shipment of Crystal Valley coke unprofitable despite its quality, and the town and coke ovens were shut down. Almost overnight, Redstone was nearly abandoned.</p><br>
<p>Osgood closed down the estate in 1913, leaving it to the care of the dozen or so who had remained in Redstone. After serving as a spokesperson for the mining companies during the labor disputes the following year which culminated in the Ludlow massacre, he did not return to the Crystal Valley until 1925. Suffering from terminal cancer, he worked to the extent he could with his third wife, Lucille, to redevelop the property, including what remained of the town, as a resort.</p><br>
<h3>1926–present: Resort years</h3><br>
<p>In January 1926 Osgood died. His ashes were scattered over the valley. Lucille continued with the resort plans, but the onset of the Great Depression made that unworkable as too few people had the money to spare on trips to such a remote location. To make ends meet, she sold some of the major public buildings in the town, long out of use, and some of the estate&#39;s buildings like the southern gatehouse, for scrap. Some of these structures were moved—a part of the greenhouse still stands in Glenwood Springs. Finally, in the 1940s, she sold the house itself.</p><br>
<p>The coal mines were reopened by another company in the early 1950s. This revival gave the mansions new owner, Frank Kistler, who also owned the Hotel Colorado in Glenwood Springs, the impetus to tap into the houses potential as an all-season resort. He added a new wing to the building, and on the grounds built additional recreational facilities such as an enclosed swimming pool and tennis courts. The front lawn was converted into a golf course. The northern gatehouse was converted into a ski lodge after a ski lift was built.</p><br>
<p>While some of the remaining cottages and estate outbuildings did become second homes, the resort plans were not successful as the four ski areas at nearby Aspen were attracting all the skiers and contributing to that citys renaissance in the second half of the 20th century. Kistlers death in 1960 also stalled the plans. In 1974 the mansion was purchased by Kenneth E Johnson a newspaper publisher from Grand Junction Colorado. He oversaw a major restoration of the buildings and for a time kept it as a family home. During this time tours of the building were open to the public. The mansion was later opened as a Bed and Breakfast and for special events such as weddings and conferences. In 1997 Johnson sold the property to a Canadian company. They soon defaulted on the mortgage for the property, and it was foreclosed and sold at auction. Leon Harte, one of the new owners, said he hoped to make it a "party palace" with rock concerts on the front lawn.</p><br>
<p>In 2003 the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) seized it. Harte died two months later and the IRS announced that it would hold an online auction of the castle in March 2005, the first time it had ever disposed of a seized piece of real property that way. Bidders were required to put down a $100,000 deposit.</p><br>
<p>By the early 21st century Redstones population had grown to about 120, counting the remaining village and its environs. They were worried that a developer would buy it and demolish the castle, which they considered an important part of the communitys history, to build expensive homes for the Aspen-area market. They were not opposed to doing that on some of the property, but a few years earlier, one developer had proposed a 1,500-unit condominium on the site and the castle&#39;s demolition. The IRS allayed their concerns by putting in easements to protect about 13 acre around the castle and carriage house.</p><br>
<p>Interest in the auction was high. The page advertising the property received over 50,000 hits in the weeks leading up to it. Interest in bidding came from overseas as well as domestically. The winning bidder, Ralli Dimitrius, a developer who divided his time between Aspen and Southern California, paid $4 million. He did not disclose his identity as the buyer for almost a week. A dejected fellow bidder who felt the IRS had not given prospective buyers enough time to do due diligence offered him an additional million to sell it to her, but he refused.</p><br>
<p>Dimitrius planned to do extensive restoration on the property. In 2007, he reopened it for tours, bringing much-desired tourist traffic to Redstone. Four years later, the tours had proven so successful that they were expanded to every day rather than just weekends. In the meantime, Dimitrius restored the plumbing and heating, relined the chimneys, put in a new sprinkler system and had the roofs and gutters replaced and the exterior stucco repaired. As of 2011, he was awaiting approval from Pitkin County for a new sewage treatment system, needed if any sort of expanded resort operations were to resume or begin.</p><br>
<p>In September 2016, it was once again listed for auction, by Sotheby&#39;s. Two months later, it was sold to the owners of The Hotel Denver in Glenwood Springs who are continuing the historic tours and plan to open up rooms for accommodations and the property for events like weddings in the future.</p><br>
<p>The Sierra de la Alfaguara is a mountain range in the Cordillera Subbética, beside the Sierra de Huétor in southern Spain.</p><br>
<p>It lies within the Parque Natural de la Sierra de Huétor y la Alfaguara.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The mountain range rises above the town of Alfacar.</p><br>
<p>Scenes from the movie Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade were filmed on the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The range contains the Arboretum La Alfaguara, formerly a tree nursery that supplied mainly coniferous plants for the reforestation of the entire Sierra de Huétor.</p><br>
<p>The Darro River rises in this range, a short tributary of the Genil River.</p><br>
<h2>Environment</h2><br>
<p>The original vegetation of the range was largely destroyed by over-exploitation for forestry and livestock raising, and by wildfires.</p><br>
<p>Most of the trees now are species of pine that were used in reforestation. There are also cedars and firs, mixed with native trees such as oak or gall.</p><br>
<p>Wildlife includes wild boar and abundant herds of goats, which can be seen at surprisingly close range.</p><br>
<p>The mountain is also home to other animal species such as badgers and weasels, as well as bobcat, marten and genet.</p><br>
<p>The Sierra de Huétor is a mountain range of the Baetic System in Granada Province, Andalusia, Spain.</p><br>
<p>The range is located to the northeast of Granada city. The altitude of the summits ranges between 1,100 m and almost 1,700 m displaying a variety of different climates and habitats. Its highest point is 1,675 m high Cerro Buenavista.</p><br>
<p>The Moors used one of the mountain springs in the range, the Fuente Grande in Alfácar, to supply water to the Albaicín in Grenada.</p><br>
<p>The water was carried along an irrigation channel named Aynadamar.</p><br>
<p>Traces of more recent history are seen in trenches and fortifications on the Cerro de Maúllo which were used by the fighting armies in Granada during the Spanish Civil War.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>This mountain range includes the deep valleys of the Darro and the Fardes, as well as cliffs, caves, narrow ravines and springs. The mountains are covered in Mediterranean vegetation, with shrubland alternating with holm oak. The range includes part of the municipal term of Huétor Santillán.</p><br>
<h3>Protected areas</h3><br>
<p>Parts of the Sierra de Huétor, along with the neighboring ranges of Sierra de la Alfaguara, Sierra de Cogollos, Sierra de Diezma, Sierra de Beas, Sierra de la Yedra, as well as the southern part of the Sierra de Arana, is a protected area under the name Sierra de Huétor and la Alfaguara Natural Park (Parque Natural de la Sierra de Huétor y la Alfaguara).</p><br>
<h3>Geology</h3><br>
<p>Geologically the mountains belong to the Baetic System and are made up mainly of limestone rock from the Cenozoic and Mesozoic.</p><br>
<p>Aizanoi , Latinized as Aezani was an ancient city in western Anatolia. Located in what is now Çavdarhisar, Kütahya Province, its ruins are situated astride the River Penkalas, some 1,000 m above sea level. The city was an important political and economic centre in Roman times; surviving remains from the period include a well-preserved Temple of Zeus, unusual combined theatre-stadium complex, and macellum inscribed with the Price Edict of Diocletian. The city fell into decline in Late Antiquity. Later serving as a citadel, in 2012 the site was submitted for inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage List.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Settlement in the area is known from the Bronze Age. The city may have derived its name from Azan, one of three sons of Arcas and the nymph Erato, legendary ancestors of the Phrygians. During the Hellenistic period the city changed hands between the Kingdom of Pergamum and the Kingdom of Bithynia, before being bequeathed to Rome by the former in 133 BC. It continued to mint its own coins. Its monumental buildings date from the early Empire to the 3rd century.</p><br>
<p>Aezani was part of the Roman province of Phrygia Pacatiana. It became a Christian bishopric at an early stage, and its bishop Pisticus (or Pistus) was a participant at the First Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council, in 325. Pelagius was at a synod that Patriarch John II of Constantinople hastily organized in 518 and that condemned Severus of Antioch; he was also at the Second Council of Constantinople in 553. Gregory was at the Trullan Council of 692, John at the Second Council of Nicaea in 787, and Theophanes at both the Council of Constantinople (869) and the Council of Constantinople (879). The bishopric was at first a suffragan of Laodicea but, when Phrygia Pacatiana was divided into two provinces, it found itself a suffragan of Hierapolis, the capital of the new province of Phrygia Pacatiana II. No longer a residential bishopric, Aezani is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.</p><br>
<p>After the 7th century, Aezani fell into decline. Later, in Seljuk times, the temple hill was converted into a citadel (hisar) by Çavdar Tatars, after which the recent settlement of Çavdarhisar is named. The ruins of Aezani/Aizanoi were discovered by European travellers in 1824. Survey work in the 1830s and 1840s was followed by systematic excavation conducted by the German Archaeological Institute from 1926, resumed in 1970, and still ongoing.</p><br>
<h2>Ancient buildings and structures</h2><br>
<h3>Temple of Zeus</h3><br>
<p>The Temple of Zeus, situated upon a hill, was the city&#39;s main sanctuary. Ceramic finds indicate local habitation from the first half of the third millennium BC. According to a recent reading of the architrave inscription, construction of the temple began under Domitian. Inscriptions document imperial assistance from Hadrian relating to the recovery of unpaid rents as well as the euergetism of Marcus Apuleius Eurykles. Later the Çavdar Tatars carved equestrian and battle scenes on the temple. The temple is pseudodipteral, with eight columns at the ends and fifteen along the sides (35 x). It was damaged by the 1970 Gediz earthquake and has since been restored.</p><br>
<h3>Theatre and stadium</h3><br>
<p>Aizanoi&#39;s theatre-stadium are built adjacent to each other and this combined complex is said to be unique in the ancient world. Separating the two is the stage building. Construction began after 160 A.D. and was complete by the mid-third century. Inscriptions again attest to the benefaction of M. Apuleius Eurycles.</p><br>
<h3>Baths</h3><br>
<p>Two sets of thermae have been identified. The first, between the theatre-stadium and the temple, dates to the second half of the second century and includes a palaestra and marble furnishings. The second, in the north-east of the city, was built a century later; floor mosaics depict a satyr and maenad. Rebuilt a couple of centuries later, it served as the bishop&#39;s seat.</p><br>
<h3>Market</h3><br>
<p>A circular macellum dating to the second half of the second century is located in the south. In the fourth century it was inscribed with a copy of the Price Edict of Diocletian, dating to 301, an attempt to limit inflation resulting from debasement of the coinage.</p><br>
<h3>Colonnaded street and stoa</h3><br>
<p>Recent excavations have revealed the existence of a stoa, or covered walkway, dating to ca. 400 AD, and colonnaded street. A Temple of Artemis, dating to the time of Claudius (41-54), was demolished to make way for the colonnaded street which ran for 450 m and led to the sanctuary of Meter Steunene.</p><br>
<h3>Sanctuary of Meter Steunene</h3><br>
<p>A deep tunnel inside a cave, now collapsed, was dedicated to Meter Steunene (an Anatolian Earth Mother goddess). Cult figurines made of clay have been found in excavations, along with two round pits apparently used for animal sacrifice.</p><br>
<h3>Necropolis</h3><br>
<p>The city&#39;s large necropolis includes examples of door-shaped Phrygian tombstones. Inscriptions give the names of deceased or donor; accompanying decoration includes, for the tombs of men, bulls, lions and eagles, and for those of women, baskets of wool and a mirror.</p><br>
<h2>Museum of Kütahya</h2><br>
<p>Some items from Aizanoi, among them a sarcophagus with an Amazonomachy, have been removed to the Archaeological Museum of Kütahya.</p><br>
<p>Peik Chin Myaung is a limestone stalactite cave situated south of Wetwun village, near Pyin Oo Lwin, Myanmar. The cave is an interest site of tourism just 23 km from Pyin Oo Lwin, on the Lashio road.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cave was firstly developed by local Nepalese or Gakhar and later co-opted by the Myanmar government as a tourist attraction in 1990</p><br>
<p>The cave covers an area of 45 acre, where local plants named Peik Chin, alike long pepper vine used to grow by the mouth of the cave. Its history estimated to be 230 millions and 310 millions years old from the formation of limestone and hillocks.</p><br>
<p>After established to enshrine with many Buddhist stupas inside the cave, it also being called Maha Nadamu cave. Despite the imaginable enshrine room to the pilgrimage, the access down to the cave, which leads with a road around 3 km off from Wutwun village, was a tumble countryside road not actually comfortable to access by taxis.</p><br>
<h2>Local interest</h2><br>
<p>The local people and many Myanmar pilgrims enjoyed having a good swim at the entrance of the cave. The swallow water flows and cascade from the 600m deep cave. In turns, many locals from Pyin Oo Lwin develop shops with some local products such as wine and dried meat (satt tar chuak) and souvenirs to suit for visitors.</p><br>
<p>Rassagala, commonly Rajagala or Rajagalathenna, is a rugged and heavily forested mountain situated 1,038 ft above sea level, in a sparsely populated part of Eastern Province, Sri Lanka which has an important archaeological value. The Rajagala archaeological site is only second to the Mihintale monastery in Anuradhapura and it spreads over 1,600 acre, It consists more than 600 prehistoric ruins, monuments and artifacts, and nearly 100 of them are ancient Stupas.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Access to the mountain from Ampara Town is about 24 km north of Ampara - Maha Oya Road(A27), via Uhana and the village of Bakkiella.</p><br>
<h2>Rajagala Archaeological Training Centre</h2><br>
