<p>The Chorabari Glacier or Chorabari Bamak Glacier is a glacier in the Garhwal Himalaya region of the state of Uttarakhand in India. The glacier lies close to Kedarnath, an important destination for Hindu pilgrims. One of the glacier&#39;s two snouts is the source for the Mandakini River, a tributary of the Alaknanda river.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The glacier lies between latitudes 30°44′50″N and 30°45′30″N, and longitudes 79°1′16″E and 79°5′20″E, from an altitude of approximately 6,000 m at the slopes of Kedarnath peak, to 3,800 m. The glacier is around 7 km in length, while the basin area of the glacier is approximately 38 km&sup2; and the glacier ice cover is 5.9 km&sup2;. The glacier slope is around 11 degrees and faces south. The glacier has two snouts. It is hypothesized by R. K. Chaujar that an original single glacier covered the area, which while receding, split into two snouts. One of the snouts is the source of the Mandakini River at 3,865 m. The other snout, at 3,835 m, drains into the Chorabari Tal.</p><br>
<h2>Glacier retreat</h2><br>
<p>Though the glacier has not been extensively studied in the past, records of its extent exist from 1962 onwards. Since then, studies conducted at the Chorabari glacier are playing an important role in determining the impact of global warming on Himalayan glaciers. The presence of debris and boulders on the glaciers surface comparatively retard the melting of the ice. Retreat for this glacier can be traced from 1960. In recent years, annual observations have been taken of the retreat. Though the glacier has been continuously retreating for the period between 1960 and 2007, this evidence is not conclusively linked to global warming. R. K. Chaujars research indicates that the glacier has gone through other periods of retreat and advance in the past. Through lichenometry and the study of engravings on the walls of Kedarnath temple, Chaujar concludes that the Chorabari glacier began its current retreat over two-and-a-half centuries ago in 1748. It has been argued that this indicates that the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age were not restricted to Europe. This has also been proposed as evidence that the current retreat of Himalayan glaciers may not solely be due to the effects of human activity and global warming.</p><br>
<h2>Chorabari Tal</h2><br>
<p>One of the two snouts of the Chorabari glacier terminates at the tarn, Chorabari Tal. Located about 4 km from the town of Kedarnath, the lake is visited by tourists in summer, though not in large numbers because of the trek involved in getting there. The lake is also known as Kanti Sarovar. According to yogic legends, Shiva, who is considered the Adi Guru or first guru, transmitted yoga to the Saptarishis, on the bank of this lake. In 1948, some of Mahatma Gandhi&#39;s ashes were immersed in the lake, after which it was renamed Gandhi Sarovar. Close to the glacier is a Bhairava temple, adjacent to which is a cliff named Bhairava Jhamp. The cliff was a place where devotees leaped off, believing that it would bring them mukti. The practice was banned by the British administration in the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<p>Mount Data is a mountain located in the Cordillera Central mountain range rising to a height of 2,310 m in the north of Luzon Island, Philippines. It is about 50 km north of Baguio on the borders of the provinces of Benguet and Mountain Province along the Halsema Highway. The mountain and surrounding area has been declared a National Park since 1936. In 1940 the park was expanded to 5,512 hectare. The slopes of the mountain used to be covered with pine forests and mossy oak forests; but its now almost totally converted to commercial vegetable farms! https://www.gosur.com/map/?search=Google%20Maps%20Satellite.-&sourcemap=Google%20Earth&satellite=1&gclid=CJPD19vGydACFQybvAod2XALgg#</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>Mount Data is formerly known for its great biological diversity and is a place that has long been in the attention of biologists. In 1895, the Englishman John Whitehead gathered a vast collection of mammals and birds from the mountain. This mammal collection was then donated to the British Museum. A research by renowned zoologist Oldfield Thomas showed that many unknown species inhabit the area. Half a century later, a large collection of small mammals was collected by an expedition led by the Filipino biologist Dioscoro S. Rabor. Some of these mammals are Carpomys melanurus (short-footed Luzon tree rat) and Carpomys phaeurus (white-bellied Luzon tree rat). In addition to several rare species of mammals, there are also some bird species like the Collocalia whiteheadi (Whitehead&#39;s swiftlet) which was only known then from a specimen that was caught during the expedition of John Whitehead on the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Rudolph Walton School is a historic school building located in the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built in 1900–1901, and is a 3 1/2-story building, of coursed, cast stone ashlar. Brick additions were built in 1915 and 1924. It has a low hipped roof and large double hung windows. The projecting central entrance pavilion has a Renaissance Revival-style portico. It was among the first schools designed by J. Horace Cook after his appointment as Supervising Architect for the School Board. The school was named for merchant Rudolph Walton .</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. The school has been abandoned since 2003 despite attempts to re-open as a charter school.</p><br>
<p>Bodorgan Hall is a country house and estate located in the hamlet of Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales, situated near the Irish Sea in the southwestern part of the island. The hall is the seat of the Meyricks, and is the largest estate on Anglesey. The hall is the home of Sir George Meyrick and his wife, Lady Jean Tapps Gervis Meyrick who is the niece of the Duke of Buccleuch.</p><br>
<p>The house, dovecote and barn are Grade II listed buildings and it is also listed as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and Environmentally Sensitive Area on the Malltraeth estuary. The estate contains woodland, terraced and walled kitchen gardens, a large circular dovecote, lawn and a deer park. The house was completed between 1779–82, and significant additions were made in the mid nineteenth century.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Bodorgan has existed for over a thousand years. During the mediaeval period it was an estate belonging to the bishops of Bangor. Probably at the time Rowland Meyrick was Bishop of Bangor (1559–66), the estate became demesne land of the Meyrick family, one of the most powerful families on Anglesey. A Tudor mansion was built with sprawling gardens, which can be seen on an estate map drawn by Lewis Morris in 1724. This was demolished in 1779 to make way for a new house, outbuildings and a poultry court, designed by the architect John Cooper for Owen Putland Meyrick and built in 1779–82. The design shows some similarities to Baron Hill House in which Cooper had been employed as an assistant to Samuel Wyatt, working for Lord Bulkeley.</p><br>
<p>Owen Fuller Meyrick inherited Bodorgan Hall in 1825 and made extensive changes to the driveway and gardens, and moved the entrance to the north of the house instead of the east. He was responsible for building the porch and forecourt before his death in 1876.</p><br>
<p>In October 1926, Anglesey&#39;s first record of the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker was reported at Bodorgan Hall.</p><br>
<p>Today, the hall is the home of Sir George Meyrick and his wife, Lady Jean Tapps Gervis Meyrick who is the niece of the Duke of Buccleuch. The estate includes a farmhouse rented by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Bodorgan is a neo-classical mansion, "built of smooth ashlar masonry in a pale, yellowish stone, with a slate roof." The entrance to the house is on the north front, which has a portico in the centre. The tops of two doors of the facade are adorned with bas-reliefs and there are half-columns and four alcoves along this side. The east front of the house has nine bays, with three in the centre "on a semi-circular bow with a domed roof." The north and south sides have single-storey wings, added in the mid 19th century, and are of a lesser quality. An aviary was once located in the southern extension, which now has "two open-fronted loggias".</p><br>
<p>The terraces of the estate date to the late 1840s. In 1922 the kitchen gardens covered an area of more than three and a half acres but have since been reduced to about two acres. An article of the Cottage Gardener in January 1854 described "two perpendicular glass walls 11 ft high, supported on pillars and about 20 in apart, with a glass roof" and that peaches, melons, nectarines, apricots and figs were grown in the garden. Beyond the gardens is an orchard, the deer park and the Malltraeth estuary.</p><br>
<p>The estate contains a number of old barns and outer buildings. To the north of the house is a stable yard, in front of the coach house, dated to around 1841. There are numerous carriage houses and sheds surrounding this.</p><br>
<p>Lake Moody is a natural freshwater lake with a 409 acre surface area. Shaped somewhat like a flint arrowhead, Lake Moody is in an area of sparse residential development. A scattering of residences, as well as citrus groves, are on the south side of the lake along South Lake Moody Road. On the west side the lake is bordered by the Scenic Route of Highway 17. A few residences line the west side of the highway and the shore on west side is all private property. Most of the area along the highway is bordered by citrus groves. North Lake Moody Road borders the northwest part of the lake. The shore borders much of the road right-of-way on this road. Lake Moody is bordered on the northeast by citrus groves and some swampy areas of ground. A railroad line, more swamp and citrus groves line the east shore.</p><br>
<p>This lake is in a very hilly rural area consisting of cattle grazing land and citrus groves. The town of Frostproof, Florida, is about 0.5 mi to the south and Lake Leonore is about 1,500 ft to the northeast. This lake has no public swimming area or boat ramp. Fishing may be done along North Lake Moody Road. The Hook and Bullet website says Lake Moody contains black drum, bigmouth buffalo and Atlantic salmon.</p><br>
<p>Hilfield Castle, also Hilfield Lodge, is a country estate and house about 1.8 mi by road southwest of Aldenham, Hertfordshire, on the outskirts of London. It contains a large reservoir which was built by French prisoners of war in the 1790s, and Elstree Aerodrome is located just to the east and the M1 motorway passes to the west.</p><br>
<h2>History and description</h2><br>
<p>The castle dates to 1798-99, when it was built by architect Jeffry Wyatt for Hon. George Villiers, brother of the earl of Clarendon. to replace Slys Castle. It is a picturesque Gothic design, and the estate includes numerous cottages, barns and a boathouse on the reservoir.</p><br>
