<p>Buena Vista is a historic home located at New Castle, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built between 1845 and 1847, and is a two-story, five bay, brick dwelling in the Greek Revival style. It has a service wing and a long wing designed by noted architect R. Brognard Okie containing a long hall and library. It features a full width verandah supported by Doric order columns. It was the home of USA Senator and Secretary of State John M. Clayton  and USA Senator and Delaware Governor C. Douglass Buck , who donated it to the State of Delaware. It is operated as the Buena Vista Conference Center by the State of Delaware.</p><br>
<p>The estate originally was named in commemoration of the Battle of Buena Vista in the Mexican-American War. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1971.</p><br>
<p>The Cobb Reservoir, surrounded by Kahurangi National Park and fed by the Cobb River, is in the South Island of New Zealand. The reservoir feeds the Cobb Power Station and is 819 m above sea level but drops significantly with low rainfall. Cobb Reservoir is the highest hydro storage lake in New Zealand.</p><br>
<p>The dam that forms the reservoir was built from 1949 to 1954, replacing a smaller structure built about ten years earlier. It is an earth dam 32 m high by 221 m long. The geology of the area precluded the construction of a concrete dam.</p><br>
<p>A narrow winding road leads over Cobb Ridge to Cobb Reservoir and along the lake&#39;s shore, providing access to tramping tracks in the area surrounding the valley. The road was built in the 1940s and remains unsealed from Cobb Power Station onwards.</p><br>
<p>The Church of the Most Holy Trinity in Veseli, Minnesota (an unincorporated community in Wheatland Township, Minnesota is a Catholic church designed by Clarence H. Johnston, Sr. Johnston designed a large number buildings for state institutions in Minnesota, such as the Minnesota State Academy for the Deaf, the University of Minnesota, the former Minnesota Historical Society building, and many others, but churches were not common in his architectural practice.</p><br>
<p>Veseli was originally settled by Czech immigrants and was the largest of four such communities in Minnesota. The members formerly worshiped at the parish in New Prague until they organized their own church in 1874. The first building was a wood frame structure built between 1874 and 1878. The present building was built in 1905 and follows an Italian Romanesque style, with some influences of Craftsman architecture as well. It is 110 ft by 64 ft, with a 90 ft tall campanile tower on the left rear of the church. The entry has a round rose window with an eave above it, giving the appearance of a canopy.</p><br>
<p>Besides the church building, the parish has a school building built in 1916 and a convent and rectory built in 1926.</p><br>
<p>Hamer&#39;s General Store was a small commercial building on the southern side of the village of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Declared a historic site in the 1980s because of its architecture, it is no longer standing.</p><br>
<h2>Historic context</h2><br>
<p>When platted in 1814, Mechanicsburg featured a grid plan centered on two major streets: Sandusky, running northeast-southwest, and Main, running northwest-southeast. Many of the lots along Main Street are small, causing the buildings occupying them to be narrow and constructed with minimal setbacks from the street. Upon one of these lots was built Hamer&#39;s General Store in an unknown year in the second half of the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Hamers General Store was a weatherboarded building with a brick foundation, elements of stone and metal, and a composite roof rising to a gable. Among its most distinctive features was its prominent false front, which was produced by the construction of a tall parapet on the front and its embellishment with brackets and a cornice. The effect of a traditional country store was enhanced by the presence around the entrance of a porch with a shed roof. Throughout its history, the display windows and double doors at and around the entrance were never replaced. While numerous other commercial buildings exist in Mechanicsburg, such as in the downtown commercial district, they are generally substantially different from Hamers because of their brick construction and Italianate styling.</p><br>
<h2>Historic site</h2><br>
<p>In 1985, Hamers General Store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying as a rare surviving example of late-nineteenth-century commercial architecture. It was part of a multiple property submission of approximately twenty buildings, scattered throughout the village in such a low concentration that a historic district designation was not practical. Despite this designation, Hamers is no longer standing; a Valero gas station occupies the site where the store was once located.</p><br>
<p>The Thomas Murray House is a colonial home situated on the Eastern Branch Elizabeth River at Virginia Beach, Virginia. The house was constructed in 1791 by Isaac Murray for his son, Thomas. The house was saved from being demolished in the 1950s and restored to its original elegance. The house features a dated brick on the top of the eastern chimney with the initials "I.M"  and the date of "1791". The house was built with a central floor plan. A Recreation "Smokehouse" and "carriage house" were added to the property in 1988. The property has the original working well. Across the River the Richard Murray house is visible. The Thomas Murray house was the only Murray house built on the Eastern Branch Elizabeth River.</p><br>
<p>The Murrays were a prominent family of Princess Anne County. The first Murray, David, came as an indentured servant in 1622, earning 650 acres which were then passed down to later generations of Murrays. The Murrays grew flax as a cash crop and prepared flax fiber for rope making. The original flax drying shed is still on the Richard Murray property today.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.</p><br>
<p>The Palais Leuchtenberg,  built in the early 19th century for Eugène de Beauharnais, first Duke of Leuchtenberg, is the largest palace in Munich. Located on the west side of the Odeonsplatz , where it forms an ensemble with the Odeon, it currently houses the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance. It was once home to the Leuchtenberg Gallery on the first floor.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Palace by Leo von Klenze</h3><br>
<p>Eugène de Beauharnais, the brother-in-law of the later King Ludwig I of Bavaria and the stepson of Napoleon, commissioned Leo von Klenze to build a "suburban city palace". Constructed between 1817 and 1821 at a cost of 770,000 guilders (the entire construction budget for Bavaria in 1819), it was the largest palace of the era, with more than 250 rooms including a ballroom, a theatre, a billiard room, an art gallery, and a chapel, plus a number of outbuildings extending for over 100 m down what is now Kardinal-Döpfner-Straße. It was the first building on the Ludwigstraße. Klenze intended it to serve as a benchmark for the new boulevard. He chose the Italian neo-Renaissance style, modelling the building on the Palazzo Farnese in Rome. He placed eagles over the windows on the first floor as in one of Napoleon&#39;s palaces.</p><br>
<p>Klenze also visited Paris during the construction phase to study the newly developed fosses inodores et mobiles (an early form of sanitary toilet), which he had installed in the palace and which soon became standard in almost all new buildings in Munich.</p><br>
<p>Beauharnais lived in the palace with his wife Augusta, Ludwig&#39;s sister, and his children. On 2 August 1829 the proxy marriage of Emperor Pedro I of Brazil and Princess Amélie of Leuchtenberg took place in the chapel. Court festivities were a feature in the palace in view of its ballroom, art gallery and a private theater facilities.</p><br>
<p>In 1852, after the death of Eugène de Beauharnais&#39; widow Augusta, the palace was sold to Prince Luitpold, the later Prince Regent of Bavaria., and until the Nazi seizure of power early in 1933, it was used by the Bavarian royal family, the House of Wittelsbach.</p><br>
<p>Prince Ludwig, later Ludwig III, married Maria Theresia, Archduchess of Austria-Este in 1868 and it was their first home. Their son Prince Rupprecht was born here in 1869 and was baptised in the palace chapel on May 20, 1869.</p><br>
<p>After the end of the monarchy in Bavaria in 1918, the outbuildings were converted into shops and a garage. lived there until 1939 in a small apartment, sometimes using the reception rooms for events.</p><br>
<p>During the Second World War, the palace was badly damaged in air raids in 1943 and 1945. The Free State of Bavaria acquired the ruined building in 1957 and had it demolished.</p><br>
<h3>Heid and Simm building</h3><br>
<p>In 1963&ndash;1967, a new building designed by Hans Heid and Franz Simm was built on the site for the Bavarian State Ministry of Finance. This building has a frame of reinforced concrete with brick facing. The façade is an accurate reconstruction of von Klenze&#39;s palace except for a new entrance on the east side; the main entrance was formerly on the south side. (The only actual old fabric retained is the west entrance.) However, the interior layout has not been reproduced, although the ministry reception rooms and the office of the State Minister of Finance are located on the first floor, the bel étage. What little survived of the ornate interior of the former building is now in Nymphenburg Palace. The Alexander frieze by Bertel Thorvaldsen survives only in a copy which is now in the foyer of the Herkulessaal (Hercules Hall), a post-war concert hall in the Residenz.</p><br>
<p>In 1958 the architect and preservationist Erwin Schleich had suggested reconstructing the destroyed Odeon concert hall on the site of the Palais Leuchtenberg, since the concert hall could not be rebuilt on its original site. Although this plan had some support, it was not carried out.</p><br>
<p>The Jeff Kimball House is a historic residence in the village of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Once home to one of the village&#39;s leading residents, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Jeff Kimball began construction on his residence in 1895 and finished two years later. He and his family lived there for almost fifty years before selling it in 1943. During the late nineteenth century, multiple prosperous farmers owning land near Mechanicsburg constructed or purchased houses along Main Street north of downtown, instead of living on their farms; some of the more prominent ones were Jeff Kimball, Henry Burnham, and Neil Gest, whose homes are today known as the Jeff Kimball, Henry Burnham, and Demand-Gest Houses. In later years, the house was the home of a family named Doerman.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>One of Mechanicsburgs better Queen Anne residences, the Jeff Kimball House is a brick building with a stone foundation, a slate roof, and additional elements of brick and stone. Although its neighborhood includes all of the villages best houses, the two-and-a-half-story Kimball House nevertheless stands out by means of details such as its ornamental front porch, its ironwork, its stained glass windows with bevelling, and the elaborate basketweave-like pattern of its brickwork.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>The Jeff Kimball House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, qualifying both because of its historic architecture and its place in Ohios history. It was one of approximately twenty different Mechanicsburg locations to be listed on the National Register at the same time as part of a multiple property submission. Among the Kimball Houses neighbors that were included in the multiple property submission are the Demand-Gest House at 37 N. Main, the Mechanicsburg United Methodist Church at Main and Race Streets, and the Oram Nincehelser House at 28 N. Main.</p><br>
<p>The Belvedere Glacier  is a valley glacier located above Macugnaga of the Valle Anzasca in the region of Piedmont. The glacier lies at the base of the east face of Monte Rosa and reaches a height of about 2,200 m above sea level at its highest point and terminates near the Alpe Burki at about 1,800 m. The glacier is mostly covered by rocks.</p><br>
<p>The glacier is feed by the snows and glaciers on the east side of Monte Rosa, among which is the Ghiacciaio del Monte Rosa, not to be mismatched with the Monte Rosagletscher on the Swiss west side, culminating above 4,500 metres, but also the Ghiacciaio Nord delle Loccie on the north side of the Punta delle Loccie (Punta Gruber, 3,497 m).</p><br>
<p>The glacier gives birth to the Anza, a tributary of the Toce.</p><br>
<p>Turbacz is the highest peak of the Gorce Mountains, a mountain range located in southern Lesser Poland. It lies in the middle of the range, and according to most sources, it is 1310 meters high. The peak itself is surrounded by dense pine forest, which makes it impossible for tourists to admire the view of the area. In the past, however, no trees were present there, and according to the 1832 sources, it was possible to see the city of Kraków with a telescope. On the top there is a stone obelisk with an iron cross. Turbacz belongs to the Crown of Polish Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Turbacz is very popular among tourists, with a junction of several trails located in front of a local PTTK shelter. The shelter itself, located at the height of 1283 meters, provides a magnificent view the Tatras and the Pieniny mountains. Turbacz shelter is a large stone building, with two wings. It was opened in 1958, and has 100 beds. Next to the shelter there is a PTTK Museum of Mountain Culture and Tourism, opened in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Every second Sunday of August a Celebration of Mountains takes place next to the so-called Papal Chapel, on the Wisielakowka clearing. It attracts a number of tourists, and in the same spot, a traditional service was led by Reverend Józef Tischner. On August 12, 2012, a monument dedicated to Polish soldiers was opened on the Wisielakówka clearing. Every summer, a mountain bike race takes place from Rabka Zdrój to Turbacz and back.</p><br>
