<p>The Joseph Campau Historic District is a commercial historic district located along Joseph Campau Street in Hamtramck, Michigan. The district runs from roughly Holbrook and Lehman Streets on the south to Pulaski and Casmere Streets on the north. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The township of Hamtramck was established in 1798; in 1901 a portion of the township centered around Joseph Campau Street was incorporated as a village. In 1910, Hamtramck was home to 3500 people, and Dodge decided to build a new automotive plant, Dodge Main, at the southeast corner of the village. The plant was completed in 1914 and workers flooded into the area, many of them Polish. By 1920, the population of Hamtramck had boomed to 48,000, an increase of over 13 times in ten years. The increase in population meant an increase in housing and commercial space, and in 1922 Hamtramck incorporated as a city.</p><br>
<p>Most of the stores along the main shopping street, Joseph Campau, opened in the 1920s. The surrounding neighborhoods were densely packed single-family homes, and this section of street quickly became the second busiest shopping district in southeast Michigan, after only downtown Detroit.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The district contains 131 structures built along Joseph Campau Street, of which 80 contribute to the district&#39;s historic designation. According to the Michigan State Housing Development Authority:</p><br>
<p>Hotel Manning is a historic hotel located in Keosauqua, Van Buren County, Iowa. Located on the banks of the Des Moines River, the hotel&#39;s Steamboat Gothic architecture mimics riverboats of the mid-1800s. Hotel Manning was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in April, 1973.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hotel Manning was constructed in the late 1890s by Edwin Manning. He was one of the founding fathers of Keosauqua, first arriving there in 1837 and later helping plat the town. Manning established a mercantile store in 1839, then expanded his business enterprise by adding a bank to the location in 1854. However two devastating fires in the mid-1890s forced Manning to move his business elsewhere in town. Urged by one of his sons, Manning salvaged the remaining post-fire walls and foundation for the basis of his hotel, adding a second and third story to the structure between 1897 and 1899.</p><br>
<p>A grand-opening celebration for the Hotel Manning was held on April 27, 1899 with over 300 guests and an orchestra in attendance. Over the years the hotels location next to the Des Moines River proved to be both a blessing and a curse, as the river flooded the Manning on at least four occasions; the most significant of these being in 1901 when the hotel was inundated by seven feet of water. The year 1901 proved a double tragedy with the death of Edwin Manning. The Manning family continued to operate the hotel for another two decades until hard times in the rural farm economy in the mid-1920s forced the Manning bank into receivership and Hotel Manning sold with its other assets. In the 1940s local restaurateur Mable Miller purchased the hotel and operated it for the next forty-plus years. Under Millers ownership Hotel Manning was operated largely as a boarding house. During the 1960s she expanded the business by adding a single-level annex. When Van Buren Countys&#39; economy became more tourism-based beginning in the 1970s, Miller secured the Hotel Manning a place on the National Register of Historic Places and also received a Federal grant to undertake a major restoration.</p><br>
<h2>Hotel Manning today</h2><br>
<p>The Manning today operates as a bed & breakfast with most business coming from tourism, hunters, and sport fishermen. It has been restored to appear much as it did at the turn of the 20th century with the lobby and guest rooms filled with period antiques. Sixteen rooms, eight with private bath, are available in the Manning along with a three-bedroom suite. Seasonally, a Sunday buffet is open to the public. The nearby Standard Motel, the 1960s-era addition, and a further two-story addition constructed in 1993 known as the Riverview Inn, offer nineteen additional rooms. They are not period-specific like the Manning, featuring modern conveniences like cable television, high speed internet, and microwaves. In recent years other businesses have also operated out of the Hotel Manning complex, including a tanning salon and travel agency.</p><br>
<p>Kendall Boiler and Tank Company Building is a one story commercial edifice located on 275 Third Street in Kendall Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The brick building was formerly owned by the Kendall Boiler and Tank Company and is part of the Blake and Knowles Steam Pump Company National Register District, on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>In 1880 Mr. Edward Kendall founded the company to manufacture steam boilers. Kendall Boiler and Tank Company relocated to its present home in Chelmsford, MA in the 20th century.</p><br>
<p>The building was restored by Pfeufer Richardson Architects to meet ADA standards for accessibility. There is 8,000 square feet of office space and an underground parking garage. In 2000 the building received a Cambridge Historical Commission Preservation Award.</p><br>
<p>The building was used by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) until 2010, when they moved to their new East Cambridge church building. In 2012 hack/reduce, a nonprofit Big Data workspace founded by Christopher P. Lynch of Atlas Ventures and Frederic Lalonde of Hopper, opened its doors.</p><br>
<p>Sangre de Cristo Pass, elevation 9,468 ft, is a mountain pass in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of the USA State of Colorado. The pass is located immediately north of USA Highway 160 one half mile  northwest of North La Veta Pass. The pass separates Costilla County from Huerfano County, the Rio Grande drainage basin from the Arkansas River basin, and the headwaters of Sangre de Cristo Creek from those of Oak Creek.</p><br>
<p>Sangre de Cristo Pass was a popular early route between the Rio Grande and the Arkansas River for native peoples, trappers, and traders. The pass was the site of the Spanish Fort of 1819, the only permanent structure built by the Spanish government in the Mountain West north of the present State of New Mexico.</p><br>
<p>The Bacon Academy, nicknamed Old Bacon Academy, was the original Bacon Academy until 1993. The Old Bacon Academy was built in 1803 and is located at 84 Main Street, Colchester, Connecticut. The main structure is a 70 ft long by 34 ft wide three-story Flemish bond brick structure with Federal style details. Noted for its plain, utilitarian floor plan consisting of two rooms off a central hall and stairway, the inside has seen some renovations throughout its history. The Day Hall, a contributing property purchased by the Bacon Academy trustees in 1929, is a church hall that was used for the high school until 1962.</p><br>
<p>Originally operating as a white male school, Bacon Academy integrated "negroes and persons of color" around 1833 and began to educate women in 1842. The school has educated important figures like Edwin Denison Morgan, Morgan Bulkeley, William A. Buckingham, Lyman Trumbull, and Morrison Waite. Due to the structure&#39;s utilitarian style combined with its Federal details, the National Register of Historic Places recognizes it as architecturally significant. Currently, the Old Bacon Academy building is used as part of an alternative education program and Day Hall is used as a nursery. The properties were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Bacon Academy is named for Pierpoint Bacon, a prosperous farmer who died childless in 1800. Bacon bequeathed most of his property and assets to the First Society of Colchester to support schooling. The trustees decided to build an academy, an institution to have young men be educated, and then go directly into the workforce. Completed in 1803 for the cost of $7000, the main Bacon Academy structure is a 70 ft long by 34 ft wide three-story Flemish bond brick structure with Federal style details. The foundation of the academy is made of fieldstone with a facing of dressed granite blocks. The bricks were produced on a local farm for the purpose building Bacon Academy. The front facade has 26 windows arranged in 9 bays with gaps for the chimneys in between the second and third bay from the corners. The sash is 6-by-6 and was noted to appear original in the nomination form. Originally the hipped roof had four chimneys, with two matching chimneys on each the west and east sides. Only the east chimneys remain. Facing the front entrance, the chimneys are spaced about 18 ft from the side corners. In the 1982 nomination, the hipped roof was reported to have asphalt shingles.</p><br>
<p>The building was altered in 1890, with two additions of Victorian architecture, the first being the main entrance, above the fanlight, is an arched awning with incised consoles. The other addition was the octagonal cupola on the roof over the original bell tower which dates from 1830. The exterior of the school has complementary colors. The walls are painted a cream color while the foundation, doors, window trims, and cornices are a chocolate-brown.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building was termed "severely plain" and utilitarian for its simple design of two large rooms on each side with a central hall and stairwell. Each room was filled with natural light from the windows, and had a chimney for the iron stoves on the east and west ends of the building. The oak floors were installed in the early 20th-century and the ceiling was covered with modern acoustical tiles. The third floor is a shallow attic that gives access to the cupola. The ceiling and roof framing is supported with two king-post trusses at the ends of the main ridge. The basement is divided into halves and supported by summer beams that run the length of the sills and supported by posts on stone pedestals. By 1982, the steel I-beams were "recently" inserted under the floor joists and between the summer and the sills. The cellar also has an old furnace that is not in service due to the building using electrical heating.</p><br>
<p>The other contributing property, Day Hall, is a church hall that was originally built in 1858. It was acquired and used for "high school purposes" from 1929 until they completed construction of the new Bacon Academy in 1962. After that it was adopted for use as a kindergarten and offices for the trustees. Described as "vaguely Italianate", the one-room church hall has a basement and a T-shaped addition dating to around 1928. It has a steep gabled, hipped roof. The entrance has two modern fire doors that lead to an auditorium and gallery on the east and stage on the west end.</p><br>
<h2>Operation</h2><br>
<p>The school was originally only for white male students, with "negroes and persons of color" using a separate facility, but integration occurred thirty years later and the school also began to educate women in 1842. Throughout the first 136 years of Bacon Academys operation its endowment was its sole provider of funding. In 1939, the town began contributing funds to the institution, resulting in the loss of complete control of its own affairs. In 1982, at the time of its National Register of Historic Places nomination, the trust provided a "small percentage" of Bacon Academys funding.</p><br>
