<p>The Bullard House is an historic house at 4 Woodward Avenue in the center of Berlin, Massachusetts. The 2.5 story wood frame house has a complex construction history, having been modified or extended numerous times since its oldest portion was built c. 1780. This old portion was probably three bays wide and two stories high, with an entrance near the east present facade corner. In the early 1790s the building&#39;s size was greatly expanded, with additions to the west and rear, giving it a saltbox appearance. In the 1850s the west side of the rear leanto was further extended to add a new kitchen space. A shed was added to this kitchen space in the 1920s and enlarged in 1956, and a shed dormer was added to the east rear of the building.</p><br>
<p>The house has seen a variety of uses. When first built, it was used as a shop by John Pollard, Jr. At some point in the 1790s a tavern business was added, either by Pollard or one of the subsequent owners. It continued in use as a tavern until 1813, when Solomon Howe moved that business to a new building across the street. This house was then divided into two housing units, which were sold separately. The east side was mostly occupied by tenants for the next 150 years. The west side would be principally occupied by members of the Bullard family, who operated a smithy on the site for about 120 years. The two sides came under a single owner in 1941, but the units remained separate. The property was sold to the town in 1996, and now serves as a local history museum.</p><br>
<p>The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Berlin Town Hall is an historic town hall at 12 Woodward Avenue in Berlin, Massachusetts. The 2.5 story wood frame building was constructed in 1870 and expanded in 1904. Its facade has Greek Revival features, including corner pilasters and a portico sheltering a front entry that is flanked by pilasters and topped by a two-light transom window. The portico, built in 1875, is supported by pillars that match the pilasters in detailing, and is topped by a flat roof surrounded by a low balustrade. The building was used not just for town offices and town meetings, but served as a civic center and meeting place for a variety of community organizations. In 1999 the town moved out of the building, which lacked its growing demand for additional office space. The building was turned over to a local community group, which is now responsible for its maintenance.</p><br>
<p>The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Yturri-Edmunds Historic Site is a historic site in San Antonio, Texas. The house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bexar County, Texas. The homestead and mill were designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1966.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the early 19th century during the era of Mexico&#39;s General Colonization Law, Manuel Yturri de Castillo was given a land grant on property once owned by Mission Concepcion. He was thought to have been born in Spain, but immigrated to Mexico. There he was employed by Spanish merchants who transferred him to San Antonio. In 1821, he married Maria Josefa Rodriguez, whose family were among the first Canary Islanders to arrive in the area in 1731. Upon his death, his property passed to his heirs. His granddaughter Ernestine Edmunds bequeathed the property in the historic site to the San Antonio Conservation Society (SACS), which took possession of it in 1961.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>The adobe-block house, which is thought to have been built by Yturri de Castillo 1840–1860, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bexar County, Texas in 1996. SACS began major restoration in 1964, which included repairs, rebuilding of the porch area, re-plastering, and complete interior restoration.</p><br>
<p>Also on the site is an operational grist mill thought to have existed when Yturri de Castillo bought the property. Former Pioneer Flour Mills executive Ernst Schuchard and architect Marvin Eickenroht oversaw the complete restoration of the mill in 1964. An 1881 two-story carriage house originally on the Oge property was purchased by SACS in 1964, restored and moved to the Yturri-Edmunds site. A caliche and stone home built by Cristof Postert on South Flores was donated to SACS in 1984 and also moved to the Yturri-Edmunds site.</p><br>
<p>The site is operated as a museum by SACS, on a by-appointment basis, and admission fees apply. With a 2-week notice, visitors are able to see the mill in operation.</p><br>
<p>Pelican Lagoon is a seawater lagoon in the Australian state of South Australia located on the north coast of Kangaroo Island about 18.7 km south east of Kingscote. It was named by Matthew Flinders on 4 April 1802 after the large population of pelicans present in its waters and adjoining shorelines. Its role as fishery hatchery had been identified by the early 20th century with the result that fishing in its waters has been restricted in varying degrees. Since 1971, the entire lagoon has been part of a marine protected area known as the American River Aquatic Reserve where all fishing and the collection of marine organisms is prohibited.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Pelican Lagoon is a seawater lagoon located about 2.9 km south of American River and about 18.7 km south east of Kingscote. The lagoon is bounded by Dudley Peninsula to the east, the main body of Kangaroo Island to the west, an isthmus connecting the above-mentioned bodies of land to the south and an unnamed peninsula to the north that separates it from Eastern Cove. The lagoon is connected to Eastern Cove in Nepean Bay by an inlet named American River. Hog Bay Road which is the main road connecting Penneshaw to Kingscote passes on the east and south sides of the lagoon.</p><br>
<p>The lagoon itself consists of two branches - one on the east side and the other on the west side which was described as being the ‘southern branch’ by Flinders in 1802. The lagoon is drained of water by tidal flow via a narrow channel of 3 to 5 m in depth and which passes through the west branch in order to reach the east branch. The tidal flow is reported as being as high as 3 kn.</p><br>
<p>The west branch has an average water depth of 0.9 m presumably at low water while the eastern branch has several deeper areas - the majority of its north side ranges in depth from 3 to 9.9 m and its south side has a number of deeper areas in the range of 1 to 2.9 m.</p><br>
<h3>Islets</h3><br>
<p>A number of islets are present within Pelican Lagoon. Six of these are named as follows (from east to west): Rabbit Islet, Goanna Islet, Pig Islet, Wallaby Islet, Shag Rock and Samphire Islet.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<h3>Flora</h3><br>
<h4>Terrestrial</h4><br>
<p>The islands within the lagoon support heathlands dominated by Coastal Daisybush and Thyme Riceflower. The coastline enclosing the lagoon supports a range of vegetation types dominated by heathlands of Acacia leiophylla and Orthrosanthus multiflorus, herb lands of Senecio odoratus, coastal mallee scrub of Eucalyptus diversifolia, samphire flats and grazed grasslands.</p><br>
<h4>Intertidal and sub tidal</h4><br>
<p>Samphire grows on the mud flats within the lagoon which are exposed at low water. The subtidal areas of the lagoon are dominated by the seagrass species of Heterozostera tasmanica and Posidonia australis. Various algae species are also present.</p><br>
<h3>Fauna</h3><br>
<h4>Terrestrial</h4><br>
<p>Waterbirds that use the lagoon include nine species that breed in the locality such as the chestnut teal, pied oystercatcher, sooty oystercatcher and caspian tern. Seventeen waterbird species are listed on international migratory treaties with sixteen listed on the Japan-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (JAMBA) and seventeen listed on the China-Australia Migratory Bird Agreement (CAMBA). As of 1996, Black tiger snakes were reported as being present on the islands within the lagoon.</p><br>
<h4>Intertidal and sub tidal</h4><br>
<p>The lagoon is reported as a breeding site for the little penguin. The lagoon is also reported as being home for a pod of bottle-nosed dolphins.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>European discovery and use</h3><br>
<p>The lagoon was discovered by Flinders on 4 April 1802 and was named in recognition of the large pelican population present at the time.</p><br>
<p>Since the establishment of South Australia, the lagoon has also been known as American River. The islands within the lagoon were mined for guano under licence from the South Australian Government prior to 1919.</p><br>
<p>As early as May 1905, fishing by the use of nets was prohibited both in Pelican Lagoon and adjoining waters in both American River and Eastern Cove. As early as 1908, the role of ‘Pelican Lagoon on the American River’ as a hatchery area was acknowledged by the South Australian government via statements attributed to Mr. S. McIntosh, the then Deputy Chief Inspector of Fisheries. By early 1925, the lagoon was reported as being closed to all types of fishing.</p><br>
<h2>Ports and other settlements</h2><br>
<p>Pelican Lagoon is bounded to the west by the locality of Muston and to the south and to the east by the locality of Pelican Lagoon which both include land zoned for residential accommodation</p><br>
<h2>Protected area status</h2><br>
<p>The lagoon is associated with three protected areas. The first is the American River Aquatic Reserve which covers the entire lagoon. The second is the Pelican Lagoon Conservation Park which includes five of the islands in the lagoon and much of the land on the peninsula to the north of the lagoon. The third is the Encounter Marine Park.</p><br>
<p>The lagoon is also appears on a list of nationally important wetlands in South Australia as part of the ‘American River Wetland System’.</p><br>
<h2>Citations and references</h2><br>
<h3>Citations</h3><br>
<p>The Northwest Marietta Historic District is a 230 acre historic district in Marietta, Georgia that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. It includes Late Victorian, Greek Revival, Plantation Plain, and other architecture.</p><br>
<p>The district includes an area in downtown Marietta, with the southernmost point being south of Whitlock Avenue on McDonald Street, and runs out Kennesaw Avenue to Noses Creek (just past St. Anne&#39;s Rd.) in the northwest.</p><br>
<h2>Notable buildings</h2><br>
<p>Notable buildings in the district include:</p><br>
<p>Kennesaw House (c.1845), 21 Depot St., a hotel on the L&N railway. In 1862 this was the Fletcher House hotel where Andrews&#39; Raiders stayed the night before commandeering The General and setting off the Great Locomotive Chase. It later became a Confederate hospital, then was occupied by Union soldiers until it partially burned, then was returned to use as a hotel. (#16 of accompanying photos)</p><br>
<p>NC & StL Passenger Depot (1898), Depot Street (#14)</p><br>
<p>Brumby Chair Factory, Church Street (c. 1879), manufacturer of the "famous" Brumby rocker chair. (#15 of accompanying photos)</p><br>
<p>Nichols-Benson House, (c. 1850), Whitlock, with servants quarters</p><br>
<p>Glover-Blair-Anderson House (c. 1851), 81 Whitlock Avenue (photo #4), with smoke house and servants quarters, "unquestionably one of the finest antebellum structures in Marietta. This two-story brick stuccoed structure has a hipped roof, heavy lintel window treatment and a simple one-story East Lake influenced porch. In the 1870s, as a result of a fire in the attic, the house was restored immediately after which resulted in the elaborate Victorian appearance."</p><br>
