<p>Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain, spelled Pokamoonshine on USA Geological Survey maps, and sometimes known as just Poke-O, is a minor peak of the Adirondack Mountains. The name is believed to be a corruption of the Algonquin words pohqui, meaning broken, and moosie, meaning smooth. It is located in the town of Chesterfield, New York, United States, on New York state Forest Preserve land, part of the Taylor Pond Wild Forest complex within the Adirondack Park. Due to its location next to the pass through which most travelers from the north enter the range, it has been called the "gateway to the Adirondacks".</p><br>
<p>At its 2,180 ft summit is a disused fire lookout tower listed on the National Register of Historic Places. While many of those who reach it and take in the sweeping views of the High Peaks and Lake Champlain hike up one of two trails from USA Route 9 near the mountain&#39;s base, the stone cliffs ringing its summit have attracted climbers, although their activities are limited during the nesting season of the peregrine falcon. Its easy access from the Adirondack Northway (Interstate 87) and challenging routes have made it the most popular rock and ice climbing spot in the Adirondacks, regularly drawing visitors from both the USA and Canada.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Poke-O-Moonshine is located at the eastern end of a group of summits at the northeastern corner of the Adirondacks. Most of the peaks to its west are of similar height, though lower; Old Rang Mountain a mile (1.6 km) to the northwest is higher at 2,294 ft. To the east is a pass roughly 500 ft wide, traversed by Interstate 87, locally referred to as the Adirondack Northway, and USA Route 9. Across it rises a similar unnamed peak with several summits, the highest of which reaches 1,620 ft.</p><br>
<p>It is located in the southern portion of the town of Chesterfield, near its tripoint with the towns of Lewis and Willsboro. The nearest settlements are the central hamlet of Willsboro to the east-southeast and the village of Keeseville to the north-northeast. Both are approximately 6 mi from the mountain.</p><br>
<p>A ridge connects the mountain to Carl Mountain a mile to the west. On the mountains east and south, the slopes rise steeply from the pass to the granite cliffs, their main scarp face 600 ft high and a mile wide, that bracket the summit and the northeast ridge. The north side has a gentler, but deeper, drop into the valley of McGuire Brook, which drains into Butternut Pond to the north and then, via that bodys outlet into Augur Lake, to the AuSable River. On the south, a steeper drainage goes to Cold Brook, which flows into the North Branch of the Boquet River. Both streams themselves drain into Lake Champlain, whose Willsboro Bay is 3 mi east of Poke-O-Moonshine&#39;s summit.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Humans have lived in the Adirondacks since at least the end of the Wisconsin glaciation, 10-12,000 years ago. In the 11th century, farming began in the surrounding river valleys, which led many inhabitants to come down from the mountains. The Algonquin, the first humans known to have lived in the area of the mountain, were as struck by its cliffs as later visitors. They named the mountain for them—Pohquis Moosie, in their language, roughly translates to "place of the broken smooth rocks." It was important to them since it stood aside the pass that allowed access to the mountains from the plains next to the lake, and thus became a frequent location for trade and diplomatic meetings between their tribes.</p><br>
<p>Because of the areas remoteness from settlements established during the 17th century by the British and Dutch to the south and the French to the north, European settlers did not come to the area in significant numbers. Since it was vacant, the land was claimed during the 18th century by both the British, who had conquered New Netherland, and the French. King Georges War in mid-century failed to settle that claim, and it took the later French and Indian War to establish British hegemony over all the European colonies in the region. Settlement was further delayed by the Revolutionary War, and only afterwards, with the new state of New York owning the land, was it subdivided and sold to veterans.</p><br>
<p>The 200 acre lot that includes the mountain&#39;s summit reverted to state ownership following a tax sale in 1876.</p><br>
<p>In 1885, the state legislature created the Forest Preserve in response to fears that silt eroding from heavily logged slopes in the Adirondacks would render the Erie Canal unnavigable and adversely affect the state&#39;s economy. It required that any state land in certain areas, including Essex County, "be forever kept as wild forest lands." A decade later, this was added to the New York State Constitution as Article XIV.</p><br>
<p>In the first decade of the 20th century, droughts led to series of devastating wildfires in the Adirondacks. New Yorks Forest, Fish and Game Commission (FFGC), a predecessor land-management agency to todays Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), decided to follow Maine&#39;s example and build fire lookouts on strategically located mountains throughout the range. In 1912 a trail was cut and a wooden tower built atop Poke-O-Moonshine; five years later the current metal tower replaced it.</p><br>
<p>The FFGC, now the Conservation Commission, added other facilities such as a cabin and springhouse during the 1920s. In 1928 writer Walter Collins O&#39;Kane commended the view of Lake Champlain and Vermont from the tower in his Trails and Summits of the Adirondacks. The mountain became a popular hike.</p><br>
<p>In 1930 the state built a 25-site campground on three acres (3 acre) next to Route 9. It began purchasing additional land on and around the mountain the following year. This would eventually prove beneficial to another group of outdoor enthusiasts.</p><br>
<p>Since the development of technical mountaineering equipment in the early 20th century, climbers had been attempting the many rock cliffs and walls of the Adirondacks. However, this effort had been hampered by the lack of quality roads in the sparsely populated region and the difficulty they posed in getting even to trailheads for those cliffs. In the late 1950s this situation had improved somewhat, and Geoff Smith and John Turner began making many first ascents of many of those cliffs. They particularly concentrated on Poke-O-Moonshine, with Turner&#39;s bold (for the time) style allowing him to name and rate many of its routes.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the rest of the 20th century the hikers and climbers kept coming, aided by the completion of the Northway in the late 1960s. The state continued to buy land when it was available. Better methods of fire detection became available, and the risks of fire declined to the point that DEC closed the fire tower in 1988. Three years later, the observer&#39;s cabin was burned down; only the fireplace and foundation remain.</p><br>
<p>In 1995 DEC announced it was planning to dismantle the fire tower. As with many of the state&#39;s other historic fire towers, a local organization was formed to raise the funds to save it. It was renovated and reopened three years later.</p><br>
<p>By 2004 the state had acquired 272 additional undeveloped acres (272 acre) for the campground and brought its mountain holdings to 2,082 acre. although it remains open as a day-use access area to the cliffs.</p><br>
<p>In 2011, another access route was added when the Adirondack Land Trust bought the 200 acre to the south, allowing the jeep road to the summit to be converted into a trail. It was longer, but less steep, than the existing trail. In 2013 another private organization&#39;s purchase added to the protected land around the mountain, when the Open Space Institute bought a conservation easement on 1,356 acre to the north. The land, which extended all the way to Butternut Pond, is not on the mountain itself but within its northern viewshed.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Adirondacks, geologically, are distinct from all other mountains in New York. While the Catskills, Taconics and other chains are in different ways part of the Appalachian Mountains, the northern mountains are a southerly extension of the Laurentian Mountains in the Canadian province of Québec. The Adirondack range is a large dome that uplifted and began to erode before being shaped further by geologically recent glacial epochs. It is often referred to as "new mountains from old rock" due to the pre-Cambrian nature of most of the rock and the relatively recent orogeny.</p><br>
<p>Poke-O-Moonshine&#39;s massif is thus a miniature version of the range as a whole. Its bedrock is the same granite–gneiss combination as the rest of the range.</p><br>
<h2>Natural environment</h2><br>
<p>The slopes of the mountain are covered in a northern hardwood forest similar to that found throughout the Adirondacks at lower elevations. The dominant species are sugar maple, birch and beech. There are a few oaks, a species not found much in the Adirondack forests, at lower elevations. Herbaceous plants in the understory include many fern species, and sarsaparilla.</p><br>
<p>Higher up, where the slopes become rockier near and around the cliffs, other tree species, like white pine, striped maple and hemlock show up in the forest. Stinging nettles grow in the understory, along with red-flowering raspberry and wildflower species like trillium.</p><br>
<p>On the summit ridge, the trees grow shorter and scrubbier. Mountain ash joins the forest. The summit&#39;s altitude is too low, even at its latitude, for the boreal forest found at higher elevations in the Adirondacks to flourish.</p><br>
<p>The mountain&#39;s forest supports a diverse array of wildlife typical of the region. It is most notable for the peregrine falcons that nest in the cliffs. Since they are considered an endangered species in New York, DEC usually closes climbing routes that go near known nesting sites at the beginning of the climbing season in the springtime, sometimes till after midsummer, until all the falcons known to have hatched have successfully fledged. The department works closely with the climbing community on this, since the nesting falcons have been known to attack humans who come too close. Birders come to Poke-O-Moonshine during those times to watch the falcons, as well as the ravens that also nest there.</p><br>
<h2>Access</h2><br>
<p>Two trails lead to the summit of Poke-O-Moonshine Mountain. Both meet at the site of the observer&#39;s cabin on the south promontory below the upper cliffs; from there it is a short climb to the fire tower. The Upper Tiers lean-to is located a short distance away from their junction.</p><br>
<h3>Ranger's Trail</h3><br>
<p>From the south end of the old campground, the Rangers Trail ascends under the cliff bases. First it traverses the slopes to the south, then attacks the slope more directly as it bends to the west. Unofficial side trails serving climbers go to the foot and, later, the tops of the cliffs. On a promontory roughly 2,000 ft in elevation, it meets the Observers Trail at the site where the cabin once stood. From there it turns north to the summit.</p><br>
<p>For a long time the Ranger&#39;s Trail was the only public route to the top. The campground served as its trailhead, and thus it is still heavily used by climbers since it provides access to the base of the cliffs via unofficial side trails. It is only 1.2 mi to the summit, but it climbs 1,280 ft in that distance, giving much of the trail a steep grade averaging 35%.</p><br>
<p>In addition to its steepness, it suffers from some of the same common problems as older Adirondack trails. It is heavily eroded in some areas; water runs along some stretches in spring and after significant rainfall. As part of the fire tower restoration, it was marked with 11 interpretive stations pointing hikers&#39; attention to natural history in the surroundings, discussed in detail in a brochure available at the trailhead.</p><br>
<h3>Observer's Trail</h3><br>
<p>The Adirondack Land Trusts 2008 purchase of 200 acre south of the mountain allowed the former jeep road to be cleared and used as a trail. Two years later it was opened as the Observers Trail. Its trailhead is almost a mile south of the Rangers trailhead along Route 9, just past Cold Brook, over the Lewis town line. It is longer, at 2.4 mi, and adds more vertical, requiring a 1,450 ft climb to the summit. However, as a result, its grade is much gentler. It passes two beaver ponds on the way up to the junction with the Rangers Trail.</p><br>
