<p>Wei-Assipu-tepui, also known as Little Roraima or Roraimita, is a minor tepui of the Eastern Tepuis chain. It lies just off the northeastern flank of Roraima-tepui, directly on the border between Brazil and the disputed Guayana Esequiba territory, claimed by Venezuela but controlled by Guyana, and very close to the tripoint of all three countries.</p><br>
<p>Wei-Assipu-tepui has a maximum elevation of around 2,400 m. Its summit plateau is highly dissected and generally inclined south-southwest (towards the Brazilian side). The rocky summit is partially forested, with flowering plants of the genus Bonnetia featuring prominently. It also hosts a number of carnivorous plants, including Heliamphora glabra, Heliamphora nutans, and the natural hybrid between the two. The various rock cavities of Wei-Assipu-tepui are home to nesting colonies of white-collared swifts (Streptoprocne zonaris) and oilbirds (Steatornis caripensis). For the latter species, Wei-Assipu-tepui is the easternmost recorded locality in mainland South America, and the first known nesting site in Brazil. The mountain&#39;s summit supports a greater variety of herpetofauna than the less vegetated plateaus of nearby Roraima-tepui, Kukenán-tepui, Yuruaní-tepui, and Ilú-tepui. Day temperatures of 17 °C have been recorded on the summit plateau, falling to 12 °C overnight, with slightly lower values in the more sheltered caves.</p><br>
<p>In the first expedition of its type to Wei-Assipu-tepui, an Italian–Venezuelan team of speleologists explored the mountain&#39;s summit plateau in July 2000, surveying four caves and several minor cavities. On this expedition were also discovered four previously unknown species of frogs (one of which was later described as Oreophrynella weiassipuensis), and at least two of harvestmen.</p><br>
<p>According to Carreño et al. (2002), the oldest biblio-cartographic reference to the mountain is likely that of Marie Penelope Rose Clementi (wife of Cecil Clementi), circa 1920, who recounted how its location was determined with a prismatic compass during an English expedition of 1915.</p><br>
<p>The Fountain–Bessac House, also known as the Fountain-Haeussler House, is a private house located at 102 W. Main Street in Manchester, Michigan. It was designated a Michigan State Historic Site in 1986 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1842, flour mill owner Jacob (or Jabez) to build what is now the first floor of this house. Fountain built the house in part to outshine the nearby house of banker John Kief. In 1850, Fountain moved into an even more opulent home, and sold the house to Dr. William Bessec. In 1853, Bessec added a second story; the Bessec family moved into the newly constructed second floor and Dr. Bessec used the first floor for his medical practice. Bessec died in 1885, and the house passed to his daughter Mary, and her husband, pharmacist George Haeussler. They lived in the house until George and then Mary died, after which ownership of the house passed to their son Raynor Haeussler.</p><br>
<p>By 1947, the house had been either vacant or rented for some years, and Raynor Haeussler sold it to potato farmers Mary and Tom Walton. In 1949-50, the Waltons hired Emil Lorch, dean emeritus of the University of Michigan School of Architecture, to renovate and update the building. They added a garage and breezeway to the rear of the house. The Waltons sold the house to Katherine McKibben in 1990.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Fountain–Bessac House is a two-story frame structure with a symmetrical facade. The two stages of construction are clearly visible in this structure. The 1842 first floor is of a Greek Revival design, with a five-bay front facade and a portico stretching the width of the house. The pyramidal roof of the first floor segues to a smaller second story set back from the first, designed in an Italian Villa style with a smaller three-bay facade. The second floor also has a pyramidal roof, which is capped by a cupola at the top of the house. The stepped configuration of the first floor, second floor, and cupola has drawn comparisons to a wedding cake. A more modern garage and breezeway is attached to the rear of the house.</p><br>
<p>The Lindenberg, peaking at 878 m, is a wooded hill in the Swiss Plateau north of the Alps, situated between the valleys of the Aabach, the Bünz and the Reuss. The hill draws a straight north-south line. On his ridge lies the border between the cantons of Lucerne  and Aargau . Although the highest peak lies in the canton of Lucerne in the municipality of Müswangen, around 75% of the hill lies in the Aargau. The highest point is unspectacular as it is very flat and wooded; it can be reached by foot, by bike or even by jeep. Despite being overgrown with large forests and fields, many villages are situated on the hill&#39;s slopes and at its base, some of the bigger are Muri AG, Sins, Hochdorf and Hitzkirch. The hill is a frequently used place for bikers, hikers, equestrians and families, as several restaurants exist on various places of the hill. Despite his low altitude for Swiss standards, at some points the view is quite a sight as Lake Zug, Lake Hallwil and Lake Baldegg and prominent Swiss mountains as Säntis, Tödi, Titlis and Finsteraarhorn can be seen from some places, like Horben.</p><br>
<p>The Boston Theater District is the center of Boston&#39;s theater scene. Many of its theaters are on Washington Street, Tremont Street, Boylston Street, and Huntington Avenue.</p><br>
<p>Its shows range from Broadway shows to repertory-company productions. It is small compared to New York City&#39;s Theater District, and serves as a staging area for shows on their way to Broadway.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Plays were banned in Boston by the Puritans until 1792. Boston&#39;s first theater opened in 1793. In 1900, the Boston Theater District had 31 theaters, with 50,000 seats. In the 1940s, the city had over 50 theaters. Since the 1970s, developers have renovated old theaters.</p><br>
<h2>Revitalization</h2><br>
<p>Suffolk University bought the Modern Theater in 2008. It has since reopened and hosts a variety of performances. For their efforts, Suffolk won a Preservation Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2011.</p><br>
<p>Emerson College now utilizes the Paramount Theater as "a first-of-its-kind mixed-use residential, academic, and performance venue."</p><br>
<h2>Washington Street Theatre District</h2><br>
<p>The Washington Street Theatre District, consisting of seven buildings on the west side of Washington Street (numbers 511-559), was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.</p><br>
<h2>Theaters</h2><br>
<p>Boch Center:</p><br>
<p>Boston Opera House</p><br>
<p>Charles Playhouse</p><br>
<p>Cutler Majestic Theatre</p><br>
<p>Colonial Theatre</p><br>
<p>Modern Theatre</p><br>
<p>Orpheum Theatre</p><br>
<p>Paramount Theatre</p><br>
<p>Wilbur Theatre</p><br>
<p>J. McIntyre Farm is a historic farm located near Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. The property includes five contributing buildings. They are a stuccoed brick house with frame Gothic Revival style additions, a stone bank barn , and three late 19th century outbuildings: a braced frame corn crib, a braced frame machine shed, and a two-story granary covered with corrugated metal siding. The house is a two-story, three bay, brick building with an added central cross-gable, and a frame wing extending from its west endwall. The barn walls are constructed of large, dark fieldstones with large, rectangular quoins, and in places is covered with a pebbled stucco.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.</p><br>
<p>Rawak is a Buddhist stupa located on the southern rim of the Taklamakan Desert in China, along the famous trade route known as the Silk Road in the first millennium Kingdom of Khotan. Around the stupa there are other smaller structures which were originally decorated with a large number of colossal statues. The courtyard of the temple was surrounded by a wall, which contained terracotta relieves and some wall-paintings. The stupa and other structures form a three-dimensional mandala. The site is now about 40 km north of the modern city of Hotan  in Xinjiang Autonomous Region of the People&#39;s Republic of China.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations of the Site</h2><br>
<p>1901: The archaeologist Aurel Stein first visited Rawak during his First Central Asian expedition in April 1901. At the site he found the large stupa which he described as by far the most imposing structure I had seen among the extant ruins of the Khotan region. Part of the stupa, and almost all of the rest of the site, was covered by sand dunes, in places rising to about 25 ft. In places where the sand left the walls and structures uncovered, he found fragments of coloured stucco from the statues lying in the sand.His excavations over the following eight days uncovered 91 large stucco statues of buddhas and bodhisattvas, with smaller ones in between of attendant gods. The sand that filled the ruins also played a conserving role, protecting the stuccos from the fierce wind and holding them up where they would have collapsed on their own. Therefore, when Stein left the site, he replaced the sand he had removed, writing, All that could be done in the case of these large sculptures was to bury them again safely in the sand after they had been photographed and described, and to trust that they would remain undisturbed under their protecting cover — until that time, still distant it seems, when Khotan shall have its own local museum.</p><br>
<p>1906: Stein revisited on his second expedition in September 1906. As a result of the activities of treasure seekers most of the colossal statues had disappeared by Steins second visit in 1906: the wall, which I had found lined with a continuous row of stucco relievo figures, mostly colossal, now displayed bare brickwork. My care in burying these under sand, just as I had found them, proved in vain, and of the interesting specimens of Khotan sculptural art then unearthed, all that survives now, I fear, are my photographs.&#39;On this visit Stein excavated the ruins that lay between the great stupa and a nearby site complex known as Tati of Hanguya. Here he found many small terracotta reliefs dating, he thought, to the 5-6th centuries.</p><br>
<p>1928: The German-Swiss expedition (1928–29) under the leadership of Dr. Emil Trinkler also visited Rawak in 1928. The expedition gathered a significant amount of scientific (geological, climatic, etc.) material. Beside this, they also collected six cases of archaeological material which were later first seized by the local government but later allowed to be taken to Germany. In 1930, the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired part of the Central Asian collection brought back by Trinkler, including some items from Rawak (e.g. a statue head with Hellenistic features. The rest of the material is now in Bremen, Germany.).</p><br>
<p>1929: The Chinese archaeologist Huang Wenbi, who was part of the Sino-Swedish expedition under the leadership of Sven Hedin, made a short visit to Rawak.</p><br>
<h2>History and Dating</h2><br>
<p>The Rawak Stupa exemplifies a development from the stupa on a square base that emerges in and is seen elsewhere in the region, such as at Niya, to one on a cruciform-shaped base owing to the addition of staircases protruding out from the base on each side. This is seen in the Kanishka stupa dating to the Kushan and to Top-i-Rustam in Balkh. The form follows a scriptural description found in the Divyavadana, that describes a stupa as having four staircases, three platforms and an egg-like dome, as well as the other usual elements. Rawak is dated by several scholars to the fourth to fifth centuries, supported by finds, including coins, and stylistic considerations of the statues in the rectangular ambulatory, but also suggested by features such as the relic chamber placed high in the dome. This feature is common from the fourth and fifth centuries in stupas at Taxila and also seen in the Maura-Tim stupa at Kashgar. Stein suggested a possible late third to early fourth century date, based on the style of the stupa itself and the sculptures and paintings.</p><br>