<p>McLellan-Birney House, (c. 1870); Church Street at Kennesaw Avenue (photo #11) neo-classical. It was the childhood home of Alice McLellan Birney (1858 – 1907) American educator who co-founded the National Parent-Teacher Association in 1897.</p><br>
<p>Rogers-Abbott-Fowler House (c. 1850), Church Street (at Kennesaw Avenue), Greek Revival with "a two gallery columned portico", unusual for Greek Revival in Georgia.</p><br>
<p>McNeal-Hawkins-Hamrich House (c. 1895), 331 Church Street, N.W. (photo #12), neo-classical with "a orinthian portico, full entablature and hip roof"</p><br>
<p>Clarke Library Building (c. 1893), Church Street at Polk-Lemon Street, an Octagon style building (photo #10)</p><br>
<p>Root House (c.1840), Lemon Street, behind the Clarke Library Building, "a modest Plain Plantation style house", separately listed on the NRHP in 2014</p><br>
<p>Groves-Mims House, Polk Street, adjacent to Nutting-Law House (photo #3), "a cottage Greek Revival style with some unusual columns on two sides."</p><br>
<p>Nutting-Law House, (c. 1866), 60 Polk Street at Locust (photo #13) "very Victorian" appearance derives from its mansard roof and jigsaw scroll work trim of its gabled dormers</p><br>
<p>King-Pratt House (c. 1880), 90 Polk Street, "a one-story frame Victorian cottage style with detailed trim work on the gabled roof."</p><br>
<p>Gignilliat-Cheek-Griffin House, (c. 1840), 243 Kennesaw Avenue (photo #7), described as distinctive, "in the style of a mid 19th century, A. J. Downing-type early Victorian home", with gingerbread trim on eaves and veranda.</p><br>
<p>Brumby-Wallace-Dennington House (c. 1883), 267 Kennesaw Avenue (photo #9) Victorian house with one-story porch on two sides, "has delicate detail on the gabled eaves and along the exterior cornice area"</p><br>
<p>Brumby-Sibley-Corley House, 285 Kennesaw Avenue (photo #1), "impressive" mid-Victorian house built by James Remley Brumby, first owner of Brumby Chair Factory.</p><br>
<p>Howell-Sessions-Hallman House (c. 1848), 303 Kennesaw Avenue (photo #6) is a monumental Greek Revival house with two-story portico and a four-room central hall plan. It served as a Union general&#39;s headquarters, and later as the Harwood Female Seminary</p><br>
<p>"Tranquilla", or Hansell-Camp-Keller House (1849), 435 Kennesaw Avenue (photo #5), "superb" Greek Revival home of Confederate General Andrew J. Hansell. Its classical design may have followed from work of Connecticut architect Willis Ball, who had recently designed houses in Roswell, Georgia</p><br>
<p>"Fair Oaks", or Garden Center House (c. 1852), 505 Kennesaw Avenue (photo #8), "has an unusual design with a high and broad gabled front facade with a first floor classical style porch and the Victorian detail on the second floor."</p><br>
<p>"Oakton", or Wilder-Ariderson-Goodman House (c. 1838), 581 Kennesaw Avenue, "is mid-Victorian in appearance, but was originally Greek Revival with single-story circular columns across the front porch."</p><br>
<p>Clay Hall is a mid-twentieth century women’s dormitory located on the campus of Northern Oklahoma College in Enid, Oklahoma that has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2012. Architect Roy W. Shaw designed it for Phillips University in 1941. The building was named after Robert Henry Clay, the husband of Sadie Clay, who had given a $25,000 donation to the project. A cornerstone ceremony was held on October 9, 1941. Mefford construction had completed the exterior by 1942, and the interior was completed in 1946, having been delayed by the onset of World War II. The dormitory cost $175,000 to build, and the University held a dedication ceremony on October 11, 1946. In 1951 and 1959, a north and a south wing were added to the building in order to accommodate an expanding student population. These additional wings increased Clay Halls residential space from 150 women to 258, and its building size to 59,000 square feet. Phillips Universitys enrollment peaked in the 1970s, and the dormitory closed briefly in 1985, was reopened in 1986, and then permanently shut down in 1987. Clay Hall is the oldest dormitory on the campus. Its predecessor, Athenian Hall, was demolished in 1952, and a men&#39;s dormitory, Earl Butts Hall, was completed in 1955.</p><br>
<p>California Hall is one of the original "classical core" Beaux-Arts-style Classical Revival buildings on the UC Berkeley campus. Construction began in 1903 under the lead of University Architect John Galen Howard after the university&#39;s adoption of the Phoebe Hearst master architectural plan for the Berkeley campus. The building opened in August, 1905. In 1982, it was named to the National Register of Historic Places, and is designated as an architectural feature of California Historic Landmark no. 946. In 1991, the Landmarks Preservation Committee of the City of Berkeley designated it Berkeley City Landmark no. 147.</p><br>
<p>It currently houses the University of California Berkeley Chancellor&#39;s Office and the Graduate Division.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>California Hall was one of the first buildings to be constructed upon adoption of the Hearst architectural plan. Opened in 1905, it was built with a state appropriation of $250,000 and university funds of $19,000.</p><br>
<p>It originally housed the universitys central administration and the History, Political Economy and Commerce departments. After a 1941 remodel it housed classrooms and the Institute of Industrial Relations and classrooms; in 1968 the classrooms were removed and it became the home of the Chancellors Office and the Graduate Division. In 1982, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 1990 it was seismic renovated.</p><br>
<h3>Exterior design</h3><br>
<p>The building&#39;s frame is steel sheathed in reinforced concrete. The exterior is granite from the nearby Raymond quarries, chosen for its hardness and uniform color. The granite was then lined with brick. Granite is not fireproof, but campus plan at the time called for large spacing between buildings to reduce the threat of fire, and California Hall was the first campus building incorporating fire-proofing techniques such as metal studs, wire lath and fireproof plaster.</p><br>
<p>"If there is a building in the State that is perfectly fireproof, in which a fire cannot start, or could find nothing to make headway on if possibly started, it is California Hall", claimed the University Chronicle. The roof is concrete-sheathed steel covered in Spanish mission tiles (tejas), reflecting Howard&#39;s desire to create a uniquely "Californian" architectural style. The rooftop features skylights studded by copper finials.</p><br>
<h3>Original interior features</h3><br>
<p>The original doors, window-casings and other wooden features of the buildings interior architecture were made of solid oak, and the buildings original furniture was of solid oak and mahogany. The floors were originally made of metal and concrete, and carpeted in cork. The entire building was wired for electric lighting, which was intended for use in the evenings. Light during the day was provided by ample windows (one in each room) and the skylights dotting the rooftop. Similar to the Hearst Memorial Mining Building being built on the university campus by Howard at the same time, the interior was made to be architecturally “elastic”—these same subdivisions could be cheaply and easily removed without compromising the structure’s exterior steel shell.</p><br>
<p>The lecture room had tiered seating that could hold 500 people, and was originally equipped with a stereopticon. The room was intended for the university’s large History, English and Botany classes, which were difficult to accommodate previously due to a lack of adequate indoor space on the campus. Behind the speaker’s platform was a door that allowed the speaker and the audience direct access between the lecture room and the outside of the building. To the south of the large lecture hall were classrooms and faculty offices, uniformly painted ivory in color.</p><br>
<p>The second-floor corridor, lit by skylights, was inspired by the plan of an atrium of an ancient Roman house. The corridor served as a central lobby connecting together the university’s administrative offices, including the recently founded Recorder’s Office and Secretary’s Office. The university’s information bureau and a private telephone exchange were located across from the stairwell that lead up into the lobby. From the south end of the central lobby, one could enter into the Faculty Room, where meetings and conferences were held. Connected to the Faculty Room were the private office of the President, the President’s Secretary’s office, and the office of the President’s stenographer. The furniture in these rooms was made of mahogany. Located to the north of the central lobby were a lecture room and the offices of the Department of Education. To the northeast and east were the offices of the Appointment Secretary, the Advisor, Assistant Advisor, Medical Examiner and Professor of Hygiene, and the Director of the University Extension at that time, Professor H. Morse Stephens.</p><br>
<p>On the top floor of the building were the headquarters of the University Press and Editorial Committee, and the Botanical Museum (herbarium), which was brought there to protect it from fire. The attic was fitted with steel bookshelves in 1906, becoming the first on-campus location of the recently acquired Bancroft Library, which had previously been housed in San Francisco.</p><br>
<p>In the basement, one could find the mailing room for University Extension, storage for the Department of Paleontology’s collections, and restrooms. The basement is also where the heating and ventilation chambers could be found. This system drew in outside air, filtering it through a fine cloth mesh to remove dust, and was warmed after being passed across the surface of steam coils. The steam was supplied from the university’s central power plant, and was used instead of gas as a fire safety precaution. A large revolving fan pushed the heated air through the ventilation system, with units installed in each of the rooms throughout the entire building. This heating and ventilation system was unique on the campus at that time to California Hall.</p><br>
<h3>Symbolism</h3><br>
<p>Howard was member to an architectural trend of his time of a search for an authentic, modern "California" style. Previous architects had drawn heavily from Spanish California mission architecture, Stanford University being a prime example of this Mission Revival style. Howard said of California Hall that it was a:</p><br>
<p>free study of modified classic forms without recourse to...columnar orders. An attempt has been made to realize in this building a type of architecture characteristic to Central California.</p><br>
<p>The University Chronicle alluded to the building’s strength and elements of Classical Revival explored by Howard through a parallel with the Greek Parthenon:</p><br>
<p>It can safely be said that no building in the State better represents the most modern and advanced ideas of durable construction. It has been built to be permanent, and will be permanent as the Parthenon has been permanent, and will be used by generations of students hundreds of years hence.</p><br>