<p>During World War II and in the second half of the 1940s, numerous anti-Nazi and anti-Soviet partisan units operated in the area of Turbacz. Most famous personality closely associated with the peak is Józef Kuraś, nom de guerre Ogień, a controversial Polish cursed soldier, who fought both Nazi and Soviet occupiers.</p><br>
<p>In the past, the mountain was known by local people as Kluczki. In 1790, Habsburg cartographers, working on the map of Galicia, made a mistake, placing the village of Niedzwiedz in the location of the peak, which resulted in naming confusion throughout the 19th century. The word Turbacz itself probably is of Wallachian origin, coming from the Romanian word turbă, which means "peat".</p><br>
<p>The summit of Turbacz has a subarctic climate (Köppen Dfc) due to its elevation. The average temperatures are comparable with those found in places in far Northern Europe, such as Alta, Norway, however, the high annual precipitation in combination with the low temperatures places it firmly within the Subalpine Rainforest zone according to Holdridge.</p><br>
<p>Nordfjorden is the sixth longest fjord in Norway and the second longest fjord in all of Sogn og Fjordane county. It flows through the municipalities of Stryn, Gloppen, Eid, Bremanger, and Vågsøy, and it is the central feature of the entire Nordfjord region which makes up the northern third of the county.</p><br>
<p>The 106 km long fjord stretches from Husevågøy island in Vågsøy Municipality to the village of Loen in Stryn Municipality. The fjord starts as runoff from the Jostedalsbreen, Europe&#39;s largest mainland glacier, in the east and it flows west, emptying into the ocean just south of the Stadlandet peninsula. The mouth of the fjord lies between the large islands of Vågsøy and Bremangerlandet (with the smaller island of Husevågøy lying in the middle of the mouth).</p><br>
<p>There are several smaller fjords which branch off the main Nordfjorden: Eidsfjorden, Ålfotfjorden, Hyefjorden, and Gloppefjorden. The fjord reaches a maximum-depth of 565 m near the mouth of the Eidsfjorden and also by the village of Bryggja.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>The fjord has no road or rail crossings, but it has three regular ferry crossings. There is a ferry from Anda to Lote as part of the European route E39 highway. Another crossing is from Isane to Stårheim. The final crossing is near the mouth of the fjord from the town of Måløy to Oldeide. This final crossing also includes a stop at the island of Husevågøy in the middle of the fjord.</p><br>
<h2>Settlements</h2><br>
<p>There are numerous old fishing communities located along the fjord that date back to pre-Viking times. Some of the notable population centers along the fjord include the town of Måløy (near the north side of the mouth), the villages of Bryggja and Totland (in Vågsøy); Rugsund, Davik, and Ålfoten (in Bremanger); Kjølsdalen, Stårheim, Nordfjordeid, and Lote (in Eid); Sandane and Gimmestad (in Gloppen); and Randabygda, Utvik, Innvik, Roset, Stryn, Olden, and Loen (in Stryn).</p><br>
<p>Morro Solar  is a headland, situated in the district of Chorrillos, to the south of Lima, Peru. Morro Solar is notable for being a site of the Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos between Peruvian and Chilean forces in 1881. Notable landmarks include an astronomical observatory and a monument to an unknown soldier. Its geological formations are rich in silver which is being extracted by several mining companies.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Morro Solar, a cluster of hills, is roughly 251 m in elevation. It lies near Chorrillos, a southern suburb of Lima, occupying an area of 7.48 km&sup2;. Alexander George Findlay described it as "a remarkable cluster of hills, standing on a sandy plain; when seen from the southward it has the appearance of an island in the shape of a quoin, sloping to the westward, and falling very abruptly in-shore; on its sea face, however, it terminates in a steep cliff, with a sandy bay on each side." The sandy shore between Morro Solar and Lurin is known as Conchan Beach. The southwest point of Morro Solar is formed by the Solar Point, located 10 miles from San Franscico Island and 10 miles to the southwest of Callao. Its sea face terminates in a steep cliff at Codo Point with a sandy bay on each side. The northern side of Morro Solar is the Chorillos Bay which was used in the 1860s for anchoring of ships only in exceptional circumstances as the bottom of the sea consisted of hard sand, clay stones and boulders, which was upseting the stability of the ships. The summit of the hill range provides scenic views of the Bay of Lima, the city of Lima and South Spas.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Morro Solar is part of the very strange topography of Lima which evolved as a result of geological readjustments. It resulted from high sea winds which shaped the rocky formations in the form of a hollow ring. The geological formation of these hills consists primarily of sedimentary outcrops (shallow marine sedimentary facies) and also of the Andean spurs located North and South of the city. The sedimentary sequence has been mapped with appropriate notes on directions and dips of the strata, faults and dykes and the interpreting geological events. The lithology of rock and other features such as oxidation, fracturing and mineralization have been recorded. The mapping has indicated three terraces with a substantial amount of boulders, at altitudes of 110 m, 85 m and near the coast, from the Quaternary Period. Quartzites, shales and sandstones from the Cretaceous and Lower Cretaceous have been reported.</p><br>
<p>Dykes have outcrops of trachytic andesite, dacite and rhyodacite. One of the faults in the dykes runs north to south, another east to west, in the sedimentary rocks.</p><br>
<h3>Mining</h3><br>
<p>Peru has been a leading silver-producing nation (since 2008, the production was 3680 t). Silver from a newly discovered vein in Morro Solar, reported to be of high grade, is to be extracted at the Morococha mines by the Pan American Silver Corporation. According to the explorations already carried out in 2008, the Morro Solar area is reported to have silver resources of 53 million ounces (Moz). Further exploration under the Morococha Exploration programme was in progress, covering a silver-bearing vein with a continuous length of 2.5 km along a strike.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>During the War of the Pacific, Morro Solar was the scene of one of the bloodiest battles, the Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos. Historical remains of uniforms and weapons have been found here and several forts were built in the vicinity. There are now monuments to the fighters; prominent among them is the "Monument to the Unknown Soldier". The new wild potato species, S. neoweberbaueri, collected by Augusto Weberbauer on Morro Solar, was named by Ludwig Wittmack in 1914.</p><br>
<h2>Landmarks</h2><br>
<p>A war monument erected on the mountain is dedicated to the "Unknown Soldier". It is a stone obelisk with a 22 m tall bronze plaque and is painted in olive green with a photo of a Peruvian soldier carrying the national flag. Bronze plaques on the sides of the base along the path leading to the site are set in low reliefs which give the allegorical narration of the history of the heroic defense of Peruvian soldiers against Chilean attack in the battles of San Juan and Miraflores. Another monument stands to Miguel Iglesias, the national hero of Peru.</p><br>
<p>Museo Planetario y Observatorio del Morro Solar, a museum, planetarium and Perus first astronomical observation center, is located on Morro Solar. It was built and run by the engineer Victor Estremadoyro, after land was donated in 1951. Since 2010, it has had a digital projection system, making it one of the most modern in the country. The museum has exhibits of modern and antique telescopes, meteorological models and pictures, civil rocketry artifacts, along with a variety of items found in the Morro from the Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos. There are also archaeological relics such as aerolites (recovered from Morro Solar) and vestiges of the pre-Inca Ichma culture, fossils of marine fauna, and samples of geological activity related to Morros rock layers.</p><br>
<p>Near to the planetarium rises a large illuminated cross, which was built with what had been pylons. It was designed as a welcome gesture for the visit of Pope John Paul II to Peru. The cross lights up at night and can be seen from long distances. Next to the cross, stands a shrine to the Virgin Mary, which is visited by faithful Catholics. A new statue of the "Christ of the Pacific" was proposed to be installed in Lima and there was controversy as to its chosen location which was earlier approved. According to the controversy raised by the Mayor of Lima, the statue would interfere with the scenic view of the Morro Solar, a heritage monument, and hence should be shifted to some other location. The statue is 37 m tall and was privately funded by Alan García, the President of Peru (till 2011). The statue was formally consecrated by Cardina Juan Luis Cipriani on the top of Morro Solar in 2011 when Pope Benedict XVI sent a message of greetings and blessings to the people of Peru. The statue contains 26 lights of different colours that are illuminated at night.</p><br>
<h2>Utilities</h2><br>
<p>The hills surrounding the Morro Solar contain antennas which rebroadcast TV channels and some radio stations in Lima. The transmitting station was installed with a NEC transmitter of 400W with one seg signal with live content provided by America TV.</p><br>
<p>The Hermitage was a historic home located at New Castle, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built between about 1801 and 1818, and consisted of three brick sections. The oldest section was the 2 1/2-story west wing. There was a two-story, rear kitchen wing, with servant&#39;s quarters above. The main section was built in 1818, and was a two-story, three-bay structure. It was built by USA Senator Nicholas Van Dyke  as a farm and summer retreat for his family.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>The Hermitage was heavily damaged by fire between 5:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. on February 18, 2007, in an act of arson. Following the fire, the two oldest sections of the house were completely destroyed, with only the walls left standing. The newer section (circa 1810) of the house was relatively intact, including a marble fireplace in the front, and a carved and gesso mantle and woodwork in the rear.</p><br>
<p>Declared a safety hazard by the city of New Castle, the remains of the Hermitage were torn down in 2009. Nothing was salvaged.</p><br>
<p>The Sierra de Tamaulipas is an isolated, semi-tropical mountain range in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. Its highest point is 4,134 feet . There are no cities or towns in the Sierra and the small population is largely agricultural. The higher elevations of the Sierra have forests of oak and pine, contrasting with the semi-arid brush that dominates at lower altitudes. Several archaeological sites establish that the Sierra de Tamaulipas was the northern outpost of the agricultural Mesoamerican peoples of eastern Mexico.</p><br>
<p>On December 5, 2016, the Sierra de Tamaulipas was declared a "Protected Natural Area" by the government of Mexico. The Protected Area has a core acreage of 38,285 hectare and a buffer zone containing 269,992 hectare.</p><br>
<h2>Geography and climate</h2><br>
<p>The Sierra de Tamaulipas is about 70 mi north to south and 40 mi east to west at its widest point in the southern part of the range. It covers a total area of 1,289 square miles. The Sierra is located between 23 and 24 north latitude and 98 and 99 west longitude. Elevation ranges from 1,000 ft to 4,134 ft.</p><br>
<p>The Sierra de Tamaulipas has the characteristics of a Sky island—isolated from the Sierra Madre Oriental and rising high enough to have cooler and wetter conditions than the adjacent land at lower elevations. The area surrounding the Sierra at elevations below 1,000 ft is vegetated primarily by a tropical thorn forest (Tamaulipan mezquital). The Sierra, with higher rainfall and lower temperatures, has three major vegetation types. Tropical deciduous forest (Veracruz moist forests) is found at elevations of 1000 to 2300 ft. The average height of this closed-canopy forest is about 25 ft. Montane scrub is found in dry areas between 2,000 and elevation. This vegetation type consists of low thickets and savanna. Huisache is a common shrub. Pine-oak forests found at elevations of greater than 2,600 ft are an island of temperate forest in the ecoregion of Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests. In areas undisturbed by agriculture and logging, vegetation at the higher altitudes can be luxuriant with many ferns.</p><br>
<p>In the southeastern part of the Sierra in the municipality of Aldama, Tamaulipas is a limestone karst area in which many caves and cenotes (water-filled sinkholes) are found, including Zacatón which is the deepest sinkhole in the world with a depth of 1,112 ft.l?pub_id=6144</p><br>
<p>"Cenotes de Aldama: RTP-94" accessed 26 Feb 2013 In 1994, cave-diving pioneer Sheck Exley died attempting to dive to the bottom of Zacatón.</p><br>
<p>No major highways nor rivers cross the Sierra, nor are there any towns or cities. The population is rural. Abundant small, clear waterways drain from the highest points of the Sierra outward in all directions.</p><br>