<p>Earlier this site was not subject to any archaeological research. After four years of recent excavation, developed Rajagala archaeological site as the new Archaeological Training Center with the participation of India&#39;s Deccan University.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The history of the place is not definite, but Bhikkhus are believed to have inhabited it before the 1st century BCE. Stone inscriptions of the period have been found at the site. All over the northern summit of the mountain, extensive ruins have been excavated from the jungle, and some are only partially excavated. However, Its history goes back to the early days of Buddhism and an inscription tells that the Arahath Mahinda Thero, who brought the Buddhism to Sri Lanka, had visited the Rajagalathenna Temple. There are only two rock inscriptions referring to the Arahath Mahinda Thero; one of the inscriptions found in this site and the other is in Mihintale. It is believed that ashes of the Arahath Mahinda Thero and his disciple "Itthiya Thera"(latter name being given as Idika) were enshrined in a stupa here. A stone inscription found nearby bears evidence to this fact, although no excavation or restoration work has been carried out at this site to confirm what&#39;s inscribed in the stone inscription.</p><br>
<h3>Name "Rassagala"</h3><br>
<p>Archaeologist stated, the people of the Raksha tribe had lived in the area. They were human beings who worshiped the Rakshasas. The Sanskrit word raksha means devils and demons, in Sinhalese ‘Rassayo’ or ‘Rakshayo’, the word raksha have become Rassa over the years and since then this mountain is called Rassa-gala(The devils/demons&#39;s mountain).</p><br>
<h3>Rajagalathenna Temple</h3><br>
<p>Rajagalathenna or Rajagala Temple known in ancient times as the Girikumbhila Temple and it is situated half-way up the mountain. Once it was a great monastery patronized by the kings and princes of Ruhuna and Rajarata. In Prince Saddhatissa’s time that Rajagala really began to grow. During his father’s governorship of Digamadulla, his son Prince Lanja Tissa and his family embellished Rajagala on a lavish scale. Prince Lanja Tissa continued his patronage even after he ascended the throne of Anuradhapura, transforming this remote hermitage into one of the greatest monasteries in the Kingdom of Ruhuna and the name Rassagala became Rajagala(The King’s Rock).</p><br>
<h2>Mountain Path</h2><br>
<p>Rock cut steps and stairway goes straight up the hill and it was once a paved roadway. There are buildings occupying every level of the hill. The centrepiece of the monastery is a large rocky plateau. A roadway leads down across the rock, passing Chaityas, viharas, dwellings and dining halls.</p><br>
<h2>Caves</h2><br>
<p>Above the temple further up the mountain, are the caves of the hermits. Unlike the caves of Mihintale, these remain almost as they were. Many of the walls and doorways are still in place. Some are made of brick or wattle and daub, others are adorned in stone. Inside, the walls are covered with plaster, once they would have been full of paintings. Although they were enclosed, each cave was built to catch the wind and cooled by internal draughts.</p><br>
<p>There are also caves that had been used by monks. They were separated by walls into rooms such as the living room, bedroom, kitchen and toilet. Some of them still exist. Near most of the caves is a stone inscription, stating the donor or the resident of the cave. The stone inscriptions found probably here belong to the Anuradhapura era. All of them describe incidents from that era. They are written in Brahmi letters(Prakrit), which are believed to be the first stage in the evolution of the Sinhala letters.</p><br>
<h2>Artifacts</h2><br>
<p>According to archaeological sources, the temple belongs to the most prosperous era in Sri Lankan history. Many dagobas, temples, ponds, shrine rooms and sandakadapahana(moonstone) have been discovered from the site. Amongst the ruins are two most important antiquities. The first of these is a large and beautifully made stone bowl. Such bowls were used for offering the first fruits of the harvest to the Buddha. Further in the jungle there is a large block of stone about 16 ft long with a half-carved Buddha image. All the lines on the statue are straight and at right angles to each other and there are no details. Archaeologists believe that apprentice sculptors had carved the images leaving them to be perfected by master sculptors. However, the statue remains unfinished.</p><br>
<p>There are some drawings on the stones and rocks, done with ash or chalk, which are believed to have been done by the adivasies (indigenous people). Archaeologists believe that the drawings probably belong to the prehistoric era although it&#39;s not a definite fact.</p><br>
<p>At most of the entrances at the site, there is a korawakgala(a stone artifact located at the beginning of the handrail - stone balustrades), a muragala(guardstone) and a moonstone at the entrance of the site. The moonstone differs from those found at other places in Sri Lanka. A lotus motif spreads all over the moonstone, whereas in other moonstones, the carvings include tuskers, horses, swans and flames. Despite the cultural and archaeological value of the site, visitors have desecrated many artifacts by writing and drawing on them. Due to this most inscriptions have been obliterated.</p><br>
<p>Even the guardstone found at the site is different from those found at other places. Here, the figure of a man holding a pot in one hand and keeping the other hand on his hip can be seen. Some other guardstones depict another small figure next to the main figure. Archaeologists believe it has to be the wife of the guard. There is another guardstone where the guard holds the pot in both hands. This is another feature which is different from other guardstones in the country.</p><br>
<p>Maja e Thatë is a 2,406 m mountain peak of the Albanian Alps  in Albania. It is located within Valbonë Valley National Park, roughly 2 km northwest of Valbonë and rises more than 1,500 m above the village. The mountain’s southern and western lower slopes are relatively rich in beech and pine forests, while the higher slopes consist of very steep dolomite and limestone rock walls, suitable for mountaineering and rock climbing.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>Maja e Thatë has an elevation of 2,406 m and is located northwest of Valbonë village, in the district of Tropojë, Kukës county, in Albania. It lies within the massif of Kolata, in the eastern part of the Albanian Alps (Prokletije) mountain range. Maja e Thatë rises above the village of Valbonë by more than 1,500 m, but being surrounded by higher peaks within its massif and because high-altitude mountain passes connect it with them, Maja e Thatë’s topographic prominence is insignificant.</p><br>
<p>The mountain pass Qafa e Rupës (Qafa e Kuqe) at 2130 m elevation, northwest of Maja e Thatë, detaches it from Maja e Rosit (2524 m), while the tectonic-erosive mountain pass of Rrethi i Bardhë (Qafa e Rrethit të Bardhë) in the east detaches Maja e Thatë from Maja e Lugut të Ujit (2482 m), which is part of Kolata block. Glacial activity north of the mountain has created several small cirques in its surrounding troughs (Lug): Lugu i Rupës, which stretches along east-west direction and Lugu i Persllopit, northeast of the mountain, along SW-NE direction. The shortest trail connects its nearest village, Valbonë with Maja e Thatë through Lugu i Rupës.</p><br>
<p>The mountain can be reached from Vusanje in Montenegro through the mountain pass of Persllopi (2039 m), which is part of the border between the two countries, which subsequently continues with Persllopi trough (Lugu i Persllopit) west of Kollata mountain (2555 m) until the feet of the rocky northeastern face of Maja e Thatë. The peak seems insurmountable from the northeast owing to its very steep rocky faces, which start directly from the trough surface.</p><br>
<p>The summit is a sharp ridge, and its crest has jagged edges. Horizontal monoclines are visible through all the mountain’s northern rocky face, giving it an imposing appearance.</p><br>
<p>Maja e Thatë can be seen quite impressively from the highest peaks of Grykat e Hapëta – Zhaborre mountain range, running in southwest-northeast direction, south of the villages Rragam and Valbonë, as well as from Maja e Rosit.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The whole territory of Albania lies on the assemblage of geological structures called Albanides, which are part of the Alpine orogenic belt. Albanian Alps are included in the External Albanides and form the Alps Zone, consisting of limestone monoclines, combined with smaller anticlines.</p><br>
<p>Carbonate rocks are the constituents of Kolata massif and Maja e Thatë, as a part of this massif, is entirely composed of Triassic dolomite and limestone formations.</p><br>
<p>On the northern rocky face of Maja e Thatë mountain, monoclines are clearly visible from the level of the trough of Rupa, up to the very summit.</p><br>
<p>Ice and frost’s erosive activity and the periglacial environment on the surface of Kolata massif have led to solifluction, reaching the eluvian stratum.</p><br>
<h2>Biodiversity</h2><br>
<p>Biota is especially rich in the southern and southwestern part of the mountain, mostly favoured by the abundant water sources of Valbonë river and the stream of Kukaj.</p><br>
<p>The European black pine (Pinus nigra) and Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii, P. leucodermis) as well as beech (Fagus Sylvatica L.) are widely spread in the south and west of the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The Norway spruce (Picea excelsa) is sparsely found in the lowest slopes and mostly in the valley of Valbona.</p><br>
<p>Because of the diversity of natural conditions, a rich variety of animals lives in the Alps region and in Maja e Thatë’s area specifically.</p><br>
<p>The most common animals are wolf, fox, the European hare (Lepus europaeus), squirrel, and chamois (Rupicapra rupicapra). Few specimens of the potentially endangered Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) still live in the central part of the Albanian Alps, while its hunting is prohibited by law.</p><br>
<p>Characteristic birds of this region are the chough (Pyrrhocorax graculus), the shore lark (Eremophila alpestris) and the water pipit (Anthus spinoletta). The most widespread species are the rock partridge (Alectoris graeca) and golden eagle, which is also Albania’s national animal.</p><br>
<p>The waters of Valbonë river are a notable habitat of trout.</p><br>
<h2>Attractions</h2><br>
<p>Maja e Thatë has a well-distinguished peak and represents a tourist attraction for nature and mountain lovers, mountaineers and hikers in general. Apart for the mountain’s aesthetic values, three natural monuments are located in its southern vicinity.</p><br>
<p>The Cave of Haxhia, a Nature Monument of Albania, is located on the southern slopes of Maja e Thatë, near Valbonë village, at 1,630 m above sea level. Its length was previously affirmed as being 120 m long, but in summer 2009, Polish speleo-expeditions explored 365 m length of the cave. A very cold water spring of +5.4 &deg;C was discovered inside it.</p><br>
<p>The hanging glacial valley of Kukaj (Lugina e varur akullnajore e Kukajt) lies beneath the southwestern slopes of Maja e Thatë, surrounding the stream of Kukaj, (a tributary of Valbonë river) between the massif of Jezercë in the west and that of Kolata in the east. It is 2.7 km long</p><br>
<p>Situated on the valley of Valbonë, between the villages of Rragam and Valbonë, the Norway spruce of Valbona (Hormoqi i Valbonës), is the largest forest of its kind in Albania. It is declared a Nature Monument of Albania.</p><br>
<h2>Cultural works</h2><br>
<p>Maja e Thatë and the Valley of Valbona are the subject of several paintings by the Albanian contemporary painter Pashk Përvathi. They are the central theme of his landscape oil painting Maja e Thatë, Valbonë (dimensions 80 cm by 70 cm) which was exhibited in Pristina, in the Art Gallery of Kosovo.</p><br>
<p>Eastern Michigan University Historic District is an area of land on the very south end of the Eastern Michigan University campus. Eastern Michigan University is a comprehensive, co-educational public university located in Ypsilanti, Michigan in Washtenaw County. The university was founded in 1849 as Michigan State Normal School. Several buildings since its founding have achieved historical significance and eventually establishing it on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The district was established in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>The district</h2><br>
<p>The Eastern Michigan University Historic District is set on an "L-shaped parcel" of land across from the Ypsilanti Water Tower (also on the NRHP). The EMUHD area contains Welch Hall, Starkweather hall, Sherzer Hall, and McKenny Hall. All four buildings are unique in their design and make up.</p><br>
<p>The four buildings are all substantial structures. Each building has a unique style and structure design. Beyond this each building was built at different times to serve unique purposes for the campus. The district was established in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings</h2><br>
<h3>McKenny Hall</h3><br>
<p>Previously called McKenny Union and Charles McKenny Union, was the first student union on the campus of a teachers college when it opened in 1931. McKenny hall was designed by Detroit architect Frank Eurich Jr. of Detroit. The building, in the collegiate gothic style with some art deco features. Today the building is known as McKenny Hall and is home to veteran services, human resources, and career services. After The EMU Student Center opened, McKenny closed in 2006 for renovations to preserve the buildings age. Since then the university uses the historic building as office space for various departments.</p><br>
<h3>Sherzer Hall</h3><br>
<p>Sherzer Hall is classroom building, which currently also houses Art Department studios. Sherzer Observatory, an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Department of Physics and Astronomy, was established in 1878 with a gift from the citizens of Ypsilanti of a four-inch (102 mm) refractor. The observatory, originally located on Pierce Hall, was hit by a tornado and destroyed in 1893. It was then relocated to the roof of the new Natural Science Building in 1903. The architect of the building was E. W. Arnold of Battle Creek. The building has survived two fires, in 1973 and 1989.</p><br>
<h3>Starkweather Hall</h3><br>
<p>Starkweather Hall is the oldest building still standing on EMU&#39;s campus. Originally built for the Student Christian Association by a local philanthropist, Mrs. Starkweather. Eventually the building was given to the university and has housed various academic offices and programs. Today, the building is home to the Honors College. In parts of the building, the original doorknobs remain, bearing the initials "SCA" for the Student Christian Association.</p><br>
<h4>Architecture</h4><br>
<p>Starkweather is a red-brick exteriors with random Ashlar and clay tile cladding. The building is designed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style. Starkweather Hall was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. Buildings that sit near Starkweather Hall include Welch Hall, McKenny Hall, and Sherzer Hall.</p><br>
<h4>Honors college</h4><br>
<p>The EMU Honors Program started in 1984 with approximately 230 students. The program started under the guidance of Robert Holkeboer who was the dean of the Graduate School. In July 2005 the program became a college within the university. Today the Honors College Office are housed in Starkweather Hall.</p><br>
<h3>Welch Hall</h3><br>
