<p>Phu Thap Boek , also known as Phu Man Khao, is a 1,768 m high mountain in Phetchabun Province, Thailand near the border with Loei Province. It is in the Lom Kao District.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Rising in the western range of the massif this mountain is the highest point of the Phetchabun Mountains. The peak rises 12 km west of Highway 203, between Loei town and Phetchabun town.</p><br>
<p>The Phu Hin Rong Kla National Park is in the area around the mountain. The park overlaps the borders of further two provinces, Phitsanulok and Phetchabun. Most of the mountain is covered in mixed evergreen forest and there are also some farms on its slopes where the climate conditions favor cabbage farming. The area around the mountain is part of the Luang Prabang montane rain forests ecoregion.</p><br>
<p>The villager at Phu Thap Boek is the Hmong hill tribe. The migrants come from the northern part of Thailand. They are taken care of by the Phetchabun Hilltribe Development Center. The mountain, originally home of Hmong people&#39;s settlements, has been overrun by allegedly illegal resorts and restaurants.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Phu Thap Boek is a high mountain at 1,768 meters above sea level. There is abundant natural and fresh air all year. In the morning, fog and clouds is cover all the top of mountain. Moreover, there are many cabbage farms along the foothills. The mountain in this area are raised from the orogeny of the land in the past, so it changed the area at Phetchabun Province from flat plate to became a Sand-Rock mountain. The east and south are the contact areas with Lom Sak district and Khao Kho district. In the north and west are adjacent to Loei Province. During the day, you can see the area below of Lom Kao district and Lom Sak district. At night time, you will see many stars in the sky because the peak is flat.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<p>In the winter, the temperature is quite colder and it will be very cold in December. Summer temperatures average about 20 degree Celsius. In the rainy season, rainfall is quite high and rainy with 70% per a year.</p><br>
<p>The Jamestown Canal  bypasses a non-navigable section of the River Shannon between Jamestown and Drumsna in Ireland.</p><br>
<p>The canal is 2.6 km in length and is located in County Roscommon.</p><br>
<p>The Shannon Commissioners constructed the canal in 1848 to replace an earlier, smaller canal as part of a widescale upgrade of the Shannon Navigation.</p><br>
<h2>Structures associated with the canal</h2><br>
<p>The following associated structures are listed as being of architectural social and technical interest on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.</p><br>
<p>Albert lock (1848) and lock keepers cottage.</p><br>
<p>Jamestown Canal Bridge, rusticated bridge with a single span over the canal, built about 1850.</p><br>
<h2>Route</h2><br>
<p>The Tooele County Courthouse and City Hall, located at 39 E. Vine St. in Tooele, Utah, was built in 1867. It includes Greek Revival-inspired architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.</p><br>
<p>It is significant as the earliest (as known in 1983) and only surviving "temple-form" city hall in the state of Utah. According to its NRHP nomination, the "temple-form, which typically has its short end to the street and a pedimented gable facade in imitation of monumental classical buildings, originated in the Greek Revival period of American building, and was the first and most common building type used in Utah&#39;s early public buildings."</p><br>
<h2>Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum</h2><br>
<p>The building now houses the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum, which is one of many museum in Utah operated by the Daughters of Utah Pioneers. The museum displays pioneer memorabilia and personal effects, furnishings, musical instruments, pioneer portraits, photos and more. A historic log cabin is located adjacent to the courthouse and is part of the museum.</p><br>
<p>The museum is located adjacent to the Tooele Pioneer Museum, operated by the Sons of Utah Pioneers, which also displays pioneer and Native American artifacts.</p><br>
<p>The combined buildings are known as Pioneer Plaza.</p><br>
<p>The Tooele Valley Railroad Complex, 35 N. Broadway in Tooele, Utah, dates from 1909. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>The complex is operated as the Tooele Valley Railroad Museum. Opened in 1983, the museum is operated by the city and features preserved locomotives, equipment and artifacts from the Tooele Valley Railway and other area railroads, and smelting and mining artifacts.</p><br>
<p>The complex is significant for its historic role in conversion of Tooele from a farming-based to an industrial town. The railroad depot was the headquarters of the Tooele Valley Railway; and is the most significant surviving artifact with association to the smelter east of Tooele that operated from 1910 to 1972.</p><br>
<p>The listing included three contributing buildings and four contributing objects.</p><br>
<p>The Tooele Carnegie Library, located at 47 E. Vine St. in Tooele, Utah, was built in 1911 and includes Classical Revival architecture. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.</p><br>
<p>It was funded by a $5,000 Carnegie grant. As of 1984, it was one of 16 surviving Carnegie libraries out of 23 that had been funded in Utah.</p><br>
<p>It is adjacent to the Tooele County Courthouse and City Hall, which is also NRHP-listed.</p><br>
<h2>Tooele Pioneer Museum</h2><br>
<p>The building now houses the Tooele Pioneer Museum, which displays pioneer artifacts including a replica covered wagon and handcart, and some Native American artifacts. Other displays include written histories, photos and portraits. The museum is operated by the Sons of Utah Pioneers. Admission is free.</p><br>
<p>The museum is located adjacent to the Daughters of Utah Pioneers Museum and Log Cabin, which as displays pioneer artifacts.</p><br>
<p>The combined buildings are known as Pioneer Plaza.</p><br>
<p>The Andrew Ten Eyck House is a historic farm house built as a single-bedroom home for Andrew and Mary Ten Eyck, a Dutch couple in 1790. The house is located on Old York Road in Branchburg Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, United States. It was used as a tenant residence for more than 100 years, which is why much of its historic character was kept. The house was greatly expanded in 1914.</p><br>
<p>In the early 1990s, the house and the land near it was purchased to create the Murray Corporate Center. When the developer proposed that the house be demolished, members of the community formed the Branchburg Historical Society for the purpose of saving the house.</p><br>
<p>In recent years, the house has been restored and is set to be a local-history museum. The back of the house portion will be used as a meeting space.</p><br>
<p>Cleaver House is a historic house and farm located to the west of Port Penn, New Castle County, Delaware, about one mile east of US 13 and Biddles Corner. The house was built about 1816, and is a two-story, seven-bay, gable-roofed farm dwelling built in three different sections. The three bay, center brick section is the oldest. Attached to the east is a two bay brick section, making it a five bay center hall dwelling, and to the west a 1 1/2-story frame kitchen wing. The house measures 61 feet long by 17 feet wide.</p><br>
<p>Also on the property are a contributing frame barn with attached carriage shed and milk house.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.</p><br>
<p>Joseph Cleaver, a relative of the residents and possible owner of the farm, was a grain merchant in Port Penn. His residence there, also known as the Cleaver House, is a contributing property in the Port Penn Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The Galician Massif, Macizo Galaico, also known as Macizo Galaico-Leonés, is a system of mountain ranges in the northwestern corner of the Iberian Peninsula. It is located in Galicia with its southeastern end reaching into the provinces of Zamora and León of Castile and León. Its highest point is Pena Trevinca at 2,127 m. Another important peak is Cabeza de Manzaneda .</p><br>
<p>In traditional local folklore the forests of the Galician System are said to be inhabited by a variety of elves, fairies, ghosts, the Santa Compaña, the Nubeiro and witches (meigas).</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Geomorphologically the Galician Massif is a northwestern prolongation of the Meseta Central, the inner Iberian plateau and has great affinity with the geology of the Tras os Montes Portuguese region, so that it is considered as a whole under the name Galicia-Trás-os-Montes Zone. It is composed of Paleozoic materials (granite) with metamorphic rocks such as gneiss, slate and schist in the center and west, which were subject to Alpine folding. Its eastern end merges with the Cantabrian Mountains.</p><br>
<p>The relief of the system, with an average height of 500 m, is relatively smooth compared with other Iberian ranges. It is however very complex, having no defined structural alignment owing to the heavy fluvial erosion that has fragmented the terrain.</p><br>
<p>Generally the system includes mountains that are rounded in shape, often topped by small rocky outcrops, as well as horsts, basins and faults, roughly aligned in a N-S direction.</p><br>
<h3>Vegetation</h3><br>
<p>Since rain is abundant in Galicia, the undisturbed areas of the massif have a soft soil texture and are covered in dense vegetation of temperate deciduous forest where Quercus petraea and Quercus robur oaks predominate. The woods alternate with shrubland and wide natural meadows.</p><br>
<p>The vegetation is quite homogeneous throughout the massif and there is great plant biodiversity in the Galician mountains. Many of the species found in the mountains were used in Galician traditional medicine.</p><br>
<p>The Serra dos Ancares was declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 2006.</p><br>
<h2>Mountain ranges</h2><br>
<p>From the southeast to the northwest the Galician Massif has three physiographic longitudinal sections:</p><br>
<p>The southwestern ranges; the highest elevations are found in this sector, including 2,047 m high Pena Trevinca, the highest point of the whole system. These ranges reach into the provinces of León and Zamora, hence the alternative name Macizo Galaico-Leonés, and show scars of the glacial period, which are apparent in the Serra do Eixe, also known as Serra da Segundera (Sierra Segundera). Rivers Tera, Cabreira and Bibei run through glacial valleys and the San Martín de Castañeda Lake, Laguna de Lacillo lakes are moraine-dammed lakes.</p><br>
<p>The Galician Dorsal Range; with 1,778 m high Cabeza de Manzaneda, its highest elevation. A tectonic basin running in a north-south direction separates it from the southwestern ranges. It includes the Central Ourensan Massif.</p><br>
<p>The coastal ranges; such as Serra da Barbanza, are generally of a much lesser height and are separated from the Galician Dorsal Range by the Tui-Verín-Vigo intermontane basin.</p><br>
<h3>List of ranges</h3><br>
<p>Serra de Meira</p><br>
<p>Serra de Xistral</p><br>
<p>Serra da Barbanza</p><br>
<p>Serra da Cova da Serpe</p><br>
<p>Serra do Faro</p><br>
<p>Testeiro Range</p><br>
<p>Galiñeiro Range</p><br>
<p>Serra do Courel</p><br>
<p>Serra dos Ancares</p><br>
<p>Central Ourensan Massif</p><br>
<p>Serra do Suído</p><br>