<p>Precipitation in the Sierra de Tamaulipas ranges from about 28 in at the lowest elevations to more than 40 in at higher elevations. Most precipitation is in the summer between May and October, although winters are not as dry as in much of Mexico. Freezes are rare at lower elevations, but common in the temperate forests at higher altitudes. The climate of the hamlet of Santa Maria de los Nogales is typical of the higher elevations of the Sierra.</p><br>
<p>Climatic classification. Cwa (Koppen); Cwab (Trewartha)</p><br>
<h2>Pre-hispanic cultures</h2><br>
<p>Due to greater precipitation than the surrounding lowlands, the Sierra de Tamaulipas was probably the northernmost area of eastern Mexico in which the cultivation of maize was practiced during pre-Hispanic times. Northward in the semi-arid brushlands extending into Texas lived the nomadic non-agricultural peoples collectively called Coahuiltecans.</p><br>
<p>Archaeologist Richard MacNeish found evidence of cultivation of maize in the Sierra de Tamaulipas dating from 2,500 BC which suggests a transition in culture from nomadic hunter-gathering to a more settled lifeway. From 300 to 550 AD, several settlements in the Sierra de Tamaulipas comprised the northern outpost of the Mesoamerican Huastec culture. The Sierra settlements featured villages built around public squares and small pyramids, indicating a centralized and possibly theocratic government. The archaeological ruin of El Sabinito, about l3 miles (20 km) southwest of the city of Soto la Marina, is at the northern edge of the Sierra. El Sabinito may have consisted of 600 houses with a population of 1,500 at its peak. It was abandoned about 1100 A.D., possibly because climatic changes made agriculture less feasible. Archaeologists speculate that the inhabitants reverted to a hunting-gathering means of subsistence.</p><br>
<p>The first European to visit the coastal area adjacent to the Sierra was Francisco de Garay in 1523. Garay found maize cultivation up to about the Tropic of Cancer. From there northward lived hunter-gatherers who, according to Garay&#39;s men, were numerous and warlike on the lower stretches of the Soto La Marina River.</p><br>
<p>Brämön is an island in Sundsvall Municipality, Västernorrland County, Sweden.</p><br>
<p>Brämön is about 5 km long and 3 km wide, with an area of about 11 km. It is situated in the Bothnian Sea, separated from the mainland by the approximately 2 km wide Brämösundet. A small island named Kalven just lies just off Brämön in the south.</p><br>
<p>Brämön had already been known for fishing in the 15th century. The last fisherman left the island in 1949.</p><br>
<p>There are two inhabited places in Brämön, namely Sanna and Norrhamn. The two places are connected by a footpath. A nature reserve was established in 2004, which includes the island except Sanna and Norrhamn.</p><br>
<p>Brämön was spelled as Bremön. The old spelling is still used by many.</p><br>
<p>Jersey City Reservoir No. 3 is a decommissioned reservoir atop Bergen Hill in the Heights of Jersey City, Hudson County, New Jersey, United States, situated on approximately 13.8 acre just south of Pershing Field. It was built between 1871 and 1874 as part of the city&#39;s waterworks system designed to provide potable water to the city, including Ellis Island. Its perimeter wall is in the Egyptian Revival style and pump stations are in the Romanesque Revival style. The reservoir provided drinking water until the 1980s, when it was drained and abandoned for a larger reservoir at the Boonton Gorge. Since that time, a mini-ecosystem has taken root time behind the thick, 20-feet tall stone walls including trees, wildflowers, swans, great blue heron, peregrine falcons, and at its center, a 6-acre  lake. This urban wildlife preserve hosts numerous animal and plant species not otherwise found in an urban environment. It was listed on the state and the federal registers of historic places in 2012. Nearby Reservoir No. 1 was located on either side of Summit Avenue and has been demolished.</p><br>
<p>The Jersey City Reservoir Preservation Alliance, started in 2002, runs the maintenance and supervision programs necessary to keep the park open to the public every Saturday from May-October. The Alliance also runs summertime programming in arts, music, and recreation to bring new and returning community members to the space. The Alliance received the Ted Conrad “Preservationist of the Year” Award in 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Ormond Plantation House is a French Colonial-style, Creole plantation house located in Destrehan, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana, United States.</p><br>
<p>The house was built in the late 18th century, using bricks between cypress studs. This type of construction, called briquettes entre poteaux or "brick between posts," was used on the front and rear walls, with a type of adobe filling on the side walls. Rounded cement and brick columns supported the front veranda, or gallery, with wood columns on the second floor supporting the roof.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The builder and first owner of the house was sugar baron Pierre Trepagnier, who in the early 1780s was awarded a tract of land between Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River by Spanish Governor Don Bernardo de Galvez, The manor house was completed shortly before 1789 (or 1780) and occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Trepagnier (née Elizabeth Reynaud, m. 1777 The family grew indigo and then sugarcane on the property.</p><br>
<p>There have been a handful of mysterious occurrences at Ormond Plantation. The first involved Mr. Trepagnier himself in 1798 when he was summoned from a family meal by a servant to notify him of a coach outside with a Spanish insignia. The servant was reported to have seen him meet a gentleman who was supposedly dressed in the clothing of a Spanish official. When the servant checked back, Trepagnier, the man and his coach had vanished and were never seen again.</p><br>
<p>On June 25, 1805, Colonel Richard Butler, son and nephew of American Revolutionary War heroes bought the plantation home and land from Trepagnier&#39;s widow. He named the house Ormond, after his ancestral home, the Ormonde Castle in Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, Ireland. In August 1809, Butler became a business partner with Captain Samuel McCutchon, a merchant and sailor originally from Pennsylvania.</p><br>
<p>On June 29, 1819 (ten years later, or fourteen years after acquiring the property), in a private pact signed at the plantation, Richard Butler turned over all of his holdings to McCutchon and he and his wife moved to Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. No reason was ever given to explain why Butler sold the plantation although it is thought that it was an attempt at evading the local Yellow fever epidemic. If this was true then his attempts failed as it was reported that the fever had caught up with him and he died at age 43.</p><br>
<p>There is some disagreement as to when the two existing wings, or garconnieres, were built. Some say that they were built around 1811 by Richard Butler while others believe they were built in 1830 by Captain McCutchon. The garconnieres (bachelor quarters) are what give Ormond Plantation House a unique look and are taller than the main part of the house. It is believed they were influenced by architecture from the Atlantic seaboard. Captain McCutchons eldest son, Samuel B. McCutchon, married Adele dEstrehan, the daughter of the owner of neighboring Destrehan Plantation, uniting two of the area&#39;s most powerful families. Samuel and his brother James William McCutchon took over the plantation upon the death of their father, and it continued to prosper.</p><br>
<p>After the Civil War, the plantation fell on hard times and was sold twice before being sold two more times at public auctions in 1874 and 1875. On December 1, 1898, Ormond Plantation was purchased by State Senator Basile LaPlace, Jr, (son of New Orleans pharmacist and land owner after whom the town of LaPlace is named) who envisioned its use as a rice-producing enterprise. Mr. LaPlace was a well-known Justice of the Peace and then as a state senator, and also successfully managed the LaPlace land area left to him by his father. Legend has it that on the night of October 11, 1899 (less than one year after buying Ormond), he was found hanging from a large oak tree on the property with bullet holes in his body. It is believed that the assassination was carried out by members of the local Ku Klux Klan which he would likely have had disagreements with due to his position, however at the time it was also believed it may have been carried out by the caretaker and his son in revenge for LaPlaces apparent "philandering" with the caretakers daughter; however there is no evidence to suggest either is true.</p><br>
<p>After the LaPlace family, the Schexnaydre family purchased the plantation. Five Schexnaydre brothers (Joseph, Emilien, Barthelemy, Albert, and Norbet) each held a one-fifth share of the property. Emilien&#39;s family moved into the manor house, and at one time five Schexnaydre families lived there. This family held the property until 1926, when it was sold to the Inter-Credit Corporation.</p><br>
<p>During the late 1920s and into the 1930s, a number of tenants occupied the house and the land. The home was allowed to deteriorate, until it was purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Brown, owners of the Brown&#39;s Velvet Dairy in New Orleans. Beginning in 1943, the Browns undertook a major restoration, which included enclosing the carriageways and making the garconnieres a part of the main building. The Browns added modern conveniences such as indoor plumbing, natural gas, and electricity.</p><br>
<p>After the death of Mrs. Brown, Mr. Brown sold Ormond to a real estate developer, Johnson & Loggins, who made minor but costly renovations in the manor house. In 1974, Johnson & Loggins sold the home and 17 acres of land to Betty R. LeBlanc, then executive vice-president of Barq&#39;s Beverages, Inc., in New Orleans. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, Mrs. LeBlanc began restoring the plantation house, which had begun to deteriorate due to the renovations made by Johnson & Loggins. She was not able to see the renovations completed, succumbing to cancer in June 1986.</p><br>
<h2>Present day</h2><br>
<p>Ormond Plantation is currently listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is owned by Irvin J. Carmouche. Mr. Carmouche continues to restore it and allows the manor home to be used for public tours along with weddings, luncheons, and other private events. Ormond is also operating as a bed and breakfast inn.</p><br>
<p>The LaBranche Plantation Dependency House is located in St. Rose, St. Charles Parish, Louisiana. From many accounts, LaBranche Plantation in St. Rose, Louisiana, was one of the grandest on the German Coast until it was destroyed during the Civil War. All that remained was the dependency house, known as a garconnière .</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Zweig family, immigrants from Germany, acquired the property and built the plantation big house and related buildings in 1792. The main building was destroyed during the Civil War. Following the division of the property among heirs in the late 19th century, there is little left to indicate that a grand mansion stood on the grounds except for an allée lined with oak trees.</p><br>
<p>The late eighteenth-nineteenth century Creole dependency house, typically used for young bachelors and known in French as a garconnière, is significant because of its Federal woodwork and rarity as a surviving plantation dependency. Olidé and Marie Perilloux Cambre purchased the dependency house and property in 1902.</p><br>
<h2>Modern day</h2><br>
<p>The site where the manor house once stood is on private land and is not accessible to the public. The site of the Dependency House is on land currently owned by the Lentini family of Kenner. The Lentinis purchased and restored the dependency house in 1983. On October 18, 1984, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, due to its exquisite Federal woodwork and rarity as a plantation dependency or ancillary building.</p><br>
<p>The property also has a preserved slave quarters building. It has been restored, to show the living conditions of a slave family (or families). Preserved slave quarters are few in the area, since most plantations were purchased by oil refineries or industrial plants for the property; any remaining slave housing was usually torn down.</p><br>
<p>Also located on the site is the bathtub owned by Zachary Taylor, the 12th President of the United States (1849–1850).</p><br>
<p>Emirzeli  is a group of ruins in Mersin Province, Turkey</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Emirzeli is a part of Karahmetli village in Erdemli district of Mersin Province at 36&deg;32&prime;N latitude, 34&deg;06&prime;E longitude. The road to Emirzeli detaches from Turkish state highway. Kanlıdivane, an important religious center of the antiquity is also on this road. The distance from Emirzeli to Erdemli is 28 km and to Mersin is 64 km.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The earliest ruins in Emirzeli are from the Hellenistic era, dating to the 2nd century BC. The settlement was an important town of the Hellenistic kingdom of Olba. After the collapse of the Hellenistic states, the settlement became a part of the Roman and Byzantine Empires. Later the site seems to have been abandoned. The modern village was founded to the east of the site by a Turkmen tribe.</p><br>
<h2>Ruins</h2><br>
<p>The castle at the north with polygonal masonry was built in the second century BC. Its dimensions are 105 x 60 m (345 x 200 ft), but only the tower at the east wall is standing. A phallus can be seen on the wall. Some stones of the castle were probably re-used in later buildings. To the south of the castle there is a part of stone pergola from the Roman era. On the south hill there are ruins of three basilica-style churches, probably from the early Byzantine era (5th or 6th century). The second church is partially standing.</p><br>