<p>Nikolaus Pevsner notes that it is a "castellated, turreted, and cemented house with a gatehouse complete with portcullis". He also notes that the entrance and south sides are symmetrical and that the conservatory is of "ecclesiastical appearance." It became a Grade II* listed building on 1 June 1984. It was owned for years by the Jefferis family.</p><br>
<p>It was sold in 1818 by Villiers to John Fam Timins. He had served in the British East India Company, for whom he had captained several East Indiamen; he had most notably participated in the Battle of Pulo Aura. When he died in 1843, his son William Raikes Timins succeeded him. He died in 1866, and was succeeded by his nephew the Rev. Douglas Cartwright Timins, who died in 1872, when Hilfield passed to his son Douglas Theodore, who sold the house and park in 1906 to the late Lord Aldenham. Mr. Timins still holds some of the property, and the house is unoccupied.</p><br>
<h2>Film location</h2><br>
<p>The castles close proximity to Borehamwood Studios and charismatic appearance has seen it feature in several TV series and films, including Stanley Kubricks 1962 picture Lolita when it served as Peter Sellerss “Pavor Manor”, George Pollocks 1963 picture Murder at the Gallop, and the 1969-70 Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) episode "For the Girl Who Has Everything" when it was occupied by Lois Maxwell.</p><br>
<p>The Harischandra Range is a group of hills in the state of Maharashtra, India. It lies in the northwestern region of the Deccan Plateau, between the Godavari and the Bhima rivers. These are low-lying hills with an average elevation of about 600 metres, and they lose elevation in the southeastern direction. The Kalsubai is the highest peak. The Harishchandragad is another important peak. The range is thought to have been formed as a result of the downward erosion of the basaltic Deccan Plateau by the Godavari and Bhima rivers. In the northwest, the range merges with the Western Ghats.</p><br>
<p>The vegetation consists of deciduous forests, especially teak. Ahmednagar is the important city of this region, and the hills lie between Ahmednagar and Pune.</p><br>
<p>Lake Almere was an inland lake in the place of today&#39;s IJsselmeer in the center of the Netherlands.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The texts of ancient Romans called it Lake Flevo.</p><br>
<p>Lake Almere is mentioned among others in a life of saints written by Anglo-Saxon Bishop Saint Boniface in 753, and a deed of gift from the town of Urk.</p><br>
<p>Its etymology may be eels, in Dutch aal or ael, so: "ael mere"="eel lake"</p><br>
<p>Presumably, the water of Lake Almere at that time was fresh water or slightly brackish.</p><br>
<p>A number of occurrences during the Middle Ages led to the transformation of the lake to an inland sea that would be called the Zuiderzee, which are:</p><br>
<p>* rising sea levels due to global warming known as the Medieval Warm Period.</p><br>
<p>* excavation of peat by the Frisians in West Friesland near the Vlie, a river that connected lake Almere to the North Sea.</p><br>
<p>* floods such as the All Saints&#39; Flood (1170) and St. Lucia&#39;s flood 1287.</p><br>
<h2>The name</h2><br>
<p>The name of the new town of Almere in Flevoland was given in 1984 in memory of this body of water.</p><br>
<p>The Arcadia Round Barn is a landmark and tourist attraction on historic USA Route 66 in Arcadia, Oklahoma, United States. It was built by local farmer William Harrison Odor in 1898 using native bur oak boards soaked while green and forced into the curves needed for the walls and roof rafters. A second level was incorporated for use as a community gathering place. The town of Arcadia developed and prospered with the arrival of the railroad and in the 1920s the newly commissioned Route 66 was aligned through the town, passing next to the Round Barn. Over time, the barn became the most photographed landmark on Route 66.</p><br>
<p>With the reduction of traffic along Route 66 following the arrival of the Interstate, Arcadia and the barn likewise declined. In 1988 the 60 foot diameter roof collapsed. A team of volunteers led by Luther Robison worked to rebuild the structure, and restoration work was completed in 1992. Today the old barn is a tourist attraction and visitors admire the architectural and engineering details of America&#39;s only truly round (as opposed to hexagonal or octagonal) barn.</p><br>
<p>Shikarpur is a village in Bhachau Taluka of Kutch district of Gujarat, India. Nearby excavations have revealed a site belonging to the Indus Valley Civilisation, also known as the Harappan civilisation.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The fort of the village was built in the 19th century. It includes the tombs of three Muslim saints: Patha, Gebansha Multani, and Asaba. Patha, who is said to have come from Sindh, earned his fame by changing salt water into fresh; Gebansha by continuing to fight after his head was cut off; and Asaba by curing the blind. The tombs are simple buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Archeology</h2><br>
<h3>Site description</h3><br>
<p>The archaeological site is 4.5 km south of Shikarpur, at Valmio Timbo. It consists of a Harappan settlement covering 3.4 hectares, where the main activity appears to have been the manufacture of artefacts.</p><br>
<h3>Excavation history</h3><br>
<p>Gujarat State Archaeology Department conducted excavations during 1987-1989. These revealed a deposit over 3 m thick, with its lower layers representing the Early Harappan period and the upper layers representing Mature Harappan. Further extensive excavations were carried in 2007-2008 by The Maharaja Sayyajirao University, Baroda. These discovered some important artefacts and other details.</p><br>
<h3>Artifacts</h3><br>
<p>Among the artefacts found are ornaments of semi-precious stones, steatite and terracotta, bangles made of shell and terracotta, copper chisels and knives, arrowheads, rings, terracotta toy cart frames, and animal figures. A depiction of a human torso made of terracotta was another important finding: this is well-baked, but the arms, head and lower part of the body are broken off. Pottery with various types of drawings and engraved designs were also found. Other findings include conch-shell bangles, slice, terracotta toy cartwheels and frame, bangles, triangular cakes, bull figurines,pecker points and trimmer made of bone, micro gold beads, carnelian drill-bits, dish on stand, bowls, miniature pots, etc. The assemblage of Rohri chert blades was also found.</p><br>
<p>Two terracotta sealings with inscriptions; on one seal is a picture of three headed unicorn; second sealing has three consecutive stampings of Harappan seals and the stamping is done in such a manner that the inscribed upper part of all three seals is clear. The reverse of the sealings bear the mark of thread and knots.</p><br>
<h3>Subsistence patterns</h3><br>
<p>15,483 bones pieces, which were excavated at Shikarpur and studied at Archaeology Laboratory, Deccan College Pune, reveal details about subsistence patterns of Harappans. 53.46% of the bones were identified which consisted 47 species including 23 mammals (cattle bones being numerous, wild buffalo, nilgai, blackbuck, deer, wild pig, hare, rhino etc.), three birds, five fish, 13 mollusks etc. which is broadly suggestive of food habits of Harappans. Bones of domesticated animals comprised 85 per cent of faunal assemblace in both early and mature Harappan phase. A small quantity of horse bones were also found here and these occur only in the Mature Harappan Phase.</p><br>
<p>The Hi-Mount Historic District is a historic neighborhood located two miles north of downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, United States. The eleven-block district, developed between 1938 and 1951, is one of the citys best-preserved twentieth century speculative neighborhoods. The district encompasses 168 contributing buildings and 1 contributing site. Most of Hi-Mounts homes are Minimal Traditional in style, followed by Cape Cod and Ranch homes with sparse detailing. A small number of developers were involved with the district and the district also benefited from government housing financing programs such as the Federal Housing Administration and the Veteran&#39;s Administration, resulting in architectural consistency throughout the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Sahuaro Ranch was founded in 1886, by William Henry Bartlett, a native of Illinois. The ranch, located north of what eventually became the city of Glendale, Arizona, was rich in figs and other fruit orchards, vineyards, and fields of alfalfa. The ranch has all of its historical structures restored, and the "Sahuaro Ranch Park" is administered by the Parks and Recreation Department of Glendale.</p><br>
<p>On March 7, 1980 Sahuaro Ranch was listed in the National Register of Historical Places.</p><br>
<h2>Ranch history</h2><br>
<h3>Bartlett era (1880 - 1913)</h3><br>
<p>William Henry Bartlett and his brother were wealthy businessmen from Peoria, Illinois who homesteaded lands in what was to become the future the City of Glendale founded by William John Murphy. What made an investment attractive was the completion of the Arizona Canal in 1885. The canal allowed 100,000 acres (40468.564 hec or 40468 hec (hectare) and 5642.2 m²) of desert land to be opened up to homesteading and irrigation farming. The Homestead Act was a United States federal law that gave an applicant ownership at no cost of farmland called a "homestead."</p><br>
<p>The Bartletts&#39; felt this was a great opportunity to invest in fruit ranching and farming. The brothers were owners of a grain brokerage business, and were amongst the largest traders in the Midwestern farm belt.</p><br>
<p>By 1891, William Bartlett had under his control 2,000 acres (809.371 hectares or 809 hec and 3712.8 m²) of farmland near Glendale. He established a 640-acre farm (25932.255 hec</p><br>
<p>or 25932 hec and 2559.5 m²) and named it named Sahuaro Ranch. There he planted large citrus and pecan orchards. Even though he never lived permanently at Sahuaro Ranch, Bartlett took an active role in its development and had various buildings and residences built for the people who worked there and for his family. He hired superintendents to manage his ranch operations.</p><br>
<p>In 1881, the first structure in what was to become the ranch was built. It was an adobe house which served as the residence and office of Stephen H. Campbell, the first superintendent to manage the ranch. In 1895, the superintendent’s residence was moved to the main house of the ranch and the adobe house was used to house the ranch employees. Bartlett had his hired hands plant figs and other fruit orchards, vineyards and alfalfa.</p><br>
<p>Other structures which were built on the ranch in the 1890s were the Foreman&#39;s House, the blacksmith shop and the horse barn. The Fruit Packing House, the largest packing house in the Salt River Valley, was built in 1891.</p><br>
<p>The farm animals raised in the ranch included cows, bulls and hogs. Between 500 and 1,000 hogs were raised in the ranch in the 1890s. Horses and mules were used to pull orchard wagons, mowers, rakes and other farming equipment.</p><br>