<p>From its trailhead lot it crosses right over the brook, then heads west while ascending gently for a half-mile (1 km). At a ridgeline 1,100 ft in elevation, it turns to the north. At first it follows the ridge, then descends slightly into the wetlands surrounding the beaver ponds, in the headwaters of the brook. It climbs again and then turns back east, where it meets the Ranger&#39;s Trail at the cabin ruin after a thousand feet (300 m).</p><br>
<h2>Summit</h2><br>
<p>The summit of Poke-O-Moonshine is a small open area of rock. The firetower is located at its north, leaving a wide ledge. From it there is expansive view of the valley to the south of the mountain, with the Northway running through it. Further in that direction the Adirondack High Peaks stand out, with Giant and, further to the southwest, Whiteface mountain, distinguished by its prominent ski trails. Southeast the narrower south end of Lake Champlain is visible.</p><br>
<p>From the firetower views open up in all directions. North of the mountain the Adirondacks yield to the plains and farmland of Clinton County and the lake opens up; Plattsburgh is visible, and in clear enough weather even Montréal, across the Canada–US border in Québec. East of Poke-O-Moonshine Burlington, Vermont, is visible across the lake, and beyond it the Green Mountains of that state.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing</h2><br>
<p>Poke-O-Moonshine is considered the Adirondacks best climbing location. Another group of regular climbers from Plattsburgh consolidated the work of Turners group through the rest of the decade while trying to keep awareness of the mountain from being disseminated too widely, lest the cliffs become as busy on the weekends as those of the Shawangunk Ridge farther south and closer to New York City. By the mid-1970s, however, Poke-O-Moonshine had become known throughout the climbing community of the Northeast, yet without crowds developing. Today, on a busy weekend, the climbers are likely to be a mixture of Americans and French Canadians.</p><br>
<p>The cliffs are divided into three main areas: the Main Wall across the north and east face of the mountain, easily visible when approaching from the north; the Slab, the rock face seen first when approaching from the south; and the Upper Tiers, the cliffs around the summit. Many of the routes available are highly challenging, with grades in the higher levels of the Yosemite Decimal System. Climbers with less skill than that required for such climbs are advised to avoid those routes or just hike up the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Routes range from the 5.4 Snake at the easier end to 5.13 Salad Days, a 100 ft pitch described as "the hardest climbing yet done in the Adirondacks." Both are on the Main Wall. Catharsis, a five-pitch 450 ft 5.5 route on the Slab, has long been the mountain&#39;s most popular.</p><br>
<p>On the Main Wall are other popular routes: Remembering Youth (5.12), the 500 ft, five-pitch Gamesmanship (5.8) and Southern Hospitality (5.11) FM, another climber favorite rated 5.8 over five pitches and 400 ft of the Main Wall, got its name during its first ascent when one of John Turners associates screamed "Fuck me!" after a rock he stepped on broke loose. Positive Thinking, a 5.9 elsewhere on the wall, has become Poke-O-Moonshines most popular ice route, despite a 2003 accident in which a Canadian climber fell to his death after the ice he was on detached.</p><br>
<p>The Ypsilanti Historic District is a historic district located along several blocks on each side of the Huron River in the center of Ypsilanti, Michigan. The original portion of the district was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1973 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978; additions to the district were nationally listed in 1989.</p><br>
<h2>Extent</h2><br>
<p>The Ypsilanti Historic District covers most of the older commercial sections of the city, as well as surrounding residential areas. The original, and largest, portion of the district extends roughly between Grove Street on the east, Hamilton Street on the west, Forest Avenue on the north, and Buffalo Street south. a southern addition running along South Adams between Ferris and Catherine Streets, and a western addition roughly extending the district west to Summit Street between Forest Street and Michigan Avenue. The district is the third largest historic district in the state.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The city of Ypsilanti was founded in 1823, and became an important railroad stop when the line was built through the city in 1838. As Ypsilanti grew, a commercial district sprang up on the Detroit-Chicago Road (now Michigan Avenue). In the late 1840s, a second commercial district (now known as Depot Town) grew up a few blocks to the northeast, near the railroad depot. In 1851, a substantial fire destroyed a sizable portion of the Michigan Avenue business district. The structures were quickly rebuilt, and many of the 1850s buildings still exist in the heart of the historic district.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The core of the Ypsilanti Historic District contains approximately 400 contributing structures in two main areas. These are the commercial cores along Michigan Avenue and near the railroad depot on Cross Street (Depot Town). Huron Street, paralleling the river, links the two areas, and the structures around Huron Street are primarily residential in character. The residential structures include multiple examples of vernacular Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and brick Italianate houses. The commercial structures are substantially original two- and three-story brick structures.</p><br>
<p>The northeast addition is residential in character, containing primarily frame Greek Revival, Queen Anne, and Tudor Revival houses constructed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The addition has 63 contributing structures, including both modest single family residences and grander homes that once housed elite citizens of the community. The south addition contains another 12 contributing residential structures, for the most part modest frame houses. The western addition to the district includes a little over 300 contributing structures, most of them single family homes. Many of these have been converted to apartments or fraternity houses due to the proximity of Eastern Michigan University.</p><br>
<p>The Chapel of Santa Àgata  is a chapel located in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is also as the Royal Chapel. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1866.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Chapel of Santa Ágata was built in 1302. One was the later additions to this Chapel is an outstanding altarpiece by Jaume Huguet in the fifteenth century. This Chapel includes the group of buildings of Reial Major Palace. The Chapels construction followed an order by James II and the reigning Queen Blanca dAnjou.</p><br>
<h2>Art</h2><br>
<p>The sculptor Joan Claperós, under the mandate of Peter, Constable of Portugal (1463-1466) designed sixty earth floor tiles painted with representations of angels and the arms of Aragon and Sicily. Along with this, the king ordered for the magnificent altarpiece of Epiphany that presides over the chapel by the artist Jaume Huguet.</p><br>
<p>The Church of San Pedro de los Francos  is a church located on Via la Rua in Calatayud, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1875.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church was founded by Alfonso I el Batallador, after the Reconquista of Calatayud, to thank his French mercenary troops. The church was built in the 14th-century over an earlier temple. It has a typical Mudéjar structure of 3 naves and apses.</p><br>
<h2>Art and Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The entrance portal is Gothic in style with a peaked arch flanked by standing sculptures of St Peter and Paul, while the lintel has some awkwardly seated Christ (center), the Virgin and St John, all sheltered by a ledge with architecture.</p><br>
<p>Inside the main gilded Retablo at the high altar has Baroque Solomonic columns, and was completed in 1654. Other chapels include a retablo with Renaissance style panels. The various chapels include a virgin in a grotto.</p><br>
<p>The adjacent ancient mudejar tower leans over the street.</p><br>
<p>The Colegiata de Santa Maria la Mayor, in translation, the Collegiate church of St Mary Major is a Mudéjar-Gothic-style, Roman Catholic church located in Calatayud, in Aragon, Spain.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The church was commissioned in the 12th century after the Reconquista of Calatayud by King Alfonso I el Batallador. This church was sited where the main mosque of the town was located.</p><br>
<p>The church assumed a historical position in that it hosted some of the meetings of the Cortes de Calatayud during the reign of King Pedro IV of Aragon, and where the town swore allegiance to Emperor Charles I and later to King Philip III of Spain. The church was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1884.</p><br>
<h2>Art and architecture</h2><br>
<p>Of the original Mudéjar construction, the church retains the cloister, tower and apse. In the 16th century the portal was sculpted in alabaster by Juan de Talavera and Esteban de Obray.</p><br>
<p>In 1884, the church was declared Monumento Nacional, and the main portal was surrounded by a gate.</p><br>
<p>In 2001, the UNESCO recognized it as a Patrimony of Humanity, within the Mudéjar Architecture of Aragon World Heritage Site.</p><br>
<h2>Torre de Santa María</h2><br>
<p>The 70 meter brick tower of octagonal base, and like most such towers, the decoration increases as one rises. Construction took centuries. At the base, the walls are 1.5 meters in thickness. The stairwell spirals upward between an inner and outer wall. The spire atop the bellower was built in the mid- to late 18th century.</p><br>
<p>Schwanau is an island in Lake Lauerz, located in the canton of Schwyz in Central Switzerland. It is occupied by a ruined castle, the Burgruine Schwanau, a chapel and a restaurant. Administratively the island lies within the municipality of Lauerz, but it is owned by the canton of Schwyz.</p><br>
<p>The island is situated some 125 m off the south shore of the lake, close to the lakeside village of Lauerz. Its highest point is 22 m above normal lake level or 469 m above sea level. It is the largest of the two islands in Lake Lauerz (the other being Roggenburg).</p><br>
<p>The island is accessible by a public passenger ferry from the nearby shore. Access for persons with limited mobility is possible by use of a specially adapted boat and an inclined elevator to the terrace level where the castle, chapel and restaurant are located.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Traces of occupation on the island date back to around 1200 BC. There is little documentary evidence relating to the castle, but it is believed to have been built at the end of the 12th century and to have been ruined, probably as a result of a fire, as early as the middle of the 13th century.</p><br>
<p>The island in known to have been occupied by hermits at various times, including the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1684 a chapel was built on the island, but this was destroyed by the tsunami that followed the 1806 Goldau landslide. In 1808 the council of the church in Schwyz sold the island to General Ludwig Auf der Maur on the provision that he rebuild the chapel. The island remained in the possession of the general&#39;s descendants until 1967, when it was purchased by the canton of Schwyz. In 2009 it was completely renovated.</p><br>
<p>The Ruínas de San Domingos was a convent located in Pontevedra, Galicia . It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1895.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Early years</h3><br>
<p>This is the oldest of all Pontevedra Museum’s buildings. The only sections of the original buildings that have been conserved are the main apse, formed by five apses, exceptional in Galician gothic architecture, and part of the south wall of the church and the entrance to the chapter of the Santo Domingo convent, founded in around 1282, although the work on the conserved temple did not begin until 1383, continuing through the 15th century.</p><br>
<h3>1836-1880</h3><br>
<p>Following the introduction of the exclaustration law, the convent was closed on 8 December 1836 and handed over to the "Junta de Enajenación de Edificios y Efectos de los Conventos Suprimidos de la Provincia de Pontevedra" (body entrusted with the Dissolution and Confiscation of Convents and Convent Property in the Province of Pontevedra), and then handed over as an Asylum to the Town Council, which received the building in May 1840. Despite being occupied successively by a women’s prison, a hospice until 1869, when it was transferred to Santa Clara, an infant school, as well as other activities designated by the Town Council, the building gradually deteriorated until it fell into ruin and by 1846 some of its materials were being used to pave streets. In 1864 a chapel was demolished and between 1869 and 1870 the top part of the tower, located on the south-eastern corner, was torn down.</p><br>