<p>Swanwyck is a historic home located near New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware. It was built between 1813 and 1819, and is a two-story, three bay, stuccoed brick dwelling reflective of the Regency period. The house has been modified by later additions and is now surrounded by 20th century residential development, unlike its original farmland setting.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1977.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Swanwyck was designed and built by Peter Bauduy for his daughter, Cora, sometime between 1813 and 1819. Bauduy was a French immigrant who came to Wilmington after fleeing first the French Revolution and then the Haitian Revolution. An associate of the Du Pont family, he was also credited as the architect of the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Wilmington. The name "Swanwyck" came from an old Dutch settlement located nearby on the Delaware River upriver from New Castle.</p><br>
<p>In the 1940s and 1950s, the farmland around Swanwyck was developed into a residential subdivision called Swanwyck Estates. An addition was built onto the northwest corner of the house around this time, including a new front entrance since the original building is now oriented sideways relative to the street.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Swanwyck is a two-story brick building exemplifying the British Regency style with a white stuccoed exterior and modest classical details. The main block of the house is three bays wide with subtly projecting piers and a hipped roof. The original facade has been modified by the removal of the central entrance portico and the addition of a separate second floor entrance accessed by exterior stairs. The main ornamentation consists of a prominent string course circling the entire building.</p><br>
<p>The original interior layout had three large rooms on each floor with a central hallway and staircase, but it has been considerably modified.</p><br>
<p>The Gailtal Alps , is a mountain range of the Southern Limestone Alps in Austria. It rises between the River Drava  and the Gail valley  and through the southern part of East Tyrol. Its western group called "Lienz Dolomites" , is sometimes counted as part of this range and sometimes seen as separate.</p><br>
<h2>Classification</h2><br>
<p>According to the Alpine Club classification of the Eastern Alps (AVE) the Gailtal Alps (No. 56) are subdivided into the Drauzug proper and Lienz Dolomites subgroups, while in common parlance the umbrella term Drauzug conversely applies to the whole Limestone Alps range between the Drava and Gail rivers, including the Gailtal Alps and the Lienz Dolomites. In traditional geography according to Eduard Suess and Leopold Kober, Drauzug or Drau-Save-Zug denoted all Southern Limestone Alps ranges stretching along the Drava River, from the Lienz Dolomites in the west to the Karawanks in the east.</p><br>
<p>Located south of the broad Drava Valley, the Gailtal Alps orographically count as part of the Southern Limestone Alps. However, they rise north of the Periadriatic Seam an therefore geologically do not rank among the Southern Alps ranges. In regard to their orogenesis, they represent the remnants of the limestone nappes which had been moved northwards across the Central Eastern Alps to form the Northern Limestone Alps.</p><br>
<p>Despite their name, the Lienz Dolomites are not made up of dolostone, though the steep rugged karst topography resembles the South Alpine Dolomite rock formations. The northern Latschur group with Mt. Goldeck near Spittal an der Drau does not consist of limestone rocks, but is a crystalline basement massif.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The 100 km long range, which narrows in the west, stretches between the Gail in the south and the Drava in the north. In a trough between the Gailtal Alps and Mt. Goldeck lies the Weißensee at 930 m, the highest lake for bathing in Austria.</p><br>
<h3>Neighbouring ranges</h3><br>
<p>Based on the AVE classification, the adjacent ranges are:</p><br>
<p>To the north: Ankogel Group, Kreuzeck Group and Schober Group of the Hohe Tauern, part of the Central Eastern Alps</p><br>
<p>To the northwest: Villgraten Mountains, part of the Hohe Tauern</p><br>
<p>To the south: Carnic Alps and Karawanks, part of the Southern Limestone Alps</p><br>
<p>To the east: Gurktal Alps, part of the Central Eastern Alps</p><br>
<h3>Subdivisions</h3><br>
<p>The Gailtal Alps can be divided into five massifs in east-west direction, separated by draws and the Weissensee longitudinal valley:</p><br>
<p>Lienz Dolomites, stretching about 40 km from the Kartitsch Saddle mountain pass (east of Sillian) to Gailberg Saddle near Oberdrauburg (highest summits: Große Sandspitze, 2,770 m, Spitzkofel, 2,718 m, both south of Lienz, Gamswiesenspitze, 2,486 m, and Lumkofel, 2,287 m)</p><br>
<p>Drauzug or Gailtal Alps proper, stretching about 65 km from the Gailberg Saddle to the confluence of Drava and Gail near Villach:</p><br>
<p>Reißkofel Group, between Gailberg and the Kreuzberg Saddle south of Greifenburg (Reißkofel, 2,371 m, The Jauken massif, 2,275 m with the highest peak Torkofel, the Spitzkofel, 2,223 m, and Sattelnock, 2,033 m)</p><br>
<p>Latschur Group, between Weissensee and the Drava bend near Sachsenburg (Latschur, 2,236 m)</p><br>
<p>The Spitzegel Group, southeast of the Weißensee between Kreuzberg Saddle and the Bleiberg Graben (Spitzegel, 2,119 m)</p><br>
<p>Dobratsch or Villach Alp, 2,166 m, the easternmost foothills of the Gailtal Alps with the Schütt nature reserve.</p><br>
<h2>Literature</h2><br>
<p>Hubert Peterka, Willi End: Alpenvereinsführer Lienzer Dolomiten, Bergverlag Rother. Munich, 1984,</p><br>
<p>The William Culbertson House is a historic residence in the village of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Constructed in the final quarter of the nineteenth century, it was once the home of one of the village&#39;s premier businessmen, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Born in New York in 1833, William Culbertson was raised in Warren, Ohio, where he learned the trade of a carriagemaker. Upon moving to Mechanicsburg in 1853, he worked as a journeyman for three years before beginning his own carriage manufacturing business in 1856 with Cyrus Barr. Their partnership was highly successful; by 1880, Culbertson and Barr had developed a reputation as one of the region&#39;s premier manufacturers of carriages, buggies, and spring wagons, as well as operating a livery from 1860 to 1874 and remaining a well-reputed repair center. One year later, Culbertson had his residence built, fifteen years after Barr had arranged for the construction of his house.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Built of brick on a stone foundation, the William Culbertson House is a two-story building with a hip roof. Numerous elements combine to make it a typical example of the Italianate style, including its irregular floor plan with a large bay that projects eastward from the main body of the house, a cornice formed by ornamental brackets, a decorative front porch, and hood molds over the windows.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1985, the Culbertson House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying both because of its historical architecture and its place as the home of a prominent local citizen. Approximately twenty other Mechanicsburg buildings were listed on the National Register at the same time as part of a multiple property submission; a historic district nomination had been considered, but the historic buildings were too few and far between to warrant designation as a group, so they were nominated individually. Among the other buildings in the group was the Mechanicsburg United Methodist Church, located one block away on Race Street at its intersection with Main Street.</p><br>
<p>The Orlando Humason House is a historic house located in The Dalles, Oregon, United States. Humason , the "Father of Wasco County", lived in this modest Gothic Revival house from its construction in 1860 until his death. Originally from Ohio, he worked in law, prospecting, agriculture, and journalism, prior to settling in The Dalles as a prosperous merchant and river transport businessman. Representing first Oregon City then The Dalles in the territorial and state legislatures, he introduced legislation establishing Wasco County, Multnomah County, and the City of The Dalles. He also championed a bill to build a canal around the Cascades Rapids to allow Lower Columbia shipping to reach The Dalles, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime. Humason&#39;s other public positions included mayor of The Dalles and Wasco County judge. The house is architecturally notable as one of very few Gothic Revival houses in The Dalles.</p><br>
<p>At some date between 1875 and 1908, it was moved to its present location from elsewhere in The Dalles.</p><br>
<p>Gordon Hall, also known as the Judge Samuel W. Dexter House, is a private house located at 8341 Island Lake Road in Dexter, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1958 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The house is unique in Michigan for its balance, large scale, and massive hexastyle portico. The structure is also significant as the dwelling of Judge Samuel W. Dexter, a pioneering Michigan resident and land baron who had a substantial impact on early development of Washtenaw County and other sections of the state. The house was later owned by Dexter&#39;s granddaughter Katherine Dexter McCormick, a pioneering research scientist, suffragist, and philanthropist. In its early days, Gordon Hall hosted at least two, and possibly three United States presidents, and it was almost certainly a stop along the Underground Railroad.</p><br>
<h2>Samuel William Dexter</h2><br>
<p>Samuel W. Dexter was born in Boston in 1792 to Samuel Dexter, a politician who served as a Congressman, Senator, and both Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury under President John Adams; and Catherine Gordon, daughter of William and Temperance Gordon of Boston. The couple had two children: Samuel, born in 1817, and Augustine, born in 1820. However, both Amelia and Augustine died in 1822.</p><br>
<p>In 1824, Dexter moved to Detroit with $80,000, and proceeded to purchase 926 acres of land in Michigan. He also purchased land in Webster and Scio Townships in Washtenaw County, on which he later founded the village of Dexter. On his Washtenaw County holdings, Dexter built a sawmill on Mill Creek, and a log cabin nearby. Dexter returned to Massachusetts in 1825, and there married his second wife, Susan Dunham. Dexter returned to Michigan in 1826, living in the log cabin while a frame house was built nearby on the riverbank, located on what is now Huron Street in the present-day village of Dexter.</p><br>
<p>As the village grew, Dexter&#39;s house became the center of activity for the community. In 1829, he established the first newspaper in Washtenaw County, the Western Immigrant, published in Ann Arbor. He also ran for Congress in 1831, and served as a Regent of the University of Michigan in 1840.</p><br>
<p>In 1827, a son was born to Dexter and his wife Susan; however, soon after both Susan Dexter and the infant died. In 1828, Dexter married his third wife, sixteen-year-old Millisent Bond, whose widowed mother had recently settled in Michigan after moving from Massachusetts. The couple had nine children: Riley (born c. 1829), Mary (born 1830), Wirt (born 1832), Katherine (born 1833), Hannah (born 1834), Julia (born 1837), Charlotte (born 1839), Isabella (born 1841) and Marchall (born 1858). Of these, all but Riley, who died in 1833, lived to adulthood.</p><br>
<p>In 1830, Dexter platted a village on the land surrounding his house; he named it "Dexter" to honor his father. He also obtained land in other parts of Michigan; in addition to establishing Saginaw, Byron, and Dexter, he platted Ionia, Michigan, and by 1835 owned 3,500 acres of land in Washtenaw County alone. Dexter was a vocal supporter of railroads (and, indeed, is generally credited as the first person to publicly call for the construction of a transcontinental railroad, in an editorial in 1832), and in 1837 deeded a 100 ft wide portion of his land to the state for the purpose of constructing a railroad.</p><br>
<p>The railroad was built in 1841, and passed very close to Dexter&#39;s Huron Street house. This encouraged him to build a larger country mansion on 1,700 acres outside of Dexter, a house he called "Gordon Hall" in honor of his mother, Catherine Gordon Dexter.</p><br>
<h2>Gordon Hall history</h2><br>
<p>Dexter chose a site on a prominent hilltop to build his country estate. who later went on to become a successful contractor, and also to marry Fillmores niece Viola Johnson. Construction on Gordon Hall began in 1841, and wasnt completed until 1843. The substantial construction time was due in great part to the difficulty in obtaining lumber, much of which had to be hauled in from Flint or Detroit. However, once construction was complete, the Dexters moved from their previous house on Huron Street into the new country house (the Huron Street house was demolished in 1937).</p><br>