<p>Palazzo Foscari  is a Gothic style palace in Venice, built in the 14th century; it is located at the civic number 795 in the island of Giudecca, near the Molino Stucky.</p><br>
<p>Originally one of the palaces built for the 65th doge of Venice Francesco Foscari and his family, in the late 19th century Palazzo Foscari in Giudecca was also inhabited by Giovanni Stucky, the Swiss engineer who completely renovated and enlarged the flour mills of Venice, applying modern manufacturing concepts and techniques (source: mosaic in the staircase, datation 1898). From 1992 to 2006, the palace hosted the Archivio musicale Luigi Nono, the musical archive of the Venetian composer. Since 2006, the palazzo has hosted a modern and contemporary art gallery, named after the address Giudecca 795.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Marcello Brusegan. La grande guida dei monumenti di Venezia. Roma, Newton & Compton, 2005</p><br>
<p>Guida d&#39;Italia - Venezia (third edition), Touring editore, Milan, 2007</p><br>
<p>Venezia dall&#39;Alto/Venice from Above, AWD Editore, Legnano, 2009</p><br>
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<p>The Stevens Building is located in the Bexar County city of San Antonio in the USA state of Texas. Completed in 1891, architect James Riely Gordon designed the building for local businessman John J. Stevens. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bexar County, Texas. The structure was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>The three-story Richardsonian Romanesque Stevens Building at 315 E. Commerce was designed by architect James Riely Gordon for San Antonio businessman John J. Stevens and completed in 1891. The Wagner & Chabot</p><br>
<p>bicycle wholesaler occupied the building for 45 years. Bledsoe Furniture Company was a tenant for 33 years. The University of San Antonio held the lease on the entire third floor for more than half a century.</p><br>
<p>In 1979 a local hospital bought both the Stevens and the Staacke buildings with the intent of razing the structures to convert the property to a hospital parking lot. The San Antonio Conservation Society stepped in to preserve architectural history and purchased both buildings. In 1982, a group of investors bought and restored the two structures. The building&#39;s interior was remodeled for contemporary tenants. Historic photographs were used to restore the exterior as authentically accurate to the original as possible. The facade is detailed with oriel windows, and brick and red granite, finished with carved limestone.</p><br>
<p>The Baynard Boulevard Historic District is a national historic district located at Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware. It encompasses 77 contributing buildings with examples of Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Queen Anne architecture. The area developed after being laid out in 1893, and is a prime example of a turn-of-the-20th-century American suburb, or "streetcar suburb." The dwellings date between 1895 and 1930. The district is predominantly residential. Also located in the district is the McCabe United Methodist Church, Beth Shalom Synagogue, Hanover Presbyterian Church, and No. 30 School.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
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<p>The Franklin School is a historic former school building at 7 Stedman Rd. in Lexington, Massachusetts. Built in 1931, it is the only school built by the town in the period of the Great Depression. The Georgian Revival structure was designed by architects Kilham, Hopkins & Greeley. It served as a public school until 1985, when it was converted to the Franklin School Apartments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The former Franklin School is set on the east side of Stedman Road, a short road in a residential area of southern Lexington. The school stands at the front of a complex that includes five modern apartment buildings. It is a 2-1/2 story Georgian Revival structure, built out of load-bearing red brick, with a central section flanked on each side by matching 1-1/2 story wings. The roof of the main section is gambreled, with a center gable section that has an octagonal louvered opening at its center. Windows on both levels are groups of sash, organized 5-4-5, separated by the piers that support the gable. The projecting wing sections have groups of three windows facing to the front. The basic layout of the school&#39;s interior has been retained despite its conversion into apartments, which have been carefully fitted into classroom, office, and other spaces, retaining the brick-walled hallways. In the basement the utility areas of the building retain their original function.</p><br>
<p>The school was built in 1931, in response to growth in the town&#39;s population during the 1920s, and was one of the last major construction projects in the town until the 1960s. In 1958 additions were made to this school, but they were removed as part of its apartment conversion.</p><br>
<p>Kamouh el Hermel, Qâmou el Hermel, Qamouh el Hermel, Qâmoûaa el Hermel, Kâmoâ el Hermel, the Pyramid of Hermel or Hermel Pyramid  is an ancient pyramid located 6 km south of Hermel in Baalbek-Hermel Governorate, Lebanon.</p><br>
<p>The pyramid has been suggested to date to the first or second century BC due to similarities with architecture of tower tombs of the late Selucid era at Palmyra in Syria. Thomson also entertained the notion, along with Charles William Meredith van de Velde that the construction may have been Assyrian. René Dussaud later suggested that although the reliefs resembled the Ishtar Gate, the edifice was likely a monument to the hunting prowess of a member of Syrian royalty from the first century BC.</p><br>
<p>The pyramid sits on top of a hill that is clearly visible from a distance and has been fenced off to prevent damage. It is between 19.6 m and 27 m high and sits on a base measuring around 1.1 m with three steps made from black basalt. Some sections of the monument were restored in 1931. A relief on the north side depicts two deer, possibly caught in a hunting trap. On the east side is a carved image of a boar being attacked by dogs and speared. The south side is badly damaged but shows an image considered possibly to be a bear. The relief on the west side shows two wolves attacking a bull.</p><br>
<h2>Shepherd Neolithic archaeological site</h2><br>
<p>Evidence was found of a Shepherd Neolithic archaeological site in the area around the monument, on the south and west of the hill. The site was discovered and a collection of flint tools used during the Neolithic Revolution was made by Lorraine Copeland and Frank Skeels in 1965. Materials recovered included blade-butts with scraping edges or notches, borers, cores (one with a twin edge) and small flakes. Some pieces were vaguely bifacial. The flints found were in a grey or chocolate-brown color with some having a shiny patina.</p><br>
<p>The Colonsay Group is an estimated 5,000 m thick sequence of mildly metamorphosed Neoproterozoic sedimentary rocks that outcrop on the islands of Colonsay, Islay and Oronsay and the surrounding seabed. They have been correlated with the Grampian Group, the oldest part of the Dalradian Supergroup.</p><br>
<h2>Stratigraphy</h2><br>
<p>The sequences on Islay and Colonsay/Oronsay are not identical and correlation between them is uncertain. Both sequences are divided up into a series of formations. The Islay sequence lies unconformably on gneisses of the Rhinns complex and is thought to be mostly older than the Colonsay/Oronsay sequence. A possible correlation has been made between sandstones of the Oronsay formation which form the base of the preserved sequence on Colonsay/Oronsay and those of the Smaull and Sanaig Greywacke formations towards the top of the Islay sequence. Within Colonsay, the following sequence is recognised (in stratigraphical order with topmost/youngest first):</p><br>
<p>Staosnaig Phyllite Formation</p><br>
<p>Kiloran Flags Formation</p><br>
<p>Milbuie Arkose Formation</p><br>
<p>Kilchattan Formation</p><br>
<p>Machrins Arkose Formation</p><br>
<p>Dun Gallain Grit Formation</p><br>
<p>Oronsay Greywacke Formation</p><br>
<h2>Age</h2><br>
<p>The upper bound to the age of the sequence is given by the presence of detrital titanite grains that give an age of about 942 Ma and detrital zircon grains giving an age of about 1025 Ma, suggesting that the Colonsay Group is Neoproterozoic. The minimum age is given by dating of an intrusion that cuts the sequence at Kiloran Bay, which is dated to about 440 Ma (early Silurian).</p><br>
<h2>Correlation</h2><br>
<p>The Colonsay Group has at various times been correlated with the Torridonian, the Moine Supergroup and the Appin Group and Grampian Group of the lower Dalradian Supergroup. Analysis of the provenance area for the Colonsay Group compared to these other sequences, suggests that the best match in terms of provenance is with the Grampian Group, the lowermost part of the Dalradian sequence. The relationship of the Colonsay Group to the Bowmore Sandstone Group, with which they are in tectonic contact across the Loch Gruinart fault, is uncertain, although both have been correlated with the Grampian Group.</p><br>
<p>The Park Addition School at 1100 Richardson Court in Cheyenne, Wyoming was built in 1921. It was designed by architect Frederick Hutchinson Porter. Due to population growth, an addition was built during the 1947-1949 school year, and the school was renamed "Chaplin School" in the honor of Miss Ruth Chaplin who served as principal from its inception until the 1952-1953 school year. At this point, and due to further growth, the city of Cheyenne made available a portion of Pioneer Park, two blocks from the school, for expansion. The new "Chaplin Annex" was finished in 1953, with an another addition built in 1956. Since the new separate annex had grown to at least twice the size of the Park addition, it was renamed "Pioneer Park" school, and an effort to consolidate both schools into the new larger facility ensued. The original Park Addition building was henceforth used for school administrative offices. In 1977 the building and land was sold by the school district to a private owner, and eventually became a day care establishment called "Children&#39;s Choice Childcare Center" in the early 1980s. The Park Addition structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Rožnik  is a hill in the Rožnik District and Šiška District northwest of the Ljubljana city center. Together with Tivoli City Park, it forms Tivoli–Rožnik Hill–Šiška Hill Landscape Park. Extending from Tivoli Park, it is a popular hiking, running, and excursion destination for residents of Ljubljana.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>Rožnik Hill was attested in written sources in 1326 as Rosenberch. The Slovene name is a translation from the German name Rosenberg, originally a compound of Middle High German rôse &#39;rose&#39; and berc &#39;mountain, hill&#39;. In modern German the hill was known as Rosenbach.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The hill has two peaks, called Šiška Hill (Šišenski hrib, 429 m) and Cankar Peak (Cankarjev vrh, 394 m). Cankar Peak was formerly known as Zgornji Rožnik (&#39;upper Rožnik&#39;, Oberrosenbach), in contrast to Spodnji Rožnik (&#39;lower Roznik&#39;; also known as Podrožnik, Unterrosenbach)</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>*May 1: on May Day, a bonfire is lit on Cankar Peak and a festival is held in the nearby meadow.</p><br>