<p>On 12 March 1874 the Town Council, presided by Fermín Brey, applied for another concession in order to completely demolish the building and extend the property to the plot at the Fair Ground. This concession was approved by the Civil Governor and President of the Provincial Commission of Monuments, but on the condition that the part corresponding to the old church and other elements of interest be conserved.</p><br>
<h3>1880-1947</h3><br>
<p>In July 1880 an agreement was reached to demolish the church completely. This decision prompted José Casal y Lois, a member of the Commission of Monuments, to intervene in October in the name of other illustrious figures from Pontevedra, before the Governor Filiberto Abelardo Díaz, who ordered the Mayor Alejandro Abreu to halt the demolition work. This work continued, however, prompting further reactions. Another attempt was made in 1886 to demolish the ruins, but once again it failed due to pressure from numerous important figures from Pontevedra, and particularly due to the opposition of the Provincial Commission of Monuments.</p><br>
<p>Saved from demolition, the site was declared a National Monument by the Law of 14 August 1895, which stipulated that the Commission of Monuments would take over control of the building and that the Ministry of Development would implement "the appropriate provisions to ensure its conservation, decoration and custody", exactly one year after the foundation of the Pontevedra Archaeological Society, presided by Casto Sampedro y Folgar, on 15 August 1894. This Society selected the building for the future headquarters of the planned Museum at a meeting held the day before at the president’s office. The choice was made from three buildings forming the cloister of San Francisco and the ground floor of the Colegio de la Compañía, today the "Sarmiento" building.</p><br>
<p>In 1903, when work had begun on the Institute occupying part of the Ruins, the Archaeological Society requested premises on the ground floor of the Institute to house the collections that would be exhibited in the second section of the Museum, located on a premises belonging to the Provincial Government. The Society was awarded a concession to use these premises in 1905, although it only received one room once construction had been completed and this was exchanged for a small patio in 1945, where the decorative arches of the chapter room of the old convent were built, donated by the heirs of Augusto González Besada, and for part of the basement then used to exhibit the epigraphy collection. This work concluded in 1947.</p><br>
<h2>Galery</h2><br>
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<p>Convento de los Dominicos (Pontevedra) Cabecera.jpg</p><br>
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<p>Arc in Saint Dominic Church, Pontevedra.jpg</p><br>
<p>The Teatro romano de Sagunto  is a Roman theatre located in Sagunto, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1896. The Roman Theatre of Sagunto is located at the foot of the mountain crowned by Sagunto Castle. It occupies the intermediate terrace, between the city and the upper platform chaired by the Forum, Civic Center of the municipality, responding to an urban planning of the times of Emperor Augustus. It was built in the middle of the first century, using the slope of the mountain. It consists of two distinct parts: the cavea or grandstands, semicircular and composed by three orders of stands and the scene, which rises to the height of the top of the grandstands porch.l</p><br>
<p>It is semicircular in shape and can seat 8,000 spectators.</p><br>
<p>The Museum of Santa Cruz  is a building of the 16th century of the city of Toledo, Spain), which originally was an important hospital, although it was converted into a museum in the 19th century.</p><br>
<p>The hospital was founded by Cardinal Mendoza at the end of the 15th century to centralize assistance to orphaned and abandoned children in the city. It has a remarkable Plateresque portal, work of Alonso de Covarrubias. The building has a Greek cross plant and four courtyards, two of which were completely completed. The first is of Covarrubias and gives access to the upper floor through a three-ladder staircase.</p><br>
<p>The museum has two floors. The cruiser covers the two floors and is covered with ribbed vaults. In the north arm was located the chapel. The museum has sections of Archeology, Fine Arts and Decorative Arts. The Fine Arts funds are distributed on the first and second floor of the building, and those of archeology, in the Noble Cloister and in an underground floor. The Decorative Arts have a sample of Toledan folk handicrafts, which is also located on the floor of the basement.</p><br>
<h2>Artistic description</h2><br>
<p>It was conceived with six cradles that intersect forming four courtyards for ventilation and for that high windows are used. It is still unfinished (not two courtyards were made, as they were conceived) and was devised as an exempt building. The altar is located in the center and the courtyards are devised seven of which are made four and those four, only one was finalized by Alonso de Covarrubias.</p><br>
<p>There are four large cradles, which connect with the courtyards, on two floors made by Enrique Egas and in the center is the table with the altar. The arches are carpaneles and on pillars with litter and cherubim in the coat of arms of Mendoza.</p><br>
<p>In general there is a symbiosis of the Moorish tradition with Flemish art. Cover of pair and knuckle in framed wood of casetones. The wood has decorative and utilitarian function. The ashlars are well carved and the portal was made by Covarrubias, made it entintelada, the entablature flanked by pseudocolumns paired and with niches and doseletes; and decoration Grotesque in the fustes.</p><br>
<p>The pediment is round classic that houses the discovery of the Lignum crucis by Saint Elena. It supports the entablature with another body. An archivolt was broken to place a niche representing charity. At the top are the Virgin&#39;s wedding dresses with dolphins.</p><br>
<p>The windows are symmetrical with bulbous order and edicts with the emblem of Mendoza. The last body, later, is mannerist.</p><br>
<h2>Museum of Santa Cruz Photographs</h2><br>
<p>The Walls of Seville  are a series of defensive walls surrounding the Old Town of Seville. The city has been surrounded by walls since the Roman period, and they were maintained and modified throughout the subsequent Visigoth, Islamic and finally Castilian periods. The walls remained intact until the 19th century, when they were partially demolished after the revolution of 1868. Some parts of the walls still exist, especially around the Alcázar of Seville and some curtain walls in the barrio de la Macarena.</p><br>
<p>The walls originally had eighteen gates or points of access, four of which survive today: Puerta de la Macarena, Puerta de Córdoba, Postigo del Aceite and Postigo del Alcázar. The extant parts of the walls maintain an Almohad appearance, mixed with Classicist air resulting from restorations carried out in the 18th century.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Construction during the Roman Empire</h3><br>
<p>The defensive city Walls were built in times of Julius Caesar, approximately between the years 68 BC and 65 BC., when was quaestor of the city. This new building was aimed at replacing the old Carthaginian stockade of logs and mud that was, being expanded and refined during the rule of his son Augustus due to the growth of the city; these were protected by cyclopean towers.</p><br>
<p>The remains of the materials this stage are only recognizable in the material reused in Caliphate period in the new Walls of the Alcázar of Seville.</p><br>
<h3>Expansion in the Islamic period: 9th-12th centuries</h3><br>
<p>During the Islamic rule, particularly in the year 844 the city was razed by the Vikings, and the walls were burned down. After that the emir Abderramán II, fourth Umayyad Emir of Córdoba (822–852) sent rebuild. These were again destroyed by his great grandson Abd-ar-Rahman III, eighth independent emir (912–929) and first Umayyad caliph of Córdoba (929–961), together with the gates thereof, in the year 913 thinking why attempts at secession against Córdoba, turned himself in capital of Al-Andalus.</p><br>
<p>In 1023, Abu al-Qasim first King Taifa of Seville (1023–1042), ordered to raise again the Walls to protect themselves from Christian troops, and between the 11th century and 12th century took place a major expansion that doubled the walled enclosure under the rule of Sultan Ali ibn Yusuf (1083–1143). The defense of the city was extended, widened and strengthened, expanding the space protected by the Walls in almost twice its old surface. His successors, aware of the progress achieved over the northern Christian kingdoms in the stage of the reconquista, it devoted themselves to strengthen their defenses, resulting in the final enclosure of the walls.</p><br>
<p>The gates of al-Andalusian cities were not built with the road axis but were designed angled to favor the defense and as difficult as possible the siege. Thus, the gates were about as pillboxes and the attackers had to cross several gates and courtyards before entering the city. From the heights defenders employed full force to prevent this from happening by throwing a hail of arrows and even boiling oil on the attackers.</p><br>
<p>At this time they possessed a dimension of seven kilometers of Walls with 166 towers, 13 gates and 6 postigos.</p><br>
<h3>The Walls after the reconquista: 13th-16th centuries</h3><br>
<p>After the Christian reconquest of the city by Ferdinand III of Castile in 1248, the Crown of Castile kept the physiognomy of the Walls that had been imposed by the Arabs during its construction, and as was usual in the kingdom of Castile, the successive monarchs swore the privileges of the city at take possession of it in some of its gates, always those of greater social or strategic importance, as symbol of power. In the Puerta de la Macarena swore Isabella I of Castile (1477), Ferdinand II of Aragon (1508), Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and his fiancee Isabella of Portugal (1526), and finally Philip IV (1624), while the Puerta de Goles did Philip II (1570), why it was renamed Puerta Real.</p><br>
<p>During the reign of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor carried out a major refurbishment of the public or royal gates of the Walls to integrate them into the widening promoted by the monarch in the cities and towns, in order to facilitate the transit of such common carriages in the period. These renovations affected the Puerta de Carmona, that the Puerta de la Carne, the Puerta Real, the Puerta del Arenal, the Postigo del Aceite, where Benvenuto Tortello made works in 1572, and Postigo del Carbón, which was moved from the beginning from the calle Santander until the end of it, as happened with the Puerta de Triana, originally on calle Zaragoza, which was transferred in 1585 farther north, at the confluence of that calle with de San Pablo.</p><br>
<h3>Last period before being demolished: 17th-19th centuries</h3><br>
<p>Eventually its military function ceased to matter, and began to prevail a protective value against the flooding of Guadalquivir river. It also had a commercial function, because its presence and insulation factor it made in a customs through which it channeled and regulated the access to the city, stipulated with the payment of tariff. Also this surveillance facilitated the collection of important taxes and tributes that applied to the transit of people and goods, among which highlighted the portazgo, the alcabala or gored of the Walls, special tribute existing in Castile for this type of construction; finally it became a sanitary barrier, allowing the disease control.</p><br>
<p>In the 18th century it turn out to bring remodeling in the access gates. Was rebuilt the Puerta del Arenal, was opened a small chapel on the right side of the Postigo del Aceite, where was placed a baroque altarpiece with the image of the Immaculate Conception (patron of barrio del Arenal), work by Pedro Roldán; finally it rise the Puerta de San Fernando to the height of the Royal Tobacco Factory.</p><br>