<p>Welch Hall was constructed in 1895 and was completed three days after Starkweather Hall. Welch Hall is the second oldest building on the EMU campus. The building is named after Adonijah S. Welch. Welch served as the First President of Normal Training School. The building is designed after Georgian Revival Architecture style Architecture. The buildings original name was the "Training School" and served as the Teacher Training School from 1896 to the 1960s. During the buildings lifetime, Welch has served as classroom space and various department offices. A wing next to McKinny Union was removed in the late 1960s. Due to poor maintenance the building was closed during the 1980s and almost demolished, but was saved by the "Dont Squelsh Welsh" movement originating in the universitys historic preservation program.</p><br>
<h4>Architecture</h4><br>
<p>Welch has red-brick exteriors while Starkweather Hall has random ashlar masonry and clay tile cladding. Welch hall is a Georgian Revival style. Sherzers no-nonsense exterior has a few mildly Romanesque and Georgian elements but defies stylistic classification, McKenny Halls detailing is Art Deco but the structure alone is Tudor Revival. In 1984, Welch Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places. Today, Welch Hall houses EMU’s executive offices which includes the Office of the President. Welch Hall is the second oldest building on campus by three days behind Starkweather Hall.</p><br>
<p>The Menominee County Courthouse is a government building located on Tenth Avenue between Eighth and Tenth Streets in Menominee, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1974.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Menominee County was created in 1863, and included at the time the land that now covers Menominee, Iron, and Dickinson Counties. The county seat was established in Menominee, and a clerk&#39;s office and jail were quickly built. In 1874, county residents decided to build a courthouse, and bonds were sold to fund the construction. A new plot of land in Menominee was found and purchased for the courthouse, Contractors Cummings and Hagan were hired to build the courthouse, and construction began in 1874. The building was completed in 1875 at a cost of $29,680. The building originally housed a jail on the first floor, county offices on the second floor, and the courtroom on the third floor.</p><br>
<p>Additions to the building were completed in 1909 and 1938. The original connected jail and sheriff&#39;s residence were demolished later in the 20th century, but the courthouse itself was renovated in the early 1980s.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Menominee County Courthouse is a three story Classical Revival building constructed of red brick, sitting on a rock-faced ashlar basement. The exterior walls are load-bearing, while the interior walls, floors, and roof are constructed of wood. Additional reinforcing of concrete and steel has been added during renovations. The building is ornamented with stone quoins and beltcourses separating the two upper stories. A hip roof with a belfry and wooden cupola tops the courthouse. The building has four symmetrical facades, each with slightly projected pavilions topped by triangular pediments. The entrance facade has a projecting foyer which was added to the building at a later date.</p><br>
<p>The original structure measured 48 ft by 60 ft, with a jail and sheriff&#39;s residence connected to the main building. The 1909 construction added a 16 ft by 20 ft entryway, and a more substantial addition was added to the building in 1938. With additions, the current courthouse houses 20,000 square feet of space.</p><br>
<p>Manor Apartment Hotel is a heritage-listed former office building and now apartment hotel at 289 Queen Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was designed by Hennessey, Hennessey & Co and built from 1930 to 1931 by Concrete Construction  Limited. It is also known as Colonial Mutual Life Building and Newspaper House. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed between 1930 and 1931 for Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society (CML).</p><br>
<h3>First building</h3><br>
<p>The Queensland branch of CML was formed in June 1874. In 1883 the society built offices at 62 Queen Street (Colonial Mutual Chambers). In August 1906 CML purchased this site at 289 Queen Street, adjacent to the General Post Office in the heart of the Brisbane Central Business District, and constructed new premises. The first building was demolished in 1930 to enable the construction of a new commodious building on the site for the expanding society. Between 1925 and 1934 much of the south side of Queen Street was redeveloped, including National Mutual Life Association Building (1926), the Commonwealth Bank (1929) and the Australian Mutual Provident Society building (1931-1934).</p><br>
<h3>Current building</h3><br>
<h3>Construction</h3><br>
<p>The Benedict stone used for the facing, a mixture of cement and crushed Brisbane tuff was manufactured by Benedict Stone (Qld) Pty Ltd which was established by Archbishop James Duhig to manufacture the stone required for the Holy Name Cathedral, Fortitude Valley. The product was developed at the turn of the twentieth century by American manufacturer, Benedict. Duhig obtained a licence from America and opened the Benedict Stone works at Bowen Hills on 9 August 1929. In February 1930 CML advanced Duhig a £70,000 mortgage on his properties which included the stone works. A mutually dependent relationship developed between CML, Duhig and Jack Hennessey, architect. CML used Benedict stone to build a number of their Australian offices, ensuring some of their mortgage was repaid and employed Hennessey and Concrete Construction (Qld) Ltd, Brisbane (Duhigs architect and contractor for the Holy Name Cathedral). As Hennessey, Hennessey & Co., was based in Sydney, construction was supervised by Leo Drinan, the firms Brisbane Manager. Concrete Construction (Qld) Ltd also built the CML offices in Sydney and Melbourne. George Harvey was responsible for the masonry work on the building and may have created the gargoyles on the façade. The stone was delivered and positioned within seven months, setting an Australian record for stonework. Built during an economic depression, its construction provided employment for many Queensland workers.</p><br>
<h3>Opening</h3><br>
<p>On 12 November 1931 the CML building was officially opened by the Governor, Lieutenant-General Sir John Goodwin. The ground floor provided offices for Colonial Mutual and the arcade leading to Queen Street contained retail premises. The offices and professional suites on the upper floors were available for lease.</p><br>
<h3>Later owners</h3><br>
<p>Queensland Newspapers (a subsidiary of News Corporation and publisher of The Courier-Mail newspaper) purchased the site in September 1983, cleaned and repaired the exterior and re-opened the building as Newspaper House on 11 September 1985.</p><br>
<h3>Current use</h3><br>
<p>In 1994, the building was converted and fully refurbished to become an apartment hotel, The Manor Apartments, comprising 46 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments each with its own fully equipped kitchen and laundry and separate and fully furnished bedrooms and living areas. The apartments are air-conditioned, but windows may still be opened. The 1930s origins of the building are still evident in the classically spacious and high-ceiling interiors and in the special stonework and sculptures.</p><br>
<p>The building was used as a stand in for a New York City skyscraper in the 1996 film The Phantom.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>This inter-war commercial building is ten storeys high with a narrow frontage to Queen Street and a long side elevation. It has been designed in sympathy with adjoining buildings, matching the arcade of the GPO at its base and responding to the parapet line of the National Mutual Life Building in its upper levels. The building has a concrete encased steel frame with concrete floors and is faced in Benedict Stone, the colours of which range from green to pink (a property of Brisbane tuff). The style of the sculptured ornament on the building facades is influenced by American Art Deco buildings of this period, as well as containing some Norman influence. It is similar in style to interstate Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society Ltd buildings.</p><br>
<p>The building has three paired window bays across the Queen Street facade. Three double height arched openings occur at the ground floor level. On the level above are paired window openings with arched heads and a central ornamented column. The two levels below the top floor have paired window bays which are similar but double the height. At the base of these is an imitation balcony with balusters supported on brackets. In this way the building has both a distinctive top and base. A similar projecting balcony occurs in front of the central window bay on the level below. Above the double height bays at the base of the top level sculptured lions stand on projecting brackets. The one facing the corner is winged. The parapet has raised portions each with a projecting stylised eagle "gargoyle". Similar gargoyles appear in the same location a level below and also below each projecting flag post above the third floor.</p><br>
<p>The entire Queen Street facade is repeated at each end of the side elevation, the central bays of which are plainer. Behind the parapet the building has an interesting roofscape of steeply pitched terracotta tiled roofs, one above the caretakers quarters and another over the lift room on the eleventh floor. At street level individual awnings have been located between the archways. From the rear laneway the building duplicates much of the front facade but is painted.</p><br>
<p>Internally the original detailing remains in the fire stairs, including the handrail and tiled landings. All the levels have been refurbished with suspended ceilings that sit below the window heads.</p><br>
<h2>Heritage listing</h2><br>
<p>The building was listed on the Register of the National Estate in 1987. However, that register no longer has any statutory significance.</p><br>
<p>The Manor Apartment Hotel was listed on the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992 having satisfied the following criteria.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the evolution or pattern of Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>The building is important in demonstrating the pattern of Queensland&#39;s history, in particular the commercial redevelopment of this portion of Queen Street during the period 1925-34.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of a particular class of cultural places.</p><br>
<p>The building is important in demonstrating the principal characteristics of an inter-war commercial building.</p><br>
<p>The place is important because of its aesthetic significance.</p><br>
<p>The building exhibits particular aesthetic characteristics valued by the community including its rich decoration including gargoyles, shields, lions, friezes and relief blocks and its two finely detailed facades which complement important elements of the adjoining buildings and contribute to the visual cohesiveness of this portion of Queen Street.</p><br>
<p>The place is important in demonstrating a high degree of creative or technical achievement at a particular period.</p><br>
<p>The building is important in demonstrating a high degree of technical achievement through the use of locally produced Benedict stone which was an innovative building material in Brisbane in the early 1930s.</p><br>
<p>The place has a special association with the life or work of a particular person, group or organisation of importance in Queensland&apos;s history.</p><br>
<p>Newspaper House has a special association with the relationship between the Colonial Mutual Life Assurance Society, Archbishop Duhig and architects Hennessey, Hennessey and Co.</p><br>
<p>The Portland Railway, Light and Power Sellwood Division Carbarn Office and Clubhouse, also known as Carmens Clubhouse, in southeast Portland in the USA state of Oregon, is a former commercial transportation building listed on the National Register of Historic Places . Built in 1910 by the Portland Railway, Light and Power Company , it was added to the register in 2002. The structure was associated with Portlands street railway and interurban system of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p><br>
<p>Employees of PRL&Ps transit division often worked 365 days a year and were expected to perform a variety of tasks including selling tickets, collecting fares, operating and cleaning streetcars, and writing reports. The clubhouse offered a few amenities for these workers. Although the first floor of the two-story building was used mainly for the trainmasters office, a lost-and-found department, and record storage, it also included three shower-baths and a toilet. On the second floor were billiard tables, a gin rummy table, emergency sleeping rooms, and a reading room with books, desks, and writing materials. The furnace was in the basement, which also contained a toilet and a set of safe deposit boxes.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Sellwood Division clubhouse, carbarns, and power plant were part of Portland&#39;s interurban and city trolley system. After this system was expanded in 1889 from downtown Portland across the Willamette River on the Steel Bridge to Albina, it was gradually extended south along the east bank of the river. It reached Sellwood in 1892 and Oregon City in 1893.</p><br>
<p>Sellwood, originally an independent city, became part of Portland in 1893. As population increased on the east bank, the lines ridership rose, peaking around 1915 when the Sellwood Division maintained 110 city cars and 30 interurban cars. By 1926, these numbers had dropped to 70 and 22, as economic conditions and commuter habits changed in the age of the automobile and bus. The trainmens clubhouse closed in 1938; the last trolley ran in 1958. Although similar complexes were built for the Ankeny, Piedmont, and Savier divisions of the street railway system,</p><br>
<p>In 1939, the United States Forest Service took over the building for use by the Civilian Conservation Corps and bought the clubhouse and the car barns three years later. Through 1984 it used the clubhouse for storage and as a forest pest research center. After vacating the building, the Forest Service used the adjacent property and outbuildings for storage through 1993, selling everything (with a protective historic-resource covenant for the clubhouse) to private owners in 1996. Vacant until 2002, the building was restored, added to the NRHP, and turned into the home of the Dunthorpe Marketing Group.</p><br>
<p>The Brescia and Garda Prealps  are a mountain range in the southern part of the Alps. They are located mainly in Lombardy but also in Trentino Alto Adige and in Veneto, in the northern part of Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Administratively the range is divided between the Italian provinces of Trento (in the Region of Trentino Alto Adige), Verona (in the Region of Veneto) and Brescia (in the Region of Lombardy).</p><br>
<p>The easternmost slopes of the mountains are drained by the Adige, the central ande western part of the range by Chiese, Sarca, Oglio and other minor rivers and streams, all of them tributaries of the Po.</p><br>
<h3>SOIUSA classification</h3><br>
<p>According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain range is an Alpine section, classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Eastern Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=Southern Limestone Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Brescia and Garda Prealps</p><br>
<p>code=II/C-32</p><br>
<h3>Borders</h3><br>
<p>Brescia and Garda Prealps&#39; borders are (clockwise):</p><br>
<p>Oglio river, Iseo lake and Val Camonica (west), which divide them from the Bergamasque Alps and Prealps</p><br>
<p>Croce Domini Pass and Giudicarie (north), which divide them from the southern Rhaetian Alps</p><br>
<p>Adige river (east), which divedes them from the Venetian Prealps</p><br>
<p>Po Plain (south).</p><br>