<p>In 2013, the Bacon Academy building was used by the school as part of an alternative education program and Day Hall functions as a nursery school. The school is rented by the Board of Education for around $21,000 a year and the Bacon Academy Board of Trustees says that the operational costs are between $25,000 and $28,000 a year. According to the Colchester Public Schools website, "the Mission of the Alternative Education Program is to provide academic, social, and emotional supports for students at risk of dropping out of high school."</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>The National Register of Historic Places nomination submitted Bacon Academy as being important under criteria A, B and C. Bacon Academy&#39;s development in the 176 years, up to the time of nomination, represents the evolution of social attitudes and ideas of education; criteria A. Under criteria B, Bacon Academy is associated with numerous influential and prominent figures. The school was responsible for educating New York governor and senator Edwin Denison Morgan, Connecticut governors Morgan Bulkeley and William A. Buckingham, Iowa senator Lyman Trumbull, and Morrison Waite, the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Criteria C reflects the architectural significance and merit of the structure which is only impeded by its Victorian-era cupola. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.</p><br>
<p>Bridge No. 1860, also known as the Samson Occom Bridge, is a fieldstone arch bridge in Montville, Connecticut, United States. Constructed by the Connecticut State Highway Department in 1936 as a Works Progress Administration project, it is located on Mohegan tribal land in an area that was once a part of Fort Shantok State Park. The bridge carries traffic from Massapeag Side Road  over the Shantok Brook, a tributary of the Thames River. Spanning 12 ft across the brook, the bridge&#39;s arch rises about 6 ft above the water. According to a 2011 Connecticut Department of Transportation report, it carries 1,100 vehicles per day. Samson Occom Bridge was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Officially referred to as Bridge Number 1860 in state records, the bridge is commonly known as the "Samson Occom Bridge". On the south end of the bridge is a wooden sign that commemorates the Christian missionary and educator Samson Occom, a colonial-period Mohegan from Montville, Connecticut. The sign does not actually declare it the "Samson Occom Bridge", but states without further explanation that it is the "Site of the Samson Occum Bridge".</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In May 1991, the Connecticut Historic Bridge Inventory plan outlined a plan for the preservation of the Samson Occom Bridge. It is unlikely that traffic would require replacement or modification of the bridge in the foreseeable future.</p><br>
<h2>Importance</h2><br>
<p>The National Register of Historic Places nomination states that the Samson Occum Bridge is significant as an example of the 1930s public works programs and as an example of "the picturesque park architecture of the early 20th century." It was constructed at a time when cobblestone masonry was a popular choice for state park structures, but also after masonry was considered an obsolete building material. The bridge has added significance as an example of the work conducted by the federal Works Progress Administration.</p><br>
<p>The Merchant Hotel, also known as the Merchants&#39; Hotel, is a historic former hotel building in Portland, Oregon, United States. It is located at 121 N.W. Second Avenue in Old Town Chinatown. It is a contributing property in the Portland Skidmore/Old Town Historic District, which was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1977. It occupies half of a city block, specifically along the south side of N.W. Davis Street from Second to Third Avenues.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Brothers Louis, Adolph, and Theodore Nicolai were original owners of the hotel. It took four years to build, and the Second Avenue section was completed in 1880. The Third Avenue section opened in 1884. A luxury hotel, it boasted one of the first hydraulic elevators in the city and by 1889 had grown to take up half of the city block. The hotel was purchased by musician Eugene Stebinger in the 1890s.</p><br>
<p>In addition to its use as a hotel, the building "has also housed a bar, brothel, billiards hall, and most notoriously, a cracker factory", wrote author Bart King in 2007.</p><br>
<h3>1960s to present</h3><br>
<p>The last use of any part of the building as a hotel ended in mid-1967. In late 1967 or early 1968, Skidmore Development Company purchased the building along with two adjacent buildings. Ground-floor space along the N.W. Third Avenue side was being used by a grocery store and an appliance store at that time. In December 1968, a furniture store became the first post-remodel tenant, occupying one-quarter of the ground-floor space. of Skidmore Development Company.</p><br>
<p>The building received a $2 million seismic upgrade in 2004. and the Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, which includes the Japanese American History Museum. The Faux Museum is in the corner storefront at N.W. Second and Davis. The building is reportedly haunted by a ghost called Nina.</p><br>
<p>Lake Martha, oval in shape, is in the west-central part of Winter Haven, Florida. Lake Martha Drive surrounds two-thirds of the lakes perimeter. Lake Martha has a 84.38 acre surface area. On the northeast is a public park and boat ramp and across the street from this park is the Winter Haven campus of Polk State College. Winter Haven Hospital is on the lakes west side and a public park is at the southwest side of the lake. Residential housing surrounds the rest of the lake.</p><br>
<p>This lake has no public swimming beaches, but it has one public boat ramp. Fishing may be done by boat or from the shores of the two public parks on the lake. The park on the southwest side of the lake has a public fishing dock, as well as two picnic shelterhouses and a playground. The Hook and Bullet website says Lake Martha contains largemouth bass, rainbow trout and yellow perch. One person commented on the Fishing Works website that the fishing at the lake was good and that in four hours he caught seventeen largemouth bass.</p><br>
<p>Wee Grimmet is a historic home located in Whitford, West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The original section was built about 1820, and expanded about 1929 by noted architect John Gilbert McIlvaine, a partner of Wilson Eyre, and expanded again in late 1953. It currently has common areas plus four bedrooms, four bathrooms, and five fireplaces. It is located on the Martha and Maurice Ostheimer Estate, along with the larger estate home known as "Grimmet." Wee Grimmet consists of a two-story, stuccoed stone core section with a gable roof. The addition contains a family room, a master bedroom, and two bathrooms. The original house was built as a dwelling for tenant workers in the limestone quarry, salt mine, and kiln nearby.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>Martha and Maurice Ostheimer Estate is a historic home located in West Whiteland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The estate home known as "Grimmet" was designed by noted architect John Gilbert McIlvaine, a partner of Wilson Eyre, and built in 1924 in the Tudor Revival style. It was expanded in 1952. The house has been converted to office use. The property includes the previously listed Wee Grimmet, built about 1820, and expanded about 1929 by McIlvaine. The property also includes a contributing small stone arch bridge, a terraced landscape, and the site of a 19th-century limestone quarry and kiln. Martha Gibson McIlvain Ostheimer was one of three founders of the Herb Society of America, and her Herb Gardens west and southwest of Grimmet were well-known among herbalists until 1962.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank-Lehi Hospital was a historic building in Lehi, Utah, USA. It has been demolished, but remains listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>Located at 206 E. State St. in Lehi, Utah, it was built in 1891 to serve the Lehi Commercial and Savings Bank, which has also been known as the Utah Banking Company. It was built by Charles Ohran, a local mason. The building was modified in 1925 to accommodate a hospital on the second floor, which expanded downstairs in 1929. It was renovated further in 1937.</p><br>
<p>The building housed a number of other businesses in the 20th century, including Utah Sugar Company offices, a photography studio and a school. A few people even lived in a small apartment in the 1970s. After the building was vacated in 1989, it fell into severe disrepair and was the subject of many discussions by local government and preservationists. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It had long been rumored to be haunted, and the owner made it into a haunted attraction for several years to try to raise money for restoration. In 2009, the Lehi City Council decided to have the building demolished due to its dangerously deteriorated condition. This should cause the property to be delisted from the National Register, but it remains listed.</p><br>
<p>The ruins of Zähringen castle is what remains of the ancestral seat of the Zähringer. It is one of several castles and towns that the Zähringens built in South Germany and Switzerland </p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In the fourth century, during the migration period, the upper part of the northwestern spur of the Roßkopf was flattened so that it was suited for a settlement. Alemannic chiefs dwelt there with their folk until it was abandoned at the end of the fifth century.</p><br>
<p>The name Zähringen was actually mentioned for the first time in records dating back to the time shortly after the turn of the first millennium. However, it is not clear without ambiguity whether they refer already to a fortification on the hilltop or to the village, the present day suburb of Freiburg.</p><br>
<p>The first definite mention of the castle was in 1128 in the "Rotulus Sanpetrinus", a parchment roll issued in the nearby abbey of St, Peter. That document was written in Latin and contains the passage "apud castrum Zaringen" (castrum is the Latin word for castle).</p><br>
<p>Berthold II moved out of this castle to Freiburg Castle on the Schlossberg of Freiburg. He had ordered the construction of that new castle, because he considered that location to be more advantageous both from commercial and strategical perspectives.</p><br>
<p>When the Zähringer had died out, Emperor Frederick II confiscated Zähringen castle as a fief in 1218.</p><br>
<h2>Difficulties</h2><br>
<p>Later, between 1275 and 1281, in the wake of controversies between the Empire and the counts of Urach regarding territorial possessions, the castle was destroyed and rebuilt.</p><br>
<p>In 1422 the Margrave of Baden acquired a part of the compound.</p><br>
<p>The castle was definitely destroyed during the German Peasants&#39; War in 1525.</p><br>
<p>In 1815 the castle hill became the property of the house of Baden and today the area belongs to the municipality of Gundelfingen.</p><br>
<p>What is still intact is a large round tower that was built in the 13th century. It has an observation deck that is surrounded by merlons. On the castle hill there is also a restaurant which provides diners with a view of the valley.</p><br>
<p>The area is accessible by car only from Zähringen following the Pochgasse.</p><br>
<p>Ingebrigtsenbukta is a bay at the south shore of Van Keulenfjorden. The bay is approximately 3 km wide, running from Kapp Toscana in the west to Ålesundneset in the east.</p><br>
<p>The bay was named after Norwegian whaler Morten Andreas Ingebrigtsen.</p><br>
<p>Ingebrigtsenbukta is part of Sør-Spitsbergen National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Whaling station</h2><br>
<p>A whaling station was established around 1930 by Ingvald Svendsen at the western part of Ingebrigtsenbukta, near Kapp Toscana. The whalers hunted exclusively for belugas. It is the only remaining beluga whaling station in Svalbard.Bjørn Fossli Johansen (ed.) (2009).</p><br>
<p>Thousands of beluga bones are still piled on the beach as silent witnesses. In 1977 the number of individual whales on the beach was estimated at 550.Adam Krawczyk (1995)..</p><br>