<p>In 1836, during the invasion of Andalusia by Carlist forces, was made a moat with drawbridge near the Puerta de la Macarena in order to strengthen the set; then the Walls were practically intact. From the 1868 revolution began to tear down much of them, primarily due to the growth of the city; escaped the demolition stretches from the Macarena, where still seven square towers and one octagonal, until the Puerta de Córdoba, as well as some sections in the Jardines del Valle and the sector of the Alcazar. Furthermore are conserved the towers Torre Abd el Aziz, Torre de la Plata, Torre del Oro and Torre Blanca, own of the defenses of the walled enclosure.</p><br>
<h2>Gates and potigos of access to the city</h2><br>
<p>The access to the city was mainly performed by the called postigos and gates, which were of two types: royals or public, and private. The gates had its layered access, as seen on the Puerta de Córdoba, and lacked decoration. Between gates (puertas) and postigos counted the city with 19 accesses:</p><br>
<p>Puerta de la Almenilla, of Almoravid origin was constantly reformed; also called Puerta de la Barqueta, it was in the calle Calatrava, in the plazoleta del Blanquillo.</p><br>
<p>Puerta del Arenal, of Almoravid origin and rebuilt in the 16th century and in the 18th century; It was located at the calle Castelar with the calle García de Vinuesa.</p><br>
<p>Puerta de Carmona, of Almoravid origin, completely renovated in the 16th century and demolished in 1868; was located at the corner of the calles de San Esteban with Menéndez Pelayo.</p><br>
<p>Puerta de la Carne, of Almoravid origin and completely renovated in the 16th century; it was in the calle Menéndez Pelayo, up to calle Santa María la Blanca.</p><br>
<p>Puerta de Córdoba, of Almoravid origin and reformed in the 16th century; located opposite the Convento de los Capuchinos, it is one that best preserved the original arrangement.</p><br>
<p>Puerta de Jerez, of Caliphate origin; It was located at the west end of the calle de San Gregorio, towards the river. It had engraved some allusive verses to the history of the city.</p><br>
<p>Puerta de la Macarena, of Almoravid origin and renovated in the 18th century; located opposite the Basílica de La Macarena.</p><br>
<p>Puerta Osario, of Almoravid origin, it was located between calles Valle and Puñonrostro.</p><br>
<p>Puerta Real, of Almoravid origin and rebuilt in the 16th century, also called Puerta de Goles; It was in the corner of the calle Goles with the calle Alfonso XII.</p><br>
<p>Puerta de San Fernando, built in the 18th century it was the most modern; It was located at the height of the Royal Tobacco Factory.</p><br>
<p>Puerta de San Juan, of Almoravid origin; It was located on the calle Guadalquivir, between the calle San Vicente and Torneo.</p><br>
<p>Puerta del Sol, of Almoravid origin and reformed in the 16th century; it was located at the end of the calle Sol, and its name comes from the sun that had engraved on the lintel.</p><br>
<p>Puerta de Triana, of Almoravid origin and rebuilt in 1585 further north, was torn down in 1868; It was in the current calle Zaragoza, at the confluence with the calle Moratín, where today is indicated.</p><br>
<p>Postigo del Aceite, of Almoravid origin and very reformed; well known for being the place where it entered the oil; It is near the Correos building.</p><br>
<p>Postigo del Alcázar, of Almohad origin, replaced the Caliphate tower-gate; It was also known as postigo de la Torre del Agua, del callejón de la Judería or de la huerta del Retiro. It is located in the calle Judería.</p><br>
<p>Postigo del Carbón, of Almoravid origin, it moved in the 16th century from beginning to end of the calle Santander, formerly known as del Carbón, that took the name.</p><br>
<p>Postigo de la Feria, also called postigo de la Basura, it was at the end of the calle Feria, corner of calle Bécquer.</p><br>
<p>Postigo del Jabón, located in the vicinity of the calle Tintes.</p><br>
<h2>Preserved sections of the walls</h2><br>
<p>This is the most extensive and best preserved section (with the exception of two postigo), includes the puertas de la Macarena and de Córdoba, the latter attached to the iglesia de San Hermenegildo, being this gate the best preserved of the Caliphate period; also it includes several towers, among which the Torre Blanca.</p><br>
<p>It is the second section of greater length, was hidden from view in the inside of the Convento del Valle, belonging to the order of the Franciscans, which was conficated in the 19th century, being acquired by the Marquise of Villanueva who donated for the establishment of a school of religious of the sacred heart; that college disappeared in the middle of the 20th century, becoming some time later in the current Jardines del Valle (Gardens of the Valley).</p><br>
<p>It must distinguish three types of walls in the alcázar</p><br>
<p>It is a small curtain wall, visible inside the shop of the building that stands next to the tower.</p><br>
<p>The third of the exterior gates of the walls that remains today.</p><br>
<p>It is a small section of about 50 meters, visible from the plaza del cabildo, as well as from the back street, includes a tower.</p><br>
<p>This section includes the startup of the Postigo del Carbón, and part of the walls that joined the Torre de la Plata with the Torre del Oro. In this area, were discovered in 2012 the remains of a new tower, dating from the late 11th or early 12th century.</p><br>
<p>It is a small curtain wall at the confluence of the calles Alfonso XIII and Goles.</p><br>
<p>The Santa María Magdalena de Zamora is a church located in Zamora, Spain. It was declared Bien de Interés Cultural in 1910.</p><br>
<p>Built in the 12th century, La Magdalena is a small Romanesque church of the Templars. At their suppression, it was given to the Venerable Order of Saint John. The exterior features a deeply recessed south entrance, with circular arches and shafts, as well as ornate Romnnesque work. The rose window, formed with small columns, is similar to the Temple Church in London. The interior includes canopied tombs dating to the 13th century, supported by spiral and fluted shafts. Against the north wall, there is a tomb under a canopy supported by three shafts. The sepulchre itself is plain, carved with a cross; the effigy of its occupant is carved, as if lying on a bed, out of a bold block of stone, and inserted in the wall; above this is the soul (in the shape of a head with wings) supported by angels.</p><br>
<p>St. Mark&#39;s Episcopal Chapel is a small Gothic Revival chapel in Corinna Township, Minnesota, United States, built in 1871. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979 for having local significance in the themes of architecture and religion. It was nominated as a well-preserved example of a board and batten Gothic Revival parish church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>St. Marks Episcopal Chapel was founded in 1871 by Octavius Longworth and the Reverend David Buel Knickerbacker, who had both been members of St. Marks Church in Brooklyn, New York. Longworth moved to Wright County, Minnesota, in 1859, while Knickerbacker had moved to Minneapolis in 1856 and become rector of Gethsemane Episcopal Church. Knickerbacker occasionally visited Longworth&#39;s house to conduct services. The two decided to establish a church in Wright County, so Longworth donated the land and built the structure. Construction started in 1871 and finished the following year, at which time Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple dedicated the building. Fifteen years later Bishop Whipple returned to consecrate the building.</p><br>
<p>Rose Terrace was a private home located at 12 Lakeshore Drive in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. Built in 1934 by Anna Dodge, widow of automobile pioneer Horace E. Dodge, it was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1971 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1971. Despite this, the house was demolished in 1976.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>John and Horace Dodge were machinists and early suppliers to, and investors in, the Ford Motor Company. The Dodge Brothers became immensely wealthy, and in 1912, Horace Dodge and his wife Anna Thompson Dodge hired Albert Kahn to design a palatial red sandstone house on Jefferson Avenue in Detroit. The landscaping featured a series of terraces cascading down to Lake St. Clair; Anna Dodge filled these with roses and the mansion was subsequently dubbed "Rose Terrace."</p><br>
<p>In 1920, Horace Dodge died, leaving his fortune entirely to his widow, Anna. Anna continued to live at Rose Terrace, but was reportedly unhappy and lonely. Anna and Hugh spent two years in Europe, advised by noted art dealer Joseph Duveen, collecting art, material, and inspiration for their new mansion. They hired architect Horace Trumbauer of Philadelphia to design the new mansion and the George A. Fuller Company of New York City to supervise construction, The mansion was finally completed in 1934 at a cost of $4 million.</p><br>
<p>However, even before the new Rose Terrace was completed, Hugh and Annas marriage soured. They divorced in 1947 and Anna took back "Dodge" as her last name. After Annas last child, Horace Jr., died in 1962, she stayed living in seclusion at Rose Terrace until her own death in 1970.</p><br>
<p>After her death, the furnishings of the Music Room were willed to the Detroit Institute of Arts. The remaining contents were sold by Christies in 1971. A catalogue of Anna Dodges bequest was published in 1996, and includes a section on other works of art given by Anna Thomson Dodge or acquired from her estate from 1925-1973, as well as works of art purchased with the Mr and Mrs Horace E. Dodge Memorial Fund 1971-1995; however, in the year 2000, the Detroit Institute of Arts de-accessioned a number of works of art in the first category, items made specifically for the Music Room at Rose Terrace (many by Alavoine et Cie) on commission from Joseph Duveen, which were sold at Christies in New York on May 24, namely the Aubusson carpet, the four bronze and crystal chandeliers by Baguès Fréres, the four display cabinets that had held Anna Dodges collection of Sèvres, and the copy of a pair of Jardinières ensuite with a pair of late eighteenth century Athéniennes still in the bequest (Lots 316-321).</p><br>
<p>For the next few years, the house was used by local organizations for fundraisers or meetings. However, upkeep of the mansion was prohibitively expensive, and there were no buyers who wanted to maintain the house. It was eventually sold to a developer, and despite efforts to save the mansion for its historical significance, it was demolished in the summer of 1976.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Trumbauer&#39;s design for Rose Terrace emerged as an enlarged version of Miramar, his 1911 design for George Dunton Widener. The house was a French-style Louis XV chateau overlooking Lake St. Clair, and was approached from Jefferson via a long circular drive. It was constructed from brick walls on a concrete foundation, and surfaced with Indiana limestone. The mansard roof was sheathed with copper.</p><br>
<p>The main floor contained numerous reception rooms, a formal dining room, a library, a breakfast room, two sitting rooms, a music room/ballroom, a card room, a bar, and a kitchen pantry. All rooms had 18.5 ft ceilings. The music room, a favorite of Anna Dodges, measured 60 ft by 36 ft, and contained an organ purchased by Horace Dodge for the original Rose Terrace. A marble staircase and an elevator connected the first and second floors. Half of the second floor was used as Mrs. Dodges private suite. She and her husband Hugh shared a sitting room and office, but each had separate bedrooms, dressing rooms and bathrooms. The other half held another second office and sitting room, and well as eight guest rooms with baths.</p><br>
<p>The attic held the servants quarters, including an apartment for the housekeeper, a valets room, twelve maids rooms, and six rooms for male servants. The basement of the house held the kitchen, the servants dining room, an ice cream parlor, a flower room, a wine cellar, a gymnasium and storage vaults for furs, rugs, and silver.</p><br>
<p>When completed and furnished, the mansion contained over 42,000 square feet, (including 42 main rooms), 15 fireplaces, 40 French doors, 37 sofas, and more than 100 tables. Many of the furnishings had a notable provenance, including a bureau made for Catherine the Great, four chairs that had belonged to Marie Antoinette, a piano once used by the children of George III, a jewel casket that had belonged to Russian Empress Maria Feodorovna, and a rosewood writing table made by Jean Henri Riesener.</p><br>