<p>Miran fort is a ruined defensive structure in Miran, Xinjiang, China. The fort was active during the Tibetan Empire, in the 8th and 9th centuries AD. It is similar in structure to the fort at Mazar Tagh, which was also used by the Tibetan army in the same period. Like the Mazar Tagh site, the excavation of the fort at Miran has yielded hundreds of military documents from the 8th and 9th century, which are among the earliest surviving Tibetan manuscripts, and vital sources for understanding the early history of Tibet.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations by Marc Aurel Stein</h2><br>
<p>Aurel Stein was the first archaeologist to study the ruins at Miran systematically. The fort was first visited briefly by Stein on December 8, 1906, during his second expedition. A trial excavation of the fort (site number M.I.) uncovered eight rooms and over a hundred Tibetan woodslips. Stein returned on January 22, 1907, and carried out a thorough excavation of the fort, uncovering 44 rooms (site numbers M.I.i - M.I.xliv) discovering many more Tibetan woodslips, as well as other miscellaneous objects. In 1914, when Stein visited during his third expedition, he concentrated on the other sites at Miran. In the fort Stein found Tibetan documents on wood and paper, fragments with a Turkish runic script, palm-leaf documents inscribed with Brahmi characters and Kharosthi texts on silk. The majority of the manuscript finds from Miran are official Tibetan documents and military information from the fort, written in early Tibetan script on wood or paper, dating from the eighth and ninth centuries. These are some of the earliest examples of the Tibetan script. Manuscripts kept at the include 1,101 wooden documents in the IOL Tib N sequence and 295 paper documents in the Or.150000 sequence. Several artefacts from the fort are now held at the, in the pressmarks between MAS.590 and MAS.626.</p><br>
<h2>Excavations by Chinese expeditions</h2><br>
<p>In 1957-58 Professor Huang Wenbi led a team from the Institute of Archaeology, CASS, spending six days at Miran, and a report was published in 1983 describing the fort and two stupa/temple sites, and a number of finds. In 1959 a team from Xinjiang Museum spent ten days in Miran examining the fort, temple site and dwelling areas. A report of their considerable findings was published in 1960. In 1973 another team from the Xinjiang Museum visited the site an investigated the fort, temples and irrigation system. The excavations and the artefacts found in these sites were discussed in an expedition report by Mu Shunying in 1983. The most extensive investigation of the site so far was carried out in 1978-80 by Huang Xiaojing and Zhang Ping of the Xinjiang Museum. Their 1985 report discusses the fort, 8 stupas, 3 temple sites, 2 beacons, dwellings, tombs, a kiln area and a smelting site.</p><br>
<h2>Related Links</h2><br>
<p>Lake Czorsztyn  is a man-made reservoir on the Dunajec river, southern Poland, between the Pieniny and the Gorce Mountains. It owes its existence to a dam, which is located in the village of Niedzica.</p><br>
<p>The dam itself was completed in 1995. Its measurements are: 56 meters high, 400 meters long and 7 meters wide on top. The lake has the area ranging from 4,15 km. to 13,35 km. Usually, its area is app. 11 km., with the length of 9 kilometers and width of 1,5 km. Maximum depth is 50 meters, and average depth is 17,6 meters. Total length of the shoreline is 29,7 km. Below the dam there is a much smaller Sromowce Lake, which regulates the water level of Czorsztyn Lake.</p><br>
<p>Main purpose of the reservoir is to prevent floods in the Dunajec river valley. Furthermore, it attracts a growing number of tourists. The dam is equipped with a 92 megawatt power plant. The lake is located in close proximity of several popular tourist spots, such as Pieniny National Park, Niedzica Castle, Czorsztyn Castle, and the tourist village of Kluszkowce. Among villages located by Czorsztyn Lake are Niedzica, Falsztyn, Frydman, Dębno Podhalańskie, Maniowy, Kluszkowce and Czorsztyn.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>Andrzej Jagus: Szczawnica i okolice. Szczawnica: Karpatus, 2002. (pol.)</p><br>
<p>The Emmental Alps  are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps, in Switzerland. They are located north-west of the Brünig Pass, mainly in the cantons of Lucerne, Bern, and Obwalden, with a small portion in the canton of Nidwalden. The highest summit of the range is the Brienzer Rothorn, which is also the highest point in the canton of Lucerne. The range is named after the Emme valley . In the north-west corner one finds the relatively low, but widespread, and very furrowed Napf.</p><br>
<p>The Emmental Alps are separated from the Bernese Alps by the Aare valley to the south and connected to the Uri Alps by the four lakes Lungerersee, Sarnersee, Wichelsee, and Vierwaldstättersee to the east.</p><br>
<h2>Notable peaks</h2><br>
<p>Brienzer Rothorn (2,350 m)</p><br>
<p>Tannhorn (2,221 m)</p><br>
<p>Arnihaaggen (2,207 m)</p><br>
<p>Höch Gumme (2,205 m)</p><br>
<p>Hohgant (2,197 m)</p><br>
<p>Augstmatthorn (2,137 m)</p><br>
<p>Pilatus (2,128 m)</p><br>
<p>Schrattenfluh (2,092 m)</p><br>
<p>Burgfeldstand (2,063 m)</p><br>
<p>Sigriswiler Rothorn (2,051 m)</p><br>
<p>Fürstein (2,040 m)</p><br>
<p>Wilerhorn (2,005 m)</p><br>
<p>Schafmatt (1,979 m)</p><br>
<p>Niederhorn (1,963 m)</p><br>
<p>Sieben Hengste (1,955 m)</p><br>
<p>Haglere (1,949 m)</p><br>
<p>Mittaggüpfi (1,917 m)</p><br>
<p>Schimbrig (1,815 m)</p><br>
<p>Honegg (1,546 m)</p><br>
<p>Wachthubel (1,415 m)</p><br>
<p>Napf (1,408 m)</p><br>
<p>The Coca-Cola Building  is a building located at 1322&ndash;1336 S. Wabash Ave. in the Near South Side community area of Chicago, Illinois, which once served as the Chicago headquarters of The Coca-Cola Company. The building was designed by Frank Abbott in the Commercial style and built from 1903 to 1904. When it opened, the building was eight stories high; two additional stories were added in 1913. The building features limestone with iron ornaments on its first two stories; a cornice with a terra cotta fretwork pattern at the top separates the second and third floors. The top of the building features a terra cotta frieze and a cornice with decorative patterns. The Coca-Cola Company operated out of the building from 1904 until 1928; the building was the company&#39;s second office outside of Atlanta. The building was the only Coca-Cola syrup manufacturing plant in the Midwest until 1915; it is now the only surviving Coca-Cola plant from before World War II outside of Atlanta.</p><br>
<p>The Coca-Cola Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 22, 1991.</p><br>
<p>The Germania Club Building, located at 108 W. Germania Place in the Near North Side community area of Chicago, Illinois, is the historic headquarters of the Germania Club, the oldest German-American organization in the city. The Germania Club was founded in 1865 as the Germania Männerchor, which formed to sing at Abraham Lincolns funeral. The club built the Germania Club Building in 1889; it was designed by August Fiedler in an eclectic style featuring neoclassical and German Renaissance influences. The five-story building has a two-story limestone base with a portico and arched doorway on the south end. The upper stories feature arched windows capped by pediments and a pilaster supporting the cornice atop the building. The building includes a grand ballroom, banquet room, and restaurant and bar. The club played an important role in Chicagos German-American community, once the largest ethnic community in Chicago.</p><br>
<p>The Germania Club Building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 22, 1976. It was designated as a Chicago Landmark on January 13, 2011.</p><br>
<p>The Devonshire Buildings are two adjacent apartment buildings in the Barrow Island area of Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England. They are both recorded in the National Heritage List for England as designated Grade II* listed buildings.</p><br>
<p>Constructed in the 1870s for the Barrow Iron Ship Building Company to house local shipyard workers, the buildings are nearly symmetrical and have octagonal towers at the end of each block. The buildings are similar to tenements in Glasgow, Scotland, which were inspired by housing in France. Between 2008 and 2013 Devonshire Buildings were extensively refurbished by the Holker Group.</p><br>
<p>Similar tenements exist across Barrow Island, with those on Barque, Brig, Sloop and Steamer Streets also having listed building status. The Vickerstown estate on Walney Island was constructed between 1989 and 1901 in an effort to relieve overcrowding in the Barrow Island tenements, which had already seen some shipyard workers forced to live aboard the liner SS Alaska, which was moored in Barrow docks.</p><br>
<p>The 19th Ward Meetinghouse and Relief Society Hall, at 168 W. 500 North, Salt Lake City, Utah, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>It was built in 1896. Its architecture is significant in American history as reflecting changes imposed upon The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) by outside influences. Pressure included various Federal enforcement efforts following upon the Edmunds–Tucker Act of 1877, which outlawed polygamy. In effect, the LDS Church capitulated, and sought to adopt different values in conformity with worldwide ones. The meetinghouse was designed by architect Robert Bowman and represented a "totally out of character" change in style; it includes an "oriental, Byzantine, or German Renaissance-inspired onion dome". It was no longer a church when listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.</p><br>
<p>The building currently houses the Salt Lake Acting Company and their popular Saturday&#39;s Voyeur production.</p><br>
<p>The Fortunato Anselmo House  is a historic house built in Late Victorian style located at 164 South 900 East in Salt Lake City, Utah.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It was built in 1903 by a carpenter and contractor named Silas B. Wood at approximately $4,000 in cost. In 1920, it became home for Fortunate and Anna Anselmo, who owned it until 1950. It became significant as the residence of the country of Italy&#39;s "vice consul for Utah and Wyoming". Fortunate Anselmo, originally of Grimaldi, Italy, had become a spokesperson of Italian community as a newspaper owner, but sold the newspaper in 1915 upon being appointed vice consul. He continued to serve as an agent of the Bank of Naples, sending money orders from Italian-Americans of Salt Lake City back to their home country.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 21, 1979.</p><br>
<p>Eldred Rock  is an island in the boroughs of Juneau and Haines, Alaska, United States. Located in Lynn Canal, it is 2.7 mi southeast of Kataguni Island and 55 mi northwest of the city of Juneau. This island is the site of the Eldred Rock Light, a lighthouse built in 1905 and manned until the United States Coast Guard automated its operation in 1973.</p><br>
<p>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.</p><br>
<p>The Eldred Rock Coast Guard Heliport is also located on the island.</p><br>
<h2>Wrecks and incidents</h2><br>
<p>Eldred Rock has been the location of multiple maritime incidents. One of the earliest involved the Hassler, the Coast Guards first iron-hulled steamship. After being decommissioned, the vessel was sold to the McGuire Brothers for $15,700 and renamed the Clara Nevada&#39;. She sailed from Seattle, Washington, on January 26, 1898, with a crew of 40 men bound for Skagway, Alaska and 165 passengers heading for the Klondike gold fields. Late on February 5, 1898, the Clara Nevada left Skagway with between 25 and 40 passengers aboard. During the night she struck an uncharted rock several hundred yards north of Eldred Rock and sank immediately. There were no survivors.</p><br>
<p>A tour boat struck the island on June 24, 2002, but later made its way safely to Haines.</p><br>
<p>Rock Dove Cave is a cave in San Antonio, Texas, United States discovered by local boys who were exploring a construction site owned by McMillin Homes. The cave is believed to be the fifth largest in Bexar County.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The sprawling cave was found in January 2013 by two boys, Ethan and Brendon, who were exploring near the Ridge at Lookout Canyon, on land being developed for residential homes. The developer, McMillin Homes, notified The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) of the cave on January 31, 2013.</p><br>
<p>McMillin Homes placed grates over several of the entrances and sealed a larger access. According to some residents in the area, potential homeowners in the development are not being told that the cave exists under their home sites, however, McMillan home has stated that the existence of the cave and the engineers&#39; assessments will be disclosed to prospective homeowners.</p><br>