<p>In: Wyprawy Geograficzne na Spitsbergen (Janina Repelewska-Pekalowa and Kazimierz Pekala, eds.), pp. 55-73.</p><br>
<p>Surrounded by whale bones stands a wooden cabin, Bamsebu, which is still in use. The door and the windows have long protruding nails to prevent bears from breaking them. Near the cabin are a small store house and an overturned wooden boat (named Kjeftausa) that was used for shelter and storage. On the beach are three smaller wooden boats, also overturned.</p><br>
<p>The cultural remains are protected.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Kapp Toscana lends its name to the Kapp Toscana Group, a group dating from Late Triassic to Middle Jurassic.</p><br>
<p>The Roman Theatre at Palmyra  is a Roman theatre in ancient Palmyra in the Syrian Desert. The unfinished theatre dates back to the second-century CE Severan period. The theatre&#39;s remains have since been restored. It was occupied by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant  in May 2015 and recaptured by the government forces in March 2016 with the support of Russian airstrikes.</p><br>
<h2>Overview</h2><br>
<p>The second-century CE theatre was built in the center of a semicircular colonnaded piazza which opens up to the South Gate of Palmyra. The 82 by piazza was located to the south-west of the main colonnaded street. The unfinished cavea is 92 m in diameter and consists only of an ima cavea, the lowest section of the cavea, directly surrounding the orchestra. The ima cavea is organized into eleven cunei of twelve rows each and faces north-northeast towards the cardo maximus. The theatre&#39;s aditus maximi, its main entrances, are 3.5 m in width, and lead to a stone-paved orchestra with a diameter of 23.5 m. The orchestra is bounded by a circular wall with a diameter of 20.3 m.</p><br>
<p>The proscenium wall is decorated with ten curved and nine rectangular niches placed alternately. The stage measures 45.5 by and is accessed by two staircases. The scaenae frons had five doors: the main entrance, or valve regia, built into a broad curved niche; two guest doors on either side of the valve regia, or valve hospitalis, built into shallow rectangular niches; and two extra doors, at either end of the stage. Emperor Nero is known to have placed his statue in the niche of the regia of the theatre at Palmyra. The columns at the stage are decorated in the Corinthian order.</p><br>
<p>In the 1950s the theatre was cleared from the sand and subsequently underwent restoration works.</p><br>
<p>The theatre hosted folk music performances for the annual Palmyra festival.</p><br>
<h2>Syrian Civil War</h2><br>
<h3>ISIL occupation</h3><br>
<p>The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) took full control of Palmyra by May 21, 2015. In early July it released a graphic video showing 25 teenage members lining up 25 adult male captives dressed in dark fatigues, kneeling in front of them on the Palmyra theater&#39;s stage area. The ISIS members then executed all 25 captives simultaneously by shooting them in the head. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights the executions took place on May 27. Mamoun Abdulkarim, Director of the Syrian government agency of antiquities and museums stated: "Using the Roman theatre to execute people proves that these people are against humanity."</p><br>
<h3>Reconquest by Syrian government</h3><br>
<p>Following the recapture of Palmyra by the Syrian Army with Russian air support in March 2016, drone footage showed that the theatre remained largely intact.</p><br>
<p>On 5 May 2016, the 100th anniversary of Syrias Martyrs Day, the theatre played host to two classical music concerts in remembrance of the victims of the civil war, including those executed at the site, and to celebrate its liberation. The first, a 20-minute-long concert of European and Russian classical music, was played by the Mariinsky Theatre orchestra of St. Petersburg, conducted by Valery Gergiev, with soloist Sergei Roldugin. It was dedicated to Alexander Prokhorenko, a Russian special forces soldier who had sacrificed his life near Palmyra while directing air strikes against Islamic State. Russian president Vladimir Putin addressed the concert by video link, praising the participants. The Economist wrote that Putin "did everything he could to underline the concert’s message that Russia is leading the fight for Western civilisation." The second concert, during the evening, was by a Syrian orchestra and choir. The audience included Syrian and Russian military, as well as UNESCO officials, religious leaders, journalists, and locals.</p><br>
<p>US State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mark C. Toner said of the event "I will never denounce an orchestra playing to the citizens of a beleaguered city. it’s fine. It’s good." The British foreign secretary Philip Hammond called it a "tasteless attempt to distract attention from the continued suffering of millions of Syrians" referring to an alleged Russian airstrike on a refugee camp in northern Syria, which killed at least 28 civilians.</p><br>
<h3>Second ISIL occupation: partial destruction</h3><br>
<p>ISIL took control of Palmyra once again in December 2016. Shortly after that, they completely destroyed the facade of the theater according to Mamoun Abdulkarim, Director of the Syrian government agency of antiquities and museums. Syrian authorities reported that satellite images showed signs of intentional destruction. Mikhail Piotrovsky, a scholar of the Arabic and the director of the Hermitage Museum, argued that it was an act of reprisal. In May 2016, ISIL radio had promised to stage a new "concert", in response to the classical concert staged by Russia.</p><br>
<p>The Sierra del Tontal is a mountain range in the southern part of San Juan Province, Argentina.</p><br>
<p>The range is in the precordillera area of La Rioja, San Juan and Mendoza, in the Cuyo region.</p><br>
<p>It extends south of the Sierra del Tigre, from which it is separated by the valley of the San Juan River.</p><br>
<p>Its southern foothills are located in Mendoza Province. The city of San Juan is located east of the mountains and the Calingasta valley to the west.</p><br>
<p>The range extends for about 100 km in a northwest-southeast direction. The highest point is the Ojo de Agua mountain at 4,140 m.</p><br>
<p>Most of the range extends to the south of this peak, and is over 4,000 m in elevation.</p><br>
<p>The rocks include greywackes and shales. The fossil remains of plants that probably date to the middle or upper Devonian period are found in the shales.</p><br>
<p>The Hoher Tenn, formerly also called the Hochtenn, is a double-peaked mountain in the Austrian federal state of Salzburg. It has a southwest summit, called the Bergspitze with a height of 3,368 metres, and a northeast summit, the Schneespitze, which is 3,317 metres high. The Tenn belongs to the Glockner Group in the central part of the High Tauern in the Austrian Central Alps. Between the two summits at a height of 3,293 metres is the Tenn Saddle . Long knife-edge ridges run away to the northeast and northwest. It has a large topographical prominence, especially to the north, which, together with its easy accessibility, make it a popular climbing mountain. Seen from Zell am See in the Pinzgau it is second only to the Imbachhorn  in dominating the Tauern panorama.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Hoher Tenn was first ascended, according to unconfirmed sources, in the 1840s by Cardinal Frederick, Prince of Schwarzenberg "with a small company" (in kleiner Gesellschaft). The first documented crossing of both summits was on 16 August 1871 by the furrier, Albert Kaindl, from Linz and Josef Pöschl from Vienna with mountain guide, Johann Grill, known as the Kederbacher. That said, the party found trigonometric signs on both peaks that must have been made in the 1850s as part of the state survey.</p><br>
<h2>Literature and map</h2><br>
<p>Willi End: Alpine Club Guide Glocknergruppe, Bergverlag Rother, Munich, 2003,</p><br>
<p>Eduard Richter: Die Erschließung der Ostalpen, III. Band, Verlag des Deutschen und Oesterreichischen Alpenvereins, Berlin, 1894</p><br>
<p>Alpine Club Map 1:25,000, Sheet 40, Glocknergruppe</p><br>
<p>The Moyle House and Indian Tower, located at 606 E. 770 North in Alpine, Utah, date from 1858. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The listing included two contributing buildings and one contributing structure on 2.5 acre.</p><br>
<p>The house is expanded in 1859-1860 from a c.1858 dugout house. The tower built during 1860-1866 was built as a private fort for defense against Indians of the Black Hawk War of 1865-1868, and is the only such tower known to have been built for protection of a single household in Utah. These stone structures were built by English-born mason and Mormon, John Rowe Moyle. His son Joseph Moyle expanded the house in 1917, adding Bungalow/Craftsman elements. A dugout/food cellar also was built during c.1868-60. These three structures are included in the NRHP listing.</p><br>
<p>John Moyle also built a home for a second wife in a nearby property, not part of the NRHP listing.</p><br>
<p>See also Fort Deseret and Cove Fort, also NRHP-listed, also private forts.</p><br>
<p>The Camp of Diocletian was a Roman military complex, or castra, built in the ancient city of Palmyra in the Syrian Desert. The complex was built under the Roman Emperor Diocletian in the late third-century CE and served as the military headquarters for the Legio I Illyricorum.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>During the Crisis of the Third Century, Palmyra broke away from Rome to form the short-lived Palmyrene Empire. The city was recaptured by Aurelian in 272 and, following another unsuccessful rebellion, it was sacked by the Romans in 273.</p><br>
<p>Following the Roman reconquest, the city was re-fortified with a new set of city walls enclosing a much smaller area.</p><br>
<h2>Description of the site</h2><br>
<p>The area known today as the Camp of Diocletian was a group of buildings that spanned an area of 4 hectares (9.9 acres) in an enclosure in the western end of the city.</p><br>
<p>The complex may also have included barracks rooms for the soldiers, though it is unclear whether the Roman forces in Palmyra were actually quartered there. They may alternatively have lodged in the city while the "camp" may have functioned as legionary headquarters. The area also enveloped the pre–existing Temple of Allat. The overall design of the site is similar to that of a contemporary camp at Luxor in Egypt and also has similarities with the palace at Antioch and Diocletian&#39;s Palace in Split – a sign of how militarised Roman architecture had become in the unsettled climate of the late 3rd century.</p><br>
<p>The "camp" was designed and built between 293 and 305 CE. An inscription discovered at the temple of the standards proclaims:</p><br>
<p>The second name after Diocletian&#39;s was erased from the inscription but is probably that of his co-emperor Maximian, who was subjected to damnatio memoriae by Constantine I, under which his name was erased from public inscriptions and images of him were destroyed. The other co-emperors mentioned in the inscription are Constantius Chlorus and Galerius.</p><br>
<p>It is not clear whether the term castra (conventionally translated as "camp") referred exclusively to the Camp of Diocletian. The wall that separated the military buildings from the civilian settlement at Palmyra was clearly only symbolic and there would have been relatively free movement between the camp and the rest of the city. It is possible that the whole city may have been regarded as a castrum, in the wider sense of a fortified place rather than just the much smaller area of the camp.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations</h2><br>