<p>Aparamán-tepui is the westernmost of the four main tepuis of the Los Testigos chain in Bolívar, Venezuela. While the other three tepuis share a common slope area, Aparamán is derived from a separate basement. Aparamán-tepui has an elevation of around 2,100 m, a summit area of 1.25 km&sup2, and an estimated slope area of 28 km&sup2;. Its mostly bare summit plateau is highly dissected, presenting difficulties even for helicopter landings.</p><br>
<p>In his 1978 book, La Vegetación del Mundo Perdido, Charles Brewer-Carías referred to a smaller lateral peak of Aparamán-tepui (05&deg;52&prime;32&Prime;N latitude, 62&deg;06&prime;48&Prime;W longitude) as Murochiopán-tepui, though this name is now more commonly applied to the major peak immediately east of it.</p><br>
<p>Murisipán-tepui, also spelled Murosipán or Murochiopán, is one of the four main tepuis of the Los Testigos chain in Bolívar, Venezuela. Looking west to east, it is the second major peak of the massif and is connected to the next two—Tereke-yurén-tepui and Kamarkawarai-tepui—by a common basement . Murisipán-tepui has an elevation of around 2,350 m and a summit area of 5 km&sup2;. The mountain&#39;s mostly bare summit plateau has a small, seasonal lagoon near its centre.</p><br>
<p>In his 1978 book, La Vegetación del Mundo Perdido, Charles Brewer-Carías applied the name Murochiopán-tepui to a smaller lateral peak of Aparamán-tepui (05&deg;52&prime;32&Prime;N latitude, 62&deg;06&prime;48&Prime;W longitude), calling the high summit immediately east of it Tereke Yurén-tepui and the tiny peak east of that, Tucuy-wo-cuyén-tepui. Subsequent authors have generally used Murisipán-tepui (or its variants) for the second of the four main peaks, and Tereke-yurén-tepui for the third, with the lateral mountain of Aparamán-tepui going unnamed.</p><br>
<p>The frog species Anomaloglossus murisipanensis is only known from Murisipán-tepui.</p><br>
<p>First Congregational Church, also known as Garnavillo Historical Museum, was a church whose historic building is located on Washington Street in Garnavillo, Iowa, United States. It was built in 1866 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The Congregational Church was organized in Garnavillo in 1844 by James J. Hill, a member of the "Iowa Band" of</p><br>
<p>missionaries. This is the second church building constructed by the congregation, and was completed in 1866. After its use as a church, the building has housed a community hall and meeting house, a public library,</p><br>
<p>and a school. It was acquired by the Garnavillo Historical Society in 1965 for use as a local history museum. The 32 by brick structure has a wood bell platform over the front gable. At one time a bell was located in a frame on the platform. The bell now belongs to St. Peter Lutheran Church in Garnavillo.</p><br>
<p>Prairie Center Methodist Episcopal Church and Pleasant Hill Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery in rural Lincoln Township, southeast of Yale, Iowa, United States. The Methodist Episcopal Church established a congregation in 1866, and services were held in area schoolhouses until a frame building was constructed for a church in 1880. It was dedicated in January 1881. A cemetery was located across the road. Some of the graves predate the church and were moved from other cemeteries. As the congregation expanded the building was remodeled and a tower with a new entrance on the southeast corner, and an alcove on the north side were added. The orientation of the interior was changed so that the congregation, who had faced east, now faced north. A basement was dug below the sanctuary in 1925 for space for Sunday School classes. The church and cemetery were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>West Grove United Methodist Church is located in the Unincorporated community of West Grove, Iowa, United States. West Grove has always been a Crossroads village, serving the surrounding rural area. At one time it had five churches, and now it has been reduced to this one. The site was originally that of Cumberland Presbyterian Church, which had been organized in 1854, built in 1881. It eventually became a Lyceum Hall, a school, and then left unoccupied until it was torn down in 1902.</p><br>
<p>The Methodist Episcopal Church had been formally organized in West Grove in 1899, although it had been active in town since 1871. The men of the church and friends of the church built the current frame Gothic Revival sanctuary. They followed building plans provided by the Methodist Board of Church Extension. It was completed in 1904 for $2,000. The congregation almost disbanded and lost its church in the 1920s through abandonment of services. It was affiliated with the Methodist Church after the Methodist Episcopal, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and the Methodist Protestant Church united in 1939. Its affiliation changed to the United Methodist Church after the Methodist Church united with the Evangelical United Brethren Church in 1968. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>Baptist Church, also known as Stone Church, is a historic church building in Sperry, Iowa, United States. The Baptist congregation that built this church was founded in 1840. They built this building seven years later. In addition to religious services it was the meeting place for a variety of community events. The church building is surrounded by a cemetery, which contains the graves of some of the areas first settlers. The utilitarian design of the church building and the use of local materials is characteristic of pioneer church architecture in Iowa. The 48 by building is a single-story, gable roof structure. It features a cornice return. The roughly cut stone exterior uses larger stones at the corners for a decorative effect. The interior walls are plaster and the flooring are pine boards. It still houses the original hardwood pews, pulpit, minister&#39;s settee, and hand-carved altar. The building was damaged in a tornado in 1964, and the repairs conform to the original character of the church. It was added to the National Register in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The German Methodist Episcopal Church  is a historic church at Seventh and Washington Streets in Burlington, Iowa, United States. The German Methodist Episcopal Church was organized in Burlington in 1845. It was the second of eight German congregations established in the city of various denominations. The Reverend Sebastian Barth, the first pastor, initially held services in a small frame house, and then in the basement of another church. The first permanent home for the congregation was a small</p><br>
<p>brick church that was built in 1848. This structure was built from 1868 to 1869. It is a Victorian Gothic structure with Romanesque elements. The stone for the exterior was quarried from the site where church was built.</p><br>
<p>Services in English were added in 1905 and all the services were in English by 1916. When the German and American branches of the Methodist church were merged in 1925 St. Pauls congregation was disbanded, and its members were absorbed by other congregations in Burlington. There was a small group that reorganized the German Methodist Episcopal Church at St. Pauls in 1930, but by 1938 the building was sold to the Church of the Nazarene. They occupied it until 1968. The Art Guild of Burlington bought the building in 1973. It was individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977, and as a contributing property in the Heritage Hill Historic District in 1982.</p><br>
<p>North Milford Historic District is a national historic district located at Milford, Kent County, Delaware. It encompasses 98 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 1 contributing structure in the original town as laid out in 1787. It mainly consists of residential and commercial buildings, the majority of which were built before 1860. They include examples of the Greek Revival and Federal styles. Notable buildings include the "Billy Welch House," Welch/Hart House, "Sudler Apartments" , James Hall House , and the "Towers" , home of Governor William Burton . The Christ Church, James McColley House, Mill House, and Parson Thorne Mansion are located in the district and listed separately.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Angasima-tepui, also known as Adanta, Adankasima or Adankachimö, is a tepui in Bolívar state, Venezuela. A relatively isolated peak, both it and nearby Upuigma-tepui lie just south of the vast Chimantá Massif, from which they are separated by the Río Aparurén valley. Amurí-tepui, the closest member of the Chimantá Massif, is only 8 km from Angasima-tepui.</p><br>
<p>The imposing triangular peak of Angasima-tepui has an elevation of around 2,250 m. Its summit plateau is heavily windswept, the northern part being dominated by low herbaceous vegetation. A southern peak bears dense tepui scrub. The mountain has a summit area of 2 km&sup2; and an estimated slope area of 32 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<p>The undescribed pitcher plant Heliamphora sp. Angasima Tepui is endemic to the summit region of Angasima-tepui.</p><br>
<p>Rosecroft is currently for sale see MLS for details, owner. The scott E. clifton revocable trust, Thankyou</p><br>
<p>Rosecroft is a historic estate and gardens in the Point Loma neighborhood of San Diego, California. It was built in 1912 by architect Emmor Brooke Weaver for wealthy heiress Marion James Robinson, née Marion James Duncan (1873-1918), and her husband Alfred D. Robinson (1866-1942), a retired medical instrument merchant. Rosecroft is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The 15,000-square-foot, Italian Renaissance style mansion, located on Silvergate Avenue in the Wooded Area of Point Loma, sits on 2.5 acres and is considered the largest parcel in the area. The property was originally 10 acres of barley fields. The Robinsons bought the property in 1903 after becoming interested in the ideas of Theosophist Katherine Tingley, who was developing a utopian community "Lomaland" in the Point Loma area. They developed the fields into half a city block of gardens, where they cultivated various ornamental plants, particularly begonias.</p><br>
<p>Marion and Alfred were co-founders, along with Kate Sessions, of the San Diego Floral Association, and Alfred was the associations first president, as well as the editor of its magazine, California Garden. Alfred, a self-taught horticulturist, began by experimenting with roses and dahlias, but eventually came to focus on begonias. He became "the pre-eminent begonia expert", developing more than 100 new varieties at the Rosecroft estate. Alfreds were judged "the finest begonias to be grown anywhere in the world" by plant explorer and botanist David Fairchild.</p><br>
<p>After his death in 1942, a new owner opened the garden to the public as Rosecroft Begonia Gardens; the gardens were a popular tourist attraction through the 1960s. In the 1970s the property was sold and the garden area subdivided for residential use. Today the home is a private residence, marked by a National Register plaque. Several private residences occupy the former site of the Rosecroft Begonia Gardens; a stone wall along Silvergate Avenue is the only reminder of that attraction.</p><br>
<p>The mansion, Rosecroft, was added to the National Register of Historic Places by the National Park Service on September 22, 2003. It has been the scene of some notable events including Ronald Reagan&#39;s announcement of his candidacy to be Governor of California (1966) and the 80th birthday party of Theodor Seuss Geisel ("Dr. Seuss") (1984). Notable guests at the mansion included Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter, who spent the weekend there during a Habitat for Humanity fundraiser, and winemaker Robert Mondavi, who spent so much time there that a suite was named for him.</p><br>
<p>The estate is periodically opened to charity events, garden tours, weddings, film shoots, and other special events. In 2012, the 100th anniversary of the estate and gardens was commemorated by a tour organized by the San Diego Floral Association, which included the debut of a new variety of geranium named for Anna Gunn Marston, wife of George Marston, a contemporary of Robinson. Charity fundraisers that year included a "Great Gatsby" themed event held by the philanthropic organization Makua to benefit the charity Voices for Children.</p><br>
<p>Melkøya  is an island in Hammerfest Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. The island sits just west of the town of Hammerfest. The 0.69 km&sup2; island is connected to the town of Hammerfest  by the Melkøysund Tunnel which was completed in 2003.</p><br>