<p>The developer of the neighborhood wishes to seal of the cave with concrete and to redesign then subdivision, so no house will be built atop it. He plans on doing this, not only to preserve the cave, but also to finish his neighborhood. The cave has been seriously damaged after the deep rock trenching by the developer, inadequate protection from the elements and local, amateur spelunkers that explored the system. The developer and explorers have broken soda straws, stalagmites, and stalactites. Geologists are seriously concerned with the future of this cave, as it is in danger of further harm. Scientists wish to study the cave as it may hold secrets of the Edwards Aquifer, endangered species, and important information about the regions geology.</p><br>
<p>Lake Šas  is a lake located north-east of Ulcinj, near the village of Šas, in Montenegro. It is bordered geographically by Briska Gora  to the southwest, Fraskanjelsko Polje  to the east, Ambulsko Brdo  and Šasko Brdo  to the northeast and the Brisko Polje  to the northwest. Geopolitically, Briska Gora lies to the southwest of Lake Šas, Fraskanjel lies to the east and Ambula and Šas to the northeast. The area of this lake is 5.5 km², it is 3.2 km long and 1.5 km wide. The max depth is 7.8 m. The shore of the lake is about 8.6 km.</p><br>
<p>It is also known as Little Lake Scutari, because it has the same flora and fauna as Lake Scutari, which is much larger in size than Lake Šas. In warmer months, the lake is populated with large numbers of different bird species.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna</h2><br>
<p>List of bird species that have been found in Lake Šas:</p><br>
<p>Pelecanus crispus</p><br>
<p>Podiceps cristatus</p><br>
<p>Tachybaptus ruficollis</p><br>
<p>Microcarbo pygmeus</p><br>
<p>Egretta garzetta</p><br>
<p>Ardeola ralloides</p><br>
<p>Platalea leucorodia</p><br>
<p>Botaurus stellaris</p><br>
<p>Anas platyrhynchos</p><br>
<p>Larus cachinnans</p><br>
<p>Sterna caspia</p><br>
<p>Fulica atra</p><br>
<p>The Armista Apartments, known also as the Waldorf Apartments, at 555 E. 100 South in Salt Lake City, Utah, were built in 1927. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.</p><br>
<p>The building is significant as representing the urbanization of Salt Lake City during 1890–1930, a period in which more than 180 "urban apartments" (apartment buildings) were built. Urban apartments were a new and important type of housing, that "document the accommodation of builders and residents to the realities of crowded living conditions and high land values", as opposed to suburban style architecture that would signify denial of urbanization.</p><br>
<p>The apartment building was built for about $80,000 and its apartments were advertised as "Splendid 3-room apartments, equipped with electric ranges and electric refrigeration. $40.00 to $42.00. One of the most modernly equipped and conveniently located apartments in the city."</p><br>
<p>The Weißeck is the highest mountain in the Radstadt Tauern range in Austria and is popular, both as a ski touring destination in winter and a climbing peak in summer. It gets its name  from the mighty block of light-coloured Wetterstein dolomite of which the mountain is made.</p><br>
<p>The summit of the Weißeck is located on the municipal boundary between Muhr, in the national park, and Zederhaus, in the nature park.</p><br>
<p>Bases for tours to the Weißeck are, on one side, the Riedingtal valley in Zederhaus, and, on the other, the Stickler Hut (1,752 m) in the upper Mur valley. The normal route from the Rieding gap along the western ridge to the top is signed and only requires a little sure-footedness, but is generally an easy climbing grade.</p><br>
<p>There are several legends about the Weißeck. The best-known is about the Weißeck dog. The Weißeck is also popular with mineral collectors; since time immemorial it has been a well-known site for finds of fluorite.</p><br>
<h2>Routes</h2><br>
<h3>Summer</h3><br>
<p>Riedingtal: Königalm – Zauneralm – Rieding gap (Riedingscharte) – Weißeck (ca. 1,050 metre height difference)</p><br>
<p>Upper Mur valley: Stickler Hut – Rieding gap – Weißeck (ca. 950 metre height difference)</p><br>
<h3>Winter</h3><br>
<p>Wald in Zederhaus: Gspandlalm – Höllgraben – in der Hölle – Weißeck (ca. 1,400 height difference)</p><br>
<h2>Literature</h2><br>
<p>Peter Holl: Alpenvereinsführer Niedere Tauern, Bergverlag Rother, 7th ed., Munich, 2005.</p><br>
<p>Banner Mountain  is in Nevada County in the USA state of California. Located on a ridge, its summit is at 3,902 ft. The unincorporated community of North Columbia is nearby. The headwaters of Wolf Creek originate on Banner Mountain; the creek&#39;s watershed has been heavily mined.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Banner Mountain is the headwater source of three main creeks. These are Little Deer Creek, Little Clipper Creek, and Wolf Creek. The terrain is formed of very steep slopes. The watershed formed by the mountain range exhibits a moderate Mediterranean climate with marked variations between the seasons. The winters are wet and cold with temperature in the range of 36 -. The summers are dry and hot with temperature varying from 75 -. The annual precipitation reported is about 54 in. During winter the snow precipitation on the mountains is heavy with several feet of snow. A new steel lookout tower of 60 ft height replacing a wooden tower, was built on the Banner Mountain in 1926. A lookout house was added in 1931. Both structures have undergone several improvements over the years. in 1971, Californias first "Womens Liberation" fire lookout crew was created here as fire watching crew of the USA Forest Service. Deer and coyotes are a common sight at this location.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The watershed formed by the Banner Mountain has many geological formations. The rock types recorded are mafic rocks such as gabbro, serpentine rocks, an ultramafic rocks and granitic rocks consisting of quartz monzonite, and metavolcanic rocks. Consequently, the soil formations of the watershed exhibit soil types derived from gabbro and serpentine. These soils do not permit growth of most plants due to their chemical properties. Species that are tolerant to these conditions only have evolved which are sensitive and mostly endangered. It is a part of the mother lode area which is of historical importance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The mountain slopes of the Banner Mountain was the historical location of the once known as "The Republic of North California", which was only a farm land of 10 acres. It was situated between the early gold mining towns of Grass Valley and Nevada City. The purpose of this was to create awareness in the official circles of the rights of the people who lived here. It is the philosophy behind this endeavor that created awareness of the peoples; rights even under Free Democratic Republic of the USA and to protest "tyranny". The couple who created this awareness were even put behind bars. When they were released they pursued with their dogma and successfully lived in their farm which they had called a Republic. They lived there for 40 years and developed many agricultural practices which made them self-sufficient to sustain. They, Val and Lilly Belle, even got the honor in the Nevada County Fair&#39;s Hall of Fame, in 1990. A book title "California Characters, an Array of Amazing People" by Charles Hillinger published in 1994 includes their story.</p><br>
<p>All Saints Episcopal Church in Northfield, Minnesota, United States, is a historic church listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the oldest church in Northfield.</p><br>
<p>The parish was established in 1858, two years after Northfield was founded by John W. North in 1856 Minnesota Place Names: A Geographical Encyclopedia</p><br>
<p>By Warren Upham. The congregation originally held services in the Northfield Lyceum building. In 1866, the Reverend Solomon S. Burleson organized an effort to raise money for a new building. The architect is unknown, but there is speculation that Bishop Henry Whipple may have contributed to the design, since he had an interest in architecture. The church is designed in a Gothic Revival style, with a wood frame and board and batten siding. In 1869 children in Sunday School classes organized an effort to buy a bell for the tower. The building was expanded ten years later, lengthening the church by twenty feet. This expansion was driven by the influx of students from Carleton College.</p><br>
<p>There have been few major changes to the church since 1879. In 1982 a committee organized the renovation of the church interior to restore its historic character. The work included repairing windows, refinishing and replacing floors, replacing pews based on original designs, and other woodwork. The church was listed on the National Register in 1982.</p><br>
<p>In January 2013 the church announced plans for a $2 million expansion of the facility, to be designed by SMSQ Architects and executed by Northfield Construction Company. The expansion plan would retain the historic church structure, but would add 12,000 ft2 by removing the parish house and past additions on the rear of the main church building and building a new two-story addition in their place. Church leaders hoped to begin work in April 2013 and finish before Christmas.</p><br>
<p>The Goodyear Block, also known as the Arbeiter Block is a commercial building located at 138 E. Main Street in Manchester, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Goodyear Block was built in 1867 by Chauncey Walbridge for Henry Goodyear. The two first-floor retail spaces were let out a hardware store operated by Miller & Webb, and a dry goods store operated by the Wastell Brothers. The offices on the second floor were let out to numerous businesses, including the Manchester Enterprise newspaper. In 1894, Goodyear&#39;s creditors sold the building to the Arbeiter Society (or "Arbeiter Verein"), a German club. the hall was used as a classroom in the 1930s. The building was later used by the American Legion, and eventually abandoned. In 1977, it became the home of the Black Sheep Repertory Theater. The building was rehabilitated in 1990, and the top floors turned into apartments.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Goodyear Block is a rectangular three-story Italianate commercial building constructed of red brick on a fieldstone foundation. The building is seven bays wide, with the central bay enclosing a staircase to the upper floors and the surrounding two sets of three bays each containing a storefront. The first-floor facade has large display windows flanked by cast-iron columns; the appearance the first floor is the result of the 1990 restoration, but is similar to the original building construction. The front facade also features round headed windows capped with a keystone, and is surmounted by a wooden cornice. Inside, the first floor is commercial space, the second floor is office space,and the third floor is given over to the auditorium.</p><br>
<p>The Restiturm, or Burgruine Resti, is a ruined castle in the municipality of Meiringen in the Swiss canton of Bern. The original castle was built in the 13th century and has been rebuilt several times. The castle is situated at the foot of the Hasliberges. The best preserved part of the castle is its tower, which still stands to this day. An examination of the castle interior reveals that the castle was constructed inside out, with the core&#39;s construction beginning in 1250. It took another 50 years before the iconic tower was completed.</p><br>
<p>The castle was the seat of the Knights of Resti, vassals of the Habsburgs. The first construction was in 1250 by Peter von Resti. It overlooks the Haslital and served to control and protect the valley and the trade routes across the Grimsel Pass, Joch Pass, Susten Pass, Grosse Scheidegg and Brünig Pass.</p><br>
<p>In the 16th century, the castle was abandoned and fell into disrepair. It was restored in 1914 and again in 2004. During this latter renovation, information boards, steel ladders and a terrace were added. Today, only the tower remains. It is owned by the nonprofit association Meiringen and is a listed building.</p><br>