<p>The Guest House was built in 1898. When Bartlett&#39;s youngest son was stricken with tuberculosis while living in Chicago, his doctor recommended that he move to a warmer climate. Bartlett had the guest house building designed to accommodate the needs and comforts of his son and family.</p><br>
<p>In 1901, Bartlett had a pump house built for an oil-fired electrical generator. The pump house provided electricity to his ranch buildings with the help of a pump water. By 1905, the first automobiles were used in the ranch and Bartlett had a garage built to store his wagons and autos.</p><br>
<h3>Bradshaw (1913 - 1927) and Smith (1927 - 1977) eras</h3><br>
<p>In 1913, Peter E. Bradshaw purchased the ranch, and planted long-staple cotton in 1915.</p><br>
<p>In 1927, Richard W. Smith purchased the ranch and planted large citrus and pecan orchards.</p><br>
<p>In 1928, Smith built a dairy barn and raised dairy cows commercially. The milk from the cows was sold in bulk and shipped to local dairies in cans.</p><br>
<p>Richard W. Smith died in 1944. His son, Richard S. Smith, inherited the farm and established a retail dairy on the ranch, known as the Sahuaro Jersey Dairy Milk House.</p><br>
<h2>National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>In 1966, the City of Glendale, with the initiative of then Mayor Max Klass. began a process to purchase 80 acres (32.3748 hec</p><br>
<p>or 32 hec and 3748.5 m²) of the original 640 acres of the ranch. In 1977, the purchase was made possible by a federal grant and the City of Glendale proceeded to restore the historical structures in the ranch. After the City of Glendale purchased the land, Richard S. Smith was allowed to lease the ranch until 1980.</p><br>
<p>In March 7, 1980, Sahuaro Ranch was registered on the National Register of Historic Places after the city applied for the registration of 17 acres of the ranch. The ranch is open to the public and is located at 9802 North 59th Avenue and Mountain View.</p><br>
<h2>The Sahuaro Ranch fire</h2><br>
<p>On Monday, September 25, 2017 the blacksmith shop, built prior to 1927, and the granary building, built prior to 1927 and addition 1935 burned to the ground and days before that the milk house 1932 burned to the ground at historic Sahuaro Ranch. This is a terrible lost of important historical assets for the community. The park was closed on September 26, 2017 to allow for an investigation of the fires. The park has open up on September 27, 2017. The Glendale Arizona Historical Society stands ready to help and assist the City of Glendale in the investgation, rebuilding and remembrance of these historical resources.</p><br>
<h2>Gallery of historical Sahuaro Ranch</h2><br>
<p>Armenochori  "Armenoro"  is a village in the Florina regional unit, northern Greece. It is situated along the Greek National Road 2, 4 km northeast of Florina.</p><br>
<p>In 1990 the Armenochori Cultural Society started collecting objects from folk culture which led to the creation of the Folklore Collection. The collection is housed in the old primary school of Armenochori in the centre of the village. On display in the three rooms of the building are objects from folk culture, which come exclusively from the families of Armenochori. To be precise, there are mens and womens traditional costumes, domestic utensils, various metal, earthenware or wooden objects used in the home, objects relating to cottage industry, the most notable among them being a nineteenth-century loom, farming tools and tools of a number of other occupations, as well as the old pulpit from the village church.</p><br>
<p>Hiruzen, or Hiruzensanza, is a mountain located on the border of Okayama and Tottori prefectures on the main island of Honshu in Japan. Hiruzen consists of three peaks of similar elevation, the highest being Mt. Kamihiruzen  at 1,202 m. The Hiruzen Plateau, also called the Hiruzen Highland, is located entirely in Okayama Prefecture, and has an elevation of 500 m to 600 m. Hiruzen is an important part of the Daisen-Oki National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>The name of Hiruzen in the Japanese language is formed from two kanji characters, meaning garlic, and, meaning "mountain".</p><br>
<h2>Peaks</h2><br>
<p>The three peaks of Hiruzen are commonly known as the Hiruzen Sanza, or the "three seats of Hiruzen". They run from west to east and include:</p><br>
<p>Kamihiruzen, 1,202 km, translated as "upper Hiruzen"</p><br>
<p>Nakahiruzen, 1,122 km, or "central Hiruzen"</p><br>
<p>Shimohiruzen, 1,101 km, or "lower Hiruzen".</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mount Hiruzen has been settled from the Japanese stone age. Remains from the Jōmon period (14,000–300 BCE) are scattered across the Hiruzen and Ōbagun Basins. The Yayoi period (300 BCE–250 CE) saw a great population increase to the area south of Hiruzen. The Hiruzen Basin is home to six kofun burial mound groups, each featuring a medium-size round kofun of approximately 10 to 30 meters. The kofun groups of the Hiruzen Basin date to the late 5th century. By the Kamakura period (1185 &ndash; 1333) the Hiruzen Basin had become the northernmost point of the domain of the Tokuyama clan. In the Sengoku period (1467 &ndash; 1573) the Hiruzen region was contested by the Yamana, Akamatsu, Miura and other clans. After the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1603, the area was ruled peacefully under direct control of the shogunate, the Mori clan, the Matsudaira clan, and others.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Hiruzen is a dormant, but not extinct, volcano located to the southeast of Mount Daisen. An eruption of Daisen occurred approximately 350,000 years ago, and created a 200 hectare lake, known as Lake Hiruzenbara, above the Hiruzen Plateau. The lake supported an extensive population of diatoms for nearly 50,000 years, and Diatomaceous soil on the plain reaches 100 m deep in some areas. Lake Hiruzenbara was gradually eroded on its eastern perimeter by the Asahi River, and dried up and disappeared over time.</p><br>
<h3>Hiruzen Plateau</h3><br>
<p>The Hiruzen Plateau, known in Japanese as either the 蒜山高原 or 蒜山原, is located entirely in Okayama Prefecture at the southern foot of Hiruzen. The plateau has an elevation of 500 m to 600 m and measures 20 km east to west and 10 km north to south. The plateau and its surrounding areas have been developed for recreation, specifically skiing and camping. Hiruzen Jersey Land, a Jersey cattle ranch, is also located on the plateau. Hiruzen Horse Park offers horseback riding on the plateau.</p><br>
<h3>Asahi River</h3><br>
<p>The Hiruzen Plateau is the source of the Asahi River, which flows 142 km from Hiruzen south across the Okayama Plain, and empties into Kojima Bay on the Inland Sea in the eastern part of Okayama City. The Shiogama-reisen Cold Spring is designated as the source of the river, and is a protected natural habitat of the Japanese giant salamander. Yubara Dam, on the upper reaches of the Asahi, is approximately 12 km from Hiruzen and was completed in 1952. The dam forms an artificial lake, Lake Yubara (455 hectare), directly to the southeast of the Hiruzen Plateau. The Hiruzen Plateau has also developed recreational facilities for camping, skiing, and fishing.</p><br>
<h2>Hiking</h2><br>
<p>After Daisen, Hiruzen is the most visited mountain in Tottori Prefecture. Hiruzen is a popular hiking destination. All three peaks are suitable for beginning climbers. The summit of Kamihiruzen and Nakahiruzen can be reached in approximately two hours, and Shimohiruzen in one hour and forty minutes.</p><br>
<p>The Sawtooth Valley is a valley in the Western United States, in Blaine and Custer counties of central Idaho. About 30 mi long, it is located in Sawtooth National Recreation Area  in the Sawtooth National Forest. It is surrounded by the Sawtooth Mountains to the west, White Cloud Mountains to the east, Salmon River Mountains to the north, and Boulder and Smoky Mountains to the south. The valley contains the headwaters of the Salmon River, the city of Stanley, and community of Sawtooth City.</p><br>
<p>The entire length of the valley is traversed by Idaho State Highway 75, which is also known as the Sawtooth Scenic Byway. State Highway 75 enters the valley from the south at Galena Summit and exits to the north near Stanley. Highway 75 was formerly USA 93, which is now routed through Arco.</p><br>
<p>Sawtooth Valley contains several large lakes in the SNRA, including Redfish, Alturas, Pettit, and Stanley lakes. Valley floor elevations range from just under 6,300 ft near Stanley to over 7,500 ft below Galena Summit. Elevations along the valley&#39;s borders reach 11,815 ft at Castle Peak in the White Cloud Mountains to the east and 10,715 ft at Thompson Peak in the Sawtooth Mountains to the west.</p><br>
<p>Manda is a village near Jammu in India. It is considered to be the most northern site belonging to the Indus Valley Civilisation. It was excavated by Archaeological Survey of India during 1976-77 by J. P. Joshi.</p><br>
<h2>Excavation</h2><br>
<p>Excavation at Manda revealed a 9.20 m deposit with threefold sequence with two sub periods in Period I. Period II has early historical pottery of types comparable with those of same period from Northern part of India and period III is represented by Kushan antiquities and house walls with 3 m wide street. After the Kushan period, the site seems to have been deserted.</p><br>
<h2>Historical significance</h2><br>
<p>Manda is situated on the right bank of Chenab River in the foothills of Pir Panjal range, 28 km northwest of Jammu, and is considered the northernmost limit of Indus Valley or Harappan Civilisation.</p><br>
<p>It is considered a site established to procure wood from Himalayan Sub hills and send it downriver to other towns of the Indus Valley Civilisation. As this site is situated at Himalayan foothills, it gets significance by establishing northernmost limit of geological boundary of Indus Valley Civilisation.</p><br>
<h2>Artefacts found</h2><br>
<p>Pre Harappan Red ware (15%-25%) Harappan Red ware, including jars, dishes, dishes-on-stand, beakers, goblets etc. and copper double spiral headed spin (having west Asian affinity), tangled bone arrow-heads, terracotta bangles, cakes, chert blade etc.</p><br>
<p>Significant finds include potsherds bearing incised Harappan Script and one unfinished seal.</p><br>
<h2>Further scope</h2><br>
<p>Due to the restricted nature of the dig undertaken, no specific structures could be exposed, except a collapsed rubble wall-like structure.</p><br>
<p>Bache-Martin Elementary School is a preK–8 school located in the Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia. The school campus comprises two distinct buildings along 22nd Street, both of which were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Bache School</h2><br>
<p>The Alexander Dallas Bache School was designed by Lloyd Titus and built in 1905–1906. It is a three-story, "L"-shaped, stone building in the Romanesque-style. It features a central projecting gable elaborate arched window. It is named for Philadelphia native Alexander Dallas Bache (1806–1867), an American physicist, scientist and surveyor.</p><br>