<p>*June 21: a summer solstice ceremony takes place with a bonfire on Cankar Peak to celebrate the winners of the Kresnik Award, named after the Slavic pagan deity Kresnik, invoking Slavic pagan ceremonies from before Christianization.</p><br>
<p>*December 26: horses are blessed on St. Stephen&#39;s Day in front of Visitation Church.</p><br>
<p>The African American Military History Museum, also known as East Sixth Street USO Building, was constructed in 1942 as a USO Club for African American soldiers who were stationed at Camp Shelby. The structure is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004 and was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The East Sixth Street USO building was unique in that it was constructed specifically to house an African American USO, shortly after the United States entered World War II, and had support of both Blacks and Whites in Hattiesburg. The structure is a T-shaped wood frame building. The interior contained an auditorium, stage, lobby, men’s and women’s restrooms, dressing rooms, meeting rooms, and a central brick chimney. The auditorium measured 34 feet (10.4 meters) by 55 feet (16.8 meters). The stage in the auditorium was raised 3 feet (0.9 meters) above the floor and measured 20 by 22 feet (6 by 6.7 meters) with dressing rooms on either side.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>USO club</h3><br>
<p>Between 1942 and 1946, the East Sixth Street USO Club served as a home away from home for African American soldiers who were stationed at Camp Shelby. The facility was a place where soldiers could come for recreation, relaxation, and socialization. Examples of services provided at the USO included a library, darkroom, lounge, counseling, music, mail service, religious literature, and sewing service.</p><br>
<h3>Museum</h3><br>
<p>Prior to becoming the African American Military History Museum, the former USO building housed the N.R. Burger Center which served as a museum and community space to commemorate the allegiance of African-American soldiers through displays of historical documents, artifacts, and photographs.</p><br>
<p>Renovation of the USO Building as the African American Military History Museum was completed in 2009. The original USO auditorium was subdivided into venues for historical military exhibits, to include the following:</p><br>
<p>Revolutionary War, Buffalo Soldiers, World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Global War on Terrorism, and Hattiesburg Hall of Honor. Between 2009 and 2012, approximately 13,000 visitors had toured the museum.</p><br>
<h2>Tornado damage</h2><br>
<p>On February 10, 2013, an EF-4 tornado passed through Hattiesburg. During the storm, the roof of the Museum was severely damaged, causing exhibits and artifacts to be soaked by rain. Museum personnel estimated that the structure would be closed for at least one year for restoration and announced that museum artifacts had been relocated to another facility for storage.</p><br>
<p>Following a year of reconstruction, the museum officially reopened on February 6, 2014. Estimates of damage from the tornado were $450,000 to the building and $600,000 to the museum contents.</p><br>
<p>Gib Hill is a large burial mound in the Peak District, Derbyshire, England. It is thought to be a Neolithic oval barrow with an Early Bronze Age round barrow superimposed at one end. It is located some 300 metres south-west of Arbor Low henge.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>Three exploratory excavations were conducted in the 19th century: the first by the owner, Mr Thornhill in 1812, a second by William Bateman and S. Mitchell in 1824, and a third by Thomas Bateman in 1848. The 1848 excavations uncovered a cist of early Bronze Age date, containing a cremation and food vessel. This configuration can be seen clearly by looking up at the barrow from the north.</p><br>
<h2>Siting</h2><br>
<p>Gib Hill is part of complex of prehistoric monuments with Arbor Low. The Neolithic barrow at Gib Hill was probably the first element in the complex.</p><br>
<p>The Borden Milk Co. Creamery and Ice Factory is a historical site in Tempe, Arizona. Built originally as an ice plant, it was altered to also produce pasteurized bottled milk. The Pacific Creamery Plant was sold in 1927, and it operated under the Borden name until its closure in 1953. The building stood empty until it was reopened as Four Peaks Brewery, a restaurant and regional brewery. The Borden operation had enough impact on the city that a new park was designated "Creamery Park" in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Built in the Mission Revival style, the building is almost entirely red brick, with wooden ceilings and a glass clerestory reaching as high as 35 feet, supported by steel suspension. The nine buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall, built in 1892, is an historic building located at 401 Railroad Street in Ironton, Ohio. Designed by noted Ohio architect Joseph W. Yost in the Richardsonian Romanesque style of architecture, it was built to serve as a Grand Army of the Republic memorial and the meeting hall of Dick Lambert Post No. 165 of the GAR. It later served as the meeting hall of the now long-defunct American Legion Post No. 59 as well as the Ironton city hall. After being abandoned by the city, American Legion Post No. 433 undertook the task of restoring the long neglected veteran&#39;s memorial. On September 19, 2012, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>On May 28, 2014, demolition of the building began.</p><br>
<p>The East Putney Brook Stone Arch Bridge is a historic stone arch bridge in eastern Putney, Vermont. Built in 1902, it is a rare statewide example of a 20th century stone bridge, and one of a number of such area bridges built by Townshend farmer and mason James Otis Follett. It was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1976. The bridge is located just west  of the present alignment of River Road, which it formerly carried.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The East Putney Brook Stone Arch Bridge is located in far eastern Putney, about 4 mi northeast of Putney&#39;s village center. East Putney Brook flows from west to east, draining into the Connecticut River about 0.25 mi east of the River Road crossing. The stone bridge stands a short way upstream of the current road alignment, having been bypassed about 1965. The modern road crosses the stream on a metal culvert whose profile resembles the old stone bridge, and a short way downstream the Boston and Maine Railroad crosses the stream on a 19th-century stone arch bridge.</p><br>
<p>The bridge is a single-span arch with a span of about 30 ft, rising 11 ft above the typical water level of the stream. It has a roadbed about 16.5 ft wide, sufficient for only a single modern travel lane. Stone wing walls flare out from all ends of the arch. The arch and other bridge elements are fashioned out of irregular granite blocks and slabs that have been mortared together in irregular courses. The arch spandrels are filled with granite blocks and rubble, with a gravel road surface laid on top.</p><br>
<p>The bridge was built in 1902 by Townshend resident James Otis Follett, and was the first of seven documented bridges and culverts built by Follett for the town of Putney. This bridge, and other surviving bridges built by Follett in Putney and Townshend, represent an unusual concentration of stone craftsmanship in an era when most bridges were being built out of iron and steel.</p><br>
<p>Dundanion Castle is a Tudor tower house in the Blackrock area of Cork in Ireland. Previously known as Galwey&#39;s Castle, the ruin is located on the grounds of the much later "Dundanion House".</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Though built on or close to the site of an earlier structure, Built by the Galwey family, the castle is marked (as "Galwaies castle") on the Pacata Hibernia map of Cork which dates to the late 16th century.</p><br>
<p>Owing to later land reclamation, the castle is now located some distance from the waterfront of the River Lee. However an adjacent slipway demonstrates an earlier use,</p><br>
<p>The castle changed hands several times before falling into ruin. Several grand houses were built in the castle demesne before architect, Thomas Deane built "Dundanion House" in the 1830s. Contemporary Deane family diaries mention stonemasons making "a ‘picturesque ruin&#39;" of Dundanion Castle during the construction of Dundanion House.</p><br>
<p>Though partly visible from the public walkway of the old Cork, Blackrock and Passage Railway, the castle ruin lies on the grounds of Dundanion House, which is private property and not publicly accessible. The castle is listed by Cork City Council as a protected structure (PS492), and it is included on the Irish national Record of Monuments and Places (CO 074-049).</p><br>
<p>The Humble Oil Building, is a historic office building, designed in the Italian Renaissance architecture style, located at 1212 Main Street in Houston, Texas and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was constructed by Humble Oil and Refining Company in 1921. The tower section was added on to the building in 1936. The building complex served as the company headquarters for Humble Oil and Refining Company from 1921 until 1963, when the company moved into what is now the ExxonMobil Building at 800 Bell Street. In 2003, the building complex was renovated for use as a combination hotel and apartments, the apartment section was converted to additional hotel rooms in 2015.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original 9-story structure occupied half of a city block between Main Street and Travis Street, with the front facing Polk Street. This original structure was designed by prominent New York architects Clinton and Russell and cost approximately $1.2 million. It was the largest office building in Houston at the time, containing approximately 196,000 ft&sup2; of space. A 1932 renovation added a central air conditioning system to the building, the first in any Houston office building.</p><br>
<p>Humble Oil and Refining Company expanded the building in 1936 with an adjacent 17-story tower. This expansion was designed by John F. Staub and Kenneth Franzheim. Additional expansions were made in 1940 and 1947; and the complex now contains 529,809 ft&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>In 1997, the building complex was purchased by Historic Restoration Inc., with plans to adapt the buildings into a mixed-use hotel, apartments, and retail space. The plans moved forward in 1999 with a loan from the City of Houston in the amount of $4.6 million in order to encourage the development. The plans were completed in 2003 and the building opened as a Courtyard by Marriott hotel, a Residence Inn hotel, and the Humble Tower apartments. It contained 360 hotel rooms, 82 luxury apartments, 6,721 ft&sup2; of street-level retail, and a parking garage. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, under the category "Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals". The apartment section was converted to a third Marriott-branded Hotel in 2015, a Spring Hill Suites.</p><br>
<p>The Warnke Covered Bridge, also known as Warnke Bridge, is a historic covered bridge crossing Swamp Creek in Harrison Township, Preble County, Ohio, northeast of Lewisburg. Built from 1895 to 1896 by Everett S. Sherman, it has a span of 51 feet. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>In 1895, a flood damaged the steel truss bridge that had been built at the same location. Sherman built a new "Childs Truss covered Bridge." He purchased the stone for the abutments from the Lewisburg quarry. The bridge was named for a family who lived nearby.</p><br>