<p>St Paul&#39;s Church was a Grade II listed Church in Wales parish church opened in 1890 in Grangetown, Cardiff, Wales. In 2010 it was put up for sale because of excessive repair and running costs. Its last church service in the main building was held on 5 February 2016 and plans were prepared to convert the building into housing, with a small part retained for use by the congregation.</p><br>
<h2>History and architecture</h2><br>
<p>In 1885 Lord Windsor gave one acre of land to locate a church for the new Cardiff suburb of Grangetown. He financed the initial building costs of £4000. The foundation stone was laid in 1889 and the building was opened by the Bishop of Llandaff on 5 February 1890.</p><br>
<p>Designed by the Arts and Crafts architect John Coates Carter (working with J. P. Seddon Pevsner&#39;s Buildings of Wales describes the building materials as "highly eccentric". The walls consist of Pennant rubble with dressings of pink Staffordshire sandstone. It also has an early and unusual example of concrete construction; major elements are formed from concrete mixed with pebbles, crushed brick and sandstone chippings.</p><br>
<p>The church has been a Grade II-listed building since 1975. In April 2015 a fundraising campaign was launched in the hope of restoring a stained glass window installed in the church in 1920 to commemorate the First World War. The window, portraying battle scenes and religious imagery, was to be retained as part of the building&#39;s partial conversion to housing.</p><br>
<h2>Dr Who</h2><br>
<p>St Pauls Church was a filming location for the 2005 Fathers Day episode of the BBC series, Dr Who. Filming took place between 11 and 18 November 2004. During a family wedding the church is attacked by alien creatures called Reapers.</p><br>
<h2>Recent events</h2><br>
<p>In 2008, facing repair costs of £1 million and with a congregation much smaller than in its heyday, St Paul&#39;s asked the Church of Wales for permission to sell the old building. Major repairs were required to the roof and ongoing annual running costs were estimated at £160,000. In February 2012 an offer was received to buy the church and convert it into a training room and offices.</p><br>
<p>However, in early 2016 with no successful sale taking place, the church instead planned to work with Wales and West Housing to convert part of the building into apartments. The church gifted part of the building to the housing association. The last service took place on 5 February 2016, led by the assistant Bishop of Llandaff. A smaller part of the church, comprising the old chancel and vestry, would be retained for use by the congregation.</p><br>
<p>Lake Gossi, or Mare de Grossi, is a body of water near Gossi in the Cercle of Gourma-Rharous of the Tombouctou Region of Mali.</p><br>
<p>The lake is near to the town of Gossi.</p><br>
<p>In 1990, with lower rainfall than usual, there was competition over use of the land between cattle grazers and harvesting of fonio grains. Cattle spent three quarters of their grazing time around the shores of the lake, or in depressions.</p><br>
<p>In the dry season, the Tamasheq people of the region rely on the lake as an important source of water, their only alternative being pits and wells to reach groundwater that may be 50 m underground.</p><br>
<p>The lake is home to a number of waterbird species.</p><br>
<p>As of 2009, the lake was sometimes visited by lone male elephants in January or February.</p><br>
<p>At the start of 1846 the forces of the Tuareg people of the Timbuktu area were surprised and defeated by a force of Fula lancers from the Massina Empire under Balobbo. As a result, for a period Timbuktu again came under the authority of Amadu II of Masina.</p><br>
<p>Ranrapalca  is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca range in the Andes of Peru. It has an elevation of 6,162 m . It is located in the region of Ancash, east of Ocshapalca.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing</h2><br>
<p>The northeast ridge (normal route) is of intermediate difficulty (rated D range according to the International French Adjectival System). It consists in climbing a steep, rocky ridge from the Ranrapallqa-Ischinca col to the summit snowfields and 6,000 m and then traverse south of the knife edge summit. An easier variant of the normal route consists in avoiding the northeast ridge. From the Ranrapallqa-Ischinca col the summit snowfields can be reached climbing the easy snow slopes on the left of the ridge but this route, albeit slightly easier is more exposed to seracs and loose rocks.</p><br>
<p>Many other routes exist, some of them quite difficult (such as the east ridge and south face, both rated TD+).</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>Marpessos  was a settlement in the middle Skamander valley of the Troad region of Anatolia. The settlement&#39;s name is also spelled Μαρμησσός, Μαρμισσός, Μερμησσός in ancient sources. It was known in Classical antiquity primarily as the birthplace of the Hellespontine Sibyl Herophile. Its site has been located at Dam Dere approximately 2 km SE of the village of Zerdalilik in the Bayramiç district of Çanakkale Province in Turkey. Despite the similarity of its name and its location on Mount Ida, the settlement is apparently unrelated to the mythological figure Marpessa and her husband Idas. It should likewise not be confused with the Mount Marpessa on Paros.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Several sources whose information derives from the 4th century BCE philosopher Heraclides Ponticus (see below) refer to Marpessos as a village (Latin vicus, Ancient Greek κώμη) in the territory of Gergis. Demetrius of Scepsis (as preserved by Pausanias: see below) refers to it as a former polis which in his day (the mid-2nd century BCE) was reduced to a population of 60 inhabitants. It is unlikely that Marpessos was ever an independent polis, and so here the word is probably being used in the sense of town, urban settlement. Gergis advertised its connection to the Sibyl by displaying her head on its coinage in the 4th and 3rd century BCE. Marpessos probably became part of the territory of Ilion when Gergis was incorporated into Ilion after the Treaty of Apamea in 188 BCE.</p><br>
<h2>The Sibyl at Marpessos</h2><br>
<p>There are two distinct traditions concerning the Sibyl of Marpessos. The first originates with the Peripatetic philosopher Heraclides Ponticus (ca. 390 - ca. 310 BCE) and is preserved in a series of sources from Late Antiquity and the early and middle Byzantine periods which list the ten Sibyls as set out by the Roman grammarian Varro. In this tradition, the Sibyl (here termed the Hellespontine Sibyl) is said to have been born in the village of Marmessos in the Troad in the time of Solon and Cyrus (early 6th century BCE).</p><br>
<p>The second tradition originates with Demetrius of Scepsis, a grammarian who wrote on Homer and whose hometown was less than 18 km from the site of Marpessos. His account is primarily preserved in the work of the 2nd century CE geographer Pausanias, and it is difficult to tell to what extent the well-traveled Pausanias (a native of Lydia) supplemented Demetrios&#39; account with his own personal experience. The detailed narrative which Pausanias preserves relates that the Sibyl was born at Marpessos prior to the Trojan War and that her mother was a nymph from Mount Ida and her father a mortal. Demetrios gleaned this information from one of her oracles which he preserves:</p><br>
<p>The reference to Marpessos being "sacred to the Mother" indicates that there was a cult of Cybele at the settlement, a goddess traditionally thought to have resided on Mount Ida. This passage, with its references to Mount Ida, the red soil of Marpessos, and the river Aidoneus, has also allowed scholars to locate the ancient remains of Marpessos. Two important divergences from the Heraclides tradition are, firstly, that she is thought to have lived before the Trojan Wars, not in the early 6th century BCE and, secondly, that she is named Herophile, which in the Heraclides tradition is instead the name attributed to the Cumaean Sibyl in Italy. Demetrios also relates that the inhabitants of Alexandria Troas had a local tradition in which they claimed that towards the end of her life Herophile had become a neokoros (temple warden) at the sanctuary of Apollo Smintheus in the territory of Alexandria Troas, and displayed a funerary epitaph for her to prove that she had been buried in the sanctuary:</p><br>
<p>Demetrios also relates that the Erythraeans instead claimed that Herophile was born to a nymph and a mortal not on Mount Ida, but in a cave in their own citys territory. According to Demetrios, the Erythraeans suppressed the last line of the oracle which mentions Marpessos and the river Aidoneus, so that the third line of the epigram would instead read: "On my mothers side of Idaean birth, but my fatherland was Erythre (i.e. the proper noun Erythrae rather than the adjective red)". We cannot tell whether the Erythraeans really did excise a line from the oracle, or whether Demetrios instead added one, since being able to claim possession of an oracle was a matter of great prestige for Greek poleis, and so both parties had a vested interest in manipulating the historical record.</p><br>
<h2>Bibliography</h2><br>
<p>R. Kiepert, Gergis und Marpessos in der Troas Klio 9 (1909) 10-13.</p><br>
<p>J. M. Cook, The Troad: An Archaeological and Topographical Study (Oxford, 1973) 280-2.</p><br>
<p>S. Mitchell, Pre-Hellenistic settlements not attested as poleis in M.H. Hansen and T.H. Nielsen (eds.), An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis (Oxford, 2004) 1001-2.</p><br>
<p>Carlson Hall at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah was built during 1937-38. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.</p><br>
<p>It is significant as one of only two historic womens dormitories in Utah, and as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. It was built after a "three-decade long struggle to have a womens dormitory constructed" at the University of Utah, initiated by Lucy M. Van Cott, Dean of Women at the university for 25 years. The cause was supported by the Utah Federation of Women&#39;s Clubs, who lobbied the state legislature for a bill to provide funding, but that bill failed to pass in 1913.</p><br>
<p>It was eventually funded by an estate gift of $121,000 from Mary P. Carlson, plus $90,000 of WPA funding.</p><br>
<p>The building is used for office and classroom space by the S.J. Quinney College of Law.</p><br>
<p>The Gour de Tazenat is a volcanic lake in the French department of Puy-de-Dôme. It was formed by a phreatomagmatic eruption about 29,000 years ago.</p><br>
<h2>Topography</h2><br>
<p>The lake marks the northern limit of the Chaîne des Puys. It is located in Charbonnières-les-Vieilles, near Manzat in the French department of Puy-de-Dôme. It is 20 km northwest of Riom, 5 kilometres northeast of Manzat and 2.5 kilometres south of Charbonnières-les-Vieilles.</p><br>
<p>The lake has a depth of 66 m. Its banks, except in the north and northeast, are wooded and have a height of 50 m.</p><br>
<p>The crater of this volcano is on average 80 m deep and 700 m wide. A 2.8 km trail can be used to walk around it. Navigation on the lake is prohibited.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Gour de Tazenat is a volcanic crater formed by a phreatomagmatic eruption. The banks of the lake have a volcanic crescent moon shape (north, east and south) formed by projections arranged in layers. In the stratum at the base, the basaltic volcanic projections, released as blocks, volcanic bombs and pozzolana are mixed with boulders (granite, granulite metamorphic rocks) from the base torn out by violent explosions. The bombs have a cauliflower shape, typical of phreatomagmatic eruptions due to fissures created by contact with water. The setting up of these initial projections corresponds to the beginning of the eruption when magma rises to the surface in contact with continental water. It causes heavy explosions capable of breaking fragments of crystalline basement, and the appearance of volcanic bombs in cauliflower shapes. Thereafter, water is removed and activity becomes more magmatic than phreatic. After cessation of eruptive activity, the Gour de Tazenat gradually filled with rainwater.</p><br>
<h2>Fauna and flora</h2><br>
<p>Aquatic fauna consists of many perch and pike, together with carp, pumpkinseeds, roach, trout and other fish with white flesh.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Gour de Tazenat was formed at least 29,000 years ago, as indicated by sediment cores.</p><br>
<h2>Literature</h2><br>