<h2>Martin Orthopedic School</h2><br>
<p>The Martin Orthopedic School, also known as Willis & Elizabeth Martin Orthopedic School, was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1936–1937. It is a one-story, 10 bay, brick and limestone building in the Georgian Revival-style. It features a central projecting pedimented portico with Corinthian order columns and a bell tower. It was the first school in the Philadelphia school system for physically handicapped students.</p><br>
<p>Nikiti  is a village located 100 kilometers south-east from Thessaloniki on the Chalkidiki peninsula in Macedonia, Greece. It is the seat of the municipal unit of Sithonia.</p><br>
<p>The old part of Nikiti is located on the hilly area a few hundred meters from the sea, with a church at the highest point of the village. In the 1950s the village started to expand downwards to the coast significantly. In the 1970s the coastal plain was included into plans for village&#39;s development and many new buildings were built there.</p><br>
<p>The most important economic sector in Nikiti is tourism. Other important economic activities in Nikiti are beekeeping and olive growing.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Chalkidiki is popular summer tourist destination since the late 1950s when people from Thessaloniki started spending their summer holidays at the coastal villages like Nikiti. At the beginning tourists rented rooms in the houses of the villagers. By the 1970s tourists from Austria and Germany started to visit Chalkidiki more frequently. In the 1980s the big tourist boom started.</p><br>
<p>Image:Nikiti_old_1.JPGHouse in Nikiti.</p><br>
<p>Image:Nikiti_old_2.JPGHouse in Nikiti.</p><br>
<p>Image:NikitiNokturnal.jpgNikiti port by night.</p><br>
<p>s and yardangs in Salar de Arizaro, imaged by NASA&#39;s Earth Observing-1 satellite. In the upper left corner, small rounded bumps in the landscape are yardangs, dusty hills formed when soft rocks are weathered and abraded by winds. The yardangs are aligned precisely with the northwesterly winds. On the right, bulbous hills have sharps edges, a formation typical of salt weathering around the base. During salt weathering, rocks are eroded by repeated salt crystal growth. The eroded material has been blown away by the strong winds of the high desert, leaving the sharp edge.</p><br>
<p>Salar de Arizaro is a large salt flat of the Andes in north-western Argentina, bordering with Chile. It is located between the villages of Tolar Grande and Caipe and near Mina La Casualidad, in Los Andes Department, Salta Province.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>Located in the central-western area of the Puna de Atacama, it covers an area of 1,600 km². Per extension, the Salar de Arizaro is the 6th largest salt flat in the World and the 2nd largest in Argentina after the Salinas Grandes.</p><br>
<p>The salar area is mined for metallic and non-metallic resources, as it is rich in salt, marble, iron, copper and onyx.</p><br>
<p>The nearest salt flats are the ones of Antofalla, Hombre Muerto (both in north of Catamarca Province), Pocitos (in the east) and the Salinas Grandes of Jujuy and Salta provinces.</p><br>
<p>The Salar de Arizaro is crossed in the middle by the Salta–Antofagasta railway and by the Provincial Route 27 (part of the former RN 59). A particular characteristic of it is a conical hill named Cerro Cono (or Cono de Arita), a sandstone-formation.</p><br>
<p>The Mark Twain House and Museum in Hartford, Connecticut, was the home of Samuel Langhorne Clemens  and his family from 1874 to 1891. It was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter and built in the American High Gothic style.</p><br>
<p>Clemens biographer Justin Kaplan has called it "part steamboat, part medieval fortress and part cuckoo clock."</p><br>
<p>Clemens wrote many of his best-known works while living there, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Prince and the Pauper, Life on the Mississippi, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, A Tramp Abroad, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#39;s Court.</p><br>
<p>Poor financial investments prompted the Clemens family to move to Europe in 1891. The Panic of 1893 further threatened their financial stability, and Clemens, his wife Olivia, and their middle daughter, Clara, spent the year 1895-96 traveling so that he could lecture and earn the money to pay off their debts. He recounted the trip in Following the Equator (1897). Their other two daughters, Susy and Jean, had stayed behind during this time, and Susy died at home on August 18, 1896 of spinal meningitis before the family could be reunited. They could not bring themselves to reside in the house after this tragedy and spent most of their remaining years living abroad. They sold the house in 1903.</p><br>
<p>The building later functioned as a school, an apartment building, and a public library branch. In 1929, it was rescued from possible demolition and put under the care of the newly formed non-profit group Mark Twain Memorial. The building was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1962. A restoration effort led to its being opened as a house museum in 1974. In 2003, a multimillion-dollar, LEED-certified visitors center was built that included a museum dedicated to showcasing Twains life and work.</p><br>
<p>The house faced serious financial trouble in 2008 due partly to construction cost overruns related to the new visitors center, but the museum was helped through publicity about their plight, quick reaction from the state of Connecticut, corporations, and other donors, and a benefit performance organized by writers. Since that time, the museum has reported improved financial conditions, though the recovery was marred by the 2010 discovery of a million-dollar embezzlement by the museums comptroller, who pleaded guilty and served a jail term.</p><br>
<p>The museum claimed record-setting attendance levels in 2012. It has featured events such as celebrity appearances by Stephen King, Judy Blume, John Grisham, and others; it has also sponsored writing programs and awards. Also in 2012, the Mark Twain House was named one of the Ten Best Historic Homes in the world in The Ten Best of Everything, a National Geographic Books publication.</p><br>
<h2>Move to Hartford</h2><br>
<p>Mark Twain first came to Hartford in 1868 while writing The Innocents Abroad in order to work with publisher Elisha Bliss, Jr. of the American Publishing Company. Hartford was a publishing center at the time, with twelve publishers. He moved into a substantial home in Buffalo, New York after marrying Olivia Langdon; however, he considered moving to a more opulent house in Hartford within two years, partly to be closer to his publisher.</p><br>
<p>The family first rented a house at what was called Nook Farm in 1871 before buying land there and building a new house. Twain said of Hartford, "Of all the beautiful towns it has been my fortune to see, this is the chief…. You do not know what beauty is if you have not been here." He was attracted to the town which had the highest per-capita income of any city in the United States at that time.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and construction</h2><br>
<p>The house was designed by Edward Tuckerman Potter, an architect from New York City. When it was being built, the Hartford Daily Times noted, "The novelty displayed in the architecture of the building, the oddity of its internal arrangement and the fame of its owner will all conspire to make it a house of note for a long time to come." The cost of the house was paid out of Mrs. Clemens&#39; inheritance.</p><br>
<p>The home is in the style of Victorian Gothic Revival architecture, including the typical steeply-pitched roof and an asymmetrical bay window layout. Legend says the home was designed to look like a riverboat.</p><br>
<p>In 1881, an adjoining strip of land was purchased, the grounds re-landscaped, and the home was renovated. The driveway was redrawn, the kitchen rebuilt and its size doubled, and the front hall was enlarged. The family also installed new plumbing and heating and a burglar alarm. After its renovations, the total cost of the home amounted to $70,000, $22,000 were spent on furnishings, and the initial purchase of land cost $31,000.</p><br>
<h2>Life in the house</h2><br>
<p>The Twains moved into the home in 1874 after its completion. The top floor was the billiards room and his private study where he would write late at night; the room was strictly off limits to all but the cleaning staff. It was also used for entertaining male guests with cigars and liquor. Twain had said, "There ought to be a room in this house to swear in. It&#39;s dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that."</p><br>
<p>The children had their own area with a nursery and a playroom/classroom. Mrs. Clemens tutored her daughters in the large school room on the second floor. Clemens played with his children in the conservatory, pretending to be an elephant in an imaginary safari. He noted that the house "was of us, and we were in its confidence and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction."</p><br>
<p>Clemens enjoyed living in the house, partly because he knew many different authors from his Hartford neighborhood, such as Harriet Beecher Stowe who lived next door and Isabella Beecher Hooker. He also hosted several authors as guests, including Thomas Bailey Aldrich, George Washington Cable, and William Dean Howells, as well as actors Henry Irving, Lawrence Barrett, and Edwin Booth.</p><br>
<p>Clemens worked on many of his most notable books in this home, including The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Life on the Mississippi (1883). The success of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer inspired him to renovate the house, and he had Louis Comfort Tiffany supervise the interior decoration in 1881. He also was fascinated with new technologies, leading to the installation of an early telephone.</p><br>
<p>Clemens invested heavily in the typesetting machine invented by James W. Paige. Its first publication was Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in 1884. The company went bankrupt in 1894, leaving Twain with a large amount of debt; Paige&#39;s typesetting machine never functioned properly and was overcome by competition from the linotype machine developed by Whitlaw Reid. The losses from these investments as well as several bank panics led the Clemens family to move to Europe in 1891 where the cost of living was more affordable. He began lecturing across the continent to recoup some money for their family.</p><br>
<h2>Post-Twain</h2><br>
<p>Katharine Seymour Day was a grand-niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe who had known the Clemens family, and she saved the Twain House from destruction in 1929. She founded the Friends of Hartford organization, which raised $100,000 to secure a mortgage on the home through a two-year capital campaign. It was carefully restored between 1955 and 1974. It took many decades to pay off the mortgage and raise money to restore the deteriorating property, as well as to retrieve artifacts, furnishings, and personal possessions. The entire process finally ended in 1974, just in time for the 100th anniversary of the house.</p><br>