<p>The industrial island is the endpoint of the undersea pipeline that transports natural gas from the Snøhvit natural gas fields in the Barents Sea. The gas goes through the 168 km long pipeline to the processing station on Melkøya where it is converted into liquefied natural gas. The plant opened in 2007 and it is operated by Statoil. Liquefied natural gas is then exported from Melkøya to world markets by a LNG gas carrier or tanker.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 2001 and 2002, major archaeological investigations on Melkøya were undertaken before Statoil&#39;s development of the island began. The development of the island has changed Melkøya completely. On 21 August 2007, the gas from the Snøhvit field began flowing to Melkøya.</p><br>
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<p>The Sniffen Court Historic District is one of New York City&#39;s smallest historic districts, created on June 21, 1966, by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Sniffen Court, named after John Sniffen, a local builder,</p><br>
<p>As the need for carriage houses lessened, the buildings were converted for other uses. In 1918, two of the stables (#1, also known as 150 East 36th Street, and #3) were bought by the Amateur Comedy Club, which has been in existence since 1884, to be their clubhouse and theatre; they remain that today. In the 1920s, the process of conversion continued, and by 1966 one of the buildings was in use as an architect&#39;s office, the gabled building at #2 (156 East 36th Street) was the home of a noted architect, while the remainder were small private residences.</p><br>
<p>Two artists associated with the mews were the sculptors Malvina Hoffman and Harriet Whitney Frishmuth, both of whom had studios in the Court. On the rear of the alley are mounted two sculpted plaques of Greek horseman by Hoffman.</p><br>
<p>On November 28, 1973, the Historic District was added to the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Sniffen Court is the location used for the cover of the Strange Days album by The Doors, released in 1967.</p><br>
<p>Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church, now known as Swedesburg Evangelical Lutheran Church, is a historic church located in Swedesburg, Iowa, United States. The congregation was officially organized in 1866 by the Swedish Lutheran congregation from New Sweden in Jefferson County, Iowa. The present church was built in 1928 as the third church to stand on the same site. The first frame church, built in 1868, was destroyed in a fire in 1883. The second frame church, with a 110 ft tower, was completed the same year. In 1927 it too was also destroyed by fire. The congregation hired Burlington, Iowa architect W.F. Weibley to design the present Late Gothic Revival church building. It is composed of tan brick with Bedford stone trim. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The congregation began to use English instead of Swedish in their programming beginning with the childrens Sunday School classes in 1910. The mens Sunday School class was the last group to switch to English in the 1920s. The Rev. Delmar Karstens, who was called in 1966, was the first pastor who was not of Swedish descent. The congregation, however, continued to be observe its Swedish traditions.</p><br>
<p>The Hazel Green Town Hall is a historic building in the village of Hazel Green, Wisconsin. Built in 1891, the building housed both the town clerks office and the Hazel Green Opera House, a civic auditorium. The auditorium hosted town meetings, graduation ceremonies, religious events, and entertainers; it also served as the towns jail when necessary, as a cage could be added to the stage. The auditorium closed in the 1920s; the building is now private property.</p><br>
<p>The building was designed in the Boom Town style, which features a large facade in front of a smaller building. The facade has a tall bracketed cornice, while the building has a gable front.</p><br>
<p>The Hazel Green Town Hall was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 26, 1989.</p><br>
<p>The Ladies Literary Club Building, also known as the William M. Davis House or the Arden H. Ballard House, was built as a private home, and is currently used as the meeting place for the Ladies Literary Club. It is located at 218 North Washington Street Ypsilanti, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1965 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<h2>Early history</h2><br>
<p>The Ladies Literary Club Building was built in approximately 1843 as a home for William M. Davis. It was likely designed by Arden H. Ballard and built by his firm of Norris, Cross, and Ballard. At some point, it was sold to Elijah Grant, who operated a local dry goods store. When Grant died in 1851, his wife Mary and son Edward continued to live in the house. Mary died in 1883, and Edward continued to live in the house, his fortune slowly diminishing through a series of bad investments. He eventually began selling the furnishings, and in 1913 sold the house itself. The Ladies Literary Club purchased the property to use as their meeting hall.</p><br>
<h2>Ladies' Literary Club</h2><br>
<p>The Ladies&#39; Literary Club of Ypsilanti was founded in 1878, with 17 members. The club memberchip quickly expanded, and they held bi-monthly meetings at the homes of members or in the library. However, by 1910, the club had grown large enough that they needed to rent rooms in the Masonic temple. When the Davis House was put up for sale in 1913, the Club purchased it for $3000. The first meeting in the house was in 1914.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the building was later refurbished under the oversight of architect Emil Lorch. In the 1930s, Lorch helped the structure become a part of the Historic American Buildings Survey "because of its age and architectural interest as being worthy of most careful preservation for future generations." More remodeling was done in 1955, and an addition was built to the rear of the building in 1971-72.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Ladies&#39; Literary Club Building is a 1-1/2 strory rectangular brick Greek Revival house. The temple front boasts a wooden tetrastyle Doric portico with a triangular pediment above. A single story wooden wing sits to one side. Grills are placed along the frieze.</p><br>
<p>Benie Hoose, also Bunyie Hoose, is a Neolithic site in the parish of Nesting, northeastern Whalsay, in the Shetland Islands of Scotland.</p><br>
<p>It is located approximately 100 yd to the northwest of the Standing Stones of Yoxie, and about 140 m southeast of the Pettigarths Field Cairns. Benie Hoose and Yoxie demonstrate characteristics of paired houses. It was excavated in 1954–1955 by Charles S. T. Calder who gave the items to the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland in 1955–1956. Furthermore, its close proximity to Yoxie indicates that Druid priests probably lived in the house and performed ceremonies at the stones. OS (NKB) visited the site on 30 May 1968. site measures 24.4 x, and features a horned forecourt.</p><br>
<h2>Layout</h2><br>
<p>The Benie Hoose is laid out in the form of a figure of eight, to the southeast of Pettigarths Field, about 30m from the lower hill slopes of Gamla Vord. The front elevation is curved and with a courtyard in horn shape. It has no similarity with other dwelling units (70 units seen here) but has identity with the Yoxie monument. The main block is of 80 ft length and 40 ft width while the forecourt is 32 ft wide. The main block is set towards the hill. The walls are made of dry stones of 4 m thickness. The large number of tools and querns found here attests to the domestic nature of the Benie Hoose. There is a 4 m passage leading from the entrance. The complex has an elaborate drainage system which ensured that the interior remained dry. The floor of the chamber had stone flooring. The forecourt is D shaped and is conjectured as an animal pen. No stone made furniture was found which has led to the conclusion that the furniture must have been made of wood.</p><br>
<h2>Artifacts</h2><br>
<p>Calder unearthed an unusual quantity of tools and querns, indicating that there was a dwelling here, possibly a vicary, as Benie is believed to be a local term for Bone House or graveyard or a transliteration of the Old Norse Boenhus, which means a house of prayer or chapel. Artifacts include 33 trough querns, and 1,800 implements such as axes, hammer stones, hammer pounders, picks, pot lids, pot shards, steatite pot handle, and a steatite spindle whorl.</p><br>
<p>Based on architectural details and its location with respect to Yoxie, a nearby site, it is conjectured that the Benie Hoose was the residence of the priests who were associated with performing worship at the temple at Yoxie.</p><br>
<h3>Cairns</h3><br>
<p>Earlier archaeological explorations carried out at about 140 m north west of Benie House during 1936 and 1938 have revealed two Pettigarths Field Cairns; the first one is on the south of the site which is square in shape measuring 6 m with a circular entry of 2 m, the other carn is a smaller circular one of 4.5 m diameter with cist in the shape of a rectangle. Both are inferred as tombs of the Late Stone and Early Bronze Ages.</p><br>
<p>The Standing Stones of Yoxie is a Neolithic site in the parish of Nesting on the northeastern coast of Whalsay, in the Shetland islands of Scotland. It is located approximately 100 yd to the southeast of Benie Hoose, not far from the steep cliffs of Yoxie Geo. The site is also known as "Yoxie Biggins". The structure is the remains of a building in a neolithic settlement called Pettigarths Field, about 4,000 years old, which also includes a megalithic tomb and Benie Hoose. The site has been compared to that of Hal Tarxien.</p><br>
<h2>Layout</h2><br>
<p>The earlier assessment that the monument was a standing stone grouping has since been revised. It is now known to consist of a building partitioned into rooms. The "standing stones" name is derived from the fact that the walls were built in part from megaliths, many of them still erect. The building was once about 18 by in size, but little remains of the northern part. There is a main L-shaped block to the west, and a smaller forecourt to the east. There are no traces of door fixtures. A paved passage lined with stone boulders runs through the house, and traces of the paving continue through a circular room that it divides into two recessed sections.</p><br>
<h2>Usage</h2><br>
<p>The site seems to have been occupied for a long period of time.</p><br>
<p>There is a local belief that the stones were used for ceremonies by Druid priests who lived at Benie Hoose</p><br>
<p>&ndash; or even that druids still live there.</p><br>
<p>However, the ruins are 4,000 years old.</p><br>
<p>There is no written mention of Druids before around 200 BC, and no reliable sources even from later periods.</p><br>
<p>Despite this the excavator, C.S.T. Calder, interpreted Yoxie as the remains of a temple, and Benie Hoose as a house that may have been used by the priests.</p><br>
<p>He felt there were indications that this structure, and another similar one at Stanydale on Mainland, Shetland, were used for religious purposes.</p><br>
<p>If so, they would have been the first known temples in the British Isles.</p><br>
<p>The placement and layout of the Benie Hoose and Yoxie seem very close to records of temples and priestly dwellings in Malta.</p><br>
<p>However, early and middle neolithic society does not appear to have had complex social structures such as a priestly caste.</p><br>
<p>It is now thought that both Yoxie and Benie are prehistoric houses.</p><br>
<h2>Artifacts</h2><br>
<p>Artifacts and material from the early and late Bronze Ages have been found.</p><br>
<p>Some of the finds are Iron Age, while some date to the original Neolithic age settlement and others to a later occupation of the site in Iron Age.</p><br>
<p>Pottery remains have been found in both houses.</p><br>
<p>One large vessel found in Yoxie was very similar to a plain Bipartite Urn, possibly used for storing barley.</p><br>
<p>More than 120 tools made of stone in a crude form have been unearthed in Yoxie.</p><br>
<p>The Pettigarths Field Cairns is a Neolithic site in the parish of Nesting, northeastern Whalsay, in the Shetland islands of Scotland. It is located approximately 140 m to the northwest of Benie Hoose. The site contains upright stones as well as masonry. The south cairn is roughly 6 m square, with an eastern entrance passage and circular chamber about 2 m across. about 140 m northwest of Benie Hoose.</p><br>
<p>The first archaeological explorations were carried out in 1936 and 1938. They were then inferred to be tombs belonging to the Late Stone Age and Early Bronze Age. It was excavated in 1963 by C. S. T. Calder and visited by OS (NKB) on 30 May 1968.</p><br>
<h2>Layout</h2><br>