<p>Guy de Maupassant evokes the lake in his short story Mes vingt-cinq jours ("My Twenty-Five Days"), published in Various Tales in 1885 and in Mont-Oriol in 1887.</p><br>
<p>Lake Rożnow  is an artificial lake, built in 1935&ndash;1941. It is located in southernmost part of Poland . The lake was built in the interwar period to regulate the Dunajec river flowing through the foothils of Beskid Mountains; and also, to provide electricity for the Rożnow Power Plant  built into the dam. The lake took two years to fill which took place during World War II, from mid 1941 until 1943. It was named after the village of Rożnow.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Lake Rożnow was created not long before the invasion of Poland, after a dam had been built on the 80th kilometre distance of the Dunajec river. It lies among the hills of the Island Beskids, in Nowy Sącz County, some 12 kilometers north of Nowy Sącz. The valley of the Dunajec narrows here, turning into a canyon. The lake has the shape of an irregular letter S, with length ranging from 18 to 20 kilometres, and width of 1 app. kilometre (in few spots, it widens to no more than 2 kilometres). The depth of the reservoir reaches up to 30 metres near the dam. The total area of Rożnow Lake ranges from 16 to 20 square kilometres. The shoreline is marked by numerous peninsulas and bays, located at the mouths of several smaller rivers, which flow into the Dunajec. The lake is surrounded by forested hills, and its picturesque location makes it a very popular tourist center. Several tourisst villagers are located along Lake Rożnow: Tegoborze, Znamirowice, Zbyszyce, Bartkowa, Grodek nad Dunajcem, Tabaszowa, Rożnow.</p><br>
<p>Lake Rożnow has a small island, called Malpia Wyspa (Monkey Island). It used to be a hill with an ancient gord, which was turned into an island in 1942, after the Dunajec valley had been flooded. Currently, Monkey Island serves as a bird reserve, with as many 165 bird species living here.</p><br>
<p>The idea of construction of a dam on the Dunajec river in Rożnow was born after the disastrous 1934 flood in Poland. Due to lack of funds, the project was postponed until 1937, when first land purchases were made. The dam was built by a Polish-French company, which constructed a special settlement for the workers and engineers (the so-called French Colony), together with narrow gauge rail line to a stone quarry at Marcinkowice. Construction was interrupted after the Invasion of Poland, but as early as November 1939, German authorities of the General Government decided to continue it, using Polish plans. The dam together with the power plant was completed in 1942. It is built from concrete, with the height of 44 meters, and the length of 550 meters.</p><br>
<p>Coburn Hill is located 4.2 mi southeast of Billings, Montana in Yellowstone County. Its most predominant feature is Sacrifice Cliffs, part of the Rimrocks surrounding the city. Another feature is several radio and television broadcast towers located on the hill.</p><br>
<h2>Broadcast towers</h2><br>
<p>Nearly all of Billings FM radio stations transmit from towers on Coburn Hill. The following radio stations, in order of frequency, broadcast from the hill: KLMT 88.9 FM, KBLW 90.1 FM, K213DY 90.5 FM, KLRV 90.9 FM, K217CM 91.3 FM, KBXI 92.5 FM, KURL 93.3 FM, K240ET 95.9 FM, KRZN 96.3 FM, KKBR 97.1 FM, K248BL 97.5 FM, KRSQ 101.9 FM, KCTR 102.9 FM, KMHK 103.7 FM, KYSX 105.1 FM, KPLN 106.7 FM, KRPM 107.5 FM.</p><br>
<p>Coburn Hill also carries a majority of Billings area television stations. KTVQ, KULR, KBGS, and a number of translators and lower powered stations have towers on the mountain.</p><br>
<p>Coburn Hill is also the site of a Sulfur dioxide monitoring station operated by the Department of Environmental Quality.</p><br>
<h2>Four Dances Natural Area</h2><br>
<p>Providing an overlook of the greater Billings area, the southern portion of Coburn Hill is home to the Four Dances Natural Area, operated by the BLM. The BLM acquired Four Dances Natural Area in 1999. The area sits on 765 acres of undeveloped space which includes Sacrifice Cliffs. The area is named after Chief Four Dances, a Crow Indian chief. According to a sign on site, the area was used by Four Dances in the 1830s as a vision quest location. The area is also a frequent nesting location for various birds of prey.</p><br>
<p>The Kelsey Museum of Archaeology is a museum of archaeology located on the University of Michigan central campus in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in the United States. The museum is a unit of the University of Michigan&#39;s College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. It has a collection of more than 100,000 ancient and medieval artifacts from the civilizations of the Mediterranean and the Near East. In addition to displaying its permanent and special exhibitions, the museum sponsors research and fieldwork and conducts educational programs for the public and for schoolchildren. The museum also houses the University of Michigan Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The history of the museum begins before the museum was established. The founder of the universitys collection of artifacts was Francis Kelsey, a professor of Latin at the University of Michigan from 1889 until his death in 1927. Kelsey began acquiring artifacts in 1893 in order to help his students understand the ancient world. In 1893, he made his first acquisitions: 108 lamps, vases, and building materials from Alfred Louis Delattre, the Jesuit priest and archaeologist who was conducting an excavation at Carthage in Tunisia, and another 1,096 objects from dealers in Tunis, Rome, Capri, and Sicily. Together with several thousand coins donated to the University of Michigan in the 1880s, these objects formed the core of the universitys archaeological collections. Kelsey continued to acquire objects (by gift and purchase) for the university until he died in 1927. These artifacts included pottery, terracotta figurines, painted stucco, inscribed tombstones, daily life objects, glass, tombs, and papyri.</p><br>
<p>In 1924, Kelsey secured funding for excavations at sites around the Mediterranean and began to ship a large number of artifacts back to Ann Arbor. In 1924, he sent nearly 45,000 objects from Karanis, illustrating "in detail how daily life was lived in Egypt under Roman rule." The same year, excavations at Seleucia-on-the-Tigris in Iraq yielded another 13,000 objects. In 1925, Kelsey commissioned the Italian artist Maria Barosso to paint a set of watercolor replicas of the murals of the Villa of the Mysteries at Pompeii, which now are housed in a special room in the Upjohn Exhibit Wing.</p><br>
<p>The building that now houses the museum was originally built for the Students&#39; Christian Association for religious services and other meetings and activities. It was designed by the Detroit architectural firm of Spier & Rohns. Construction began in 1888 and was completed in 1891.</p><br>
<p>The building is described as a "massive, asymmetrical Richardsonian Romanesque building of rough-cut, randomly placed local fieldstone." The building has a hip roof broken by parapeted cross-gables, with a facade "dominated by a projecting three-story corner turret topped by a conical roof&quot "decorative colonettes, arches, and regularly coursed variegated brick bandcourses break the heaviness of the imposing stone structure." The building was dedicated on July 21, 1891 at a cost of $40,000 and was named Newberry Hall&mdash;a name still engraved on the buildings front&mdash;in honor of railroad magnate John S. Newberry, whose widow Helen Newberry contributed $18,000 toward the buildings construction.</p><br>
<p>The university leased Newberry Hall in 1921 for classroom space, housed its collection of ancient artifacts there from 1928, and finally purchased the building in 1937. In 1953, the museum was named in honor of Kelsey. Newberry Hall was designated as a Michigan State Historic Site on August 13, 1971, and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on March 24, 1972. It is one of the oldest still-standing buildings on the University of Michigan campus.</p><br>
<p>By the early 1990s the museum was experiencing overcrowding, deterioration of artifacts, and lack of adequate storage space. During that time, a new third floor was added in space formerly occupied by a choir loft (from the building&#39;s Christian Association period) and a new climate-controlled Sensitive Artifact Facility and Environment space was added to maintain "appropriate storage, humidity, and temperature requirements for optimal artifact longevity." A new registry, conservation lab, objects study area, water-sprinkler fire control system, security system, and elevator to the new third floor were added. The building was also made more handicapped accessible. The $1.3 million project was funded by a $250,000 gift from Eugene M. and Emily Grant of New York City, along with grants from the University of Michigan and the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as funding from the Kelsey Museum Associates and other private contributions.</p><br>
<p>In 2003, Edwin and Mary Meader of Kalamazoo, Michigan, longtime benefactors of the university, gave an $8 million gift to expand the museum by the addition of a new wing in the back of the museum. At the time, this was the largest gift in the history of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. The Chicago-based architectural firm of Hammond Beeby Rupert Ainge Inc. designed the new addition. The wing was named after Mary Meader&#39;s grandfather William E. Upjohn, the noted pharmacist. The building reopened to the public in November 2009</p><br>
<h2>Collection</h2><br>
<p>The Kelsey Museum&#39;s permanent exhibition on display in the William E. Upjohn Exhibit Wing features many artifacts and artworks from the ancient and medieval world in the Mediterranean and Near East. The collection includes ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Coptic, Persian, and Islamic archaeological artifacts. In addition to its more than 100,000 artifacts, the collection is also home to some rare objects important to the study of archaeology, excavation records, and an archive of 25,000 archaeological and fine arts photographs."</p><br>
<p>Among the museum&#39;s most significant holdings are:</p><br>
<p>Some 45,000 daily-life objects from the Graeco-Roman Egyptian town of Karanis, the largest in the world outside of the Cairo Museum.</p><br>
<p>Around 8,500 items of Parthian pottery, one of the largest outside Iraq.</p><br>
<p>Around 375 Latin inscriptions, the largest in the West.</p><br>
<p>Around 5,900 early Byzantine and Islamic textiles.</p><br>
<p>1,300 provenanced glass fragments and vessels.</p><br>
<p>More than 40,000 ancient coins, including ancient Greek coins.</p><br>
<p>A nearly complete edition of the Description de lÉgypte produced during Napoleons 1798 campaign in Egypt and Syria.</p><br>
<p>A noted collection of Roman brick stamps.</p><br>
<p>A collection of Egyptian mummy masks.</p><br>
<p>7,400 albumen prints and 25,000 archival photos related to late 19th- and early 20th-century Mediterranean archaeology.</p><br>
<p>A large watercolor representation of the Villa of the Mysteries murals from ancient Pompeii.</p><br>
<p>The collection also includes a colorfully-painted ancient Egyptian mummy; amulets; a variety of glass vessels, ancient Greek pottery; and ancient Roman sculpture.</p><br>
<h2>Fieldwork</h2><br>
<p>The Kelsey Museum has conducted fieldwork for over 80 years. Its past excavations and other fieldwork have taken place at the following archaeological sites:</p><br>
<p>Antioch of Pisidia, Turkey: 1924</p><br>
<p>Carthage, Tunisia: 1925</p><br>
<p>Karanis, Egypt: 1924-35</p><br>
<p>Dimé (Soknopaiou Nesos), Egypt: 1931</p><br>
<p>Terenouthis, Egypt: 1935</p><br>
<p>Seleucia on the Tigris, Iraq: 1927-32, 1936–37</p><br>
<p>Sepphoris, Israel: 1931</p><br>
<p>Saint Catherine&#39;s Monastery at Mount Sinai, Egypt: 1958, 1960, 1963, 1965</p><br>
<p>Qasr al-Hayr al-Sharqi, Syria: 1964, 1966, 1969–71</p><br>
<p>Apollonia, Libya: 1965-67</p><br>
<p>Cyrene, Libya: 1969, 1971</p><br>
<p>Dibsi Faraj, Syria: 1972</p><br>
<p>Tel Anafa, Israel: 1968-73, 1978–86</p><br>
<p>Paestum-Poseidonia, Italy: 1981-86, 1995–98</p><br>
<p>Coptos and the Eastern Desert, Egypt: 1987-95</p><br>
<p>Leptiminus Archaeological Project, Leptiminus, Tunisia: 1990-99</p><br>
<p>Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Pylos, Greece: 1991-96</p><br>