<p>Admission to the Mark Twain House is by guided tour only; tours are organized around various themes. The House and Museum offer a wide variety of events, in addition to tours, such as lectures, writers&#39; workshops, family events, etc.</p><br>
<h3>Renovation</h3><br>
<p>The house underwent a major renovation starting in 1999, including work on the exterior wood, tile, and terra cotta brick, and rebuilding the purple slate roofs. Restoration and preservation brought the house and grounds back to the state that they were in between 1881 and 1891, when the Clemenses most loved the house. The marble floor in the front hallway underwent a historic restoration, and specialists re-stenciled and painted the walls and ceilings and refinished the woodwork to recover the Tiffany-decorated interiors. Restoration was funded in part by two federal Save America’s Treasures grants totaling $3 million. Scanning computers were also used in the restoration. The home today contains 50,000 artifacts: manuscripts, historic photographs, family furnishings, and Tiffany glass. Many of the original furnishings remain at the house, including the Clemens&#39; ornate Venetian bed, an intricately carved mantel from a Scottish castle, and a billiard table.</p><br>
<h3>Financial problems</h3><br>
<p>The number of admissions leveled off at around 53,000, and the houses trustees decided that they must expand or be forced to shrink their operations. They commissioned Robert A. M. Stern to design a visitors center that would not draw attention away from the house.</p><br>
<p>The Education and Visitors Center was built adjacent to the Carriage House where the Clemens familys coachman once lived with his family. The green museum was the first in America to receive a Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. The center is a $16.3 million, 35,000 ft&sup2; facility that houses artifacts from the museums collection that are not shown in the house itself. It contains a lecture hall and classroom facilities.</p><br>
<p>In 2000, the house was generating $5 million in tourism from 50,000 visitors. The Aetna foundation gave $500,000 to the campaign. The National Endowment for the Humanities gave $800,000 in challenge grants for teacher development programs, a student writing contest, and an educational website.</p><br>
<p>After building the Visitors Center in 2003, the house became financially unsustainable and launched a campaign to raise awareness and funds. In response, the state government, the governor, United Technologies, and many others contributed. As of 2011, officials of the museum said that it had recovered financially.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, staff writer Steve Courtney published a book detailing the house&#39;s history and renovations. It includes a foreword by Hal Holbrook, a trustee of the house.</p><br>
<p>The Old Queen’s Head is a pub on Essex Road in Islington, London N1. Its shopfront is scheduled as "to be retained" by Islington Council. Since 2006 The Old Queens Head has been a part of The Columbo Group, owned by Steve Ball and Riz Shaikh. It is a Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<h2>Listed building</h2><br>
<p>The Old Queen&#39;s Head is a public house dating to about 1830; the pub front on the ground floor dates to about 1900. The interior contains some early 17th-century features from an earlier building on the site.</p><br>
<p>The three storey building is of Flemish bond yellow brick with a stucco cornice; a stepped parapet hides the pitched roof. There is a range of three windows facing Essex Road and three to Queen&#39;s Head Street; one window faces the corner, which is curved.</p><br>
<p>Inside, there is an early 17th-century moulded plaster ceiling. The ceiling is decorated with ornamental bands around panels that contain emblems. There is a wood and stone chimneypiece of the same age. Figures on either side of the stone hearth support an entablature bearing two carved scenes. The upper part of the chimneypiece is similarly decorated, ending in a frieze and cornice.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The previous pub on the site was demolished in 1829. It was described by Walter Thornbury, writing in the 1870s, as</p><br>
<p>Thornbury describes the interior with the surviving fireplace in detail:</p><br>
<h2>Ghosts and legends</h2><br>
<p>According to Absolute Publishings London Visitor Guide, an unattributed rumour is that The Old Queens Head is haunted like many London pubs, supposedly by both a woman and a girl in Tudor clothes.</p><br>
<p>Thornbury, writing in 1878, also mentions the pub&#39;s alleged connection with Sir Walter Raleigh, though he denied its validity:</p><br>
<p>The Lolab Valley is a Himalayan sub-valley and forms the north-western corner of the Kashmir Valley, formed by the Lahwal River in the disputed territory of Jammu and Kashmir. The entrance to the valley lies 9 km north of Kupwara town, and the centre of the valley lies northwest of Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir. It is an oval-shaped valley 15 mi long with an average width of 2 mi.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Lolab Valley is situated within the jurisdiction of Sogam, a block of Kupwara. It is bordered by the Kashmir Valley to the south and the Neelum Valley to the north, and is separated by Nagmarg meadows from Bandipore to the east. It is formed by the flow of Lahwal River, which flows from east to west. The Lolab Valley is home to many ancient springs, and is covered with dense forests of pine and fir. Fruit trees such as apple, cherry, peach, apricot and walnut are common in the valley, which is known as "the fruit bowl of Jammu and Kashmir". The valley has several natural landmarks and tourist spots, such as the caves of Kalaroos. The main villages in the Lolab Valley are Sogam, Kalaroos, Kigam, Lalpor, Tekipora, Chandigam, Kandi and Muqam. The Lolab Valley has two divisions: POUTNAI and Brunai. The areas included in POUTNAI are, Chandigam, etc. In Brunai are Kuligam, Cheepora, Varnow, etc.</p><br>
<h2>Ecology</h2><br>
<p>Like other valleys in the region, Lolab Valley is also home to many Himalayan wild animals, which include Himalayan black bear, Himalayan brown bear, snow leopard, ibex, markhor, hangul and musk deer. Lolab Vally is adjacent to Neelum Valley, and separated by the Line of Control. The Valley has seen many armed combats, which has resulted in the displacement of many wild animals.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>The Lolab Valley is well connected by road to Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, and Srinagar Airport. A bus takes three hours to cover a distance of and leads through the towns of Sopore and Kupwara. An under-construction road from Bandipora to Lolab via Nagmarg Meadows will cut short the Srinagar-to-Lolab distance by 30 kilometers. In Lolab Valley, there are a few tourist huts and many camping sites. It has the potential to become one of the best tourist destinations in Kashmir.</p><br>
<p>The Promise Academy at Roberts Vaux High School  is a historic high school school building located in the North Central neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1936-1938. It is a four-story, 23 bay, "U"-shaped yellow brick building in a Moderne / Art Deco-style. It features projecting end pavilions, terra cotta decorative work, and a two-story stone Tudor-arched entryway. It was named for American jurist, abolitionist, and philanthropist Roberts Vaux .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The school was closed in 2013 as part of Philadelphia&#39;s shutdown of 23 district-run schools. Displaced students were enrolled in Strawberry Mansion High School and Benjamin Franklin High School.</p><br>
<p>Vaux, now operated by Big Picture Philadelphia, will reopen in 2017.</p><br>
<p>John L. Kinsey School is a former K-8 school located in the West Oak Lane neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was a part of the School District of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>It was designed by Henry deCoursey Richards and built by Cramp & Co. in 1915-1916. It is a four-story, seven bay reinforced concrete and brick building on a raised basement in Late Gothic Revival-style. It features a projecting entrance bay and limestone and terra cotta decorative details.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The district closed Kinsey in 2013. The possible options for students after the closure were Rowen Elementary School, Prince Hall Elementary School, Pastorius Elementary School, Pennell Elementary School, and Gen. Louis Wagner Middle School.</p><br>
<h2>Feeder patterns</h2><br>
<p>Kinsey students were zoned to King High School.</p><br>
<p>Joseph C. Ferguson School is a historic school building located in the Templetown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1921-1922. It is a three-story, nine bay, "U"-shaped, brick building on a raised basement in the Colonial Revival-style. It features large stone arches, a double stone cornice, and brick parapet.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The building is currently the home The U School, an innovative high school in the School District of Philadelphia. The U School and Building 21, two schools with a non-selective lottery-based admissions process, opened at the Ferguson building during the 2014–2015 school year. Building 21 relocated after three academic years, and The U Scuool remains.</p><br>
<p>For other educational establishments with a similar name please see William Penn School</p><br>
<p>Franklin Learning Center, formerly known as William Penn High School for Girls, is a historic high school located in the Spring Garden neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia. The building was designed by Henry deCoursey Richards and built in 1908–1909. It is a four-story, brick and limestone building in the Classical Revival-style. It features a projecting center section and two-story portico. The school was named for Pennsylvania founder William Penn. The school became Franklin Learning Center in 1974 and is currently a magnet school.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Murrell Dobbins Career & Technical Education High School, also known as Murrell Dobbins Vocational High School, is a historic vocational school building located in the West Lehigh neighborhood of North Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia. The building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1936–1937. It is a six- to seven-story, 14 bay, brick building in the Moderne-style. It has a one-story, stone front building. It features brick piers with terra cotta tops and the building has terra cotta trim.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The school is the home of the Mustangs and the school colors are Flame and Steel. Murrell Dobbins offers seven CTE programs: Barbering, Business Education, Commercial & Advertising Arts, Cosmetology, Culinary Arts, Fashion Design and Plumbing. Dobbins athletics consist of Football, Cross-Country, Volleyball, Soccer, Basketball, Indoor Track, Bowling, Cheerleading, Badminton, Baseball, Softball and Outdoor Track.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Hank Gathers, College Basketball Player</p><br>