<h3>Subdivision</h3><br>
<p>The Brescia and Garda Prealps are subdivided into two subsections:</p><br>
<p>Brescia Prealps - SOIUSA code:II/C-30.I</p><br>
<p>Garda Prealps - SOIUSA code:II/C-30.II,</p><br>
<p>which are separated by the Valle Sabbia.</p><br>
<p>These subsections are further divided in supergroups:</p><br>
<p>Brescia Prealps:</p><br>
<p>supergroup Catena Setteventi-Muffetto-Guglielmo - SOIUSA code:II/C-30.I-A,</p><br>
<p>supergroup Catena Dosso Alto-Monte Palo - SOIUSA code:II/C-30.I-B</p><br>
<p>Garda Prealps:</p><br>
<p>supergroup Prealpi Giudicarie - SOIUSA code:II/C-30.II-A,</p><br>
<p>supergroup Prealpi Gardesane Sud-occidentali - SOIUSA code:II/C-30.II-B,</p><br>
<p>supergroup Prealpi Gardesane Orientali - SOIUSA code:II/C-30.II-C.</p><br>
<h2>Summits</h2><br>
<p>The chief summits of the range are:</p><br>
<p>The Laute is a right tributary of the Innerste river in Lower Saxony.</p><br>
<p>It rises in the vicinity of Hahnenklee in the Upper Harz and discharges about 6 km later into the Innerste in Lautenthal. The source is at an elevation of about 540 m at the bottom of a mountain called Kuttelbacher Berg. The Laute flows to the west parallel to road L 516 which is called Hahnenkleer Straße in Lautenthal. The name of the town means Laute Valley. The mouth is at an elevation of about 300 m in the west of Wildemanner Strasse, the high street of Lautenthal.</p><br>
<p>In 1875 a railway bridge of the Innerste Valley Railway was built over the Laute close to its mouth. Although the railway line was closed in 1977 the bridge is well preserved and still used by hikers. A flood of the Laute caused considerable damage in Lautenthal in 1877.</p><br>
<p>Saint Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral located at 419 South Dithridge Street in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was designed by architect Thomas Hannah and built in 1904. The First Congregational Church built the structure and used it until 1921, but it has been a Greek Orthodox Church since 1923. Currently, it is part of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and seat of the Greek Orthodox Metropolis of Pittsburgh. This Classical Revival style church building was added to the List of Pittsburgh History and Landmarks Foundation Historic Landmarks in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Architecturally, the cathedral is described by Walter C. Kidney in his book Landmark Architecture: Pittsburgh and Allegheny County (1985) as:</p><br>
<p>A Grecian Ionic portico, executed in sandstone, is the grand and appropriate introduction to a church that has belonged to the Greek Orthodox Church since 1923. The exterior, with its big round-arched windows, is not otherwise specifically symbolic, but the interior is rich with paintings and mosaics. Notable inside are the painting in the dome of Christ the Pantocrator (Ruler of All), with is background of gold leaf, and the iconostasis of metal and mosaic, with peacocks finely depicted on the Royal Doors. Further art is to be found within the sanctuary, including a painting of the Mother and Child and a fresco of the Last Supper."</p><br>
<p>Franklin Toker describes the structure in his book Pittsburgh: A New Portrait (2009) as follows: "Originally the First Congregational Church, until 1921, this is an unusually vigorous design in yellow industrial brick preceded by a dramatic Ionic portico. The interior of St. Nicholas should not be missed as an architectural paradigm of America itself: a cool Protestant interior heated up by a blazing iconostasis."</p><br>
<p>Prerasts of Vratna  are three natural stone bridges, two in the vicinity of the medieval Vratna monastery, and the third farther away into the depths of the Vratna river gorge, in Bor, Eastern Serbia. They are entered through marked hiking trails, which was through monastic property. Nowadays trail go around monastic land and leads beneath first Vratna Gate or Little Prerast.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>Prerast (see прерасти) in Serbian means "outgrowth" or "overgrowth." In this case it is an unambiguous term by the local population for these types of natural rock bridges, vaults and gates.</p><br>
<h2>Prerasts</h2><br>
<p>Little Prerast (Mala Prerast) is about 200m upstream from the Vratna monastery and its length is 15m. The width of its opening is 33m, height 34m, while the thickness of the arch above the opening is 10 meters.</p><br>
<p>Big Prerast (Velika Prerast) is about 100m from the Little Prerast and its length is 45m. The width of the opening is 23m, height 26m, thickness of the arch above the opening 30m.</p><br>
<p>Dry Prerast (Suva Prerast) is 2 km upstream from the other gates. Its length is 34m, width of opening is 15m, height 20m, thickness of the arch above the opening 10m. Its name comes from the fact that the Vratna, in the summer, plunges 50m upstream from it, but later appears and disappears again, before once again breaking out from the rock, and continues to run on the surface.</p><br>
<p>The Prerasts of Vratna are of different origins. While the first two are remains of a former cave tunnel through witch river Vratna ran through, and part of the arch between them collapsed, the third resulted from the plunging of the river. In the vicinity was discovered examples of karst terrain, three unexplored caves, one of which is the longest, the second is rich in tunnels and corridors, and in the third has a small lake.</p><br>
<p>The Castle of Torija  is a castle located in Torija, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1931. First built by the Knights Templar in the 11th century, today it serves as the headquarters of the Centro de Interpretación Turística de la Provincia de Guadalajara, the regional tourism authority.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The castle was built by the Knights Templar in the 11th century, becoming an important fortress in successive medieval wars. In 1445, it was taken by the Navarran captain Juan de Puelles and was subsequently owned by Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza (1428–1495). In the 19th century, it was occupied by the French under General Hugo, the father of Victor Hugo, until it was taken and destroyed by El Empecinado. Its restoration was completed in 1962.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>For a military fortress, it exhibits a particularly impressive level of architecture. Constructed of Alcarria limestone, the rectangular structure has three round towers and a cylindrical keep. A well stands at the centre of its courtyard. Its high walls are not very thick indicating that it was completed before artillery came into common use. The main tower which is built apart from the remainder of the structure was the last bastion of resistance. Today the castle houses the Centro de Interpretación Turística de la Provincia de Guadalajara. A museum is being developed on the premises.</p><br>
<p>Castillo torija.JPG</p><br>
<p>Torija (RPS 10-02-2015) Castillo, escalera exterior.png</p><br>
<p>The Janssens-Orella-Birk Building, also known as Janssens-Orella Building, was built in 1927 and considerably remodelled in 1937 and later in 1941. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. The building is located on State Street, in the historical center of Santa Barbara, California.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first adobe building on the site was constructed by Augustin Jansens, a Belgian native, and his wife, Maria Antonia Pico. In 1872, it was bought by a local landowner, Bruno Orella, also notable for Orella Adobes, and his wife, Mercedes Gonzalez. The descendants of the Orella family owned the building until the 1950s. From the original building, fragments of the walls are incorporated in the current structure.</p><br>
<p>In 1927, a new house in the Spanish Colonial Revival style was constructed. The project was designed by local architectural firm Edwards, Plunkett, and Howell. In 1932, the building was expanded, in 1946 remodeled, and in 1987 it was returned to the original 1937 shape. After World War II, the building hosted the Copper Coffee Pot restaurant established in memory of a doctor, John Manning, and managed by his wife. The restaurant was a popular social place. It closed on September 30, 1985. The last owner of the restaurant was Birk, hence the name of the building. Currently, the building is occupied by an Italian restaurant with a different name.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Janssens-Orella-Birk Building is a two-floor structures which is L-shaped and has both flat roof and tile parts. The front of the building is on State Street, the main commercial street in downtown Santa Barbara, and it is located between two buildings constructed much later but built in a similar style. The exterior repeats the original 1927 design, whereas the interior has been considerably altered by later changes. The rear of the building faces a secondary passages and a parking lot. State Street runs on the slope of the hill and the building is therefore skewed.</p><br>
<p>The northeastern (facing State Street) facade features a balcony and is open as a central patio. On the left side of the patio, there is a wall fountain in the shape of a lion head.</p><br>
<p>Lake Roy is a natural freshwater lake inside the city of Winter Haven, Florida. It has a 74.17 acre surface area and is located on the south side of Cypress Gardens Boulevard. The lake once had a larger surface area, but when Cypress Gardens Boulevard was upgraded it ran over some of the northern part of Lake Roy; this part had been filled so the road could be rerouted. A small part of the old lakebed is north of the street, but is more of a retention pond now, for the most part remaining dry. The lake is of an irregular shape. Lake Roy is connected by a canal on its southwest side to Lake Lulu and indirectly from there to more than twenty other area lakes. These lakes are linked by canals and are known locally as the Chain of Lakes. Most of the shore of Lake Roy is bordered by residential housing. Residential areas circle from the southeast around to the northwest side of the lake. Along Cypress Gardens Boulevard on the northwest are businesses and a hotel, Lake Roy Beach Inn, is on this street at the northeast corner of the lake.</p><br>
<p>There is a county park with a swimming area and boat ramp on the lake&#39;s southeastern shore. The boating public may reach Lake Roy from other lakes by traveling to it via the canal system. Fishing is allowed and the lake may be fished from Lake Roy Park or from the north shore where Cypress Gardens Boulevard borders the lake. The Hook and Bullet website says Lake Roy contains bowfin, bluegill and sturgeon.</p><br>
<p>The Tswapong Hills are a mountain range in the Central District, Botswana. They rise to an elevation of 300 to 400 m above the hardveld of the almost 900 m high surrounding plateau. Geologically, these flat-topped hills are similar to the Waterberg Massif, located about 100 km to the south.</p><br>
<p>The Tswapong Range receives relatively more moisture than the surrounding sandy plain of Mopane woodland. The rocky cliffs are made of porous rock that absorbs rainwater, which then seeps out forming permanent cascades and pools, such as the Phothophotho Gorge.</p><br>
<p>The Lotsane River flows at the feet of the Tswapong Hills on their northern side. One of the main attractions of the hills is the spectacular Moremi Gorge.</p><br>
<h2>Inhabited places</h2><br>
<p>The former capital of the Ngwato Kingdom was in Phalatswe, also called Old Palapye, at the western end of the Tswapong Range.</p><br>
<p>Moeng is a village located in the midst of the range at an altitude of 945 m. The village of Letsheng is located at the western end of the hills, while Matlakola and Maunatlala are on the northern side. At the base of the southern side there are the small villages of Tau, Gootau, Ratholo and Majwaneng. Lerala lies at the southeastern end of the range.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>The Tswapong Range is not a protected area. The hills, however, provide one of the two breeding sites in Botswana for the cape vulture, a vulnerable species. Other birds found in the range are the black-collared barbet, the mocking chat and the red-winged starling.</p><br>
<p>This range is also one of the few areas where the Jameson&#39;s red rock hare can be found. Among the other wildlife found in the Tswapong Range, the leopard, brown hyena, kudu, rock hyrax, baboon and crested porcupine deserve mention. There are also two butterfly species endemic to the Tswapong Hills.</p><br>
<p>The Castle of Atienza  is a castle located in Atienza, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1931. Standing high on a rock, it can be seen from miles around. The castle frequently changed hands between the Muslims and the Christians until it was finally taken by Alfonso VI in 1085.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The castle is located on the site of earlier Roman and Visigoth fortifications. The Moors first took the castle until it surrendered briefly to Alfonso III of Asturias from 870 to 874 before it was retaken. In 967, it came under the control of Al-Hakam II before being taken once again by the Christians under García Fernández of Castile until the arrival of Almanzor at the end of the 10th century. In the 11th century, it became an important component of the Muslim defences along the River Duero. After being taken by the Christian troops of Alfonso VI in 1085, it was enlarged on several occasions, maintaining its importance.</p><br>
<p>Under John II, the Navarre troops occupied the castle with 250 horsemen, 500 foot soldiers and artillery. After the castle had lost its strategic importance it became a prison. It was sacked by the French during the War of Independence.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Today the castle consists of a tower and an inner enclosure 130 m by 30 m. The arched entrance is flanked by two square towers. There are two covered cisterns in the enclosure. There is a fireplace on the upper floor of the main tower. Originally the castle had four storeys as well as tunnels which connected it with churches in the town. It was protected by two walls, one connecting the main tower to the entrance, the other protecting the rock itself.</p><br>
<p>The Unicorn Cave  in Austria is situated in the Hohe Wand Nature Park near Dreistetten in Lower Austria and may be reached on signposted hiking trails in ca. 20 minutes from Dreistetten aus . The cave was discovered in 1927 by Otto Langer senior and opened as a show cave in 1930. In 1964 the structures built by Otto Langer junior were modernised. Guided tours that take about 20 minutes are laid on from Easter to the end of September on Sundays and public holidays.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>The guided tour leads first along an artificially-created gallery into the cave. Its natural entrance is located above the current man-made entrance and is visible from the present-day pathway. A hut has been built in front of the artificial gallery through which the gallery entrance is accessed. Inside the cave the tour leads initially down a side tunnel and then along the main corridor to the first squeeze. In the hall in front of this constriction, the largest dripstones of the guided tour are to be found - stalagmites about 1 metre high (see illustration). From the fork in the two passageways to this hall the tour follows a passage in which a calc-sinter curtain and several stalactites can be seen hanging from the roof. In a niche to the side with a statue of St. Barbara there is also Perlsinter. Numerous animal bones were found in the cave (for example of a cave bear), several exhibits are displayed in the cave itself or are visible in the layers of rock (for example individual teeth or bones).</p><br>