<p>The site has been excavated by a Polish archaeological team from the University of Warsaw. The excavations, led by Dr. Kazimierz Michalowski, unearthed several structures believed to be guard rooms, staircases and side entrances to the compound. The works also determined that the via praetoria colonnade is a remnant of older structures and probably pre-dates the construction of the camp by a century. It also uncovered the layer of occupation preceding the camp which included a residential quarter and funerary artefacts dating to the first-century CE. Furthermore, the excavations discovered several additions dating to the Byzantine period, including a coin and jewelry hoard.</p><br>
<h2>Occupation by ISIL</h2><br>
<p>The extremist Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group occupied Palmyra between May 2015 and March 2016. Parts of the ancient city were damaged or destroyed by ISIL, and the Russian television network RT claimed that the Camp of Diocletian had been among the areas affected by the ISIL occupation. However, DigitalGlobe satellite imagery from the end of March 2016 showed that there was no visible change to the status of the area.</p><br>
<p>30 Euston Square is a building located at the corner of Euston Road and Melton Street, London NW1. Originally built as the headquarters of an assurance company, it has since been converted to form the headquarters of the Royal College of General Practitioners . Its architectural style is Greek Revival. The first phase, built in 1906–08, was designed by Arthur Beresford Pite, and the 1932 extension is by W. H. Gunton.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original part of the building, with the address 1–9 Melton Street, was constructed in 1906–08 as the headquarters of the London, Edinburgh and Glasgow Assurance Company to a design by Arthur Beresford Pite. The building continued to be the headquarters of the NAAS until approved societies were abolished under the terms of the National Insurance Act 1946. From 1948 it was owned by the government, and subsequently served a number of purposes, including being a local office of the Department of Health and Social Security*. It was transferred to private ownership in the 1990s, but was virtually unused from that time. It was later acquired by the RCGP, and refurbished to act as their headquarters. It opened for this purpose in late October 2012.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The original building is constructed in load-bearing Portland stone and brick masonry, with slate roofs; the 1932 extension is steel framed with stone cladding. The original building, facing Melton Street, is in four storeys with an attic and basement, the ground floor being rusticated. It is in Greek Revival style, the main front being decorated with a type of Ionic column derived from those at the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae. The 1932 extension is also in Greek Revival style. The entrance hall is decorated internally with green and cream Doulton Parian Ware tiles. The parts of the building designed by Pite were designated as a Grade II* listed building on 14 May 1974, but Gunton&#39;s extension is excluded from the listing.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>Since coming under the ownership of the RCGP, the entire building has been given the address of 30 Euston Square. Its internal conversion has been carried out to make as little alteration as possible to the 1906–08 phase of the building. The main changes have been in the 1932 phase, where and have been created. Elsewhere there are a,, and, on the top floor,.</p><br>
<p>Okehocking Historic District, also known as the Okehocking Indian Land Grant Historic District, is a national historic district located in Willistown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 69 contributing buildings, 5 contributing sites, 2 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in a rural area near Media. A majority of the buildings were built before 1845. It includes a collection of 18th and 19th century farmhouses and related outbuildings located on an 18th-century Indian Land Grant by William Penn to the Okehocking band of Lenape  Indians in 1703. Notable contributing assets include a Willistown Friends Meetinghouse and its burial ground, a one-room school known as the Willistown School No. 6, a former inn known as the Rising Sun Tavern, the vacated Smedley Mill, and three mill sites, the Garrett Mill, Duckett Mill, and George Matlack&#39;s sawmill.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>Willistown Friends Meeting House</h2><br>
<p>Willistown Friends Meeting House, located near the northeast corner of the district at the intersection of Goshen Road and Warren Avenue, was built in 1798. The earliest European settlers in the area were Quakers who attended meetings for worship at Goshen or Middletown. In 1753 Francis and Ann Smedley donated a small plot of land on Plumsock Road to build a school, which was torn down in 1873. After Francis&#39;s death, Ann Smedley donated adjacent land for a burial ground and the meeting house.</p><br>
<p>The Großer Winterberg  is a mountain, and a subpeak of the Wurmberg, the highest mountain in the neighbouring state of Lower Saxony in the High Harz of central Germany. The Großer Winterberg rises within the borough of Wernigerode in the county of Harz in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Großer Winterberg lies within the Harz/Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park and the Harz National Park immediately northeast of the state border with Lower Saxony and about 2.5 km west-southwest of the village of Schierke in the borough of Wernigerode. To the north-northwest the countryside descends into the valley of the Cold Bode, on the other side of which rises the legendary Brocken, in front of which are the Königsberg to the west and the Heinrichshöhe (ca. ) to the east. From northeast to east-northeast, above Schierke on the other side of Cold Bode rises the ridge of Hohnekamm (; with its tors, the Hohneklippen). To the southeast is the Kleiner Winterberg ("Little Winterberg", ). To the southwest the countryside climbs gradually over the state border up to the Wurmberg.</p><br>
<h2>Winter sports resort</h2><br>
<p>As part of the Wurmberg 2015 project a ski lift or gondola lift and four new downhill runs are planned, running down from the region between the mountains of Großer and Kleiner Winterberg and the Wurmberg towards Schierke.</p><br>
<p>White Horse Historic District, also known as White Horse Village, is a national historic district located in Willistown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 15 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure in the crossroads village of White Horse. They were built between 1798 and about 1950 and are mostly 2 1/2 or 3-story masonry structures clad in stucco. Seven of the contributing buildings are residences. The other contributing buildings include the former blacksmith shop , , White Horse Store and residence , and White Horse Tavern . A number of the houses were renovated in the 1930s and 1940s by noted architect R. Brognard Okie .</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<p>Aikens Tavern Historic District is a historic district in New Castle County, Delaware, comprising the historic center of the village of Glasgow. The district includes the site of Aikens Tavern, an important landmark at the time of the American Revolutionary War. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The district is located just west of the intersection of USA Route 40 and Delaware Route 896. Its boundaries encompass a 300 yd stretch of Glasgow Avenue, mostly to the north of USA 40 but also including the Mechanic&#39;s Row block in the median of the highway.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The village of Glasgow developed at what was and still is an important crossroads in Pencader Hundred. The area was initially settled as part of the 30,000 acre Welsh Tract granted to a group of settlers from Wales in 1701, and a Presbyterian church was established shortly thereafter. A tavern was also built and became known as Aikens Tavern after one of its owners. During the American Revolution, British forces under William Howe occupied the village following the September 1777 Battle of Coochs Bridge, setting up their headquarters in the tavern and establishing a temporary field hospital at Pencader Church.</p><br>
<p>The crossroads grew increasingly busy after the completion of the New Castle and Frenchtown Turnpike (since replaced by USA Route 40) in 1818, and many of the surviving buildings in the historic district date from approximately the same era. The tavern itself was demolished in 1832.</p><br>
<h2>Inventory</h2><br>
<p>Named contributing properties in the district include</p><br>
<p>Pencader Presbyterian Church, built on the site of an earlier church building in 1852, and an adjacent frame house</p><br>
<p>The Middleton House, built sometime before 1818, and a nearby frame shop building</p><br>
<p>Mechanic&#39;s Row, a block of houses built around 1810</p><br>
<p>A three-story brick house listed as the "Manse" (c. 1850)</p><br>
<p>Two other contributing properties, Glasgow Methodist Church and a second frame house located near Pencader Church, are no longer standing.</p><br>
<p>AIKEN&#39;S TAVERN HISTORIC DISTRICT; NORTHERN NEW CASTLE COUNTY, DE.jpgMiddleton House</p><br>
<p>Indian Springs Park is a public park located on the east side of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The park is located on 3 acre in a natural depression north of East River Drive and to the west of a railroad trestel bridge. The land was donated to the city in 1921 by Mrs. D.N. Richardson with the expressed purpose of creating a park. The property contains a spring that was used by Native Americans, from which the park derives its name, as well as early travelers and the areas first settlers. The spring itself was capped in 1929 and a pipe 6 in in diameter directs the water into a storm drain. has served as a play area for the neighborhood children, students from neighboring Hoover Elementary School, and later the day care that is housed there. The park is a contributing property in the Village of East Davenport Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. It was added to the Davenport Register of Historic Properties in 2005.</p><br>
<p>Municipal Inn is a historic structure located in LeClaire Park along the Mississippi River in downtown Davenport, Iowa, United States. It was listed on the Davenport Register of Historic Properties on March 17, 1999. It is also known as the Levee Inn.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>According to the records of the city&#39;s Levee Improvement Commission, R.D. Ackley was given a 10-year lease for the building on June 14, 1927. The city issued a building permit on January 11, 1928. The structure was designed by the prominent Davenport architectural firm of Clausen, Kruse & Klein and was completed in 1929. They had also designed the W.D. Petersen Memorial Music Pavilion and Municipal Stadium, now Modern Woodmen Park, which are also on the riverfront. Other people who have operated a business there include Archie Weindruch, who was one of the longest proprietors and closed it in 1990. The President Riverboat Casino re-opened it a year later as the Iowa Pork Stop. Shonnie Holmes operated it from 1994 to 1995 as the Levee Inn. The President returned as the operator in 1999 before it closed again. The building has been used over the years for measuring floods on the Mississippi. High-water marks are still on the inn. The 1993 flood came to about the eaves.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Although small in size, the structure shows the same symmetry, attention to detail and use of ornamentation that Clausen, Kruse & Klein used in their larger buildings. The building follows the clean, angular lines of the Art Moderne style. Ornamental bands of tile form intersecting squares and rectangles on the exterior stucco. Originally it featured four concrete urns on each corner of the roof and a sign with the business name that extended the length of the building between two flag poles. Tiles in blue and orange above the windows are now under a canopy that was added at a later date.</p><br>