<p>Gregory "Bo" Kimble, NBA player.</p><br>
<p>Dawn Staley, Head Coach of Women&#39;s Basketball at University of South Carolina, 3-Time Olympian</p><br>
<p>Doug Overton, Retired professional basketball player and current head coach of the Springfield Armor of the NBA Development League.</p><br>
<p>Jami M. Valentine, Ph.D., Physicist, first African American woman to earn a Ph.D. in Physics from Johns Hopkins University. Dobbins class of 1992.</p><br>
<p>Joyce Craig-Lewis, first female Philadelphia firefighter to die in the line of duty</p><br>
<p>Bobby Eli, Philly Soul guitarist, songwriter, producer, arranger. Founding member of MFSB.</p><br>
<p>Mary Channing Wister School, originally the Mary Channing Wister Public School, is a historic school building located in the Poplar neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1925–1926. It is a three-story, three bay, brick building on a raised basement in the Art Deco-style. An addition was built in 1960. It features a freestanding portico with Doric order columns and decorative tile. It is named for the civic leader Mary Channing Wister, the wife of Owen Wister.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>In 2001, the building was renovated to become a new forensic science laboratory for the Philadelphia Police Department. While the facade remains true to the original design with little change, the inside of the building was completely renovated and designated a Green building. The new laboratory is called the Forensic Science Center, operated by the Office of Forensic Science within the Philadelphia Police Department.</p><br>
<p>Spring Garden School is a public K-8 school in the Poplar neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is a part of the School District of Philadelphia.</p><br>
<p>The historic school building originally housed Spring Garden School No. 2. It was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1930–1931. It is a three-story, 16 bay orange brick building in the Art Deco-style. It features corbelled brick pilasters with capitals adorned by floral motifs and a caged rooftop play area.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>The Spring Garden attendance boundary includes a portion of the Center City District just north of the traditional boundary of Center City. Residents zoned to Spring Graden are zoned to Benjamin Franklin High School. over 70% of students who graduate from Spring Garden instead go to special admission and magnet schools such as Bodine High School for International Affairs, Carver High School for Science and Engineering, Constitution High School, Parkway, and Philadelphia High School for Girls.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 2015 a parent who participated in a lawsuit against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania stated that the school nurse at Spring Garden only appears once per week, and that the school had been forced to end its Spanish as a second language program.</p><br>
<p>The Oberbergtal is the largest tributary valley of the Stubaital, branching north above Milders and curving south-west to the road-head at OberIss. 2 hours up the path is the Franz Senn Hut.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Oberbergtal joins the main valley from the left at Milders (1,026 m, Neustift im Stubaital). The head of the valley is formed by the glaciated Alpeiner Berge (Schrankogel 3,497 m, Ruderhofspitze 3,474 m, Östliche 3,416 m and Westliche Seespitze 3,355 m), which surround the Alpeiner Ferner and several side glaciers. Heading down he valley the line of mountains on the right descends gradually to the Brennerspitze (2,877 m) and on the left runs over the Hohe Villerspitze (3,087 m) to the Hoher Burgstall (2,611 m).</p><br>
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<p>Terminal Commerce Building, also known as the North American Building, is a historic building complex located in the Callowhill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was built between 1929 and 1931 by the Reading Company, and is a combined office, showroom, parking garage, warehouse and freight station totaling over 1.3 million square feet. It measures 528 feet by 225 feet. The front section houses offices, and is a 14-story, reinforced concrete, brick and terra cotta faced building in the Art Deco style. The front facade has a central tower with terra cotta ornamentation that houses water tanks. The rear warehouse section is 12-stories and is "H"-shaped.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. It is a contributing property to the Callowhill Industrial Historic District.</p><br>
<p>Today, the building serves as the largest telecommunications carrier hotel in the city of Philadelphia with 1.3 million square feet of space.</p><br>
<p>Union Methodist Episcopal Church, also known as Jones Tabernacle AME Church and Parish House, is a historic Methodist Episcopal church and parish house located in the North Central neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by the noted Philadelphia architects Hazelhurst & Huckel and built in 1888-1889, of cut stone in the Richardsonian Romanesque-style. The church has an entrance archway with squat Syrian columns; and the building features a prominent front gable, chimneys, towers and pinnacles. The gable has a checkerboard pattern of stone and a Palladian window. The church interior is divided into two principal levels, a first floor Sunday School, and the second floor sanctuary with balcony. In the 1930s, the church was sold to Jones Tabernacle AME Church, then under the leadership of Rev. Richard R. Wright, Jr., son of Richard R. Wright .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Peeler Lake is a California landform within the Toiyabe National Forest and on the west edge of the Hoover Wilderness. One of the few bodies of water on the Great Basin Divide, Peeler Lakes inflow is sufficient for outlet streams over 2 Sierra Crest sills of similar elevation to respectively drain westward to the Pacific Ocean  and eastward into the Great Basin . Peeler Lakes saddle area is a mountain pass between the west Sierra slope  and the Sierra Escarpment  to the east, and the lake level of 9,488 ft is over 1,000 ft below the summits of Cirque Mountain  and Crowne Point . The namesake Peeler Lake Trail of 1.5 mi from the east reaches the lake from the parking at the west side of Twin Lakes , and the Bridgeport Ranger Station issues overnight permits for the backcountry area of the lake.</p><br>
<p>Peeler Lake was named in 1925 for Barney Peeler (1833-1920) of nearby Bridgeport (as was Barney Lake downstream to the east), and the lake was added to the Geographic Names Information System in 2000. In 2006, an environmental evaluation of the lake concluded "the nitrate concentration of 17 μeq/L to be too high to come from atmospheric deposition alone."</p><br>
<p>The Fredericton City Hall is the meeting place of the Fredericton City Council in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. The three-storey building was constructed between 1875 and 1876 by architects McKean and Fairweather and built by H. B. Crosby and O. M. Campbell in the Second Empire style. It is located near Phoenix Square in Downtown Fredericton.</p><br>
<p>The building was declared a National Historic Site of Canada on November 23, 1984 because its imposing exterior and the many functions it has performed illustrate the building’s importance to the community. Moreover, it is the oldest municipal hall in Atlantic Canada still used for civic administration, and the building is distinguished by the use of its basement as a market before 1951, a function rarely combined with municipal halls by the late 19th century.</p><br>
<p>Between 1883 and 1971, the Fredericton Police was headquartered here.</p><br>
<p>The Ponce YMCA Building is a historic structure located in the municipality of Ponce, Puerto Rico. It is located at 7843 Calle Nazaret, Urbanizacion Santa Maria. The structure was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on 4 June 2012.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The history of the Ponce YMCA dates back to 1917 when the YMCA was organized in San Juan. In 1919 efforts and surveys were made to start YMCA work in Ponce. In 1934, Manuel Bueno became General Secretary of the Puerto Rico YMCA, the first native Puerto Rican to hold the post. Hurricanes in September 1928 and again in 1931, prevented the Ponce work to move forward once more, as money that had been obtained for the International YMCA Committee had to be used by the San Juan YMCA to help towards repairs to the San Juan YMCA building after these storms. In 1934, however, the YMCA of Puerto Rico became self-supporting.</p><br>
<p>The Great Depression of the 1930s, however, made it very difficult once more to move forward with plans to build a YMCA building in Ponce. The General Secretary, for example, received no salary for six months. As a result of these difficulties, affiliation with various statewide YMCA organizations was sought in 1944, and again in 1947. The Ponce YMCA was founded in 1947, partly as a result of these affiliations.</p><br>
<h2>National Register of Historic Places</h2><br>
<p>The Ponce YMCA was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on 4 June 2012. Its listing was made possible in part for its interior mural by Rafael Rios Rey titled "El Hombre" (English: Man).</p><br>
<h2>Today</h2><br>
<p>The building has been in continuous use since its inauguration, and sees heightened activity during the summer months with the addition of summer camp programs. During the year it caters to children and adolescents. Over 400 children use its programs. It also holds regular summer camp programs. The Ponce YMCA oftentimes works in conjunction with the Ponce Region Boy Scout movement in order to help the boys&#39; programs with growth. The building is heavily used for its sports facilities.</p><br>
<p>The Free Public Library of Petaluma  is a research library and history museum at 20 Fourth Street in Petaluma, Sonoma County, California, US. Built in 1904 as a Carnegie Free Library, it was designed by Brainerd Jones as his first major commission before the architect gained regional recognition. In the 1970s, it was re-purposed as a research library and historical museum, known as the Petaluma Historical Library and Museum. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Petalumas first library, an Odd Fellows library, dates to 1858, which was opened to the public within a decade, and by 1878, its ownership was transferred to the city as part of the Rogers Free Library Act. Funding for the Carnegie library came from local donations totaling $7,500 and Andrew Carnegies donation of $12,500. It was built by R.W. Moller and W.S. Stradling from a design by Jones, with this being his first major commission before the architect gained regional recognition. With few changes through the decades, the building served as a Carnegie Free Library until 1976. In 1988, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is now a historical museum with research library.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and fittings</h2><br>