<p>Serra do Eixe</p><br>
<p>Serra do Xurés</p><br>
<h3>Main ranges and features</h3><br>
<p>The James Spullock Williamson House, also known as Merry Oaks, is a historic plantation house in the rural community of Sandy Ridge in Lowndes County, Alabama. The one-story Greek Revival-style house was completed circa 1860.</p><br>
<p>The house was built for James Spullock Williamson, a planter and state legislator. He had land holdings in excess of 2,500 acre in 1860, with his real estate and personal property valued in excess of $150,000. He owned 98 slaves during this time. Williamson was a son of the first judge of the Lowndes County Court, Peter Williamson, who had emigrated from Wilkes County, Georgia around 1819.</p><br>
<p>James Spullock Williamson was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives for the 1857–58 session. He also served during the Alabama Constitutional Convention of 1861 that preceded the American Civil War. Williamson was killed in 1862, during the Battle of Glendale in Henrico County, Virginia. He was serving as a captain in the 14th Regiment Alabama Infantry.</p><br>
<p>The house has remained the property of Williamson descendants since it was built. It was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on September 12, 1988 and to the National Register of Historic Places on January 5, 1989, due to its architectural significance.</p><br>
<p>Parsik Hill is a hill in the Mumbai metropolitan area, in the Thane district of Maharashtra, India.</p><br>
<p>It has a rail tunnel called Parsik tunnel. It is one of the longest and oldest tunnels in India and Asia.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The hill has 10 ft wide ridge that runs 7 km north and south, paralleling the railway lines. The hill is</p><br>
<p>approximately 15 square kilometers area of reserved forests, crossing into sections of both Thane and the north side of Navi Mumbai, where quarrying has removed the trees from the hill. In 1985, the highest peak rose to 235 m. Also on the top of hill stands the official residence of the Mayor of Navi Mumbai.</p><br>
<p>Parsik&#39;s steep, scrub grassland hills have featured in some Bollywood movies.</p><br>
<h2>Ecological factors</h2><br>
<p>Due to the impact of quarrying and illegal housing, there is concern about the extent to which the reserved forest will remain in years to come. An ecological activist comments: "The hill has a huge potential for eco-tourism, given that it runs through the municipal limits of Thane and Navi Mumbai and is about 30 minutes from Mumbai. Besides trekking trails, there is also a rock-climbing centre in Mumbra." The ecological balances is also being unsettled by the number of people building and living in shanties in the forest, which could result in reduction or disappearance of species of flora and fauna, including more than 100 bird species.</p><br>
<h2>Uses</h2><br>
<h3>Parsik Tunnel</h3><br>
<p>The famous Parsik tunnel on - mainline lies in this hill. This tunnel is between and. Double Broad gauge track electrified passes though this tunnel. This reduced the distance between Thane and Diva to 7 km from formal 9.6 km. This tunnel is 1.3 km in length. This tunnel is one of the oldest tunnel in Asia.</p><br>
<h3>Recreational area</h3><br>
<p>It has been a favorite area for hikers and, since the 1960s, for rock climbers. Courses began to be conducted at Parsik Hills, having had a reputation as "some of the most interesting and convenient area for rock climbing", from the 1960s to 1980s by Darjeeling Sherpa instructors. One of the noted instructors was Nawang Gombu. Rock climbers can complete advanced climbs in one half to one day. The area, most enjoyable in the winter or monsoon season, must be accessed by cutting through groups of illegal shanties, or hutments, that occupy the hill.</p><br>
<h3>Quarrying</h3><br>
<p>The area is losing its recreational appeal. About 9% of the top of the hill has been leveled due to quarrying, which is contracted to continue until about 2017. Material for general and road construction is created by blasting rock from the hill. It is estimated that at the present rate of excavation, 30% of the hill will have been removed or destroyed within that time.</p><br>
<h3>Illegal housing</h3><br>
<p>Thousands of shanties, especially along Shil Phata Road, have been built to shelter otherwise homeless families; Forest officials were reported in 2012 to estimate 11,000 shelters were built in the forested land. About 100 unauthorized temples have also been built on the hill. Chief Conservator of the Forests, R K Pole, stated that there are periodic campaigns to remove the shanties in accordance with high court orders, but the net result is that there is little effort, whether through "lack of administrative will and indulgence from political parties", to properly protect the forest land. Deputy Conservator of the Forests, G T Chavan said that there were plans to better police and protect the land; "We will build a 50-km-long wall. We are working towards evicting the squatters."</p><br>
<p>Glen Mary Plantation is an historical home located in Hancock County, Georgia, near the town of Sparta. The home was listed on the Georgia Register of Historic Places in 1973, and on the National Register of Historic Places on May 8, 1974., the plantation is owned by Preservation America.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Theophilus Jackson Smith built the home on 2,400 acre in 1848 for his bride Mary Gonder. Glen Mary is Scottish for "Marys Valley," and is a two-story Greek Revival house. Smith was a founding member of the Planters Club of Hancock County, a pioneer agricultural society. He also served in the Georgia legislature and the Fifteenth Georgia Regiment during the American Civil War. Smith moved to Washington County and advertised Glen Mary for sale in 1859 in The Southern Recorder. Smith sold Glen Mary and 542 acre in 1869 to General Ethan A. Hitchcock and his wife Martha Rind Nicholls Hitchcock. General Hitchcock died at Glen Mary in 1870.</p><br>
<h2>Honors</h2><br>
<p>Scenic America named Glen Mary to its Last Chance Landscapes in 2002–03, designating the plantation as one of top ten most threatened scenic landscapes in the US. Meg McGuire, former president of Scenic America, said Glen Mary was placed on the list because it faced the threat of being destroyed by logging, and it is "typical of historic sites in which the site has been saved but the context is destroyed". The house was also named a National Treasure by Save Americas Treasures, the White House Millennium Councils initiative to save America&#39;s cultural artifacts. Consultants on the project have included historian William Seale, who wrote the book on the White House for its bicentennial, and architect Charles A. Phillips, chief architect on the restoration of the Miles Brewton House in Charleston, South Carolina. Ian Firth, a faculty member with the University of Georgia College of Environment & Design is the landscape and garden consultant.</p><br>
<p>Council City and Solomon River Railroad is an abandoned railroad in the USA state of Alaska. Its name refers to Solomon River and the city of Council in the Nome Census Area. The railway operated from 1903 to 1907.</p><br>
<p>The remains of the railroad at Mile 31 of the Nome-Council Highway, comprising three locomotives, two flat cars and a boiler, were listed as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.</p><br>
<h2>Western Alaska Construction Company</h2><br>
<p>Organized under the laws of New Jersey, the Western Alaska Construction Co., with a capital stock of $1,000,000, organized for the purpose of constructing the Council City & Solomon River R. R. and extensions. The company was composed principally Chicago businessmen. The company offices were in Chicago, with fiscal agents In New York City. Its officers were:</p><br>
<p>John R. Bowman, president</p><br>
<p>J. Warren Dickson, vice-president and general manager</p><br>
<p>William F. Krohmer, treasurer</p><br>
<p>Jacob A. Freund, secretary</p><br>
<p>Its stockholders were J. A. Freund, Samuel P. Herron, William F. Krohmer, John Ryeerson Bowman, and J. Warren Dickson.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The railroad was among the important enterprises inaugurated in the summer of 1903. Before the close of the season, about 9 miles of standard-gage track had been laid. The Western Alaska Construction Co. asserted that the mouth of the Solomon River, the starting point of their road, was the only point on the south coast of the Seward Peninsula which had a sheltered harbor convenient for the loading and unloading of freight and the protection of it in all types of weather. They proposed to locate the tidewater terminus here, and build the railroad northward and westward, penetrating the most important gold fields of Alaska, the Cape Nome fields. Running from Solomon City, the Council City & Solomon River R. R. was to skirt the Solomon river, passing hundreds of mining camps, en route to Council City, the first terminus of the road. According to the report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics at Washington, Council City is the general distributing point of the Upper Niukluk basin. From Solomon City to Council City the distance is approximately 50 miles; from that point the railroad was projected to connect all the principal mineral producing areas and centres of population and mining, including the line to Grantley Harbor, Port Clarence, Good Hope bay, and Nome, thus "gridironing" the peninsula. Initial cost estimates were from $8,000 to $12,000 per mile. The companys surveys were executed by engineers who were official surveyors of the United States government, Paul Heinze, chief engineer, and Hermann Heinze, assistant engineer. The companys rights of way included 100 feet on each side of the centre line of their tracks, with 40 acres as terminal station grounds at each end of the road; plus 20 acres for station grounds for each 10 miles of track. This acreage totaled 13,000 acres.</p><br>
<p>The route described in the articles of incorporation was from a point near the mouth of Solomon River adjacent to Solomon City to a point adjacent to Council City. The company filed two maps of its preliminary line from Council City along Fox River, right branch Solomon River to Solomon City, 50.79 miles (filed February, 1903); and one from Nome City to Wheeler, 20 miles (filed June, 1904); also one map of definite location from point on Norton Sound near Dickson up Solomon River, 20 miles (filed January 3, 1905). New map of same line filed December 20, 1906.</p><br>
<p>The Robbins Hotel was a historic hotel building in Beatrice, Alabama. The nucleus of the building started out as a private, one-story home with six rooms, built circa 1840. A second floor was added sometime later. The house was converted to a hotel between 1906 and 1910.</p><br>
<p>The hotel comprised a two-story, hipped-roof main block that measures approximately 40 x, with a 40 ft long one-and-a-half-story dining room wing with an end-gable roof and dormer windows to the southeast. The main block features full-width two-story porches at the front and rear. Architectural historians considered it to be a good example of a small privately owned southern hotel, which opened as a direct result of the completion of the railroad connecting west Alabama and the coast at the end of the 19th century. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on August 26, 1987. The building burned on October 12, 2012.</p><br>