<p>The Dexters, as prominent citizens, entertained many important visitors, including US Presidents James K. Polk and James Buchanan. Although it is not certain, it is likely that a third president, Millard Fillmore, also visited Gordon Hall – it is known that Fillmore visited his brother Calvin, and it is likely the pair would have toured the house that Calvin designed.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Dexter was a staunch abolitionist, and it is nearly certain that Gordon Hall was a stop on the Underground Railroad. There is some evidence that Millisent Dexter employed a string of Black servants, all of whom were recent arrivals to the village and none of whom stayed for any length of time. In oral histories, Samuel Dexter and his sons were identified as conductors on the Underground Railroad. More telling, it has been documented that Gordon Hall once contained a secret room in the basement, accessible through a trap door on the south porch and from concealed openings in crawlspaces under the other porches. Although the trap door was removed during remodeling and the "secret" room had doors cut to it, the passages to the crawl space remain in the house.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Dexter lived in Gordon Hall until he died on January 6, 1863. Millisent Dexter and some of their children continued to live in the house. Millisent made some alterations to the structure, most significantly removing one of the wings and adding a four-story tower in its place in the 1870s. Samuel Dexter&#39;s business operations were passed to Wirt Dexter, his only son. Wirt sold off much of the surrounding land, so that by 1875 the estate was down to about 70 acres. On June 27, 1899, Millisent Dexter died. Her will specified that Gordon Hall was to be sold, with the proceeds of the sale being split among her daughters. In 1900, the house was sold to Thomas Birkett, a prominent local banker and miller.</p><br>
<p>Birkett lived in the house for some time, but at some point moved out, leaving it vacant.</p><br>
<p>In 1939, Katherine Dexter McCormick purchased the property. McCormick was the daughter of Judge Samuel Dexters son Wirt, and had been born in Gordon Hall in 1875. She had graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1904 with a BS in Biology; the Institutes second woman graduate. She then married Stanley McCormick, the son of Cyrus McCormick. Katherine McCormick conducted research in biochemistry and schizophrenia, was instrumental in achieving the ratification of the 19th amendment allowing women to vote, and co-founded the League of Women Voters. At the time she purchased Gordon Hall, McCormick was living in California. She hired Emil Lorch, dean emeritus of the College or Architecture at the University of Michigan, to restore the house, thinking to turn it into a place that could be used by Dexters womens clubs.</p><br>
<p>Lorch spent eight years restoring and refurbishing the building, including the removal of the four-story tower built by Millisent Dexter and rebuilding the wing similar to the original. However, in 1950, before the rehabilitation was complete, McCormick gave the property to the University of Michigan, in part to help settle some of her own estate tax issues. By some reports, the gift contained the stipulation that the interior be converted to apartments for university faculty and staff. By other reports, the conversion was the University&#39;s idea and no one had informed McCormick. In any case, despite the controversial timing, contractors were swiftly employed, the interior was completely gutted, and the conversion was completed. One of the first occupants was Alexander Grant Ruthven, who moved into Gordon Hall after stepping down from the presidency of the University in 1951.</p><br>
<p>The University continued to maintain the property until 2000, when it decided to sell it. In 2006, the Dexter Area Historical Society and Museum purchased the property, with the intent of making it a community resource. A small parcel of the grounds was sold in 2009, to United Methodist Retirement Community, Inc., who built a senior citizens&#39; retirement community on the site; the sale reduced the size of the grounds to about 68 acres. As of 2011, the building was unoccupied, but was used occasionally for tours and functions.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Judge Samuel W. Dexter House is a two-story rectangular Greek Revival post-and-beam The exterior is clad in aluminum siding installed during the 1951 renovation, although the original clapboard siding is still underneath.</p><br>
<p>The front facade features a gabled temple front, with an impressive hexastyle Doric portico along the front facade that extends the full height of the building. The main door is centered in the front portico, and is surrounded by sidelights and pilasters and topped with a transom. The front is five bays wide, with symmetrical window placement.</p><br>
<p>The side elevations of the house have small single-story porches, supported by three Doric columns. A fourth porch spans the rear of the house, connecting the additions, with a rear door similar in detail to the front opening onto the porch. Two more doors access the side porches. A set of three doors opens onto the deck formed by the roof of the rear porch. The windows in the house are double-hung, with six-over-six lights, many of which are original to the house. The roof is covered with asphalt shingling, and a set of low-sloped dormers project to the rear.</p><br>
<p>There is approximately 2,500 square feet on each of the first and second floors, and somewhat less in the unfinished attic and basement. The original interior configuration had a grand central hall and stairwell, with four large rooms at each corner, all with fireplaces. On the first floor these were identified as a dining room, a parlor (or library), and two drawing rooms. On the second floor, these were four bed chambers; an additional sewing room spanned the area across the front of the house. Additional rooms, including a first-floor kitchen, were in the side wings. In all, the original house had 22 rooms, nine fireplaces, and 55 windows. The ceilings rise 12 ft on the first floor and 10 ft on the second.</p><br>
<p>However, the 1951 renovation nearly entirely eliminated the historical integrity of the interior of the structure, with all interior trim and nearly all the walls removed. The house was converted into four apartments, with two stairways for accessing the second-floor apartments and the attic space. All four apartments are nearly identical, with two bedrooms, a small bathroom, a kitchen, and a combined living room/dining area.</p><br>
<p>Although the interior has lost its historic fabric, the main structure is substantially intact, and the large-scale majestic features that make the structure architecturally significant still exist. Gordon Hall has often been likened to Jefferson&#39;s Monticello, in part due to its grand execution and in part due to its situation on a hilltop and the surrounding, and still extant, sweeping view.</p><br>
<p>Whangapoua Harbour is a shallow natural harbour in the northeast of the Coromandel Peninsula. It is located between Whangapoua in the north, Te Rerenga in the southwest, and Matarangi on the Omara Spit in the north separating it from the ocean. Two boat ramps and a jetty provide boat access into the harbour.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Waitekuri River, Opitonui River, Owera Stream, Otanguru Stream, and Mapauriki Stream all drain the surrounding hills that are part of the Coromandel Range into the 12 km harbour, which only has a single narrow mouth to the sea. Tidal flows have built up a bar at the 600m wide entrance, which makes navigation difficult in large swells. The entrance is flanked by the rocky Te Rehutae Point, rising to 85m to the west, and Omara Spit to the east.</p><br>
<p>The southern and eastern estuary arms contain extensive areas of grey mangroves. The surrounding land is partly farm land, pine plantations, and native bush.</p><br>
<h2>Recreation</h2><br>
<p>The harbour is popular for fishing, particularly with holiday makers in Matarangi and Whangapoua. Commonly caught fish include kahawai, snapper, John Dory, and barracuda.</p><br>
<p>The Peacock Mountains are a small, 26-mi  long mountain range in northwest Arizona, USA. The range is a narrow sub-range, and an extension north, at the northeast of the Hualapai Mountains massif, which lies to the southwest. The range is defined by the Hualapai Valley to the northwest, and north and south-flowing washes on its east border, associated with faults and cliffs; the Cottonwood Cliffs  are due east, and are connected to the Aquarius Cliffs southward at the west perimeter of the Aquarius Mountains; the cliffs are a result of the Aquarius Fault, which is an extension southward from the Grand Wash Cliffs and Grand Wash Fault which crosses the Colorado River at Lake Mead, and the west perimeter of the Grand Canyon/Colorado Plateau.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Peacock Mountains, are a smaller, lower elevation range, only about 10-mi (16 km) wide. Peacock Peak (Arizona), 6,293 ft is the range highpoint, in the approximate center of the range, with a ridgeline north to the range terminus (13-mi). At the north terminus, Arizona State Route 66 transits northeast to southeast around the range; the Grand Wash Cliffs lie due north; the northwest-trending Hualapai Valley extends from the terminus, and the Grand Wash Cliffs form its east border, also forming the southwest border of the Music Mountains; the cliffs extend approximately 100-mi northwards approaching southwest Utah.</p><br>
<p>The east side of the Peacock Mountains are defined by due-north and due-south flowing drainages on the west of the Cottonwood Cliffs. At the approximate mountain range center, a water divide finds Hackberry Wash flowing due-north to Truxton Wash, which descends from the northeast, (off east Music Mountains, and west region Aubrey Valley). Truxton Wash meets the northeast of the Peacock Mountains, then turns due northwest at the Peacock Mountains foothills, to enter the southeast of Hualapai Valley.</p><br>
<p>At the southeast of the Peacock Mountains, the headwaters of the south-flowing Knight Creek begins. Within 25-mi from the water divide the creek becomes the Big Sandy River. The southern section of the Peacock Mountains also widens to about 14-mi, with McCarrys Wash feeding east off the northeast of the Hualapai Mountains, and numerous other washes feeding from the south and southeast off the Peacock Mountains into Knight Creek.</p><br>
<h2>Vegetation communities</h2><br>
<p>The Peacock Mountains lie at a regional confluence of five vegetation biotic communities. Mohave Desertscrub has a limit to the north (in the Grand Canyon, along the Colorado River), and is located northwest, west, and southwest of the Peacock Mountains/Kingman, Arizona region; also northwest, at the north of Hualapai Valley. To the south, the north limits of the Arizona Upland Sonoran Desert-scrub is found up the Big Sandy River and its tributaries, which is north-south along the Aquarius Fault, the fault being the Grand Wash Cliffs southern extension. Another lower elevation community is the Semidesert Grassland, found especially in southeast Arizona, (middle elevation locales, Madrean Sky Islands region, Cochise County), but the zone extends northwestwards along the Arizona transition zone mountains and valleys, higher elevation grassland at the base of the northwest&ndash;by&ndash;southeast lineage of the Mogollon Rim, and associated ridges or plateaus (Mogollon Plateau); the Semidesert Grassland reaches its terminus northwest up the Big Sandy River and west to the Sacramento Valley at the west of Kingman, and northwards up into Detrital Valley.</p><br>
<h3>Great Basin Grassland, Great Basin Conifer Woodland</h3><br>
<p>Two higher elevation biotic communities find their west limits at the Peacock Mountains region. Upstream up Truxton Wash to the northeast, is a region of Plains and Great Basin Grassland along the Truxton Wash and mountain foothills; further east and northeast, on the west of the Coconino Plateau, (Hualapai Indian Reservation, and Aubrey Valley region), a large mostly continuous expanse of the grassland exists. The grassland is surrounded and intermixed with the 2nd higher elevation biotic community, Great Basin Conifer Woodland. Together, the woodland and the grassland encompass almost the entire north half of Arizona except for specific regions of desert (Painted Desert, the Great Basin Desertscrub, on the Colorado Plateau, or associated perimeter regions). Other exceptions are the highpoint communities of trees or alpine grasslands at the San Francisco Peaks region, or the Kaibab Plateau on the Grand Canyon North Rim, or a few other higher altitude locales. (The exceptions are the Subalpine Grassland, found especially in the White Mountains, or small areas at the San Francisco Peaks, and the Rocky Mountain Subalpine Conifer Forest found at both the White Mountains and San Francisco Peaks.)</p><br>
<p>Måbødalen is a narrow valley in the municipality of Eidfjord in Hordaland county, Norway. The 7 km long valley begins at the village of Øvre Eidfjord and ends at the Sysendalen valley on the western side of the Hardangervidda plateau. The valley contains one of the most notable waterfalls in the country: Vøringfossen, which is easily accessible via Norwegian National Road 7 .</p><br>
<p>The first road through the Måbødalen valley was built during the period of 1900-1916. Consisting of three tunnels and three bridges, it is characterized by its many hairpin turns. The road is widely used by pedestrians and cyclists today and it is regarded as a good example of early 20th century road engineering. This was the first road connection between Eastern and Western Norway over the Hardangervidda plateau when it was finally completed in 1928. A new road through Måbødalen was opened in 1986, and it replaced the old road (which was not removed). The new road is wider and has many more tunnels to replace the narrow, old road and all its hairpin turns. The Måbødalen bus accident occurred in 1988 on the new road.</p><br>
<p>The Fossli Hotel is situated on top of the mountain, overlooking the Måbødalen valley and the Vøringfossen waterfall, just off Rv7. The hotel owns a Zimmermann piano where Edvard Grieg composed Norwegian Folk Songs, Opus 66 (1896). In 1854, Johan Christian Dahl painted Måbødalen, a landscape painting of the area. The painting is in the art museum in Bergen.</p><br>
<p>Landfall Island is the northernmost island of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.</p><br>
<p>It belongs to the territory&#39;s North and Middle Andaman administrative district.</p><br>