<p>The large cairn has a paved chamber and passage. The chamber is small and is heel-shaped; it is different in layout from three other cairns found in Shetland. The passage into the cairn is through two standing boulders. It is an expanding passage where stones are seen at its inner end. Parts of the jambs are described as the "terminal and lateral recesses of the trefoil." Some remnants of pottery were found here which could not be identified because of the fragmentary nature.</p><br>
<p>The smaller, circular cairn was excavated up to its foundations. A slab covering was found in the cavity as grave robbers appeared to have tried robbing the tomb&#39;s interior. It revealed a trapezoidal slab-built cist of 4 ft in length with a paved bottom. The cist has a rubble stone lining, partly surviving. The ring is 15 ft in diameter; compared to the large sized boulder setting, it is indicative that an outer circular enclosure wall existed at one time.</p><br>
<p>Southern Dairies is a loft office redevelopment of a former dairy production facility and the Empire Manufacturing Company Building located in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>The primary building was built in the early 1900s as a milk distribution facility. The Empire Manufacturing Company Building facing Glen Iris Dr. was built in the 1939. In the late 1990s, renovation was started to convert the buildings into loft office space. Southern Dairies is often credited as being one of the first warehouse conversions in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta. In August 2002 the building was added the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The project is located at the intersection of Glen Iris Dr and North Avenue next to the planned Jamestown development Ponce City Market.</p><br>
<p>Lenox Township Church of the New Jerusalem is a historic church in Lenox Township, Iowa County, Iowa, United States. It is the only Swedenborgian church in Iowa.</p><br>
<p>The Jasper Colony was formed in St. Louis in 1851 and sent agents to Iowa to find a new home. The property was bought in what would become Lenox Township and each dwelling housed two families. A communal kitchen and dining hall was built to serve the community. A log cabin was built to house religious meetings that were led by Herman H. Diekhoner, who had organized the colony. The twenty families that formed the colony rejected communal ownership in early 1853, and the property was distributed among the settlers. Diekhoner left at that time. A New Church Sunday school was established in 1857, and a building was completed in 1859. All religious activities were held in the new building until this church building was built in 1880. It became the focal point for 35 other groups in Iowa, but none of the others built a church building. Annual meetings were held here that brought them together. After 1901 membership started to decline. While it continued to hold statewide reunions yearly, it is no longer considered an active congregation. The church building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>The frame structure was designed by the Rev. Gerald Busman and built by a Mr. Wagner. The vernacular church building measures 40 by. It features a gable roof and a square-based bell tower that projects from the east front. The tower is capped with a pyramid-shaped spire. Four narrow flat-arched windows line both sides of the structure.</p><br>
<p>German Evangelical Reformed Church, also known as the Zoar Church, is a historic church located north of Newton, Iowa, United States. The congregation was established in 1876 by German immigrants, many of whom settled here in the late 1860s after first living in Freeport, Illinois. They built a small frame church on this property soon after, and the first burial in the cemetery behind the church building occurred in 1877. The present frame church was built by members of the congregation in 1892. It features a bell tower in the northeast corner, a gable roof, and a rock-faced stone foundation. Both the gablets on the tower and the front gable feature scalloped shingling. The entryway on the west side of the church was added in 1961. The house to the east of the church was the parsonage, which was sold in 1957. The church and cemetery were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<p>Sevastopol Bay  is a city harbor that includes a series of smaller bays carved out its shores. The bay of Sevastopol splits the city of Sevastopol into the Southern side and the Northern side. It serves as an extension of the Chorna River and stretches for 7.5 km which is the longest of them all.</p><br>
<p>The bays form a unique attraction of Sevastopol. The city stands like an elevated amphitheater on their shores, and the bays give it an extraordinary charm. The bay of Sevastopol stretches from the open sea eastward to the Inkerman Monastery at the end, narrowing down and finishing at the mouth of the Chorna river. The bay forms the seaward approach to the city. Covering a large expanse of water, the harbor serves as a comfortable anchorage for a fleet. From the beginning of the 20th century it housed cruisers and ironclads. The number of piers along the shores of the harbor far exceeds the number of bays.</p><br>
<p>Symbister House is a former country house in Symbister, Whalsay island, in the Shetland islands of Scotland. It was built in 1823 by the Bruce family who were ruthless lairds  of the island for about 300 years from the 16th century. Since 1964 it has been the Whalsay Secondary School, after it fell into disuse following the death of the last of the landlord occupants of the house in 1944. Built in an elegant Georgian architectural style, it is categorized officially as a category B Listed Building and heritage structure.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Bruce family who came to Whalsay in the 17th century owned the entire island. They lorded over the island for nearly 300 years. They forced the local people to carry out fishing operations for commercial purposes and exploited them. Any person opposing them was exiled from the island. The ruthless exploitation of the people by the Bruce family remains part of the island&#39;s folklore. Ghost stories are also narrated of this place, including that of an old sailor who was murdered for arguing with the gardener of the house during a game of cards.</p><br>
<p>The Bruce family took up the ambitious project of building Symbister House in 1823 in a grand Georgian architectural style with brown coloured granite stones chiseled into square blocks. They employed forced labour for the construction, yet it cost the huge sum of £30,000, as they brought quarried granite stones from the tidal affected area of North Nesting. The house, which was the largest building complex on the island of the time, is also known as New Haa. Local stories mention that the landlord who built it did not want ownership to pass to his son, with whom he had strained relationship. This resulted in hard times for the Bruce family who inherited the property. Even to maintain it they had to take on boarders in the 1920s and 30s. The last of the lairds died here in 1944. The building then remained vacant for some years and was subject to deterioration. It was only in 1963 that the local council took possession of the building and refurbished part of the complex into a school. After renovation, the school opened in 1964 as the Whalsay Junior High School. It has been renovated in recent years by the council.</p><br>
<p>The New Haa as originally built, had courtyards, a writing room, outbuildings, stables, byres, a farmhouse, a grinding mill (run by a water wheel of 16 ft diameter), a dovecote and a "high-rise", three-seater toilet outside. The local history group has plans to develop these buildings into a museum and a heritage complex. Water supply to the complex was from a reservoir.</p><br>
<p>Anakalang is a society and a megalithic site on the island of Sumba, in eastern Indonesia. It is noted for its quadrangular adzes and numerous megalithic tombs. The West Sumba island&#39;s best megalithic tombs are located here. They are large and well decorated and contain unusual carvings. Anakalang is the home of the "Purung Takadonga Ratu", an important Queen.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Anakalang is situated in a valley, the megalithic tombs spread over many villages, in the district of Anakalang. This valley is situated to the east of Waikabubak. Anakalang is 20 km from Waikabubak and is close to the main road to Waingapu</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There is debate on the exact age of the site; radiocarbon dating has not been done to affirm this categorization. The stone schist grave with three adzes in it is inferred to be post-neolithic though no iron objects were found. The quadrangular adzes found in a small cist do not exhibit characteristics of the Neolithic age and may be post-neolithic. Umbu Remu Samapati was the third raja, and his brother-in-law, Umbu Sulung Ibilona, succeeded him.</p><br>
<h2>Megalithic tombs</h2><br>
<p>The megalithic grave tomb in the village of Kampung has a stone slab erected vertically. Its carved images date to 1926, taking six months to complete. The burial ceremony involved sacrifice of 150 buffaloes, and the horns of these are kept in a local house. Another tomb is on the same road about 2.5 km away at Koboduk village. This tomb is made of concrete and tiles. It is reported to be the largest tomb in Samba. Another tomb, chiseled out of a single rock, took six years to create and is known as the Umba Saola tomb. It is 5 by and 1 m in thickness, weighing 70 tons. It was pulled from the hill slope where it was carved over a distance of 3 km to the grave site in the Anakalang town. At the burial location there are also other tombs at the eastern side. These are upright slabs with carvings of the local king and queen with motifs of buffaloes and cockerels. Close to this tomb, the Raja’s son lives with his wife and narrates the story to visitors.</p><br>
<h2>Culture</h2><br>
<p>Linguistically, Anakalang belongs to East Sumba, although politically and geographically it is situated within the kabupaten of West Sumba. The women are mainly weavers, making baskets and mats, while the men are involved in string twining etc. Ornaments are taken care of and hidden away for ancestors.</p><br>
<p>The Chiusella  is a 41 km long creek in the Piedmont region of Italy.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Chiusella starts in the Graian Alps near Mount Marzo and Bocchetta delle Oche, a mountain pass connecting its valley with Val Soana.</p><br>
<p>Flowing initially from NW to SE it reaches Traversella and the permanently inhabited part of the valley. In the territory of Issiglio it receives from the right side the waters of Torrente Savenca, its main tributary. The Chiusella is then blocked by a dam forming the Lake Gurzia. Flowing eastwards it forms a canyon and leaves the mountains entering the plain; near Strambino it finally flows into the Dora Baltea.</p><br>
<h2>Tributaries</h2><br>
<p>Left hand tributaries:</p><br>
<p>torrente Dondogna</p><br>
<p>torrente Tarva</p><br>
<p>torrente Bersella</p><br>
<p>rio Quaglia</p><br>
<p>rio Ribes (formerly Ri Bes).</p><br>
<p>Right hand tributaries:</p><br>
<p>rio Sportore</p><br>
<p>rio Ricordone</p><br>
<p>rio Trueisa</p><br>
<p>torrente Savenca.</p><br>
<h2>The bridges on the Chiusella</h2><br>
<p>Rock Rapids United Methodist Church, formerly known as First Methodist Church, is located in Rock Rapids, Iowa, United States. The church building is significant for the use of blue-gray and red granite used in its construction. It was designed by Sioux Falls, South Dakota architect Joseph Schwartz utilizing the Richardsonian Romanesque style. Completed in 1896, it is the second church building for a congregation founded in the 1870s. The blue-gray granite quarried near Sioux Falls is the main building material, and it is laid in a random ashlar pattern. The red granite was acquired from the receiver of a bankrupt packing plant which had begun, but did not complete, a new stone building. It is used for the trim, especially in the voussoirs of alternating colors. The building also features a tall corner bell tower. The pipe organ was ordered from the Hinners Organ Company of Pekin, Illinois in January 1905 at a cost of $1,960. An addition was added to the south side of the church in 1966. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.</p><br>