<p>Wamberal Lagoon, an intermittently closed intermediate saline coastal lagoon, is located on the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Wamberal Lagoon is located between the beachside settlements of Forresters Beach and Wamberal, and adjacent to the east coast, about 87 km north of Sydney.</p><br>
<h2>Features and location</h2><br>
<p>Fed by stormwater runoff that flows into Forresters Creek, the lagoon has a surface area of approximately 50 hectare and a catchment area of 5.8 km&sup2;. When full, the Wamberal Lagoon covers an area of around 50 hectare. Its outflow is to the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean that is generally closed, and water levels inside the lagoon are not usually influenced by ocean tides.</p><br>
<p>The lagoon and the surrounding land comprising 139 hectare form part of the Wamberal Lagoon Nature Reserve, a nature reserve created in 1981, that is under management of the NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service.</p><br>
<p>Terrigal Lagoon and Avoca Lake are located to the south and are a short distance away.</p><br>
<p>Kakeromajima or Kakeroma-tō is one of the Satsunan Islands, classed with the Amami archipelago between Kyūshū and Okinawa.</p><br>
<p>The island, 77.39 km&sup2; in area, has a population of approximately 1,600 persons. Administratively it is part of the town of Setouchi in Kagoshima Prefecture. Much of the island is within the borders of the Amami Guntō Quasi-National Park.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Kakeromajima is a rugged island southeast of Amami Oshima, from which it is separated by a narrow strait. The island has an area of 77.30 km&sup2, but a coastline approximately 147.5 km. The highest point is 314 m above sea level. The coast of the island is surrounded by a coral reef.</p><br>
<p>The climate of Kakeromajima is classified as a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification Cfa) with very warm summers and mild winters. The rainy season lasts from May through September. The island is subject to frequent typhoons.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>It is uncertain when Kakeromajima was first settled. The island came under the control of the Satsuma Domain in 1609 and its incorporation into the official holdings of that domain was recognized by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1624. After the Meiji Restoration it was incorporated into Ōsumi Province and later became part of Kagoshima Prefecture. During World War II, the island was fortified and garrisoned by the Japanese military, and served as an occasional anchorage for ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy and in the final stages of the war, as a base for Shinyo-class suicide motorboats. Anti-aircraft batteries on Kakeromajima shot down 18 Allied aircraft attempting to bomb neighboring Amami-Oshima.</p><br>
<p>Following World War II, although with the other Amami Islands, Kakeromajima was occupied by the United States until 1953, at which time it reverted to the control of Japan.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>Kakeromajima is connected to Amami-Oshima by frequent ferry services. There had 30 small hamlets on the island, but no main settlement.</p><br>
<h2>In popular culture</h2><br>
<p>Tora-san to the Rescue – the final episode in the long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo movie series starring Kiyoshi Atsumi was partly set on Kakeromajima.</p><br>
<p>The Sting of Death (Shi no toge), a 1989 film, was partly shot on location in Kakeromajima.</p><br>
<p>The Avoca Lake, formerly known as Avoca Lagoon and as Bulbararing Lagoon, is an intermittently closed intermediate saline coastal lagoon that is located on the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. Avoca Lake is located between the beachside settlements of North Avoca and Avoca Beach, and adjacent to the east coast, about 85 km north of Sydney.</p><br>
<h2>Features and location</h2><br>
<p>The Avoca Lake is fed by stormwater runoff into Salwater Creek that gathers on the slopes within Kincumber Mountain Reserve to the northwest above Pickets Valley. The lake has a surface area of approximately 70 hectare and a catchment area of 10.8 km&sup2;. Its outflow is into Bulbararing Bay in the Tasman Sea of the South Pacific Ocean. The outflow is generally closed, and water levels inside the lake are not usually influenced by ocean tides.</p><br>
<p>Bareena Island lies entirely within Avoca Lake.</p><br>
<p>Terrigal Lagoon and Wamberal Lagoon are located to the north and are a short distance away.</p><br>
<p>Long Churn Cave is a cave in the Ingleborough area of the Yorkshire Dales. First explored in 1870, it has become a popular location for beginner cavers and it contains the most famous squeeze in the Dales, the "Cheesepress". It is near Selside, about 9 mi north of Ingleton, North Yorkshire. Access is by permission from the landowner at Selside Farm after payment of a nominal fee.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Created in limestone by the slow corrosion of slightly acidic rainwater over millions of years, the cave is split into two parts, "Lower Long Churn" and "Upper Long Churn", each active with a stream, and is connected to the nearby Alum Pot and Diccan Pot. Lower Long Churn leads to an exit into Diccan Pot, followed by the "Cheesepress", a narrow squeeze which is notorious for its tightness but which can be bypassed. The following part of the passage used to be aided by artificial aids (over the so-called "Plank Pool") but is no longer. The end of the Lower Long Churn is a chamber which opens on a window into Alum Pot, which is much more technically difficult to descend (or ascend).</p><br>
<h2>Exploration</h2><br>
<p>The cave was first explored in 1870 by W. Boyd-Dawkins. Outdoor author Alfred Wainwright wrote of the system:</p><br>
<p>It is quite possible and in fact easy to die a horrible death by straying off route. The dangers of Alum Pot are manifestly obvious. Other deathtraps, unseen, occur in the black interiors of some of the caves.</p><br>
<p>The cave is commonly used as an introduction to caving for novice and inexperienced cavers, although in wet weather water levels can rise to a dangerous extent. In 2007, a man and woman both drowned in the same incident, and in 2008 two separate groups were trapped in the cave during storms, although no lives were lost.</p><br>
<p>The Duluth Armory, also known as the Duluth National Guard Armory, is a historic building in Duluth, Minnesota, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The armory was built in 1915 to replace the previous one, built in 1896, which had become inadequate. In 1978, it was purchased by the city and its use as an armory was discontinued. Since 2000, the armory has been threatened with demolition, though efforts are ongoing to renovate the building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Planning and construction</h3><br>
<p>A prior armory was built in Duluth in 1896 for the Minnesota National Guard. In 1899, Minnesota created a naval reserve, introducing a two-division unit in Duluth. The addition strained the available space in the armory. Attempts were made to use some of the first floor, but this conflicted with existing commercial activity.</p><br>
<p>In September 1913, the city of Duluth announced that it would deed property for a new armory, to be located at the end East Thirteenth Avenue along the waterfront. The proposed location was opposed by some residents; the property was in Lake Shore Park, which had been donated to the city by the Saint Paul and Duluth Railroad under the condition than it remain parkland in perpetuity. The city argued that it was the optimal location and the building would not negatively impact the park. An article in the Duluth News Tribune, published a few days later, showed a site plan and argued that the new armory would "only occupy a corner of the park."</p><br>
<p>Planning proceeded slowly, despite the urgent need for more spacious facilities. By November 1914, the planned building site had moved across London Road, apparently heeding earlier protests; the new location had previously been purchased by the city for $16,000. The state of Minnesota allocated $112,500 for the armory, and after some delay, bidding began in February 1915. The contract was earned by George H. Lounsberry of Duluth. The building, estimated to cost $107,410, was designed by architects Clyde W. Kelly and Owen J. Williams. The project came in over budget at $150,000; $103,000 was paid by the state, $18,500 by the city, and the remainder by "public-spirited" citizens. The new armory held its grand opening on November 22, 1915. The celebration was attended by Governor Winfield S. Hammond, former governor Adolph Eberhart, and other officials.</p><br>
<h3>Later history</h3><br>
<p>In September 1940, an expansion of the armory was announced by Sidney L. Stolte of the Work Projects Administration. Plans drafted by architect Phillip C. Bettenburg in November 1940 featured an expanded stage, classrooms, a kitchen, and restrooms. The addition was a brick, multi-story structure along the northern side of the armory, designed with a flat roof to accommodate a fly loft for the stage. Work on the addition, which cost $95,896, began mid-April 1941 and continued into winter.</p><br>
<p>On January 31, 1959, Buddy Holly performed at the armory; he died in a plane crash days later on February 3. Bob Dylan attended the performance, which he cited as an inspiration at the 1998 Grammy Awards when he received Album of the Year for Time out of Mind. He said,</p><br>
<p>I just want to say that when I was 16 or 17 years old, I went to see Buddy Holly play at Duluth National Guard Armory and I was three feet away from him… and he looked at me. And I just have some kind of feeling that he was – I don’t know how or why – but I know he was with us all the time we were making this record in some kind of way.</p><br>
<p>The value of the armory as a public venue greatly decreased with the construction of the Duluth Arena-Auditorium in 1966, which had more seating and modern amenities. In 1977, the National Guard announced plans to build a new armory in Duluth and in 1978, the city purchased the historic armory from the state for $160,000. The Head House was used for offices and the Drill Hall served as a garage for maintenance vehicles. The Drill Hall also stored some raw materials, and its original wood floor no longer exists.</p><br>
<p>In 2000, the armory was first threatened with demolition, but the city made efforts to study the cost of repairing the building for reuse. A Duluth Planning Department report from April 2002 estimated it would cost $235,000 to abate asbestos and $1.3 million to abate lead from its time as a shooting range. On May 24, 2004, the building was purchased by the Armory Arts and Music Center for $1.</p><br>
<p>The armory was nominated for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A for statewide military significance and local significance in entertainment and recreation. The building was listed on the National Register on June 1, 2011.</p><br>
<p>The armory was damaged by flooding in June 2012 from Chester Creek, which runs beneath the building. The creek breached its culvert, creating a "significant sized hole" in the basement allowing water to enter, which damaged electrical systems, disturbed asbestos, and led to an accumulation of debris and sediment within the building. Because the city owns the culvert, it paid for repairing the flood damage. A six-month stay from demolition was granted by the city in August 2012 because restoration was progressing. In April 2013, heavy snow damaged a parapet on the Drill Hall, causing a number of bricks to fall to the ground.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and use</h2><br>