<p>Charlestown Village Historic District is a national historic district located in Charlestown Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is adjacent to the Middle Pickering Rural Historic District. It encompasses 21 contributing buildings and 1 contributing structure on 7 properties in the crossroads village of Charlestown. They date between about 1740 and 1870, and are reflective of a number of popular architectural styles including Late Victorian and Italianate. The oldest is the Job Harvey House, built about 1740. Also included is the Charlestown Woolen Mill , William Nixon House , Charlestown Methodist Episcopal Church , Moses King House, William Howard house and wheelwright shop, and the "Town Hall."</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Middle Pickering Rural Historic District also known as the Pickering & Pigeon Run Rural Historic District, is a national historic district located in Charlestown Township, East Pikeland Township, and West Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is adjacent to the Charlestown Village Historic District. It encompasses 76 contributing buildings, 5 contributing sites, and 15 contributing structures in rural northern Chester County. Included are 15 farmsteads dated to the 18th or 19th century, two Lutheran churches and cemeteries, the sites of two small industrial complexes, and the tiny village of Merlin. Located in the district and listed separately is the Oskar G. Stonorov House.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.</p><br>
<p>The People&#39;s Co-op Building at 151 E. State St. in Lehi, Utah was built during 1902-03. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It has also been known as Niagara Skating Rink, Lehi Roller Skating Rink, Grass Furniture, and Christensen Wholesale.</p><br>
<p>It was the first building in Lehi to have a cement sidewalk, and it was one of the first in Lehi to have electricity. It was one of several buildings in a complex serving the Peoples Cooperative Mercantile Institution, which had been located on the site since 1872. The building was built on the site of a former building for furnaces, stoves, and agricultural implements; it was built adjacent to an 1878 building which had served as the mercantile building previously. The building had 22,000 ft&sup2; of mercantile and warehouse space. It is built with brick walls on an ashlar foundation, and possibly was built by local brick masons Andrew Fjeld and Charles Ohran. The building was modified in c.1960 to add an "aluminum storefront&#39; glass wall" on the ground level.</p><br>
<p>Barclay House, also known as the Joshua Hartshorne Estate, North Hill, and The Barclay, is a historic home located in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The original section was built in 1866–67, and believed to have been designed by noted architect Addison Hutton . It was a -story, brick dwelling in the Italianate style. It was expanded to three stories with the expansion of 1935–36. Also added at that time was a three-story connecting block, three-story west block, and one-story north block. The house was also renovated in the Colonial Revival style. The north block was expanded to two stories in 1998. Also on the property is a contributing carriage house built in 1869. It was converted to a residence in 1925. It was built as a single family residence, but converted to a Quaker boarding home for the elderly in 1935-1936. The boarding home closed at this location in 1997.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.</p><br>
<p>Bank of Chester County  is a historic two-story bank building located in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania, the first bank to be chartered in the county. Following the failure to renew the charter of the Bank of the United States in 1811, states received responsibility over the banking systems within their jurisdiction. Although an initial proposal was rejected by the state legislature in 1813, a 41-bank proposal was passed the following year. An early bank building was utilized in West Chester beginning in 1814 at the Record Office, though the bank was relocated in 1818 to a building across the street, present-day 13 High Street. Following a proposal for a new site in 1835, a bank, to be built at 17 High Street, designed by noted architect Thomas Ustick Walter . It was built in 1836 in the Greek Revival style at the cost of $33,000, and features a portico with four Doric order columns; the bank was subsequently altered in 1874, 1905, and 1928. The previous building has since been rented to numerous individuals, although it still houses outdated equipment no longer used by the bank. The current building is occupied by Wells Fargo.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, located in the West Chester Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>After Congress had been unwilling to renew the charter of the First Bank of the United States in 1811, control over banking procedures which would otherwise have been performed by the Bank of the United States was granted to the states instead. In 1813, legislation was proposed by the Pennsylvania state legislature to allow the construction of 25 banks in the state; however, then-governor Simon Snyder rejected the proposal. In 1814, such a proposal was made once more for the establishment of 41 banks, but was vetoed yet again; however, the legislature overturned the veto with overwhelming support. The stock for a bank in Chester County was granted, numbering 9,000 shares at a cost of $50 each. Initially, the bank assigned subscriptions to thirteen commissioners, although it decreased the number of individuals to be given stock to eleven in 1897. Regular subscriptions to the shares were eventually established to the general population as well following the confirmation of the commissioners.</p><br>
<p>The Bank of Chester County, the first to be built in the county, was then conceived in 1814, located in the Record Office at the intersection of High and Gay Streets in West Chester, Pennsylvania. Until 1857, the Bank of Chester County was the only one in the county. and was named as such until 1930, when the bank was re-designated as the National Bank of Chester County and Trust Company. the building is now owned and operated by Wells Fargo.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>The building was designed in the Greek Revival style, conceived with dimensions of 45 ft by 90 ft. The foundation is covered with high-quality stone, with marble of lesser quality laid on the water table. The walls, which were built with marble, were overlaid with bricks; the western portico, which was lowered in 1928, includes four Doric columns. Although chimneys are still in place on the bank, none of the original ones remain. The building only has a single door, by the front-west side. The north and south walls were rebuilt as a result of a renovation in 1928; two of the original windows on those walls, however, were maintained, although the original cornices were not preserved and replicas are currently in place. The roof is covered with copper.</p><br>
<p>The initial floor plan of the two-story bank indicated a smaller banking room than what was constructed. Two vaults, originally placed on either side of the entrance hall, were converted into offices, and two rooms by the back of the bank were dismantled entirely as well as the stairways leading to them. Although the interior was designed with a Greek style in mind with marble layered on the walls, renovations since then resulted in changes in the interior. In 1854, Carl Stromberg recolored the ceiling with shades of blue, with "leaves, fruit, and flowers" painted on the walls edges. The opposite walls featured murals with additional landscapes. Later, in 1863, a statue of William Darlington was erected for the bank by William Marshal Swayne. A renovation in 1928 was modified to an unknown extent with a "Greek influence and design". Six marble mantels and coal grates were requested for the heating systems of the building for the fireplaces in the building, located in the north and south areas of the banking room, in addition to one each in the presidents, cashier&#39;s, and two others in the removed rear rooms, though the building is currently powered by electricity. None of the original flooring, doors, nor hardware remains. In 1874, the interior experienced a complete redesign, with the addition of upgraded safes and additional vaults for $10,000. The building was renovated a total of three times – in 1874, 1905, and 1928.</p><br>
<p>Warner Theater, also known as The High Street Theater, was a historic movie theater located in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was designed by the noted Chicago theater design firm of Rapp and Rapp and built by Warner Brothers. It opened on November 14, 1930. It is a composite of one-, two-, and three-story buildings in the Art Deco style. It includes the theater, restaurant, and a series of seven small stores. The theater has a two-story foyer with a three-story tower that formerly supported the marquee. The auditorium measured 83 feet by 120 feet, and originally sat 1,650, 1,300 on the floor and 350 in the balcony. The auditorium was demolished in late-1986, and the remainder of the building has been renovated as the Hotel Warner.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. It is located in the West Chester Downtown Historic District.</p><br>
<p>William Everhart Buildings, also known as the Everhart-Lincoln Building, is a historic commercial building located in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was built by Congressman William Everhart  about 1833, and is a three-story, three bay, rectangular brick building in the Federal style. It measures 40 feet long and between 20 and 25 feet wide. The front facade features a hipped roof second story wrought iron porch added in 1868. The building housed a number of printing concerns, most notably newspapers. It was the printing house where Abraham Lincoln&#39;s first biography was published on February 11, 1860, as an article in the Chester County Times.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. The William Everhart House was listed in 1984.</p><br>
<p>West Chester Downtown Historic Historic District is a national historic district located in West Chester, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses 429 contributing buildings in the central business district of West Chester. It includes residential, commercial, institutional, and industrial buildings built between 1789 and the 1930s. Notable buildings include the USA Post Office, Green Tree Building , St. Agnes Church , Biddle Street School , Major Groff Memorial Armory, Horticulture Building  designed by Thomas U. Walter, Denney-Reyburn factory, Caleb Taylor Store , Federal Ehnes Bakery , Kofkes Store , and Woolworth . Also listed and located in the district are the Bank of Chester County, Buckwalter Building, Chester County Courthouse, Farmers and Mechanics Building, and Warner Theater.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>The Pleasant Grove Historic District is a 112 acre historic district in Pleasant Grove, Utah that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The districts significance dates from 1853, when a fort was built that attracted expanded settlement. Development at first was within the 1853 forts walls, and includes vernacular adobe buildings from 1853. The district includes about a 16 block area. The listing included 134 contributing buildings.</p><br>
<p>The Vance/Lanbaugh House at 79 West 200 South, and about 20 others (comprising about 15 percent of the district), is in the California Bungalow style of architecture. This particular house was built c.1915 using native soft rock and including Bungalow features of exposed purlins and a low-pitched gable roof.</p><br>