<p>Construction began in 1904 in the Classical Revival architectural style using quarried stone from Stony Point. The entrance is two-storied, with pediments and columns.</p><br>
<h2>Collections</h2><br>
<p>The Hoppy Hopkins Memorial Research Library, named after local historian Hoppy Hopkins (1921-2003), supports the localitys historical, genealogical, and architectural research with items such as maps, blueprints, newspapers, city directories, and yearbooks. The museum features items relating to the areas history, such as the Miwok people, and the poultry and dairy industries.</p><br>
<h2>Grounds</h2><br>
<p>The building was constructed upon a lot on the corner of Fourth and B streets. Carnegie required that the land be contributed by the city of Petaluma; and the lot was sold to the city by civic leader, Addie Atwater. Three of the trees on the lot, a Giant Sequoia, a California Live Oak, and a Bunya-Bunya, are registered Heritage or Landmark trees.</p><br>
<p>Beginish is an island in Valentia Harbour, in south west Kerry, Ireland.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Beginish Island is currently uninhabited, the last remaining residents being 2 elderly brothers who left the island in the 1990s. There are a small number of holiday homes on the island which are used seasonally. The island is used for sheep farming and some small scale forestry, and by tourists in the summer months who use the island&#39;s beaches for recreational purposes.</p><br>
<p>Surrounding Beginish are other small islands, including Lamb Island to the north and Church Island to the east. Church Island is notable for having the remains of a monastic settlement with an oratory and hut, holy well and shrine.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island has numerous archaeological sites, including a Viking settlement occupied between the 9th and 12th centuries, which consists of a circular stone dwelling, outhouse and a midden. Also occupying the highest point on the western end of the island is a block hut known as "Pilots lookout", which was used in the 19th and early 20th century to spot ships coming into Dingle bay which may have required pilotage into Valentia harbour.</p><br>
<h2>Environment</h2><br>
<p>Beginish is host to a seal colony located in a cove on the southern part of the island named Caseys landing, and has abundant bird and sea life. On the northern edge of the island is a series of basalt cliffs which have a hexagonal shape formed in a similar manner to the famous Giants Causeway.</p><br>
<h2>Sport</h2><br>
<p>An annual swim of approximately 4 mi takes place around the island each year, organised by the local triathlon club.</p><br>
<p>Mount Arthur  is in the Arthur Range in the north western area of the South Island of New Zealand. Mount Arthur, named after Captain Arthur Wakefield, lies within Kahurangi National Park and has a peak elevation of 1,795 m.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Mt Arthur is made of hard, crystalline marble, transformed (hardened) from limestone, originally laid down under the sea some 450 million years ago. Below ground are some of the deepest shafts and most intricate cave systems in the country, and exploration of these is far from finished. Mount Arthur is home to the Ellis Basin cave system, the deepest cave in the Southern Hemisphere, and Nettlebed Cave which was thought to be the deepest cave system the Southern Hemisphere prior to discovery of the Ellis Basin cave system in 2010.</p><br>
<p>During the ice ages small glaciers carved smooth basins called cirques high on Mt Arthur, polishing and scraping the tough marble. The floors of the cirques are studded with sinkholes where surface water is taken underground into extensive cave systems.</p><br>
<p>Culver&#39;s Lake  is a lake located in Frankford Township, in Sussex County, New Jersey. Fed by Lake Owassa and Bear Swamp, Culver&#39;s Lake is the source of the West Branch of the Paulins Kill . In the late 19th and early 20th century, the lake was used for seasonal recreation. Today, it is a private year-round community owned and operated by the Normanoch Association, a homeowners&#39; association.</p><br>
<p>The lake has a surface area of approximately 555 acres and a shoreline roughly six and a half miles long. It has a maximum depth of fifty feet and is located at an elevation of 830 feet above sea level. It is located near the Culver Gap, a wind gap in Kittatinny Mountain, and where the Appalachian Trail intersects with U.S. Route 206.</p><br>
<p>The lake is named for a local clergyman, the Reverend Jabez Collver (1731-1818), who led the Congregational Church in Wantage Township, New Jersey. On September 14, 1774, he purchased 163 acres of land east of Kittatinny Mountain near the lake. However, after the American Revolution, Collver fled to Ontario, Canada after the American Revolution due to his loyalist sympathies.</p><br>
<p>Tanganasoga is the main volcano of El Hierro&#39;s El Golfo area in the Canary Islands, consisting of a cinder cone. The volcano is part of a much larger shield volcano system.</p><br>
<h2>The volcano</h2><br>
<p>El Hierro is a 278.5 km island, formed approx 1.2 million year ago after three successive eruptions, the island emerged from the ocean as a triangle of basaltic dykes topped with a volcanic cone more than 2,000 metres high. With continued activity resulting in the island expanding to have the largest number of volcanoes in the Canaries (over 500 cones, another 300 covered by more recent deposits), together with approximately 70 caves and volcanic galleries, including the Cueva de Don Justo whose collection of channels is over 6 km in length. Landslides have reduced the size and height of the island. Tanganasoga is now the main volcano on the island.</p><br>
<h3>Landslides</h3><br>
<p>There is evidence of at least three major gravitational landslides that have affected El Hierro in the last few hundred thousand years. The most recent of these was the El Golfo landslide that occurred about 15 thousand years ago, involving collapse of the northern flank of the island. The landslide formed the El Golfo valley and created a debris avalanche with a volume of 150&ndash;180 km. Turbidite deposits related to this landslide have been recognized in drill cores from the Agadir Basin to the north of the Canary Islands. Detailed analysis of these deposits suggests that the slope failure did not occur as a single event but a series of smaller failures over a period of hours or days. Local tsunami are likely to have been triggered by these landslides but no evidence has been found to confirm this. Tanganasoga formed near the top of the El Golfo landslide headwall, on the upper part of the north-facing scarp slope.</p><br>
<h2>Recent volcanic activity</h2><br>
<p>Perhaps as a mark of the island&#39;s relative isolation, only one eruption has ever been recorded on the island, from the Volcan de Lomo Negro vent of Tanganasoga in 1793. The eruption lasted a month.</p><br>
<p>It is considered that the 2011-2012 El Hierro eruption at La Restinga in the southernmost part of the island is a vent of Tanganasoga. Swift deformation of Tanganasoga was recorded during the October 2011-March 2012 eruptive phase of this volcanic activity, and in June 2012 a new phase was heralded by earthquakes and rapid deformation upwards and outwards of Tanganasoga, indicating the deep-seated movement of magma below.</p><br>
<p>The Marquette Street Archaeological District is an archaeological site in St. Ignace, Michigan near the St. Ignace Mission. It covers 6 acre and includes one building, a village site, and a cemetery; archaeological designations are 20MK82 and 20MK99. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The Petun people originally lived east of Georgian Bay, but were driven by the Iroquois into what is now Wisconsin. In the 1660s, the Petun were again displaced by the Sioux, and settled in what is now St. Ignace around 1670. By this time, the reduction in numbers of Petun, due to disease and war, was so severe that some experts believe they were no longer culturally viable.</p><br>
<p>Père Jacques Marquette established his mission near the village a few years later. The village was home to 500-800 people.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>The site of the Petun village in St. Ignace was excavated in the 1970s, and again in 1983-86, 1996–97, and 2001. Excavations have shown evidence of Petun longhouses and hearths, and acculturation from exposure to nearby European settlers. In particular, the Petun reused European glass and metal fragments to fashion weapons and ornaments, and incorporated elements of Christian worship into their own rituals. However, the Petun cultural identity remained despite their repeated displacement, reduction in numbers, and exposure to European culture and goods.</p><br>
<p>Woodrow Wilson Middle School is a historic middle school located in the Castor Gardens neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is part of the School District of Philadelphia. The building was designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1928. It is a three-story, 15-bay, brick and limestone building in the Classical Revival style. It features a projecting center entrance pavilion, four Doric order columns supporting an entabulature, and balustraded parapet. The school was named after the 28th President President of the United States Woodrow Wilson.</p><br>
<p>The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Woodrow Wilson Middle School is a certified International Baccalaureate School since 2012.</p><br>
<p>Lake Opeta is a lake with an extensive wetland system in Uganda.</p><br>
<p>The wetland lies south of the Pian Upe Wildlife Reserve and serves as a dry-season refuge for both wildlife from the park and domestic cattle of the surrounding Karamajong and Pokot people.</p><br>
<h2>Hydrology</h2><br>
<p>Lake Opeta is primarily fed by rainfall on Mount Elgon and drains into Lake Kyoga via Lake Bisina. It is surrounded by an extensive swamp and floodplain.</p><br>
<h2>Conservation</h2><br>
<p>Lake Opeta is one of Uganda&#39;s 33 Important Bird Areas and since 2006 a Ramsar-listed wetland of international importance.</p><br>
<p>A Biodiversity and Eco-Tourism Centre funded by the Global Environmental Facility and UNDP serves the lake.</p><br>
<h3>Birds</h3><br>
<p>Foxs weaver, Ugandas only endemic bird species, is known to inhabit the wetland, as do the globally threatened vulnerable shoebill, near-threatened papyrus gonolek, and 160 other species.</p><br>