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<p>The Summer Island Site, designated 20DE4, is an archaeological site located on the northwest side of Summer Island, Michigan. It was once used as a village or hunting camp. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Site Description</h2><br>
<p>The site lies in a sandy meadow about 20 feet above Summer Harbor on the northwest side of the island, and about "125 feet inland from the best canoe landing area in the entire bay." At the time it was first excavated, cultural material was evident on the surface of the site.</p><br>
<h2>Archaeological history</h2><br>
<p>The location of the Summer Island site was known to archaeologists at least as early as 1931, when Wilbert B. Hinsdale included it in his Archaeological atlas of Michigan. The site was first excavated by George I. Quimby in 1959. Quimby was able to collect material from the surface, and dug some test pits, finding pot sherds and animal bones. David S. Brose continued excavating the site in 1967.</p><br>
<h2>Cultural history</h2><br>
<p>The site was most likely utilized by a number of different cultures. The earliest occupiers were likely Middle Woodland period peoples. A later part of the Summer Island site included hearths, a storage pit, and waste pits, and has been ascribed Upper Mississippian culture and Late Woodland period peoples. The inhabitants of the site likely occupied it in the late summer, and ate a variety of game, including mammals (moose and beaver), fish, birds, reptiles, and amphibians. The final occupiers had early French trade goods, indicating they likely used the site around 1620; they used the site as a late summer hunting camp.</p><br>
<p>A small fishing village of European settlers, believed to be associated with the fishing fleet from St. Martin Island, was established just north of the prehistoric archeological site in the 1800s. The village was occupied by fishermen through at least the end of the 19th century, and then by loggers from Fayette in the early 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The Lugano Prealps  are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps. They are located in Canton Ticino  and in Lombardy .</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Administratively the Italian part of the range belongs to the provinces of Como and Varese, while the Swiss one is divided between the districts of Bellinzona, Locarno, Lugano and Mendrisio.</p><br>
<p>The western slopes of the mountains are drained by the Ticino River, the eastern ones by Adda and the southern-central part of them by Lambro, Olona and other minor rivers and streams, all of them directly or indirectly tributaries of the Po.</p><br>
<h3>SOIUSA classification</h3><br>
<p>According to SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain range is an Alpine section, classified in the following way:</p><br>
<p>main part=Western Alps</p><br>
<p>major sector=North Western Alps</p><br>
<p>section=Lugano Prealps</p><br>
<p>code=I/B-11</p><br>
<h3>Borders</h3><br>
<p>Lugano Prealps&#39; borders are (clockwise):</p><br>
<p>Lago Maggiore (west),</p><br>
<p>Ticino River from Locarno to Bellinzona, San Jorio Pass (2.010 m, which connects them with the Lepontine Alps) and San Jorio valley till to Gravedona (north)</p><br>
<p>Como lake (east)</p><br>
<p>Po Plain (south).</p><br>
<h3>Subdivision</h3><br>
<p>The Lugano Prealps are divided into two subsections:</p><br>
<p>Como Prealps - SOIUSA code:I/B-11.I</p><br>
<p>Varese Prealps - SOIUSA code:I/B-11.II,</p><br>
<p>which are separated by the Monte Ceneri Pass.</p><br>
<p>These subsections are further divided in supergroups:</p><br>
<p>Como Prealps:</p><br>
<p>supergroup catena Gino-Camoghè-Fiorina - SOIUSA code:I/B-11.I-A</p><br>
<p>supergroup catena Tremezzo-Generoso-Gordona - SOIUSA code:I/B-11.I-B</p><br>
<p>supergroup catena del Triangolo Lariano - SOIUSA code:I/B-11.I-B</p><br>
<p>Varese Prealps:</p><br>
<p>supergroup catena Tamaro-Gambarogno-Lema - SOIUSA code:I/B-11.II-A,</p><br>
<p>supergroup catena Piambello-Campo dei Fiori-Nudo - SOIUSA code:I/B-11.II-B.</p><br>
<h2>Summits</h2><br>
<p>The chief summits of the range are:</p><br>
<p>The Molenbeek  is a brook in the Denderstreek, Belgium. The stream has a length of approximately 22 kilometers. The source of the Molenbeek is located in Grotenberge and the delta is in nearby Wichelen. This brook is not to be confused with the Molenbeek-Ter Erpenbeek which is also in Erpe-Mere .</p><br>
<h2>Basin</h2><br>
<p>The basin of the Molenbeek is located in the province of East Flanders, and flows through the municipalities of Wichelen (Schellebelle, Serskamp, Wichelen), Lede (Wanzele, Impe, Smetlede, Papegem, Lede, and Oordegem), Erpe-Mere (Erondegem, Vlekkem, Ottergem, Bambrugge, Egem, and Burst) and Herzele (Borsbeke, Herzele, Ressegem, and Hillegem).</p><br>
<p>The south of the basin comprises a small part of the Zottegem municipality (Grotenberge and Leeuwergem). In the west, it crosses the border of the Sint-Lievens-Houtem territory (Vlierzele, Zonnegem, Letterhoutem).</p><br>
<p>The Molenbeek is part of the Drie Molenbeken drainage basin. The Drie Molenbeken are tributaries of the Bovenschelde. The Bovenschelde is a part of the river Scheldt. The basin of the Molenbeek has an area of approximately 5276 hectares, and is located in the basin of the Bovenschelde. The Molenbeek goes through the Bovenschelde near to Wichelen.</p><br>
<p>From its source in Grotenberge to the delta nearby, Wichelen of the Molenbeek has the following tributaries: Valleibeek, Fonteinbeek, Doormansbeek, Kasteelgracht, Hellegat, Smoorbeek, Kokelaarsbeek, Zijpbeek, Trotgracht, Overimpebeek, Beekveldzijp, Wellebeek, and Vijverbeek.</p><br>
<h2>Mills</h2><br>
<p>In the municipality of Erpe-Mere, there are three mills on the Molenbeek. One mill is protected by law, while another has been largely demolished, but there are still remains of this mill, and the mill house itself is still intact.</p><br>
<p>The Schneealpe or Schneealm is a limestone massif in the Northern Limestone Alps on the Styrian-Lower Austrian border.</p><br>
<p>Its highest point is the Windberg at 1,903 metres above sea level. Other peaks are the Ameisbühel (also Amaißbichl, 1,828 m, in the east, on the Styrian-Lower Austrian border), the Schönhaltereck (1,860 m, west of the Windberg) and the Donnerwand (1,799 m, in the northwest).</p><br>
<p>Its valley settlements are Hinternaßwald in the northeast, Altenberg an der Rax in the east, Kapellen and Neuberg an der Mürz in the south, Mürzsteg and Frein an der Mürz in the west. The heavily wooded mountains and hills north of the Schneealpe are uninhabited.</p><br>
<p>The Schneealpen House and several alm huts are located the high plateau at a height of about 1,780 metres. On the western perimeter of the plateau on the Hinteralm is another Alpine Club hut, the Hinteralm House.</p><br>
<p>In the northern area is the source region of the Kalte Mürz.</p><br>
<p>The Schneealpen area belongs, together with the Rax and the Schneeberg, to the catchment area of the First Vienna Mountain Spring Pipeline (I. Wiener Hochquellenwasserleitung). Drinking water is led through the Schneealpen Tunnel, built between 1965 and 1968 by the city of Vienna, to Hinternaßwald.</p><br>
<h2>Mountain huts</h2><br>
<p>Schneealpen House (Schneealpenhaus)</p><br>
<p>Michlbauer Hut</p><br>
<p>Lurgbauer Hut</p><br>
<p>The Hohe Veitsch  is the highest mountain in the Mürzsteg Alps, in the Austrian state of Styria.</p><br>
<p>It is a limestone massif, rich in wildflower meadows and good views, and runs from west (main summit, ) to east (plateau at about 1,500 metres) to the Klein-Veitsch Alm, a distances of around 5.5 km.</p><br>
<h2>Ascent</h2><br>
<p>The best known tour on the Veitsch runs from Niederalpl up to the Sohlenalm, along the western side of the Wildkamm, then through a stone gully up to the high plateau. On the plateau, just below the summit, is the Graf Meran House owned by the Austrian Tourist Club (ÖTK, ).</p><br>
<p>Seen from the south, from (Mitterdorf / Brunnalm, in the parish of Veitsch), the Hohe Veitsch looks like a mighty limestone massif with steep south faces. The Graf Meran House is reached over the Goaß ascent (Goaß-Steign, about 2½ hours) or along the Serpentine Way (Serpentinenweg) left of the so-called Hundsschupfen (around an hour).</p><br>
<p>The north-south long distance path no. 05 runs from Niederalpl to the summit, where it meets North Alpine Way 01 (Nordalpenweg 01) running from the east over the high plateau; then both paths continue in parallel to each other in a westerly direction via Turnauer Alm and Göriacher Alm to the Styrian Seeberg. The Styrian Mariazell Way also runs over the massif.</p><br>
<h2>Plateau walk</h2><br>
<p>There is also a plateau walk via Seeboden to the Kleinveitschalm.</p><br>
<p>The Prealps East of the Mur  are the easternmost mountain range of the Central Eastern Alps. They comprise the eastern foothills of the Alpine crest beyond the Mur river and the adjacent southeastern Alpine Foreland.</p><br>
<h2>Boundary and neighbouring ranges</h2><br>
<p>According to the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps (AVE), the boundaries of the Prealps East of the Mur are as follows:</p><br>
<p>The border with the Northern Limestone Alps runs from the Vienna Woods in the northeast along the edge of the Gutenstein Alps, following the line from the Steinfeld basin via Neunkirchen to Ternitz. It continues along the southeastern edge of the Rax-Schneeberg Group, from Ternitz to Gloggnitz, Schottwien and over the Semmering Pass to Mürzzuschlag in the Mürz valley. From here, the border runs along the edge of the Mürzsteg Alps up to Bruck an der Mur in the west.</p><br>
<p>The western border runs along the edge of the Lavanttal Alps, separated by the River Mur from Bruck an der Mur via Graz as far as Spielfeld in the south.</p><br>
<p>The southeastern boundary is vague, but roughly runs along the Hungarian Plain and Neusiedler See via Bruck an der Leitha to the Vienna Basin.</p><br>
<h2>Subdivisions</h2><br>
<p>The range is generally subdivided into the following regions:</p><br>
<p>Fischbach Alps (Stuhleck )</p><br>
<p>Wechsel (Hochwechsel )</p><br>
<p>Graz Highlands (Hochlantsch )</p><br>
<p>In addition it includes the following eastern and southeastern foothills of the Alps:</p><br>
<p>Leitha Mountains (Sonnenberg )</p><br>
<p>Rosalia Mountains (Heuberg )</p><br>
<p>Sopron or Ödenburg Mountains (Brentenriegel )</p><br>
<p>Bucklige Welt (Eselberg )</p><br>
<p>Joglland (Hochwechsel )</p><br>
<p>Kőszeg or Güns Mountains (Geschriebenstein )</p><br>
<p>The Nathan Comstock Jr. House  is a historic house located at 299 Old Niagara Road in Lockport, Niagara County, New York.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The home is one of the first stone houses built in Lockport between 1823-1829, and is a two-story, five-bay wide dwelling built of native limestone in a vernacular Greek Revival style. It has an overhanging side gable roof. The original house was built of excess stone excavated for the Erie Canal. In about 1900, a large, two-story, rear brick wing was added to accommodate orphaned children of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows members. From 1907 to 1944, the building was used as the Odd Fellows Orphanage. It is believed that the Niagara grape was developed on a portion of the over 800 acre Comstock farm, sold to Obadiah P. Hoag about 1825. Claudius L. Hoag, son of Obadiah traveled to Canada to learn how to hybridize grapes. The house and farm was sold to former Congressman Lewis Eaton in 1830.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 2011.</p><br>
<p>Fort Homer W. Hesterly is a historic building at 522 North Howard Avenue in the West Tampa section of Tampa, Florida. The building and adjacent support structures were originally constructed as a USA military facility to house units of both the Florida Army National Guard and the USA Army Reserve. The armory was built in the 1930s under Franklin Delano Roosevelt&#39;s New Deal and dedicated the day after the Pearl Harbor attack.</p><br>
<p>After sixty years of service, and with the facility becoming obsolete for military purposes, Florida National Guard and USA Army Reserve officials announced plans to replace the armory on December 1, 2001. A new 216,424 ft&sup2; joint reserve facility to be built at Gateway Center in Pinellas Park was planned as a replacement of three existing outdated and overcrowded facilities, including Fort Hesterly, the J.F. Campbell National Guard Armory in Clearwater, and the Lovejoy USA Army Reserve Center in Tampa. Construction of the new $53.5 million project began in 2002, and was expected to be completed by the spring of 2003, with the House Appropriations Committee originally allocating $45 million for the project. The new facility, eventually named the C.W. "Bill" Young Armed Forces Reserve Center, opened in February 2005.</p><br>
<p>An art deco style building, it took ten years to find an occupant for the Hesterly Armory, once a premiere entertainment venue in addition to its military role. It is now home to the Tampa Jewish Community Center & Federation. Performers have included Elvis Presley, USA President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Tom Jones, The Animals, James Brown, Buddy Holly, Andy Griffith, Allman Brothers, Tempests, Pink Floyd, the Doors and The Ramones. Many graduations and weddings have been held at the Fort. The National Guard used the armory until 2005.</p><br>
<p>In 1955 Elvis Presley performed at the armory as part of the “Country Music’s Mr. Rhythm” show, the final act in country star Hank Snow’s All-Star Jamboree tour. His debut album includes a photo from his 1955 performance at the armory.</p><br>
<p>The armory was used by President Kennedy for an address to the Florida Chamber of Commerce in 1963, four days before his assassination in Dallas. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. also spoke at the armory. The Doors played at the armory in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The armory held Championship Wrestling from Florida matches during the era of Dusty Rhodes, Jack Brisco and announcer Gordon Solie. Billy Fives and Pepe Prado represented NWA Florida at the armory in a tag team match against Mike Sullivan and Scoot Andrews during an interpromotional event between IPW Hardcore vs. NWA Florida.</p><br>
<p>Plans for the former armory included a film studio and creative industries incubator, an ice rink and sports complex, and mixed-use commercial/residential development. In 2007, a $98 million hotel and spa project won the selection process, but later dropped.</p><br>
<p>A plan to redevelop the 75,000 square foot armory into a luxury development fell through in 2010.</p><br>
<p>On October 23, 2013, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The Winter Site is an archaeological site located along Big Bay de Noc north of Garden, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The site is located about 1,000 ft inland from the water along a small tributary. The site was occupied at a time when the Lake Michigan shoreline extended further inland than it does today.</p><br>
<p>The site was populated by Middle Woodland period peoples at two distinct times: one earlier occupation of relatively short duration (1 to 2 seasons) and a later occupation that lasted longer. The occupation was interrupted by what was likely a short rise in lake level or a heavy seasonal flood. Remains at the site indicate that the inhabitants subsisted on fall-spawning fish, and therefore the site represents an early experimentation in coastal living in the late fall and winter.</p><br>