<p>About ten percent of the historic houses are completed in Period Revival styles. For example the Clifford L. Wright House at 90 North 100 East, built in 1933, is an Tudor Revival style house that "features the typical steeply pitched gable entry with an asymmetrically placed rounded arch doorway."</p><br>
<p>The Brno Reservoir, previously known as the Kníničky Reservoir  is a dam on the Svratka River right outside the city of Brno, Czech Republic. The construction of a levee on the 56th river kilometre of the Svratka River, together with flooding of a valley with the Kníničky village in, created the Brno Reservoir. The reservoir used to serve as a water reserve for Brno , a place for recreation, and also a source of electric power. Administrator of the Brno Reservoir is a state-owned enterprise Povodí Moravy, s.p.</p><br>
<h2>Basic Information</h2><br>
<p>The idea of creating a dam on the Svratka River began at the beginning of the 20th century; however, its reconstruction was realized as late as 1936–1940. The main investor was the then Ministry of Public Works. Apart from Brno, it was also “the Moravian-Silesian Land” (a former territory), which took a financial interest of 25% in it.</p><br>
<p>The water storage begins under the weir at the Tejkalův Mill in Veverská Bítýška and spans nearly 10 km to the dyke on the border of the Brno-Bystrc and Brno-Kníničky districts. The flooded area covers 259 ha. The inactive storage reaches up to 7.6 million m³; the reserve space is 10.8 million m³. The concrete solid dam is 7.14 m wide in corona and 120 m long. It rises 23.5 m above the bottom at an altitude of 233.72 m.</p><br>
<p>Hydroelectricity uses one Kaplan turbine with an output of 2.88 MW (the installed output is 3.1 MW). In case of an island operation (that is, independently, disconnected from network system, such as in case of a breakdown of the electric power transmission), the turbine can be used to set a gas combustion turbine in the heating plant “Červený mlýn” in motion. A small hydro in Brno-Komín serves as a buffer tank.</p><br>
<p>At the end of the Second World War the retreating German Army placed mines in the nearby roads, a barrel with trinitrotoluene on the levee (the explosives were originally supposed to be placed into the levee piping, but it was sealed with concrete due to an order to protect it from a sabotage), and also placed some machine guns in the house of the levee guard Šikula. The guard, together with a few people hidden in the power plant room, warned a convoy of the Red Army, but Šikula was shot and wounded. There is a plaque of his at the levee today.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>Brno Reservoir is a popular recreational area with both locals and visitors. There are vast forests on both sides of the reservoir and thus there are opportunities not only for swimming and water sports, but also hiking and cycling. The Veveří Castle is a popular destination for tourists, too. It rises over a rock close to Veverská Bítýška. There is a bridge for cyclists and hikers over the dam close to the castle.</p><br>
<p>The dam can be visited all year round. Swimming in the water is safe. Blue-green bacteria very rarely occur on the southern tip of the dam only.</p><br>
<h2>Culture</h2><br>
<p>There is an important international firework competition Ignis Brunensis that is held annually at the end of May and beginning of June at the Brno Reservoir.</p><br>
<h2>Pollution</h2><br>
<p>As a result of water pollution by communal sewage, the dam suffered from an extensive amount of blue-green bacteria for a long time. In 2010 the reservoir underwent a series of cleaning by chemical substances against the bacteria. These cleanings remain a subject of criticism and dispute, as some people claim they were nothing more than a pre-election trick, and that they will not bring any sufficient results in the long run. Since 2011, however, the water in the reservoir has been suitable for swimming.</p><br>
<h2>Boat rides</h2><br>
<p>The Brno Public Transportation Office operates boat rides on the reservoir during summer season. The boats run from Bystrc harbour (“Přístaviště”) to Veveří Castle and some even to Veverská Bítýška (depending on water level). There are operating several new boats – Lipsko, Utrecht, and Vídeň – which are named after Leipzig, Utrecht and Vienna (twin towns of Brno); and older ones called Brno, Dallas, and Veveří. The boats run every 45 minutes. Tickets can be purchased in the harbour at the ticket office.</p><br>
<h2>Sport</h2><br>
<p>The reservoir serves as a popular place for sports, too. Apart from canoeing, water skiing, and yachting, the dam is also used for rowing. Several rowing clubs operate there, such as ČVK Brno (Czech Rowing Club Brno) or TJ Lodní sporty Brno (TJ Water Sports Brno), with its most famous member Miroslava Knapková (the winner in rowing at the 2012 Olympics).</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>Since 2011 there has been a dispute over a planned construction of a wakeboarding track.</p><br>
<p>The Cordillera Quimsa Cruz is a mountain range in the La Paz Department in Bolivia situated south east of Lake Titicaca and north of Lake Uru Uru, measuring about 35-40 km in length and 12 km at its widest point. It is the continuation of the Cordillera Real of Bolivia extending in a north to south-eastern direction from Asiento pass south of Illimani to Tres Cruces pass.</p><br>
<p>Kimsa Cruz or Quimsa Cruz in hispanicized spelling is a partly Aymara (kimsa three), partly Spanish (cruz cross) expression meaning "three crosses".</p><br>
<h2>Mountains</h2><br>
<p>The highest elevations are Jach&#39;a Khunu Qullu (5,800 m), Wayna Khunu Qullu (5,640 m) and Gigante (5,748 m). Other notable peaks are:</p><br>
<p>León Jiwata, 5,680 m</p><br>
<p>San Luis, 5,620 m</p><br>
<p>Las Virgenes, 5,600 m</p><br>
<p>San Pedro, 5,590 m</p><br>
<p>Yaypuri, 5,566 m</p><br>
<p>Salvador Apacheta, 5,565 m</p><br>
<p>Jach&#39;a Paquni, 5,560 m</p><br>
<p>San Enrique, 5,620 m</p><br>
<p>Atoroma, 5,550 m</p><br>
<p>Santa Fe, 5,550 m</p><br>
<p>San Juan, 5,540 m</p><br>
<p>San Lorenzo, 5,508 m</p><br>
<p>Janq&#39;u Qullu, 5,460 m</p><br>
<p>La Salvadora, 5,421 m</p><br>
<p>Yunque, 5,400 m</p><br>
<p>Wila Qullu, 5,400 m</p><br>
<p>Nina Qullu, 5,352 m</p><br>
<p>Ch&#39;amak Qullu, 5,350 m</p><br>
<p>Wallatani, 5,336 m</p><br>
<p>Quri Ch&#39;uma, 5,312 m</p><br>
<p>Gerhard, 5,404 m</p><br>
<p>Los Enanos, 5,300 m</p><br>
<p>Mama Uqllu, 5,281 m</p><br>
<p>Cuernos de Diablo, 5,271 m</p><br>
<p>Chhankaphiña, 5,260 m</p><br>
<p>Santa Vera Cruz, 5,210 m</p><br>
<p>Pireo, 5,200 m</p><br>
<p>Janq&#39;u Quta, 5,090 m</p><br>
<p>Achuma, 4,960 m</p><br>
<p>Ch&#39;uxña Quta, 4,920 m</p><br>
<p>Taruja Umaña, 4,852 m</p><br>
<p>Janqu Willki, 4,800 m</p><br>
<p>Kunturiri</p><br>
<p>Laram Quta</p><br>
<p>Malla Ch&#39;uma</p><br>
<p>Srđ is a low mountain just behind the walled city of Dubrovnik in Dalmatia, Croatia. Its height is 412 m, and its top is adorned with Fort Imperijal, built from 1806 to 1816, during the Napoleonic Wars. From the fortress, it is possible to see the walled city of Dubrovnik, Lokrum island, the Adriatic Sea and various local attractions .</p><br>
<p>Srđ was once forested with oak trees which locals called dubrava (from the old Slavic word dub, "oak tree"), after which the city of Dubrovnik was named. The southern slope was once rich with pine forests, but in the second half of the 20th century and during the 1991–95 Croatian War of Independence, the forest was almost completely gutted through numerous fires. A zigzag Calvary leads up from the town.</p><br>
<p>The mountain was home to one of the fiercest battles of the Independence War, namely the Siege of Dubrovnik, and this is commemorated in a museum in Fort Imperial. The television mast was destroyed by fighter aircraft from the Yugoslav Air Force. The cable car that was disabled during this time has since been reopened, and Srđ has been developed as a tourist attraction, with a restaurant and a base for buggy safaris.</p><br>
<p>Stephenson Island (formerly "Stephenson Isle" at an elevation of 587 feet.</p><br>
<p>A footbridge to the island connects from the Marinette side of the river, adjacent to the Wisconsin Tourist Information building and the Stephenson Public Library.</p><br>
<p>The island is the location for Marinette&#39;s Civil War memorial, The Soldiers Memorial. It is a figure of a soldier at parade rest, hewn from pink Westerly granite. The memorial is a total of 25 feet high and was given by Isaac Stephenson. It was dedicated in 1917.</p><br>
<h2>Events</h2><br>
<p>The islands facilities host Marinettes "Sunset Concert Series" for Marinettes concerts. (Other concerts in the series are hosted by Marinettes twin city, Menominee, Michigan.)</p><br>
<p>When Marinette had a Fourth of July celebration, fireworks would be launched from Stephenson Island. This ended in 2012 and has been replaced with a "Marinette Logging and Heritage Fest" in mid-July.</p><br>
<p>Clement Atkinson Memorial Hospital is a historic hospital building located at Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It is a building in five sections. The original section was the home of Dr. Atkinson, and is a 2 1/2-story, three-bay brick rowhouse dwelling in the Colonial Revival style. It and a one-story, eight-room, hospital wing at the rear of the dwelling, were built in 1932. A second story was added to the hospital wing in 1937. Later additions took place in 1955, 1962, and 1969. The hospital was converted to a community center and low-income apartments in 1991. The hospital served the local African American population and remained in operation until 1977.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Lukens Main Office Building is a historic office building located at Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA. The original section was designed by the noted architectural firm of Cope & Stewardson and built in 1902, for the Lukens Steel Company. It is a 2½-story, seven bay, brick "T"-shaped building in a Colonial Revival / Georgian Revival style. It has a hipped roof with dormers and flanking two-story, three bay wings. A duplicate of the original structure was added to it in 1916, making it an "H"-shaped building. The addition was designed by the successor firm of Page & Stewardson. Today the building is home to the National Iron & Steel Heritage Museum and other local businesses and organizations.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>Beeston Hill Y Station was a secret listening station located on the summit of Beeston Hill, Sheringham in the English county of Norfolk. The chain of Y stations were the front line of the War Office’s Bletchley Park, which had the code name station X.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>This Y Station was a specially constructed wireless interception facility which was also used for direction finding on enemy wireless transmissions. This became particularly important in the Battle of the Atlantic (1939–1945) where locating U-boats became a critical issue. Admiral Dönitz told his commanders that they could not be located if they limited their wireless transmissions to under 30 seconds, but skilled direction finding operators were able to locate the origin of their signals in as little as 6 seconds. There were several of these stations around the east coast, and by triangulating the signals the exact location of enemy shipping could be pinpointed.</p><br>
<h3>Modus operandi</h3><br>
<p>The equipment used for direction finding was located on the summit of the hill in a small Hexagonal shaped hut. The radio interception equipment was positioned within a control room which was located 500 yd from the direction finding station. This listening station intercepted VHF radio signals, which were used by German E-boats (fast surface vessels) for short range voice communication. The listening station was part of a chain of stations set up around the country that gathered the enemies raw signals, transmitted in Morse code, for processing at the X-station at Bletchley Park. Coded messages were taken down by hand and sent to Bletchley on paper by despatch riders or, later, by teleprinter.</p><br>