<p>The island lies 220 km north of Port Blair, and is situated 300 km km from Burma.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The island was severely affected by the tsunami that was caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which led to damaged infrastructure. The island&#39;s coral reefs were exposed in bulk.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island is situated between North Andaman Island and Myanmar&#39;s Coco Islands. It belongs to the Cleugh Passage Group and lies immediately north of the passage. The island is small, having an area of 3.1 km&sup2;.</p><br>
<h2>Administration</h2><br>
<p>Politically, Landfall Island, along with neighboring islands in the Cleugh Passage Group, is part of Diglipur Taluk. The village is near the police station.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Ferries connect this island to Diglipur.</p><br>
<h2>Demographics</h2><br>
<p>There is only one village.</p><br>
<p>According to the 2011 census of India, the island has xxx households. The effective literacy rate (i.e. the literacy rate of population excluding children aged 6 and below) is 100%.</p><br>
<p>The Empire Manufacturing Company Building located in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia.</p><br>
<p>The building was built in 1939 by the North Carolina firm of Jackson & Edney for the National Linen Service Corporation which in 1962 merged with Zep to become National Service Industries, Inc. In the late 1990s, renovation of the building was started to convert the building into loft office space as a part of the Southern Dairies Redevlopment. In February 2002 the building was added the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<p>The building was built with "a clear span truss system that permitted a 95-foot span without any supporting members to break up</p><br>
<p>the floor space". It has Art Deco architecture.</p><br>
<p>Cohen Island is an island within the borders of the City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska, United States. Located off the eastern shore of Favorite Channel, it is 1 mi northwest of Point Stephens and 16 mi northwest of the city of Juneau. It is a part of the Channel Islands State Marine Park.</p><br>
<p>Cohen Island is forested and characterized by cliffs and headlands around its perimeter, lacking any sufficient landing sites. Black oystercatchers are often seen looking for food in the vicinity of the island. According to the, commercial recreation leasing is prohibited on Cohen Island.</p><br>
<p>It was named by the USA National Geodetic Survey and first published on a chart in 1893. The name was collected by the United States Geological Survey between 1976 and 1981, and entered into the Geographic Names Information System on March 31, 1981. Historian R. N. DeArmond believed Cohen Island was named after a resident of Juneau and Sitka.</p><br>
<p>Redlands is a historic farmhouse near the city of Circleville in the south-central part of the USA state of Ohio. A grand home built in the middle of the 19th century, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Constructed in 1858, its foundation and minor elements are stone, and additional buildings on the property are weatherboarded. Its construction and its numerous decorative elements combine to make it typical of estates built for wealthy southern Ohio landowners soon before the Civil War. Particularly significant among these elements are the Greek Revival front porch, transoms above the windows and doors, its prominent fireplaces, and its grand front stairway.</p><br>
<p>Besides the residence, the farmstead comprises three outbuildings: two historic buildings, which are vernacular structures that had been completed by 1860, and one that lacks historic integrity. In 1982, Redlands was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its well-preserved historic architecture; the house and the two historic outbuildings were ranked as contributing, and the non-historic outbuilding was considered non-contributing. Crucial to the farms designation was its status as an intact gentlemans estate from the end of the pre-Civil War period.</p><br>
<p>The Stevenson Peters House is a historic farm complex near the city of Circleville in Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. Built in the mid-19th century, the complex has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Stevenson Peters was descended from one of Pickaway Countys earliest families of settlers. By the mid-19th century, Peters had made himself one of Walnut Townships most extensive landowners. On the present property he erected the present house in 1852, and here he resided until his death in 1887. Later generations of the Peters family owned the property until 1978, when it was inherited by a family named Bartholomew. Accordingly, it has also been known as the "Peters-Bartholomew Residence."</p><br>
<p>Peters&#39; farmhouse is a brick double-pen building with four-over-four windows, two-and-a-half stories tall and five bays wide. Because of its location on a hill, the house appears especially large to the viewer and can be seen from a particularly long distance. Nine additional buildings are located on the farmstead, which encompasses approximately 2 acre around the house.</p><br>
<p>In 1984, the Peters House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its distinctive historic architecture. Six of the ten buildings on the farmstead qualified as contributing properties, while the other four were deemed non-contributing. Particularly crucial to this designation was its four-over-four design, which represented an uncommon variation in its rural area.</p><br>
<p>The Perrill–Goodman Farmhouse is a historic farmhouse in the central part of the USA state of Ohio. Located south of Groveport in Pickaway County, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse was named for two of its prominent early residents, a Mr. Perrill and a Mr. Goodman. Both men held elective office in Pickaway County and served as community leaders in other responsibilities: Perrill was both a Madison Township Trustee and a justice of the peace, while Goodman was a Pickaway County Commissioner and treasurer of Madison Township, and in the early nineteenth century he was known countywide as one of the area&#39;s model farmers. Besides going by the names of these men, the property is also known as "Larue Farm."</p><br>
<p>Built in 1857, the farmhouse is a two-and-a-half-story brick structure with brick foundation and elements of stone. It was built in a time of transition between major architectural styles: elements such as the transom and sidelights around the main entrance as well as the rectangular lintels are typical of the older Greek Revival style, while the cornice with pairs of brackets, the narrow front gable and steep gables of the roof, and the lancet windows combine to remind the viewer of the later Gothic Revival style.</p><br>
<p>In 1985, the farmhouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, along with a single outbuilding; it was deemed qualified for historic designation because of its distinctive historic architecture.</p><br>
<p>Mount Oval is a historic farmhouse in the south central part of the USA state of Ohio, south of the city of Circleville. Built in the 1830s, it was home to some of the region&#39;s more prominent farmers, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>The first settler at the site of Mount Oval was John Boggs, who purchased the property from the USA government in 1806; the deed for the property was signed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, at that time President of the United States and United States Secretary of State. Arriving at the property, he discovered extensive evidence of aboriginal occupation at the site: localities such as Chief Cornstalks Town, Camps Charlotte and Lewis, Grenadier Squaw Town, and Logan Elm were all near Boggs new property. Boggs remained on the property until 1832, when William Renick married Jane Boggs and built the present house. During the period that the Renicks owned Mount Oval, it became a prominent center of cattle farming: the Renicks became the first farmers in the region to supply their cattle to the East Coast. Later owners included the families of Bernard Young, Mary Tolbert, and Jacob Ludwig, although for several decades the Ludwigs rented the property to tenants.</p><br>
<p>Mount Oval itself is a brick building with metal roof and elements of wood and stone. Architecturally, the house is a pure example of the Palladian style of architecture, displaying some elements that are patterned after Villa Capra, a grand Palladian mansion in northern Italy. Among its more distinctive elements is an interior room dedicated to caring for the needs of cattlemen; the Renicks&#39; cattle farming prompted them to construct dedicated facilities within their home.</p><br>
<p>In 1974, Mount Oval was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, along with a single outbuilding; it qualified for inclusion because of its distinctive historic architecture. More than twenty-five different locations in Pickaway County are listed on the National Register, and Mount Oval achieved this distinction earlier than all but two of the others.</p><br>
<p>The Gill–Morris Farm is a historic farmstead near the city of Circleville in Pickaway County, Ohio, United States. Established in the early nineteenth century, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>In 1798, USA President John Adams appointed a Mr. Winship the Registrar of Lands in the south-central portion of the Northwest Territory. Winship acquired an area of 1,440 acre within this region, which he divided among three of his sons. In 1827, one of them, William, conveyed part of his share to his sister Nancy Winship Gill. On this property the present farmstead had been established seven years earlier, and five years later the Gills expanded the house. In 1928, a descendent donated a small parcel at the front of the property to the Daughters of the American Revolution: here, the DAR erected a small monument to the Camp Charlotte Treaty, which had been signed by Chief Cornstalk and Lord Dunmore.</p><br>
<p>The farmhouse is a brick structure, with a foundation of limestone, although other buildings on the property are log structures. While the farmhouse as originally built was a clear example of the Federal style, the 1832 renovation gave the residence an appearance influenced by the later Greek Revival style. Both styles are still evident in the architecture: the double chimneys on the ends of the house and bull&#39;s-eye elements in the original lintels are distinctive Federal details, while the trabeated main entrance, windows, and flat lintels in the addition are more clearly Greek Revival.</p><br>
<p>In 1986, the Gill–Morris Farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The designation encompassed four contributing properties (three buildings and the monument) spread across 150 acre; the farm qualified for inclusion because of its distinctive historic architecture.</p><br>
<p>Circleville Memorial Hall is a historic community center and war memorial in the city of Circleville, Ohio, United States. Built in the years after the Civil War to remember the victims of the war, it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>In 1871, the state legislature enacted legislation to encourage the construction of Civil War memorials: the new law permitted Ohios counties to gather money for the construction of memorials. This law permitted the construction of the Pickaway County memorial in Circleville twenty years later. Besides serving as a war memorial, the building has provided space for numerous community activities: the citys public library has long been housed on the first floor, while no meeting hall in the city is larger than the one in Memorial Hall&#39;s upper floors.</p><br>
<p>Three stories tall, Memorial Hall is a brick building with a stone foundation and additional elements of brick and stone. The exterior is a clear example of the Richardsonian Romanesque style, due to elements such as the rounded archways, the heavy masonry construction and stone trim around its ribbon windows, its columns, and a massive corner tower. Inside, the community auditorium features a large balcony on the third floor.</p><br>
<p>In late 1980, Memorial Hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying for inclusion because of its historic architecture.</p><br>
<p>Scawt Hill is a volcanic plug in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, in the borough of Larne, 5 km from the village of Ballygalley.</p><br>
<p>It gets its name from the Ulster Scots scawd meaning scaly, scabby or rugged. Alternately, scawt meaning scruffy and contemptible, and when applied to rocks, covered in barnacles.</p><br>
<h2>Discovery of minerals</h2><br>
<p>Scawt Hill is notable for being the type locality for several hydrated calcium silicates, that is, the place where they were first identified. These minerals were formed when the existing chalk of the area was intensely altered by the intrusion of the feeder tube of an ancient volcano, now long since cooled and eroded to its roots.</p><br>
<p>Minerals that were first discovered at Scawt Hill:</p><br>
<p>Larnite (calcium orthosilicate) and named after Larne, the nearest town</p><br>
<p>Scawtite in 1929</p><br>
<p>Portlandite in 1933</p><br>
<p>Hydrocalumite in 1934</p><br>
<p>Rankinite in 1942</p><br>
<p>Bredigite in 1948</p><br>
<p>In all, 28 minerals have been found at this site.</p><br>
<h2>Volcanic plugs in Northern Ireland</h2><br>
<p>Over 30 volcanic plugs are dotted through Northern Ireland, mostly along the Antrim coast like Scawt Hill, although they are relatively rare throughout the rest of Ireland. Volcanic plugs are often easy to spot. Their harder rock erodes away more slowly than their surroundings so they rise above the landscape as a hill.</p><br>
<p>The largest volcanic plug in Northern Ireland is the oval-shaped Slemish. At its widest, Slemish is over 1 km in diameter. Scawt Hill is more of a typically sized example. This olivine dolerite plug is 270 m x 180 m wide and rises 30 – 60 m above the Cretaceous white limestone, although the Antrim plateau around it is typically basalt.</p><br>