<p>The armory is located in the East Hillside neighborhood. It fronts London Road, and across the street is Leif Erickson Park. The building consists of three main parts—the Head House, the Drill Hall, and an addition built in 1941. The exterior walls are variegated dark brown brick.</p><br>
<p>The Drill Hall is 190 ft long and 93 ft wide. Within Minnesota, at the time of construction, the size of the armory&#39;s Drill Hall was second only to the 1907 armory in Minneapolis, and the Duluth Armory as a whole was larger than the one in Minneapolis. The Drill Hall served as a venue for expositions, trade shows, musical groups, and recreational and sporting events.</p><br>
<p>The Head House contained administrative offices, classrooms, and service areas. It is 200 ft long by 34 ft wide and is 69 ft tall.</p><br>
<p>The 1941 addition is 154 ft long and 45 ft wide, extending 11 ft beyond the rear wall of the Drill Hall.</p><br>
<p>Noxontown consists of the remaining buildings and structures associated with a country mill site and village located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. They are a house, small frame mill, shed, and mill dam. The house was built by Thomas Noxon about 1740, and is a 2 1/2-story, four bay, brick dwelling with a two-story brick wing.</p><br>
<p>The 2 1/2-story frame mill predates the house. It measures 30 feet by 40 feet and has a metal roof. Noxontown was an important trading and milling center throughout the Colonial period. The mill was in operation as a merchant mill until 1855 and thereafter solely as a custom mill.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>All the buildings of Noxontown are now owned by St. Andrew&#39;s School.</p><br>
<p>The Xiaozhai Tiankeng , also known as the Heavenly Pit, is the world&#39;s deepest sinkhole. It is located in Fengjie County of Chongqing Municipality.</p><br>
<h2>Dimensions</h2><br>
<p>The Xiaozhai Tiankeng is 626 metres long, 537 metres wide, and between 511 and 662 metres deep, with vertical walls. Its volume is 119,349,000 m³ and the area of its opening is 274,000 m². This material has been dissolved and carried away by the river. The sinkhole is a doubly nested structure—the upper bowl is 320 metres deep, the lower bowl is 342 metres deep, and the two bowls are on average 257 to 268 m across. Between both these steps is a sloping ledge, formed due to soil trapped in the limestone. In the rainy season, a waterfall can be seen at the mouth of the sinkhole.</p><br>
<h2>Discovery</h2><br>
<p>The Xiaozhai Tiankeng was discovered by specialists in 1994 during a search for a new exploration site for British cavers in the China Caves Project. In fact, it was well known to local people since ancient times. Xiaozhai is the name of an abandoned village nearby and literally means "little village", and "Tiankeng" means Heavenly Pit, a unique regional name for sinkholes in China. A 2,800-step stair has been constructed in order to facilitate tourism.</p><br>
<h2>Underground river and cave</h2><br>
<p>The Tiankeng formed over the Difeng cave, which in turn had been formed by a powerful underground river which still flows underneath the sinkhole. The underground river starts in the Tianjing fissure gorge and reaches a vertical cliff above the Migong River, forming a 4-metre high waterfall. The length of this underground river is approximately 8.5 km and during these 8.5 kilometres, it falls 364 metres. The median annual flow of this river is 8.77 m³ per second, but its flowrate can reach 174 m³/s. Both the river and Difeng Cave were explored and mapped by China Caves Project in 1994.</p><br>
<h2>Flora and fauna</h2><br>
<p>1,285 species of plants, including ginkgo, and many rare animals like the clouded leopard have been found in the sinkhole.</p><br>
<p>Smøla is the 19th largest island in Norway. The island is located in Smøla Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, in fact the vast majority of the municipality is the island. The island has a good road network across the island and connecting it to many of the small surrounding islands, however, it does not have any outside road connections to the rest of Norway. The only regular ferry service is via the small island of Edøya to the south of Smøla which one can drive to from Smøla.</p><br>
<p>The population of the island is mostly employed in the fishing industry or in industries that support the fishing industry. There is also a window factory on the island. There is some dairy and vegetable farming (especially carrots) on the island also.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The island lies to the north of the Edøyfjorden and to the west of the Ramsøyfjorden, about 25 km north of the town of Kristiansund. The islands of Hitra and Frøya lie to the northeast, Skardsøya and Ertvågsøya to the southeast, Stabblandet and Tustna to the south, and the open Norwegian Sea to the west and north.</p><br>
<p>The 214 km&sup2; island is very low and marshy with only 5% of the land cultivated into agricultural use. The highest point on the island is the 63 m high Nerdvikberget. The island is surrounded by literally thousands of small islets including the historically-important island of Edøya. Due to the flat, unobstructed nature of the island, the Smøla Wind Farm is located on the northwestern part of the island.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Scientists of the Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformationtechnique of the Technical University of Berlin were testing the antique maps of Ptolemy and recognized a pattern of calculation mistakes that occurred when one tried to convert the old coordinates from Ptolemy into modern cartographical maps. The scientists believe that, when one compensates for these mistakes, the mythological location Thule corresponds to the island of Smøla.</p><br>
<p>The island has been governed by a variety of municipalities over the years. At one point it was divided over 3 different municipalities: Brattvær, Hopen, and Edøy. Today, there are 3 churches on the island (Brattvær Church, Hopen Church, and Edøy Church), each was the main church for those respective municipalities. Since 1960, the whole island has been part of the same municipality. The largest population centres on the island are the villages of Hopen (in the north) and Råket-Dyrnes (in the northwest).</p><br>
<h2>Media gallery</h2><br>
<p>Hermitage Apartments is an apartment building located at 4606 N. Hermitage Ave. in the Uptown community area of Chicago, Illinois. The common-corridor apartment building was designed by Chicago architect Jens Jensen in 1927. The buildings design is highly irregular; it features five bays, each with a different design. The first bay from the left is faced in limestone, the second and third bays are faced in limestone on the first floor and brick on higher floors, and the fourth and fifth bays are faced entirely in brick. In addition, only the first and fourth bays are projecting, and no two bays have the same sized windows. The roof of the building exhibits the same irregularity, as it includes three dormers with different designs, a chimney, a parapet, and a cone-shaped tower topped with a weather vane. In its National Register nomination, the buildings design was described as "old-fashioned" and evocative of "the Old World city from a time before the invention of railroads or factories", and looking at the building was described as like "looking at five narrow old houses".</p><br>
<p>Hermitage Apartments was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 14, 1985.</p><br>
<p>Tustna is an island in Aure Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The 89 km&sup2; island lies in the western part of the municipality. The island of Tustna lies west of the islands of Stabblandet and Solskjelsøya; to the northeast of the islands of Frei and Nordlandet; and south of the island of Smøla. The Edøyfjorden runs along the northern shores of the island, the Vinjefjorden  are to the south, the Freifjorden is to the southwest, the Talgsjøen is to the west, and the open Norwegian Sea is to the northwest.</p><br>
<p>The island of Tustna and surrounding islands was part of the municipality of Tustna from 1 January 1874 until 1 January 2006, when it was merged into Aure Municipality. The main population centers on the island are Tømmervåg on the western coast, Leira on the northern coast, and Gullstein on the eastern coast. The island is connected to neighboring Stabblandet in the east by a bridge at the village of Tustna, and there is a ferry connection from Tømmervåg across the Talgsjø channel to the town of Kristiansund. There is another ferry connection from the northern coast of Tustna to the island of Edøya in Smøla Municipality.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The Old Norse form of the name in unknown (the name of the island is first mentioned on a Dutch map from 1623: "Toester"). It might be derived from the word þústr which means "staff" or "stick", and in that case it is probably referring to the form of one of the mountains on the island. Historically, the island name was spelled "Tustern".</p><br>
<p>Sierra de Montánchez is a mountain range in the greater Montes de Toledo range, Spain. It is named after nearby Montánchez town, the capital of the Tierra de Montánchez comarca, located on its slopes. This range gives its name to the Mancomunidad Integral Sierra de Montánchez.</p><br>
<p>This mountain range separates the drainage basin of the Tagus to the north from the basin of the Guadiana to the south. The main rivers that have their sources in this range are the Salor and Tamuja, a tributary of the Almonte, flowing towards the Tagus, as well as the Aljucén River, a tributary of the Guadiana.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Sierra de Montánchez stretches for about 33 km in a NE/SW direction west of the Sierra de Villuercas and is relatively lower than the latter. It rises towards the south of Cáceres Province, in the center of the autonomous community of Extremadura. Its highest point is 995 m high Monte Viejo, also known as Montancil or Monte Tances.</p><br>
<p>There is a road leading to the Monte Viejo mountaintop where there is a cellular repeater antenna and an attached building. At the 955 m high Cancho Blanco summit there is a weather surveillance radar. The Castillo de Montánchez, a castle built during the times of Moorish Spain is located on a 741 m high hillock above Montánchez town. Besides Montánchez, Alcuéscar, Arroyomolinos and Zarza de Montánchez are other important towns in the area.</p><br>
<p>Shrubland is prevalent in the areas covered with natural vegetation. There are also scattered patches of forested zones, sometimes planted with non-native species such as eucalyptus.</p><br>
<h3>Geology</h3><br>
<p>Precambrian slates and clays are predominant in the area. Rankers, subhumid in the northern and dry in the southern slopes, have developed over granite in the mountains.</p><br>
<p>Montes de Toledo Comarca  is a comarca located at the southern end of the province of Toledo, Spain. The natural comarca includes some municipal terms in Ciudad Real Province.</p><br>