<p>Southern Euboea Exploration Project, Euboea, Greece: Michigan involvement: 1996, 2000, 2002, 2005</p><br>
<p>The Vorotan Project, Armenia: 2005</p><br>
<p>The Kelsey Museum is currently sponsoring the following fieldwork:</p><br>
<p>Abydos, Egypt: from 1995 - led by Janet Richards</p><br>
<p>Tel Kedesh, Israel: from 1997 - led by Sharon C. Herbert and Andrea M. Berlin</p><br>
<p>Gabii, Italy: from 2007 - led by Nicola Terrenato</p><br>
<p>Aphrodisias, Turkey: from 2007 - led by Christopher Ratté</p><br>
<p>Vani, Republic of Georgia: from 2009 (partnership between U-M and Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University) - led by Christopher Ratté</p><br>
<p>S. Omobono Sanctuary, Rome, Italy: from 2009 - led by Nicola Terrenato</p><br>
<p>El Kurru, Sudan: from 2013 - led by Geoff Emberling</p><br>
<p>The Almon A. Covey House is a historic house located at 1211 East 100 South in Salt Lake City, Utah.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a 2-1/2 story, Prairie School-style house, designed by architecture firm Ware & Treganza. Construction commenced in 1909. According to the NRHP nomination, it is significant as a "fine example" of Prairie School style in Utah. It is probably one of the earliest examples of Prairie School style in the work of Ware & Treganza.</p><br>
<p>Construction of the Hyrum T. Covey House, next door at 1229 East 100 South, also began in 1909. It was also built in Prairie School style, designed by the same firm, and is also NRHP-listed.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 3, 1980.</p><br>
<p>Lake Dobczyce  is an artificial lake, built in 1985 - 1987. It is located in southern Poland , thirty kilometers south of Kraków. The lake, which lies between the Island Beskids, and the Wieliczka Foothills, was built to regulate the Raba river between the towns of Dobczyce and Myślenice. The Raba river dam has the length of 617 meters, and the height of 30 meters.</p><br>
<p>The decision to build the dam and the lake was taken in 1970. In the following years, 70 hectares of forest were cut down, and villages, schools, plants and cemeteries were moved from the valley. With the completion of the dam and the lake, the problem of frequent flooding of the Raba valley was solved. Lake Dobczyce provides water for the city of Kraków, it also has a hydroelectric power plant. Due to a picturesque location, the lake is very popular among residents of the city, who take advantage of walking and bicycle trails. Furthermore, it is a nesting place for several species of aquatic birds.</p><br>
<h2>Sources</h2><br>
<p>The Carl M. Neuhausen House at 1265 E. 100 South in Salt Lake City, Utah, was designed in Chateauesque style by architect Carl M. Neuhausen and was permitted to be built in 1901. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<p>Carl M. Neuhausen, born 1858 in Stuttgart, Germany, was asserted in the NRHP nomination to have been "the only prominent Utah architect to employ the Renaissance spirit and mannerist detailing of the Chateauesque style." He worked for a time with architect Richard K.A. Kletting and then split off to work on his own in 1895. He designed several large buildings in Salt Lake City including the Kearns Mansion and the Cathedral of the Madeleine.</p><br>
<p>Neuhausen died in the house in 1907 of heart failure, at age 49.</p><br>
<p>Iron Hill School No. 112C, also known as the Iron Hill Museum, is a historic one-room school building located near Newark in New Castle County, Delaware. It was designed by noted architect James Oscar Betelle and built in 1923, and is 1 1/2-story, rectangular frame, wood-shingled building on a concrete foundation with a medium-pitched gable roof. The building measures 24 feet by 48 feet, and features a pedimented portico centered on the gable end in the Colonial Revival style. The school was funded by Pierre S. du Pont as part of a reform and rebuilding of African-American schools in Delaware, between 1919 and 1928. The school was used until school segregation was abolished, which occurred at Iron Hill in 1965.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.</p><br>
<p>The Iron Hill Museum&#39;s exhibits include area iron ore mining, Lenni Lenape history and culture, rocks and minerals from around Delaware and around the world, mounted area wildlife, and a display of fossils found in the state.</p><br>
<p>Lake August has a somewhat round or oval shape. Washington Avenue completely surrounds the residences that almost completely line this lake. This lake, with a 52.13 acre surface area, appeared as a swampy area on older topographical maps, indicating it is a dredged man-made lake. It is in Placid Lakes, a large residential area southwest of the town of Lake Placid, Florida.</p><br>
<p>The public has extremely limited access to Lake August. On the northeast is a narrow point along Washington Blvd. where the lake is met by a small water channel between two residences. This channel travels 0.5 mi northeast to connect to the much larger Lake June in Winter. The channel can not be travelled by boat, as it in most places it is extremely shallow and also passes through culverts under Washington and another road. The public could fish at this narrow point, but there are no public boat ramps or swimming areas on Lake August.</p><br>
<p>The Centennial Range is a sub-range of the Saint Elias Mountains. It is located inside Kluane National Park and Reserve in the far west of the Yukon Territory in Canada. It consists of fourteen major peaks, and was named for Canadas Centennial in 1967. Its peaks bear the names of Canadas provinces and territories, with the exception of Nunavut, which was not a territory at the time. The tallest point is Centennial Peak. Nine of the peaks were climbed as part of the Yukon Alpine Centennial Expedition, part of the 1967 celebrations.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Saint Elias Mountains are the highest in Canada, and second in North America only to the adjacent Alaska Range. They are located at the intersection of the Alaska, Yukon Territory, and British Columbia borders. The Centennial Range is north of Mount Logan and to the west of Mount Lucania. The peaks are lower than the surrounding mountains; no Centennial peak is over 4,000 m, while nearby peaks like Mount Steele and Lucania measure over 5,000 m. The range lies within Kluane National Park and Reserve.</p><br>
<p>The range runs roughly east to west, and is bounded by the Walsh Glacier to the south, and the Chitina Glacier to the north. The peaks are named for Canada&#39;s provinces and territories (with the exceptions of Centennial Peak and Mount Baffin, named after Baffin Island), and loosely correspond geographically to the positions of their namesakes. Mount Northwest is the farthest west, while Mount Nova Scotia is the easternmost peak. Nunavut does not have a mountain due to it not being a territory in 1967, when the peaks were named. The highest point in the range is Centennial Peak at 3,820 m.</p><br>
<h2>Yukon Alpine Centennial Expedition</h2><br>
<p>The Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) had been interested in exploration of the more remote areas of the Saint Elias range since 1963. The club wanted to plan an expedition commemorating the one-hundred year anniversary of the founding of Canada, as well as a joint venture with the American Alpine Club to commemorate the centennial of the Alaska Purchase. The ACC president started discussions with the federal Centennial Commission in 1965 about a mountaineering event as a component of Canada&#39;s centennial celebrations. Federal funding was approved for the expedition in 1966.</p><br>
<p>Teams were assembled to represent each province and territory. The proposal called for each team to be made up of residents of the respective area, but due to a shortage of applications, a disproportionate number of climbers came from the mountainous province of British Columbia. The Centennial expedition was scheduled over two weeks in late July 1967.</p><br>
<p>Three base camps were established, called T-Bone, Prairie (named for the Canadian Prairies), and Fundy (named for the Bay of Fundy). Climbers from T-Bone attempted Mount Northwest, Mount Yukon, and Mount British Columbia. The Prairie camp supported teams on Mount Alberta, Mount Saskatchewan, Mount Ontario, and Mount Manitoba, as well as Centennial Peak. The Quebec, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia teams used the Fundy base camp. In all, nine of the expeditions were successful, despite the fact that the climbers were assessing new routes and fighting windy, wet weather.</p><br>
<h2>Major peaks</h2><br>
<p>Peaks are listed by their position west to east. Heights from Fisher.</p><br>
<p>Mount Northwest, 3,215 m</p><br>
<p>Mount Yukon, 3,230 m</p><br>
<p>Mount British Columbia, 3,108 m</p><br>
<p>Mount Baffin, 3,108 m</p><br>
<p>Mount Alberta, 3,328 m</p><br>
<p>Mount Saskatchewan, 3,462 m</p><br>
<p>Mount Manitoba, 3,398 m</p><br>
<p>Centennial Peak, 3,820 m</p><br>
<p>Mount Ontario, 3,718 m</p><br>
<p>Mount Quebec, 3,749 m</p><br>
<p>Mount Prince Edward Island, 3,736 m</p><br>
<p>Mount New Brunswick, 3,387 m</p><br>
<p>Mount Newfoundland, 3,670 m</p><br>
<p>Mount Nova Scotia, 3,291 m</p><br>
<p>Falkonera,  or Gerakoulia  is a small uninhabited Greek island in the southwestern Aegean Sea, between the island of Milos and the Peloponnese. Although outside the Saronic Gulf, it is generally included among the Saronic Islands. The islet marks the summit of a horst tending WNW-ESE, which separates the Myrtoon basin to the north from the Cretan basin to the south.</p><br>
<p>The island is administered as part of the Islands regional unit, part of the municipality of Spetses. Located at the crossing of the Piraeus-Chania and Cape Maleas-Izmir shipping lanes, it is considered a significant navigational hazard due to the strong surrounding currents. At the island&#39;s eastern cape, named Panaghia ton revmaton (Παναγιά των Ρευμάτων), meaning "Panagia of the currents", there is a lighthouse that was destroyed by the Germans in 1941 and rebuilt after World War II. The highest point of the island is 183 meters above sea level.</p><br>
<p>The name "Falkonera" derives from the Italian "Falconeria", meaning "place of falcons". This is also the meaning of the alternate Greek name, Gerakoulia.</p><br>
<p>During the Greek Revolution, the island was served as a unification point for Andreas Miaouliss and Dimitrios Sachtouriss squadrons before the campaign of Milos.</p><br>
<p>Falkonera is part of the Natura 2000 network with code GR3000011, together with the nearby uninhabited islands of Velopoula and Ananes. The isolated island has two zones of vegetation, a salt-tolerant shore zone and a zone beyond the reach of salt spray of the type called phrygana in Greece, and more generally garrigue. It is one of the few Aegean islands that supports a population of the Milos wall lizard, Podarcis milensis.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Tatnall House, also known as the "Oliver Evans House," is a historic home located at Newport, New Castle County, Delaware. The house is alternatively named after Newport&#39;s favorite son Oliver Evans , although he had no apparent historical association with it.</p><br>
<p>It is a 2 1/2-story, five-bay gambrel-roofed brick building in the Georgian style. The oldest section dates to about 1750, and are the two easternmost bays. The other three bays were added later in the 18th century. A 1 1/2-story, gambrel-roofed ell and small one-story wings were added about 1915. The 1915 renovations were by the Krebs Pigments and Chemical Company, which carried out an extensive expansion of its facilities and used the house for administrative offices. The plant was acquired by the E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. in 1929. In 1984, DuPont sold the plant to Ciba-Geigy; the plant was spun off to Ciba Specialty Chemicals in 1997 and it, and the house, are now owned by BASF.</p><br>
<p>The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.</p><br>
<p>Fairfield House is a historic house in Stogursey, Somerset, England. A house existed on the site from the 12th century and it has been owned by the same family since that time. The current building is largely 16th-century, but has undergone various remodellings since then. It is designated as a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<p>The house was surrounded by a Medieval deer park covering approximately 200 acre. Part of this was converted into an Elizabethan garden around 1580, and now includes a walled garden. The current owner is Elizabeth Gass who has sold some of the surrounding parkland to Hinkley Point Power station.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A manor house existed on the site in 1166. Little is known about the original house, but the ownership is given as lying with the Russel family by 1216. The house was considered to be in the Lilstock parish in 1498 when John Verney, a descendant of Russel, paid a fine for his support of Perkin Warbeck. The house has remained in the ownership of their descendants ever since.</p><br>