<p>The chalk at Scawt Hill has been transformed by high temperature and low pressure thermal metamorphism, developing the large and unusual range of calc-siliate minerals that have attracted interest. The rocks inside the vent were also changed by the contact, producing a sequence of alkali mafic igneous rocks as the magma assimilated the chalk, reducing the silica in the magma and leading to larger grain size near the contact.</p><br>
<h2>Early description of Scawt Hill</h2><br>
<p>Cecil Edgar Tilley, writing for the Mineralogical Magazine in 1929, was the first to appreciate the potential of the dolerite-limestone contact at Scawt Hill. Tilley named scawtite and larnite, and later, rankinite, and his writings inspired many others to find similar relationships between rocks worldwide.</p><br>
<h2>Protected status</h2><br>
<p>In 1995, Scawt Hill was categorised as an Area of Special Scientific Interest, not just for its international importance to geology, but for its plant life, where chalky and alkaline conditions are in close proximity, and for its conditions for breeding birds.</p><br>
<h2>Ulster Way</h2><br>
<p>Scawt Hill is on the Ulster Way, part of a series of walking routes which encircle Ulster. It is passed by between the Black Hill and the Sallagh Braes.</p><br>
<p>The Demand-Gest House is a historic residence in the village of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Built for a physician, it was for many years the home of local business leaders, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Residents</h2><br>
<p>Dr. Charles E. Demand was a charter member of the Mechanicsburg Masonic lodge, as well as of Mechanicsburg&#39;s lodge of the Order of the Eastern Star.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The house is a wooden structure with a stone foundation. Built in the Colonial Revival style of architecture, it features a symmatrical facade with significant design elements such as a Palladian window and a porch with Ionic columns. Individuals may enter the house through a transomed doorway on the porch underneath a bay that protrudes from the residue of the second-floor facade. Inside, a distinctive feature is a prominent oval-shaped window near the staircase. Its Colonial Revival style makes the Demand-Gest House different from most of the village&#39;s historic residences, which are more frequently Queen Anne or Italianate in style.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>The Demand-Gest House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, qualifying both because of its historic architecture and its place in Ohios history. It was one of approximately twenty different Mechanicsburg locations to be listed on the National Register at the same time as part of a multiple property submission. Among the houses neighbors that were included in the multiple property submission are the homes of Demand&#39;s professional colleagues: the John H. Clark House at 21 N. Main and the Oram Nincehelser House at 28 N. Main.</p><br>
<p>The Fort Dearborn Hotel is a skyscraper and former hotel located at 401 S. Lasalle St. in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The 17-story hotel was designed by Holabird & Roche and finished in 1914. Designed in the Venetian Renaissance style, the hotel was built with gray and reddish brown brick and featured terra cotta ornamentation. The lobby features two murals by local artist Edgar Cameron depicting scenes of Fort Dearborn. The hotel was built to serve businessmen during a period of extensive hotel construction in Chicago; its site was chosen for its access to transportation, as it was located near LaSalle Street Station and the LaSalle/Van Buren L station. The Hotel Sherman Co. owned both the Fort Dearborn Hotel and the nearby Hotel Sherman, and the two hotels had a common management and kitchen staff. However, while the Hotel Sherman was a typical luxury hotel of the era, the Fort Dearborn Hotel focused on providing practical amenities at lower rates and set an example as a "popular, commercial hotel". The hotel is now an office building known as the LaSalle Atrium Building.</p><br>
<p>The Fort Dearborn Hotel was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 12, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Long Swamp Site  is a 4 acre archaeological site in Cherokee County, Georgia on the north shore of the Etowah River near St Rt 372. The site consists of a South Appalachian Mississippian culture village with a palisade and a platform mound.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The site is located on a floodplain and terrace overlooking the Etowah River from the north, near its confluence with Long Swamp Creek.</p><br>
<h3>Chronology</h3><br>
<p>The site was occupied at two different times during the prehistoric period, one dating from the Early Mississippian period Late Etowah Phase, circa 1100 to 1200 CE. It was again occupied during the late prehistoric period during the Mayes and Brewster Phases.</p><br>
<h3>Features</h3><br>
<p>The platform mound at Long Swamp was constructed in three distinct episodes with ten separate layers during the Etowah Phase occupation. The location started as a circular structure, that was used as a burial site. Above this a 55 cm mound was constructed, with another structure gracing its summit. This building measured 6.8 m in diameter and had a puddled clay floor and hearth. On top of this layer was another layer and circular structure. Above this layer was a third layer of mound fill, which reached a final height estimated to have been between 3 m and 4 m, although by the time of archaeological investigations the summit had been too damaged to determine if it also had an accompanying structure. Sometime after the final layer was added to the mound the entire site was flooded leaving a layer of silt blanketing the area. No additional layers were added to the site during the second occupation.</p><br>
<p>The remains of several other structures have also been found at the site. Structures dating from the Late Etowah Phase include an encircling palisade and ditch and a large rectangular structure. This building measured 7 m by 8 m, and was constructed of posts with a central hearth and storage pits. The structure was found to have been burned. A few borrow pits were located outside of the palisade.</p><br>
<p>On the terrace portion of the site overlooking the floodplain was a large circular structure with a central hearth. It had a diameter of about 6 m and used twenty two posts for its exterior walls. It had a 1 m wide entrance way on its southeastern side. A 50 cm walkway with two 25 cm wide trenches extended 2 m from the wall of the building. This structure was also found to have been burned. Carbon dating of the remains place its occupation to roughly 1610.</p><br>
<h2>Excavation history</h2><br>
<p>Portions of the site were excavated in 1938 by Robert Wauchope and again in 1949 by Lewis H. Larson, under the direction of Arthur Randolph Kelly. The site was surveyed by Southeastern Archeological Services in 2003 and 2004 and then thoroughly excavated by Edwards-Pitman Environmental, Inc. in the late 2000s.</p><br>
<p>Lake Wimauma, on the south side of the town of Wimauma, Florida, could be considered two lakes, basically round in shape. When the water level is high, they are connected by a short narrow channel. The south part of the lake is much larger than the northern part. Lake Wimauma has a 108 acre surface area. To the north of the northern part is Florida State Route 674. The entire lake is surrounded by trees, grassland and a scattering of residences. Although the lake is in a rural area, Hillsborough County, Florida, is the home of Tampa, Florida.</p><br>
<p>There are no public boat ramps or swimming beaches on the lake&#39;s shores, but along SR 674, on the north part of the lake, is an area where cars may pull off the road and where the lake can be accessed by the public. The Hook and Bullet website says the lake contains largemouth bass, bluegill and crappie.</p><br>
<p>The Crane Company Building is a skyscraper located at 836 S. Michigan Ave. in the Loop community area of Chicago, Illinois. The twelve-story building was designed by Holabird & Roche and built in 1912. The steel frame skyscraper was designed in the Classical Revival style, and its exterior design is split into three sections. The first and second floors are faced in limestone and feature piers supporting a cornice; the third floor is also covered in limestone. The fourth through eleventh floors are constructed in red brick; windows on these floors feature terra cotta keystones and sills, and the eleventh floor is capped by a terra cotta cornice. The twelfth floor is decorated in terra cotta panels which incorporate Crane Company valves in their design; this floor is also topped by a cornice.</p><br>
<p>The building originally housed offices for the Crane Company, which manufactured plumbing and heating equipment. The Crane Company played a significant role in both the Chicago economy, where it was a major employer of industrial workers, and the national manufacturing landscape, where it was considered "the United States leading manufacturer" of iron and brass plumbing and heating fixtures. Due to the demolition of the Crane Companys factories and its early leaders&#39; homes, the Crane Company Building is now the most significant landmark in Chicago associated with the company. After the Crane Company left the building in 1960, it was converted to a residential property.</p><br>
<p>The Crane Company Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 28, 2002.</p><br>
<p>Edward R. Wilson House, also known as the W. H. Schultz House, is a historic home located at Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built about 1860, and is a three-story, gable-roofed frame dwelling with a porch running across its facade, north endwall, and rear elevation. It has a two-story brick wing built about 1900, and a later frame wing extending from the rear of the brick addition. It is in the Greek Revival / Italianate style. Since 1907, the house is part of the University of Delaware Farm, an agricultural experiment station managed by its College of Agriculture. The house was used as a dormitory during the 1980s and has since been repurposed to serve as offices for the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Delaware.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>Waterloo Bay is an area of foreshore in Larne, Northern Ireland.</p><br>
<p>The site is of interest to geologists because it provides an unusually clear, complete and accessible example of the sequences from Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic, when the rock types changed from land to marine.</p><br>
<h2>Protected Status</h2><br>
<p>In 1995, Waterloo Bay was designated an Area of Special Scientific Interest for its geological importance.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, it was a candidate for Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (also known as a GSSP, or golden spike) to mark the base of the Jurassic system and Hettangian stage. although the Kujoch in Austria was chosen instead.</p><br>
<h2>Early investigation</h2><br>
<p>Joseph Ellison Portlock studied the Triassic and Jurassic rocks of Ireland in 1843 as part of his engagement by Ordnance Survey Ireland.</p><br>
<p>In 1864 Ralph Tate made an investigation of the Triassic rocks of Co Antrim, which he reported to the Geological Society of London.</p><br>
<h2>The Larne Sea Dragon</h2><br>
<p>In 1999, an ichthyosaur, also popularly known as the Larne Sea Dragon or Minnis Monster was found in the Langport Member strata by Brian McGee. Remains were found of the backbone and rib cage, scattered pieces of the front limbs, the lower jaw, and several teeth. These were uncovered by fossil preparator Andy Cowap and put on display in the Ulster Museum.</p><br>
<p>From 2007-9, while the Ulster Museum was undergoing refurbishment, the ichthyosaur was exhibited in Larne Tourist Information Centre.</p><br>
<h2>Public right of way</h2><br>
<p>The promenade, a footpath between the foreshore and the low cliffs at Waterloo, is a public right of way.</p><br>
<p>The Troy Laundry Building is a 1927 building in the South Lake Union/Cascade District of Seattle. The building was originally built to house the Troy Laundry Company. It was designated as Seattle Landmark in March 1996.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation</h2><br>
<p>The building was demolished in 2013, but its facade facing the intersection of Fairview Avenue and Thomas Street was preserved and will be incorporated into two new highrise office buildings, known as the Troy Block, to be built on the block. The renovations costs $285,000,000 which started in 2015 and is scheduled for completion by 2017. This two tower complex is designed by architecture firm Perkins + Will with Lease Crutcher Lewis as the general contractor. One tower will be 13 stories high while the other will be 1 story lower. When completed, the new structure will provide 817,000 square feet of office space.</p><br>
<p>The Argos Izaak Walton League Historic District is an Indiana chapter location of the Izaak Walton League of America. The Izaak Walton League of America is a conservation organization established in 1922 with a mission to conserve, maintain, protect and restore the soil, forest, water and air. The Argos Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America, also referred to as the Argos Ikes, was formed just after the original establishment in 1926. The Argos Ikes’ founders were community leaders interested in environmentalism. The first few acres of property were purchased in 1929 with fishing ponds and structures erected to develop a fishing hatchery. Additional acres were purchased in 1934 increasing the property to a total of 17 acres. Signing an agreement with the United States Bureau of Fisheries, under the New Deal Act, the members were able to build a clubhouse and additional structures.</p><br>