<p>It is named after the Montes de Toledo mountain system. and, like other mountainous rural areas in central Spain, this comarca has been traditionally a place of cattle rearers, with some honey production as well. Nowadays the comarca has suffered heavy depopulation as the economy has diversified.</p><br>
<h2>Municipal terms and villages</h2><br>
<h3>Municipal terms in Ciudad Real Province</h3><br>
<p>Alcoba</p><br>
<p>Arroba de los Montes</p><br>
<p>El Robledo</p><br>
<p>Fontanarejo</p><br>
<p>Fuente el Fresno</p><br>
<p>Las Labores</p><br>
<p>Los Cortijos</p><br>
<p>Navalpino</p><br>
<p>Navas de Estena</p><br>
<p>Porzuna</p><br>
<p>Puebla de Don Rodrigo</p><br>
<p>Retuerta del Bullaque</p><br>
<p>Sierra de Aracena is the westernmost mountain range of the Sierra Morena, Andalusia, Spain. It is located in the northern part of Huelva Province.</p><br>
<p>The range is named after the town of Aracena.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The Sierra de Aracena is not very high and its mountains have a gentle, rounded shape. The height of most of the summits lies between 400 and. Its highest point is 962 m high Cerro del Castaño. Other notable summits are Cerro de San Cristóbal 917 m and Cerro de Santa Bárbara 814 m, the latter located close to Cortegana. The Odiel and Murtigas are the main rivers in the area of the range.</p><br>
<p>The climate is relatively humid for Andalusian standards and there is a small village in most of the valleys. The undisturbed slopes of the mountains are mostly covered in forest, which is made up of Chestnut, Holm Oak and Cork Oak trees.</p><br>
<h2>Protected areas</h2><br>
<p>The Sierra de Aracena and Picos de Aroche Natural Park is located in the area of the range.</p><br>
<p>The Womans Club of Lodi is a historic building located at 325 W. Pine St. in Lodi, California. The building was constructed in 1923 to house the citys Woman&#39;s Club, which was formed in 1906 as a civic improvement group. The building housed performances and social events in Lodi; as the largest civic auditorium in the city, it served as the only building which could host social functions during the 1920s. Community events continue to be held in the building through the present day.</p><br>
<p>The Womans Club of Lodi is designed in the Neoclassical style. The front entrance has a portico with four tall Corinthian columns topped with a pediment, all typical elements of Neoclassicism. However, the buildings design also incorporated "feminine" elements such as flower-patterned light fixtures and tile in the interior and southern exposure to sunlight in several rooms. In its National Register of Historic Places nomination, the building was called an "architectural landmark" and "the most attractive of major structures".</p><br>
<p>The Woman&#39;s Club of Lodi was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 20, 1988.</p><br>
<p>Hedgelawn, also known as the Kohl House, was a historic home located near Middletown, New Castle County, Delaware. It was built in 1856, and is 2 1/2-story, five bay, clapboard clad frame dwelling with a flat roof. It is "L"-shaped. The design was influenced by the Greek Revival, Italianate, and Georgian styles. Also on the property was a contributing hipped roof privy. Hedgelawn was the home of William R. Cochran, son of John P. Cochran, 43rd Governor of Delaware . Prior to its demolition, the nearby Rumsey Farm house was almost identical to Hedgelawn.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.</p><br>
<p>On April 30, 2017, Hedgelawn was burned to the ground in a controlled demolition, in order to make way for a motorcycle retail business. Its fate was similar to that of the nearby Summerton Mansion, also in Middletown, which was razed in 2016 to make way for a gas station.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Stockton is a Mission Revival Style building located at 133 E. Weber Ave. in Stockton, California. The hotel, which opened in 1910, was designed as a grand hotel with 252 rooms and became popular among visitors to Stockton, especially traveling entertainers. In 1912, the City of Stockton moved its City Hall into the hotel, where it remained until 1926. The building&#39;s role in local government ultimately outlasted its role as a hotel; when the hotel closed for business in 1960, the county courthouse relocated to the building for the next four years while a new courthouse was built. The building served yet another branch of government in 1976, when San Joaquin County purchased the building as office space for its Public Administration Department.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Stockton was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 1, 1981.</p><br>
<p>The John Ohm House is a house located at the site of San Joaquin City, 6 mi southeast of Tracy, California. The large bungalow was built by John Ohm, a prominent rancher in the San Joaquin Valley, in 1908. Ohm and his family lived in the house, which was also the main building of a 4 acre ranch. At the time, San Joaquin City was a major port on the San Joaquin River and an important center for regional commerce. In 1911, however, a new channel in the river bypassed San Joaquin City, and the city rapidly declined; most of its buildings were demolished after World War I. The Ohm House is one of the few surviving buildings from the city.</p><br>
<p>The John Ohm House was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 4, 1982.</p><br>
<p>Lily Lake is a lake that is somewhat rectangular and it has a small cove on its western side. It is contained within the Lily Lake Golf Resort, which is a private retirement golf community along US Highway 27. The lake is about 2 mi southwest of Frostproof, Florida. Lily Lake has a 9.78 acre surface area. This lake is manmade, possibly being dredged or excavated. It has part of the community&#39;s nine-hole golf course along part of its shore. It also has some park benches and paved walking trails along its shore.</p><br>
<p>There is no public access to Lily Lake, but the Hikercentral.com website says those who pay an entrance fee may use very small boats and fish the lake. The Hook and Bullet website has no information about the lake and therefore this site has no information about the types of fish in the lake.</p><br>
<p>The Calexico Carnegie Library is a Carnegie library located at 420 Heber Ave. in Calexico, Imperial County, California</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The library was built in 1918 through a $10,000 grant from the Carnegie Foundation; while Calexico had initially requested a $25,000 grant, the Foundation felt that the town&#39;s size did not merit the larger amount.</p><br>
<p>The library was designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style and features a tile hip roof and a front entrance flanked by pilasters and topped by a scroll. Its original design was more lavish but became simplified due to the Carnegie Foundation&#39;s reduced support for the building.</p><br>
<p>The building served as the city&#39;s library until 1986, when a new library building opened.</p><br>
<p>The Calexico Carnegie Library was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 28, 2005.</p><br>
<p>The Wong K. Gew Mansion is a historic house located at 345 W. Clay St. in Stockton. The mansion was the home of Wong K. Gew, a Chinese immigrant and a successful gambler and proprietor of gaming houses. When Wong built his home in 1921, anti-Asian laws required that he build his home south of Main Street. The mansion was designed by Losekann and Clowdsley in a mainly Federal Revival style typical of large houses of the era. The design included a veranda and a second-floor balcony on the front of the house, boxed cornices with brackets and friezes on the eaves and walls, and three gabled dormers; the interior of the house includes a fireplace with a $2,200 Yum Nan marble mantle.</p><br>
<p>The Wong K. Gew Mansion was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 20, 1978.</p><br>
<p>The Tretheway Block is a historic commercial building located at 229 E. Weber St. in Stockton, California. The building, which was built in 1892, is noteworthy due to its eclectic architecture. While the building was mainly designed in the Queen Anne style, it also includes Romanesque and Moorish influences. The building&#39;s front features three small bays with banded arches in the center and two large bays with partial ribbed domes on the sides; the domes and the banded arches are Moorish elements. The building is topped by a cornice made of corbelled arches and split by four vertical projections, exhibiting the Romanesque influence on the design. Zinc floral ornaments are located on the projections of the cornice and at various places on the bays.</p><br>
<p>The building was built by farmer John Tretheway and originally housed a hardware store on its first floor and lodging on its upper floors. In 1925, the building became a hotel called the Hotel Argonaut; it remained a hotel until the 1970s.</p><br>
<p>The Trethaway Block was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1982.</p><br>
<p>The Brick School House is a former civic building on the north side of Maine State Route 179 in Aurora, Hancock County, Maine. Built of brick in 1827, it is the oldest standing public brick building in Hancock County. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>The Brick School House is a single story brick structure, with a hip roof and a granite foundation. It is set facing south on the east side of Maine State Route 179, about 0.25 mi south of its junction with Maine State Route 9. It is roughly square in shape, with three windows on its west face, none on its east face, two on the north face, and two (along with the door) on the south face. The door, believed to be original, is board-and-batten. A brick chimney rises on the north side. The interior is simply finished, with wainscoted walls.</p><br>
<p>The town of Aurora was settled in 1808, and had by 1820 built its first schoolhouse. It authorized construction of this building in 1827. The use of brick in its construction is unusual, given the wide availability and use of wood as a building material in a community with a timber-based economy. It is believed that the impetus for using brick came from Samuel Silsby, the town&#39;s first settler, who was educated in a brick schoolhouse in Connecticut. The building was well ahead of its time in terms of standards, exceeding those established by the state twenty years later. It was used as a school until 1918, and has also been used as a town hall. It was rehabilitated in the 1950s.</p><br>
<p>In 1982, voters at a town meeting authorized the town selectman to seek a community development block grant to fix the Brick School House while authorizing a $750 expenditure from the town as well. The objective was to convert the building for use as a public library.</p><br>
<p>It is known by the names Shukravari Talao , Gandhi Sagar Lake and Jumma lake. It is located in Nagpur near Raman Science Center. The lake which is said to be exists for more than 275 years, was established as a source of water supply by Chand Sultan, the then ruler of Nagpur. He created the water body in the form of streams being diverted to the Nag River, which was connected to the water reservoir and named it as Jumma Talab. Subsequently, it came to be known as Shukrawari Talao during the Bhonsla and British periods when the first Raghuji declared Nagpur as the capital of his domain in 1742.</p><br>