<p>Around 1473 a licence was granted by the king to William Verney to surround the house with a wall and seven round towers. Three of the towers were still surviving in the 18th century; however none remain today.</p><br>
<p>There was a separate chapel from 1288 until the 17th century, but its location is now unknown.</p><br>
<p>In the 16th century it was remodelled by Elizabeth Verney including a porch which dates from 1589; however, the house was still described as unfinished in 1633. This may have been because parts of the earlier house built around a courtyard were in the process of being demolished.</p><br>
<p>In the 18th century the interior was remodeled with the addition of new staircases in each main wing. In the late 18th and early 19th century Sir John Acland made further changes which are believed to have been designed by Richard Carver.</p><br>
<p>By 1870 Alexander Acland-Hood controlled the estate.</p><br>
<p>In 1967 Elizabeth Gass inherited from an uncle the family&#39;s ancestral seat, and gave up her teaching career to concentrate on managing the estate which came with it. She has been the Lord Lieutenant of Somerset since 1998.</p><br>
<h3>Sale of land</h3><br>
<p>In 1994, Lady Gass, sold some 230 acres of her land on the coast beneath the Quantock Hills for about £50 million. The land was the part of her Fairfield estate lying immediately to the west of the Hinkley Point power station and was earmarked for the development of a wind farm. The site may now be used for the construction of two new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point C.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Parts of the two-storey house still have fabric from the 12th-century building, but most of it dates from around 1589, with the south front being remodelled in the late 18th century. Like many Elizabethan mansions, is built in an E shape. The stone work has lime rendering with Bath Stone dressings, topped by a hipped slate roof.</p><br>
<p>The house and gardens are occasionally opened to the public.</p><br>
<h2>Garden and outbuildings</h2><br>
<p>The house is set in parkland laid out in the 18th century which had been a deer park in the 15th century, when the whole estate covered approximately 200 acre. A late Elizabethan garden was established as part of the remodelling of the house by Elizabeth Verney in 1580.</p><br>
<p>The grounds included a short canal which was separated from the house by the main road from Stogursey to Stringston. In the late 18th century and early 19th century, the road was diverted by Sir John Acland, as part of extending the park to the south. The east and south lodges were rebuilt in the 1830s. There are also a stable block and dovecote both of which date from the late 18th century.</p><br>
<p>The Blue Lias barn and granary to the north of the house were built in the 18th century. The barn had a new roof in the 19th.</p><br>
<p>A woodland garden has spring flowers beneath shrubs and trees; there are also apple orchards. The walled kitchen garden includes roses and a herbaceous border. An earlier maze has been recreated with a paved replica. The garden is open occasionally as part of the National Gardens Scheme.</p><br>
<p>The estate now covers approximately 40 hectare, and is listed, Grade II, on the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of special historic interest in England.</p><br>
<p>The Adlai E. Stevenson II Farm, also known as Adlai E. Stevenson Historic Home is a historic property located on St. Marys Road in Mettawa, Illinois. Between 1936 and his death it was the home of Adlai Stevenson II , a Democratic politician who was the governor of Illinois between 1949 and 1953, was twice the Democratic Partys presidential candidate in the 1950s and served as the US ambassador to the United Nations during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. The farm was listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has also been designated a National Historic Landmark. The property is located in the northern suburbs of Chicago, in the Captain Daniel Wright Woods Forest Preserve. It currently functions as a museum.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Stevenson and his wife bought the 44 acre farm in 1935. Later they purchased another 30 acre, of which 3.5 acre is currently part of the property. Their first house was built in 1936, while the house currently standing on the property was built in 1938. Stevenson and his wife, Ellen Borden, divorced in 1949, and Stevenson died in 1965 when he was in London. In 1969, most of the farm was sold to Edison Dick, a Stevenson friend. The estate was then donated to the Lake County Forest Preserve District in 1974. Between 1982 and 2000, the estate served as a day center for the Lake County Health Department. On September 14, 2003, the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In 2005 and 2007, the house and the service area were rehabilitated.</p><br>
<h2>Estate</h2><br>
<p>The estate is owned by the Lake County Forest Preserve District and contains the main house (1938), the service building (1937/39), the tennis court (after 1945), and the barn (1958). The farm landscape is also protected as a separate element of the property.</p><br>
<p>The house, designed by the firm of Perkins, Wheeler and Will, incorporates elements of 1920s European avant-garde architecture: It is composed of block-like elements with no or little exterior ornamental design. The hip roof is shallow and broadly overhanging, which produces a reminiscence of the American Prairie School. The house is oriented in the meridional direction, with the dimensions of 106 ft to 37 ft. It was originally painted yellow, but was repainted white during Stevensons lifetime. In the center, there is a two-floor block, with two one-floor blocks at the sides.</p><br>
<p>The interior is minimalistic as well, conforming to the International style. The first floor has thirteen rooms, including the Stevenson&#39;s study with the original furniture, two bathrooms, and a service porch; the second floor of the central part of the house contains six rooms.</p><br>
<p>The Fort Sheridan Water Tower is a water tower in Fort Sheridan, Illinois.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The water tower was the main landmark of the Fort Sheridan military base, where it was part of a barracks complex. The base was commissioned in 1887 and was used by the United States Army until 1993. Built from 1889 to 1891, the tower was among the first structures completed in the fort. It was built with bricks made from Lake Bluff clay and designed to resemble St. Mark&#39;s Campanile in Venice. The bricks were creamy yellow and the roof was red terra cotta. The tower originally stood 227 ft high, which listed it among the tallest buildings in Illinois. A road which was once part of Sheridan Road passes through an arch at the bottom of the tower. Today, the arch only allows foot traffic. The tower held a 90,000 gal steel tank for water storage. The tank could be accessed by a 225-step spiral staircase.</p><br>
<p>The water was part of the complex used in the aftermath of World War I as USA General Hospital No. 28, later known as Lovell General Hospital. The hospital was only in use from 1918 to 1920. In 1949, the tower was lowered 58 ft to combat a structural weakness. This brought the Fort Sheridan Water Tower to its current height, 169 ft. The tower&#39;s prominence has led to its use as a navigational landmark in the area.</p><br>
<p>The tower was recognized by the National Park Service with a lising on the National Register of Historic Places on December 4, 1974 under the name Water Tower, Building 49. On September 29, 1980, the building was listed as a contributing property to the Fort Sheridan Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District.</p><br>
<p>Robert Graham House is a historic home located near Newark, New Castle County, Delaware. The house consists of sections built during three main periods. The log, central core dates to about 1790, and was first constructed as a one-story building with a loft and later raised to a full two stories. The two-story, stone western section was added about 1819. The final building period occurred in the mid-1930s with two frame additions, a two-story, frame, rear wing behind the stone section, and a one-story, frame wing east of the log section, with a three-car garage at the basement level. Because the house is banked into the hill, a full three levels of the stone end, including the basement, are exposed. The stone section features a shed-roofed, front porch on a high stone foundation. Also on the property are a contributing stone terrace  and a stone wall from the mid-1930s.</p><br>
<p>It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.</p><br>
<p>The Ann Halsted House is a house located at 440 W. Belden Street in the Lincoln Park community area of Chicago, Illinois. Designed in 1883 and built by 1884, the house is the oldest surviving residence designed by Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan. The brick house is designed in the Queen Anne style, which can be seen in its pointed bay windows and the detailed brickwork on the cornices and chimneys on the sides of the house; however, the front of the home reflects a French influence. Sullivans influence on the homes exterior can mainly be seen in the dormers at the front and back and in the pediments on the sides. The fireplace and railings inside the house are also Queen Anne style, though they too reflect early traces of Sullivan&#39;s characteristic design.</p><br>
<p>The Ann Halsted House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 17, 1973.</p><br>
<p>Taulliraju  is a mountain in the Cordillera Blanca in the Andes of Peru, about 5,830 m high . It is located between the provinces of Huaylas and Pomabamba in the region of Ancash. Taulliraju lies inside Huascarán National Park, south east of Pucajirca and east of Rinrijirca.</p><br>
<h2>Climbing</h2><br>
<p>There are a number of routes, but there is no easy way to climb this spectacular mountain. The easier two are perhaps the south-southeast ridge or the north face; all the other routes are more difficult. The south-southeast ridge and the north face are rated TD-, the south buttress is TD, the southwest face is ED1 and the east buttress is ED1/ED2.</p><br>
<p>The east buttress on the southwest face, known also as Fowler-Watts route was climbed on the 26 May 1982 and since has defeated many competent parties. It is a serious undertaking on mixed ground, steep sections of rock (difficulty UIAA V+) with key passages at A3+ and vertical rotten ice. A variation of the Fowler-Watts route is the Sykes-Clay, climbed on 10 July 1989 and rarely repeated since.</p><br>
<p>The 1-km long west ridge was climbed on the 26 June 2016 by a New Zealand team comprising Pearson, McDowell, Fortune and Measures. The route took five days round-trip from the base camp with three bivvys on the ridge, and involved difficulties up to M5, WI4 and UIAA VI-.</p><br>
<p>Padua Hills Theatre  was the longest running theater featuring Mexican-theme musicals in the United States. It operated as a non-profit business promoting intercultural understanding between European Americans and those of Mexican-descent.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Padua Hills was a 2,000 acre tract of land directed by Bess Garner and Herman Garner. It was subdivided into a 6 acre artist colony called the Little Theater Association with a central dining room, artist studio, shops, and a small theatre. Located three miles north of Foothill Boulevard in the City of Claremont, the Spanish Revival buildings were nestled at the base of the mountains and surrounded by lush trees and shrubs. As described by the National Register of Historic Places, "The complex is situated on six acres of land and includes three buildings--a theater and restaurant building, an adjacent apartment, and a studio/residence--grouped around a central courtyard. The landscaping of olive trees and rock walls and curbing, along with an outdoor stage structure are contributing site features. A Padua Hills Theatre sign with a pair of Mexican folk dancers and a life-sized statue of an Indian maiden add to the mood of the setting." The theatre was operated by the Padua Institute, a non-profit educational corporation. Offering courses in Mexican folk music, dance, and Spanish, the Institute was advertised for its work in preserving the Spanish and Mexican heritage of early California.</p><br>