<h2>Code Breakers</h2><br>
<p>The chain of Y stations, of which Beeston Hill belonged, contributed on average 3000 coded messages each day to Bletchley Park. At Bletchley Park the messages were taken to different huts, depending on whether they had come from the German army, air force, navy or another source. The secret military intelligence gathered in this way was code-named Ultra and Winston Churchill called those involved his "geese that laid the golden eggs but never cackled". During the early days of the Second World War, it was members of the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry who were entrusted to personally deliver the decoded messages personally to him.</p><br>
<h2>The site</h2><br>
<p>The concrete remains of part of this facility can still be seen on the summit of the hill. They consist of an octagonal concrete base that measures 3,850mm across, with a channel running west to east across the middle. On the southern edge of the octagon is a raised area of concrete, which is 225mm higher than the rest of the base. Around the edge of the octagon are the remnants of what was once a reinforced parapet, which has long been removed. There are also signs of a Fletton brick wall running westward away from the raised area. The octagonal shape of the base indicates that a direction-finding station operator&#39;s hut stood there. It would have consisted of a double-skinned wooden structure in which the cavity was filled with shingle designed to make the structure splinter proof or bulletproof.</p><br>
<h3>BBC's Coast TV episode</h3><br>
<p>In an episode of the BBC1 series “Coast”, the triangulation technique was explained and demonstrated. In the same programme, Joy Hale was interviewed by the presenter, Hermione Cockburn. Hale had been a WREN during the war and had been an operator at the Y-station.</p><br>
<p>Beeston Bump 4 November 2007 (14).jpgFoundation remains of the Y station</p><br>
<p>Jabal al-&#39;Awd  is a mountain in the Highlands of Yemen. It has an elevation of 2,942 meters and is the 67th highest mountain in Yemen. It is situated about 25 km south-east of the ancient Himyarite capital of Zafar.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The place name ʿwd appears in Old South Arabian inscriptions, and probably refers to the same location as the present day. In ancient times it fell in the administrative district known as Ibb, near Wadi Bana. The mountain had mainly been known as the site of a podium temple dating back to the middle of the first millennium BC, and settlements in the area were mentioned in the Res Gestae of the Sabaean king Karib&#39;il Watar of Ṣirwāḥ.</p><br>
<p>Jabal al-&#39;Awd had been known since the 19th century for its Qatabānian rock inscription. In the 1970s a French epigraphist, Christian Robin, copied a few of the inscriptions. In the winter of 1996 the attention of archaeologists was finally alerted to the importance of the site thanks to illicit excavations there which had unearthed amazing bronzes, in both South Arabian and Mediterranean styles. In 1998 the German Archaeological Institute requested permission from the Yemeni Archaeology Authority to start official excavations of the site, primarily to establish where exactly the illicitly excavated objects were found, and also to investigate further any evidence of cultural relations between Yemen and especially the Mediterranean in early Himyaritic times. The German Archaeological Institute subsequently sent six field campaigns to the mountain, though their work was interrupted in 2003 for three years due to tribal unrest. The German archaeologists found that the previous illicit finds had been unearthed from a huge building complex, apparently a large residence with a courtyard, and further digging produced many more important finds, including statues, items of furniture and vessels.</p><br>
<p>The settlement contained a burial site, and many of the dead had been buried with rich goods: pottery, stone vessels, weapons, jewellery and amulets.They found a lot of goods that had been imported from the Mediterranean (rings and glass for example), and goods that has been made in South Arabia but in Mediterranean styles.</p><br>
<p>The results of the excavations so far show that the site was a major settlement between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century AD; this was then suddenly destroyed and set on fire. This disaster coincided with the first Abyssinian invasion of Yemen, and that must have been the cause of the destruction. The town was never completely settled again, though a few houses here and there were repaired. The archaeologists found evidence of more recent dwellings too, and pottery finds show that some of these were Medieval.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>Vogt, B./Gerlach, I./Hitgen, H. "Die Erforschung Altsüdarabiens. Das Deutsche Archäologische Institut Sanaa auf den Spuren des Sabäerherrschers Karibil Watar". Nürnberger Blätter zur Archäologie 15 (1998) 133–152.</p><br>
<p>Shheem  alternatively written as Chhim is a town in Lebanon which is located 47 kilometres south-east of Beirut. Chhim is located on 4 mountains in the Chouf region in Lebanon. It is inhabited by Sunnite Muslims and has a population of about 49,000. It is considered a city by some people. The most known families in Chhim are ELHajjar, Moallem, Chaaban, Fawaz, Abdallah, Hajj-Chehade, Younis, Mrad, Khatib and Oueidat.</p><br>
<p>There is no confirmation about exact date of founding. However it is suggested that Chhim has been standing since the 18th century. It was definitely in place during the 19th century, although it was not necessarily as developed and huge as it is today.</p><br>
<p>Chhim is the largest Sunnite town in the Chouf region. The community lives in harmony and there have never been any issues in Chhim, despite the sectarian violence that Lebanon has suffered from the past 40 years or so. It has been in a battleground long ago when the French and British forces fought here around a century ago. Chhim has suffered from excessive building which has been ruining its nature. Chhim was built on a huge forest where wolves and hyenas lived in. However, forests still can be found in and around Chhim. The town is rich in olive trees.</p><br>
<p>Chhim is often confused within size due to many parts of it having different names; some more familiar parts of Chhim include Marj-Ali, Sahle, Jabal swed, and Jirid. These and many others are part of Chhim but have different names.</p><br>
<p>Chhim contains 11 schools, 8 of which are public. It also contains two hospitals, one of them is public, and the other is private.</p><br>
<h2>Features</h2><br>
<p>Chhim contains many mosques and is mostly inhabited by Sunni Muslims.</p><br>
<p>It is the site of one of many Temples of the Beqaa Valley.</p><br>
<h2>Roman Temple</h2><br>
<p>The temple at Chhim faces east and has a small porch. There is a carving of the sun god Helios on one of the doorframes. Another carving portrays the image of a priest with outstretched arms.</p><br>
<p>The Chestnut Hill–Plateau Historic District is a historic area in the Highland Park neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. It is also known as Highland Park Southern Tip on city neighborhood maps.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a historic district in 2002 as an example of a streetcar suburb with a significant collection of early 20th century homes including Queen Anne Victorian properties and American Foursquare houses.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The land of the Chestnut Hill–Plateau historic district was once known as Mount Comforta farm owned by a Richmonder named Samuel DuVall in the 18th century. Prior to the Civil War, the land of what makes up Chestnut Hills was owned by Peter V. and Lucy Daniel. A successful Jewish baker named Adolph Dill owned what became The Plateauthe NE part of the district between Magnolia and Brookland Park Boulevard.</p><br>
<p>During the Civil War, a defensive battery for the NE approaches of the city of Richmond called Battery No. 7 was constructed around the center of the district, around the area of what is now Juniper, Willow and Spruce streets. Chickahominy Bluffs Battlefield is the nearest of the Civil War Battlefield Parks around Richmond.</p><br>
<p>In 1882, Richmond became the first city in the US with a revenue generating streetcar system. The streetcar line in Chestnut Hill was completed in 1893 and originally known as the Richmond-Henrico Railway Company, operated by the Richmond and Manchester Railway Company. The presence of readily available transportation opened up the possibility of developing the northern suburbs.</p><br>
<p>In 1889 the suburb was platted and in 1892 the 5th Street viaduct was built which connected the area with the main part of Richmond. The Northside Land Improvement Company purchased the 135 acre Mount Comfort site in 1889. There were a few structures standing on the property at the time. Around the same time, the 150 acre Highland Park development was founded to the north of Chestnut Hill. The Northside Land Improvement Company dissolved and sold the land to the Northside Land Company for $150,000. The principals were J. M. Fourqurean, a dry-goods merchant and N.V. Randolph.</p><br>
<p>Some of the ornate Queen Anne Victorians built along the southern end of 4th Avenue were built by real estate speculators to entice buyers around the 1890s. Amenities, such as the church on 3rd Avenue, were also developed around this time. The Northside Baptist Church was organized at a town hall meeting in Chestnut Hill in 1907. Services were held in the town hall for about a year before a substantial Gothic Revival-style building was completed at the comer of Third Avenue and Victor Street, in the area known as the Plateau. Today it is the home of Fifth Street. Saint Elizabeth’s Roman Catholic Church was established in 1923.</p><br>
<p>Many of the houses standing in the district take the form of the Foursquare house, with a simple two-story form and its Craftsman-style detailing. Many houses were constructed in small groups as speculative developments intended to be sold to lower middle-income home-buyers. These were constructed between 1910 and 1930. The form and the decorative details were based on magazines and designs from catalog homes such as the Sears homes.</p><br>
<p>The Plateau was originally a fruit-tree nursery owned by A. F. Mosby, who developed it in 1908. It served as a continuation of the Chestnut Hill street grid.</p><br>
<p>In 1942, almost all the residents of Highland Park signed a pledge not to be the first homeowner on the block to sell to a black buyer. The racial transformation did not happen until the mid-1960s, but when it did the process was sudden. Black homeowners replaced whites, until by 1970, about 70% of the properties had changed hands. By the late 1970s very few white residents were left. According to a 1978 news story, some real estate salesmen played on racial fears and persuaded some white owners to sell their homes at low prices. The real estate agents then sold-or rented them to black residents at a substantial profit.</p><br>
<p>Since the 1970s, Chestnut Hill–Plateau has suffered from problems familiar to other older inner city neighborhoods. Crime, declining population, and a deteriorating housing stock kept property values low and most houses from being maintained or restored. The neighborhood has been hit particularly hard by the decline in the US housing market since 2007.</p><br>
<p>Renovation groups such as ACORN are working to preserve Chestnut Hill–Plateau.</p><br>
<h2>Contributing properties</h2><br>
<p>The historic district comprises 659 contributing and 83 non-contributing structures.</p><br>