<p>The picturesque rectangular shaped Gandhi Sagar reservoir is now enclosed with stonewalls and iron railings. There is a small island in the middle of the lake with Shiva temple and a garden illuminated with yellow mercury light at night. The lake also offers boating facility to the visitors.</p><br>
<p>The Main–Yankee Street Historic District is a historic district that encompasses an antebellum residential section of Gainesville, Sumter County, Alabama. The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 3, 1985. It covers 6.5 acre and contains five historically significant contributing properties, all predating the American Civil War.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>Gainesville lies on the south bank of the Tombigbee River in southwestern Alabama. It reached its zenith prior to the American Civil War; when it was an important inland port, before the wide-scale introduction of railroads.</p><br>
<p>The Main–Yankee Street Historic District is one of two historic districts in the town, the other being the Gainesville Historic District. The district is centered on Main Street, also known as Yankee Street. Architectural styles present include Federal and Greek Revival. The contributing properties in the district are the Russell-Woodruff-Turrentine House, circa 1835–40; Lewis-Jones-Fields House, circa 1840–50; Lewis-Long House, circa 1835–40; Falls House, circa 1840–50; and Howard-Goodloe-Bolton House, circa 1840–50.</p><br>
<p>Pilak is an archaeological site in the Santirbazar sub-division of South Tripura district of the Indian state of Tripura. Many images and structures, belonging to Buddhist and Hindu sects, have been discovered here since 1927. The antiquities found here are dated to 8th to 12th centuries.</p><br>
<p>Sandstone sculptures of the Pilak site, which represent a heterodox culture of Hinduism and Buddhism of 9th to 13th century, are on display at the Tripura Government Museum.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Pilak site is located at Jolaibari, in South Tripura, and is spread over an area of about 10 km&sup2;. It is 100 km away from Agartala, 51 km from Udaipur, Santibazar is 18 km away, and 3 km from Jolaibari. The sites excavated are in Shyam Sundar Tilla, Deb Bari, Thakurani Tilla, Balir Pathar, Basudeb Bari and others.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The archaeological site used to be a part of Samatata kingdom in historical Bengal. It is part of a series of archaeological sites that includes Mainamati and Somapura Mahavihara in Bangladesh.</p><br>
<p>The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) carried out excavations at the site in early 1960s when stupas built with bricks were found. ASI has taken over the site since 1999</p><br>
<h2>Discovery</h2><br>
<p>The Pilak archaeological site represents both Hinduism and Buddhism co-existing peacefully. Artifacts of Hinduism are in the form of sculptures and plaques of Hindu gods Shiva, Surya, and Baishnabi. Large number of antiquities pertain to the Hinayana, Mahayana, Vajrayana Buddhism practices. The site is strewn with a large number of terracotta plaques and statues. Very large stone sculptures of Avalokiteśvara and Narasimha have been unearthed at the site.</p><br>
<h3>Buddhist antiquities</h3><br>
<p>The inscribed terracotta seals found at Pilak depict the Buddhist stupas of very small sizes. In Tripura, it is the seal which is worshipped and not the stupa. There is a cone shaped stone slab with an image of Buddha in an upright posture, dated to 8th century. In a portion of the image only the right arm is seen while the left hand is holding the border of a vestment. An Ushnisha (a three-dimensional oval form) adorns the top of the head which has a "close-curled hair" style, and a very small stupa is also engraved on the left part of the slab. A statue of Avalokiteshvara with two arms found at the site is now exhibited in the Tripura Government Museum.</p><br>
<p>A sculpture of the 8th-9th century found here is that of Goddess Marichi, venerated by both Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhists. However, it is now an iconic idol which is installed in a Hindu temple known as Vasudev-badi. The idol in an upright posture is called "Pratyalida" and is mounted on a simple plinth, and is well preserved. The features carved on the idol consist of three faces and six arms; the three right hands depict the "sara, vajra, and parashu" and the three left hands have depictions of ritual symbols of "dhanu, parna-pichichichi and Tarjani mudra".</p><br>
<p>A sculpted sandstone statue from the site dated to 8th-9th century is of Chunda which is now revered as "Raja Rajeshwari" in a temple at Muhuripur. The image is carved with 18 arms in a posture called "Vajaparyankasana" deified over a "padmapitha" (lotus pedestal). A dharmachakra symbol of Vajrasattva and Ghanathapani decorate its two regular hands. The sculpting on the top part of this slab also includes five Dhyani Buddhas, each depicting the ring of light around its head. A new find from the Sundari Tilla is of a stupa dated to the 11th century similar to architectural features of the rule of "Palas of Bengal".</p><br>
<h3>Hinduism antiquities</h3><br>
<p>A Hindu religious terracotta image made in fired clay found at Pilak is of Trimurti. Another image found here from the Sagardheba mound is of Surya, the Sun god, riding a chariot driven by seven horses, dated to 7th-9th century, which is deified in a temple in the Rajesvari Ashram in Muhuripur.</p><br>
<p>The Martin Anderson House is a historic adobe brick house located at 105 North 300 West in Brigham City, Utah. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 23, 2003.</p><br>
<h2>Description and history</h2><br>
<p>It is a -story cross-wing house built around 1886 and was expanded to its current size in 1901, making it one of few pioneer-era houses in its area that has not been "remodeled unsympathetically". It includes Greek Revival and Late Victorian architectural elements. It was deemed historically important "for its association with the pioneering phase of the community and the fruit industry" and is one of eight or fewer classical-style houses in Brigham surviving from the pioneering/settlement period.</p><br>
<p>The Cemetery of Dissidents is a cemetery located on the Panteón hill, in front of the Cemetery nº 1 and at one side of the old city jail  in Valparaíso, Chile.</p><br>
<p>It was created in 1825 to hold the remains of the British and Europeans residents, that by their Protestant faith differed from the official religion of the State, represented by the Catholic Church.</p><br>
<p>In the year 1800 immigrants to Valparaíso who were not Catholics could not be buried in a Catholic cemetery; they were buried on the Playa Ancha hill, in the fort of the Cordillera hill, or just thrown into the sea. In 1823 British consul George Seymour, with the aid of mayor Robert Simpson, bought some land at one side of the city jail, to build a special cemetery for "dissidents" i.e. those not of the Catholic faith.</p><br>
<p>The cemetery is divided into eight sections and it has nearly 800 graves. Inside there is a memorial dedicated to the people that died in the capture of the USA frigate Essex in 1814 by the English ships Cherub and Phoebe.</p><br>
<p>There is also a monument dedicated to the Reverend David Trumbull, founder of the Presbyterian Church of the city.</p><br>
<p>In 1883 laws abolished religious discrimination in municipal cemeteries. Until that year, the Cemetery of Dissidents also buried non-Catholics who had died in other cities such as Santiago and La Serena.</p><br>
<p>In the 1906 earthquake all the cemeteries were damaged</p><br>
<p>The 2011 renovation of the cemetery (due to damage from the 2010 Chile earthquake), included a memorial "Plaza of the immigrant".</p><br>
<p>The Robert William Andrew Feller Farmstead is a federally designated historic site a couple miles northeast of Van Meter in Dallas County, Iowa, United States. It is the boyhood home of Major League Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Feller. The historic district is 1.2 acre. The Feller family farm was once 350 acre but most of it has been sold to other farmers and the current farm is 40 acre. Feller sold the farmstead in 1955 and it is currently owned by Dr. Jose and Jeanie Angel since about 1994. A veterinary clinic is also located on the farmstead but it is outside the historic district and has no association with the farm owners.</p><br>
<h2>Background</h2><br>
<p>The farmstead was first purchased by the Feller family on January 5, 1866, by Fellers grandparents, Andrew and Elizabeth Feller. Andrew had immigrated from Germany and Elizabeth from Switzerland. The farmsteads red barn was built in 1886 by Andrew Feller, Bobs grandfather, and still stands as of 2010. Feller was born on the farm in November 1918. Feller learned to pitch here on the farmstead from his father William Andrew Feller, known as Bill. When Feller was 8 years old, he threw a baseball so hard it broke three of his fathers ribs. In 1932 his father, Bill, built a ballfield one-quarter mile east of the farmhouse; complete with some bleachers and a concession stand. This ballfield has been called the "original Field of Dreams". This ballfield and its homefield baseball team were named Oakview because of all the oak trees in the area. Oakview is no longer part of the farm and has been plowed under and overgrown. Bill Feller even switched his corn fields to wheat because the earlier harvest of wheat allowed his son more time to play baseball. Feller&#39;s Major League debut season was 1936, as a 17-year-old, with the Cleveland Indians. The New York Times soon said his name was "on the tongues of a million fans". He then appeared on the cover of Time on April 13, 1937. Feller once stated that if he could relive any moment of his life it would be "Playing catch with my dad between the red barn and the house." The Raccoon River is about one mile south of the property.</p><br>
<h2>Red barn</h2><br>
<p>Feller&#39;s proclivity for baseball was first noticed at age five. The place where Bill Feller taught his son Bob to pitch is southwest of the barn and between the barn and house. The pitching rubber is no longer present but the terrain is unaltered and it remains part of the farmstead. During the winter they would practice inside the barn. The barn had wood shingles and board-and-batten siding with a heavy timber frame with pegged joints.</p><br>
<h2>House</h2><br>
<p>The original house was replaced by a brick home that Feller had built during 1939–1940 for his parents, William Andrew and Lena C. Feller, and sister, Marguerite E. Feller Goodson. The architect of the house was John Normile of Des Moines, Iowa. Normile primarily used the Tudor Revival style for the house. Feller paid the then-large sum of $75,000 for the house and it has only had slight modifications since its 1940 completion, except for a breakfast nook. There are three bedrooms and two bathrooms. Fellers parents lived there until they died, Bill in 1943 of brain cancer and Lena of lung cancer in 1954. There is also a loafing shed on the property that was built in the early 20th century with wooden sides and a metal roof. The new house was built northwest of the old house, which was moved to another site the region.</p><br>
<h2>Farmstead ownership history</h2><br>