<h2>Theatre</h2><br>
<p>Although originating as a small community theater featuring the Claremont Community Players in the hills of Claremont in southern California, by the depression years Padua Hills featured dinner theatre by the "Mexican Players." The group presented plays, songs, and dances for theatre patrons from 1931 to 1974. Although performing in Spanish, the performances drew primarily an Anglo audience. These efforts were consistent with a larger move towards what has been called the Spanish Fantasy Past, a nostalgic remembering of a bygone pre-Anglo past. Other examples of this regional mythology that are popularly recognized by historians include the San Gabriel Mission Play, Los Angeles Olvera Street, and Helen Hunt Jackson&#39;s popular novel Ramona. The Padua plays were unique in their blending of this "pastoral pageantry" with the more lauded "ethnic theater," whose purpose was to inform and educate the general public about the cultural attributes of Mexican, Spanish and early Californian life.</p><br>
<h2>Mexican Players (Paduanos)</h2><br>
<p>The focus of the Padua experience were the Mexican Players. The Garners largely recruited the players from the nearby Claremont barrio. Although their most visible task was to provide entertainment, they were also responsible for cooking, maintaining the property, and waiting on tables. Each performance was followed by a jamaica (a post-production party) in which theatre patrons and the Paduanos (as the Mexican Players referred to themselves) interacted in a festive setting. The expressed intent of the business was to form an "intercultural understanding" between Anglo-Americans and Mexican/ Mexican-Americans. Although seeking to positively portray Mexican culture, the Institute&#39;s efforts have since been critiqued for distorting California history and replacing old stereotypes of Mexicans as threatening with new stereotypes of Mexicans as politically benign.</p><br>
<p>Despite the political criticisms of Mexican American folk theater, Paduanos found opportunities for self-discovery, to forge strong relationships, and to achieve successful careers in theatre and beyond. Participation in the plays allowed the players to share their artistic talents where elsewhere there were few opportunities for Latino/a actors. For the larger community, it created an atmosphere in which negative attitudes towards Mexican Americans were temporarily averted. And, it created a space where Mexican American youth received training in song and dance resulting in their theatrical advancement. Bess Garner was primarily responsible for working with the players and has been remembered both fondly and as a well-intentional woman who, consistent with racial tensions as the time, could be maternalistic towards the players by actively discouraging movement to Hollywood studios and acting condescendingly towards youth housed on the Padua grounds.</p><br>
<h3>Partial List of Players</h3><br>
<p>Manuel Aguilar</p><br>
<p>Lilly Aguilar</p><br>
<p>Samuel Adame</p><br>
<p>Miguel Aguilar</p><br>
<p>José Alba</p><br>
<p>Florence Alvarez</p><br>
<p>Casilda Amador</p><br>
<p>Margarita Centurión Zarco</p><br>
<p>Beatriz Anaya (Lopez)</p><br>
<p>Pauline Anaya</p><br>
<p>Jámés Ard</p><br>
<p>Alfred Bustillos</p><br>
<p>Manuel Carrasco</p><br>
<p>Beatriz Castillo</p><br>
<p>Conchita Cervantes</p><br>
<p>Miguel Cisneros</p><br>
<p>Manuel Dias</p><br>
<p>Salvador Espinosa</p><br>
<p>Alfonso Gallardo</p><br>
<p>Philipe Garcia</p><br>
<p>Jose Garcia</p><br>
<p>Josephine Garcia</p><br>
<p>Lupe Gonzalez</p><br>
<p>Macaria Gomez</p><br>
<p>Cesaria(Sarita)Gomez</p><br>
<p>Rubén Guerrero</p><br>
<p>Liduvina Guillen</p><br>
<p>Mariquita Hernandez</p><br>
<p>Jesus Huerta</p><br>
<p>Manuela Huerta (Matute)</p><br>
<p>Mauricio Jara</p><br>
<p>Micaela Jimenez</p><br>
<p>Emma Lopez</p><br>
<p>Sara Macias</p><br>
<p>Manuel Madrid</p><br>
<p>Juan Matute</p><br>
<p>Cristina Martínez</p><br>
<p>Isabel Martínez</p><br>
<p>Maria Martinez</p><br>
<p>Lupe Mendoza</p><br>
<p>Eduardo Montaño</p><br>
<p>Nena Morales</p><br>
<p>Felix Moreno</p><br>
<p>Guillermo Nieto</p><br>
<p>Gregorio Ornelas</p><br>
<p>Margarita Park</p><br>
<p>Mary Ann Park</p><br>
<p>Maria Perez</p><br>
<p>Maria Prado</p><br>
<p>Grace Ramirez</p><br>
<p>Hilda Ramirez (Jara)</p><br>
<p>Jovita Ramoss</p><br>
<p>Eva Rodriquez</p><br>
<p>Rebecca Romo</p><br>
<p>Anita de la Rosa</p><br>
<p>Francisco Sánchez Flores</p><br>
<p>Salvador Sánchez</p><br>
<p>Rachel Sepulveda</p><br>
<p>Carlos Tarín</p><br>
<p>Joe Tolentino</p><br>
<p>Eduardo Turley</p><br>
<p>Samuel Valadez</p><br>
<p>Flavio Vera</p><br>
<p>Manuel(Miguel)Vera</p><br>
<p>Jose Guadalupe Vera (Panchito)</p><br>
<p>Manuel Vera (Jr)</p><br>
<p>Alfredo Vera</p><br>
<p>Maximina Zuñiga</p><br>
<h2>Current Uses</h2><br>
<p>After the theater&#39;s closing in the 1980s, the main dining room and grounds have been used to host weddings and special events under the management of Chantrelles Fine Catering.</p><br>
<p>North Tarawa or Tarawa Ieta, in the Republic of Kiribati, is the string of islets from Buariki at the northern tip of Tarawa atoll to Buota in the South, with a combined population of 6,102. It is administratively separate from neighbouring South Tarawa, and is governed by the Eutan Tarawa Council , based at Abaokoro village.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>North Tarawa has a land area of 15.26 km. It is made up of several islets; the widest part of North Tarawa can be found in the village of Buariki and the narrowest width in the village of Tearinibai, next to Buariki.</p><br>
<p>Buota was joined by a bridge to South Tarawa in 1995 and has since increased in population and is becoming more like part of urban South Tarawa. Abatao is not accessible by road, but the channel can be easily walked at low tide and there is a boat service at high tide. For people in Abatao and Buota, it is much easier to access schools, clinics and other services on South Tarawa than to travel to the Government Station in Abaokoro.</p><br>
<p>Apart from the bridge from Buota to Tanaea, small causeways connect the villages of Tebwangoroi and Taratai, Tebwangoroi and Nuatabu.</p><br>
<p>The atoll has a protected area that is designated as the North Tawara Conservation Area.</p><br>
<h3>Villages</h3><br>
<p>Abaokoro accommodates the main service infrastructures such as the offices of Eutan Tarawa Council, the junior secondary school and the main medical centre. With the rapid growth of population in South Tarawa, people are choosing to settle in North Tarawa in greater numbers, especially in Abatao and Buota, the two villages closest to South Tarawa.</p><br>
<p>There are 14 villages in North Tarawa. From North to South, the villages and their populations are:</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>In North Tarawa, the subsistence lifestyle practiced throughout the Gilbert Islands coexists with a more market economy based on trade with neighboring South Tarawa. Only 16% of the workforce are in paid employment, but a further 17% earn cash from market oriented activities. There is a strong trade in local food, building materials and other items from North Tarawa, which are sold for cash in markets and on the streets of South Tarawa.</p><br>
<h2>Myths and legends</h2><br>
<p>North Tarawa has a special place in Kiribati mythology; the tree of life or tree of knowledge or Uekera was planted in Buariki village in North Tarawa by Nei Tekanuea. Uekera came from the south. Spirits who lived in a tree in Samoa migrated northward carrying branches from the tree. It was these spirits, together with Nareau the Wise who created the islands of Tungaru (the Gilbert Islands)</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Tarawa was governed as one island, under a king, until Colonial times. The colonial administrative centre of Kiribati was originally located at Taratai in North Tarawa (where the last king used to live). The administrative centre was later moved to South Tarawa, which remains the capital of Kiribati to this day. The decision to locate the Government on South Tarawa led to many changes; the lifestyle on South Tarawa is now almost urban, while lifestyles on North Tarawa remain based in traditional, subsistence culture.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1970s, a boat constructed at Taratai village was sailed to Fiji using traditional navigation techniques, as part of a project led by James Siers to demonstrate that Pacific seafarers were capable of making deliberate voyages of exploration in ancient times.</p><br>
<h2>Visiting North Tarawa</h2><br>
<h3>Transport</h3><br>
<p>There are regular ferry services from urban South Tarawa to the main villages of North Tarawa, and it is also relatively simple to charter a boat. The road from South Tarawa ends at the channel between Buota and Abatao, but this channel can be easily walked at low tide, so that the southern islets of North Tarawa can be accessed on foot.</p><br>
<h3>Accommodation</h3><br>
<p>The Island Council operates a guest house at Abaokoro, providing basic accommodation for Government workers and other visitors, but also welcoming tourists. There are also several independent homestays and lodges in North Tarawa.</p><br>
<p>Maringma-tepui, also written Mount Maringma and historically known as Mount Marima, is a small tepui of the Pacaraima Mountains in Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Guyana. It is known as Malaima-tepui in the local Akawaio language. However, the mountain remains the subject of considerable toponymic confusion and its name has been applied to at least one other nearby peak.</p><br>
<p>The village of Wayalayeng lies at the base of Maringma-tepui and it is from here that the mountain was explored in May–July 2004 by a botanical team of the Smithsonian Institution. Led by David Clarke, this was the first expedition to reach the mountain&#39;s summit. It was followed by two further expeditions in February 2006 and late 2007, by Bruce Means and Philippe J. R. Kok et al., respectively.</p><br>
<p>Maringma-tepui has a maximum elevation of around 2,147 m The summit plateau has an area of roughly 170 hectare and is highly uneven, allowing water to collect in many deep, swamp-like pools. It is predominantly covered in low-growing "tepui meadow" vegetation, quaking peat bog, and some dwarf forests of Bonnetia roraimae, with few areas of exposed rock. The dominant plant families include Bonnetiaceae, Bromeliaceae, Clusiaceae, Orchidaceae, Rapateaceae, Sarraceniaceae, and Xyridaceae. Temperatures vary widely on the summit plateau, with extremes of 13.5 and 37.5 °C recorded over a five-day period.</p><br>
<p>Native herpetofauna include the lizard species Arthrosaura hoogmoedi Anomaloglossus megacephalus, and Anomaloglossus praderioi (Aromobatidae); and Oreophrynella macconnelli and Oreophrynella seegobini (Bufonidae).</p><br>
<p>The Columbia Savings Bank Building, also known as the Columbus Savings Bank, is a landmark office building located at 700 Montgomery Street in the Financial District of San Francisco, California.</p><br>
<p>The building is registered as a San Francisco Landmark. It was deemed significant as the "oldest of four buildings that represent the beginning of Italian banking in San Francisco", along with the Bank of Italy building and two other bank buildings.</p><br>
<h2>Tenants</h2><br>
<p>The Columbia Savings Bank Building was originally built for the Columbus Savings and Loan Society, as a bank which primarily served the Italian community in San Francisco.</p><br>
<p>In 1923 the building at 700 Montgomery became, for two years, the Columbus Branch of the Bank of Italy.</p><br>
<p>From 1939 to 1953 the ground floor was occupied by the Pisani Printing and Publishing Company.</p><br>
<p>The upper floor was occupied by the Italian consulate from 1948 to 1951, and the Indonesian consulate from 1954 to 1956.</p><br>
<p>From 1973 until 1996, the building was the studio for KIOI radio station.</p><br>
<p>Beginning in 2000, it hosted the law offices of former Mayor Joseph L. Alioto and his daughter, Angela Alioto.</p><br>