<p>The Warnke Bridge was the last bridge built by Sherman. After the bridge was completed, Sherman moved to Richmond, Indiana, and died shortly thereafter.</p><br>
<p>The original cost of the bridge was $459. Rehabilitation work undertaken in 2008 cost $240,924.25. At one time, Preble County had 50 covered bridges. Seven of them, including the Warnke Covered Bridge, remain.</p><br>
<p>The Geeting Covered Bridge, also known as Geeting Bridge, is a historic covered bridge crossing Price&#39;s Creek on Price Road west of Lewisburg, Ohio, United States. It was built in 1894 by Everett S. Sherman, one of at least 20 covered bridges built by Sherman in Preble County, Ohio. The abutments were built by the Koppee Brothers. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.</p><br>
<p>It is a 100 ft bridge with 7 feet additional overhang. All of the white pine boards used in constructing this bridge were purchased from Cadillac, Michigan lumber suppliers Cobb and Mitchell. The bridge was built in 1894 at a cost of $2,691. It has had extensive repair and rehabilitation work done over the years, including roof replacement following a windstorm in 1914, roof repairs after damage caused by a truck in 1969, and rehabilitation work in 1973 and in the 2000s. The most recent rehabilitation of 2008 was at a cost of $379,753.</p><br>
<p>It was named for Dave Geeting, who owned land to the south and west of the bridge, and was the first to drive across it.</p><br>
<p>The Christman Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge that carries Eaton-New Hope Road over Seven Mile Creek in Washington Township, Preble County, Ohio, United States, northwest of the city of Eaton. It was built in 1895 by Everett S. Sherman, who built at least 20 covered bridges in Preble County. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Christman Bridge was built at a total cost of approximately $4,250: $2,452 for stone from the Eaton Stone Company, $1,301 for Sherman, and $499 for masonry work by Harry C. Foster. Rehabilitation work undertaken from 2007 to 2008 cost $331,093.75.</p><br>
<p>Christman Covered Bridge was the penultimate bridge built by Sherman; only the Warnke Covered Bridge was built later. It was named for a Solomon Christman who owned the land around the bridge and operated a sawmill downstream.</p><br>
<p>Trace remnants of the mill are visible near the road 200 yard west of the bridge.</p><br>
<p>The Gately Building is a historic commercial building at 337-353 Main Street  in downtown Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. In 2015, the property was renovated into a 13-unit apartment building.</p><br>
<h2>Style</h2><br>
<p>The three story flatiron building was built in 1914 to fill in a triangular lot on the fringe of the city&#39;s central business district. It has a flat roof, a steel frame, and is clad in brick with granite and marble trim, with a granite foundation and cast iron fronts on the first floor. Its Colonial Revival styling dates to alterations in the 1930s converting its ground-floor retail spaces into a single banking center. The floor space is about 5,000 square feet on each floor. Large windows surround the building on all sides.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>When it was opened in 1914, the ground floor was home to four street-level storefronts. By 1935, the Old Colony Cooperative Bank occupied the entire first floor. The building also contained offices of The Providence Journal newspaper and a dental office; the latter being the building&#39;s longest tenant, from 1941 to 1986.</p><br>
<p>The building stood vacant and neglected from 1993 to 2015, slowly deteriorating and becoming a detriment to neighborhood development.</p><br>
<h3>Conversion to residences</h3><br>
<p>In 2015, money from the state’s 2012 affordable housing bond was used to convert the building to a housing complex with 13 rental units and community space. The renovation restored the building to its original historic appearance. In September 2016, the building was praised by Governor Gina Raimondo and Mayor Donald Grebien as a successful example of how affordable housing bonds can revitalize neighborhoods and create jobs.</p><br>
<p>Mary Ann Furnace Historic District, also known as Trexlers Furnace, is a historic "iron plantation" and national historic district located in Longswamp Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses five contributing buildings, one contributing site, and one contributing structure. They are the iron furnace stack , stone and frame bank barn , managers house and office , blacksmith shop , charcoal house , stone dam, and small stone house . The furnace remained in operation until 1869. It is commemorated by a historical marker erected in 1924. Today it is owned by the Rohrbach family. They continue to keep the property as historical as possible.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>Queen Anne Historic District is a national historic district located in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania. The district encompasses 2,405 contributing buildings in Reading built between about 1880 and 1925. The district consists primarily of semi-detached houses and rowhouses, with a few stone church buildings and small commercial buildings. Most of the buildings are constructed of brick and reflective of Late Victorian and early 20th-century architectural styles. The churches are St. Mary&#39;s Episcopal Church  and Wesley United Methodist Church . Located in the district and separately listed are the Charles S. Foos Elementary School and former Meinig Glove Factory-E. Richard Meinig Co.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Pavagadh Hill is situated within a plain in Panchmahal district, Gujarat, western India. At its base is the historical city of Champaner, while the hill station of Pavagadh was built upon the volcanic cone itself. A volcanic eruption occurred here approximately 500 million years ago and the etymology of its name is associated with eruption: Pavgadh means "one fourth hill" or "fire-hill", though a legend surrounding its formation is that the right foot of Sati is believed to have fallen at Pavagadh and God "sent a large hill as per the request of Rishi Vishwamitra to fill up a deep valley so that the sage&#39;s cows do not fall into it." With Champaner, Pavagadh hill forms the Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, which is spread over an area of more than 1,329 hectare. The site is 50 km east of Vadodara and 42 miles south of Godhra.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The hill is a southern Aravalli Range outlier, rising 800 m above the surrounding plains. There are five successive plateaus, Kalikamata Plateau, Mauliya Plateau, Bhadrakali Plateau, Machi Plateau and Atak Plateau. Plateau reservoirs (talaos) form a chain up the hill. Other features include dense forest, reddish-orange rhyolite boulders, and a natural cave just below the summit. Strong monsoon breezes blow winds upwards onto steep hill slopes.</p><br>
<p>The arrangement of the rock formations of Pavagadh Hill is stated as being "rhyolite, green bedded tuffs, porphyritic basalt, olivine dolerite and nonporphyritic alkaline basalt." There are steep rock exposures whose geological formation is attributed to ancient volcanic eruptions and lava flows. Pavagadh Hill has a geological setting of reddish-yellow coloured stone, and is considered to be one of the oldest rock formations in India.</p><br>
<p>The geological formation of Pavagadh Hill is thus very complex. It is interpreted as part of the Deccan Traps, which arose from the "tumultuous outpour of lava beyond 106 cubic km in volume. Eruption is deduced to have occurred 69-65 Ma age. These basaltic rocks said to be one of the largest continental flood basaltic provinces in the world." Studies carried by geologists have indicated eleven basic flows superposed by felsic volcanics. New varieties of rocks such as "rhyodycite, alkal-olivine basalt, mugearite and ankaramite" are reported. It is also recorded that except for rhyolite, all the rocks have an "alkaline-oloivine lineage." Geologists have also observed that "seventeen horizontal flows have occurred in Pavagadh and postulated that the "whole series resulted by fractionalism in two episodes."</p><br>
<p>The highest point of the hill presents an undulating forested topography in the direction of Jambughoda. The path ascending the hill passes through many old gates and cuts through natural ledges of rock like a staircase, with precipitous sides. Midway up this path is a flat ground which is strewn with boulders. The mountain above the flat ground is a very steep hill scarp.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>While private vehicles are not allowed, registered buses and government vehicles provide transportation up the hill. As the road ends before reaching the summit, there are only two options to reach the top, either on foot or by ropeway. The mono-cable ropeway is 740 m in length. It can carry 1,200 people per hour. It is stated to be the country&#39;s highest ropeway, connecting the summit of the hill with the plateaus of Champaner.</p><br>
<h2>History and legends</h2><br>
<p>Human settlement occurred around the second century after the hill became associated with the goddess Kali. It is believed that the foot of Parvati fell on this hill, making it sacred. Legend states that the hill&#39;s formation is attributed to the sage Vishwamitra Rishi, who lived here in bygone days. He had a cow named Kamadhenu. One day, the cow slipped while grazing and fell into the valley, which resulted in the cow attempting to scramble up the hill. Finally she produced milk, which filled the valley, and swam to higher ground. The Rishi came to know of this mishap, and in order to prevent any such incident in the future, he prayed to the gods to fill the valley. The gods fulfilled his prayers with one fourth of a hill projecting out of the plains, Pavagadh Hill.</p><br>
<p>Known for its forts, there are also dozens of heritage structures on the hill. It is part of the Champaner-Pavagadh Archaeological Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.</p><br>
<h2>Jain Temple</h2><br>
<p>The Greek geographer Tolemi, who visited India in 140 A.D. regarded this temple as an ancient and holy place. In 1480 Mohammed Begdo, the Muslim sultan, heavily impaired this temple. In 1880 this temple was repaired. The entire complex houses a Dharmshala or guesthouse, a Jain restaurant and gardens.</p><br>
<p>The Barbarossa Cave  is an anhydrite cave  in the Kyffhäuser Hills near Rottleben in the east German state of Thuringia. It is a cave with large caverns, grottos and lakes. The anhydrite has formed gypsum on the surface due to the air moisture in the cave and, as a result, has increased in volume. The resulting layers of gypsum gradually separate from the underlying rock and hang like wallpaper from the walls and ceilings of the underground caverns.</p><br>
<p>It was discovered in 1865 as a gallery was being driven during prospecting work for kupferschiefer, a copper-bearing shale or bituminous marl. By 1866 it had been developed and opened as a show cave under the name of Falkenburg Cave (Falkenburger Höhle). It has a floor area of about 25,000 m². Of interest to visitors are the underground lakes whose gypsum content gives them an iridescent green colour, and a human made stone construction, known as Barbarossa&#39;s Table and Chair (Tisch und Stuhl von Barbarossa).</p><br>