<p>The Hotel Lodi is a historic hotel located at 5 S. School St. in Lodi, California. Opened in 1915, the hotel was the largest and most significant hotel in northern San Joaquin County at the time. In addition to lodging, the hotel also hosted major social events, important business meetings, and large social club meetings. The hotel spurred growth in the citys hotel industry, and the presence of a large, modern hotel was credited with improving other areas of Lodis economy as well. After the 1930s, the hotel began to decline, and by the late 1940s it no longer held its social and business functions. The hotel was later converted into a commercial building.</p><br>
<p>The Hotel Lodi was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 29, 1995.</p><br>
<p>Frei is an island in Kristiansund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The 62.5 km&sup2; island lies south of the town of Kristiansund in the Nordmøre region of the county. The main villages on the island include Rensvik in the north, Kvalvåg in the east, and Nedre Frei in the south. The island was part of the old Frei Municipality from 1838 until 2008 when the island was merged into Kristiansund Municipality.</p><br>
<p>The Viking-era Battle of Rastarkalv, between Haakon I of Norway and the sons of Eric I of Norway, took place near the village of Nedre Frei in 955 AD.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The highest point on the island is the 629 m mountain Freikollen. The island is covered with mountains, pine forests, marshes, and sparse other vegetation. The Freifjorden lies to the east and south, the Kvernesfjorden and Bremsnesfjorden lie to the west, and the Bolgsvaet bay and Omsundet strait lie to the north. The islands of Nordlandet, Kirkelandet, and Innlandet lie north of Frei; the island of Averøya lies to the west; the islands of Bergsøya and Aspøya lie to the southeast; and the island of Tustna lies to the northeast.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The meaning of the name "Frei" (Old Norse: Freiðr) is unknown, but is may be derived from fríðr which means "good" or "beautiful". Until 1889, the name was written Fredø. The island is also referred to as Freiøya, which means the "island of Frei". That name was often used to distinguish the island from the municipality of Frei.</p><br>
<h2>Transportation</h2><br>
<p>The island is crossed by the Norwegian National Road 70 which is part of the Krifast network of roads, bridges, and tunnels that connect the town of Kristiansund to the mainland. The Freifjord Tunnel connects Frei to the island of Bergsøya (to the south) and the Omsund Bridge connects Frei to the island of Nordlandet (to the north).</p><br>
<p>The Oxford Horse Barn, built in 1887, is located near Laramie, Wyoming in Albany County, Wyoming. It is one of the oldest and largest existing barns in Albany County. The barn in an excellent example of vernacular architecture as influenced by the English cattle and horse ranchers which immigrated to the American West. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Oxford horse ranch was one of the earliest in the area, being established in the 1870s by Pete Johnson. The ranch was later sold to two Scottish gentlemen named Whitehouse and Stokes. It was under these owners that the ranch gained international recognitions as breeders of pedigreed horses, at times running up to 3,000 head. The Oxford Horse Barn provides important evidence the transplantation of the English upper class thoroughbred horse culture to the Rocky Mountain west and more specifically, Wyoming. The Oxford horse barn also played an important role in local history. Most notably it is associated with the name of Axel Palmer, who worked at and later became part owner of the then Whitehouse Ranch on which the barn is located. Palmer trained horses and used the barn loft as a kind of obstacle course for breaking teams.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture and construction</h2><br>
<p>The Oxford House Barn is a massive log barn measuring 158 feet 8 inches long and fifty feet wide. The structure has a distinctive earthen ramp on the back, used for providing wagon access to the loft, and a strict bilateral symmetry of plan and facade. Resting on a sandstone foundation, the barn is constructed of horizontal squared logs mortised into vertical posts at exact 17 foot intervals, which divides the long facade visually into nine equal sections. This construction technique in North America has many names but most common is piece sur piece. Massive ground level sliding doors with original hardware are located in the gable ends and also in the middle and end sections of the long facades.</p><br>
<p>The rigid, tripartite, bilateral symmetry of the barn justifies considering it an agricultural manifestation of the "Georgian vernacular" tradition of England and the eastern USA</p><br>
<p>Igbo Landing  is a historic site at Dunbar Creek on St. Simons Island, Glynn County, Georgia. It was the setting of a mass suicide in 1803 by captive Igbo people who had taken control of their slave ship and refused to submit to slavery in the United States. The event&#39;s moral value as a story of resistance towards slavery has symbolic importance in African American folklore and literary history.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In May 1803 a shipload of captive West Africans, upon surviving the middle passage, were landed by USA-paid captors in Savannah by slave ship, to be auctioned off at one of the local slave markets. The ship&#39;s enslaved passengers included a number of Igbo people from what is now Nigeria. The Igbo were known by planters and slavers of the American South for being fiercely independent and resistant to chattel slavery. The group of 75 Igbo slaves were bought by agents of John Couper and Thomas Spalding for forced labor on their plantations in St. Simons Island for $100 each.</p><br>
<p>The chained slaves were packed under the deck of a small vessel named The Schooner York). During this voyage the Igbo slaves rose up in rebellion, taking control of the ship and drowning their captors in the process causing the grounding of the Morovia in Dunbar Creek at the site now locally known as Igbo Landing.</p><br>
<p>The following sequence of events is unclear, as there are several versions concerning the revolt&#39;s development, some of which are considered mythological. Apparently the Africans went ashore and subsequently, under the direction of a high Igbo chief among them, walked in unison into the creek singing in the Igbo language "The Water Spirit brought us, the Water Spirit will take us home". They thereby accepted the protection of their god Chukwu and death over the alternative of slavery. A letter describing the event written by Savannah slave dealer William Mein states that the Igbo walked into the marsh, where 10 to 12 drowned, while some were "salvaged" by bounty hunters who received $10 a head from Spalding and Couper.</p><br>
<h2>Historical context</h2><br>
<p>Igbo Landing was the final scene of events which in 1803 amounted to a "major act of resistance" by the Africans. These events have had enduring symbolic importance in African-American folklore and literary history. The mutiny by the Igbo people has been referred to as the first "freedom march" in the history of America.</p><br>
<p>The site bears no official historical marker. A sewage disposal plant was built beside the historical site in the 1940s despite local opposition by African Americans. The site is still routinely visited by historians and tourists. The event has recently been incorporated into the history curriculum of coastal Georgia schools.</p><br>
<h2>Mythology and folklore</h2><br>
<p>The story of the Igbo slaves who chose death over a life of slavery is a recurring story that has taken deep roots in African American and Gullah folklore. As is typical of oral histories, the facts have evolved over time, in many cases taking on mythological aspects.</p><br>
<h3>Myth of the water-walking Africans</h3><br>
<p>Floyd White, an elderly African American interviewed by the Federal Writers Project in the 1930s is recorded as saying:</p><br>
<p>A typical Gullah telling of the events, incorporating many of the recurrent themes that are common to most myths related to the Igbo Landing, is recorded by Linda S. Watts:</p><br>
<h3>Myth of the flying Africans</h3><br>
<p>Another popular legend associated with Igbo Landing is known as the myth of the flying Africans. It was recorded from various oral sources in the 1930s by members of the Federal Writers Project. In these cases, the Africans are reputed to have grown wings or turned into vultures, before flying back home to freedom in Africa. Wallace Quarterman, an African American born in 1844 who was interviewed in 1930, when asked if he had heard about the Igbo landing states:</p><br>
<p>As Professor Terri L. Snyder notes:</p><br>
<h3>Reported haunting</h3><br>
<p>Local people claim that the Igbo Landing and surrounding marshes in Dunbar Creek are haunted by the souls of the dead Igbo slaves.</p><br>
<h2>Legacy</h2><br>
<p>In September 2002 the St. Simons African-American Heritage Coalition organized a two-day commemoration with events related to Igbo history and a procession to the site. The 75 attendees came from other states, as well as Nigeria, and Belize and Haiti, where similar resistance had taken place. They gathered to designate the site as holy ground and give the souls rest. The account of the Igbo is now part of the curriculum for coastal Georgia schools.</p><br>
<h3>Representation in other media</h3><br>
<p>The historical events pertaining to the Igbo slave escape in Dunbar Creek, and the associated myth, have inspired and influenced a number of African-American artists.</p><br>
<p>Examples include Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, who used the myth of the flying Africans in her novel, Song of Solomon, and Alex Haley, who retells the story in his book Roots. The Paule Marshall novel Praisesong for the Widow also was inspired by these events. They are retold from the context of the Gullah descendants in the feature film Daughters of the Dust (1993), directed by Julie Dash. Other contemporary artists that allude to, or have integrated the complete tale of the Flying Africans in their work include Joseph Zobel, Maryse Conde, Toni Cade Bambara and Jamaica Kincaid. Imagery from the "Love Drought" portion of Beyoncé&#39;s visual album Lemonade are said to be inspired by Daughters of the Dust and the story of Igbo Landing.</p><br>
<p>The Merced County Courthouse is the historic county courthouse in Merced County, California. Located at the intersection of W. 21st and N Streets in Merced, the building served as Merced Countys courthouse from 1875 until 1975. A. A. Bennett, an architect who also worked on the California State Capitol, designed the building. The buildings Italian Renaissance design was styled to resemble a palazzo; it features a white plaster exterior, a portico with a balcony on the south side, and a cupola atop the roof. A nearly identical courthouse was built in Fresno County at the same time; this building was modified extensively and later demolished, leaving the Merced County Courthouse as the only remaining example of its design. The building&#39;s architecture is unique within the southern Central Valley; in its National Register nomination, the courthouse was called "the best example of the Italian Renaissance revival remaining between Sacramento and Los Angeles".</p><br>
<p>The building is now a museum of local history known as the Merced County Courthouse Museum that is operated by the Merced County Historical Society. Exhibits include the Superior Courtroom, a historic schoolroom and blacksmith shop.</p><br>