<p>Lake Nighthorse is a reservoir created by the 270 ft high Ridges Basin Dam Southwest of Durango in La Plata County Colorado. As part of the Animas-La Plata Water Project, Lake Nighthorse provides water storage for tribal and water right claim-holders along the Animas River.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>First authorized by the USA Congress on September 30, 1968 (Public Law 90-537), the Animas-La Plata Water Project, as it came to be known, experience several decades of delays due in part to political concerns, farming claims, environmental challenges, cost overruns and government funding issues. A breakthrough to the delays came with the Colorado Ute Settlement Act Amendments in December 2000 (Public Law 106-554).</p><br>
<p>The Bureau of Reclamation began construction in 2003, with the reservoir filling to capacity on June 29, 2011 at a total cost of $500 million. Lake Nighthorse is named in honor of former United States Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell, R-Colo.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation and marinas</h2><br>
<p>The lake is currently closed to the public. However, as of March 2015, the Bureau of Reclamation was working with the City of Durango on a recreation lease and annexation agreement, as well as a cultural resource management plan to comply with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act. Additional construction at the reservoir is planned to start in the summer of 2015.</p><br>
<p>Es Canar is a beach resort village on the Spanish island of Ibiza. The resort is in the municipality of Santa Eulària des Riu. The resort is reached along the street called Cami d&#39;Escana from Santa Eulària des Riu. The resort is 12.4 mi north east of Ibiza Town and 16.9 mi of Ibiza Airport. or tourist bus the journey time from the airport is approximately 40 minutes.</p><br>
<h2>The Resort</h2><br>
<p>Es Canar is situated on the north eastern seaboard of the islands and as a consequence boasts a reputable sunrise, in contrast to the beautiful sunset found at San Antonio on the island&#39;s western side. The resort is compact and consists of mainly four and five storey hotels blocks with many restaurants and bars. The resort is heavily used by tourists during the summer months, and targeted at families. Within the resort there are several white sandy beaches. Also within the resort there is a bus station and pharmacy. From the bus station you are able to access the island other main resorts such as Santa Eulària des Riu, Ibiza Town, San Antoni and Portinatx with buses leaving for these destinations every 20 minutes. There are also many shops throughout the resort, selling branded merchandise, as well as other smaller stores selling authentic Ibizan items. At the southern end of the beach is a small harbour where you can catch a ferry to Santa Eulària des Riu, Ibiza Town, Formentera or one of the many small resorts on the south east coast of the island.</p><br>
<h2>Environment</h2><br>
<p>To the south of the resort is the wooded promontory of Punta Arabí, whilst west inland is a well watered plain. Just offshore from the beach there are the small islands sa Galera and Illa des Canar. In 2003 the beach at Es Canar was awarded a Blue Flag.</p><br>
<h2>Fiestas</h2><br>
<p>Every July the Spanish celebration of Saint Christopher happens in this resort, usually in the first week of July whereby a carnival procession passes through the resort, en route to Santa Eulària with the event culminating in an impressive fireworks display.</p><br>
<h2>Hippy Market</h2><br>
<p>Every Wednesday, the Hippy Market takes place at Punta Arabí south of the resorts main center. In the 1960s during the hippy era, many Hippies settled on the Ibiza and began to eke out a living by making trinkets and gifts out of wood, metals and steels, thus the tradition of the markets on the island began, and are still going strong today.</p><br>
<h2>Language</h2><br>
<p>Eivissenc is the native dialect of Catalan that is spoken throughout all Ibizan towns and nearby Formentera, though Catalan also shares co-official status with Spanish." Additionally, because of the influence of tourism and expatriates living in or maintaining residences on the island, other languages like English, German and Italian, are also spoken. Polylinguality is the norm, not the exception.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Penn Treaty School is a grade 6-12 school in Fishtown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A part of the School District of Philadelphia, it was formerly Penn Treaty Junior High School and Penn Treaty Middle School.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>It occupies a historic building designed by Irwin T. Catharine and built in 1927-1928. It is a five-story, 17-bay, brick building in the Late Gothic Revival style. It features a projecting end pavilions with arched openings, carved limestone decorative elements, a large stone Gothic entryway, and a large battlement tower. It was named to commemorate Penn&#39;s Treaty with the Indians.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>It previously fed into Kensington High School.</p><br>
<p>it had about 700 students.</p><br>
<p>The Mur de Péguère   is a mountain pass in the French Pyrenees in the department of Ariège, between the communities of Massat  and Sentenac-de-Sérou .</p><br>
<h2>Details of climb</h2><br>
<p>From Massat, the climb initially follows the D618 towards the Col de Port before turning onto the D17 just after the Col des Caougnous. The total ascent is 9.8 km long, with a height gained of 726 m at an average gradient of 7.4%, with the section after the Col des Caougnous having stretches in excess of 18%.</p><br>
<p>From the Foix direction, the ascent starts at La Mouline (Serres-sur-Arget) from where the climb is 18 km, gaining 872 m, in height at an average gradient of 4.8%. The col can also be reached on the descent from the Col de Portel.</p><br>
<h2>Tour de France</h2><br>
<p>The pass was crossed in Stage 14 of the 2012 Tour de France from the Massat direction. The leader over the summit was French rider, Sandy Casar, although the stage was marred when tacks were thrown onto the road at the summit of the climb, causing as many as thirty riders to puncture.</p><br>
<p>In 1973, the summit was scheduled to be climbed from the Foix direction, but the riders protested that the descent towards the D618 was too dangerous, so the route was amended. Since 1973, the road has been resurfaced.</p><br>
<p>The col was also crossed on Stage 11 in 2008, on the descent from the Col de Portel, but was not categorised.</p><br>
<p>The Robert Stuart House, also known as the Agent&#39;s House or Agency House, is a building located at 34 Market Street on Mackinac Island, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971 and designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1965.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Robert Stuart House was built in 1817 as the "Agent&#39;s House," housing the resident agent of the American Fur Company, which was at that time Ramsay Crooks. In addition the building housed other agents and clerks.</p><br>
<p>Also in 1817, Robert Stuart arrived on the island as Crookss assistant. Upon his arrival, Stuart was housed as a guest in the Agents House.</p><br>
<p>The 1820s and 1830s were boom years for the American Fur Company&#39;s operation on Mackinac Island; in 1822 more than three million dollars of furs were cleared through the Mackinac Island operation. However, the fur trade began to decline in the 1830s, and in 1835 Stuart moved on to Detroit.</p><br>
<p>As the fur trade declined, Mackinac Island became a resort community. The Robert Stuart House was used as a boardinghouse in the years before and during the Civil War. In 1871, the entire American Fur Company complex was purchased by James F. Cable and the three main buildings - the Agents House, warehouse, and clerks quarters - were linked with palisades and turned into the premiere island hotel of the time, the John Jacob Astor House. It remained the social center of the island until the construction of the Grand Hotel.</p><br>
<h2>Stuart House City Museum</h2><br>
<p>In 1900, the complex was sold to the city of Mackinac Island. It was operated as a hotel until 1929. In 1941 the building were separated back into individual units. The Robert Stuart House was used as a museum, and is now known as the Stuart House City Museum.</p><br>
<p>The bulk of the items in the museum were created by Dale Verne Gensman (Rounds) and are on semi-permanent loan to the museum. Dale is the son of Frank Rounds, builder of the Round Island lighthouse and Mackinac Island carpenter. The items donated by Dale are maintained by his Children and Grandchildren.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Robert Stuart House is a two-story, Federal style structure with side gables sitting on a brick foundation. It is built with hand-hewn timber frame and clad with clapboards. The roof is shingled and features gabled dormers.</p><br>
<p>The front facade has a two-sided stairway leading to a small entry porch. The entrance door is flanked by sidelights and pilasters. The multiple windows have small panes.</p><br>
<p>Mont Choungui is a distinctively conical volcanic mountain in the southern part of the French island of Mayotte, in the Comoro archipelago of the western Indian Ocean. It is the second highest point of the island at 593 m, the highest being Mont Bénara, and is visible from far out at sea.</p><br>
<h2>Important Bird Area</h2><br>
<p>Choungui dominates the southern peninsula of the island. Its south-easternmost headland, Sazilé, is 4 km long with a sharp ridge rising to 233 m. Forest covers the peak and most of the catchment of the Mroni Bé river, while Sazilé is vegetated with dry shrubland and thickets containing baobabs. The 1600 ha site has been identified as an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of Comoro olive-pigeons, Comoro blue-pigeons, Mayotte white-eyes, Mayotte sunbirds and red-headed fodies. It is also home to Robert Mertens day geckos, island day geckos and Pasteurs day geckos. Sazilé’s beaches are a nesting site for green, and probably hawksbill, sea turtles.</p><br>
<p>The Frisco Schoolhouse , now a local museum registered on the National Register of Historic Places, is an original one-room schoolhouse located in the Frisco Historic Park in Frisco, Colorado. The schoolhouse is located on its original location. The building was first built as a saloon in the 1890s and later converted to a school, which now contains original blackboards and school desks. The museum also contains information about Ute people, Dillon Reservoir, mining, late 1800s clothing, and photographs.</p><br>
<p>The Frisco Historic Park includes other original Frisco buildings from the late 1800s, including: a log chapel, jail, trapper&#39;s cabin and furnished homes.</p><br>
<h2>Frisco Schoolhouse</h2><br>
<h2>Frisco Historic Park</h2><br>
<p>In addition to the Frisco Schoolhouse Museum, the Frisco Historic Park includes the following structures:</p><br>
<p>Bailey House (c. 1895)</p><br>
<p>Bill&#39;s Ranch House (c. 1890)</p><br>
<p>Frank and Annie Ruth House (c. 1890)</p><br>
<p>Frisco Jail (c. 1881)</p><br>
<p>Log Chapel (c. 1943)</p><br>
<p>Niemoth Cabin (c. 1931)</p><br>
<p>Prestrud / Staley House (c. 1899)</p><br>
<p>Spring House (c. 1900)</p><br>
<p>Trapper&#39;s Cabin (c. 1942)</p><br>
<p>Wood&#39;s Cabin (c. 1860)</p><br>