<p>Abram Huston House and Carriage House, also known as the Coatesville City Hall and Police Station and "Graystone Mansion," is a historic building located at Coatesville, Chester County, Pennsylvania. It was designed and built in 1889, by the noted architectural firm of Cope & Stewardson. The house is a 2 1/2-story building, built of shaped coursed stone, irregularly shaped in plan, and has a two-story wing added in 1925. The carriage house is "L" shaped, and features a two-story tower with a conical roof. The house was built as the home of Abram Huston, president of the Lukens Steel Company. The house was Coatesville City Hall and the carriage house was the Coatesville jail from 1939 to 1992.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>Sedgwick House is located to the west of the village of Sedgwick, Cumbria, England. It was built as a country house, was later used as a school, and then converted into apartments. The house is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The house was designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin, and was one of the earliest commissions of the partnership. It was built in 1868 for William Henry Wakefield, who owned a local gunpowder factory. The family moved out of the house shortly before World War II, and it was then used by Lancashire County Council as a school for children with special needs. The school closed in 1987, and the building has since been converted into residential accommodation.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Sedgwick House is constructed in tooled sandstone, with ashlar and granite dressings, and has green slate roofs. The main part of the house is in two wings at right-angles to each other, forming an L-shaped plan. The wings are in two storeys plus attics, and both have five bays. The entrance wing faces north, and has a projecting central four-storey battlemented tower, with a turret rising to a higher level. On each side of the tower are two dormers, and in front of it is a porte-cochère. There is an extension on the left side of the entrance wing. The garden wing faces west, its outer bays projecting forward and containing two-storey canted bow windows. To the rear of the house are service wings, which incorporate a clock tower. Inside the house is a full-height entrance hall with a hammerbeam roof. Under the staircase in the hall is a large fireplace with pairs of granite colonnettes, with a lintel bearing the inscription BE JUST AND FEAR NOT. The ground floor rooms contain elaborate decorative plasterwork. The architectural style of the house is Gothic Revival; it is the last time that Paley and Austin used Gothic features in a design for a domestic property.</p><br>
<h2>External features</h2><br>
<p>The gatehouse, sited at the entrance to the drive to the former house, is also listed at Grade II. It was also designed by Paley and Austin, and is constructed in sandstone with green slate roofs. The house is in one storey with attics, and has an L-shaped plan.</p><br>
<p>The grounds are used by the local cricket club.</p><br>
<p>Winmarleigh Hall is a former country house located to the south of the village of Winmarleigh, Lancashire, England, used later as an adventure centre.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The manor of Winmarleigh was bought in 1744 by Thomas Patten (died 1772) of Bank Hall, Warrington and passed down in turn through his son Thomas Patten (died 1806) and his third son Thomas Wilson-Patten (died 1826) to his second son John Wilson-Patten (1802-1892).</p><br>
<p>Winmarleigh Hall was built in 1871 for the latter, later the 1st Baron Winmarleigh, who had been MP for North Lancashire for 42 years and who moved here from Bank Hall, Warrington. It was designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin. The house was enlarged and altered in 1915–14 by Henry Kirkley of Manchester, and altered again following a fire in 1927. Since 1998 it has been used as a children&#39;s adventure centre, and is administered by PGL.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The hall is constructed in red brick with stone dressings, and is in Jacobean style. It has an L-shaped plan with a tall staircase tower. The tower originally had a pyramidal roof, but now is surmounted by a balustrade. The interior of the house is decorated with delicate plasterwork, and the windows around the staircase contain stained glass. The former morning room includes a ceiling with pendants.</p><br>
<p>Rebberg</p><br>
<p>is a mountain and suburb of Mulhouse in Alsace, France.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>"Rebberg" is a German and Alemannic word describing a "vineyard" on a slope.</p><br>
<p>In Mulhouse there is another suburb which is called “Coteaux”. This French word can also be translated as "vineyard".</p><br>
<p>Therefore you should always be careful not to confuse the two suburbs.</p><br>
<h2>Urban Structure</h2><br>
<p>For administrative purposes Mulhouse has been subdivided into different sectors. Rebberg belongs to sector 2.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Rebberg is located in the south of the city along the railway line and part of the mountain belongs to the neighboring municipalities Riedisheim and Brunstatt. Consequently it will be helpful to clarify which Rebberg is meant, that of Mulhouse, Riedisheim or Brunstatt.</p><br>
<h2>Geographical Features</h2><br>
<p>The Rebberg is characterized by its protuberant shape. Its high hills represent geomorphologically the northern end of the Sundgau. Thus it dominates the rest of Mulhouse, the plain of the Ochsenfeld (potassium basin) in the northeast and the Hardt forest in the east. Its shape impacted on the layout of the Rhone–Rhine Canal and the railroad along its bottom.</p><br>
<h2>Urban Features</h2><br>
<p>The residential area of the upper middle class</p><br>
<p>has its origins in the golden era of the history of this "French Manchester" during the heyday of the textile industry of Mulhouse. Here are many mansions which seem to excel each other with styles marked by different architectural influences and periods.</p><br>
<h2>Zoo</h2><br>
<p>The Zoological and Botanical Park of Mulhouse</p><br>
<p>which is an example of a wonderful scenic ensemble is located in the heart of this beautiful green zone.</p><br>
<h2>Towers</h2><br>
<p>On the Rebberg are two metal towers:</p><br>
<p>• The Tour du Belvédère is a 65 feet high observation tower. It is open to the public and offers a panoramic</p><br>
<p>view of the region.</p><br>
<p>• The radio tower Émetteur du Belvédère</p><br>
<p>is in fact the relay station Mulhouse of TDF, a company which until 2004 was called TéléDiffusion de France. It has a height of 636 ft.</p><br>
<p>The Deep River Camelback Truss Bridge is a steel camelback truss resting on stone and concrete piers, with a macadam road surface covering a plank deck.</p><br>
<p>It spans the Deep River in North Carolina, United States between the hamlets of Gulf in Chatham County and Cumnock in Lee County in a quiet rural setting amid woods and farmlands on both sides of the river. It was originally constructed in 1901. The bridge is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The bridge is open to pedestrian traffic only. Vehicles may use a replacement bridge located about a hundred yards east of the historic structure.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The bridge is located within Deep River Park, which also includes picnic facilities and a boat ramp.It is a popular spot for geocaching. To reach from US-421 at the Deep River, go southeast and take a left onto Cumnock Road. Follow the road to the county line. As you cross the river on the new bridge, look to your left for a view of the truss bridge. Continue 0.1 mile north to an intersection with Everett Dowdy Road, and the park entrance, on your left.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Deep River Camelback Truss Bridge, identified as Truss Bridge #155</p><br>
<p>by the North Carolina Department of Transportation, spans the Deep River</p><br>
<p>on SR 2153 north of the community of Cumnock in northern Lee County,</p><br>
<p>providing access between Cumnock and the Gulf community in southern</p><br>
<p>Chatham County. This section along the Deep River was the site of coal,</p><br>
<p>iron, and copper mining operations and iron foundries through much of</p><br>
<p>the nineteenth century. The present bridge was originally erected in 1901 as part of a multi-</p><br>
<p>span bridge over the Cape Fear River at Lillington, about thirty miles to the</p><br>
<p>southeast in Neal&#39;s Creek Township, Harnett County. After a span of the</p><br>
<p>bridge collapsed in December 1930, the remaining spans were disassembled in</p><br>
<p>order for a new bridge to be constructed at the site in 1931, and in 1932 one</p><br>
<p>of the salvaged spans was re-erected at the present site over the Deep River to</p><br>
<p>replace a wooden covered bridge that had burned about 1929.</p><br>
<p>Bridges have served this location at least as early as 1833. A</p><br>
<p>nineteenth-century fieldstone pier supports the present bridge on the</p><br>
<p>north end may date to an earlier bridge at the site, called</p><br>
<p>Evans Bridge after Peter Evans, whose plantation, Egypt, lay on the</p><br>
<p>south bank of the river.</p><br>
<p>In 1979 the bridge was one of</p><br>
<p>thirty-five bridges (including eight camelback trusses) formally</p><br>
<p>determined eligible for the National Register as</p><br>
<p>important examples of metal truss engineering technology in the state</p><br>
<p>from 1880 to 1935, and for associations with transportation improvements</p><br>
<p>in the state in the early twentieth century.</p><br>
<p>Today Truss Bridge #155 is one of only four camelback trusses surviving</p><br>
<p>in North Carolina.</p><br>
<p>In 1992 the Department of Transportation completed a new concrete bridge</p><br>
<p>spanning the Deep River east of Truss Bridge #155. Ownership of the</p><br>
<p>older bridge was transferred to the Deep River Park Association,</p><br>
<p>and it will be preserved in place as part of the group&#39;s Rails-Trails</p><br>
<p>route under development.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>Truss Bridge #155 is a camelback truss bridge, 160 feet long and divided</p><br>
<p>into eight panels, with the two trusses joined by a system of portal,</p><br>
<p>lateral, and sway braces. The truss system is</p><br>
<p>pin-joined. The trusses have die-punched eyes on the bottom chords but</p><br>
<p>also forge-welded double clevises on all tie bars. The bridge is supported by coarse stone (north side) and concrete piers, with a macadam covered plank road surface. The remains of the</p><br>
<p>earthen base and timber support for the central pier of an earlier</p><br>
<p>bridge may be seen below the bridge.</p><br>
<p>Lake Otis is a natural freshwater lake located on the east side of Winter Haven, Florida. The Polk County Water Atlas says the lake sometimes is known as Little Otis, but this is confirmed nowhere else. The main part of the lake is somewhat rectangular in shape and on the south side of the main section of the lake is a long tail-shaped cove. Lake Otis has a 144 acre surface. It is connected on its northeast side to nearby Lake Link by a 50 ft canal. This is the closest point between the two lakes. Other than where the shore where the two lakes are very close, Lake Otis is completely surrounded by residences. Lakewood Causeway runs between the two lakes. To the south of this area is a gated community that can be accessed by the public during the daytime. Most of the south cove is surrounded by another gated community and the public is prevented from entering it by gates that are closed all the time.</p><br>
<p>Lake Otis has no public boat ramps or swimming areas. In fact, there are no areas of the shore accessible to the public. The entire shore of the lake, other than the area near Lake Link, has steep banks. The Hook and Bullet website, however, says Lake Otis contains largemouth bass, bluegill and crappie.</p><br>