<p>The Merced County Courthouse was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 29, 1975.</p><br>
<p>Cass Peak  is a hill in the western Port Hills in Christchurch, New Zealand. Its most notable feature is a radar dome that was built on the peak in the late 1980s, which is used for aircraft positioning services.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>Cass Peak is located in the Port Hills and is 545 m high. Otamatua is the spur on the Christchurch side of the peak that divides the Hoon Hay and Kennedy&#39;s Bush valleys. At the bottom end of Otamatua is the Halswell Quarry. On the eastern side of Cass Peak is Lyttelton Harbour, with Allandale and Governors Bay the nearest settlements on the harbour side. The peak is accessible from the Summit Road by vehicle, and via the Crater Rim walkway.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>Cass Peak was named for Thomas Cass, the chief surveyor of Canterbury from 1851 until his retirement in 1867. The hill was earlier called Cass&#39;s Peak. The Māori name for the hill is Ō-Rongo-Mai, which translates as "where voices are heard". This refers to the time some 300 years ago when the Ngāi Tahu tribe captured the area from the Kāti Mamoe. On top of the peak, the Ngāi Tahu heard the voices of a Kāti Mamoe hunting party. The latter were slaughtered on the peak.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The original Gothic architecture railway station in Christchurchs Moorhouse Avenue, opened in 1876, was built of red brick, with stone facings from Cass Peak as architectural elements. In 1948, an area of 7 acre was vested into Christchurch City Council as a reserve, and the area was named Cass Peak Scenic Reserve. The reserve is fenced to exclude livestock because it has high botanical value. The reserves perimeter is about 1 km.</p><br>
<p>Harry Ell, famous for his preservation work in the Port Hills, made the area accessible through the construction of the Summit Road; much of it was built during the Great Depression in the 1930s. When the Port Hills came under pressure of subdivision, Norman Kirk managed to get the Summit Road (Canterbury) Protection Act passed in 1963, which protected the skyline by not allowing any development from the ridge to 100 m below the Summit Road. Shortcomings in the legislation did not prevent, however, the construction of the Sugarloaf communications tower or the radar dome on Cass Peak.</p><br>
<p>Cass Peak has a repeater station for radio signals used by amateur radio, ambulance services, and air traffic control. The prominent radar dome on top of Cass Peak is part of a nationwide system of air traffic management and is operated by Airways New Zealand. The nationwide system was built in the late 1980s and became operational in 1991. Of the six secondary radar stations supplying the two air traffic control centres in Auckland and Christchurch with aircraft position data, Cass Peak is the southernmost in New Zealand.</p><br>
<p>The Summit Road Society built many new tracks in the Port Hills during the 1980s. In 1985, a track was built at Cass Peak.</p><br>
<p>Ben Aan is "one of the most popular amongst Scotlands small hills", the pointed peak of its west top  appearing like a small mountain.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Ben A&#39;an is situated in the Trossachs area of the highlands north of Glasgow, rising above Loch Katrine and Loch Achray. The summit area is largely treeless and comprises several rock outcrops and crags, its highest point being a rounded summit (461 m/1512 ft), unlike its more popular and lower west top.</p><br>
<h2>Ascent</h2><br>
<p>The normal route is from the pay and display car park of "Ben An" (sic) by the shore of Loch Achray. From there the signed path heads straight uphill in a north-northeasterly direction before picking up the course of a brook, the Allt Inneir, and heading north-northwest up to a low saddle (246 m). The path crosses the saddle heading northwest before picking up the course of another burn, the Allt na Cailliche, and following it steeply uphill below the crags of Ben A&#39;an. Close to the source of the burn the path swings westwards and behind the west top of the hill onto a col, from which it is a short climb to the summit of the west top which is the destination for most hikers. There is no obvious path to the main summit.</p><br>
<h2>Views</h2><br>
<p>Even though Ben A’an is not particularly high, it offers panoramic views of the surrounding lochs, glens, straths and mountains, including Loch Katrine, Loch Achray, Ben Venue and even as far as the Arrochar Alps on the western shore of Loch Lomond. which is just next to Ben A’an.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The name "Ben A’an" is an erroneous Anglicization by Sir Walter Scott. Its original name is uncertain, but it has been suggested that it may have been Am Binnean which means "the pinnacle", although some sites cite its meaning as "the small pointed peak".</p><br>
<p>The Furggen  is a mountain of the Pennine Alps, located on the border between Italy  and Switzerland . It is the culminating point of the ridge named Furgggrat stretching from the Furggjoch  to the Theodul Pass , and is located halfway between the Matterhorn and Testa Grigia.</p><br>
<p>The peak is the site of the now abandoned cable car station. Construction on the cable car began in the summer of 1950 - with the station on the Furggen summit designed by Carlo Mollino - and the lift opened to the public on the 25th December 1952. The lift had a single span of 2,887m long - making it the worlds longest at the time of its opening. The car could hold 25 passengers and transport 240 people per hour. The lift between Plan Maison and Furggen was designed as part of a system of cable cars reaching from Breuil-Cervinia to the Matterhorn, with leg one running from Breuil-Cervinia to Plan Maison (opened on the 4th March 1939). Leg 2 running from Plan Maison up to the summit of Furggen, and leg 3 reaching the top of the Matterhorn. The final leg was never constructed, partly as a result of the large cost and due to environmental opposition. The leg between Plan Maison and Furggen was abandoned in 1993 after ice brought down the cables and they were never replaced. The station on the summit of Furggen is now abandoned, but the leg between Breuil-Cervinia and Plan Maison is still in place.</p><br>
<p>The Sunset Beach Hotel, also referred to as Peters&#39; Sunset Beach Resort, is a historic resort hotel in Glenwood Township, Pope County, Minnesota, 5 mi southwest of Glenwood, United States. Situated on the southern shore of Lake Minnewaska, three structures of the private, commercial resort were placed on the National Register of Historic Places  on February 11, 1982. The complex is notable because it stands as one of the best-preserved early resorts in west central Minnesota, and as a center of seasonal resort activity on the lake since the second decade of the twentieth century.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>By the end of the 19th century, the southwest section of shoreline along Lake Minnewaska had become popular residents of North Dakota. They built summer homes and created the "Camp Dakota" subdivision, platted in 1905. Henry P. Peters, a resident of Enderlin, North Dakota and a conductor on the Soo Line railroad, which passed through nearby Glenwood, purchased a cottage in 1908. He and his wife organized a company to build the "Glenwood Summer Hotel". That building, now the Main Lodge, opened on June 1, 1915. By 1918, Peters was able to buy out the other stockholders and secure a controlling interest in the resort; the name was soon changed to Sunset Beach Hotel. The name caught on and soon "Sunset Beach" became the name for the area around the hotel. Despite having little formal education himself, Peters managed to send his children to Shattuck Military Academy and the University of Wisconsin. The Peters family has continuously run the resort since then, adding additional buildings and facilities over time. During the Great Depression, Peters and his wife managed to keep the hotel afloat, even when a severe drought caused the lake to lower far enough that a road had to be built from the hotel to the lake. Pushing the lakes fishing potential, particularly for walleye, Peters made light of the fact that "the walleyes didnt know there was a depression going on."</p><br>
<p>The resorts Main Lodge, Annex, and Court Building were deemed to be outstanding examples of the simple functional style of early lake resorts, contrasting with the more ostentatious log resort buildings built for the northern Minnesota resorts of the 1920s. The resort is of historic interest for its link with the early development of one of Pope Countys significant aspects, its seasonal population.</p><br>
<p>Additional small cottages, as well as other structures and facilities, have been added to the resort over the years; however these structures have been significantly altered since their construction and were not included in the nomination to the NRHP. In 1962 the owners decided to add a golf course, now named the Pezhekee National Golf Course, which opened with four holes in 1965 and expanded into a nine-hole course by 1967.</p><br>
<h2>Structures</h2><br>
<p>The three pivotal resort structures listed on the NRHP are arranged around a central open area fronting the lake. These buildings, the Main Lodge, the Annex, and the Court Building, are designed in a simple American Craftsman style and have retained excellent design integrity.</p><br>
<p>The Main Lodge (1915) is a two-story frame gable roofed building. Simple Midwest bungalow detailing includes craftsman-style brackets in the gables and exposed rafter ends. Fenestration includes both single and paired rectangular double-hung windows. The building is sheathed in clapboard. The full front porch, originally screened, has been enclosed and a porte-cochère added over the front entrance; this was deemed sympathetic to the original design in the NRHP nomination. Other changes have included the addition of a one-story sun room to the north, shed dormers on the roof, and additions to the rear of the buildings.</p><br>
<p>The interior of the Main Lodge includes a lobby, sun room, dining room, kitchen, and office on the main floor and guest rooms on the second floor. There have been cosmetic alterations to the interior, but the main floor retained its original basic room arrangement and some original features, including a stone fireplace in the lobby.</p><br>
<p>The Annex Building (1927) is at the southwest end of the central area, and is constructed in a style similar to the main lodge. The rectangular building has two stories with a projecting two-story screen porch at the front, and features a hip roof with gambrel dormers, clapboard siding, brackets, and exposed rafter ends. Each of the two stories includes four guest rooms opening on a central hallway.</p><br>
<p>The Court Building (1930) is located at the northwest end of the central area. This building is composed of three rectangular units arranged around a central court. Like the other buildings, it features clapboard siding, exposed rafter ends, and craftsman-style brackets. Each section is capped with a hip roof with gabled vents at the peaks, and features irregularly spaced rectangular windows. The court area includes a second story balcony on three sides; the original wooden balustrade has been replaced with a metal rail. The interior of each section includes two apartments on each floor.</p><br>