<p>Its location in the Kyffhäuser Hills gave rise to its link with the Barbarossa Legend and its proximity to the Kyffhäuser Monument led to it being renamed the Barbarossa Cave (Barbarossahöhle) at the end of the 19th century. According to the legend, Frederick Barbarossa will sleep in an underground palace until Germany is unified. His beard is growing around a round table. To date, it has gone around the table twice, but when it has encircled the table a third time, the end of the world will begin or Barbarossa will awaken and begin his reign anew. According to the legend, until then, there will be no other good emperors.</p><br>
<p>The Barbarossa Cave lies on the Karst Trail.</p><br>
<p>The Harshaville Covered Bridge is a historic covered bridge spanning the Cherry Fork Creek at Harshaville, Adams County, Ohio. Built in 1855, it is a Burr truss bridge with a 110-foot span. It has sheet metal siding, a metal roof and stone abutments. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The Ohio Historic Places Dictionary has described it as "an outstanding example" of a Burr truss bridge. The name reflects the community, which was named for the Harsha family that built a mill there. In the summer of 1863, in a campaign known as Morgan&#39;s Raid, raiders from the Confederate States Army led by John Hunt Morgan ransacked the Harshaville general store and burned many bridges, but spared the Harshaville Covered Bridge.</p><br>
<p>In June 2010, the Ohio Department of Transportation received a $100,000 grant from the Federal Highway Administration to rehabilitate the bridge. The County planned to replace the bridges metal siding with historically correct wood siding and to replace the metal roof and failed backwall. Tom Cross, executive director of the Adams County Travel and Visitors Bureau, noted, "Once this work is completed, this bridge will look like new."</p><br>
<p>The Walnut Hill Plantation cotton gin house was built in the mid to late 1840s by Alonzo T. Mial, a prominent planter and commission merchant in 19th century North Carolina. It holds the distinction of being one of only a few surviving cotton gin houses in the state, and is likely the only one to have retained the majority of its original ginning equipment.</p><br>
<p>The gin house is a -story-tall, hand-hewn timber frame structure, approximately 36 ft wide and 56 ft deep. The frontmost two-thirds of the structure is supported by tall, 2 ft thick granite ashlar pillars that form a square, open-air space on the ground floor in which the mule track and power shaft were located. The rear third of the gin house rests on short, granite rubble piers, and housed the ground-floor pressing and packaging rooms. Most of the ginning equipment resided on the second floor of the gin house. The third floor was used for storage of baled cotton.</p><br>
<p>The gin was originally powered by two to four mules hitched to horizontal sweeps that turned the vertical power shaft. The power shaft was connected to a series of cog wheels that ultimately transferred power to the leather belt that drove the gin. In 1875, Mial replaced the mules with a 15-horsepower steam engine, which considerably increased the gins production capacity. The gin house received a number of other upgrades as ginning technology progressed over the following fifty years. The Walnut Hill cotton gin ceased operation in the mid-1930s, shortly after the death of Millard Mial, Alonzo T. Mials oldest son.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation</h2><br>
<p>Architect Jim Smith, of HagerSmith Design, PA in Raleigh, and his wife purchased the gin house in 1992 and spent the following decade stabilizing the structure to halt its deterioration. Between 2003 and 2005, they renovated the gin house and converted it to a private residence, where they have lived since. Their work won them an AIA North Carolina Design Merit award in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Harewood and Beechwood, also known as Woods School, are two historic homes located about four miles apart in Middletown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Harewood was originally built about 1788 as a farmhouse. The original structure is located behind the main house constructed in 1906. Harewood is an irregularly shaped, multi-level dwelling with a five-story main section. The main section has a broken-hipped roof and features Palladian windows. Beechwood was built in 1853, and is a large 2 1/2-story, fieldstone dwelling with a gable roof. It has a two-story, stuccoed stone rear addition. Both houses were built as country mansions and later acquired as a school for handicapped children known as the Woods School. Harewood was acquired in 1924 and Beechwood in 1944.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Lac qui Parle Mission is a pre-territorial mission in Chippewa County, Minnesota, United States, which was founded in June 1835 by Dr. Thomas Smith Williamson and Alexander Huggins after fur trader Joseph Renville invited missionaries to the area. Lac qui Parle is a French translation of the native Dakota name, meaning "lake which speaks". In the 19th century, the first dictionary of the Dakota language was written, and part of the Bible was translated into that language for the first time at a mission on the site of the park. It was a site for Christian missionary work to the Sioux for nearly 20 years.</p><br>
<p>The mission was reconstructed by the Works Progress Administration in 1942 and is now managed by the Chippewa County Historical Society in partnership with the Minnesota Historical Society.</p><br>
<h2>Fort Renville</h2><br>
<p>The Lac qui Parle Mission site is also home to the remains of Fort Renville, the fortified home and trading post established in 1826 by explorer and fur trader Joseph Renville. The fort comprised two dwellings and a storehouse, surrounded by a stockade and protected by a bastion and watchtower.</p><br>
<p>The site was excavated in 1940 and is now held in preservation by the Minnesota Historical Society. It is not open to the public.</p><br>
<p>The Walnut Hill Historic District is a collection of 40 family dwellings, agricultural outbuildings, and other structures and sites associated with the Walnut Hill Plantation and the Mial-Williamson and Joseph Blake farms near Shotwell, North Carolina. The historic district represents the post-Civil War growth of one of the largest agricultural centers in Wake County. It is situated primarily along the northeast end of Mial Plantation Road  between its intersections with Major Slade and Smithfield Roads.</p><br>
<p>The Walnut Hill Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in October 2000. The nearby Walnut Hill Cotton Gin and Oaky Grove Plantation have been listed in the National Register separately, in 1986 and 1993, respectively.</p><br>
<h2>Oaky Grove Methodist Church</h2><br>
<p>Oaky Grove Methodist Church was founded in the 1830s and was originally located on land belonging to the Oaky Grove Plantation about a mile to the north of the present structure. The church building that survives today was constructed in 1876 by contractor W. S. Walden using materials from Thomas A. Briggs&#39;s store in Raleigh. The pointed-arch frames of the windows and front door make it one of the earliest gothic revival churches in the county.</p><br>
<p>The small cemetery situated directly behind the church was not the official burial ground for church members. Instead, it hold the remains of several people who relocated to the area from Wilkes County, North Carolina in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.</p><br>
<h2>Frog Pond Academy</h2><br>
<p>Frog Pond Academy was the name given to the small plantation school by the children who studied there, in honor of the multitude of frogs that are said to have inhabited the puddles around the school after a heavy rain. Located a few hundred yards west of Grove Methodist Church and immediately south of the Mial-Williamson Farm house, the school consists of two rooms, each with its own front door, with a large granite chimney anchoring the east end of the structure. Alonzo T. Mial built the school in the 1860s for his own children, as well as others in the surrounding community, but it is unknown for how long the school was actually in use. With the exception of a twelve-year period during which it served as an office for the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station, the schoolhouse has been used as a tenant dwelling for most of the past century.</p><br>
<h2>Joseph Blake House</h2><br>
<p>The Joseph Blake House is situated in an open grove of large hardwood trees on the southwest corner of the intersection of Mial Plantation and Smithfield Roads. It was originally built in the 1860s by Joseph Blake, son of the founding pastor of Oaky Grove Methodist Church and half-brother of Alonzo T. Mial. All but one room of the original house burned in the late 1800s; the house seen today was constructed soon thereafter on the same foundation. The Doric columns on the front porch and the ornate front door are said to have been salvaged from older homes in Raleigh that were being demolished.</p><br>
<p>In addition to farming, Joseph Blake also served several terms as county surveyor starting in 1884. His office, a one-room wood frame building, sits to the northwest of the main house. It was constructed around 1870 and features a hip roof, brick chimney, and a single door and window.</p><br>
<p>Longland, also known as the Margaret Mead Farmstead, is a historic home located near Holicong, in Buckingham Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The house was built in 1845, and is a large 2 3/4-story, five bay by two bay, stuccoed stone dwelling. It has Greek Revival design details and features an ornate entranceway with rectangular transom and sidelights. Also on the property is a three-story, stone bank barn dated to 1844. It has an attached one-story stone ell. Other contributing buildings are a two-story, wood frame wagon house and woodshed / garage that abuts the house. It was a childhood home of American anthropologist Margaret Mead . Her family purchased the property in 1912 and sold it in 1926.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>Garrison Hill Tower is a 76 ft observatory atop Garrison Hill in Dover, New Hampshire, United States. The current tower, made of iron painted green, was built in 1993 and is the third tower to exist on the hill. The park in which it stands is listed on the National Register of Historical Places.</p><br>
<h2>Setting</h2><br>
<p>Garrison Hill Park is located north of downtown Dover, on the east side of New Hampshire Route 9. It is a glacial drumlin that is roughly circular in shape, with a summit elevation of 298 ft. The park occupies about 8.5 acre around the summit, and is accessed via Abbie Sawyer Memorial Highway. The road leads to a parking area at the summit, providing access to the observation tower, a town-owned concrete water storage tank, and radio transmission towers.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1880, the top of Garrison Hill was purchased by Joseph Ham and Harrison Haley, who developed it as a public park. Haley purchased—for $1,000—a 65 ft wooden observatory designed by architect B. D. Stewart and opened it to the public. The observatory contained a restaurant in the base, and offered a telescope through which the public could view Mount Washington. The city acquired the property in 1888 and continued to operate it as a public park. The city also built a reservoir (since filled in) on the site.</p><br>