<p>The Oscoda County Courthouse is the county courthouse for Oscoda County, Michigan, located in Mio at 311 Morenci Ave . The courthouse is a Michigan State Historic Site and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places., the courthouse operates courtrooms for the 23rd Circuit Court, 81st District Court, and Oscoda County Probate Court.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was destroyed by a fire on the evening of May 4, 2016.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land the courthouse is built on was purchased by the county in 1885 from John Randall, one of the city&#39;s founders, for $100. Two wings housing vaults for the county clerk and treasurer were constructed in 1908. The building gained a water supply in 1891 and was electrified in 1917.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was designated a Michigan State Historic Site on August 13, 1971, and added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 25, 1972. A Michigan State Historic Site informational marker was erected in 2001. It burned on May 4, 2016</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The courthouse is a two-story, rectangular front-gable building. Currently clad in aluminum, the building originally had white clapboard siding. The building is fronted by a projected bay topped with a hip-roofed steeple. The entrance is fronted by a pedimented portico beneath a fanlight on the second story. One-story wings extend from both sides of the courthouse.</p><br>
<p>The courthouse was designed by architects Pratt and Koeppe in the Classical Revival style. Unlike the stone and brick courthouses commonly built at the time, the Oscoda County Courthouse is a modest wood frame building.</p><br>
<p>Benacre Hall is a Grade II listed country house and estate in Benacre, Suffolk. The current house is Georgian and dates to around 1764. It is the seat of the Gooch baronets.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Benacre was the property of Fienes Lord Dacre. Henry North, of Laxfield, Esq. descended from the noble family of his name, purchased it in the reign of Charles I. In 1708, Edward North, Esq. dying without issue, left it to Thomas Carthew, Esq. his wife&#39;s relation, who in 1721, built a house here, and made it his residence. From his son, it was purchased in 1745 by Sir Thomas Gooch, Bart, and it has ever since been the residence of that family.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>In 1827, Henry Davy wrote:</p><br>
<p>The Vulture Mountains is a 29 mi long, arid, low-elevation mountain range located in northwest Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is in the north perimeter region of the Sonoran Desert. The Arizona transition zone mountain ranges lie north and northeast, just north of Wickenburg, Arizona. The Yarnell Hill, about 14 mi north of Wickenburg, rising into the Weaver Mountains to Yarnell, marks the dramatic elevation rise from the desert. It is also a viewpoint southwest and southeast of the desert regions, including the Vulture Mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Description and geography</h2><br>
<p>The Vulture Mountains are about 29 mi long, and east of center, about 13 mi wide; the range is somewhat crescent shaped, mainly trending east–west, and narrowing westwards. The northeast is followed by the course of a southeast stretch of the Hassayampa River; the river turns due-south west of Morristown, on US 60, making the east terminus of the range about 7 mi wide, at the rivers floodplain. The Hassayampa enters the north of the Hassayampa Plain, so a small river canyon region lies at the Vulture Mountain&#39;s northeast, with the Wickenburg Mountains northeast, and the Hieroglyphic Mountains east.</p><br>
<p>The high point of the range is Vulture Peak, (3,658 ft), at the center east of the range. Another major peak anchors the west region of the range, Black Butte, at 3,612 ft).</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The major access to the north and east foothills of the Vulture Mountains is by way of USA Route 60. The route traverses from Aguila at the northwest, Wickenburg at the northeast, and a southeast stretch at the mountains northeast, with the route paralleling the Hassayampa River.</p><br>
<p>A paved route dissects the range on a south-southwest direction from Wickenburg, which lies on the mountain range&#39;s foothills, with the route being east of the mountain range center. Numerous unimproved routes exit from the route into the mountain areas, or they access the southern side of the mountain range-(the north of the Hassayampa Plain).</p><br>
<p>Unimproved routes are restricted on the east side foothills, since it is the floodplain, watershed region of the Hassayampa River, where the riverbed has widened to up to 1.5 mi in some locales. One major unimproved route crosses the Hassayampa west from Morristown.</p><br>
<h2>Historic structures of the Vulture Mine and City</h2><br>
<p>In 1863, after Henry Wickenburg discovered the Vulture Mine, Vulture City a small mining town was established in the area. The town once had a population of 5,000 citizens After the mine closed the city was deserted and became a ghost town. The following are images with a brief description of the Vulture Mine and Vulture City, both located in the Vulture Mountains. Some of the structures are still present in what once was known as Vulture City located in the mountain.</p><br>
<p>The Humboldt Bay Life-Saving Station was originally built in November 1878 on the north side of the entrance to Humboldt Bay in northern California, United States near Eureka, adjacent to the site of the first Humboldt Harbor Light . Rebuilt in 1936 with marine railways to launch rescue surfboats, the historic facility was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 30, 1979. The station continues to function as an important asset of the United States Coast Guard in the Coast Guard Group/Air Station Humboldt Bay.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early history</h3><br>
<p>Humboldt Bay was listed as one of the most dangerous harbor entrances in California due to the narrow 0.25 mi wide channel with tidal currents and shifting sandbars plus unpredictable weather with high winds and heavy fog.</p><br>
<p>In 1851, the United States Congress appropriated $15,000 for the Humboldt Harbor Light which entered service in 1856. The lighthouse was damaged in 1877 and 1882 by earthquakes and in 1885 by a flood and was abandoned in 1892, when the entire facility, including the Fresnel lens, was relocated to the Table Bluff Light on October 31. Years later, the top of the tower was found in the sand and relocated to the Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum.</p><br>
<p>Other aids to navigation including bells on boats and fog whistles, including one on the north side of the channel, were in operation by at least 1908. The fog keeper and assistant keeper lived at the actual station. There was nearby housing for their families although none of the buildings remains.</p><br>
<p>Humboldt and six other Life Saving Stations were built in California. The others were (in alphabetical order) Arena Cove, Fort Point, Golden Gate Park, Point Reyes, Point Bonita, and Southside (in San Francisco). The entire Pacific coast had 20 Life Saving Service stations.</p><br>
<h3>Paysonville</h3><br>
<p>In 1883 Alexander Ballantyne and Albert Henry Payson, working for the United States Lighthouse Board designed a wharf, stone-cutters&#39;s shed, mess hall and housing adjacent to the Humboldt Harbor Lighthouse to prepare and dress hundreds of 2.5 ton granite boulders transported from the Mad River Quarry on railroad flatbed cars transported on barges across the bay. After the stones were cut precisely to full scale templates with a mortise and tenon such that each would fit only one adjacent block precisely, they were wrapped in rope netting, loaded on a narrow gauge railway by steam-driven crane and moved to the wharf from which they were loaded by another steam crane to specially fitted steamer ships to be taken to form the foundation of the St. George Reef Light, on the site of the fatal Brother Jonathan wreck offshore Crescent City, California. It cost $117,000 to quarry and ship, operate the facility and pay the help in 1884, a figure which was higher than expected due to the non-stop rain. The quarry operated from 1884 to 1891, commanded by Chief Payson from 1887 after whom the settlement was named. Paysonville remained idle from 1891 until World War II when it was turned into a Navy seaplane base and is now the Samoa Boat Basin.</p><br>
<h3>First station</h3><br>
<p>In 1878, Congress authorized the United States Life-Saving Service although stations were to be built only where navigation conditions were extremely hazardous. The Humboldt Bay station was the second to be built in California after that in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. It began operating in November 1878 just to the south of Paysonville. The original station was to the north side of the present building and tasked to rescue wrecked and stranded ships and patrol the beaches.</p><br>
<p>The station was manned by a keeper and six volunteers. Later "surfmen" would be hired, living at the station which could also house rescue victims. After the 1892 closure of the Humboldt Harbor Light, surfmen used the tower of the old lighthouse as a lookout until the tower collapsed in 1933. By 1896 there were eight surfman each working a six-day week, and in 1901 a telephone was installed to assist in rescue work. In 1910, the first power-driven boat was used for rescue on Humboldt Bay although hand-rowed boats were still used.</p><br>
<h3>Second station</h3><br>
<p>In 1936, as part of the national New Deal upgrade of Coast Guard facilities, a new Humboldt Bay Station was built to replace the original. The USA Coast Guard, Civil Engineer&#39;s Office, Washington, D.C., drew up the plans of the building dated February 1936; less than a year and $78,000 later, the building was occupied in January 1937. Chief Garner Churchill commanded the station from 1937 until he retired in 1966. During his tenure, more than 300 people were saved by the station.</p><br>
<p>The new station housed and fed a 25 man crew and had living quarters for the Chief and his family. Two marine railways were built, originally without handrails, from the bay side boat room to seven feet below mean low tide line. These permitted surf boats to be launched rapidly into sheltered water, and equally important hauled out of the water, sometimes full of rescued people.</p><br>
<p>During Prohibition, the station stopped rum runners. the station was charged with foot and horse patrols operating along the coast and beaches.</p><br>
<p>During World War II, a Navy seaplane base and Blimp facility for K-type depth charge blimps were built to the north of the station at Paysonville. After World War II, the fog station closed and the facility was removed. The blimp station became part of the Eureka Municipal Airport and the circular blimp pads are still visible in aerial photos.</p><br>
<h3>Rescues</h3><br>
<p>Passenger Steamer Corona 1906, all 96 passengers and 60 crew saved, two surfmen lost.</p><br>
<p>USA Navy H-3 submarine grounded offshore with 27 crew and live torpedoes on December 14, 1916. Local contractor Mercer-Fraser later rolled the submarine over the sand dunes and back into the water on giant logs.</p><br>
<p>USAS. Milwaukee sent to recover the H-3 was also stranded on January 13, 1917. 421 enlisted and 17 officers were saved.</p><br>
<p>Yacht Rena swamped on June 23, 1939 within sight of the bar. Four were saved and the Chief and his crew received the Silver Medal, the second highest award for lifesaving for the rescue.</p><br>
<p>The Brookley, the Tiverton and the Yellowstone, were three schooners which stranded, although all their passengers were saved.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings and railway</h2><br>
<p>The Station received National Register status for significance in helping navigation and saving lives in the area of Humboldt Bay. It is considered the best example of Roosevelt Style, a Colonial Revival station design that was used across the country from the late 1920s through the late 1940s, in the western United States. The Station has two 274 ft long marine railways from the Station&#39;s rollup doors to below the low tide mark in the water to launch heavy surfboats. Marine railways were built starting in the early 20th century but became obsolete when larger steel lifeboats came into use in the 1970s. They represent the only set still in a functional Coast Guard Building on the Pacific coast.</p><br>
<p>Since 1994, the marine railway has displayed Motor Lifeboat #36515, which was decommissioned in 1982, donated to the Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum and returned as a monument. It has been used "from the late 1950s to the early 1980s."</p><br>
<p>Minor alterations were made to the west facade of the building in 1977, but the other faces are either not modified, or only slightly from the original plans. The interior was extensively altered from working spaces such as the boat room and a garage to offices, reception and classroom space. Upstairs the individual bedrooms have been combined to a single room and the mess hall and kitchens were also turned into office spaces.</p><br>
<h2>Current use</h2><br>
<p>The Station continues in active use by the USA Coast Guard. Before 1977, summer air rescue in the area was done from the Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco, but the two-hour response time was too long for victims floundering in the typically 40–50 °F water so, on June 24, 1977, the</p><br>
<p>Coast Guard Group / Air Station Humboldt Bay was commissioned with headquarters at a new $3.5 million facility at the Arcata-Eureka Airport in McKinleyville, California. The old Life-Saving station is an active part of the new search and rescue infrastructure.</p><br>
<p>Spider Cave, also known as Burnt Bluff Cave or 20DE3, is an archaeological site located on the Garden Peninsula near Fayette, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Spider Cave is a water-cut cave located 20 ft above the base of Burnt Bluff, The bluff contains multiple wind- and water-cut caves. Spider Cave was formed approximately 4000 years ago, and is 90 ft long and 30 ft deep.</p><br>
<p>The cave contains four pictographs within the cave and on the walls near the entrance. The most distinctive is a pictograph of a man connected to what appears to be a spider by a spiral umbilical cord. The "Spider Man" paint colors vary from red-violet to blue-violet, and were most likely applied using colorful mineral dyes mixed with grease, along with binders from fish roe or animal hooves and skins. However, these pictographs have been fading, due in part to natural wind and water erosion, and in part to tourists applying water to the images to view them better. As of 2009, the "spiderman" image had only two of the "spider legs" visible, the remainder being hidden under lichen and precipitated salts.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The caves on Burnt Bluff were probably first occupied by humans sometime around 1200 BC. There were at least 165 caves and shelters that were in use to some extent.</p><br>
<p>The earliest historical recording of people in the Burnt Bluff area are the Noquet people, who inhabited the land before European settlement, and likely as early as 1500. Ojibwe people living in the area still trace their heritage back to these people, and among these communities there are multiple oral histories discussing the Burnt Bluff site and pictographs. In 1867, much of the Garden Peninsula was deeded to the Jackson Iron Company, which planned to build furnaces at Fayette. Starting in the 1880s, multiple private parties owned the land around Spider Cave.</p><br>
<p>The earliest record of the pictographs within Spider Cave The cave was first excavated by Charles E. Cleland and G. Richard Peske in 1963. A number of artifacts were collected from the cave, most of which were Middle Woodland period projectile points. Most of the projectile points had shattered tips, suggesting they were fired into the cave from without and had shattered against the rear wall. The abundance of projectile tips and lack of other artifacts associated with normal occupation suggests that Spider Cave was not used as a normal living site.</p><br>