<p>In December 2011, the Argos Chapter of the Izaak Walton League was inducted into the National Register of Historic Places listings in Marshall County, Indiana. The contributing structures date back to the New Deal construction and include the clubhouse, storage building, stone gateway, two artesian wells, three stone picnic tables with benches, and a sluice. The National Park Service, nps.gov, featured the Argos Ikes in the National Register of Historic Places Program Weekly Highlight.</p><br>
<p>The Serranía del Darién is a small mountain range on the border between Colombia and Panamá in the area called the Darién Gap. It is located in the southeastern part of the Darién Province of Panamá and the northwestern part of the Chocó Department of Colombia. There are two major protected areas here: Darién National Park in Panamá and Los Katíos National Park in Colombia. Serranía del Darién range&#39;s average elevation above sea level is 437 m. These mountains have sparse settlements, with just two people living in every square kilometer. This dearth of human settlements is reflected in the fact that the nearest town with a population of 50,000 is over 12 hours by road.</p><br>
<h2>Geological hazards</h2><br>
<p>The Serranía del Darién are notorious for strong earthquakes; on average earthquakes measuring between 6 and 7 occur here every 50 years. The area is also susceptible to floods and landslides, both of which have been classified as medium to high intensity hazards for the region.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>Serranía del Darién is a humid region. Its climate falls under the tropical monsoon type.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>Species that are endemic to the Serranía del Darién include the toad Rhinella acrolopha.</p><br>
<p>The James Litchfield House is a private house located at 3512 Central Street in Dexter, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The house is an excellent Michigan example of a "basilica type" Greek Revival house.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1845, cabinet maker James Litchfield purchased a plot of land from Judge Samuel Dexter. Shortly afterward, he began building this house, completing it in 1850.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Litchfield House is a Greek Revival style house with a central two-story mass flanked by single-story wings. The front facade is symmetrical, having a temple front portico with four square columns and regular window positioning. The house is cladin white clapboard. Additions housing the kitchen and garage are architecturally similar and have minimal effect on the overall appearance of the house.</p><br>
<p>Mae West Peaks is a pair of summits in Cochise County, Arizona. The taller of the two was formerly known as Lime Peak and the elevation and coordinates in the infobox refer to this peak. They are in the Little Dragoon Mountains, northwest of Texas Canyon and 3.3 mi west-southwest of the ghost town of Johnson, Arizona.</p><br>
<p>These summits were named for their shape, which were thought to be reminiscent of the figure of the actress Mae West. The name was collected by the United States Geological Survey between 1976 and 1980, and entered into the Geographic Names Information System on February 8, 1980.</p><br>
<p>On the same date, name Lime Peak was assigned to a 6,655 ft peak, 1.8 mi to the northeast which is also in the Little Dragoon Mountains.</p><br>
<p>Lawler&#39;s Tavern is a historic commercial building in the village of Mechanicsburg, Ohio, United States. Built in 1830, it is one of the oldest buildings in the community, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Mechanicsburg was platted on 1814 in the wake of increasing settlement, despite the ongoing war. In its early years, the village grew slowly; the 1830 census found just 99 residents. Mechanicsburgs first two buildings were log structures used for commercial purposes: a small store and the villages first tavern respectively, they were both constructed on what is now the southern corner of Sandusky and Main Streets on the public square.</p><br>
<p>Dr. E.D. Lawler was one of six physicians practicing in Mechanicsburg during the villages earliest years. In 1840, the tavern was surrounded by Lawlers orchard to the north, a long, low commercial building known as the "Long Ornery" to the south, and an even older pharmacy on the opposite side of the street. All of its original neighbors have been destroyed; Lawlers is the sole commercial building remaining from the villages earliest years. Even after Dr. Lawler&#39;s time, the building remained in use as a medical office; Dr. John H. Clark, who practiced in the late nineteenth century, and who lived next door, used an office in the tavern for a substantial portion of his career.</p><br>
<p>Throughout the taverns history of more than 180 years, it has seen multiple modifications. Among them was the construction of space for Dr. Clarks office, which was housed in an addition rather than in the original building. Additionally, the tavern&#39;s prominent overhang with its large window, ornamented gable, and brackets was constructed at the end of the nineteenth century.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Lawlers Tavern is a brick building with a stone foundation. Many of its more prominent architectural elements combine to make it a typical example of vernacular interpretations of the Greek Revival style of architecture, which never became popular in the area. Besides the facades overall symmetrical design with multi-paned windows, the building derives its Greek Revival appearance most clearly from the central entryway: surrounded by a transom and sidelights, the doorway is framed by pilasters on both sides. Inside, some original components remain, including the stairway and woodwork in the front hallway.</p><br>
<h2>Preservation</h2><br>
<p>As the only commercial building surviving from Mechanicsburgs earliest years, Lawlers Tavern is a core component of the villages historic built environment; along with the former Second Baptist Church, it is one of just two Greek Revival buildings near the center of the village. Spatially, it occupies a transitional place between the commercial and residential neighborhoods of Main Street; the commercial district extends southward, while the next building to the north is the beginning of the villages upscale residential neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>In 1985, Lawler&#39;s was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historic architecture. It was part of a multiple property submission of approximately twenty buildings, scattered throughout the village in such a low concentration that a historic district designation was not practical. Several other buildings included in the group were houses and commercial buildings on North Main, such as the adjacent John H. Clark House, the Oram Nincehelser House and the Masonic Temple across the street, the United Methodist Church at the intersection with Race Street, and the Village Hobby Shop a short distance to the south.</p><br>
<p>Ralli Hall  is a community centre, events venue, theatre stage, business hub and impressive main hall in Hove, part of the English coastal city of Brighton and Hove. Built in 1913 as a memorial to Stephen Ralli, a member of a wealthy Greek family who had donated money to many causes throughout Brighton and Hove, it was used for about 60 years as a church hall linked to Hove&#39;s parish church. The Brighton & Hove Jewish community subsequently bought it, and in 1976 it came back into use as a community and social centre for Jewish and other groups. The Wrenaissance-style brick structure occupies a prominent corner site in a conservation area and provides a visual contrast to the older villas around it. English Heritage has listed the building at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Ralli family, the first members of which moved to England in the 1820s from Chios in Greece, established a successful trading empire in London in the 19th century. Their business focused on grain and shipping, and by 1873 the five pioneering brothers and six other relatives had a listing on the Baltic Exchange.</p><br>
<p>Both Stephen and other members of the family attended All Saints Church (the parish church of Hove, built in 1889–1901 by John Loughborough Pearson and his son) and were major benefactors of charitable causes in the area. For example, Stephen Ralli made a donation of £300 (£ in ) to a fund set up to help victims of a typhoid epidemic in nearby Worthing in 1893. In 1904, his widow Marietta commissioned three stained glass windows in the church to commemorate him, and gave £26,434 (£ in ) from her inheritance to the Royal Sussex County Hospital "to endow and fit up a department of clinical research and bacteriology". The Stephen Ralli Building at the hospital was demolished in 2000 but was replaced by a new facility with the same name.</p><br>
<p>"The most visible reminder of the family" in Hove, though, was founded in 1913. and the firm of Chapman, Lowry and Puttoch constructed the building. Stephen Ralli laid the foundation stone (in the form of a plaque) on 14 April 1913, and a board of trustees was set up to administer the building. The indenture was issued on 2 May 1913 in the names of Marietta Ralli, Rev. L.H. Burrows (the vicar of Hove), a local Justice of the Peace and two others.</p><br>
<p>Almost immediately, the gymnasium in the basement section of the building was put to use as a drill hall to train soldiers fighting in World War I. They were part of the 106th Brigade RFA, whose operational base was the nearby Hove Recreation Ground. Among the other facilities at that time were a kitchen, dressing rooms and a large auditorium-style room with a stage, gallery and seating capacity of 350, which was licensed as a cinema and theatre in October 1913. Another theatrical licence was granted in 1926, by which time the hall was also used by eight Girl Guide patrols and various community groups.</p><br>
<p>All Saints Church gradually used the building less, and a new church hall was built closer to the church in the 1970s. By that time, many community groups were using the wide variety of rooms and facilities; but consideration was given to selling the hall. From 30 September 1973, Ralli Hall was closed except for the rooms in the basement, and a speculative planning application was submitted seeking demolition of the hall and its replacement with 24 flats—apparently to gauge the likely value of the land. Permission was granted, but the trustees refused to go ahead with the proposal. The East Sussex Social Services Department expressed an interest in buying the building in 1975. This group was successful with its bid of £65,000; over £50,000 had already been raised by the community by the time the purchase was agreed. When the building reopened after substantial renovations (which took the overall cost of the purchase above £100,000), several rooms were named after major donors. The work was done quickly: Ralli Hall reopened on 30 June 1976 in a ceremony led by Frankie Vaughan.</p><br>
<p>Since its change of ownership, the building has become an integral part of community life in Hove and hosts a diverse range of activities in its ten rooms. This is in addition to Hove&#39;s four purpose-built synagogues: the Hove Hebrew Congregation Synagogue (opened in 1930), the Brighton and Hove Progressive Synagogue (1938), the Brighton and Hove Hebrew Congregation Synagogue (1961) and the Brighton and Hove Reform Synagogue (1967). is based at Ralli Hall. The building is a licensed wedding venue; yoga, zumba and ceroc dance classes are held; mother-and-baby, art, theatre and bridge clubs meet there; and there is a snooker room. The kitchen facilities are kosher-certified.</p><br>
<p>Ralli Hall was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 2 November 1992. In February 2001, it was one of 1,124 Grade II-listed buildings and structures, and 1,218 listed buildings of all grades, in the city of Brighton and Hove. The building is also in the Hove Station Conservation Area, one of 34 conservation areas in Brighton and Hove. It serves as "an important focal point" in an area of predominantly late Victorian residential building in the vicinity of Hove railway station.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Architects Read and Macdonald of London designed Ralli Hall in a "restrained Renaissance style" which has also been described as "Wrenaissance" (i.e. Edwardian Baroque which relies more heavily on English than French Baroque motifs). It has been described as an "important" local landmark and a "fine composition".</p><br>
<p>The building is -shaped and occupies a corner site facing Station Approach and Denmark Villas. The main entrance is to the latter; the hall then stretches back along Station Approach. Small brick walls and iron railings surround the building and are included in English Heritage&#39;s listing. The building provides a contrast in age and architectural style to the well-spaced, well-detailed 1860s houses of Denmark Villas, with their pale brickwork and stucco.</p><br>
<p>The east (Denmark Villas) elevation is dominated by a central hexagonal entrance porch topped by a balcony. An oriel window opens out on to this; to the left and right are stone garland motifs showing and 1913 respectively, and these are flanked by flat casement windows. Two more oriel windows are in the outermost bays. The bays are defined by brick pilasters, and the outermost oriel windows have open pediments above and richly decorated brackets below. The Ionic-columned stepped porch spans the centre three bays and leads to a recessed entrance with three sets of doors. Supported by the columns is a parapet with a dentil cornice and a centrally placed cartouche with the initials.</p><br>
<p>The north (Station Approach) elevation has the foundation plaque, which reads " / 14th April 1913". In the third bay from the left (east) is a secondary entrance with a semicircular gable across which the dentil cornice continues. Below this gable is a large oculus. The other windows have stone mullions and transoms, and the walls are supported by external buttresses.</p><br>