<p>After the wooden observatory burned down in 1911, Abbey Sawyer commissioned a replacement, made of steel, to honor her husband. She also funded the construction of a new roadway (the present Abbey Sawyer Memorial Drive) to the summit, replacing the 1880 carriage road (now a foot path). The tower, erected in 1913, was taken down in 1990 due to safety concerns, and a third tower (the one now standing) was built by volunteers. On a clear day, one can view the White Mountains and the Isles of Shoals from atop the tower.</p><br>
<p>The Public Market, also referred to as the Morrill Block, is a historic commercial building at 93-95 Washington Street in Dover, New Hampshire. Built about 1846, it is one of the few surviving Greek Revival commercial buildings in the city, best known for its long association with the local Morrill Furniture Company. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Public Market building is located at the western end of a series of commercial buildings in the heart of downtown Dover, extending along the north side of Washington Street from its junction with Central Avenue. It is a 4-1/2 story brick structure, topped by a gabled roof with end chimneys. Its main facade is four bays wide, with windows on the upper floors set in rectangular openings with stone lintels and sills. The cornice projects slightly, and is decorated by dentil brickwork. The ground floor has a commercial storefront that has been updated several times since the building&#39;s construction, largely obscuring the granite piers and lintels that frame it and the entrance to the upper floors. The storefront presently has plate glass display windows flanking a recessed entrance, and is sheltered by a modern awning.</p><br>
<p>The building dates to the mid-1840s, and was originally part of a more unified row of similar brick Greek Revival commercial buildings (in contrast to the stone buildings now to its east). It is one of the few commercial buildings in Dover to survive from the period. The building was apparently built by Stephen Toppan, a local master joiner who also owned it 1846-55. It was for many years the home of E. Morrill Furniture Company, a staple of the Dover downtown. Morrill&#39;s moved out of the building in the 1920s, at which time the upper floors were converted to apartments, and the present commercial front was installed on the ground floor. Tenants during the 20th century included a sweets shop, an Army-Navy store, and a meat market (called Public Market). It is presently occupied by an insurance agency.</p><br>
<p>Maungawhau / Mount Eden is a scoria cone in the Mount Eden suburb of Auckland, New Zealand.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The cone is a dormant volcano and its summit, at 196 m above sea level, is the highest natural point on the Auckland isthmus. The majestic bowl-like crater is 50 m deep. The volcano erupted from three craters 28,000 years ago, with the last eruptions from the southern crater filling the northern craters. The western face of the hill was extensively quarried. This is the site of a large ecological restoration project run by volunteers.</p><br>
<h2>Naming</h2><br>
<p>Maungawhau means the Mountain of the whau tree (Entelea arborescens) in Māori. Mount Eden honours George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland. The crater is called Te Ipu-a-Mataaho (the bowl of Mataaho); Mataaho was a deity said to live in the crater and to be the guardian of the secrets hidden in the earth.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Maungawhau / Mount Eden attracts many tourists, as it is the highest natural point in Auckland, and provides good views in all directions over the city. There used to be a large number of tourist buses driving to the summit but these were banned in 2011. The maunga authority banned all vehicles driving to the summit in 2016, with the exception of people with limited mobility.</p><br>
<h2>Other uses</h2><br>
<p>From the 1950s the peak was used by the New Zealand Post Office for VHF radio communications in two buildings, several hundred metres apart, each with their own antenna farm. One building housed transmitting equipment, while the other housed receiving equipment. In the 1960s the site was staffed during the five-day working week due to the large number of valves that wore out under the stress of high power and needed frequent servicing. Typical use of the facility was for businesses e.g. taxi or delivery firms needing mobile communications to vehicles.</p><br>
<p>An underground water reservoir has been located on the northern side of Maungawhau / Mount Eden since the 1870s. The original reservoir was replaced in 1912, and a second, complementary, reservoir added in 1930. The reservoirs, recently upgraded to meet growing demand, work together to supply the Mount Eden, Epsom, One Tree Hill and Khyber Pass areas.</p><br>
<p>The trig station at the summit was used as a reference point for drawing up Aucklands suburbs. The platform was built with help from Prince Alfreds elephant. The elephant was rewarded with lollies, buns and beer.</p><br>
<h2>Treaty settlement</h2><br>
<p>In the 2014 Treaty of Waitangi settlement with the Tamaki Makaurau Collective of 13 Auckland iwi, the volcano was officially named Maungawhau / Mount Eden and ownership was vested to the collective. It is now co-governed by the collective and Auckland Council in common benefit of the iwi "and all other people of Auckland".</p><br>
<p>Mount Hill  is a prominent peak in the Australian state of South Australia on the eastern side of southern Eyre Peninsula. It is located within the locality of Butler.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Mount Hill is the southern peak of a low range of hills lying along the eastern coast of Eyre Peninsula and is about 25 km west of Spencer Gulf. At an elevation of about 450 m above sea level, the isolated peak is a prominent landmark from the gulf. The surrounding country, originally very scrubby, has been mostly cleared for cropping. The nearest town is Port Neill.</p><br>
<p>A railway siding located on the Eyre Peninsula Railway to the north-west of the hill has the name Mount Hill.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The first European to sight this peak was Matthew Flinders, who sailed past on 7 March 1802 and noted it in his log as a bluff inland mountain and on his chart as a bluff mount, alluding to the bluffness of its northern face.</p><br>
<p>It was named Mount Hill on or about 20 April 1840 by Governor George Gawler when he was exploring this coast northwards on horseback from Port Lincoln accompanied by explorer and landholder John Hill and Deputy Surveyor General Thomas Burr. Their expedition was supported at sea by the brig Porter and the government cutter Water Witch. For the purpose of gaining a better view of the unexplored interior of Eyre Peninsula, Gawler and party ascended the peak, at which time it was named after John Hill.</p><br>
<p>The party then proceeded northward past Mount Olinthus (which they also ascended and named) toward the Middleback Ranges, before returning to Franklin Harbour which Gawler also named and is at present, the site for the town of Cowell.</p><br>
<p>The Water Witch and Porter parted there, the Porter returning to Port Lincoln with Gawler and the Water Witch to Adelaide via Point Riley, near Wallaroo. On 28 April 1840 near Point Riley Hill and Burr disembarked, the pair returning overland on horseback to Adelaide, thereby being the first Europeans to traverse northern Yorke Peninsula.</p><br>
<p>The second recorded European exploration party to ascend Mount Hill was that of explorer Edward John Eyre, on 30 September 1840.</p><br>
<p>A book titled In the Shadow of the Bluff gives a detailed account of the history of Mount Hill and the Hundred of Butler.</p><br>
<p>Rhoads Homestead is a historic homestead located at New Hope, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The farmhouse consists of two sections; the oldest built about 1734. The first section is a -story fieldstone structure with a 1-story, sloped roof fieldstone addition attached. A second house dates to 1760, and is a -story, fieldstone dwelling remodeled in the 19th century in the Victorian style. It has a 2-story stone addition and a 1-story board-and-batten addition. Associated with this house are stone spring houses, board-and-batten wood sheds, a clapboard pump shelter, and the ruins of a small bank barn. The third house was built in 1858, and is a small -story, board-and-batten dwelling built to house servants. The homestead was the site of General William Alexander&#39;s three week bivouac prior to the Battle of Trenton from December 8 through December 25, 1776.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Half-Moon Inn, also known as the Court Inn and Thorton&#39;s Tavern, is a historic inn and tavern located at Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The original 1 1/2-story, stone and frame building was built in 1733. Subsequent additions occurred in 1740, 1757, and 1792. The portion at 101 Court Street is a 2 1/2-story, 3 bay, stone structure. It was restored in 1965 by the Newtown Historic Association. The portion at 105 Court Street has a stuccoed stone first story, with a timber frame second story added between 1825 and 1840. The building housed an inn and tavern until 1818, during which time Newtown served as the county seat. It houses the headquarters of the Newtown Historic Association and is open as a local history museum. The holdings include a special collection on early American folk painter, Edward Hicks .</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Greenland Abyssal Plain at 75&deg;N latitude, 3&deg;W longitude is a bathymetric depression in the Greenland Sea. It is delimited by Mohns Ridge and Jan Mayen pressure zone in the South and separated by a smaller ridge to the Boreas Abyssal Plain in the North.</p><br>
<h2>Oceanography</h2><br>
<p>In 1988/89 ocean acoustic tomography was performed there to study the Greenland Sea gyre and deep water formation. Deep water formation simply means surface water being transported downwards into the ocean, this is important to drive the global ocean currents by thermohaline circulation.</p><br>
<p>The study showed that the mixed layer at the surface forms in autumn. During winter, the region is covered by sea ice. In early spring when the sea ice vanishes, the layer gets thicker (up to 1.5 km). When the Polar day starts in late March the seasonal cycle starts again with another shallow mixed layer.</p><br>
<p>The L.C. Bates Museum is an early 20th-century natural history and cultural museum in Hinckley, Maine, United States, located on the campus of Good Will-Hinckley. It was founded by George Walter Hinckley , as a part of the Good Will Home, a pioneering residential and educational institution for underprivileged children.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The museum is housed in The Quincy Building, a 1903 Romanesque Revival brick school building, designed by noted Lewiston (ME) architect, William R. Miller</p><br>