<p>Of the private owners of the land, Ruth and Henry Lang, who purchased the land in 1947, advertised the Spider Cave pictographs as a tourist attraction. The area around Burnt Bluff was acquired by the State of Michigan in the 1970s, and are now part of Fayette Historic State Park. They are closed to the public.</p><br>
<p>Mukibanda Yayoi remains are the largest Yayoi period remains in Japan. The Mukibanda site is located in the low foothills of Mount Daisen in the cities of Daisen and Yonago, Tottori Prefecture. The Mukibanda site was designated a Monument of Japan in 1999.</p><br>
<h2>General description</h2><br>
<p>The Mukibanda remains range between 90 m and 120 m above sea level, and cover 170 hectare. The settlement was naturally protected by the foothills of Mount Daisen, yet had close access to Miho Bay on the Japan Sea, which is clearly visible from the site.</p><br>
<h2>Discovery</h2><br>
<p>Construction of a golf course was planned on the site in the early 1990s, but after an examination of the area by the Boards of Education of Daisen and Yodoe, now Yonago City, between 1995 and 1998, a national-level conservation movement sought to protect the area from development. The site was designated a "Historic Site, Place of Scenic Beauty, and Natural Monument" by the Agency for Cultural Affairs, a special body of the Japanese Ministry of Education. The Mukibanda site is protected under the Japanese Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties.</p><br>
<h2>Excavation</h2><br>
<p>Roughly 1/20th of the Mukibanda remains have been excavated. The 17.2 hectare of excavation revealed 395 pit-style dwellings, 502 dwellings with raised cornerstones, and 24 Yayoi-style barrow cliff tombs. This area was inhabited between the late Yayoi to early Kofun period, roughly 100 BC to 300 AD. The east part of the site was occupied by dwellings, and the western part of the site, on higher ground, was used for gravesites. The settlement was active in blacksmithing, bead making, and the production of earthenware pottery. The highest point on the site in the Matsuogashira district of Daisen appears to be the home of the chief of the village and home to the sacred area of the site. The entire site is thought to be the chief village, and possibly capitol, of some type of political entity.</p><br>
<h2>Remains</h2><br>
<p>Earthenware</p><br>
<p>Stoneware, including:</p><br>
<p>Cookware</p><br>
<p>Agricultural implements</p><br>
<p>Hunting implements</p><br>
<p>Weapons</p><br>
<p>Ironware, including:</p><br>
<p>Hoes</p><br>
<p>Spades</p><br>
<p>Plows</p><br>
<p>Sickles</p><br>
<p>Axes</p><br>
<p>Chisels</p><br>
<p>Awls</p><br>
<p>Weapons</p><br>
<p>Mirror fragments</p><br>
<h2>Districts</h2><br>
<p>The Mukibanda Yayoi remains are divided into seven districts.</p><br>
<p>Sentani</p><br>
<p>Muki Niiyama</p><br>
<p>Mukiyama</p><br>
<p>Matsuogashira</p><br>
<p>Komaishi</p><br>
<p>Shimizu</p><br>
<p>Matsuojo</p><br>
<h2>Visiting the site</h2><br>
<p>The Mukibanda remains are open to the public. Tours, demonstrations, special events, and reconstructions at the site can be seen throughout the year.</p><br>
<h3>Access</h3><br>
<p>The Mukibanda remains are closest to the JR West Sanin Main Line Yonago Station (15 minute bus ride), but is also accessible from the JR West Sanin Main and Inbi lines at Tottori Station (2 hour bus ride). The site is accessible by road via the San&#39;in Expressway, Japan National Route 431, and Japan National Route 9.</p><br>
<p>Spanish Bay is a bay in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. It is located at on the Atlantic coast of Cape Breton Island at the mouth of Sydney Harbour, which forms part of Spanish Bay. The current name for the bay, "Spanish Bay"  appears on maps of the area at least as far back as 1708.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Spanish Bay opens to the north-west directly onto the southern terminus of the Cabot Strait and so to the North Atlantic. The bay measures approximately 9.2 km wide at its mouth, between Point Aconi on Boularderie Island to the north-west, and Low Point on Cape Breton Island to the south-east. Spanish Bay also marks the northern end of the Little Bras dOr, one of three outlets for the Bras dOr Lake system.</p><br>
<p>The bay&#39;s shores are mostly bold & rocky with numerous prominent headlands including Point Aconi, High Cape, Alder Point, Merritt Point, Bonar Head, Oxford Point, Black Point, Cranberry Point, McGillivray Point and Petries Point, although there is a 0.75 km sandy beach at Florence Beach (Big Pond Beach) and a popular swimming beach at Polar Bear, just to the north of South Bar.</p><br>
<h2>Communities</h2><br>
<p>Communities along the shoreline of Spanish Bay include (from northwest to south to northeast):</p><br>
<p>Point Aconi</p><br>
<p>Alder Point</p><br>
<p>Little Pond</p><br>
<p>Florence</p><br>
<p>Sydney Mines</p><br>
<p>North Sydney</p><br>
<p>Upper North Sydney</p><br>
<p>North West Arm</p><br>
<p>Leitches Creek Station</p><br>
<p>Leitches Creek</p><br>
<p>Balls Creek</p><br>
<p>Point Edward</p><br>
<p>Edwardsville</p><br>
<p>Westmount</p><br>
<p>Sydney River</p><br>
<p>Sydney</p><br>
<p>Whitney Pier</p><br>
<p>South Bar</p><br>
<p>Victoria Mines</p><br>
<p>New Victoria</p><br>
<p>The John Armstrong House is a private residential structure located at 707 Monroe Street in the city of Lapeer in Lapeer County, Michigan. It was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site and also added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 26, 1985.</p><br>
<p>Built in 1887–1888, the 2½-story house was built in the architectural mix of Queen Anne and Late Victorian style. The house features an irregular floor plan with a variety of window shapes. It was constructed with a combination of stone, brick, and wood for the various features. The interior design of the structure has remained unchanged since its original construction, including a second floor cistern. Between 1888–1892, a two-story addition was built on the back. In 1917, the dormer on the third floor was removed after a fire. In 1941, the porches were altered, and one was removed.</p><br>
<p>The house was built for prominent local businessman Joseph Armstrong, who moved to the United States from Ireland in 1871. In 1872, he moved to Lapeer in part due to the expanding railroad in the area. He opened a dry goods store that he operated for the next 37 years before retiring. He purchased the site of his home in 1886 and contracted a local carpenter, Robert T. Bacon, to construct the house and other smaller structures on the property within the next two years.</p><br>
<p>Following Joseph Armstrong&#39;s death, the property passed to his son, Jay Armstrong. Jay died in 1956. His wife,Evelyn, lived alone in the house until her death in 1981 when the house was sold.</p><br>
<p>Seneca Aqueduct — or Aqueduct No. 1 — is a naviduct that carries the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal  over Seneca Creek in Montgomery County, Maryland. The C&O built eleven aqueducts along its 184.5 mi length. Seneca Aqueduct is a unique structure, not only being the first built, but also the only red sandstone aqueduct on the C&O−and the only aqueduct that is also a lock . It is located at the end of Rileys Lock Road in Seneca, Maryland.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Seneca Aqueduct was built from 1829 to 1832 with three red sandstone arches quarried in the nearby Seneca Quarry, just a few hundred feet to the west. The initial stretch of the C&O Canal opened in 1830 up to Seneca Creek; the next segment opened from Seneca to Harpers Ferry in 1833. This included a sizable turning basin, just west of the aqueduct, where canal boats could anchor or turn around. Next to the aqueduct and lock is the lock keeper&#39;s house, also made from Seneca red sandstone. Because of the canal, the nearby quarry operations, and additional mills on Seneca Creek, the town of Seneca was an active working class community.</p><br>
<p>In 1897, the steam packet boat Anna Wilson leaving the aqueduct, collided with a freight boat loaded with watermelons, and sank. There were no injuries to the passengers. Local residents had "a ball" fishing out the watermelons floating in the basin.</p><br>
<p>The canal closed in 1924 after ninety-six years in operation.</p><br>
<p>A major flood in September 1971 took out the westernmost of the three arches. The National Park Service has since shored up the aqueduct with steel beams.</p><br>
<p>Seneca Aqueduct is part of the C&O Canal National Historic Park and is administered by the National Park Service. The aqueduct is included in the Seneca Historic District in Montgomery County, Maryland.</p><br>
<p>The Dement Printing Company is a historic printing company in Meridian, Mississippi established in 1875. The building in which the company currently operates was built in 1909 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The company has been continually owned and operated by someone in the Dement family since its founding.</p><br>
<h2>Foundation</h2><br>
<p>Though the Dement Printing Company wasnt officially founded until 1875, the Dement family was in the business of printing well before then. The first Dement to learn the printing trade was James Prentiss Dement (1815–1867), who became an apprentice in 1831. James son, John Joseph Dement (1844–1926), began the Dement Printing Company in the Lockhard Building at the corner of 25th Avenue and Front Street in 1875. Charles Pinckney Dement (1842–1913), Johns brother, is listed in the 1882 Meridian Business Directory as a "book and job printer" in the company. Charles, along with his son James Washington Dement (1874–1964), also founded The Meridian Star, Meridians only daily newspaper, in 1898.</p><br>
<p>The business was later sold to John Joseph&#39;s son, John Vance Dement (1873–1949), who moved the business to the intersection of 23rd Avenue and 4th Street. John Vance partnered with his brother, Frank Eugene Dement (1878–1963), and one other helper. John Vance and Frank again moved the business to a building located at 2315 4th Street in 1900. The business continued to grow during the seven years it was located at this site, adding not only more employees but more printing equipment as well.</p><br>
<h2>Dement Printing Company building</h2><br>
<p>In 1909 the company had grown enough that the Dements decided to construct their own building at 2002 6th Street. The building, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is notable for its inclusion of classical elements in an industrial structure. The two-story brick building lies on a triangular block, giving it an unusual shape. The main entrance is located at the intersection of 20th Avenue and 6th Street on a cutaway corner. Above the main entrance, the company name and construction date are inscribed into the face of the building. A water table is painted white, and the capitals of the pilasters below each window bay contain a unique "running-dog" pattern. An old side entrance, later enclosed, was highlighted by a stone cornice with corbels which also featured this running-dog pattern.</p><br>
<p>The building has been altered several times since its construction. New space for offices, a composing room, a press room, an offset printing room, and a bindery room have been added over the 100+ years in which the company has operated. At its peak the company took up nearly the entire block and employed 70 people, making it one of the largest printing companies in the state.</p><br>
<h2>Later generations</h2><br>
<p>Frank Dement sold his share of the business to his brother, John Vance, and moved to Texas in 1913. After John Vance died in 1949, his children took over the business. All seven of his children worked in the business at some time during their lives. John Ernest Dement (b. April 29, 1944), grandson of John Vance through James H Dement (1915–1987), took over the company in 1974. His wife, Judy, and children, Corey and Scott, also help with the business. Corey and Scott are thus the fifth generation to be involved in the family business, beginning with the founder, John Joseph Dement.</p><br>
<h2>Products</h2><br>
<p>Throughout its lifetime, Dement Printing Company has produced many different products. At the turn of the 20th century when the business was located on 4th Street, popular products included letterheads, envelopes, statements, circulars, and order blanks. During World War II, Dement Printing Company was asked to fill a $26,000 order of carbon paper for Brookley Field in Mobile, Alabama. The company was also asked to print blueprints for the Air Base at Key Field in Meridian. Other products and services that have been offered by the company include book bindings, ruling, lithographing, photostating, and rubber stamps.</p><br>
<p>When desktop publishing and home printing grew in popularity, Dement (and many other printing businesses) saw a great reduction in sales. The company shrank from its peak of 70 employees to 22. To cope with the change, the company created a "Generations" department, which prints wedding favors (invitations, picture books, etc.) and baby pictures. The company has also profited from selling office supplies and rents out parts of the building to other businesses.</p><br>
<p>Çamlıca Hill , aka Big Çamlıca Hill  to differentiate from the nearby Little Çamlıca Hill , is a hill in Üsküdar district of Istanbul, Turkey. Situated on the Asian part of the city at 268 m above sea level, Çamlıca Hill has a panoramic view of the southern part of Bosphorus and the mouth of Golden Horn.</p><br>
<p>The hill is a popular visitor attraction. There is historical-designed teahouses, cafes and a restaurant inside a public park with monumental trees, flower gardens and fountains, run by the Metropolitan Municipality.</p><br>
<p>A television and several radio masts and towers stand atop the hill. To remove the visual pollution caused by the masts, the construction of a 365.5 m-high television tower with a revolving restaurant at 202.5 m and two observation decks has been projected by the Ministry of Transport, Maritime and Communication in October 2014.</p><br>
<h2>New Mosque</h2><br>
<p>Çamlıca Mosque is set to be completed as the largest mosque in Asia Minor by the end of 2016, able to accommodate 37,500 people, and will include a museum, art gallery, library, conference hall, and underground parking lot.</p><br>
<p>St. John&#39;s Episcopal Church is a parish of the Diocese of Iowa, located in Dubuque, Iowa, United States. The church was included as a contributing property in the Jackson Park Historic District that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Rev. Henry Tullidge arrived at Grace Church in Galena, Illinois in November 1834 as a missionary supported by Grace Church in Providence, Rhode Island. The first services in Dubuque were held sometime not long after his arrival. Tullidge served the spiritual needs of people in the surrounding area. St. Johns parish in Dubuque was organized in 1845 and a brick church was built on the corner of Ninth and Locust Streets. The parish continued to grow, but the American Civil War delayed any plans for a new church. A parish womans organization raised the money to buy the property on the corner of Loras and Main Streets. At the time a tenement named Norton&#39;s Rookery stood on the site.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the present church began in 1875 and it was completed three years later. The church was designed in the High Victorian Gothic style by New York architect Henry M. Congdon. The rough-cut limestone for the walls was quarried in nearby Farley, Iowa. The church follows a cross-shaped plan. It features a crenelated corner tower, recessed entryways, a rose window, roof dormers, and a shorter tower toward the back of the church that is capped by a spire.</p><br>