<p>Iowa Yearly Meeting House-College Avenue Friends Church is a historic church building located in Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States. The Colonial Revival structure was designed by Bloomington, Illinois architect A.T. Simmons, and completed in 1913. As their membership declined, Quakers in Iowa decided to concentrate on a few fundamental tenets of their faith, but gave way on their traditional concerns about simplicity and restraint. This more elaborate building replaced a simple 2½-story, brick and stone structure that was completed in 1865. The building project was a cooperative arraignment that included the Yearly Meeting, the Monthly Meeting, and nearby William Penn College. Oskaloosa had been chosen as the location of the Iowa Yearly Meeting, or the denominational headquarters, because of its central location to where the Quakers settled west of the Mississippi River. The previous building had separate meeting facilities for men and women, and this one does not. That separation was no longer considered necessary by the time this building was built. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>Coal Ridge Baptist Church and Cemetery  is a historic church at 1034 IA S71 in Knoxville, Iowa that was built in 1909. It replaced an 1860-built church that was destroyed in a fire on October 11, 1908, and it served the community of Coalport, which is long gone. Coalport, built in the floodplain of the Des Moines River, disappeared under man-made Lake Red Rock when the river was dammed in 1969. The church and cemetery are on a hill above the lake.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 2006. Its three contributing resources are the church, the cemetery, and a historic tool shed. The property was deemed significant for its social history and its architecture. Regarding its social history, its NRHP nomination describes:The church became a gathering place in the early 20th century for the unincorporated "Down on the Ridge" community of Coalport and Coal Ridge. The church is the last remaining building of this historic community. Over the years, church activities shifted to accommodate the changing social and religious life of local residents. As Coalport and Coal Ridge declined in population, the surrounding rural population became the church&#39;s chief focus. Then, in the late 20th century, this rural area experienced a renaissance, and the church adapted to these needs. Throughout this time, the Coal Ridge Baptist Ladies Aid, an organization founded by the church in 1913 and still active, nurtured the social ties among local residents and promoted community betterment.</p><br>
<p>And regarding its architecture:The exterior of the building blends the influences of Neo-Classical and late Gothic Revival styling together in a design of striking simplicity, while the interior of the building shows a careful regard for practicality.</p><br>
<p>First Christian Church  is a historic church at 824 Franklin Street in Pella, Iowa.</p><br>
<p>It is a small, one-story brick church, was built between 1858 and 1862. As of 1869, it was named the Soul Sleepers Church. During the 1880s it held the Pella Y.M.C.A. AS of 2006 it was the site of an independent bookstore, Pella Books.</p><br>
<p>Its significance includes that, according to its NRHP nomination:"...it calls attention to religion and social history among the Pella Dutch. During the 19th century, attempts to unite the various stripes of Dutch Protestantism in the United States, evolving since the 17th century, failed and resulted in schism and the formation of two separate denominations. This national schism exacerbated a religious volatility already simmering in Pella. First Christian Church calls attention to this strife within the otherwise homogeneous Dutch-American community, as religion became the focus of local controversy during the 1850s and 1860s. These controversies centered on Domine Henry P. Scholte, the pastor of the original flock of Dutch Reformed settlers in Pella, and divergent forms of worship then emerging among some of the settlers. Elder Jacob Maasdam, a charismatic layman, led one of these latter groups. His adherents built the First Christian Church, where they worshipped until circa 1869, splitting Scholte&#39;s flock, which built another church.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.</p><br>
<p>Union Presbyterian Church is a historic church building located northwest of Stacyville in rural Mitchell County, Iowa, United States. Early settlers to the area of German descent established the Presbyterian congregation in the late 1850s. They initially worshiped in the homes of various church members before joining St. Peter&#39;s Lutheran Church in nearby Toeterville. Doctrinal differences resulted and the Rev. Jacob Kolb reformed the Presbyterian congregation in 1873 or 1874. Services were held in a schoolhouse until this church building was erected in 1888. It is a small frame structure with Gothic-style elements, with extensive use of pressed tin on the interior. A cemetery is located on the church grounds. Services were held in German until 1918. There was a steady decline in membership until the congregation was disbanded in 1975. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>First Lutheran Church of St. Ansgar is a historic church located at 212 N. Main Street in St. Ansgar, Iowa. It was added to the National Register in 1976.</p><br>
<p>St. Ansgar congregation was organized by pioneer Norwegian-American Lutheran minister Claus Lauritz Clausen in Mitchell County, Iowa on December 4, 1853. In 1856, a log house was built by the congregation for use as a school and church. A stone schoolhouse was built in 1858, which was used for church services until the stone church could be built. In 1864, work was started on the building of the stone church. The new church was completed and dedicated on September 27, 1868. A stone narthex was added to the building in 1941. In 1959, the building of the new First Lutheran Parish Center was started with completion in 1960.</p><br>
<p>Cedar Valley Seminary  is a historic seminary building currently at N. 7th and Chase Streets in Osage, Iowa. Prior to June 2016, it had been located at N. 6th and Mechanic Streets.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1869 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<p>The school was founded at Osage, as a Baptist academy, in 1862, by the joint efforts of Rev. Alva Bush, the citizens of Osage, and the Cedar Valley Baptist Association. On Monday morning, January 12, 1863, Prof. Bush opened the first term of the school, with seventeen boys and fourteen girls.</p><br>
<p>In his memoir "A Son of the Middle Border", Hamlin Garland recalled that in the late 1870s "The school was in truth a very primitive institution, hardly more than a high school, but it served its purpose. It gave farmers&#39; boys like myself the opportunity of meeting those who were older, finer, more learned than they, and every day was to me like turning a fresh and delightful page in a story book, not merely because it brought new friends, new experiences, but because it symbolized freedom from the hay fork and the hoe."</p><br>
<p>Before going to the University of Chicago, the orientalist John Merlin Powis Smith taught Greek at Cedar Valley Seminary.</p><br>
<p>The school was closed in 1910 because, according to one historian, "Waldorf College was established in Forest City by the Norwegian Lutheran people and took away many students and much financial support that would naturally have come to the seminary; the grade of work in the public schools improved with time, and the Cedar Valley Seminary was a near neighbor. These reasons made it seem unwise to longer continue to maintain the seminary".</p><br>
<h2>Relocation and future</h2><br>
<p>On June 24, 2016, the building was moved 960 feet to the corner of Chase Street and North Seventh Street. After a new foundation is built and renovations are completed, the building will be used as a community gathering place, as well as a historical museum housing the collection of Osage native Senator Mike Johanns.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Notable alumni of Cedar Valley Seminary include:</p><br>
<p>Hamlin Garland (1881), American novelist</p><br>
<p>Sciola Missionary Baptist Church, also known as Sciola Community Church, is a historic church located in Sciola, Iowa, United States. It is the only building left from the former town, and a rare example of an early Iowa frame church building. The Sciola Post Office was established in 1855, and was the first one established in Montgomery County. The village was composed of a few stores, the church, and the post office. The Baptist congregation was founded in January 1869 with nine families. They bought land from member John Yergey in June 1871, and they dedicated their small frame church on June 30, 1872. It cost them $1,600 to build it. They bought land from Yeagey 1882 for a cemetery. The Baptist congregation remained here until 1929. The church building was used for a variety of community functions until it was rededicated as the Sciola Community Church in 1946. It continued to be used for community functions and elections. The church was relocated in 1970, and the township took over ownership of the building in 1980. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Depot, also known as the Red Oak Burlington Northern Depot, is a historic train depot located in Red Oak, Iowa, United States. The city of Red Oak was established by the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad as Red Oak Junction. That railroad was acquired by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, and they laid out a new right-of-way in southwest Iowa in the late 19th century to lessen the grade. It required a new depot in Red Oak, which was built from 1900 to 1903. The single story, red brick structure is located on an embankment alongside the elevated tracks on the south side of town. It is.5 mi south of where the previous depot was located. Passenger service ended in 1971, and the railroad sought to demolish the depot in 1993. It was donated to the community in 1995, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1999.</p><br>
<p>The restored Burlington Northern Depot is now home to the WWII Memorial Museum, with exhibits relating to people from Montgomery County, Iowa who served in World War II, as well as country life on the home front on farms, factories, communities and household life. There are also displays about area railroad history. The museum is open by appointment.</p><br>
<p>Reverend Little&#39;s Young Ladies Seminary is a historic seminary building at 541 6th Avenue in Council Bluffs, Iowa.</p><br>
<p>The Italianate style building was constructed in 1867 as a school for women, which was founded by a Presbyterian minister, George Little. Unfortunately, "lthough the Rev. Little’s school received very favorable publicity, he encountered great difficulty in collecting the money pledged to construct his building. On Jan. 1, 1870, his board of trustees informed him that no more payments would be forthcoming. The Rev. Little closed the school, filed suit against the trustees for the money due him and eventually was awarded title to the property. He sold the building and moved to Nebraska where he became a missionary." Several prominent businessmen later owned the building, and in the early 1900s it was converted to apartments. The building was added to the National Register in 1982. It currently houses a law office.</p><br>
<p>Washington Prairie Methodist Church is a historic church building located southeast of Decorah, Iowa, United States. The congregation was established by Ole Peter Petersen. He returned to his native Norway in 1853 and founded the first Methodist congregation there. Washington Prairie Methodist is considered the mother church of Methodism in Norway. In the early years the congregation met in private houses. They built this church building themselves from 1863 to 1868. By 1888 services were only held here quarterly, and continued until about 1920, when the church was officially closed. Over the years some vandalism and settling of the structure occurred. The Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah restored the church and adjacent cemetery in 1972. The bishop of the North European Methodist Conference participated in its re-dedication later that year. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad Passenger Station, also known as Rock Island Railroad Depot, is a historic train station located in Clarion, Iowa, United States. The station was built in 1898 by contractor A. H. Connor & Company of Cedar Rapids, Iowa for the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroad . Clarion also had a Chicago Great Western Railway depot, no longer extant. At one time there were 14 trains that served the city. In 1903 the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway acquired the BCR&N, and this depot served that railroad. The single story, Romanesque Revival, brick structure measures 26 by. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<p>The depot was restored in 1984 and currently serves as the Rock Island Depot Railroad Museum with displays of local and railroad history, and also serves as the office for the Clarion Chamber & Development office.</p><br>