<p>(1866–1929). The building originally served as an industrial and training space, but was repurposed to house the museum by the early 1920s. The building, with its distinctive terracotta egg and dart ornamentation, and arched windows, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Described as a “Museum of a Museum”, The L.C. Bates Museum contains Maine&#39;s most well preserved museum interiors from the early 20th century. Its exhibits include 32 Maine habitat dioramas, galleries of birds, mammals, marine life, insects, reptiles, and minerals, as well as hands-on educational exhibits.</p><br>
<p>The backgrounds for the dioramas were painted in the 1920s by noted American Impressionist painter Charles Daniel Hubbard</p><br>
<p>(1876–1951).</p><br>
<p>Sun Set Park, an arboretum, is located on the museum grounds. The arboretum was, in part, designed by the renowned Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture practice.</p><br>
<p>Sun Set Park includes natural areas with walking trails, complementing the museums focus on Maines natural history.</p><br>
<p>Cuban underwater city refers to a site thought by some to be a submerged granite structural complex off the coast of the Guanahacabibes Peninsula in the Pinar del Río Province of Cuba.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>Sonar images interpreted as being symmetrical and geometric stone structures resembling an urban complex were first recorded in early 2001 covering an area of 2 km&sup2; at depths of between 600 m and 750 m. working on an exploration and survey mission in conjunction with the Cuban government. The team returned to the site a second time with an underwater video robot that filmed sonar images interpreted as various pyramids and circular structures made out of massive, smooth blocks of stone that resembled hewn granite. Zalitzki said "It&#39;s a really wonderful structure which really looks like it could have been a large urban centre. However, it would be totally irresponsible to say what it was before we have evidence."</p><br>
<p>After studying the images, National Geographic senior editor John Echave said, "They are interesting anomalies, but thats as much as anyone can say right now, but Im no expert on sonar and until we are able to actually go down there and see, it will be difficult to characterize them."</p><br>
<p>Marine geologist Manuel Iturralde called for more samples before drawing conclusions about the site, saying the results so far were very unusual. He estimated that it would have taken 50,000 years for such structures to have sunken to the depth at which they were said to be found and stated that none of the known cultures living that long ago had the ability to build such structures. A specialist in underwater archaeology at Florida State University added, "It would be cool if they were right, but it would be real advanced for anything we would see in the New World for that time frame. The structures are out of time and out of place."</p><br>
<p>The William F. Jahn Farmstead is located in Mequon, Wisconsin, United States. The farmstead includes a farmhouse, two barns, a summer kitchen, and two outbuildings. The farmstead is not longer used for agriculture, portions have been converted to bed and breakfast lodging.</p><br>
<p>Jahn was a German immigrant, arriving with his family at Mequon from Saxony in 1844 at the age of 12. He became a surveyor, Superintendent of Schools for the city, a farmer, and a prominent local politician. The farm was a successful diversified operation, by 1880 it had grown to 100 acres with dairy cows, pigs, and chickens, and grew wheat, corn, and oats.</p><br>
<p>The farmstead is significant as a relatively intact and well-preserved example of a Greek Revival farmhouse in Mequon. The property was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.</p><br>
<p>The Stony Hill School is a one-room school where on June 14, 1885 the teacher and his students held the first observance of "Flag Birth Day." For this, the site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The 19-year-old teacher at the school, Bernard J. Cigrand, had a profound love for the flag of the United States. Cigrand began specially honoring the flag on June 14, 1885 at the school, the anniversary of the flags adoption. In 1916, inspired by Cigrands actions, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed June 14 to be Flag Day, though the day was not officially established by an Act of Congress until 1949, and Cigrand became known as the "Father of Flag Day". Coincidentally, the school ceased operations in 1916. In 1947, the National Fraternal Congress moved for the school to be restored and by 1952 the restorations were complete.</p><br>
<p>The school was built some time before 1880, a small one-room school with walls of fieldstone rubble, and with a hip-roofed porch across the front. The windows have board shutters.</p><br>
<p>The school is now a museum and is a site of annual Flag Day celebrations.</p><br>
<p>The Mayberry Mound and Village Site are a valuable archaeological site in the southeastern portion of the USA state of Illinois. Located near the village of Sims in southern Wayne County, the site comprises what was once a substantial village during the Archaic period, and it has been designated a historic site because of its archaeological importance.</p><br>
<h2>Surroundings</h2><br>
<p>Mayberry occupies part of the southern side of a low ridgeline known as the Fleming Ridge, a short distance north of a stream known as the Skillet Fork. It lies about 2,000 ft away from the nearest public right-of-way, a small unpaved north-south road to the west. The site centers around a small hill, the "mound" that contributes to its name; it measures approximately 80 x north-south by east-west and is approximately 2 m high. Despite the presence of recently dug holes in the middle, the overall structure of the hill has been well preserved. Surrounding the "mound" is a region of soil that appears substantially darker than other parts of the same farm field when seen from the air.</p><br>
<h2>Investigations</h2><br>
<p>In 1974, archaeologists from Southern Illinois University Museum conducted a field survey at the Mayberry Site. Their survey recovered substantial numbers of artifacts from the "mound" and the surrounding area of darkened soil, including projectile points, bits of bones and shells, and quantities of charcoal. As a result of these findings, the site has been classified as a village from the Archaic period: the "mound" appears to be a simple midden approximately 1.5 m deep, and the surrounding soil seems to have been darkened by the presence of buried cultural materials left behind by the villagers. After the field survey was concluded, local residents reported the discovery of twelve skeletons that had been buried in the southeastern portion of the "mound" in such a way that they overlapped each other.</p><br>
<h2>Conclusions</h2><br>
<p>Post-survey analysis of the 1974 survey produced excitement among the analyzing archaeologists. Most important was the presence of an apparent village: they concluded that the area surrounding the mound could perhaps produce rich information about Archaic period villages if excavation prove it to be a village site. Moreover, the very size of the site made it significant: few Archaic sites in Illinois encompass an area as large as Mayberry, which covers approximately 90 acre, or more than 1/8 of a square mile. Thirdly, the survey showed that typical artifacts from the site had been preserved excellently, and the skeletons from the "mound" were in an equally good condition. Some damage has been done to the site — the recently dug holes in the middle of the "mound" were the work of pothunters, and the skeletons would not have been found if the surface had not been worn down. Nevertheless, the site as a whole remains mostly intact, and its value is compounded by the close proximity of burials, a deep midden, and a potential village site. As a result of its archaeological value, the site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in late 1978. It is one of two Wayne County locations on the Register, along with the G.J. George House in the city of Fairfield to the northeast.</p><br>
<p>Danajon Islet , is at the easternmost edge of the Danajon Bank. It is coterminous with Barangay Dawahon, a part of the municipality of Bato, Leyte.</p><br>
<p>The islet is only 5 hectare, and has a population of about 10,000, depending on the time of year.</p><br>
<p>The main and only cash crop for the locals living on the islet is guso (seaweed), which is grown in the shallow waters of the Danajon Bank, upon which the islet sits. The islet is only 3 m above sea level, but the Danajon Bank protects it somewhat. There are two large 1,000 feet bamboo docks, for the drying of the guso before it is sold. The guso is either sold in Cebu or Cagayan de Oro, after it is transported there.</p><br>
<p>There is an elementary school, a church, two basketball courts, one small road, and one government medical clinic. The high school children are sent to, 10 km away by boat. There is a weekly ferry service from this islet to mainland Bato, Leyte, which is 10 km away. Other nearby islands include,, & the, which are 27 mi to the east.</p><br>
<p>The islet takes its name from the Danajon Bank, the Philippines only double barrier reef and one of the few documented double barrier reefs in the world. A very rare geological formation, it comprises two sets of large coral reefs that formed offshore on a submarine ridge due to a combination of favorable tidal currents and coral growth in the area.</p><br>
<p>Danajon Bank is home to a vast array of commercially valuable reef fishes, shellfish, crustaceans and invertebrates such as sea cucumbers and sea urchins.Its extensive seagrass beds are nursery and feeding grounds for various species of rabbitfish (siganids) and sea horses, while its mangroves are spawning habitats for crustaceans, shrimps and various fishes.</p><br>
<p>The Staacke Brothers Building is located in the Bexar County city of San Antonio in the USA state of Texas. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bexar County, Texas. The structure was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1984.</p><br>
<h2>Staacke Brothers</h2><br>
<p>August F. Staacke (1825–1909) was an immigrant from Hanover, Germany, who developed a successful mercantile business in San Antonio. He carried Studebaker wagons, and imported commercial prairie schooner wagons that were built to withstand the rugged terrain of westward expansion. The carriage trade portion of his business was sold to his sons August, Rudolph and Herman, officially being known as the Staacke Brothers in 1889.</p><br>
<h2>Building</h2><br>
<p>Originally the site of a First Presbyterian Church, August F. Staacke bought the lot at 309 E. Commerce in 1869, and hired John H. Kampmann to erect a storehouse on the site. In 1894, James Reily Gordon designed a Renaissance Revival three-story red sandstone and pink granite building that included a basement. The original building was 300 feet by 269.90 feet.</p><br>
<p>In 1979 a local hospital bought both the Stevens and the Staacke Brothers buildings with the intent of razing the structures to convert the property to a hospital parking lot. The San Antonio Conservation Society stepped in to preserve architectural history and purchased both buildings. In 1982, a group of investors bought and restored the two structures, with a conditional agreement that only preserved the front of both buildings. The rears of the structures were razed for a parking lot. The Staacke building was reduced to its current 42 feet in width and 97.5 feet in depth. Each floor covers an area of 4,000 ft&sup2;.</p><br>