<p>The Municipality of Rethymno  is a municipality in the Rethymno of the region of Crete established by Kallikratis reform. It consists of the unification of the pre-existing municipalities Arkadi, Lappa, Rethymno and Nikiforos Fokas of Rethymno Prefecture. The extent of the new municipality is 396.256 km&sup2, and it had a population of 55,525 inhabitants at the 2011 census. The seat of the new municipality is the town Rethymno.</p><br>
<h2>Subdivisions</h2><br>
<p>The Municipality of Rethymno consists of the following communities:</p><br>
<p>Municipal unit of Arkadi: local communities of: Adele, Amnatos, Ancient Eleftherna, Eleftherna Village, Erfi, Kyrianna, Mesi, Pangalohori, Pigi, Prinos, Skouloufia, Chamalevri, Charkia</p><br>
<p>Municipal unit of Lappa: local communities of: Argyroupoli, Archondiki, Vilandredo, Episkopi, Karoti, Kato Poros, Koufi, Myriokefala</p><br>
<p>Municipal unit of Nikiforos Fokas: municipal community of Atsipopoulo and local communities of: Agios Kostantinos, Ano Valsamonero, Gerani, Gonia, Zouridi, Kaloniktis, Kato Valsamonero, Kato Malaki, Mountros, Prines, Roustika, Saitoures, Frantzeskiana Metochia</p><br>
<p>Municipal unit of Rethymno: municipal community of Rethymno and local communities of: Armeni, Goulediana, Kare, Kastelos, Koumi, Maroulas, Oros, Prasies, Rousospiti, Selli, Chromonastiri</p><br>
<h2>Agenda of cultural events in the municipality</h2><br>
<p>February: Carnival (Rethymno), Smudge (Armeni)</p><br>
<p>June: Renaissance Festival (Rethymno)</p><br>
<p>July: Renaissance Festival (Rethymno), Feast of St. Panteleimon (Adele, Chromonastiri), Feast of the Prophet Elias (Eleftherna)</p><br>
<p>August: Cultural events (Rethymno), Maritime Week (Rethymno)</p><br>
<p>September: Feast of Virgin Mary (Myriokefala)</p><br>
<h2>Cadastre</h2><br>
<p>Several areas of this municipality are included in the Cadastre system and is under the authority of the Cadastral Office of Rethymno, namely: the area and the suburbs of the city of Rethymno since 12 March 2012, Adele since 18 Mai 2006, Argyroupoli since 28 March 2005, Armenoi and Somatas since 15 September 2005, Atsipopoulo since 3 January 2006, Gerani since 28 March 2005, Episkopi, Archontiki, Koufi and Karoti since 21 July 2005, Maroulas since 21 July 2005, Prasies since 7 July 2005, Prines since 6 October 2005, Rousospiti since 21 July 2005, Chromonastiri, Myli and Kapediana since 7 July 2005</p><br>
<h2>Province</h2><br>
<p>The province of Rethymno (Επαρχία Ρεθύμνης) was one of the provinces of the Rethymno Prefecture. It had the same territory as the present municipality. It was abolished in 2006.</p><br>
<p>Perumukkal  is a small village in the Tindivanam  municipality of the Villuppuram  district in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. The major occupation of its residents is agriculture. In 2011 it had a population of 3,000.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>During the Chola dynasty, Perumukkal was known as "perumukkilaana gangai konda nalloor" (பெருமுக்கிலான கங்கை கொண்ட நல்லூர்). The current name is an abbreviation of this earlier title.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Perumukkal is located 12 km east of Tindivanam, 25 km west of Marakkanam on the Tindivanam-Marakkanam road.</p><br>
<p>Important Person :</p><br>
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<p>=&gt;PNSR SARAN.Bsc,BL</p><br>
<p>(president)-Vannaiya sanga Thalaivar Perumukkal.</p><br>
<p>=&gt; RM.MURUGAN</p><br>
<p>(Countsilar of village)-Vanniya Sanga Thunai Seyalalar Perumukkal.</p><br>
<p>=&gt; SURE.Bsc</p><br>
<p>(Vice President)-Vanniyar sanga porulalar Perumukkal.</p><br>
<h2>Hospitals/Clinics</h2><br>
<p>The medical centers in Perumukkal include Sakthi Hospital, Suresh Clinic, Akshaya Clinic, Sabari Hospital, Nikesh Hospital, Sathiah Hospital, and Sweetysaran Hospital.</p><br>
<h2>Historical Sites</h2><br>
<p>The recorded history of Perumukkal dates back six millennia. Historical landmarks in Perumukkal include the 4000 B.C.E. Petroglyph, the 7th century Mukthialeeswarar Temple, the ruined Kamatchiamman temple, and a Dargah.</p><br>
<h3>Petroglyphs</h3><br>
<p>Petroglyphs are found in Sita Cave, which is located at the top of a hill near the village. Local people believe Sita, the central female character in the Hindu epic Ramayana, lived in this cave. This is the only petroglyph ever discovered in Tamil Nadu and is one of the four found in India. These petroglyphs are similar to the Egyptian Hieroglyphics letters and hence are believed to be from around 4000 B.C.E. However, some researchers date these to the megalithic age.</p><br>
<h3>Perumukkal Fort</h3><br>
<p>The Perumukkal Fort is a small fort about 437 feet above sea level. Situated on a hill, ruins of the fort are an indication of where it once stood. This fort has been subject to various conquests. In 1761 it was captured by Sir Eyre Coote of the British East India Company. In 1780 the fort was captured by Haider, and regained by the English in 1783. In 1790 it was taken by Tippu.</p><br>
<h3>Mukthialeeswarar Temple</h3><br>
<p>The Mukthialeeswarar Temple, located atop of the Perumukkal hillock, had originally been built in brick, was converted to a stone temple during the period of Vikrama Chola</p><br>
<p>(1118-35 CE). The deity of the temple is known as Tiruvanmikai Eswaramudayar, as well as Perumukkal Udayar in Tamil (பெருமுக்கல் உடையார்) and Mukthiyaleeswarar in Sanskrit. The donations made by the Chola, Pandya, Sambuvaraya, Vijayanagara rulers have been recorded in more than 60 Vatteluthu inscriptions found on the temple walls dating back to the 7th century C.E.</p><br>
<h2>Picture Gallery</h2><br>
<p>The Olkaria Area is a region located immediately to the south of Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya, Africa. It is geothermally active and is being used to generate growing quantities of clean electrical power. The region has an estimated potential of 2,000 MW. This is almost double the maximum daily electricity peak demand recorded in 2008/2009 for the entire country.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The geothermal complex and power plants lie within the Hell&#39;s Gate National Park.</p><br>
<p>The Olkaria volcanic area is about 120 km from Nairobi. It lies south of the Ol Doinyo Eburru complex and north of the Suswa volcano; it is east of the rift valley&#39;s western margin and west of Mount Longonot, a stratovolcano. The volcanic field covers 240 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>The largest structure is Olkaria Hill, 2 km across and 340 m high. A narrow gorge that crosses the complex with cliffs up to 200 m high was formed by water flowing out of Lake Naivasha during a period in the past when water levels were much higher than today.</p><br>
<h2>Volcanism</h2><br>
<p>The surface at Olkaria is dominated by a peralkaline rhyolite dome and lava field. The complex contains many centers of volcanic activity that often erupt in small volumes. There are at least eighty such centers of activity, mostly either thick lava flows or steep-sided lava and pyroclastic domes.</p><br>
<p>Rock from a borehole 1,000 m deep at Olkaria is around 450,000 years old., but the surface features are no more than 20,000 years old. The oldest exposed sequence is the Ol Njorowa pantellerite formation of pyroclastic rocks, lava flows and plugs. This is thought to be related to a caldera 11 km by 7.5 km that later collapsed but is indicated by traces of a ring fracture. The magma has a wide range of compositions representing the different phases after the caldera collapsed. Although dating is not precise, it seems that the older rocks date to before 9,000 years before present, while the youngest rocks in the Olobutot formation are between 130 and 230 years old.</p><br>
<h2>Geothermal potential</h2><br>
<p>Olkaria lies within the Naivasha sub-basin, known for hot springs, hot grounds and fumaroles.</p><br>
<p>Further north, Lake Bogoria has steam jets and geysers with temperatures as high as 96 &deg;C.</p><br>
<p>There are steam fumaroles at Njorowa Gorge in Olkaria.</p><br>
<p>In the underground reservoirs, temperatures of 280 &deg;C have been measured at nearby Eburru and 340 &deg;C at Olkaria. The geothermal production zones at Olkaria are at depths of between 750 m to 1,000 m, and further down at between 1,100 m to 1,300 m below the surface.</p><br>
<p>Lake Naivasha underground water may be feeding the geothermal reservoir at Olkaria, which has caused concern since the lake has been shrinking in size recently.</p><br>
<p>However the absence of tritium in the steam shows that the water is taking at least fifty years to travel from the lake, if that is indeed the source.</p><br>
<h2>Exploitation</h2><br>
<p>The first geothermal exploration of Olkaria started in 1955. Two unsuccessful test wells had been drilled by 1959. Little more was done until 1967, when 27 shallow wells up to 61 m were drilled, some of which emitted steam.</p><br>
<p>Starting in 1970 the Kenya Power Company (now the Kenya Electricity Generating Company, or KenGen) and the United Nations Development Programme began systematic efforts to survey and then exploit the geothermal potential. Production wells were drilled and commercial generation of electricity started in July 1981 with a plant built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries containing a 15 MW turbo-generator.</p><br>
<p>A second 15 MW turbine came online in December 1982 and a third in March 1985, bringing total output up to 45 MW of which 3.3MW is used to power the station itself.</p><br>
<p>Thirty production wells had been sunk by 1999 of which twenty-seven were productive, each yielding from 1.5 MW to 8 MW. Currently, 15 wells are being used to power the Olkaria I station.</p><br>
<p>Following rising power demands, a third station, Olkaria II was built with a production capacity of 105MW with 5.2MW used to power the station itself. It is powered by 3 Mitsubishi turbines each capable of generating 35MW. The steam is obtained from 22 wells each producing an estimate of 35 tonnes of steam per hour.</p><br>
<p>As of 2005 KenGen owned the Olkaria I (45 MW) and Olkaria II (70 MW) power plants.</p><br>
<p>A third power station with 48 MW capacity, Olkaria III, is privately owned by a subsidiary of Ormat Technologies.</p><br>
<p>The Olkaria III plant uses air-cooled converters, ensuring that there is no surface discharge.</p><br>
<p>This new technology has the least impact on the environment of any power generated in Kenya.</p><br>
<p>The project will probably qualify for carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol&#39;s Clean Development Mechanism.</p><br>
<p>In February 2010 Ormat announced plans to increase the capacity of their plant to as much as 100 MW.</p><br>
<p>In 2005 KenGen was planning to build a fourth plant.</p><br>
<p>An environmental and social impact assessment was approved by the National Environmental Management Authority, including resettlement of some Maasai communities.</p><br>
<p>In December 2010 the European Investment Bank recommended providing partial financing for a project to expand Olkaria I and build Olkaria IV, adding 280 MW to its capacity.</p><br>
<p>KenGen estimates that the area has a total potential of 2,000 MW.</p><br>
<p>The Richter Brewery, also known as the Delta Building, is a commercial building located at 1615 Ludington Street in Escanaba, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Richter Brewing Company was organized in Escanaba in 1901. The company immediately hired a Milwaukee firm to design the building. Construction of the Richter Brewery proceeded from 1900 into 1901, and the Richter Brewery began manufacture in early 1901. Over the next few years, additional buildings were constructed, including a keg house, office building, bottling plant, ice house and stable. All but the 1915 office building were demolished in 1929. The brewery closed at the beginning of Prohibition, and it was sold in 1925. The building was then used to manufacture non-alcoholic beverages. At the end of Prohibition, it was sold to the Delta Brewery Company. The building was again used to brew beer until the Delta Brewing Company went bankrupt in 1940.</p><br>
<p>The building remained vacant until the late 2000s. The building was purchased in 2008 with the intention of renovating it into loft apartment space; As of early 2012, the renovation was nearly complete, with 9 apartments leased and one of the three commercial spaces filled.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Richter Brewery is a four story Late Victorian building, measuring 82 ft by 72 ft, with some Romanesque Revival architectural elements. The building has corner towers and round-head windows.</p><br>
<p>Chromonastiri is a local community of the Rethymno Municipality in the Rethymno  of the region of Crete established by Kallikratis reform. Previously, it was part of the former municipality of Rethymno.</p><br>
<p>Chromonastiri is a traditional settlement and is classified in Class II, that is of average cultural value (Government Gazette 728/21-9-1995). Buildings with Venetian architectural elements are scattered throughout the village. In the years 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009 Chromonastiri received an award of the "cleaner and organized traditional community"</p><br>
<h2>Origin of name, History</h2><br>
<p>Chromonastiri is located 11 km southeast of Rethymno, east of the Mount Vrisinas at an altitude of 360 meters The name means “Color and Monastery”, and probably this name comes by the coexistence of the village and the monastery of Panayía Kerá (back to the Second Byzantine and Venetian period). Built around the 12th-13th centuries and has been characterized as a traditional village, as several buildings were built during the Venetian period.</p><br>
<p>The local community of Chromonastiri consists of four settlements: Chromonastiri, Prinedes (Πρινέδες), Kapediana (Καπεδιανά) and Myli, Rethymno (Μύλοι).</p><br>
<h2>Temples, monuments, and major buildings</h2><br>
<p>The Church of Panayía Kerá is a painted Byzantine church of cruciform shape with a dome, dating from the 11th century, with frescoes of 14th century.</p><br>
<p>Another important Byzantine church of the 11th century - that of Ayios Eftychios - is situated outside Chromonastiri at the area called Perdíki Metóhi, again with amazing frescoes of the 11th century (amazing are the huge eyes of the saints and especially of Christ)</p><br>
<p>The Parish Church of this settlement is St. George Church.</p><br>
<p>Villa Clodio: Buildings with Venetian architectural elements are scattered in the village, but the most important building is the so-called Villa Clodio, which used to be the summer residence of Venetian nobles from Rethymno and in the Ottoman period it was a house of an Ottoman dignitary (konak). It is a magnificent mansion which has been restored and houses the Military Museum. The Military Museum houses many exhibits - military uniforms, weapons of various ages, decorations, etc.</p><br>
<p>The oil mill of Prinari: The old factory (oil mill) of Prinari, fully renovated, with all its old equipment, located in the settlement, welcomes visitors to its cultural learning centre for an experience to learn all things relating to the olive and its milling process.</p><br>
<h2>Daily life, Festivities</h2><br>
<p>The village celebrates Saint Panteleimon’s name day (27 July)</p><br>
<h2>Miscellaneous</h2><br>
<p>There is public bus service (KTEL) from Rethymno (two services, morning and noon on weekdays and not weekends)</p><br>
<p>Since 7 July 2005 the area of Chromonastiri is included in the Cadastre system and is under the authority of the Cadastral Office of Rethymno (20 Hortatzis Str., ZIP: 74100, Rethymno, Phone n.: 0030-28310-22403)</p><br>
